Education Board.

Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8607, 11 March 1897, Page 4

Education Board.

Atjciuand, March 10.

The above body bad two rather important matters before it at its meeting yesterday. The first was in connection with the payment of teachers. Mr Wright brought, in accordance with notice given, a lengthy scheme for the improvement of the basis on which the teachers' salaries are paid. • This scheme will be considered at next meeting of the Board. The scheme suggested the following classification:—Class 1, in schools having an attendance of 500 and over, headmaster to receive £340; class 2, attendance of 300 to 500, teachers to receive £290; class 3, attendance from 150 to 300, teacher to receive £240 ; class 4, attendance from 75 to 150, teacher to receive £200 ; class 5, attendance from 35 to 75, teacher to receive £160; class 6, attendance from 20 to 31, teacher to receive £130. Schools not classified in the foregoing scheme to remain under existing arrangements, and when teachers are promoted from these schools to be placed in charge of " class 6" schools, and so on in rotation. The second matter was re scholarship examinations, and after deciding to re-adjust marks iv dictation and geography increasing them from 70 to 100 for the former, and 150 to 200 for the latter, it was resolved to omit the text boots from the history regulations and prescribe the period each year; also to omit mention of text books in connection with science and laws of health. A suggestion to reduce the minimum in each subject iv the senior examinations from 30 to 20 per cent was rejected. For the coming period the text tooks will be : Reading VI. Longman's Royal Reader; geography, parts 2 and 3 of thft Zealandia geography ; history, Gardiner's outlines of English history, and the periods Tudor and Stuart ; general science, Roscoe's Chemistry Primer.