EDUCATION BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3542, 30 June 1874, Page 3

EDUCATION BOARD.

A special xpepting of the Education Board

was held to-day; present—His Honor the Superintendent, Messrs Reid, Stout, Turnbull, and flislop (secretary). A large amount of business came before the Board, the report of part which we are obliged to hold over. PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS. # This question again' came up ror discussion, and a letter was read from Mrs Burns,

Lady Principal of the Girls’ High School, asking that a scholarship should be awarded them on the ground of the examination papers being, in the opinion of the writer and the teachers, extremely difficult. It was decided that the former decision of the Board be adhered to; and that Regulation 4 be altered so as to have the effect of preventing a scholarship being given unless the stated minimum number of marks are gbtained. THE HIGH SQHOOL..

Mr Hawthorne, Rector’ of the High Scboel, had an interview With the Board for the following purpose. Lie stated that as some of its members would shortly <be'going North, he wished te bring before them the subject of the High >chio6l. A. great deal of discussion had of late taken place with refe rence to that establishment, and uncertainty was thrown over the question of its continuance in any place, and especially where it Was now'situated. Great injury had thereby been indicted on the school, j and the speaker

therefore thought, as nothing bad been done in the most important part of the matter—the 'alteration of the subjects* of study, and bf the arrangements of- the school—that a suggestion he would offer would be valuable. It was—that a commission should be appointed (consisting of himself, Professors Sale and ' Shand, Mr Petrie, and such other gentlemen as the Board might think fit to' appoint, » o consider these thing . Before the meeting of the last Provincial Council'it Was notified that the High School qnestlon would bo thoroughly gone imo during the session, but that had not been done, and . things were in the same state as before. A new half-year would soon comthence, and if the matter could be settled as soon as" possible' What wbuld require to be done would be known. Of course there would he'a number of questions to come before the commission, and‘-he (Mr Hawthorne) deed dot mention' tjietn nowV—His Honof fcaid a motion wss before the meeting ajrefidyl t<i~ this effect ' that a Board of Adjf vice (should be forined torecommend t<|(

the Education Board such steps as it might consider necessary—such Board to consist of seven members, to be appointed by the Govern men t, and to hold office for a term of one year. This would, perhaps, meet Mr Hawthorne’s views,— Mr Hawthorne said that would meet the case exactly; but it would he desirable that the masterswho, of course, could not be appointed on

the Board of Advice—should be consulted as to the arrangements for study, before these were finally settled,—The Board said ’hat of course that would be done, Mr Stout adding that the better way would be for the Hector aud masters to draw up the syllabus for term. GREEN ISLAND. This Committee of the above school wrote stating that there was a deficiency in the amount of school fees received, and asking the Board to grant them the sum of Ll4 ss,

equal to the difference. The Board declined the request. FOREST HILL. The Committee requested the Board to sanction the dismissal of Mr M‘Nicho.l, the schoolmaster, because “he has a bitter way of speaking to people,” and twenty children would be taken from the school if he were not removed Declined