EDUCATION BOARD.
The above met at Wanganui on Wodnesilay evening. Present: Messrs Fred. Pivan i (chairman), A If. Fraser, Collins, JobI in, Sewell, Brood, Bryant, Mclntyre, Hemingway and Christie. The chairman explained that the secretary (Mr VC S. Swangcr) had been compelled to go into hospital on Tuesday, and an operation had been performed on Wednesday, which ho was glad to learn had been successful, although,' of course, it would be some time before he would bo convalescent. ft was decided to place on record the Hoard’s sympathy with Air and Mrs Swarlger and family, its appreciation of his ellicient service,. and its hope that he would soon be on the high road to recovery. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr Malcolm, secondary master at Hunterville, was carried. On Ihe foreman’s report, it was decided to oiler £35 for the Turangarcre school building. Messrs Sewell and Collins wen' appointed ir hold an eiupiiry, ii necessary, into tlic Queen’s I ’ark lire. The Kdueation Department notified the payment of half cost (£SO) of the addition to Carnarvon school as £1 lor £1 subsidy on voluntary contributions. Tim offer' of £BO by the Upper Tutaeimi Social Committee for the old school and sire was accepted. It was decided to recommend the Minister to accept £250 for the site of the old Marlon school. Mr I*'. to lw* paid £2, cost of papor for positioned m Colvton. Kducation Department regulations provide that members of Boards bo paid T24th of 15s for every hour away from home as I ravelling expenses As I lie secondary dcparlmont a verage ol the Bulls school entitled its continuance, the Kducation Department decided to pay ilio teacher’s salary from October 1. Manawatu branch of teachers Institute to be informed (hat appointments were made on Senior Inspector’s recommendation, not, on Government grading list. , Bipiriki school to he closed at end of vear. , , , Defence Department to ho granted us,, of Tail)ape school grounds for drill during Board’s pleasure. . ■ • Transfer of section 100, block IX., A pin, from 0. f’ussoll to J. I .is).?, agreed to, Mr ,\i. MeWilliams, B.Sc., Waitohi tads elect lie .si alien, was appointed to the <mgmerring department of Wanganui 1 ecmueal College, vice Air Fdem resigned. i ai k s appointment us director, at £450 a year, was renewed, , The Aso i.-i ant Director ol Kducution wrote, conipHinonting tlit‘ Board on the circular ! --tied re Dominion Day observance, and stating that “the definite and thorough wav in which Dominion Day was celebrated by hating the whole of the days work on tonics connected with the b'Aorv and industries of the Dominion is highly creditable, to all concerned." . Accounts amounting In £1343 were passed for payment. "’ln' official opening of the If an mini School is to lake place in the middle of November, Kdueat ion Department granted xo a week for rent of buildings tor Qu , 'on s Bark pupils. Mr A. Lniirie Deidair was appointed teacher at Waiata. r Afr Abitthews reported the attendance oi technical pupils in the south-eastern di-tii' t : Feilding 612. Alarkon 163, A phi 16, l*ohanghia 12, Glen Oroua IT llalcninhe 10, 11nntorville 14, Ohaknm 83, I’aetihi 43. Utlku 12. Kiwitca 11. Foxtou 14. Hangiwi\hia 23. . Air Brown reported that practical instruction at Weraroa Farm would commence on October 22. In regard to school garden work, he referred to ilie improvements at I’angiwaliia, Ruaidn'g I.vilon streei, Bomr burn, Ilinau, and Feilding Dlslrief High Schools. Appohitnu ntr. —'Table Flat. Mi s O. Davies, sole teacher; Kakariki. acting sole teacher, Ali.ss F. Doran; Oranlolm, ailing sole teacher. Miss (f. Ben id: Glen ('ran. acting head teacher (to end of vear). Air A. .7. Goomhes; Manmnd, 3rd asdstanl. Ml-s O. Walker: Maiininti, 4th assUani. Mr- \. Gordon: Terrac Knd, Sib assistant. Ali A. Minoguo; Bates, acting Ist assistant. Miss C. Haverv ; (**B rnar.von, Hssistanl teach or, Miss R. Garter (August meeting). Resignations aecopled.—Mrs 0. Hanson, sole teacher, Mangarimn; Mi-w 11. Si oil. sole teacher, Barewunui
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10106, 13 October 1917, Page 2
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