EDUCATION BOARD.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1916, 26 November 1913, Page 10

EDUCATION BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Wellington Education Board, held yesterday ■ afternoon. was attended by Messrs. li. Leo (in tlio chair), A. W. Iloag, 11. S. Moss, W. H. Allan, J. G. AV. Aitkcn, and W. li. Field. The following accounts showed a credit balance: —Buildings, £450 18s. j 7d.; technical, £255 7s, Gd.; manual i and technical, £<i!) 2 12s. 7d.; secondary, { £54 ss. 7<1.; contractors' deposits, £51 i 19s. 9d. There was a debit balance on the general account of £436 3s. od„ and on the teachers' salaries' account of £51 19s. 9d. Payments for November totalled £10,351 10,s. Cd. There was a total credit balance on all accounts of £822 9s. 3d.. ,»s against a debit last month of £1721 -is. 7d. The chairman and the chief inspector (Mr. T. I{. Fleming) were appointed to represent the board en the Committee of Advice of the Training College. The "breaking-lip" ceremony of tho Training College was fixed for Thursday, December 4, at 2.30 p.m. , Tiie nest meeting of the board will bo held on Thursday, December 11. Application is to be made for half an acre, <<£ Crown land adjoining the school at Pongaroa, for the accommodation of children's horses. . . The Education Department notified that it had made a grant of £315 fcr a workshop at IVlone Technical School. The question of a class-room was deferred until arrangements re secondary classes have assumed mere delinito form. Amongst grants authorised were:— Clyde Quay, top-dressing upper'playGround and renewals in shelter sheds; Pctone, around improvements, repairs, etc.; Plimnierton, ground improvements; Island Bay, ground improvements ; Upper Hutt, fencing. The inspectors' reports on the yearly examinations of the schools were ■ received. The. chairman snid that the reports showed a most satisfactory state of things. Out of SO odd schools, 1(5 were classed as excellent, and only two I —both of thorn very small schools— lis inferior..