EDUCATION BOARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 109, 29 June 1911, Page 5

EDUCATION BOARD.

ORDINARY MEETING. Tho ordinary monthly meeting of the Taranaki Education Board _ was held at the Board’s Olliccs last night, when there were present;—Messrs. James Wade (chairman), G. A. Adlam, J. Young, W. C. Cargill, H. Trimble, George Rodgers, \V. L. Kennedy, and A. Morton. Finance Committee’s Report. The Finance Committee recommends tho Board to deal as follows with a mass of correspondence received since last meeting:—That a stove be supplied for the Tongaporutn School, the matter of blinds co be left to the inspector; that the Bell Block Committee’s letter re overcrowding of the school be referred to the inspector for enquiry and report ; that the Board will consider tno matter ot painting the Piliama School at the proper time,' that the committee be informed that the Board does not supply watertroughs for horse paddocks, that the question of leaks in the school building 1)0 referred to the foreman to be attended to, that one hundred escalonia plants bo provided for hedge, and that the Board subsidise £ for £ up to £2 for gravelling ;that the Bird Committee be supplied with trio hedge plants; that tho usual subsidy bo granted for a shelter shed at Whangamomona School; that the Board pay tho account for gorse-grubbing at Korn School; that the necessary material be granted for asphalting at Tarurutangi; that Mr. Taylor, Radnor Road, be informed that the Board has no funds for expending on tho Derby Road; that a subsidy up to £4 10s bo granted for improvement of the Awatuna grounds; that the Upper Mangorei Committee be subsidised £ for £ up to £3 10s for asphalting lloor of shelter shod; that the letter from tho, headmaster of the Stratford District High School re flooring of the dairying room ho referred to the inspector for a report; that the accounts received from the Tarikr Committee for drain pipes, labour, and fencing ho paid; that the Midhirst Committee be informed that the Board is not in favour of partition fences, and they must ho maintained by the committee; that the Central School Committee ho referred to tho Board’s letter of March last in reference to asphalting; that the matter of repairs to the Stratford District High School residence and infant room be referred to the chairman with power to act ; that the Rowan Committee he supplied with hedge plants; that tire letter from the Norfolk committee in reference to improvements at tho residence bo referred to the chairman, with power to act; that the matter of supplying a tank to the Opua School bo left in' tho hands of Mr. Young; that the sum of five shillings a month be granted to the Inglewood Technical School towards the cost of cleaning; that the Hurford Committee be supplied with a gate; that the Stratford Committee be requested to furnish further particulars with reference to number of hooks, different standards, and prices of hooks required ; that the foreman report with reference to certain improvements at West End School; that tho Kina Committee he informed that the Board will give £ for £ subsidy up to £5 towards the erection of a porch, hut cannot assist in improving the grounds, as they were not the Board’s property; that the letter of the Mangorei Committee complaining of the ineffectiveness of the grate be referred to the chairman ; that tho Board allow Mr. Schmidt £4 10s for tho .unexpired term of his lease of section 8, block 11, Mimi; that the York Committee 1)8 granted a subsidy of £ for £ up to £5 towards cleaning grounds and fencing school gardens; that the Waitara Committee he informed that tho

Board will supply grates asked for, and the material for fencing, and that ether matters' he referred to the chairman ; that the Ngaire School be supplied with drain pipes, the committee to do the work; that pump and pipes lie supplied to the Oaonui Committee and £1 towards cost of underground drain; that matter of blinds at Raupuha 1)0 referred to the inspector, that lied no plants be provided, and wire supplied on application, to Mr. Kennedy; that gate and concrete posts be supplied at Urenui. Teachers’ Appointments.

The. Chairman reported that the following appointments had been made: Inglewood, assistant. Miss H. Black; Oakura, teacher, Mrs. S. Cameron; and the following temporary teachers : Waitui, Miss A. Smith ; Rowan, Miss I. Martelli; Makahu, Alisa M. Fowler. Technical Education. Mr. F. J. Heatley, technical organiser, reported:— Stratford.—ln connection with Stratford Technical School the classes are: Bookkeeping 15 students, drawing 7, dressmaking 10, dairy work (Midhirst) IG, (Ngaire) 14, arithrhetic 7 English 7, Latin 7, mathematics 7, Toko wool class 7, Te Wera 10: total 109. In conenction with the two latter classes it is to be regretted that all who promised, and on the strength of whose promise the class was started, have not attended. I visited the Whangamomona and Kohuratahi districts, and had a meeting of those interested in wool classing, with the result that a class of over 20 signed on. Inglewood.—At Inglewood the classes are :—Bookkeeping 11, dressmaking IG. The fees due for this year amount to £l9 17s 6d, of which £l9 2s 6d has been paid in. New Plymouth.—The number of students in attendance at classes is as follows :—-Arithmetic 18, dressmaking (afternoon 7 and evening 14), Latin G, English (junior 2, senior 4), commercial o, mathematics 6. physics 3, chemistry 2, engineering 5, shorthand 16, bookkeeping IG, elocution 2, woodwork 11, mechanical drawing 7, freehand and model drawing 10, machine construction 2, .building construction 5, drawing from nature and design IG. Rural Course.—English 12, arithmetic 12, daily work 12, farm woodwork 12, farm metal work 12; total 217.

During the month Major Young visited Dm college, and gave an address on “The Horso” to the hoys of the rural class, and hoys of the High School rural division. I lingo to ho able to arrange another visit later, The hoys continue to evince great interest in their work, and there is hope for a very good class next year. As I mentioned in a previous rc-. port, the number of free pupils seem small for the size of the town, and on taking the mini her of proficiency certificates granted to pupils of the three town schools, it is found that a proportion of the holders am not availing themselves of the privileges of tree daces either at the High School or Technical. College. There wem 22 nortificates granted to the pupils at the Central School last year, the holders being distributed as follows;—Fourteen ner cent, on Technical Cohere rolb OS per cent, on High School roll, and 18 p-v cent, unaccounted for or loft. Dm district. To pnniis at West End 28 certificates of proficiency were ivityd. no liolders being on the Technical College roll, 6-f par cent, on the High Selmol roll, and 33 pgr cent, unaccounted for o r left tho district. To pupils at the Convert f) certi.fica+es were granted, one holder being on the

High School roll, G continuing at tho Convent, and the others not accounted for or left tho district. To pupils at Fitzroy, fourteen certificates, were granted, throe holders being on tho High School roll, and one on tho Technical College roll. It would seem that tho leakage is sufficient to warrant committees moving in the matter of enforcing the compulsory- clauses of the pew Act. There is a possibility of a plumbing class being formed this next session, and further increase in the engineering class. During the month I addressed meetings at Kohuratahi and Waitara, and visited for instructional purposes the schools at Lopperton, Lincoln, Tikorangi, Marco, and Uret uni, holding also weekly classes at Ngairo and Midhirst.