SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13699, 1 June 1915, Page 4

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION.

QUESTION OF ALLOWANCES. ,

At the meeting of ihk Manga'pa'p; School Commute? las.t night, the follow: ing letter was received from the seer:: tary of, the HawJk«!s Bay* Education Board, 6n the matter of school, commit tee allowances:.-^-' . : , .' .... "'.'l have to mforni you that your ,lette" of 4tli ihst. was considered liy the Board at its last meeting, when-it was resolve.l thai' the letter be received, and you L. informed , that the Board has! cpnfjrme 1 its decision to make to school committees on the basis of the eightli schedule of the Act. The Boarad is pro pared, however, to later consider app;» cation^ from ,scho<pj.. committees who Jind their funds insufficient to enable them ti satisfactorily administer the' affairs of the- school. ' A copy of an • extract from a statement by, il\« „ >B6ardV .'chairma" dealing ■ vvith;^ this Subject is attache f hereto/ .„' ..\:. „■ , „ .?. .U , '"''■ Extract Irorn the chairman's monthtf statement to the Board, May 13th, 1915 "I *have received ftrom the Minister ol Education a copy of a letter sent by him •to the Poverty Bay School Committees Association in* reply to a' letter regartfinp, the action of . the Board m paying to committees .as allowances the sum received from tlie Government for the pinpose. - The Minister points but that ths eighth yscheduTa of the Act, which dc fines wnat shall be paid to Boards for tlie"se ? allowances, does not ""debar the Board 'from paying- to committees"morrthan Tsspecifi'ed m, the scheduled and ho goes on to state that a3 a- matter of fact this Board 7 actually receives • under 111". new* Act a slightly larger sum for ' th'im purpose than., under the. old, inferring that the Board, instead of reducing thy I payment, should therefor© be m a poai tion to' makd'larger' ■allowances. •"•'-' As a master: b| fact^' "ltfv is possible tha^.thi.: total.' minimum ptfyat)!©, under tTiD^'new Act may be somewhat m 'exceW of , thy payable under tJie ''old ; ' Bui* 8 . Board did'-betfer tHari^'pay 'the! minimum vjnder '{•tie old^rjt 'paid", at'^'.liig'ti'er.' rate^thaii anyslJoard m New^jZealand, > Jand be s please^ tOj cphtinW to. dp so, b\it v.i) <Jer th© new, ."Act' 'We "B,6a,rd's,. liaraliitiss are ;uicreased'.^ Trjue, the*; inspectors arc now 'paid jjb^ iA '';tp»TJ Department, but against thia the. Board' loses "its . annual grant' ; qf ' Jo2s^,|' Kgs," te> ; pay the fuUlpqst; of" : J eorivf>y&i% ofr.cljii^r^n-Tiand iJ£',.re3P>j 1 witU^e' p^pp^meht^' to ..' finaliy-.-^ay where conyeyanc© mus^;b^' ; e3tabliah^ed.--— m,ust, subsidise, voluntary^. Vconjtributipns 1 f^* c scno<jl '^rax ies,' and : ;jn]ifsV expecl. 'jnp a^ta^Qa yi tjhe ( Wgoran^^im^rteiiit ; wfl^k . <j| . t \ c oiin^ctihg' scijopla' wita ta^n driiinag^: ' ,?y^ten»s . as ' sijctL; sys<>eina Jjec^Qm^ available. ' It, th,er^pre; appear,s tflat the £|oard less funds fropi Ay^jch fo'^a^d tp^the. nllotyftnce/provided for committees by t!i«' Government,;, ftn. 3 m ( 4ny..c!ase it^^ ;isvy^ry. certain that dur ing 4,he I^rsi} i ye^r.iftnd/nntil Jt \i^ sper? what ihorßpatd's .^penditture under tho new ;ppnditions.is tq.be, t^ie. Board would 'be., well :- advj^d 'jbo^be.^.careful, I mi^ht'.point < .out that the Boaxd!s : attitude m .this, 'matter -is clearly set , oat : 111,^6 Jasfc paragraph of the Board's annual report, to. £ne. Minister, whereinv it is stated : 'During the year the incidental allowance's .'paid '.to ' cdmmitte«>3 hay© totalled £3604 Is 4d J( or 6s 6d per unit of average ' attendance m the district. Under the new Act the estjmat ■ ed total to be received from the Government: on this account will "Ke £400 lea*? thaii"'that payable : uhder the Boiifd's old regulations.' At present the . Board, while.-. sympathising with committees enc n the. reduction of income, and 'while recognising that the amounts paid m th« past were none too, liberal -has now been compelled, m view of tho xincortainty of the amount that tho Board may be compelled to expend, under the provi sions of the hew Act, to decide to pay at the rate. i provided- by the Govern* ment;/-' ; : , .-.. t r\ „«./• ■ ■■■■•••.- ■■ <.-