Wanganui Education Board

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 57, 31 October 1889, Page 3

Wanganui Education Board

A meeting of the above Board wa .'held ■• on- Monday 28th, PresentMessrs Carson (chair), Sanson, Bridge Ross, Fry, York, Notman, & Beckett In Committee the following appoint men is and applications were deal with :— :Beaconsfiold, Mr Crabbe ap pointed ; Ashurst, Miss Chalmers name to ' be ; sent on ; lialcoin be, M: Watkin, pupil teacher at Hunterville to be transferred ; Palmerstou North A. Carty appointed cadet, and Bridge Heuley transferred from Terrace End Feilding 1 was refused a pupil teaohei as the attendance would not warrau it. Halcombe being bver-officerec loses lan assistant. The relieving teacher it was decided should be paic 'actual coach and train fares, and £1 a .week while employed away front Wanganui. Tuesday. Absence of Resolved tc ask Mr England to explain why he die not comply with rule 4 3, when he wae absent from school from Septembei 24th to 30th— In consequence of the report of the headmaster at Feilding, it was resolved, on the motion of Mi Bridge, seconded by Mr Beckett, Thai Mrs Lissame'n be informed that the Board regret to find- that she has tc be so often absent away from, echoo] through sickness, and that if hei health does not improve it may be necessary to replace her by a teachei who will be able to attend more regularly to her duties. Aphurat. — An application for an increase in playground at Ashurst was declined on account of want uf funds. Pohangina. — It was .resolved to call for tenders for a residence at Pohangina, on the plan of the Stanway residence, Mr Sanson reported on repairs re quired at the Karere residence, which ho recommended should be carried out by the committee, Resolved to ask the Committee to invite tenders. Repairs at Stpney Oreek were referred to Mr Fry, and new desks at Upper Tutaenui to Mr Beckett. A requisition from Stoney Creek for maps, &c, was referred to the Inspect tor. The Minister of Education asked for any recommendations id the syllabus the Board would like to make. — Mr Bridge suggested that the Government should hold a week's conference of school inspectors at Wellington. Till something of this sort was done they would never get the syllabus property revised. He moved accordingly. Seconded by Mr Notman and carried. The Department sent word as to the allocation of buildiug grant, and it was resolved that the Executive should prepare a list of places where 1 schools are wanted. Messrs Fry and 1 Yorke to forward information as to the buildings needed in their ends of x the district. It was resolved to pay Mr Ligertwood for teaching a. pupil teacher. Correspondence from the Very Rev. j Father Kirk, and Mr McOarty and Mr Mcbrovern of Manaia, parents of scholarship winners, and from Dr Watters, principal iof St. Patrick's College, .Wellington, was read and discussed. The tenor of the letters from the first three mentioned was to ask -the Board to reconsider its decision as to refusing to allow Catholic children who have won scholarships in Board schools to hold them at St. Patrick's"; College, or the Convent School, Wangauui. .'.fter the letters were read Mr A. K. Browne^ secretary to the Board, etated that when Mr Lloyd had brought him Mi- Kirk's tirit letter, he had explained what the Board meant was that it was the. (Schools and not the individual pupils that were to be open for inspection. Communication bad then apparently been opened up with Dr Walters, of Wellington, on the matter and he J wired tack that he had seen the Minister for Education and the College would be open for inspection in terms of the Act. — The chairman said that; whatever was' held to be sufficient in the case of the Wangauui O illegiate School must be held as sufficient with any other school. He understood that the Collegiate School was placed under the inspection of the de» partinental inspector, but he did not know that there had been any notice from the Department to that effect. It had been suggested they should obtain word from the Department as to whether St Patrick's complied with the regulations, but he did not think they should require niore in the one case than the other.— The Rev. Mr Ross, speaking to a motiou by Mr Beckett, that if the College is brought under inspection, the same as the Collegiate iSchopl, the Board would offer ho objection, said if these schools were open to inspection they ought to be inspected. : It was resolved that " Pending the erection by the Board of Schools foi secondary Education in the Wanganui educational district, the Board permit its Scholarship is to be held at any secondary schools which are subject to inspection as provided by the Education Act, and of which they approved.' 1 Herald. -