EDUCATION BOARD.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15869, 7 April 1917, Page 4

EDUCATION BOARD.

iIONTHLT MEETING.

The monthly meeting of the Education. Board "was held on. Thursday. Picscnt: —Mr C. H. Opio (chairman), and Messrs T. W. Adams, E H. Andrews G. W. Armitage,. H. .T. Bignell, J. Grimmond, AV. M. Hamilton, C. S. Howard, J. Jamieson, J. Maze and A. Pevcrill. A letter was received from the Christcliurch "Working Men's Club offering to erect offices for the Board on a kcction in Oxford terrace, the buildings to cost £3000, and to be rented by the Board for a term of fifteen years at a Yental of £350 per ye&r.—The letter, was referred to the Offices Committee. 'Clio Buildings Committee recommended that £3GO be guaranteed to the Blackball Committee out of it£ own funds, provided the committee collect £300 and a Government subsidy is paid on the same. The Department having granted £S7G for the erection of a school at Methven, the architect was iiistructed to erect it at once. A request lrom Waimataitai for the erection of two open-air class-rooms in accordance with Dr. Baker's proposals was forwarded to the Department with an application for £CoO. It was decided to apply for £2300 for educational works on the Chatham Islands. In connexion with the new school to be erected at Sydenham, facing Que<-n street, it was decided to apply to the Department for the difference between the amount allowed and the difference in cost at the present time. The report was adopted.