EDUCATION BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 607, 29 October 1880, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

(From the N.Z. Times.)

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Education Board was held at the offices of the Board at 10 a,m. op Wednesday. I'fese.ntrrTliß Hon, O, I Pharazyn, (Chairman), Yen Archdeacp.ii Sfock, the Bev J. Patersfip, Dr Newman, Messrs Beetham, Bunny, Pharazyn, and Hutchison.

The minutes of the pr§vloui noting were read and, conljrpi}, The Chairman stated.. that the ordinaiy bank account showed a credit balance of £3836 9s ?d, and the building" agpount a prpdit of £lB7 3s 7d after providing for the following works:—Balance T e Aro School, £128815s 4d; Featherston School, £522105; Wadeatown school £l4O j repairs Wainuiomata residence, fc'2s i do. Kaiwarra School, £2O; balance fencing Newtown School, £27; making a total appropriation of £2133 5s 4d, The Secretary informed the Board that Mr Gurr, late master of the Fentlie,rs.|oi| School, had served 9, to recover the £34 $> aUpged to lie clue for salary. It was agreed that £ll 13s 4d actually due be paid into Court, and that the action be defended wilhont counsel, the Chairman undertaking to lead the case on behalf of the Board.

The Secretary of the Te Aro School Committee wrote stating that the committee had enquired into a complaint of undue punishment which had been made against Mr Holmes, master qf the S;ohool and that it had been found that he had beatqn a girl 'who had, however, been very disobedient, too severely about the head,

The Chairman of the Karori Schooj Committee wrote acknowledging the receipt of a copy of Mr Retail's report an the local school, and stated that as the commjttee had already expressed its (pinion on the subject, there was no further recommendation, tq make. Mr Martin, til? master af theEarori School, wrotsat some length relative to the report of Mr Restill, and stated in conclusion that he was entirely in the hands of the Board - It was resolved to give Mr Martin three months' notice of removal, it being understood that'if any'suitable openins presented.itself in the n}ewiin,'p> his claims wobld be duty ' ■An application vyas. received } t ' m the Mastprto'n School Committee for an e.v ■ tension of the infant's Miin, which it «■ ■ stated was now overormvded to a dangerous extent. After some discussion it was agreed that, as Messrs Beetham, Buioiy, and Pharazyn would be in Bfaslertiii: during next week they be requested to look into the matter. Mr Beetham gave notice that at the nest meeting qf the Board he w til.] owing to the present qyerorowded state of the schools in fhis education district, and having in yie.w the, nre.se.nt financial positjon of the building fund', rendering it impossible to provide 'lie necessary accommodation, the Bard considers that for the future no infants should be admitted under the statutory age gf 5 years. 5

; Mr Blair, moved the following motion, of which ho had given iUice,-Thai all pupil teachers who may be appointed after this date shall be paid the following scale; -Ist year-Males, +;25; females", £l6. 2nd year-Males, £3O ; females, £23. 3rd year-Males, £35; females, £3O. 4th year-Males, £4O; females, £35. sth year—Males, £SO; females, £4O. That 'this .3 ard canur.t be considered tq be under any cbli(,'ati(,n to wy pqpil teacher whft m,aj complete his oourse of training in'the service of the Board, but thai should a vacancy occur such pupil teacher shall hare preference.-The motion was seconded by Mr Bunny, and carried. Mr Huchison moved" the following resolution, of which he had given notice,-*-Thai the attention of thp Schtol Commit--tees he directed to clauses f/5 and. DG of the Education Act,, 1877, bearing upon the establishment ,-,f District High Bcliorils in connection with the Primary Public Schools of the c -lo: y-it being desirable that certain specified subjects, such as £#'«]} literature, mathemfttics,.mechanics, Ijati;., physical geography, <k, in respect of which layments have to.be mad?, should lie taught to those soholars who, after having attained s, certain proficiency in'fche elementary arts of reading, writing, and arithmetic, may wish to be so taught,-It was. chiefly in its bearing upon the education and welfare of the couiitry generally that he attached importance to I this proposal. Take the city of Wellington: He should f>.it be "far wrong in assuming that there were at the Board's schools here at least a ftouapn>V hoys, 7 . 6nsohMly anj of sufficient attatyrnems to, learfl, one or more of the brancjies rf a'secondary or higher education, And there, was ■ no' opportunity afforded them-of do-;g so. ..Whvshoqld this lei/: \yiiyshc«f their boys-r-why sliquld pr| ; eypry. li; y jp: the country—hoys;, the change "of vgetting the largest amount of education possible [:Jt laid no additional- burden; Hpcßtfie/ State, proposal embraced tl'6- payment of :'ai .: fiotiable fee, fiuoh; a 8; in ;timesjc6uld;;affbra' M'sis alid.which At:^erit;therejivar;aiw ItheliiebDle^irfemil^^^K^aa

lentjprivate teachers, but their fees must necesaariiy be beyond the reach of the average citizen. Taking the College and these private schools-..together, there would not be much over a hundred boys in Wellington learning anything beyond the elements of education. That seemed to him a most undesirable state of things -a state, of things which should not be permitted to go on, especially when they had the men and the means at their disposal to effect an improvement. Only about a hundred boys in Wellington learning the higher branches of education appeared to him something to be ashamed of. It was not doing justice to our youths, who ought to have every facility afforded to them of acquiring knowledge of all kinds. He wished to put the matter as emphatically as he could, because he was satisfied that unless provision was made in the way proposed, they were condemning a number of youths to a much narrower range of knowledge, and consequently to much less pure enjoyment than they should possess, and they were at tho same time depriving the country of an amount of talent which, not being evoked, became lost to all intents and purposes. And what he said of boys was equallv true of girls. There was nothing more "urgently needed than a girls' high school in Welling, ton. It was part of their pyos-ramme, and it ought to be set about without any loss of time, ■ .'.

The motion was seconded by the Rev J. raterson, and carried. The Secretary was instructed to obtain returns of tho number of children in the various districts for whom there was no accommodation, and of the number of applications for admission which had been refused.