EDUCATION BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3456, 20 March 1874, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

-*'! . Ji r;,. [m ;iA special meeting of ,tjkq 3bafd held to-day. Present: His Honor the Superintendent, Messrs .Eatings, .Hisjop, Turnbull, and Sperrey (secretary.)

PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS. j The following gentlemen were appointed examiners for the above Messrs Petrie, . Shand, Shaw, and one to be nominated by. the Schoolmasters’ Association. The date ofi the examinations was fixed for April 7, the former regulation as to competitors being under sixteen years of age being adhered 1 to. 1 UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS. The suggestion of .Mr Hawthorne, that Messrs Low and Sinclair be appointed.'.to! attend the University, was agreed to, i TEMPORARY SCHOOL. ■Mr W. P. Street, on behalf of the Dun-' edin School Committee, asked what arrange* ment the Board had made with regard to teachers at the new temporary school at the ■Oddfellows- Hall.—His donor said; ooy ern-' ..meat-had granted'the usual allowance, and that the; Committee were 1 authorised, to advertise for teachers, and take all necossaW stfeps'in the matter'; adding|that the Board knew of tine very -good teacher in its employ- 5 raebt who was;desirous.of,being removed to rDunedin., ! ■ ;, ,' : ORRiN isLAjnx',' ,! • ’ A. Pti^ate,report ofthepommittee of'in. :yestigation ' into the s cbWges: against thb masser of the was rhad and rei ferred to the GbVerhmeht:—Shortly wards a deputation- of three residents in the district entered, and asked the decision of the Boardj saying that’they wished fp have the school opei • I next week, and' they therefore-hoped - 'the’ quest ibu-'Would be sett tied, so that they might not conflict with Mr Allan, the master. —His Honor handed them the report, with the minute referring the question to the : After the deputation bad retired, Mr J. H. Harrit entered. That gbntleinaa appeared on behalf of Mr Allan,-who wished him to express- his hope that the. Beard would'give him a better opportunity of makiug a statement ip his deL-nce than was.'.accorded him when before the local cppimittee.—Mr Harris was ■' '* ‘‘ ROSSLYN BUSH. 1 { l- l v« » A request was read tor the erebtibn’of a school qi the above district, signed by seventeen beads of families.—Mr Hislop said there was already a school at Myrosa Bush, and with the father sparse population in the neighborhood it was scarcely advisable tp have another;;) He shoulji almost advise the removal of the school to Bosslyh Bush, as the children there had to go some miles to school, but that would Unfortunately be the case with theinhabitants of the.other place if theschool were remo.VedrtQ-Boa lynßttsh. Mr Turnbull thohght 'the - population .was scarcely large enough to. require two schools, and recommended, that .the .residents!be advised-: to get more children,■«) that-their request might be granted* i It-was agreed itb let the matter stand over. .

MYEOSS BTOH. - | .The secretary to the local school com* 'mittee, Mr Kinross/ wn?fce r to‘ the effect that ’thecontinuaubte ‘of the master, 1 Mr Bethune, at~the v scfisol, ' ‘‘ would operate strongly, tlfe attendanpe at the fcJvidenoe v ;was; nf. plants pf > *children; ‘attending ?»eve their progress they made } sojpe that Mr Bethane .waß'in. the habit-of going to sleep ■ during school hours,} that/they objected to the number of holidaysgiven by him; some that their children were al loWed 1 t6‘ hi tinder in their teadihg Without beidg : ehfecked; While others spoke favorably of the ruastetV capabilities,” but Objected- to^his 1 residing it Invercargill instead of at the ach6olho'uße.--Mr Bethune also wrote, in reply to the charge that the names ’attached -to the memorial against i him were of little or ho weight; and forwarded an address giyen by him in his defence at a meeting of residents of the district. He-distinctly denied the charge of habitually going to sleep, though at a time he might beoyercdme by drowsiness, but this was net a common occurMost of the children-withdrawn a^ ay , froln pimmstaupes not under their parents’ cdhtrol, and noton aofo *'sotne six' months he had certainly been afflicted with !S 8 l“ Mt iHslop said that Mr Bethune hsed to ieaye acbool pn a Friday and go to Invercargill till the Monday following, where hw wife and family resided, and,the miiients did npt this, but desired'a , r ®?. carried master who e wife»would as||Bt jn tho jphooL ; Mr/Bethune aW reBoard expressed a desite thatwfflildHVe w the school, it might settle the matter.~Mr

held. j suoparenis {W the wbeeU within wheels” inWdase - it was Bethune wasa decentmanj£ pihrgydian, and |an early seller id been Mr Be. Bta^ deafness-was true, ahd that ft to the school (ii December last) the children had advanced much, though still not so far a« he would like. It was resolved that Mr Bethune be required to reside with his family at the teachers residence, which arrangement, it was hoped, would obviate all causes pf complaint.

_ APPOINTMENTS. The following appointments were sanctioned ; —Mr J.' H. Chapman, as assistant teacher at : the Middle, District School; two jpupil teachers at the South District School, .in place bf Misa Oook ; Miss Mugsleton. pupil teacher at Waikivi School. | ' : ! LAWBKtfO*. | The school committee asked that the Go- | vernment bear half the expense of the salary of the drawing ’master at that placer; Ho i received L 24 jay ear.—Mr Hislop said the Provincial drawing master’s labors wore confined to Dunedim and the .suburbs.—His I Honor would- be.glad -to-see-a drawing ! master in every schopb aud thought Hiatlt I was a good principle’that Government thonld pay half the salary of such, if, as in this case! a person able to teach’ drawing coffllFbe found in a school district, y referred to the'Governmeni;, with 'the reoOm'mendation that the principle be established: <£"•«».?*■ 'PtwmsoV'! ,}.j w ■ i .A4iffloulty; appears to. harp . Arisen over Hie election;of a master alUhe-above school The school committee wrote to fcheeffectthM on the 9th instant the. Section WAS held; when Mr WBryde was eleotecL,; A protect was enclosed against the legality of thw elfeof j Q * the ( members of the committee who drew* It up ; statmg ;4hat they not pelj udiced ’ again t : Mr r M ißry deklbbt»thoutm tit to .object to the return of ateacher who had hot bbtained'W&rifl olLshertifloite The Pahn'efcttto 1 scbbol-J.hbd' Ineteaßefl%o SfsiwfesS committee-men four voted for Mr M'Brtdg j j.f? ha^ basting addition to his ordinary vote, in favorof M« M'Rryde,' thbrobyplacing ihim aVthe heifl oF'the p^ll'; r whereasthe tnemberwho ftted for Mr' Monro Would, if that oahdidattila name had been withdrawn after the first yoto.have voted for Mr Lindsay—who would « b»Vb polled'flve to Mr M ‘ Bryde»s\ fi>& “T, r,' Hisr'p said another point,‘is to duflifioation, stood 5 thiiM: Mr M'Biyde 'yoaM’' experience, *?ii" ¥ v i n VQ *y great SScisf still he had not passed his * sebond--9*^ 8 and was, therefore, not eligible for the Whiobbchadjyb elected. After diSohssron. it was decided that as Mr Petrie, Inspector , of, Schools, i^C te ‘%<ieV fibhodl/at Macrae’s Flat next Tuesday, waited for; when, if the report hO’Saiiiifilb. •>% %'Mfßiyde.wai;-,!* admitted holder of. a second, classpertifidate, ahtf hi election to the Palmerston school would then be valid. • • i ' : v [Left sitting ]^