BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1699, 13 June 1874, Page 2

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

At the fortnightly meeting of the Board of Education held on Thursday, the foN lowing business of local interest was transacted:—The application \of( Mr. W. Vickery, pupil teacher at Tararu school, asking a month's pay in lieu of notice to leave, owing to the reduction of numbers at the school, was referred to the School Committee. A letter wav received;from the late chairman of the Waiotahi School Committee stating that Mr. Comes had been appointed to the Shellback school under the assumption that, Jie would be paid for it as a country school, and the Board decided that the rate of payment would be in accordance therewith up:; to. the date of their decision that it should be a town school. An application from, the Kauaeranga; ( Committee, asking for the erection of .a school, was .received, and the Board; decided that -the- application should-^receive iss favorable consideration „.when, in a ppsitipn., r £p.xlp.sp. A requei^. tfa£ihe/teacheß.of n£§3lejvprk be paia more than the regulation" rate^: owing to the large number of pupils, was refused:, Tier appointment t)f a-' pupil teacher ; was-authorised, and |i sum not exceeding i£4 was granted for black j boards/ The 1 teaajjorary"'appointment of; Mr Laj^am:f^;!r^ral?tt:*as apj^oved, '%} permanent;:ap^ointmeht being' deferred I during the presertt condition of the dis.-: trict,., WitiixreferencetO; an application for salary, fromihe^ Waiotahir.teAcher, it. was decided that the teacher should com-* municate through the committee; A similar ■ application - from TaFaru . wastreated in the same way./ It was decided that the midwinter holidays for the Bchopls in the city and suburbs sjiould be for the week ending;27th' June,.:and'that thet holidays for country schools be left to tho school committees to fix. „. t .