EDUCATION BOARD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12465, 26 May 1911, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

(Special t<v Herald.), NAPIER, this day. The Education Board met yesterday. The chairman's report stated that Mr Kibblewhjto hud been appointed assistant teaclier at Gisborne. Miss Maiison,assistant at Te Rehunga, had resigned.. Thb number of children enrolled, .m the, public «chools of the district on 31st March was 10,348, an- increase 0f. 3169 on the roll number, of the. 31st March of ; last year. The attendance of children last quarter was very general, the percentage being 91.1 per cent, of the children — at Mataniau 97 per cent., Woodvillo' 96 per -cent., Hutuma 95 per cent., Napier 95 per cent., Otane 94 per cent., and Kaiti 94 per cent. These schools deserve special commendation iv this rcHpect , School correspondence was. dealt with as under : — Te Hapara : Desks and • basket grates to be supplied ; northern members to report on need for conveniences, and shelter/ and coal shed ; ia request- for a nag-polo' 'was refused. Wniroa : Basket grates to bo supplied ; subsidy for swings declined. Miscellaneous —The Board resolved that' the apparatus recommended for the Gisborne art room be supplied, the Department to be asked to make the necessary grant? • , T^e'Boar^^e\id / ed not to give effect to the 'northern mrinbers' recommendation for additional conveniences at Makauri.