BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2402, 16 December 1881, Page 3

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

An ordinary meeting of the North Canterbury Board of Education was held yesterday afternoon, at 3 o’clock. Present—Mr John Inglis (chairman), Messrs Montgomery, M.H.R., Peryman, Booth, Cunningham, and Rev. O. Fraser. The chairman’s report of business transacted since last meeting was submitted and approved. The inspector’s report was read on the Riccarton main and side schools. The following report on the Normal school was received from the Inspector* General of Schools —I visited this school on the 24th October. The arrangements for the instruction of the students and for affording them opportunity of practice in the art of teaching appear to me to be quite satisfactory. In the practising school there is good order everywhere, and an air of industry and diligent application to work that is creditable alike to teachers and scholars. lam sorry to be obliged to say that I was not at all well pleased with the reading so far as it came under my notice. Good reading is a fair sign of general intelligence and chlture, and bad reading is prims, fade reason for suspecting that the reader’s ed ucatioa has been neglected, or has been conducted on defective principles. I think that this important branch of instruction requires more earnest attention than it has received in this school. W. Jas. Habers.” —The Chairman announced that the following members of the Board would retire by rotation on the 3let March next: —Messrs Montgomery, Bowen and Booth. It was agreed that the offices c£ the Board should be closed from the evening of the 23rd December until the I3i,h January, and that the nsual meeting of tho Board on the first Thursday in January should not take place unless convened by the chairman.—An application from the committee of the Little River school, again asking tho Board to pass for payment an account for planting trees, fencing, &0., on the now school ground was refused, on the ground that the expense had been incurred without the authority of the Board. The payment of £5 for sinking a well and removing a pump was allowed.—Tho committee of the Greenpark school applied for permission to expend the sum of £26 for fencing in new grounds, erecting a chimney, and levelling the playground. It was decided to sanction the expenditure for fencing ana levelling the playground. —A similar application was received from the Rangiora school committee, who desired to expend £25 on repairs to the master’s house The Board sanctioned only a portion of the repairs asked for.—lt was decided to call for tenders for some repairs to the Waikari school premises. After transacting some other business the Board went into committee, and afterwards adjourned.