SECONDARY EDUCATION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11512, 19 February 1903, Page 6

SECONDARY EDUCATION.

MATTERS BEFORE THE EDUCATION BOARD.

Several matters relating to secondary education came before the Education Board at its meeting yesterday. An application for the conversion of the Kaiapoi school into a District High School was granted, imd it wae decided to advertise for a male or female assistant (graduate), at a salary of £150 per annum. Th« East Christchurch School "Committee, an a letter to the Board!, enclosed a resolution urging the Board of Governors of Canterbury College to adopt the Government's scheme for free secondary education, and expressing the opinion that the Board's endowments, with the Government subsidy, were sufficient to meet the expenses of the scheme. The letter wae received, the opinion of the Board being that i& would ill become them to discuss or criticise the work of another Board. Sympathy was expressed with the demand for free secondary education, ond reference wae made to the establishmOTit. by the Board of Education of district high schools at Amberley, Akaroa, Daxn'eld, and Kaiapoi, and to the probable establishment of similar echools at Kaikoura and Leeston.

On the recommendation of the Appointments Committee the Board decided, in connection with the formation of district high schools at the sma'.ler centres, that if at any time the capitation should fai! below the cost of maintenance the parents should be requested to make payment in respect to ftieir children, to be refunded in all cases where 80 per cent, of attendance was made. An application for a district -high school at Kaikoura was referred to the Appointments Committee.