BOARD OF EDUCATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5997, 5 February 1881, Page 5

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The ordinary fortnightly meeting was held yesterday. Present: Messrs. J. M. Clark (Chairman), Luke, Peacock, May, and Moss. ! The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. TENDERS. The following tenders were receiv f the erection of teacher's residence at Mount Roskill:—W. J. Bunting, £2oS ; T. N. Horsley, £294; J. Ellingham, £295; D. Muir and Son, £311; Mathesonand Mooney, £31S ;J. Malcolm, £323; Alexander Keyes, £336. The lowest tender was accepted. TRAINING COLLEGE ASD PRACTISING .SCHOOL REGULATIONS. The Secretary brought up the regulations of the committee sitting with the Executive Committee on this subject. The Chairman said that certain clauses would be referred to the City Committee for their opinion. The secretary inquired, on behalf of the representatives of the Press, whether the Board would allow the publication of these regulations ? Mr. Peacock : It may afford some cause of i offeuce if the right is given to the Press before submitting them to the City Committee. | The Chairman* ;I do not think tbat objecj tion will have any weight. Mr. May : It appears to me it will be a convenience for all sides. The Secretary read the regulations as follow :— OFFICERS. 1. Oflicers, principal, and other masters appointed by the Auckland Board of Education. 2. Under the direction of the Board of Education, the principal shall be responsible for the management of the training college. 3. Otiicers to be under control of principal. 4. Tlie principal shall instruct the students in the theories of education and methods of teaching. 5. Masters to teach under principal's superintendence, o*. Principal to receive a salary of £000. TERMS OF ADMISSION. 7. Candidates for admission must be at least eighteen years of age, and shall furnish the Auckland Board ot Education with testimonials of good character up to date, and shall produce a satisfactory medical certificate of good health. S. Junior assistants of the precribed age, who have performed their duties to the satisfaction of the Board, and teachers who have been more than a year in charge of a public school shall be admitted without examination on the certificate of an Inspector of Schools. 9. Holders of scholarsliips, or those whose time has but recently expired, may be admitted, to the training college if of the prescribed age, and the Board shall consider them to give promise of becoming efficient teachers. 10. All candidates to declare their intention to adopt the profession of teaching,and shall give security that they will teach in the public schools of the colony for at least two years after leaving the training college. 11. Teachers recommended for admission upon Inspector's certificate shall attend for the period namea in the certificate. 12. All other students to attend for at least a year. 13. The Board may at any time dismiss a student for incompetency, repeated neglect of duty, insubordination, or gross misbehaviour, and a student so dismissed shall forfeit any allowance for maintenance he may hold in connection with the training college. 14. The subjects of study shall be those prescribed for examination for Class £ certificate, the compulsory, and at least three of the optional subjects prescribed for examination for Class D certificate, as well as any other subjects the Board may determine. 14. The time to be allotted to each subject shall be as under:—English, 3 hours (weekly); history and geography, 3 hours ; arithmetic, 2; mathematics, 2 ; drawing and music, 2; science, laws of health, or domestic economy and sewing, 2 hours; French ©r Latin, theory of school management, 2 hours ; gymnalic and drill, I hour. The above shall be subject to such modifications as the Board may find desirable. PRACTICE OF TEACHING. 15. Every student to [spend a portion of time as teacher in a practising school under direction of the principal. IG. Principal to superintend the practice of students. 17 Teachers in whose class-rooms students may be practising shall for the time being be considered oflicers of the training college, and shall report to the principal, if required, on the work performed by the students. IS- Masters to give every facility to students when practising. 19. It shall be the duty of the head-master of the practising school to consult the principal of the training college on all matters of school management, and to make such arrangement and distribution of work as i shall enable students in training to have practice in teaching. 20. In the organisation of the practis. ing school due regard shall be had to its purposes as a part of the training college, as well as forming in itself a public school. All departments of ordinary public schools shall be maintained in active operation, and classes shall be so granted that students may have experience not only as class teachers, but as teachers of departments in larger schools. 21. Regard to be had in the appointment of teachers to practising school, to the duties that will devolve upon them. 22. The staff of practising school shall be sutlicient for the work of the school without assistance from training college; an allowance of £40 a year for females, and £45 for males, tenable for two years, may be granted to students who have been junior assistant holders of scholarships and others, the number of persons to whom such allowance shall be made to be decidcd by the Board, and to be limited by the funds available for the purpose at the command of the Board. Clauses 2, 3, 4, 15, 16, 17, IS, 19, 20, 21, and 2*2 were referred to the committee for their opinion. TRANSMISSION OF NOMINATIONS. The Chairman said that he had instructed | the solicitor to give a legal opinion as to the ; time within which the nomination of members be received. He would first ask the Secretary to read the nominations. The Secretary said that the names which had been received within the time specified by the Act (sub-section 1, clause 13) were Messrs. Dargaville, Moat, Hobbs, and Thompson. On the Ist of February nominations were received from Parnell, Onehunga, and Mount Albert, anil on the 2nd from Pukeatua. The Chairman explained that the legal question was whether a nomination transmitted on the 31st of January could be legally received. It was not the Board who had given the instructions, but the Chairman to the Board for their own information. Mr. Lusk's opinion was read to the following effect: —That it was a well established a fraction of a day could not count in deuermiuing the meaning of " nominated betweenvjhe Ist and 31sfc of January." Hence, headisc^^ the nominations for Parnell, Onehunga an d Mount Albert were invalid. only nominated one person, instead of He thought to nominate but one member 1 .instead of two was as irregular as if they nomr^^ three. He considered that, in this ai.S°» the nomination was invalid. S It -was resolved that the usual notification of the election of Messrs. Hobbs, Dargaville, Thompson (Thames), and Moat, should be made. WARKWORTH. A deputation of settlers from this district, consisting of Messrs. J. B. Jordan, H» Palmer, S. Moore, and — Boon, waited on the Board, and were, by resolution, received and heard. They said that a few persons had determined to divide the district. The majority of the ratepayers in the district were opposed to the division. A meeting had been held in the district in favour of the division, but this was described by a member of the deputation as a " hole-and-corner " meeting. Representations were sent to the Board which were not justified by the facts. The consequence was ,that the Board had allowed the division, and the boundaries of the new district were marked on a tracing. The effect of what was done was to inflict a good deal of hardship on the settlers of some parts of the district. The deputation said that the settlers desired simply to remain as they had been before. The settlers of the Dome Valley, they said, would be shut out. The deputation having been heard, thanked the Chairman and members of the Board, and ; withdrew. 1 Mr. Peacock (after considerable discussion) i moved, " That a meeting of Wark worth ; householders be called to elect a committee, j and that at such meeting the question of the ; boundaries of the district be considered, in \ accordance with the Gist section of the Act." j —Carried. # j The effect of this will be that no meeting j will be called for election of a committee to the so-called new district—it will lapse. The Board adjourned at 1.30 to 2 o'clock on the 11th inst.