WELLINGTON EDUCATION BOARD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1666, 3 February 1904, Page 18

WELLINGTON EDUCATION BOARD.

The Wellington Board of Education met ■on Thursday. Present—Messrs F. Bradey (chairman), YV. G. Buchanan, M.H.R., James Roberteon. W. H. Field, M.H.R., W. Allan, A. W, Hogg, M.H.R., E. Feist, and J. Kebbell. Leave of absence was given to Mr Lea.

The foil/owing is the statement of finances after providing for paysheet:—Genera] account, dp., <£B72 3s 4d; cookery account, dr, £154 Is sd; building account, dr., £4733 12s sd: total £5759 17s ’2d. D.H.S.acoount, cr, £BS 6afid; salaries axcountf cr, £666 16s 2d: total £762 2s Bd. Contract liabilities, 28th January, 1904, £lll7 14s 2d. The pay-sheet is as folloxvs:—Teachers’ salaries;, £3717 9y Id; general, £1067 17s 3d; cookery, £l4 3s 6d; District High Schools, £35 ,16s 8d; buildings, £29 10s sd: total £4864 16a lid. The inspectors, in reference to the cookery classes, stated that they had no information whether the department intended to continue the capitation grant of 15s or to reduce it to 10s 1 , as stated in the regulations, and until tlidy had definite information o-n .this point, they were unable to make definite recommendations. In the meantime, they recommended that Miss Millington should complete her course to the schools in the Pahiatua district, which ended on March 31st, and that in the city Airs Neeley, who hoioia first-class certificates from the Birmingham and Midland School of Cookery in artisan and high-class cookery, should be appointed as temporary teacher at a salary of £IOO to organise the work until further arrangements could be made. This was agreed to. The inspectors submitted the following list of pupil teachers fur approval: Lower Hutt, Frank Gamble; Petone, Misses Agnes Webster and Marion Thornton; Levin, John Finlay son; Grey town, .Misses Nellie Macey ana Alary Clarke; ,Carterton, Arthur Roydhouse; Masterton, Mini Irene Murray. From the following list pupil teachers may be selected for any part of the district Ivy lornis, Autry Hitchcock, Alyta Bird, Margaret Battereby, Elsie Grey, Rose Clark, Jessie freeman, Emily Colson, Alary Campion. Eistber Day, Mary Kilmartin, Alildred Stuckey, Winifred Thomson, Alice Gertrude Lamibert, Ethel Greenwood, Mabel Staveley, Florence D’Arey, Olive Renall, Lilian Turkington, Sophia Alalia,hair, Bertha Cooper, Pearl Dale, Harold Alonaghan and Gerald Smith. The lists were agreed to. The scholarships were formally awarded ip aoeordanioe with the recent report of the examiners. The results have been already published. •The resignations of Miss AI. Player, assistant at Te Aro, and L. Downing, liinenioa, were accepted. The truant officer for the city wrote resigning his position and it was decided to call for’ applications for the position. Leave ol absence for one month was granted to Miss M. Hitchcock and Mists Duncan, and Miss D. Hamilton’s leave was extended for a- Month. Damage to the extent -of £62 having been caused to the achiool at Ivaiparoro, between Master ton and Etketahunai, it was announced that the authority to spend the mpuiey in renewing the building had been granted by the Education Department, * , „ ' An application for a grant of £1 j for an additional room at Kahautara was not agreed to. The painting of the O'tsafei school could not be authorised—and for a like reason, want of funds. The' sum of £2 103 was granted as the, half-CGst of the re-erection of the shelter shed blown ■djown at Hartwell. . '-J- ' . i ! Tenders were accepted, for 5 -the leasing oik the Horowhenua schoolroom and) ground (8s 6d pen month),. tbe ; school and ground, Levin (5s per week Wand Die .Ehiparoro reserve of 234 aw'wjSp'Gd per ‘acre). • -k" Some notes on cottage garcteMiiiig were received from the Education Department with the suggestion that the Board should print and 1 circulate them amongst tne schools. Members of the Board, Lewevetr, saw no reason why the departm itself should not' undertake this duty.