NELSON SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 125, 28 May 1891, Page 2

NELSON SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

" Tho moQthl/ r |eeting / was held last night, .Vi^Ai^JaMui[B6aiK : :' foh^irmanW^efjfcn, Gr^nt.f'f inney*: Look, h^ >', sTialsk, antf;)?. CWo'ke. = . l^m'-^'W^'^- "'' '*.. Thorepotfcof.'ihe Sub OomWttea^ read wsUo vfljf4-(l)^b'i| fctferttfi aoJHM fw; > >ny adrtitiba to the tnohfag staff ftjj/fol Toi Valley, Hardy, fiWtapd^Jbiijg^ street y, schools. The average atKfflSpe was 86'8: i to each teacher, (2) 1 That there is bo ueoessifcy for promoting any probationer to the position of assistant teaoher. Probationers anxious for promotion should apply for vnoanoies ocourriag ia the teaohing staff of Johnson be transferred "W- the" .ToF : Tol^ Valley sohool, and Mias Sheppard take, her place ia the junior division' of Bridge street sohool, Two experienced teachers like Miss . Snart and Mias Sheppard should bo able to .undertake the w,ork in the junior division of > the^;Brid|r4 street aohool without a probationer, and Miss Johnson's abilities would be ' of greater service in the Toi Toi. Valley sohopl, , (4) The Hardy streelj sohpol-ig fnQ but ihot overorowded.u (5) ylfr !H4mpdm street school there is Worn for 'more ioholats , 4th Standard girls from this sohool. j£hs taaohers had been inatruowd if afly sohobw^ living in' the looaUty appliwl for r&dmissioH they w4re, to be takiea bws^:jK>Wof thef! girls bad already returned towe aohooL Mvp parents living, near the, sohool sent their' children^ therej J <;he,re wguld be no over* crowding elsewhere". (6) Miss Honnsell being overworked, it is suggested that ? Miw ;. Gasooigne arrange with Miss Jaoobteu to reliove her. " ' ' ' Mr Look said the reason for removing the girls from Hampden street sohool was that the late Committee did >npl) approve o&ftlder girls attending the same iohfto'i* ai boys. Mr Finney said he hud been informed that a petition had been seat in from some of -the parents of those removed, but that no notice had been taken^ of it. j >'| f -y The report waji ad6pted;J s\ \ A letter ' was read f^om the Re/ Mr ' Ohatterton asking permission for Mrs Ohattertori to hold a''BlaM"fo¥'BlWe l tiaSiM^ for scholars in the 3rd and 4th Standards at the Toi Toi Valley sohooi in the morning.— Mr Trask move! that permission be granted. —Mr .Finney .thought, the ministers them>? seiveft ought jto do thS> work da tUey had^ ' Uhdeffcakfltt.to.do at thi tima'tha plan. mA first flt«.te<i.4ilriLevifi sail jtSl presumSf tfaa'twthis perSttißsfoa.wk onlyl&fbe amR week to week. -Mr Finney wanted to know if the teaohers had any nght to oompel the^ thtty bfuHight n&ter f rdnVthfifr pirWttf to^tte : ooutrary.—The Chairman said they had no right to do this.— The Seereiary aaid that ha understood the ftev Mr lsltttought'the efctefij pupils and that Mrs Ohattertou proposed to " toke the younger onea.-Mr^eTien-aaid Mm- ; . matter t had natijome before in the way he could have wished. • He had no olijeotipn (x> the ohildren reading the |i»Jle and>VelM taught! Biblemstory A but Tii wistfcd We thiugtb be.dojif.in a differjßrform, andWi intended to give a notice' of motion to that"*' ,effeot.~ Mr Look said he presumed that-ia granting this application they wei*e r gTvWtf J » general permission.— .Application granted, lenders wete''openAi aa follows : r )V, Close, eflual quantities of red pine^and mandka le/n/lengtAajifl $s* od'rd (.aqoepted); Baker Broj.,^r«d pine 80s, 1 inanuk;* 3Sb per. cord ;/(iriifln |ud $M rod m?M* J.^egje and fladdow, red pine and manuka 40d, wfr.W -i Were J e^«i from Mf A* U. W^ityjMr WiLoqk;|and the %? $P. ; tePtol?'. B ? l^]' l^^^ Bupnorl of'the Committee as candidates for the Beat'on the -hduoation Board readered vaOant by the resignation of the Bishop of Nelson. A ballot was taken, with the result that Mr Maginnity was nominated. The Inspector having attended by invitation, said that heoomoarred in the report of ' the subcommittee, but thor^ wm one im-, portant omission. It was this, thAt ; thtf* master of Hampden-street school had nob the^attie privilege aooorde'dfe-HinilthafeifiSti ? teaobers of the smallest oountry school* had ! of preparing pupils for BOaolawaipa. v . The-/ , result; wkß that boys when they had pasae*' ' 1 *e « Standard were taken away and sent i dp Mr Harkaess beo^aaef €he piredt»VlcoJßWi. f ; .that they had no ohanoe of getting t. scholarship. Thus the.oontiquity of their , education, was broken^ to the great di/wdran.' ; tage of both, boys and teaohes. . H^Knapn , tele thad this was a greafi grievan^ aa if, ifo { theboyato beheye, thachfl.waflMiotobmiw; I >tent to teaoh them for such .. waIUuSSJI, r whereas he was ithoruugnly oompeteuL ,1b , was an Undeserved slur upon Ait 'Xmbit^r Mr Finney said there was sometbingSt , louslyj wrong that one master should xecei 7fl : £300 H year, while another equally oor™I! , tent was getting only £1?5,-Mr oW 1 iO2 • , w favo^ of a high sohooi where th, ! branches -vjere > tftugHt-^ltftf & ranf i tSS'S < , favour of Mr Hodgaoa'a reoomm^adaSol 5 ' -. ulr Lewen fyqk the, same vie,w. Xt £Z r y* a ,?¥ o1 £ he for extra teaoiiiiiria- drawing '■mm inotioa. W8 ib en put and carried ' dav i iiihi laU S i l fcß L lhen '""MloiHifflM tiii J MonV • 2Ki g ht '. w . h9h * h V wiU meet 'for th^ t parI pm ol teyising the salaries. v"n.»vu