EDUCATION BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3789, 16 April 1875, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

Th« monthly meeting of the Education Board wag held to-day, when there were present—The Superintendent, Messrs Reid and Gillies, The following was the principal business transacted.

The following _ applications were agreed toi —lapanui, pupil teacher; Kensington, the same; Albany street School, second master • Wmton, Greytown, and Hampden, sewing veaeners.

A side under class D, was at Fairfax. Permission was granted to Adams* Flat committee to elect another teacher. An application from the settlers at Guthrie and Latnach’s mill at Gatlin’s River for the establishment of a school there, was postponed pending the receipt of further information. The following letter from the Mayor, in reply to the Superintendent’s application to the jJV 1 . , hand over to the Government two additional sections of land for school purposes. the Albany Btreet school, was

I have pleasure in stating that the Council will be willing to hand over to the Government the sections referred to, subject to a rental to be determined by the puce pot annum which the other portions of the wharves and quays reserve in the immediate vicinity *®®b®® the forthcoming auction sale in say a fortnight hence; the Government to compensate the outgoing tenants of these two sections (Messrs Baird ami Lee) through the City Council to the extent of 850 each for their buildings now on the ground. As to the duration of the lease to the Government, that wouldbe a matter for further arrangement beeween your Honor and the Council. In the the allotments will bo withheld from public oompetiMr Gillies said the most effectual and proper. way would be to transfer, under the Public "®®®jy® B Act, the sections from the Wharves and Quays Reserves, which could oedone withwit the consent of the .municipality.—His Hon .b : I consider this quite a legitimate object—Mr Gillies : Quite. I believe the Provincial Council would sanction it at once.— Mr aiSLOp: It is absolutely indispensable that we should have these sections. —His Hon OB: There are upwards of 400 children attending this school, and there is not so much round it as would be covered by this table. I might mention that the Government offered, in the event of the City Council granting these two sections as a playground at a nominal rent, to reclaim the piece of mud fiat alongside the railway station, which would, on sanitary grounds, improve the neighborhood very much. Mr Reid ; At all events I do not care to accept a lease on such terms. -Mr Gillies j I propose that the Provincial Council be applied to, to transfer under the Public Reserves Act toes# sections from the Wharves and Quays Reserve for school purposes, sufficient for a play ground.—Mr Reid remarked that all the Board could do was to recommend. —TTin Honob: Perhaps we might have further correspondence with the City Council on the subject. I don’t think it could have been their intention to debar us from having the land for a play-grotfcd.— Mr Hislop : There is another matter in con. nection with this, and I have mentioned it in my annual report, viz., that the Normal School ground is beyond question of unduly limitaq and I should like very muon to sea something done with a view to securing a por. uSi-n area. There will probably be 750 scholar*, and their only playground wiU bethreevery large rooms on the under floor, which will do admirably in wet weather, bat there will be scarcely standing room outside in good weather.—Mr Gillies observed that this matter stood in exactly the same position as the other. The reserve required to be dealt with under the Public Reserves Act, and the matter should not be left in a doubtful State, but made clear in the manner prescribed by law. After further discussion, it was resolved, “That the Board cannot approve of the terms specified in the Mayors letter, and refers the matter to the Government with a view to the necessary steps being taken to procure sufficient ground.” the arrival of the new rector of the High School, Mr His op said the new quarter commenced on Monday, and the rector was making every haste to get the rectory ready for the reception of boarders by Monday, week. ' He (the Secretary) had received a good many inquiries from all parts of the country as to the boarding arrangements, and also in reference to the school He expected there would be a great many fresh boys this quarter. —His Honoh mentioned that he had seen a private letter from Dr Bryce, of Edinburgh, speaking very highly indeed of Mr Nome.