H.B. EDUCATION B.OARD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5700, 21 February 1890, Page 2

H.B. EDUCATION B.OARD

At the meeting of the Education Board last Tuesday the following correspondence of local interest was dealt with : — From Mciknuri, protesting against the removal of the higher standards to the Matawhero school ; also pointing out that the grant for a tank was useless unless spouting were provided. — The Board agreed to pay for spouting. From Gisborne, urging the necessity for renting a room to give additional accommodation. It was suggested that the Congregational Church should be hired. — The Inspector said the school was certainly crowded, but he thought the sixth standard might be drafted into the secondary school. —Reply to be senc in accordance . with Inspector's suggestion. From two scholarship holders, children of the late Key. Mr McAra, asking that they may be allowed to attend the Dunedin High School, Mrs McAra being about to remove there. — From Mr Hornby, similar , request relative to his son. — From ■ Mr W. C. Smith, asking that his j son might attend the Wanganui High , School. — The Chairman read clauses , from the Education Act, which pre- \ eluded scholarship holders attending high schools outside the education district if j there were such a school within the dis- , trict, open to inspection by the Board's , inspector. — Mr Harding pointed out that ] the Gisborne district high school was the ] only one fulfilling the conditions in this j district. — The Inspector said the Depart- s menfc regarded all recognised high schools ', as fulfilling the conditions. —Mr Harding a thought it would be very hard on Mr j Smith if his request were not granted, as he had paid his son's fees at Wanganui v before the boy gained a scholarship. — The Inspector said there was nothing in the Board's regulations to prevent the applications being granted, but all other Boards n confined scholarships to the high schools j in their districts. — Mr Sutton thought the Board should confine scholarship holders jj to Napier or Gisborne except under special circumstances. He thought the rule should § bo stretched in the case of Mrs MoAra, fl who was compelled, by the death of her a husband, to remove to Dunedin. He saw C| no hardship in Mr Smith's case. — Mr w Harding contended that so long as scholar- p ship holders attended a good high school £ ( the Board should not interfere and >« restrict the choice of suoh schools. w —The Chairman and Mr Sutton thought j g it would be unfair , to the high schools q in Hawke's Bay. — Mr Tanner agreed w in principle with Mr Haxxling. but thought w -tUrvtr — ctnr~ A*jb — KtntceTJ-"" tl«r— Sw«tl~io high schools in the district.— Mr Harding | r urged that tho Board should be content if the scholarship holders attended the best w school. As five out of six Havre's Bay pj country children went to Wanganui it was £ to be presumed that the Wanganui school was superior to the one at Napier. — Mr s^ Swan agreed with the ohainnan and Mr m Sutton. —Mr Harding moved and Mr j^ Tanner seconded, chat all the applications ff( . bo granted. —Mr Sutton moved as an * amendment that only Mrs M'Ara's appli- jjj cation be granted. — Mr Swan seconded. — The voting being equ,al, the Chairman gave pi his pasting voto for the amendment which ( was carried. From Mr Livingstone, Gisborne, asking that tho extra L2O granted to ooimtry scholarship holders should be given to his son Cyril, as though, the youth lived in j) town he was boarded there for the sole object of education, his home being in the country. — The application was granted. " a From tho Gisborne Committee, suggesting that the girls should be allowed to take one standard subject lesson less than boys, as they had to spend so muoh time in receiving sewing lessons. — The Inspector said he had no authority to drop any of the branches of study, either "pass" or " class " subjects. He would • very much like to drop some, but he was bound by the Act and Departmental regulations. It was very hard on the mistresses as well as the girls. - The Board decided to send the letter to the Education Department, with a recommendation that the standard requirements required revision, and a suggestion that the best way t® secure satisfactory amendment th would be to convene a conference of all the School Inspectors and a representative from each Board in the colony. An old soldier, aged about 70, who has been on a farm near Timaru, in a fit of m? passion took " rough-on-ratg," but re- at covered, in the hospital,' jfj