NEW PLYMOUTH SCHOOL COM MITTEE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 91, 7 May 1901, Page 2

NEW PLYMOUTH SCHOOL COM MITTEE.

A special me.tin" of the Town 8a i> o:min>ttfe *r* held on Monday tA Present: Me sis Collis (Obairm (looker, Murray, T«dd, P.- Wl s ('."ikrodgar and T, White. l> Th > Chairman said' he meeting u wn called to coosider two mitt ■ lli fist > f which w«s tbe adviai u< s; of asking 'lie Education Boeft K.'ib Mi a DiM'nct High School inl r l'i mo ith. At p-esent, he pail \ ) i , children who ■ omprted for bobc .' i|i, hno wore at a disadvantage ' Miiip.-uvU withc'iiUien it Strati in i iiat only about live cou'd obtain t en tiiti :ti sciiohi-Ntiips offered at*. 8 \ ■* Plymouth High Sihtol, whJljf ' ilio s iaf rd District High School mny children coult avail theeieji 9 »l tho fi ee tuition as obtained the ■I it si o numb r of mirk*. Ha a sid tel the fo-raut'on of sty, • •"!• utr'.l School into a Dis»riet H : School, inwhichchildrmwouldoooli 9 their secondary education, would Ok th j teaching staff to take a gr*&* | t rastinthetiaini(ig<fthechild«n. 1 m >ve t < hat the Committee teepeotfo ■ erju- »\ the Education Board to ti sops to decbra the Ceotral Sflhaot Delict High School in Jaeaorlai with tbe provisions of the Act I 1 Murray seconded. After a abort difousuon, in •» 1 agreed with the proposal, t m 'tion was carriel unauimomly. The Chairman slid some of thattM ing stiff at the Central School WH»< asiotr.Uy put out through ibftnt fourih year pupil teachers being ttk ajpay sind beginner* substituted** W di« lyani-irg the workicgof theeenot The headmaster bad writen to M oommiltee «-rait me ngo in cone* •ion with the matter. The Ohairmi move I the following rejclution:—Thi in view of the dUoig-inifii hn fat tt teaching s'afl' caueed by the iteWi of competent pupil teichers, woo) places are taken by heginaM rhii committee lespictfully «■( goils to the B.md the adv.saWeMi if kipping the staffs of mch ssbcola l the Cent-al two or thr«e abo*» th eguKtion number, so that the Bow can draw on the stiff without weaken ing the teaching of thaaoßOol.Mr. [lookers eon J ei tho motion, whice if er a br ef discu siou, wai carrf* unan'mously. Ihe Chairman r ferred to the air eular sent out by tho Education Board •al ing attention to ihi attimpt beinin <de <o divert the Opaku reserW fro" tw-iug used f< r the I eoefit of aes*<lai] du at'on in tho Provincial dttttfct <* Taia-ixk', Mr. mov d—"Tfl»t tb* B Oommi tee endorses ihe action taken ■t the coLfttoccß tf dolfgatei on the 23rd Aug i-t last."-Seojndel by Mr, Todd.ard.n'ri d. * . Mes-w. Col is and Todd were spirit til a depn ai >u ti w*i* ° a tn * B.irl ir, •;,.„.. cti..nwi'h fie rn-olu-ton r. -luting t > !»•' dint ic bLhschxl,] and to pupil ■•'., liern.