HIGH SCHOOL BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

Northern Advocate, 14 February 1912, Page 5

HIGH SCHOOL BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

QUARTERLY MEETING

The following members of the High School Board of Governors attended the usual quarterly meeting, held in the Council Chambers yesterday afternoon:—Messrs J. M. Killen (chairman), A. H. W. A. Carruth, T. McClintock, R. Thompson, and Rev. J. L. Pattullo. TEACHER'S SALARY INCREASED. Miss Lynch wiote stating that she had been off ere 1 a good appointment near her home in Auckland, and asked the Board to relieve her of her services at the High School without the usual three months' notice.

Tfe; chairman said that Miss Lynch was\ very good teacher, and had been satisfactory in every way during her first year under the Board. He moved: "That Miss Lynch be offered an increase in £15, providing she withdraws her resignation, and remains a teacher under the Board."—Mr Ppttullo seconded, and the motion was carried. EDUCATION RESERVE. The Kioreroa Prospecting Syndicate inadt, application for a mining lease on The Board's reserve at Otaika, and Mr R. McCorquindale asked for an extension of lease on the property now occupied byjtiim. Owing to numerous legal intricacies being involved, it was decided that the chairman, * Messrs Carruth, Mason, and Thompson forni a committee to confer and settle terms •with the applicants. AN EARLY APPLICANT. Mr James Hall, writing from Melbourne, offered his services to the Board as a teacher at the High School. The application was held over. THE SCHOOL CLEANER. Mrs Marchmont was granted £1 a year increase for cleaning the additional class-rooms at the school. OVERCROWDED. Further important evidence of the increase of population in Whangarei was placed before the Board, and the sudden influx of freeplace pupils gave the members something serious to think about in respect of providing accommodation. The chairman said that 125 pupils attended the school yesterday, and he thought this large number was very "gratifying. He called upon the school principal, Mr Lupton, to enlighten the members further.

Mr Lupton said that the increase far exceeded expectations. There would be 127 pupils, of whom about 117 were free-place, on the roll, and the enlargements now under construeprove inadequate to cope wit_ the influx. He suggested, that the work to the proposed cloak-room be postponed, and an opportunity be alk>wed to convert this apartment into a class-room. It was absolutely impossible to teach 127 scholars in the four class-room 1 -' at present at the disposal of the teachers. With the larger number of children, and with six class-rooms, Mr Lupton said that another teacner was necessary. He applied for a junior male assistant.

In discussing the position Mr Thompson said that the Government, which under the Education Act provided free places, should be informed of the conjested conditions at the * school, and that further assistance to eiect an additional class-room be applied for.

Mr Carruth moved: "That the (Architects be asked to confer with the builder, with the object of deferring the work in the cloak-room, and to estimate the, work required there separately from the main contract." The motion was carried. EURTHER ASSISTANCE REQUIRED.

It was resolved, on Mr Thompson's motion: "That the -Government be asked for assistance f^ - the amount of £300 for the purpose-of building further accommodation ,at the / High t ' School,, and that full details respecting the conditions at the school be for--wardedi" AN EXTRA TEACHER. • Mr Thompson moved: "That applications for a junior male assistant at a salary of £150 per annum be widely advertised for in the Dominion."—. Carried. SANITATION. It was decided to ask the Borough Council to extend the sewage system to the High School. A deputation was constituted to the Council and back up the application. FENCING OF ROAD. Mr Thompson moved: "That the County Council, which was recently granted the right; to b-iild -i. Nad through the Bon id's property in Otaika Valley, be asked to fence the road in question. - ' Mr Killen seconded, and the -notion was carried. TRANSFER OF LEASE. Mr Hawken was allowed the transfer of a lease over a portion of the Board's property from Mr Alderton. FURNISHING OF SCHOOL. Mr Lupton said that there was not a sufficiency of seating accommodation at the school, and further furnishing

was Mr Carruth moved: "That MrSjavatt, contractor, be asked; to supply 24'- desks for the school of : the same patto-n ani price as before."] —Carried. > THE BOARDING-HOUSE AT SCHOOL; The architects. Messrs Morland and i Morran, were present, and submit-: ted plans,- tracings, and s;.deifications j of the proposed boarding-house estab-! lishment, all of which had been up-! proved by the Education Department.! Wellington. j An extended disci ssion over the plans ensued, and ultimately they were approved. Tt wns decided that tenders be called for the erection of the the work to be I ._ finished at tn,» end r.f seven months from the time c f sign.'ng the contract. I