NELSON EDUCATION BOARD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 22 March 1921, Page 3

NELSON EDUCATION BOARD

| M-ONTHL'vTviIiETINX;. The monthly meeting of (hr ! Lilneatuiu Hoard u;is held yesterday. M’leseni: Mr. IT W, (J. .'TiuitJi ■ i< .'hairmanj, Mclntyre. toltreli. Kaij gent Canavan. Scaiitidniry, Treacher. ■ iiid Huyes, j I'l'l'JLMlAL CU.MM ITT If F,. j Tlio Department wrote that, il. had decided to det'oi for the 1 present I lie appointment ol' a woodwork hist i nd"r at Ta-kaka and Heel Ton. ! It w as reported 1 1tat I lie Department had. authorised a grant oi LciOO Pw a woodwork, room at the Motneka ’!\ehni cal .School. It was resolved to endeavotii to aruoige an exchange of a school silo at Murchison. Il was .resoiv t d rhal the apph-. alien lor a new .school a! Murchison could no! 1)(> entertained. The matter of leasing a portion of the old cemetery, Collin,”wood-slreel, was left in the hands of the Town Schools Com mil ice. CF.NLMA I, MFKTINC. I he icpoitK of 1 hi' Finance, Technical. and Hnihling Conunittees were iidopted. Applications for teacherships ware dealt with a.s follows: —Jfainham. h.t.. Mr, Kyh's ; Murchison, h.t., S. F. Mortis; Seddonville, h.t.,. to he otfmeti to .Miss Slower . Gfkyan Valley, -5.1., to hr attain advertised for; Marahan. s.t.. no appointment made: lliouklyu, a.t., Miss Jda Bastin ; Nuggety Creek (household school]. Miss Soulhe;ii. The Cowan School Committee submitted a protest against the transfer of Mr Lapps and to the appointment, of a local resident as relieving teacher. The side objection appeared to he on lit' ground of relieving teacher's health, although a medical certificate cT physical fitness had heeit obtained from a doctor approved of hy the Hoard. The Committee eloseil til" School, hut the Hoard instructed one of its ollieers to re-open it and advised all parents that unless theii children attended prosecutions would follow. The action of the Committee was strongly condemned by .some ol flic Hoard members,. I lie Chairman remarkin'; that the action of the Committee was (|iiite initialled for. It was eventually resolved that the appointment of a relieving teacher be continued and that applications be invited for a permanent teacher. The secretary's action in the matter was endorsed. It, was resolved (o' continue the small school at Marble quarry under a relievin'; teacher. Approval was given to the establishment ol a household, school at Awanni (Tapan era) and al MidMarnia ; and to the re-opening of the Tttphon.se School. Mr VC 11. Doves, urgani.simj; teacher. Takaka Centre, intimated his willingness to transfer to a group of schools with Nelson as headquarters. —Approval to he obtained. Leave of absence was granted In Miss M. Jlaiford (Hainhain). Application for the transfer ol .Miss A. Sherlock AVai-ntn) was held over: and it was resolved to invite applications tor the head teacher of Cronadnn School. Following transfers were approved: Miss V. Halnter from Longford H> IJinekaka : Miss Th N. Uastin, Mail-

man's Oeek : and Miss E. Aloir from fi iu<•);ak:i 10 M;iiluuu> ■; Creek. It was notified llnu 11h■ Murchison School had been closed owing to an outbreak of diphtheria. To obviate the opening ol a '-mall school the Hoard recently rei|iie-led 11io District "Manager of to arrange for a lein porary slopping i>l:i oo to pick nnand -.i>l down I“J eliildren, who olherwbe were not wilhpi roach of lie school at. Snmmerlea. An nn la run ra hie roplv wa> received, and ir iia, resolved io ooini oin ihe cn-eiim-lanees to the Director oi Ednealion. requesting lion to make ropresciitalions to t!to (tenoral Manager ol Hiiilwav.'. Mr I'.. .), Seaiulohurv was granted six nunilli.- - leave ol absence to ('liable him to visit America and I'aeilaml. .Members wished AlrSeanihbury a pleasant trio and a sale return. Appointment- were continued as follows: Mi-s ('. i I miter, sole teacher. Ilotokollll; .Mis* i,. 1. i'owlel. assislanl-leaeiier. Hiwaka: Miss it. Cropp, assistant-teaelier. 1‘oxbill: Miss 11. Harlow, relieving:. Snnnyside ; Miss 11. ,M. Hayes, sole teacher. Six Mile: '.Miss I. Kreeinaii, Mile (eaehi'r. Awanili 11oiiselmh! : Mi d. Iditali. sole teacher. Siimmerlea. t resh appliea- ) ions requested tor assistant-teachei. Nelson Hoys', Designation- were received as od-ious---Miss V. Ferguson, sole teacher Nnggely (‘reek : .Mr N. M. Tnnmclille. 1 n> ll s(di<jI(I li'aelier. Haiidiani. Mis-' 1„ Haigent. assistant-leaeher. Spring drove. The Hoard then rose.