EDUCATION BOARD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 174, 17 April 1919, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD

.. "''REGULAR MEETING. ' The Education Board held its regular meeting .-yesterday .morning. Mr. 1. Forsytii (chairman) presided,, and there were also prcsent:-Messi-s. R. M'Callum, M.P., A.. W. Hogg,-ti. London W. H. Field, M.P., K. A. M.P., C. Harkness, 1!. P. Rislwortb, K. H. .Penny, J. l'.rShund, and J. J. Clark. ■ The statement of accounts up to April 12 showed receipts since Inst meeting amounting to .a:21,557 9?. Others items set forth were:—Teachers salaries, X'11,5.V2 12s. 9d.; house.allowances, X'3o* Us. Bd.; Training' College students -nl-' lowances, MOiS 155,. Sd.; : ■general--pay-ments for month, los. Cd.; total amount of payment authorised, =£20,90* 155.,7 d.; oash in bank on current account April 12 (after deducting unpresented. cheques, JCIS9 IS?. W, i! 5923 Bs. 2d.f amount on deposit, ,£11,000; grants due, =£10,532 55.. sd. ■ • , The Department advised that a limit* 0 grant would be made in approved eases for improvements to toachcrs' and it asked the hoard to prepare a statement of its requirements in.the matter- , Mr. Wright said that apparently ■«.;» Department was coining right out of. ly 3 shell, and was facing the problem-doing:, in fact/the' very thing that had been asking it for. years to do. '■, The chairman said that the proposal nppeared to- be that additional comfort should bo given to country school teachers. ' If. additional comforts and conveniences could be provided in the country, the right class of teacher would bo more -easily, obtained. - The board decided to thank (he iJepnrtment for its offer, and to prepare the statement asked for. The secretary reported that the Koyal Colonial Institute (London) was ofteriuß prizes for-essny competitions by young peoplo throughout the Empire. There wiild bo n senior and a junior competition, the senior subject being ' Sea Power as the Bnsis of the Kinpirc' and the junior "The Life oild Work of Clive as' ah Enipire-Builder." Bronze medals and suitably-inscribed books were the prizes offered. The lßaril resolved to pnes on the information to school committees and head teachers. , : • The Department advised that it iHitl approvciT'tho following.s?ranls:—Hataitai, site extension, ,£G00; Martiiiborougli, iniTuft room, .£720; Eastern Hntt, addition to school, c£l2i3; Hcrliampon-, infant fichool, additional grant, ,£9l 17s. Granis for conveyance of children and the establishment uf r. school at Ngahmiranga, had been 'declined. , A request by the Berliainporc Comnultee for an additionitl rooifi for the building now in course of construction wiis referred to the bdard'e,ofiiocrs for .report. A Departmental letter informed tho boal-d tlmt it had lieeli decided again lo subsidise ,fi for £ voluntary contnbutions towards the. purchase ot" pianos ior schools. ' ' ~ ■ The board approved a , suggestion coming froni Canterbury for a conference be Iween' education board architects llirou;;ii : out the Dominion. An application for the erection of n school at 'Mlov Brook waj decln)cd. Tho board agreed, on the rcconimen(la : tioii of tho Execiitivo Coinmittee, to saiiction tho refund of expenses to pupil-, teachers and probatioiiprs who have to be absent from lidmo overnight in order to attend Saturday classes. . ,