BOARD OF EDUCATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12408, 22 October 1903, Page 7

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

An ordinary meeting of the Auckland Board of Education was hold at the Board's offices, Victoria Arcade, yesterday. There were present: Messrs. B. Hobbs (chairman), L. J. Bagnall, S. Luke, H. J. Greenslade, G. Edgecumbe, and A. It. Hairis. A Suggestion Declined:. A communication was received from the secretary of the Auckland District Educational Institute, embody-, ing the following resolution, with a request that the Board should forward the same to the Government if they thought fit: "That it is desirable that in the annual examination ; report the inspector shall be requested to , answer some such < uestion as, What oircum- , stances, if any. have materially militated I against the work of the school during the ! past year?' " The Board decided that any such sußßestion would be inconvenient and ' inadvisable. ■ Candidates* Hardships: The secretary of ; the Auckland District Educational Institute wrote, asking the Board to favourably con- j sider the following resolution brought forward by the Thames branch and agreed to at a meeting of the- Management Committoo: "That the attention of the Board of Education be drawn to the hardship inflioted upon candidates on probation kept waiting for more than 12 months for employment in requiring them again to pass the entrance examination." It was decided to reply that the Board was compelled to follow the regulations as laid down by law. ' Finance Committee: The Finance Committee recommended payment of the following accounts: —Maintenance account, 21 vouchors, £7785 15s 9<l; building fund, 12 vouchers, £502 lis; manual and technical instruction, £29 6s. The committee recommended that a remonstrance should be for- I warded to the Minister against tho with- i holding of the house allowance payable , under the Teachers' Salaries Act to the headteacher of the Pukekohe West school. The reports of the instructors of the Saturday clashes for pupil-teachers for the ouarter ended September 30, 1903, had been considered and found satisfactory. Application to the Government for a grant for the purchase of diagrams and oil staves for the cookery classes at the three manual training centres was recommended. The report was adopted. Teachers' Selection Committee: The Teachers' Selection Committee recommended that the following appointments be authorised:—Mr. W. Cnappell, to be headmaster of Puhoi school; Sir. H. He ward, headmaster, Kamo; Mr. W. O. Lamb, headmaster, Maungakaramoa; Mr. E. Millington, teacher, Maunu: Mr. F. H. Smith, teacher. Red Hill; Mrs, J. M. P. Finlayson, teacher, Arapohue; Miss M. L Telfcr, teacher, Matapouri aided school; Mr. F. S. Bamson, relieving teacher, in temporary charge of Gordon school; Miss J. Kay, mistress, Te Aroba: Miss L. G. Kitching, mistress, Waihou; Miss A. Harrison, mistress, Russell; Miss Margaret Clark, pupil-teacher, Newton West. The committee recommended that school committees should be consulted in regard to proposed 'appointments as follows: —Rawene (solo charged, Miss C. White; jvaurihohore (sole charge), Miss M. M. Boll; Whakafcan* (mistress). Miss M. C. Bonner. A further recommendation was tho ap pointment of an additional pupil-teacher to the D<rvonport school under the authority of regulation 2 under tho Public Schoolteachers' Salaries Act. The report was adopted.