EDUCATION BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3738, 15 February 1875, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

The adjourned monthly meeting of the Board was held this morning ; present—His Honor the Superintendent, Messrs Gillies, Reid, and Hislop (secretary), APPOINTMENTS, _ The following appointments were sanctioned : —Mr W. A. Patterson, from Welshman’s to Bannockburn ; Mr F. Joseph, Akatore to Lake Waipori; Mr W. Hay, Highcliffe to Port Molyueux; Miss Mary Macgregor, from Perth, Scotland, tube schoolmistress, North o.vt Valley ; Mr W. Reid, and M:ss Bruntcn, both of Alexandra, to be master and mistress of the new Forbnry •'chool ; Mr Alexander Anderson. l/, ; wer 11 arbor, to bo second master, Kdkorai; Mr D. Smith, from Canada, to Kvaus’s Flat; Mr A. Monty. snvry, junr , t be under-master at the Albany street- school; Mr W. Miller, Port iMolyiicux, to be third master at Tokomairiro; Alisa Macintosh, South School, to bo school mistress at Morniugton, WAIKARI. Mr George Hepburn, chairman of the School Committee, Landed in a r. quest fora grant of money, to repair the building and provide forms, desks, &c. it was a rced to giant LoO, if toe residents collected Lid. APPLICATIONS FOR TEACHERS. The application from G;eea island to appoint Miss J.ssio Mills as te..ch(ir was sanctioned. A Queenstown application to be all 'Wed to appoint a second master in the place of Mrs Macklin, wife of the head master, and who has been acting as mistr. ss, was postponed till the Inspector had visited the school. Applications from Mo> gicl and Outram, for schoolmistresses, and from Uavcrsham for an assistant master, were postponed till after the meeting of the Provincial Council. TH-; .STATUS OF SCHOOLS. A pplications from Clarke’s Flat, Blue Spur, Pukueri, and Papakaio, to have t he status of the respective schools raised, were deferred ti-l alter the Council met. One from Wai-

runa was granted - the Board rer -*> *o LIOO, the secretary to buildings h*' resenting that suitable school -d been provided. Tha _ roslyn bush. anw committee were authorised to appoint Lor jfer *8 toho new school at a salary of 1 J per annum. Oil ANTS. Ihe following applications for grants wore red I'aicri Bush, ior a new school ; '.vepnxi, ISO for repairs, &c. ; Limestone T c rttS hlence ; Hyde, for new school ; <valton, for increased accormrioclatiou ; Milton. for outbuilding:. & 0 . Two-thirds grafts I were aur,homed to Wallacetown, Ida Valley, -UK »;*kan. A rent allowance of L2O per annum was granted the teacher at Maereav ticr.ua. Permission was granted the Ote- ; ramika commicteo to make a road through a | r< ’? cn f e » to ona hle children to ;each the scaooi move easily. aE r A . IUTroN 0F BOYS and OIRL.S. .. chairman of the annual meeting of electors at Invercargill forwarded a rcsolution arrived at by the meeting to ihe effect that it was desirable the Board bring under the nohiee of the Government the advisability of providing separate education for boys anil gmia, as soon as the public funds will admit o'i it. Read. TUAPEKA MOUTH. The committee intimated that Mr Campbell, the teacher, had forwarded his resignation, which had been accepted. The attendance of children had fallen to five or six daily, though, if satisfied with the teacher, | parents would doubtless send about twentysix. Authority to appoint a new master was requested. Granted, provided the committee guarantee an attendance of twenty children.

PROBATIONERS, Messrs Tracy, of Invercargill, and Morgan, f u Caßmania ’ we *®» o® the recommendati n of the Inspectors, recognised as probationers. THE NORMAL SCHOOL, The Government informed the Board that pursuance of the latter’s resolution at its meeting on November 2, last year, it had decided to offer the rectorship of the Normal School to Mr W. S. Fitzgerald, head master of the Oatnaru Grammar School, who had expressed hia willingness to accept the appointment. Confirmed. A SCHOOL RATE. The Kaikorai committee forwarded a resolution arrived at by them, that the Board be solicited t© bring under the notice of the Government the desirability of initiating an Ordinance giving school committees power to levy an assessment on all rateable property for school incidental expenses, as the system of raising funds by voluntary subscriptions was objectionable. The ‘Board recommended this to the Government, and directed the secretary to forward circulars to all school committees to ascertain their opinions on the matter. THE REFRACTORY PUPIL-TEACHER wro^e saying that what his daughter, pupil-teacher at one of thq districk schools, had done h:ij been uiisunderstood, and that from the way in which it was stated a false impression might bo lolt on people’s miud.i. Miss Jago had withdrawn from the live hours’ a week instructs because of the writer’s intention to withdraw her from the school altogether* l\eaa. Mias dago also vrrote forwarding her resignation, which was accepted.