BOARD OF EDUCATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8928, 17 December 1887, Page 3

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The ordinary meeting of the Board of Ednca* tion was held yesterday afternoon, when there were present—Mr. Lake (chairman), and Messrs. Carr, Lennox, Udy, Upton, Theo. Cooper, and J. M. Clark.

Tenders.—Tenders for'painting school at Pukerima were received. The estimate was £13. The lowest tender was that of Mr. Davis for £13 7«, which was informal. The tender of R. Chester for £1310s was accepted as being the lowest formal tender. Report of Chairman.—The ohairman's report was read. Tenders for painting Hamilton East School had been invited.

Ihe committee had been asked to report on proposal for transfer of Te Molari School to Board. Mr. L. A. Durrieu had been appointed auditor of sohocl committees" accounts. The report was adopted. Training College Committee. — This committee recommended that Mr. Gulliver's letter regarding the terms of his engagement as principal of the Training College, together with a copy of the Board's letter of appointment of Mr. Gulliver, bs referred to the Minister of Education for hie opinion as to the Board's liability, and that it be pointed out to the Minister that the Board would have no funds to oouciuue the salary beyond the end of the year. The chairman thought it only right that Mr. Gulliver should be paid. Mr. Cooper also spoke, and opposed the principle of having training colleges. Mr. Bice said training colleges had been forced on the Board againnt their will. The report was adopted. On I;he motion of Mr. Carr it was deoided to ask Mr. Gulliver whether the Training College time-table had been kept on Saturday last. Abolition of Training College.A letter from the Education Institute re abolition of Training College was received. It was decided to acknowledge receipt of the letter, and defer consideration of it for a week.

Balances.—The balances were read, as follows: Education Fund, oredit, £5955 9s sd; Building Fund, credit, £224 2s : total, £5879 lis sd. Girls' 'High School, debit, £65 9s lOd.

Correspondence with toe GOVERNMENT.

—Mr. Habeas wrote stating that be bed received the Board's telegram respecting the maintenance of the Training College, it had been laid before the Minister of Education. Received.

Extra Capitation.Mr Habens wrote as

follows :— " I am instructed to advise you that it is not the intention of the Government

to propose a capitation grant this year in addition bo the statutory capitation grant of £3 15a, and , that the payment now being made at the rate of 4s a head per annum will therefore not be continued after the present month." The secretary of the Board added a note that the extra capitation bad been sb, and last year had been reduced to 4s. The withdrawal of the 4a meant a loss of £3308 a year according to present attendance. This extra capitation was voted for contingencies

including grant to school committees,

School Agb,-— same official also forwarded a circular, forwarding a oopy of an

3rder-in-Council, intimating that in future

there will be no grant for children under six years of age, or for any who have passed the sixth standard, except that, as there have been such children on the roll this quarter, the payment for next quarter will not be affected by this order.

Annual Returns.— Habens also forwarded from Wellington a circular re annual returns, asking the Board to send in its general statement of accounts for the current year,

in respect of the Auckland Girls' High Sohool, to be seat in to the Minister as soon as possible. He also asked that the Board's expenditure be carefully classified, and not headed as "Miscellaneous," Sundries," eto. He also asked for full in-

formation about the schools nnder their supervision, emoluments of teachers, number of pupils, eto. After some discussion it was resolved, on the motion of the Chairman,

that the whole question of retrenchment be referred to a committee of the whole Board, and that they confer with the

inspectors as to the best mode of re. arrangement or reduetion in numbers of the teachers. It was also decided to

ielegraph at once to the Government asking

them whether they intended to except country schools from the regulation rais-

ing the school age to six years. Some discussion ensued as to whether the payments of capitation should be made on the "strict, or the *' working" average of attendance It was deoided to telegraph to the Govern-'

merit asking them whether they would pay country schools by the "working" or the "strict" average. It was stated by Mr. Lennox that the ° working" average was really an abase which had crept into the system. It was decided that the secretary prepare the annual returns required.

applications. —An application from Buokl*nd for a new sohool watt declined. An application from Dome Valley for the erection of a teacher's house, Decided to send this application to Wellington as a work urgently required, lb was decided to

inform the Hokianga committee that the old school building would be leased by the commissioners, An application from Ngahinepouri for assistance to the extent of £5 was refused. In reference to Swanson, it was decided to fix boundaries as reoommended by the committee. An application for a new sohool building at Tauranga was referred to Mr. AUright. An application for a new school at Te Kuitl was decided to be noted in the list of requirements. An application by Mr. Thompson from Te Rahu for an exchange of land was deferred for a week. An application from Tryphena for the erection of a fence was declined.