EDUCATION BOARD.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5598, 26 May 1905, Page 3

EDUCATION BOARD.

MONTHLY AIKI'.TXNG. Tho Wellington Education Board j, ■ yesterday. Present —Messrs J. Robertson (‘chairman), E. Feist, T. AV. McDonald. A. V'. .'1.1) .11,, J. Krbboll, W. C. Buchanan, AI.H.R., W. 11. Field, AI.H.R., and W. Allan. FIN'NCE. The statement oi finances showed the buildings account in debit £2211 Bs, /ml tho administration account £1917 11s lid in credit. Tho - pay-shoot, amounting to £.>j<jO Is Hid, was passed. TENDERS. -The following tenders for work were accepted:—Tenui, F. Harding, £-13 4s ‘ad: Upper Hull. ■* M. Turner, £72 9s fid; Gross Creek residence, W. lien ton, £37 IDs; Cross Crock school, AV. Benton, £5 10s; (ireytown rcsidouce, J. C. Beard, £l7; Board building, G. Humphreys, £202 10s. GRANTS. Tho following grants were made; —■ South ‘Wellington,, heating temporary schoolroom, £3l; South Wellington, rxtra kindergarten material, £10; Nircaha, fencing, £ls; Kakariki, grant (or fencing, £2; .Mount Cook, grant for two stoves; Johnsonvillo and AJakara, grants for new tanks; To Nui, culvert and removal of willows, £4; Shannon, £25 for gravelling at new school; Pahiatua, £5 for school apparatus, tho committee contributing £5; tvilblrnie, subsidy of 10s on every £1 locally contributed up to £SO-—for isphalting £35 has been raised. GENERAL. Tho application of the Pctono Technical School, that tho Board bear cost of gas fittings for rooms used by the technical classes, wut declined. The Board consented to the erection of a gymnasium at tho Martiuborough school; tho budding to bo tho property of tho Board, and subject to tho committee’s control. It was considered inadvisablo to purchase the residence of Air Bedingfield at Hamua. Tho Board endorsed resolutions passed by tho Otago Education Board against tho yancy of centralisation of educational matters, thus curtailing tho powers of Education Boards. Tho appointment of Mr F. G. Thomson to the command of tho Thorndon uadot company was approved. Mr McDonald gave notice of motion for next meeting, “That a sinking fund bo created for tho purpose of providing for worn-out schools.”