BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 267, 20 April 1875, Page 3

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Monday, April 19

The usual weekly meeting of the Board of Education was held at 7 p.m. Present: Messrs J. Inglis (chairman), A. Duncan, H. R. Webb, J. N, Tosswill, W Montgomery, and T. W. Maude. HURUNUI. A letter was read from the chairman of the district committee, respecting a site for a schoolroom and master’shousc which had been objected to by Mr H. P. Lance. The objecjection was that there were no children at Waikari Flat. The chairman said that it appeared to him at the time the objection was made that a peripatetic schoolmaster was what was wanted, but from information since received he found that there were fourteen children at Waikari Flat, and the probability was that it would become a centre of population. The previous resolution to establish a school at Waikari Flat was confirmed. EXEMPTION FROM BATES. A letter was read from Mr T. M. Gee, of the Christchurah Grammar and Commercial School, asking to be exempted from the payment of £6 ss, building rate, on the grounds —l. That he lost by the rate itself and by parents taking away their children through their inability to pay both the rate and his charges. 2. That private schools are as much engaged in the work of education as public ones, and reach a class which would not avail itself of the Government schools. 3. That private schools relieve to some extent the Board from the burden of finding means of education for all who, if there were no private schools, must avail themselves of the public ones or go without teaching. 4. Referring to the services which he (Mr Gee) had rendered the cause of education. The secretary was directed to reply that the Board fully recognised the services Mr Gee had rendered in the cause of education, but as the question of payment of rates was entirely beyond the’’r province—being with the Government —they cannot deal with the matter. WINCHESTER. A letter was read from Mr T. R. Inwood, hon secretary of the district committee, stating that the schoolroom as a rule was generally used on a Sunday for religious purposes, and asking permission to erect a bell on the school grounds at the expense of the Church of England committee, such bell to be used exclusively for religious purposes, and to be removed when a church is built. It was only intended that the bell should be raised temporarily on the school grounds. The Board saw no objection to the erection of the bell, subject to its removal at any time when required by the Board. LYTTELTON. A letter was read from the secretary of ihe district committee, stating that the Lyttelton Borough Council had sanctioned the alienation (for educational purposes) of a piece of land (part of reserve No 36), the same width as the Colonists’ Hall, and extending from the eastern boundary of the land leased to the Colonists’ Society to St David’s street, provided such land shall be deemed equivalent to one-sixth of the value of any buildings erecting thereon, and that the town shall not be called upon to pay any proportion of the cost of additional school buildings, and requesting (if the Board agree to the above proposition) that immediate steps be taken to have the land vested in his Honor the Superintendent, It was decided that the chairman should confer with the committee, and report to the Board at the next meeting, COLOMBO ROAD, A letter was read from the chairman of the district committee, asking the Board to sanction the appointment of Misses Somerset and Seager and P. Goodyer and Master James Taylor as pupil teachers. The Board sanctioned the appointments at the recommendation of the inspector of schools. ST ALBAN’S. A letter was read from the hon secretary of the district committee, asking the Board to sanction the appointment of Master John Newell as pupil teacher. The Board sanctioned the appointment, subject to Master Newell coming up for examination. MALVERN. A letter was read from the chairman of the district committee, asking whether the Board would sanction the cost of employing an architect to superintend the erection of the school buildings. Also asking permission to sink a well and put up a pump on the school ground. The subject of the employment of an architect was left in the hands of the chairman of the Board. It was decided that the Board would sanction the sinking of a well, provided the estimated amount of cost was approved of by the chairman of the Board,

KIMBERLY. The Inspector of Schools reported that he had visited the Kimberly school and found it closed, the master being ill. The Inspector recommended the appointment of a temporary master. It was decided that the Board would approve of a temporary master being appointed, the present master to have leave of absence until his health was recovered. BUSINESS DONE BY THE CHAIRMAN. The business done by the chairman was approved. The Board then adjourned.