THE EDUCATION BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19143, 8 October 1925, Page 14

THE EDUCATION BOARD.

EPSOM SCHOOL GROUNDS. QUESTION OF IMPROVEMENT. A deputation from the Epsom School Committee waited on the Auckland Education Board yesterday with a request that arrangements should be made for the levelling, tarring aind sanding of the school grounds. It was arranged that the architect should meet members of the committee on the ground to-morrow morning to discuss the matter. A suggestion that the name of the Training College should be changed to Auckland Teachers' College was received from the principal. The matter was deferred pending consultation with the Director of Education on his next visit to. Auckland. A request for enlargement or remodelling of the Mount Albert School building was referred to 1 the architect and the advisory inspector to report. A grant for additions to the infant department of Northcote School was notified by the department. A grant for erection of an additional shelter»sheci at Long Bay School was also notified. A letter was received from the Rotorua School Committee, stating that approximately 500 pupils in the primary schools were receiving regular instruction under the Nelson system of Bible teaching in scnools, and that the temporary discontinuance of instruction, owing to shortage of instructors, referred to the secondary department only. A letter was received from the department regarding the poposal to locate the Education Board offices in the old Training College building. The letter stated there was no authority under which the board could pay the cost of building from money advanced from the rebuilding fund, the board's genera! fund being the only one from which such provision could be made. The board decided to offer to allow the department to take the money from the general fund. The expulsion of ptspils from school was dealt with in a communication from the department, which stated that ij; arrangements could not be made for the admission of children- to another school, their names and full particulars should be brought by the board to the notice of the department's probation, officer, who had power to deal with the cases under the Child Welfare Act recently passed by mentAdvice was received from the department to the effect that returning officers for the general election had beer, instructed to go fully into the question of the use of public buildings instead of schools, and that it was hoped the closing of large schools on election day would be avoided.