EDUCATION BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3649, 2 November 1874, Page 3

EDUCATION BOARD.

Att ; monthly meeting of the Board today tbf- v.rre pvf sent, the Superintendent (in the • hj a), Me-srs Ueid, and Gillies, and the tec- y ( V;r lislop).

A i.' . ... ... i from Waitahuna waited upon to > to f I>j cf. against the propost'd removal of the mam scnool from the gully, wm e the hulk of the population was when the school was established, to Have lock, where it is now settled. The Secretary recon.mended that the school should be taken to Havelock (about the necessity for which there was no difference of opinion), and a schoolmaster’s residence erected therethat a side school should be placed at Waitahuna, but higher up the guily than the presint sit ; and be suggested that in the meantime the Athenaeum might be used for school purposes. Tne deputation said the A iliei.se m commi'tee wools nob allow the Board 10 have the use of the Atheiueura even if rent were paid. The Board decided to adhere m it* former decision to move the m. i'i school ; to provide a side school at aitahuna without at present fixing the sit . 'I he following sum,'; were granted as school huildcg gr us M’.cet.-ni., |BO j W C I hman’s Gully. 1.75 ; -tewari’s Island. LIU for Schoolmaster’s residence allowance, an 1 the cost of lurng the school; 'apanui, L 135 • Arrow, 1 45 ; bhotover, L 25 ; Toitois, where the inhabitants had subscribed L7O, a s bsidy of L2 to LI. Lyeli’s anti Gu ramie's Busied applications for lull instead of ha. f-time schools, ami Forest, Hill’s application, were referred to Mr i'etrie for report. It was agreed to subsi bee dnaptka Fiat, which asked for a new school io the extent of 2to LI. Owake Flat’s application was referred to Mr Hislop Waikoaaiti applied to have its main school declared a grammar school.—The ecretary explained that the att* ndanee was iiOohinc like the number the Government contemplated- Mr Lillies: ;f a grammar school is Wonted in the neighborhood, Palmerston is the piaoe. The application was postponed Aj . d-, r ma’e assi-t;nt was granted to the Alb. e■ -Ircet school ; Miss Watt’s appoint men sew.ng arm pupil teacher at the Bluff confirmed; Mrs Urey appointed as probar.oner at Waikoaia, and Mr Graham the ■ anie at Ida Vauey ; Mias Murray as pupil teacher at Oamaru. SCHOOL PRIZES. Mr S. James, secretary of the Dunedin School Committee, atked “for an expression of opii ion from the Board as to the present practice adopted in the Dunedin schools of giving prizes at the annual public examinations ; also as to whether it would not be better that certificates of merit as adopted at the High School would te preferable.” Mrß.riD: It is for the people themselves, but I think myself that certificates of merit would have quite as good an effect as prizes —indeed better. Mr IHslop: Tbeie is a feeling arising in the minds of the hebooi Gmmitteo and of other parties who take an interest in education that this matter of school pn’z-s has beea ra r b(r overdone of late years, and that what are given as prizes are ready no pnz-’s, as so many of th-.-ui are given.— His Bo:-:os; : "No doubt of it. The thing has been omdone.—Mr Gillies: Still I think it is hotter that the eominiL.ee should deeid for themselves. — The Mscbetarv : I think the urn-; is coming when a change will htmade in the system of prizes, and a strict examination be made as to the best scholar in each -iviaion, who should receive a certificate testifying to that, which would be pre ferable, to awarding such a large number of books It was agreed to record the Board’s opinion that, as a rule, it would be preferable to issue certificates of merit to the best scholar in each division of a school. PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS. It was resolved that, in consequence of ihe Government having granted two additional scholarships, the (follow ng modifications be made in the regulations of the sth ult. : That one scholarship lor boys, and one for girls be opened for competition next mouth to the pupils of the three following clashes of school; respectively : 1. Ordinary district schools; 2. Grammar Schools; 3. Hi-di Schools ; and that in set’mg the examination papers due i egard be had to what may be fairly exp cted from th‘> pupils attending these three classes of schools. ° RESIGNATION OF THE RECTOR OF THE HIGH SCHOOL. A letter was read from Mr Hav, tborne resigning the rectorship. The following was minuted “That Mr Hawthorne’s resignation be accepted, and that the Board place on record its appreciation of the earnestness zeal, and assiduity with which Mr Hawthorne has labored for a period of near y six years to advance the interests of the High School, in the face of difficulties and discouragements, and its regret that after so many y*-arc of experience it should have been necessary for him to resign has position as rector. '1 he Board further refer to the favorable coasideiation of the Government Mr Hawthorne’s c’aim to a liberal recognitiou o! his services during the past Hx years —His Honor mentioned that the Board would have been glad to have offered him the next highest, if not an equally high position—-viz., the Leadmastership of the formal School, but Mr Hawthorne declined to accept it.