WAIRARAPA HIGH SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 March 1925, Page 6

WAIRARAPA HIGH SCHOOL.

BOARD OF GOVERNORS. The monthly meeting of the Wairarapa High School Board of Governors was held, yesterday, there being present; —Dr. G. IT. Scholcfield (chairman), Mrs T. R. Barrel-, Messrs I\ M. Compton, A. Donald, R. ‘McLeod, IL C . Robinson, C. E. Daniell, T. Jordan and O. N. C. Pragnell. The financial statement showed:— General account, or., £3S6 16s (id; building account, er., £l6 17s 2d; endowment, cr., £l7O Ss; grounds account, dr., £435 15s 9d; school house, cr., £6l 3s 8d; cr. balance at Bank, £B2 2s 3d. The Education Department advised that no schools of any kind would be permitted to open before March 30th. An Education Board circular advised that High School Boards should be able to bear the cost of postage on homework. Some boards had requested pupils to send a stamped, addressed envelope for return of their work, but this should not be done. The Board should pay the return postage. The Principal (Dr. G. IT. Uttley) suggested that, as much school time was being lost through the infantile paralysis epidemic, extra time be worked after the school reopens, either a half-

hour each day, or Saturday mornings. Mr Daniell moved that the Principal confer with the academic committee, who eoilld Communicate with the-* Department. Mr Robinson seconded. — Carried.

Letters were received from the Education Department, submitting the proposed new regulations for part-time teachers, enabling the Board to spend a certain annual sum at its discretion. — The Academic Committee recommended that the proposal be supported, and that the Department be notified that the Board wished to employ part-time teachers in drawing, typewriting, and class singing.—Adopted. The Education Department notified its consent to tho appointment of Miss D. Bothell.

A circular letter from the Hawke’s Bay Education Association asked for support in furthering a system of University extension lectures/ It was decided to support the proposal.

The Solway College Board of Governors asked if the High School would take two home science and two physical science pupils. —Referred to the Academic Committee.

It was reported that tenders for supplies from April Ist to March 31st were to be invited. Twenty-five new boarders had been enrolled.

The committee reported that two gas fires had been placed in tiie School House on trial; the tarring and sanding of the roadway in the school grounds was being done; solicitors had asked for payment of £l5O for J. F. Mannings, architect, for sketch plans, which was referred to the legal committee, whose recommendation was adopted.

A plan of proposed fencing and lay-ing-out of the grounds surrounding the School House was placed before the Board by the grounds committee. Mr Jordan wanted to know what money was available for. tho proposed work. Mr Compton said that the financial statement showed that the Board was still solvent. Mr Jordan moved that a special meeting be held before next meeting to consider finance. It was decided to hold a. special meeting on April 3rd. ’The Principal (Dr. G. IT." Uttley) reported that correspondence courses had been arranged, two assignments of work having been published; he could not state what the roll number would be and suggested an advertisement for information as to those who had left; slates had fallen from the roof of the building and the copper ridging had been lifted; the desks required attention; the type of. fence to separate the hostel and grounds from the playing area should be decided on; it would be ;necessary to top-dress the cricket field. I The groundsman expressed satisfaction with the cottage. The spare ground near the tennis courts and at the girls’ entrance was nearly ready for sowing, and 6 or 8 bushels of seed would be needed; 20 or 30 fruit trees would be an asset to the hostel; if the Board supplied the timber for a light fence aound the cottage he would erect it; the tractor was doing good and cheap work, the cost over 18 weeks, as compared with a horse, being £IS in favour of the tractor. A letter was received from the Masterton Technical School Board, agreeing to another conference (of the two full boards) on the question of amalgamation.

Mr C. E. Daniell said his idea all along had been that secondary education in Masterton, in all its phases, should be under one board of seven or eight earnest men, instead of 20, as there were at present. The proposed junior-high school would also be under the same board.

‘The chairman said that the, proposal now was the amalgamation of the boards-} and not of the schools.

The chairman was authorised to arrange with the chairman of the Technical School Board as to the date of the conference, between the two boards, with the two principals present in an advisory capacity.