SOUTHLAND EDUCATION BOARD

Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 253, 8 May 1883, Page 4

SOUTHLAND EDUCATION BOARD

■ -— * : — ~ :' . •. (From t l e Times.) ' ••.• The following members were present at the ordinary, meeting on May last :— Messrs T. M. Macdonali (chairman), Lunas* den. Mclnod, M-iri'so i, Turrbull, H. Feld* wick, and Baldey. Five candidates were nominated to fill a vacancy on the Board, caused by Mi- McArdtli'tf resignation namely :— MrD. L. Mathe* aon, by 2i committees ; Mr G. F. Rictiardi sod, by four committees ; Me T. MacGKbbon,* by 'four committees ; Di- Hudgkinaon, by. 'three committees ; aud Mr J, T. Thomson by one committee. It was resolved that votirijr. papers should be returned by school commit; tees on or before the 3 1st iust., aud that the! result of fc'ic ol'.otiou be declared at th c B>ard'a next ir.eetiog. In a special report the Executive Commttee intimated that the carpenter had been inttucted to rejort on repairs, additions, &-v. applied for by the South Wyndham and r Mimihau School Cjaimitteis ; also that he! had been instructed to attend to the repairs < and bupply the wants of the Lumsden school/ The committeS recommended— That tbe' application of the Kiversdale Committee fwr-af a prate and pump be granted, Ttiafc the following loudtM be accepted ;— Mataura shelter shed, &•?., Mr Maif, £72; Wyndbam shelter shed, &c, Mr Trayuor, £34 103.; That the followiqg applications be decliued? in the meantime: — Waikaia, purchase of laud; Riversd ale shelter shed. The report was adopted. ' . ' ■ ' Mr J. Anderson was appointed teacher ■ (temporary) atMatauw. The application of' the late teacher there for payment of his < salary up to the I9;h May was granted, the; Chairman explaining that the teacher's time ; did not expire until that date, but, owing to ill-health, he had been obliged to quit hia : pOfit. • '•■;>' Ir was resolved that the Inspector should be requested to visit aud report on the application of householders for a new school at I Longridge and Redan Valley. ■ The carpenter's report on the fending erec- ' ted at Wyndhain school was referred 'to the* ' school committee. • ■ ' " : " ' ' :; '' A second special report from the Executive Committee recommended :— (I) That the s»I---aries of the teachers and of the Board staff fa . reinstated on their former footing, as from the Ist May*, and (2) That the. following-, line bo prefixed to the scale of charges sanctioned by the Board :—•" Average attendance, 20 to 25 ; headmaster, £100 to £120 ; rate of incßeaf.e for intermediate attendance, £6 to £1." Thie first clause was agreed to. The chairman ci- f plained that the second was for fchepurpose of « reducing the minimum from 25 to 20, giving"; the teacher with an average of 20 afixeft" \ salary of £10,0, and £6 for every additional" pupil up to 25. This, it was thought, would ' tend to improve the class of teachers at sinai 1 '; schools, as it would be offering more inducement. Under the old system, if a teacher had an average of 25 his salary would be £130, but if he only had 24, it would drop dov^n to , , £96. That was too great a difference, and under the new system, if approved , ,by "'tho',^. Board, there would only be a diminution,^f* ' £6 for every .pupil. The member^ present , . concurred with.the chairman's jyiew^.and^e^^ clausefwai unariinwiiily^^ were .altered . to correspond. ;i , ; yj ;, > J Accounts and salaries amounting to £2098,.. j , 15s lid were passed for payment, as. alaowaSj ( . the sum necessary to reinstate the teachers' . , ; salaries for the month, £27 75. 3d, „ , . V( "