EDUCATION BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3899, 23 August 1875, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

A meeting ef the Education Board was held to-day, at which there were present —his Honor the Deputy-Superintendent (in the chair), Megans Mackellar, Green, Gillies, and Hislop (gecretaiy). The Secretary repoited the following appointments fdnee last meeting : —James Smith, master, at Edendale School; Janet Brunten, mistress, at Green Island, vice Miss Fraser, promoted; Miss S. Ferencs and Miss M"ab. pupil-teachers, at Nerth I famirn ; William Churchward, pnpil-tencher, at Bluff, vice Miss Watt; Miss Adam, schoolmistress, at Forbury. He might mentn n two very Tamable acoi-s----sions in connection with the department—Mis Mary A. Kernehan, a passenger by the Aldergrove, and a hiwhly-ceruficated teacher under the Irish .National School, and Miss Jw e Adams, from Home, by way of Melbourne, who produced very high certificates from H, M.’s ' ’ommitte# of the Pr vy Council. He regarded both accessions with considerable satisfaction, and recommended that they should be fully certificated as teacher# under the Board. Miss Adams was already appointed to the Forbury School. The appointment* were approved, and the Miss Adams and Kerneheu appointed certificated teachers The following applications for additional assistance were sanctioned : —t ‘utram, for a school-mistress ; Waikouaiti, second pupil teacher; Blueskin, school-mistress ; Balclutha, second pupil teacher; Kaitamgata, sceoud Sioil teacher ; Waihola Gorge, sewing teacher; osgiel, school-mistress ; urspuki, iiwm; teacher.

Several claims for repairs were agreed to, aud it was rosolved that, as the vote for school funds was nearly exhausted, the Secretary should write to school committees informing them that the Board would not be responsible for any r-pairs unless previously approved of by the Board. The Secretary of the Dunedin School Committee called attention to the crowded state of the North Dunedin school. The committee were of opinion that it would be useless to patch up the old school, and a new building was urgently required. This with other applications was referred to the Executive. A side-school at Lignite Reserve, Waikaba, was agreed to. A memorial from tweaty-fiv. settlers at Ravensbourne asking for a vchool was postponed for the present, the Board holding that it was better to allow the children to travel by rail to the nearest school free of charge than to build a school at Ravensbourne. Mataura was temporarily subsidised as a side school, and the application of the Krdtangata «hool Committee to have the school raised to a main school, was postponed for three months, to test the increase in the attendance. The Tapanui School Committee wrote ask ing that the Board would sanction the termination of the schoolmaster’s appointment in consequence of his not giving satisfaction Mr Hislop expressed his astonishment on receiving the application, the gentleman in question being an excellent teacher and a thorough steady man. The Board declined to accede to the proposal; the inspector to report on the school. Mr Bastings, as representing the Lawrence School Committee, asked that the present school buildings at Lawrence, with the land, should be sold by public auction, and a new school be built with the proceeds thereof on the reserve obtained by the committee from the .Municipal Council. Referred to the Executive, with a recommendation to take steps for the erection of the new school at once. The .Secretary called attention to that pan of the report of Mr Hatton, drawing master, in which, with t view o, encouraging advanced students, and to stimulate them to increased exertion, he had recommended that priz.-s b, offered for the best original designs in pottery (LlO prize); in medal work, jewellery (L 5) ; in wall decoration (L 5); in ornamental analysis of nature (L 5); and for other subjects (L 5). This valuable suggestion had apparently not received that attention to which it was generally entitled, ixefm ud to the Executive, with the favorable recumm mLtion of the Board.

The Board then adjourned till Friday uexl when applications for appoin mentis iu connec tiou with the Normal School will be fully con sidered.