WAIOTAHI EDUCATION COMMITTEE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 13 February 1875, Page 2

WAIOTAHI EDUCATION COMMITTEE.

A meeting of the above committee was held yesterday. There were presont: Messrs Brodie, Rowe and O'Haire ; Mr Rowe in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting* were read and confirmed. The Chairman said that a letter had been received from Mr Moss wanting to know the attendance of female children at the Shellback School, and also the salary the committee desired to give to a sewing mistress applied for. The secretary, Mr R. Skeen was authorised to supply the required information. A letter was read from Mr O'Sullivan calling attention to the attendance of pupils at the Thames School and requesting that the staff of teachers be. reduced. Mr Brodie moved that as one pupil teacher had already left, it was undesirable to reduce the staff any more at present. Mr Porter seconded the resolution. Carried. ' -' • •

In reference, to an assistant female teacher, Mr Rowe stated, .that while in Auckland he advertised for one, and, at much inconvenience to himself, he attended for some time to receive application for same. Among those he thought the most eligible person was. a Miss Bowen.

Mr Porter proposed, and Mr Brodie seconded, that she be appointed. Carried. Mr O'Haire asked the Chairman why advertisements for an assistant female teacher sheuld appear in the Auckland papers and not in our local papers. Mr Rowe said that he did not give any authority for such advertisements, but that Mr Moss had done so., The appointment of pupil teachers was then considered. On this subject, the Chairman made some rery appropriate remarks with reference to the appointment of assistants by some of the head-masters. / J It was fesolred, that application be inrited for a male pupil teacher, and also a sewing mistress at the Shellback School. Mr Porter niored that the Board be requested -to supply the committee with, such requisites as are by them officially necessary.

J Mr Brodie seconded, and stated that the Chairman had been under considerable expense, solely prirate, and at his own expense; and added that the Board should at least supply stationery and other requisites. The Chairman in rery strong language condemned the course pursued, by me Board m making the Kauaeranga School "a superior school," especially as the Board stated that on such conditions as represented they would not do so. Besides it was eren known to the Board that the Waiotahi district was not only the most populous but it also, from the starting ortne present system of education, was in no small degree the means of making the Act itself a success. Mr , Brodie proposed, and Mr Porter seconded that the Board be requested, to permit the Thames school to be made a superior school.. Carried. .„ A number of applications for exemption from 1 the Education Rate were then considered. 1 Some were approred and others rejected. There was such a number that the committee had" 1 to adjourn without the finishing the list.