EDUCATION BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 4282, 16 November 1876, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

The first meeting of the new Board appointed under the Act of last session, was held at noon to-day, wnen there were present Messrs Macandrew (who was appointed chairman), Reid, Gillies, and Green. Messrs Reid, Rankin, and Hargreaves attended as a deputation from the Forbury School Committee, and urged the necessity for increasing the school accommodation, which at present comprised two rooms that held 167 children, while the average attendance was 174; also, the necessity for filling in the rest of the playground and erecting fencing. In respect to the first application the Board intimated that there were more urgent cases requiring attention first; and in regard to the other matters the committee were asked to furnish a statement of the cost of the proposed improvements. On the motion of the Chairman a resolution was passed continuing in their present positions the officers of the Board, and it was decided to offer to Mr Stout the position of solicitor of the Board, subject to such charges as may be mutually agreed upon hereafter.The Chairman thought the Board should take some action to ascertain how much it could get of the loan of L 50,000 for school buildings. Of course they were entitled to a share of it.—Mr Gillies : I think we are entitled to a third of it.—Mr Reid : Suppose we send up a statement of our present requirements for buildings and ask that they be provided for.—The Secretary intimated that he had prepared such a statement, which amounted to L 6,800, in addition to the contracts already sanctioned by the Executive, which amounted to LIO,OOO, and a good deal of which was now paid. The cases mentioned in his list were urgent ones. —The Chairman : I propose that the Secretary prepare a statement of our requirements and existing engagements, and that application be made to the Government for their payment out of the loan.—Agreed to. , The following appointments as teachers since last meeting were notified:—Miss Jane Fowler, Lawrence; John Yonngson, Lovell’s Flat; F. B. Bennett, Table Hill; J. Simpson, Ida Valley; Jas. Rix, Black’s; i<. Pope, Tuapeka Flat; Jas. Well, Southbridge ; Geo. W. Carrington, Wangaloa; W. Goulding, Clarke’s Flat; A Anderson. Waitahuna.

Haims frfmv TmrnrH Month* Green I s.tnJ, VV;i;oruuuva, Wairaroka, Clinton, \N ir>to», ami Tcneraki, for the usual allowance for repairs, were sanctioned.

The Inspector was instructed, to report upon Mr Stuart’s application for a school ; an application from Macetown,was deferred; and it was agreed to recommend the Governor to agree to Waikouaiti’s application to sanction the conversion (provided there was no claim on the part of the poundkeeper) of the pound reserve into a site for a schoolmaster’s residence; a subsidy of L3O a year was granted towards the private school at South Riverton; Stoney Creek’-s application for the old tollhouse as a schoolmaster’s residence was granted, provided the local committee defray the cost of removal; and the charges for the attendance of thirtythree N ormal School pupils and teachers at Professor Coughtrey’s physiological lectures were sanctioned.

The Board decided to hold its regular meetings on the first \Vednesday of every month. J