NORTH CANTERBURY EDUCATION BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 108, 25 May 1901, Page 2

NORTH CANTERBURY EDUCATION BOARD.

[PUB PRKSS ABSOOIATIOH.) OHBisTciiuiion, May 2S. The North Canterbury Education Board has adopted the rtport of ita A prointtnents Curiiiiitte?, wh'ch stated the sys'em of employing girl monitor! tnnd« d<o ketp boys out of the teaching (iivf. ssion, and it re. ommendsd the I Board should frame a io o u'.ation dial* irij? with 'he insttor. It was oca* sidered that subjet' ti suitability of employment, atd approval ef the Bo9id, every fourth pupil appoin i in any school should be a boy, ing which proposal it was agreed to obtain the opinion of the inspectors of the Botrd, It was aleo decided tbst in case* where the reports of the insprcors and principal teachers did not indicate at bast a good aptitude for the work of teaching, the Boird phou'd at once terminate the engagement if probationary pupil le .che's. Tbe Board decided to adopt the p.dvici of its s~licitrrs that between 'ho-'ime of opacing a school in tbe forenoon, and the time of closing tuoh si.hool in the i ftwxoon, no teaobing o'her than of an entirely sesular char*ct»r bo given in any schools within the Boird's jurisdiction. The Poard fllso re»olv<d that it is undmral le 'o introduce ma' ual suhjrcts into the holier standards until the syllabus is revised, but as rfgards preparatoiy clashes, and standards one and two, the Board has leqnested the head* ma'-ters of all fcV© Is having two toae'eis to arrange tr-eir time-tables to allow the required ini.t>ucti. n« in one or nv re of \he minimi subj'cts mentioned in section 2 of the school cla>s p.