S.C. BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2095, 6 September 1890, Page 1

S.C. BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The monthly meeting of the Board of Education was held on Thursday.: Pre,ent Mr S. W. Goldsmith (chairman) Revs G. Barclay and T. Jasper-Smjth, Messrs W. B. Howell. M. Gray, J. Jackson, and R. A. Barker. , chairman’s statement. j The chairman stated there had been no resignations received and no appointments made during the month, Miss F. Hawke, passed fourth year pupil teacher, bad temporarily taken Miss Miller’s place at Pleasant Valley, The furniture had bees placed in position in the new Geraldine school, and the old furniture bad been so largely utilised that the grant for new furniture was reduced from the eplimflfcc of £92 to £3B^'

ARCHITECT S REPORT. . The architect's on the works in hand was read, .

MAORIS AT AROWHENUA. The Inspector submitted a report on a visit to the Maori pah at Arowhenda to confer with the parents respecting the schooling,of their stated that the greater number of the men, women and children were present at the meeting, Mr Touraugla being chairman. It was stated that there are about 59 Maori children altogether in the neighbourhood,'>,Ver 30 of whom are of school age. Twelve of these have been attending the Teiuuka school. It war made clear that the majority of the children mast grow qp without schooling unless they were given a school of their own, and on this it Wug resolved that lha case be submitted to the {Department with the suggestion ‘ that sdmetliihg ought to be the Nafive ;) .School section, The board were of opinion, that it would he very- much better for the children -to go to school with the Europeans, but the reasons preventing it were too strong in the case of the majority. appointments. The committee’s recommendations of Mr Wake, R.A., as headmaster of the Timarn Schools, and of Mr Glanvitle ns master of the Belfield school, were approved of and the appointments made. It was also agreed to retain the services of Mr Blake as, second,master till after the next examination. WHITOOMBB AND TOMBS DISPUTE On jetters from Waimate and Temuka respecting and.Tombs’ publications used in the schools, it. was resolved, after spqie discussion, on the motion of Mr Barc’ay, seconded,by Mr Smyth—“That the committee be reminded that the books for use in the public schools mqst be selected from those selected by 'the Department, and that any inleiference with the school requisites is likely to be extremely prejudicial to the progress of the pupils, a result ■ which doubtless will become sufficiently apparent at lha annual examinations by the inspector. committee’s correspondence.

Mount Gray—The name of this schoo 1 was changed to t( liazelbank.’’ A contribution of £lO by the committee was ; refunded, as ihey had spent much more than they anticipated. As a consequence of the removal of the school i some children being left unprovided for, !?t was resolved to furnish a side school jat the'"Waterfalle, Gpibi Gorge, the (parents to find . the necessary accomImodation; the board to hand over the [capitaiion grant on; the attendance ; the jschool to be under the control of the i Bazelburn committee. .. .

I Money grants were made to ! : Rangijtata, £5, towards cost of new range ; to |Geraldine, £4, towards cost of procuring iAnd fixing « pomp ;to Pleasant Point, j£2, towards cost of picket fence ; to jWashdyke, £7 10s, as half cost of now ifencing and repairing old, i A communication from the Levels I Road Board respecting alleged insanitary jarrangements at the Pleasant Point jschool was referred to Mr Smyth and Ithe chairman of the school committee, to 'report at an early date, ! GERALDINE SCHOOL. Mr Barker asked if it was true that an extra expense of £75 had been incurred on the new Geraldine school building, in cement work, by building the school over a gully, instead of on the level ground os first chosen. If i> was true that a gully had been built over they would have complaints of .water lying under it, and smells rising 'from if, after rain came. He moved—f* That the office ascertain whether any '•lteration was made in the site of Goraljdine school, if so when, by whom, aod for what purpose, also, what extra cost jwas incurred thereby.” I Mr Barclay said he bad never beard of any change of site, I The meeting then terminated.