EDUCATION BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 4003, 23 December 1875, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

The Board’s meeting to-day was attended by the Superintendent (in the chair), Messrs Keid, Davie, Green, and Gillies, and the following business was transacted A deputation from Broad Bay pressed the claims of hat district for a school. It was stated there were thirty-one children under four years, and that sixty live between four and fourteen years were resident in the district, the nearest school being from two and a-half to three miles distant, while the roads were far from good. Consideration of the matter was postponed. The Dunedin School Committee forwarded the following resolution passed by them at their last meeting ; That tho Education Board be overt uved by the Committee on the subject of casual examiners giving written certificates to teachers on the occasion of public school examinations, as was done at the last examination of (he Middle DLstri.-t School, the Committee beiugof opinion that the pormittheof such certificates to ba given opens a door to collusion, and is likely to result in evils detrimental to the beneficial iallueucc the committee believe is attached to the regular examination by tho Board's certificated i aspect or.

Piio Bo -r l p isse>i tlio following minute <dut, while the doard d .s;i(>prr.v,-s of the action complained of, it is of opinion that; r-fio su' jec. is o. e which comes entirely within (lie cogn sauce of the School Committee. The draft regulations for the admission of students to rhe tratiiine department of the Normal School, and for the management of die practising school, wi.ich hj ul been printed and circulated amongst the members, weie taken into consiaeration, an t approved as amonded. The a tervliom are only in paragraphs I, and V(, as thev appeared in the STAB, Paragraph I. now reads—*' Candidate* for t'ai .ing -hail bo anauged under the following classes ” : (A) Pupil teachers who h*e attained their eighteenth year in the case of males, and llier seventeenth year in the ease of females, and wLo have satisfactorily completed their term of apprenticeship, or whose (ransfereneeto the Normal School lias been approved by the Board. (B) Untrained assistant teachers and teachers who have been employed in the Board’s schools, and have been recommended by the inspectors of schools for n con so of training. (0) Other poi sons not under the ages specified in Class A, not over thirty live years of age, who ha.-e uruished the Board with satisfactory certificates of good moral character and sound health, and who are free from any bodily infirmity likely to impair their usefulness as teachers. The 80,.rd does not bind itself to admit ail candidates of (his class who may pass the entrance osaminnii-'ii, but only Midi numbers ns may from time to time bo specified. In paragraph VI. lie- iwob “ uf classes A and B ’ in the first him, and the concluding s nitence. " Maintenance allowance may he given lost ule"U of class O i twit such allowance shall ho a matter of special arrangement in eack case," wove struck out,

The following appointments to the Normal School were made : Second Master, Mr James Lindsay, at present second master of the ■-chon), Dunedin ; assi-tant master, Mr Wdlhuu Miller, at present ihird mister at tho fokomaiiiro Grammar School ; school mistress, •liss Emma Stevens, at present tins ress of the’ Micdle District School, I'umdin; assistant seliO"! mistress, Miss Marj ry ’ •««•, fivm tho „’-mP 0W Training College ; janitor, Mr VS nhatu I’avnio. . *| ,e I’ ll ui! also appointed em.diliona’ teacher in the > Tills’ High School Miss Mary M‘Gregor# at present m-stives of tho b.orth East Valley District Nclion]. After disposing of some routine business tho Board adjourned.