EDUCATION BOARD

Evening Star, Issue 21752, 21 June 1934, Page 12

EDUCATION BOARD

MONTHLY MEETING CONCLUDED The Education Board concluded its monthly meeting to-day, Mr James Wallace presiding. APPLICATIONS FOR SUBSIDIES. The West Taieri Committee offered £l3 towards the cost of new furniture for the school and the levelling of the floor. The cost of the furniture was estimated at £2l os and the levelling £l2, a total of £33 ss.—Accepted. The Ginunerburn Committee applied for the levelling of the floor, offering to contribute £3 towards the cost. The architect estimated the cost at about £lo.—Granted, subject to £4 being contributed. The St. Leonards Committee applied for top-dressing and repairing asphalt. The lowest tender received was £29 15s, and the architect reported that the tender was reasonable.—Granted. An application for assistance in laying 3in of concrete on top of the asphalt was received from the Ngapara Committee. The architect reported that cement, boxing, malthoid, tor gether with railage and cartage, would cost £3O 17s. The estimate did not include gravel and cartage of same or labour.—Held oyer. The Upper Junction Committee asked for assistance towards the cost of interior painting and the levelling of the floor. It had received a tender of £6 for levelling.—The architect is to report. The board granted the Brighton Committee’s application for a subsidy for the erection of a shelter fence. The cost of the material will be £lO, and unemployed labour is to be used. The board is to provide £5. ARCHITECT’S RECOMMENDATIONS. It was decided to lay the gravel paths of the teacher’s residence at Patearoa iu concrete, when the work was seasonable, at a cost of £ls. On the architect’s recommendation, it whs decided to repair and top dress the asphalt at the St. Clair residence at a cost of £6. The Architect reported on the additional cost, of improving the grade of the lower playground before resurfacing at the Port Chalmers School. The area was 113 ft long by 66ft wide, and the total fall across the width was 6ft, which worked out at Ift of fall in every lift. To provide a grade of Ift in 33ft would mean that the depth of cut at the top boundary would be 4ft. The proposal would involve expenditure on a concrete wall, galvanised fence removed and re-erected, sewer and storm water drains lifted and relaid, and the whole area resurfaced, the total cost, with asphalt surfacing, being £346 2s; if surfaced in concrete, an additional £BO would be added. In view of cost and position of finance, the architect recommended that the present surface be patched where required and the whole top-dressed with tar and sand at a cost of about £35. It was decided to pay half-cost of topdressing or find one-third of the cost of the original proposal. The Caversham Committee’s request for an additional length of concrete channelling, at an estimated cost of about £l7, was granted. TAPUI SCHOOL REOPENING. The Tapui. Committee asked for the reopening of the school. If the board could not agree they proposed to place the matter before the Minister, Mr Cooper considered that the school should be reopened. The board would not be doing its duty if it did not send a teacher. He moved accordingly. The Chairman ruled that the motion was incompetent. The proper course was to move that the department bo asked for authority to reopen the school. Mr Cooper altered his mqtionjts suggested by the chairman, and it was carried. TECHNICAL SCHOOL MANAGERS. The board fixed September as the month in which the election of the Technical School managers is to take place. •_ It was decided to hold the election of parents’ representative on September 12. COMMITTEE ELECTIONS: The following commissioners were appointed : —Akatore Coast, Mr D. Allison j Busoot, Mr J. R. Sanders; Fuchsia- Creek, Messrs J. Kingan and Ludemann; Kuri Bush. Messrs J. W. Geeves and M‘K. Marshall; Lower Harbour, Messrs H. Omand and I. Powell; Maerewhenua, Mr J. Meikle; Makarora, Messrs L. F, Crawford and G. R. Humphrey ; Moeraki, Messrs A. Bboth and F. J. Carter; Nugget Point, Messrs JT. Crocker and A. Duncan; Pukefangi, Mr C. Hislop; Ratanui, Messrs J. Telfer and W. Harrington; Waipori Falls, Mr D. S. Mackenzie; Whare Flat, Messrs Harris and F, Johnson. It was decided that the Otokia teacher (Mr J. C. Duthie) should act as clerk of the committee. Mr W. Irwin was appointed an additional member of the Kaitangata Committee. CONVEYANCE TO ALEXANDRA. A request was received from the parents of ten children at Springavale for a conveyance service to Alexandra. 4 The Chairman said a proposal was being made that the Springvale children should be picked up by a bus carrying the Chatto Creek children. That would result in the closing of the Galloway School and an increased attendance at the Alexandra School. The request was held over. GENERAL. The tender of Mr B. Coleman of £6 12s 6cl for the rent of the Hampden School glebe was accepted. Stating that it was quite satisfactory, the Caversham Committee wrote thanking the board for the installation of heating in three rooms at the old school.