ROAD OF GOVERNORS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1679, 8 July 1879, Page 3

ROAD OF GOVERNORS.

A special meeting of the Board of Governors was held at three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Present—Messrs W. Montgomery (chairman), W. J. W. Hamilton, R.W. Fereday, H. J. Tancred, J. N. Tos'will, the Kev. C. Fraser, and Drs. Coward and Turnbull, Messrs F. de c. Malet, Veel, E. C. J. Stevens, and Inglis. SCHOOL OF ART. Tho Chairman said—Since the last meeting of the Board I visited Dunedin, that I might obtain information for the Board respecting the School of Art established there. The School of Art in Dunedin is under the Board of Education, and I therefore applied to tho secretary, Mr Pryde, at the office of the Board, for permission to visit the school, and for such particulars respecting the teaching staff, anaual expenditure, &c, &c, as I thought might be useful when the question of establishing a similar school hero wonld be considered by this Board. Mr Pryde immediately expressed the pleasure it would give him to afford every information in his power. He went with mo to the school, and introduced me to the head master, Mr Hutton, who very kindly explained the manner in which the school was conducted. I was shown through the various rooms, and sow the pupils at work. The school seems replete with every convenience required by the students. Mr Pryde, with the greatest courtesy, 'furnished me with a memorandum showing the number and salaries of the toaching staff, the number of students attending the school, and other particulars of interest. I may say that I returned my best thanks to Mr Pryde for the kind attention he gave, and for the trouble taken by him in this matter. I am indebted to Mr Pryde for the following particulars : —School of Art staff and salaries : Headmaster, .£450; first assistant (male), .£200; second do (female), £100; pupil teacher (male), £SO; do (female), £4O; total, £B4O. All the teachers are paid actual expenses incurred in visiting the different schools beyond Dunedin. NUMBER OF STUDENTS. First afternoon class for ladies, thirty; Normal School students, seven males, forty-four females ; teachers and pupil teachers, twenty males, sixty females ; artisans' evening clars, 105. Pupils attending the schools in Dunedin

and surrounding l Afetricts receiving instruction in drawing by the Sshool of Art teachers*, 2780 males, 2220 females, making a total of 2912 males, 2354 females. (Particulars of the hoars of meeting here followed 1 .): The number cf children rsceiving instruction in drawing last quarter was 5000. Each clas3 receives one hour's instruction per week. FEES. Tho fee charged for the afternoon class is 21s per quarter, for the artisans' cla33 10s 6d a quarter, all others are taught free. Pupil teachers and Normal School students are required of the Education Board to attend the School of Art classes. The hours are arranged to Euit. All teachers, whether under the Board or not, are granted the privilege of attending any of tho classes, and many take advantage of the chance thus offered of improvement. FITTINGS, &C. Mr Button, prior to his leaving England, waß empowered to purchase cast's, &c, to the value of .£IOO. This supply was sufficient to start with, but additions have since been made. At present there is a valuable collection of casts, models, diagrams, and book", valued at .£IOOO. 'J he School of Art is fitted up to afford accommodation for nearly 200 students in all. Tho cost of the fittings, including gas, presses, drawing boards, &c , amounted to over J 3300. Finance— The only income received by the Board from the School of Art is the revenue from the students attending the afternoon class. Last year the sum was .£llO. Mr Hntton receives all the fees from the evening (artisans) classes, bnt tho receipts from theae do not amount to .£IOO. Mr Hntton is, in fact, anything but exacting in his charges, and many young apprentices leceive a course of instruction in drawing free. This class, you will observe, is conducted in the evening, and within Mr Hutton'a own time. The cost to the Board of the whole institution last year was ,£BOO 16s, and tho receipts (ladies' class) £llO, leaving a deficient balance of .£6OO 16s, which was paid out of the ordinary revenue of the Board. I do not propose to bring the question of establishing a School of Art before this meeting, but I hope the Board will take the subject into consideration on an early day, as I am convinced that a school of tbii kind would be of immense service to this district, and would produce some beneficial results.

I have to report that since the last meeting of tho Board a tender has heon accepted for the furniture required for the new wing of the College; that a letter and telegram have been received from Mr T. W. Maude, one of the commissioners appointed to select the Professor of Classics, giving the names of the applicants and the information that Mr F. W. Haslam has been appointed. Mr Ilaslam obtained a first>class degree at Cambridge in 1871, and I understand he received part of hia education at Rugby before going to Oxford, and that he was head master of Tunbridge school -when he sent in his application. The College, therefore, may ho congratulated on having secured a gentleman who will be a valuable addition to the Professorial staff.

The sketch plan of tho proposed Girls' High school buildings is now on the table, and the Board will be asked to approve of the sketch, so that de ailed plans and specifications may bo prepared by the architects, and tenders called for as soon as possible. The estates committee has lonsed one of tho r eserves, containing 80 acros. belonging to the jßoys' High school, and called for tonders for easing two other reserves. The reports of the Collego committee, respecting arrangements to be made for obtaining the teaching staff which will be required for the Boys' High School, have been torwarded to the members of the Board. Those reports, together with the report of the Agricultural School committee respecting the scholarships, matriculation examination and course of instruction to be given at the school, will bo brought forward for consideration to-day. The seal ordered from England gome time ago has arrived, and I shall ask the Board to decido that the new seal be used for the future, and that the old one be da'-troyed. committee's reports.

The Board went into committee to consider the reports of the College committee, and tho Agricultural School committee. After boincf in committee for some three hours the Board reported that the following report had been considered : REPORT OF THE COLLEGE COMMITTEE.

As the Boys' High School Buildings should ho completed on tho 27th June, 1880. and may be opened on the 13th September, at the commencement of the term, the committee having taken into consideration tho question of obtaining the teaching staff for the school, recommends that the following arrangements be made : 1.. That a head master be engaged in the United Kingdom who has graduated in classical or mathematical honord at Osford or Cambridge, and who has established for himself such a reputation as master in any one of the large schools, commonly known of late years as public schools, as will justify the expectation that he will prove a successful head master; age between twenty-seven and thirty-five years. Preference to bo given to a gentleman who has a good knowledge of English literature or science. All the conditions (except, those for fees and salary) under which the professors wero engaged to apply. Salary to be £BOO per annum. No house allowance. Boarders not to be taken.

2. That a second master be engaged in the United Kingdom who has graduated in mathematical honors at either Oxford or Cambridge; age not to exceed thirty-five years. Preference being given- to a gentleman who has a good knowledge of English literature or science. £IOO for expense of passage. Salary £SOO per annum. Conditions under which professors are engaged to apply (except as to fees, salary, and payment if services be dispensed with within ten (10) years). If services be dispensed with master to receive £IOO. Salary to commence from date of arrival after Ist July and before 30th August, 1880. No house allowance, and boarders not to be taken.

3. Professors Soeley and' Blackie, Dr. Jowett, Dr. Abbott, head master City London School, to be appointed as commissioners to select masters. The head master, when appointed, to act along with them in the selection of second master.

4. Two assistant masters to be engaged at aggrogate salaries of £750 per annum. 5. There is no suggestion in this scheme for a boarding establishment, but this question will have to bo considered on an early day, as many peoplo hold that to give the school a high standing and extend the sphere of usefulness suitable provision should bo made for boarding youths who may come from a distance. The committee when framing instructions for the guidance of the commissioners appointed to select the masters, to state that should the head master have the requisite knowledge in English literature, the second master should have the requisite knowledge in science, and vice versa. That the Board of Education should define the course of instruction to he pursued, and should especially resolve upon the division of the school into two sections; the one to give mere , prominence to the ancient classics, and the other to the modern languages., to mathematics and science. That the foregoing resolution be remitted t. |thi |Colleg» committee for its early consideration. The Board resumed at eleven o'clock, and reported progress. > The Rev. Clias. Fraser did not think it desirable that the head mastership of the High School should be given to only those who were graduates of Oxford or Cambridge. He regretted that an amendment like this was required. If the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge could not gain these appointments on their own merits in one competition, they ought not to have this favoritism extended to them. He contended that the other universities he named were quite as capable of producing the men qualified for the places now to be filled, as were Oxford or Cambridge, and that it was unfair, and insinuated a gross disparagement of the other universities of the United Kingdom to exclude their graduates from honorable competition. The excellence of Oxford and Cambridge was understood to be their special mastery of classics or mathematics. Bat what was required was excellence of a more general character. He therefore moved as an amendment that the words Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glaigow, and Dublin should be added [to the clause of the report. Dr. Turnbull said—ln seconding Mr Fraser's amendment about our determination to select our masters only from Oxford and Cambridge—--1 really do think thi3 a most grave injustice to the Universities of Scotland and Ireland. If the words at Oxford or Cambridge, were omitted, it would not necessarily prevent the referees selecting from those two Universities, but it would do two things —it would ttrow open the contest to graduates of all Universities in a fair manner, and it would prevent us stamping as'necessarily defective the graduates of tbe allied kingdoms. I say in dealing with public money, we have no right to cast so grave a s'ur, so ill advised and wholly unnecessary a slur, upon the countries o" men who have some small right equally with Englishmen to the proprietorship of this College. You are about to advertise in all the great English papers that Scotland and Ireland do not possess scholars good enough for us. I protest against our action being confined tj Oxford or Cambridge, and therefore move that the words Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, or Dublin be added. After some discussion the amendment was lost. The ReV. Charle3 Fraser then moved—" That the names of Professor Jabins, of the London University, and Dr. Donaldson, of the High School, Edinburgh, be added to the Commission." The motion was lost, and the report of the committee was then adopted. SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. The roport of the committee on the School of Agriculture was then read by the Chairman, with amendments. It was as follows : The Board having passed the following resolution on January 30th, viz., —" That six scholarships of tho annual value of £ — be established in connection with tho agricultural school, each scholarship to entitle the holder to board, lodging and instruction at the farm, and to bo held for three years " the agricultural school committee, after consulting with the Professors, Mr Voel, and tho directors, have drawn up a scheme for tho examination for scholarships and for tho matriculation, and beg to recommend to tho Board as follows : 1. That the ago of candidates competing for the scholarships bo between sixteen and nineteen years. 2. That the scholarships shall be awarded as follows:—Two scholarships to be held for three years, for the two candidates who obtain the highest number of marks at tho examination ; two scholarships to bo bold for two years, for the two candidates who obtain the next highest number of marks; two scholarships to bo held for one year, for the two candidates who obtain tho next highest number of marks. 3. That tho examinations for tho scholarships and matriculation commence on Monday, December Bth, and shall bo held at such places within the colony as the school of agriculture committee may determino. scitoi-AHsniP examination. Mathematics—A paper on arithmetic, algebra (to simple equations inclusive), Euclid (first four

t books and sixth), plain trigonemetery (t<? solution |i of triangles, inclusion) and logarithms. , Natural Science, Elementary—A paper on. Physical Geography, Elementary —A paper 0~& \ Chemistry—lnorganic, olemonts of—A paper OB',Experimental Physics—A paper on. English—An essay on gome easily understood" subject. General questions on etymology, grammar, and the use of words. A paper on a set book »f some well known English author. Latin—Translation of easy passages at sight. Papers on a sot of easy classical authors. All the above mentioned subjects are compulsory. OPTIONAL SUBJECTS'. Latin—Language—A paper on. French—Language—A paper on. German—Language—A paper on. Greek—Language—A paper on. English—History—A paper on. Marks—Maximum 1000; mathematics 350, scienoe 250, English 250, optional 150 (not more tlan two subjects, 75 for each). Note—Marks on any subject which do not reach 20 per cent, of the assigned value do not count. No scholarship will be awarded for loss than 400 marks, and these shall include at least 20 per cent, of tho assigned* value on each of the compulsory subjects. MATRICULATION EXAMINATION. English—Reading, spelling, and dictation, grammar and composition. Geography—Knowledge of places, of political, historical, and commercial importaneo in New Zealand, the Brititeh Isles, and on tho European Continent, and the drawing of' outline niaps of Now Zealand, the British Isles, and Enropo. Physical geo--graphy—Distribution of land and water, mountains and rivor systems, changes offectod by agency of water, and climate as influenced by mountain, plain, and set. Mathematics—Arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, interest and other commercial rules-, and simple oases of mensuration of snrfaeos. Marks—Candidates mnst obtain 40 per cent, in each subject to pass. English 40 per cent., geo- , graphy 40 per cent., arithmetic 40 per cent. THACniNO STAFF FOB THE AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL AND' SUBJECTS TO BH TAUttUT. Director—Agriculture, management of farm, experimental farm, chemistry, and book-keoping. Resident Master —-Piano trigonometry, mathe- ' matics, arithmetic, algebra, Euclid, surveying, plan drawing, levelling, drawing, geology, physical geography, botany, zoology, meteorology, microscopy, to bo taught hereafter as shall be arranged. Veterinary Snrgoon—Teterinary science. After some discussion the report was adopted. THE SEAT, OP THE BOARD. Mr P. de c.Malet moved —"That tho new seal bo adopted, and the old seal hitherto used by the College bo forthwith destroyed." Seconded by Dr. Coward and agreed to. E3TATES COMMITTEE. The report of this committee was read and adopted. The Board adjourned Tat midnight until 11 o'clock on Thursday morning, 10th ihst.