TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIII, Issue 12158, 23 March 1900, Page 2

TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL.

A special meeting of the Board of Governors of the Timaru High School was held on Tuesday; One of the Board’s tenants waited on the Board and asked for a reduction of rent for an Orari section. The Board decided that it could not see its way to make the reduction. It was agreed to offer a x’enevval of lease to one of the tenants at Waitohi. A statexnexxt of accounts submitted showed that there would probably be an income of £2027 next yeai’, and that the expenditnx’e would be about £2OOO. The report of the Exhibitions Committee dealt with several questions relating to the working of the school. It was resolved to raise the age of candidates for junior exhibitions from thirteen to fourteen years, and to alter the examination test proportionately. An amended syllabus , was . adopted, and” it was decided that the junior exhibitions should be tenable for one year only. Two vacant exhibitions in the Girls’ School were allotted to the two girls next on the marks scale. There was an animated discussion on a suggestion that the committee, in consultation with .the principals, should draw up a scheme of school work to facilitate axi annual' examination of the whole school. Archdeacon Harper and Mr Gibson opposed introducing anything of the nature of standards into the school, as it would fetter the principals in their arx’angements. The proposal that such a scheme should be formulated was held over for further discussion. A request from a parent at Peasant Point for a reduction of the on the ground that her two boys, liil'elling by train, lost an hour and a half school day, was declined with regret. The Board, on the motion of the Chairman, voted £2O towards the cost of a municipal fresh-water swimming bath at the south, end of. the town, to which all school cffildren would be admitted free.