BOARD OF. EDUCATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12212, 6 March 1903, Page 3

BOARD OF. EDUCATION

An ordinary meeting of the Auckland Education Board was held yesterday afternoon under the presidency of Mr. J. Muir. There were also present: Messrs. W. Lambe, J. D. McKenzie, R, Hobbs, J. D. Rutherford, S. Luke, L. J. Bagnall, P. M. McKay, and A. Rv Harris.

Finance Committee: The committee re- ! commended the payment of accounts amounting to £9078 lis 6d. The committee recommended that application be made to the School Commissioners, under the Education ! Reserves Act; for a share of the income arising from secondary education reserves to be allotted to the district high schools within the Auckland education district; also, that a supply of chemical balances and other science apparatus for district high schools should be procured through the director of technical education from England. The committee further recommended that the teachers' drill classes at Auckland, Thames, Hamilton, and \ Whangarei should begin on Saturday, March ] 14, and that all officers of school cadet corps I should be permitted to attend the same. They had considered the programme of classes held by Miss Eva Hooper for the instruction of teachers in handiwork, and recommended that a class in brushwork should be added for headteachers and assistants. The report was adopted. Teachers' Selection Committee: This committee recommended that the following appointments should be authorised by the Board : Mr. Charles Roberts, to be teacher of Purerua school; Mr. J. G. Goosman, to be teacher of Waiomio school; Miss E. R. Wilson, to be mistress of Northcote school; Miss. B. E. Carnachau, to be assistant-teacher of Parncll school; Mr. H. K. Burns, to be second assistant-master of Wellesley-street school;. Miss A. E. Holloway, to be sixth assistant.- Wellesley-street school; Miss P. M. Wells, relieving teacher to Parawai school as temporary assistant Miss I. L. Kerr, pupil-teacher, from Waipu Central to Newton West school; Miss A". E. Wishart, pupilteacher, from Waihi to Parawai school; Mr. Charles E. Scott, pupil-teacher, to Napierstreet school; Miss Emily Joll, pupil-teacher, to Waihi District Hutu • School. The committee also recommended that school committees should be consulted in regard to proposed appointments, as follows:Raglau, Mr. G. Blackett: Gumtown, Mr. W. L. Hughes; Oxford, Miss M. H. Taylor; Goodwood, Miss E. A. Nixon; Pakia, Miss Ida Young; Mamaku, Messrs. W. J. Cahill and H. J. Durham; Wellesley-street (seventh assistant), Misses M. V. Barlow, M. C. Tregear, E. Ball, E. Sutton, and H. M. Hutchinson. The committee recommended that the request of the Newton Schools Committee for the permanent appointment of a teacher as first lady assistant at. the Newton East school should be deferred until the position became vacant. A further recommendation was that the Driving Creek School Committee should be consulted upon the appointment of a second assistant-teacher in lieu of the employment of two pupil-teachers. The report was adopted. Teachers' Resignations: The Chairman announced that resignations had been received from the following teachers:—Mr. A. D. Bear, Pakia and Wai-o-te-marama schools ;Mr., T. B. McGahan, Ararimu school; Mr. J. La Trobe, Raglan school; Mr. H. . Harrison, Chapel-street school; Miss K. Calvert, Oxford school; Miss A. E. Bond, Paeroa District High School. The following schools were reported as having been closed temporarily on account of the prevalence of measles, etc.: —Dargaville, Kaitara, Otonga, Purua, Rangiaohia, Waihopo. Technical School: On the recommendation of Mr. George George, director of the Technical School, Mr. E. Burrow was appointed teacher for cabinetmaking: Mr. Burrow is the foreman of apprentices at Tonson Garlick and Co.'s. It was decided that the teacher of dressmaking (Mrs. Armitage) should give a public lecture, introducing her system, at Wellesley-street school, on Wednesday morning, .March 18. In respect to the formal opening of the school it was decided that application should be made to the City Council to hold the initial meeting at the Municipal .buddings, the meeting to be followed by an informal gathering at the Technical School. The Board had authorised the calling of tenders for their cookery and woodwork centres to be built, one at Canada-street, one at Newmarket, and one at Richmond Road.

nical School, Mr. E. Burrow was appointed teacher for cabinetma-king". Mr. Burrow is the foreman of apprentices at Tonson Garlick and Oo.'s. It was decided that the teacher of dressmaking (Mrs. Armitage) should give a public lecture, introducing her "system, at wellesley-street school, on Wednesday morning, .March 18. In respect to the formal opening of the school it was decided that application should be mad© to the Oity Council to hold the initial meeting at the Municipal .buddings, the meeting to be followed by an informal gathering at the Technical School. The Board had authorised the calling of tenders for their cookery and woodwork centres to be built, one at Canada-street, one at Newmarket, and one at Richmond Road. Quarterly Returns: In reply to a suggestion from the Board that a penalty clauso should be added to the regulation requiring teachers to forward quarterly attendance returns, the Minister for Education stated that the remedy was in the hands of the Board. Junior Scholarship Examination Questions: Mr. Bagnall called attention to the often absurd nature of the questions submitted to pupils at the junior scholarship examinations. In particular he mentioned the following: — (a) What sort of disputes are considered and settled by the Arbitration Court? (b) How is this Court composed? (c) What evils does its- existence prevent? Obviously this might have reference either to The Hague Tribunal or to the New Zealand Arbitration Court, neither of which was covered by the syllabus of examination or by the textbooks recommended. .It was decided to ask the chief inspector whether the questions were propounded by individual inspectors or by inspectors in conference. Tenders: Tenders for roofing the teacher's house at To Kopuru were received and one for £55 accepted. New Schools: A number of applications for new schools were considered, with the fob. lowing result:Avondale South, deferred for inspector's report; Eureka, declined; Mangawara (Taupiri) aided school, agreed to; Okahu (Northern Wairoa) half-time school, to be erected; Raglan, assent given to Native Department to erect native school Rotorangi (Cambridge), grant to be applied for new school. Buildings: Coromandel—Application for new classroom for high school. Inspector to report. 'Hamilton —Application for high school classroom. Referred to inspector. Mangapai, building to accommodate 45 to be erected.