OTAGO EDUCATION BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12639, 17 April 1903, Page 8

OTAGO EDUCATION BOARD.

The adjourned mooting of Iho Otago Education Board was held yesterday morning, anil attended by Messrs W. Snow (chairman), A. Marshall, Jas. Sim, Jas. Milt-hell, W, Nicohon, K. Peattie, and the Kev. T. 13. Fraser. I'.EStr.SATIOSS AND ArrOLTrMEXTfI. The following resignation.! were reeeived and accepted:—J. li. Grant, head teaoher, Waihola; Magnus Thomson, head teacher, Waipalii; (iertrudo Provo, head teacher, Waitahuna. West; Jessie I)\ M'Gregor, head teacher, Cirole Hill; Ivy M. Croft, head teacher, Houipapa; Annie Pretsch, head teacher, Tarras; John Eeid, first assistant, Oamaru South; Catherine Livingston, mistress, Suntroon; Geo. H. Uttley, fourth assistant, Albany Street; John Borthwiclo, fourth assistant, Normal; ,1. L, Hopcraft', sixth assistant, Albany Street; Flora M. Allan, pupil teaoher, Albany Street. Tlio'following appointments were made:— J. B. Grant, head teacher, Kakanui, vice T. C. Harrison, promoted; M. Thomson, head teaoher, Hooper's Inlet, vice Nelson, promoted; A. Pretsch, head teacher, Taumata, vice Hopcraft, transferred; ,T. Borthwick, second assistant, Forbury, vice Maxwell, left service; Ivy Croft, mistress, Owaka, vice Henderson, transferred; C. Livingston, third assistant, Kaitangata, vies Sinclair, left servioe; George Balsille, fourth assistant, Normal, vice 0. Borthwick, promoted. !IR T. MACKENZIE CMTICISED. Mr W. Nicolson asked if any letter had been received by the chairman from Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., dealing with grants to school committer, ,'and which had been published in the press. The Chairman said he wished to explain that he had not reoeived this letter. Ho had asked if it had been left at the board's ofiice, but it was not there. He saw the letter published- in the papors, and that was all he knew about it. Mr Nicolson: Well, what has bccome of. ft? The Chairman: I don't know. Tho Secretary: It did not come here. Mr Fraser protested against a member of the board carrying on this sort of work other thnn at the board's table. This letter to the ohairman was not the first communication of a similar nature ho had 6eon jn the papers, and he thought it was hardly treating the members of the board with the courtesy that,was customary. It wa3 an unusual thing for a member of a public body to do his share of the busings; through the columns of the press,.. If every member were to do the same thing they might never have a quorum at their meetings. 'Mr M.icfceazie's mot ice of motion dealing with (ho subject mentioned in his letter was held over, CE.VEZUL. It was decided to applv to tho Minister of Kducation for the results of tho Training College students at the last teachers' examiination. It was agreed to recommend to the Minister, in torms of the board's regulations, that tho wives of teachers )>e appointed to the position of sewing mistress when competent. . / It was resolved to adrertise the vacancy of third assistant im the Oamaru School, for which, no male applicant can be got, for either male or female, at a salary of £100 » year.