SOUTH CANTERBURY EDUCATION BOARD.

North Otago Times, 26 January 1906, Page 4

SOUTH CANTERBURY EDUCATION BOARD.

At the meeting of the South Carterbury Education Board on Tuesday, the Building Comm ttcc reported that tho Minister declined to make a grant for an attached residence at Hakatarauwa ft'al* ley. Recommending . (1) that "the Department be written to stating that- the Board would accept a,detached residence if the Department increased the grant from £250 to £300; (2) that the Board had erected a number of such annexes; (3) that in the interests of economy the Board did not quite agree with the Department's alternative, The Board some

years ago adopted a system of attaching living rooms when erecting small schools for the housing of the teachers, as cheaper than erecting separate residences, and several of such "attached residences" have been provided, ■ It would seem that the Department does not approve ot this form of; retrenchment, a grant allied for hy the Board to add living rooms to the Haka'Valley. School having been refused. The Board met on Tuesday, and adopted the opinion that they did not agree wiili the Department's alternative; but they would erect a detached dwelling i( the Department increased tho grant from the £250 asked for to £3OO. The Committee also reported that the Waimate High School Board withdraws its subsidy of £8 to tlie secondary staff, the Department now paying all salaries. Mr Barclay suggested' that the High School Board might find a means ot usefully applying a smaller-sum to the increase of

the salary of secondary teacher at Waimate, as the secondary teacher's salaiy was less than that of the fust "assistant in the primary school, Mr Barclaymentioned that from first to last the High School had assisted the Waimate scho'il to the extent of about f.'idoo,