HIGH SCHOOL BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2513, 14 May 1902, Page 12

HIGH SCHOOL BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

The ordirary meeting of the High Schools Board of Governors was held on the 6th, and attended by Dr Shand (in the chair), Messrs P. B. Fraser, J. R. Sinclair, G. L. Donniston, T. K. Sidoy, M.H.R., and the Rev. W. Hewitson. An apology for absence was received from Dr Brown. Accounts amounting to £462 were passed for payment. The bank book laid on the table showed the following balances in hand at the end of April: — Working account, £195 5a Id; .No. 4 capital account, £317 17s 4d; scholarship account, £27 8s 6d; cash in bank! on April 30, £1012 2s sd; less outstanding cheques for March, £9 15s 6d; les3 outstanding cheques for April, £457 23 §d; balance to the credit of the board, £54-5 4a 3d. The Secretary reported holding an interview with the Mayor and town clerk with a view to eecuring a reduction in the water rate^^M JiMJafl jAJUkjfeck had jnroxQiead

to see what could be done in the matter. — • The secretary was instructed to give further attention to the matter. [ rots' high school kectobt. ! A return was laid on the table giving particulars pf the boys' boarding establishment from January 1, 1879, to March 31, 1902. The return showed that the number of pupils at the beginning of that period ; was 24 ; in 1883 the number vra,s 45 (the highest on record), since then the i*umber Jiad decreased almost consistently to tho present time. In 1895 the number was 20, in 1595 (Air Baker's first year of control) 12, and at the present time 11 is the number of boarders. During that period the fees collected amounted to £10,820 2s 6d, disbursements amounted to £11,909 3s, expenses of building and furnishing £2459 0s Bd. A similar return for the girls' boardinp; establishment showed tho number of boarders at the beginning of the period to have been 13. The greatest number (22 full and 3 day boarders) was in 1891, and tho number at the present time waa seven full 1 and one day boarder. The total amount collected jn fees since 1879 was £9856 16s 2d, and the total disbursements £9541 11s 4d. The total expenditure on buildings and furniture was £1217 10s 7d. Mr Fra3er's motion that the rectory in connection with the Boys' High School be closed and th© building sold, and a similar motion re the Girls' High School was considered in committee. The discussion \ra3 ultimately postponed in the absence of certain members without a decision being arrived at, the board resolving that in any case the establishments would be carried on till th© end of the year, even if they should) be closed then. Confidential reports on the» subject were received from the rector of tho boya' school and the lady principal of tho girls' school. I NOTICES OF MOTION. I Mr Fraser gave notices of motion as follows: — "That the board consider the time has arrived for erecting a new Girls' High School worthy of the city and the province, and that the board refer to a committee to report on the following proposals: (1) thafc the G-irh' High School building be soldi and the whole of the cite be leased for building purposes, and that it be considered! houses might be erected by the board and leased; (2) that the board make overtures to the Education Board in order to acquire a site in Stuart street belonging to that board, and that the Girls' High School be eracted thereon." "That the board consider at next meeting the following — (a) that the board offer to the Minister of Education to receive 300 or other number of freer scholars at £6 each, tho board to grant freg education to 30 or 40 more ; (b) that it be remitted to a committee to bring up a report 011 th© possibility of a reduced ecalo of fees." Mr Fraser brought up the question of cookery classes at tho Girls' High School, and it was agreed that the matter be referred to a committee of Dr Brown and Mr Fraser with power to act, after conferring with Miss Marehant.

The Colonial Treasurer has provisionally granted the £7000 loan for the Alexandra {waterworks scheme. ■ Mr W. M. Innes, of Port Chalmers, is •the possessor of a Bible dated 1495, in the -.a-eign of Queen Elizabeth. The volume, 'jwhich is, of course, printed in Old English, 63 intact, and belongs to the family of Mrs :Irmeß. That lady's grandmother, we are Snformed, refused £100 for the book some &60 jsar* b^fik,

:nt meteor was seen

a. very oriiiia the Chrktchurch Press) soaring across the sky from S.S.W. to N.N.E. near the zenith, at about five minutes past 9 on Tuesday night. A Hastings painter, who was teaching his sons the trade, has had to admit them to partnership, because under the labour laws he could not employ them as apprentices without first employing a number of men — fcrea to each bor.