KAIAPOI BOROUGH SCHOOL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1886, 10 March 1880, Page 3

KAIAPOI BOROUGH SCHOOL.

The monthly meeting of the committee was held on Monday evening, March Bth. Present—Messrs Revell (chairman), Parnham, Mathews, Porter, Coup, Pashby, and Howard. Letters were read— From the Borough Council, notifying the appointment of Dr. Ovenden as medical officer of the Board of Health, and asking the committee to appoint a time for his inspection. It was decided that the head master and the medical officer make the arrangements. From the Board of Education, intimating that the cost of repairs must be taken from the allowance for incidentals ; (2) pointing out that section 87 of the Education Act gave the master power to exclude children suffering from disease from the school. From the headmaster, enclosing returns showing the number on roll to be 441 scholars, and pointing out that a decrease in the attendance was partly in consequence of sickness among the younger children; (2) drawing attention to the necessity for re-organising the school, to use the teaching power to the best advantage, and setting forward reasons for the same. After some discussion, consideration of the letter was deferred. It was resolved to admit a claim of £1 6s 6d by the Board, but point out that £2 7s was rncurred by its architect. The Easter holidays were arranged to extend from Thursday before Good Friday till Tuesday in Easter wesk. Accounts amounting to £4 2s were passed for payment.