YESTERDAY'S SITTING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 171, 30 July 1901, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S SITTING

The monthly meeting of the Nelson Education Board was commenced yesterday, there being present Messrs Talbot, ( chairman V Best, Beuke, Baigent, Franklyn, Phillips, Maginnity and Bailie, It was resolved to ttaukvoj, Pitt,

M.L.C., for his assistance in regard to the trip of the radets to Christchurch. I Mr Baigent recommended the granting of the application for an addition to the ! toacher's house at Lower Takaka — It was ! resolved tliat Mr J. Smith be asked to j prepare plans and specifications and invite tenders. Mr Baigent reported that he could not at present recommend the granliog of the application for coi verting the Silver- , stream household school into an aided ; .■■Tchool. — The matter was therefore pest- j poned. I The application of the Kaituna com- j uiittee for a grant for clearing Ibe school ; ground, also reported on by Mr Baigent, was ordered to stand over. Mr McNab's offer of half an acre of land at Rocky River as a school site, at a peppercorn rent for 99 years, was accepted. A letter was received from the Audi-tor-General in respect to the transfers from the Building to the General Account. — Consideration was held over pending an interview between tho Chairman and the Auditor-General. The Sisters of Mercy at Westport asked to be supplied with two blackboards. —None available. It was decided to inform Mr Gledhill (Upper Takaka) that ho having appointed a household school teacher without the Board's sanction, no payment can be made. The Ngatimoti Committee was granted 30s for repairs to a chimney. Mr Esmy Thomason wrote offering to fell and grass the school site at the I Upper Tadmor village on condition tliat he t be allowed to use the land until it is required for a school site.— Agreed to for seven years, land to be kept clear of noxious weeds. The application of the Town Schools Committee for artificial lighting for some of the schools was ordered to stand over. It was resolved to forward to the Government the same Committee's application for payment for flag3. Three applications were received for the Matiri teachership, and it was resolved to forward to tha Committee the names of Misses Cameron and Hodgkmson. For the Reefton pupil teachership four applications were received and it was decided to forward all the names, namely Misses Gallagher, Williams, Clark, and Arnold. len applications were received for the Lower Takaka pupil teachership, and it was resolved to forward the names of Misss Gallagher, Arnold, Cowin, Heyward, Langford, and Davies. For the 88 Valley teachership three applications were received, and it was decided to forward the name of Miss L. M. Clayden. Some routine West Coast business was also transacted, the day's sitt'ng occupying till after 4 o'clock.