EDUCATION BOARD.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8873, 25 July 1907, Page 3

EDUCATION BOARD.

I e ordinary monthly meeting ot 3 Board -was held last evening. i>nt: Messrs Pirani, chairmen: fitt, Dixon, iPurnell, Smithy rie, Fraser and Carson. Leave bsonce was granted to mr 3 cash statement showed a credit 583 19s 4d on , debit of £3O, with liabilities 73 on maintenance account. j following appointments were with -l-Maugnmalm, selection Oise nTondrtaed ; Glen Orona, w G. Gibbs confirmed ; uuui, selection of Miss Bleunortt. confirmed as first assistant Tnlm’s; Stoney Greek, apt 0 f Miss Gebbie confirmed ; ingaiti. Sirs Stausell appointed S;' 1 m' f ßaukin, Linton, asking and instruction were compuland pointing opt that rOiiki was not receiving mstrncm those subjects; resolved to teacher if instruction is being en in these subjects, jeave of absence was granted to E. McNeill, Wanganui D.H.fo., for •ee months; O. M Dorset. Rowa, • nno month; H. L. Spratt, , ° ra iOth June to 31st July; N. i«hn’rv, Bcacousfield, two weeks: tffik two or throe weeks J. Blair Waugamu D.H.b.. three , . j. T. Robson three days, F. ! g‘ Xfociccl, Toi Toi, extend from ly’lst to 33rd August, rho Oliief Inspector reported that regulations precluded Mangain school from being made a side iiool to Raugiwalua.—Report suggestion of the chairman i,as resolved to ask ti.c Education martmeut to ascertain what the ,st office would charge for haudig teachers’ salaries. Mi Dixon ivo notice to move at next moot- „ ftiat iu future the Board pay change on teachers’ cheques. Awaiiou.— From Department re aut for enlargement of residence, liting that applications will bo cou|erod with others. Kaiticko Townsliip—From the mils Department ro scliool site, fiin r ' that tho site would bo pegged It was resolved to make appliiton for a forty-school. Oa the motion of Mr Smith it was solved that tile Agricultural Dortmeut bo asked when add for how na Mr Hopkins could bo spared for o purpose of giving .instruction m lio-keepiug- , „ :Tho Bulls, Rongotea and bauson hmmitto n s wrote ro establishment High Schools.—Referred i Chief Inspector to report. Commissioners wore appointed for axwcil, Bcacousfield and Kaimtau. . Glen Orona. —Application to be ado for grant for teacher’s rcsi3UCO. .. Pukookahu.— Application for trees. -Resolved to reply that Board cau--3t supply. . South Makirikiri. —Letter asking tho Board would object to a pubc hall being erected on school site, id, if not, would tho Board con■ib’nto towards cost.—Permission rauted, providing tho settlors fence i an eighth of an aero. Boston. —On tho recommendation f Mr Fraser it was resolved that 30 asks ha supplied. Nikau.— Application for graut for ihool library.—Committee to be iuirmad that applications for grants ir libraries will ho considered at id of year. Owhakura. —From committee re earing site for residence.—Grant p £ls to be made for stumping and earing, and also fencing materials nplied for. Letter from Major Aitken requostig Board to apply to tho Departieut for permission to .hold a camp jr cadets iu tho vicinity of Wellingm, and also for suhisdy of 4s (id per ea'il towards cost. —Permission ranted and application to ho made ar subsidy

iibr. Levingo waited upon the Board ro au apparatus for facilitaBlntr the study of astronomy and surHey work. —Resolved that the Chief JSuspector ho asked to report at next ■ The Chief Inspector, Mr Braik, in Bo course of his report, said :—The Bispectors have renewed their annual Bisits, and will consequently he exifremely busy till the end of the year. Bhey are of "opinion that in view of Hnpendiug changes in tiro regulations MSfrr the inspection of schools it would His well if all promotions of pupils Hrore deferred till December. Pupils Broukl of course bo advanced in their Btudies after the Inspector's visit as jftsual, but tJie classification of the Hchool for next year would bo dctcrHiiued by the results of the teachers' Bkaminations' for the present year. Bfcr Hint?, reports, among other BSiings, the conclusion of a most sne■fessful series of lessons given by Mr Kraut at Manaia. Factory and farHters’ classes in dairying have, owing Ho several causes, been greatly rc■uced in attendance. The experience Sained by Mr Browne, the instrucHor, will prove invaluable in the forBwtion of such classes in the future. Hlio question of the appointment of K special instructor in commercial Krork is referred to, anil there is Kittle doubt but that the success of Hie work in the future will depend Ho a great extent upon the quality Hf the instruction. If the different Hcliools in the district will guarantee Bhe pupils, the Board might safely Hngage the instructors. ■ A course of ■nstrnctiou for young farmer-; which Blight possibly be arranged for next Scar is outlined by Mr Hiutz. A Highly satisfactory report comes from Hlartoa, where the Technical School ■Building is almost finished. From Walls comes the report that ST Students have joined the classes Shore, and that there is a movement Bifoot to secure sufficient funds to ■erect a laboratory. Mr Yaruoy istatos that Waverloy contemplates jptartiug classes, and that work of a ieolraical nature is being done at fcailiape, Hnutorville and Tnrakiua. iMr Amos states that there are in his ■district in all 430 pupils enrolled, piffle classes presently to be estaKblishcd at Foxton will augment the ■number. Like Mr Hiutz, Mr Amos ■considers that more should bo done Ein the direciou of technical instruction for farmers, and both are anxious that courses in veterinary science should bo offered in their respective districts at once. If they will guarantee constant employment for a competent instructor in veterinary science for a period of 30 to 34 weeks the Board might possibly be induced to advertise for such au instructor in the principal centres of the colony. Mr Grant refers approvingly to'tho educative value of the Palmerston Show. Having completed Ins work at Manaia, whore he had an enthusiastic group of students and in Mr Law an enthusiastic coadjutor, Mr Grant-now undertakes a class at Bulls, with another in prospect at Marton.