TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 598, 28 August 1909, Page 5

TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

'; MEETING OF THE BOARD. , At the , meeting' of the Tochnical School Board last, ovenmg, there were present: Messrs.. J- IV (chairman), D.'| ' w M &' > V - Keld, M-P-. J. G. | VJ. Aitken, W. Allan, T, Ballinger ( and D.I ' Robertson. j - . financial statement showed . a debit > a \ a ??® of , £1117 .13,5. 10d., as compared with . , axlebit.balance 0f,£665,3 a . ld;;at;the same -tinejist chairman, explained thdt the large debit balanco Was due to , the . delayed receipt of money. from the Gov-'- - ernment. He did not think they shonld " ', b . lam ® th ? Government, because it took some 1 , returns, There would be £600 available in a few days, £200 was due-on the first quarter's capitation, there was,,a olaim of £218 agamßt the Department ior .material, £1015 w&a due for: the second' quarter's'captation,- and £700, or £800 as - ,v, ' capitation,;for ■ the, • second (fuarter, , Which ended on July 3. When moneys that were due came in; the boaTd would be in a fairly good position.' Meanwhile ho had . arranged with tho bank to ,tido over the ' position. i In the course of a britff discussion on the imances, the director, Mr. La Trobe, said , " 'always a'lengthy .business'to make out and chock the capitation forms. , Alter the accounts wero rendered, the board '' sometimes had to wait six months before the money was forthcoming from the Government. suggested that it would be as TL i tp. '«* the Indication Department-know that-,the board-was at'the mercy'of the •: r f^ ar 4 t<o eutiro operations, and ' 10 uso a little mare ■, ■ stated that , the time taken , accounts in this instance, both in wi „, i' < co and , by tho Department, had not been longer than it had been on Borce*former occasion • y. ' \ > • ' W 1 V ubmi , tted hy director on theidispopl of work done in the school. He expressed the opinion that except in oa ?f 1738 not desirable that tile sohool should sell work turned out; first, i oard ( ?, ld not P a y students for 9eoomll y. their labour should not in general be worth paying for if, they were really learning and not re- : peating what they, had learned; and, thirdlv bgjamo it meant unfair competition frith ■ i other workers. -Tho report-.was received, ihe, toll-owing tendors wero accepted for 7 u, r B u SU PP' lo3 Typewriting ac cesBones,- the Remington agency; -printing • and Btationeiy, Messrs. Perguson and Hicks' 'iron, Messrs.-John Duthio and<Co.: oil, the . Vacuum Oil Company. A discussion took place on the refusal of the. Jwucation- Department 'to'refund ' £100 paid as rental, to the Industrial Aosociatioa -' -•.:^'^M ; .M»mtion:ofigii»lly--.contoibuted':£l6oo towards the erection of the Teohnica] Sohool building in Mercer Street, 6ut of the proceeds of 1 tho industnal exhibition. In oonsideration i of this contribution, the associa- -'■■■ S°' 1 , h ?- 3 , s 'Sf ifd two representativoa on tte ' . Teclwical School . Board. Ths aßsociation to served, for its own use -two rooms in tho .leohmcal; School,building, but reoeotlyi'-fiiia- • wg them mcMvenwnt Jet them to the board ; a J&h Education Department has refused to refund this £100 or. tho v . ground uiiat tho.'lndustrial v Association' ia . represented on the board, A ■ deputation was i appointed to wait upon, the . association and afterwiwds -interview - the' Minister; pouitinp , : out that tho representation accorded to tho Industrial Association had .no oonneotion with tho letting of the rooms.