BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1587, 21 March 1879, Page 3

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Board of Education for the district of North Canterbury took place yesterday at 3 p m. Present—Messrs Inglis (chairman), C. C. Bowen, W. Montgomery, A. Saundei’s, E. C. J. Stevena, A. Duncan, and H. R Webb r ihe minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. appointments. The Secretary read a list of appointments ho the following schools : Killinchy, Akaroa, Alford Forest, Fermide, Templeton, Waiau, and Colombo road. LONG BEACH. Messrs Clark and Manders waited on the Board as a deputation from the Flemington district, Long Beach, to urge on them the necessity of a school being erected in that locality. The Chairman informed them that the plans would be ready at the next fortnightly meeting of the Board, and the work pushed on expeditiously. The deputation thanked the Board, and withdrew. TENDERS. A number of tenders were received for alterations and additions to schools, and the fol owing were accepted Hillsborough, Priest, £207; Gloucester street, Gee, £9O ; South Town Belt, Jameson, £127 ; Normal School, alteration of floors, Geo, £sl. teachers’ houses, A letter was read from Mr Cane respecting designs for masters' houses at Kaiapoi, Loeston, and Ashburton. The Board decided to erect a house at Leeston similar to the one at Irwell, and to take the deign of the master’s hous x at Southbridge as the model for the masters’ houses at Kaiapoi and Ashburton. LYTTELTON. The Board authorised certain repairs to the school buildings at Lyttelton, the expense to come out of the building fund. CIIERTSET. The Board authorised certain additions, with modifications, asked for by the school committee in order to complete the school. FERNSIDE, The Board decided to proceed with the erection of the whole of the school buildings at Fernside, owing to an increase in the number of pupils.

NORMAL SCHOOL. The eonsid- ration of the plans for the infant school on the Kindergarten system in connection wiih ihe Normal School was remitted to the sub-committee appointed for the purpose. KAIAPOI ISLAND The Board appointed Captain Row to act as Commissioner in lieu of a committee. LITTLE RIVER. The Board considered a proposal for the removal of the Little River school to another site, but the question was put off for further particulars to be supplied as to the proposed site. WAIAU. The Board had a discussion as to the possibility of obtaining two or three acres for a school site at Wainu, and it was eventually resolved to request the school committee to ascertain whether a site of such dimensions can be procured. KAIAPOI. The Board agreed to accept Mr Hall’s offer of an acre of land for a school site at Kaiapoi, at a cost of £' 50. LOBUBN. It was resolved to ascertain part culars regarding a site for a school offered by Mr W. Fahey. CAMBRIDGE. The Board authorised the publication of the boundaries of this sch ol district. UPPER RICCARTON. The Board sanctioned the appointment of the Rev. C. Bowen as commissioner of this school, as the householders of the district had failed to elect a school committee. EAST CHRISTCHtTRCH. The following letter was read from the Chairman of the East Christchurch School Committee : Sir—l have the honor, by direction of the East Christchurch District School Committee, referring to the reply of the Board to the deputation from the committee that wa.ted on it, in re inter alia the position of the fund for incidental expenses, to hand you the accompanying statements:— 1. Showing the committee’s present financial position; 2. A detailed list of absolutely necessary expenditure under the head in question. The committee cannot pos ibly carry on the schools with less than therein stated, and if the Board cannot see its way to increase the allowance made since Ist July last, the committee must look to the Board for some suggestion to enable it to make both ends meet. With regard to this I would call your attention to your lettei* of the 4th of November last, which led the committee to believe some plan would be devised to meet the difficulty. The committee have exercised every economy, and the expenditure has sensibly decreased, hut still it cannot he kept within the limits fixed by the Board.

I have, &e., H. C. M. Watson, Chairman. The tables forwarded with the chairman’s letter sho aed the total incidental expenditure from July Ist, 1878, with liabilities actually estimated to March 31st, 1879, to be .£282 6s lOd ; additional liabilities as by accounts rendered, £IOO 13s 2d; making a total of £383 The cash in band amounted to £7 13s 2d. which deducted from the liability of £IOO 13« 2d, leaves a defi iency in nine months of £93. A statement was appended, showing the absolutely necessary expenditure upon incidental in the disinct to be £SOO, inclusive of expenditure in connection with t-'e main infant scho Is and the side schools at Bingsland, bhilipstown, and the South Town belt.

I he matter was fully considered by the Board, and ultimately it was that the question would be considered along with the incidental expenditure of other scho Is, and a final decision come to at the next meeting of the Board. The Board then went into committee, and subsequently adjourned.