BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2628, 8 September 1882, Page 4

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The usual bi-monthly meeting of tbe North Board of Education wag held yesterday at 3 p.m. Present—Messrs J. Inglis (chairman), H. W. Peiyman, G. Booth, S. O. F-irr, A. H. Cunningham, H. J. Tancred, H. R. Webb, and the Rev. C. The" business transacted by the chairman subsequent to the previous meeting of the Board was submitted and confirmed. In reply to Mr Farr, it was stated that the erection of the master's bouse at Little River was authorised prior to his election as a membar of the Board. <^_ Mr Cunningham having called attention to the state of the master's house at North Jjoburn, and aloo tha drainuge of its site, the Chairman explained that the complaints o£ the school committee as to the ollegM deviations from the original plans had been referred to ,the arohiteot, who reported that what was done had been done at tho school committee's request. This w»b indignantly denied by Mr J. A. Cunningham, the chairman of the school committee. Mr Lsmbort had taken the matter up utrongly, and ssys ho is prepared to substantiate his version by tho plans. Mr Veel also bore out Mr Lambert's idea. . Mr A. H. Cunningham said that the oontractor, oommittee, and all oonneoted, denied this in 'teto. Ihe Ohairman thought it was not so much a question oi veraoity ai of impression ; however, the arohiteot would go to North Loborn at his own cost, and sift the queS' tion. Mr Edge laid before the Board reports on the oondition of the following schools :—Tai Tapu, Weedons, Prebbleton, Brookside, Killinohj, Broadfislds, Templeton, Southbndge, Balcairn, Siltwater Creek, Wiikuku, LsithSeld, West Oxford, West Oxford side school, %ew Hill, Huruuui, Mason's Flat, Waikari, led Waiau. The Ohairman remarked that some of these were very unsatisfactory, and having commented thereon, it was resolved that these reports be forwarded to the various committees with a request thtit inquiries be made where the report is unfavorable. Two pupil teaohere' agreements were approved and ordered to be completed. An application was submitted from the Lower Heathoote Sohool Committee, asking for payment of the salaries of two pupil teachers, who had felt compelled to leave their post at that sohool, owing to the late headmaster's behaviour. A previous tion had been made, in whioh it was omitted to state that these young ladies bad absented themselves with the sanction of the sohool committee. Considerable dUoussion followed, in which some oontended that it was hardly right these ladies should lose their salaries, while others thought that if the application was granted it wonld establish a bad pieoedent. Mr G. Booth moved, and Mr Cunningham aeoonded—" That half the salaries be paid," Mr H. J. Tancred and Mr 8. O. J<arr thought that either the whole or none of the •alary should bi paid. The Bev. C. Fraaer would ask the mover to aocept the words " that this shall not form a precedent." Mr H. W. Peryman moved, and Mr H. J. Sheered seconded—" That the whole salary ha paid, but that this shall not form a precedent." The Ohairman wai in favor of paying the whole sum. On being put to the vote both amendment and motion were negatived. Mr Wallace wrote, thanking the Board for the honorarium voted him at its last meeting. The Ohairman said it was proposed that drawing 'lesions should he given from two to four o'obok on each Friday, tbe pupil teachers' classes to be held on Saturdays from half past ten till half-past twelve. He supposed the concession e.s to railway fares wonld be available, and he thought it would be wise to hold a conference as to how the bast use oould be made of the £3OO granted. Caroline Woodier wrote, resigning the scholarship awarded to her in Maroh, 1882, stating tha t it would be well if recipients of scholarships were previously made acquainted with the regulations by which they would be bound. The Chairman stated that the Board had

resolved to withold the payment to Miss Woodley beoause it had been reported she - waß»not attending to her duties, whioh included attendacoe at the Normal School training department. This had not been done. The matter would bo considered in committee before the Board rose. The attendance at the Newlands and Xowai Bush schools were reported to be such as to justify them being considered aa aided schools. The Chairman called attention to an advertisement re the mastership of Malvern sohool, and it was decided that the sohool committee be instructed to advertise in the ordinary manner. An application from the Colombo road sohool for tha grant of JBIO towards the cost of a piano was declined. The Ohairman stated that the contracts for the ereetion of school premises at South Malvern, Lauriston and Darfield, had been duly prepared ; also, that the recent outlay on the infant school, Gloucester street, was £lB4 16s 6d. Certain repairs to masters' houses at Papanui, Lower Heathoote, Greenpark, and Tai Tapo, were left for the chairman to mace the necessary arrangements. Repairs, &c, to the French Farm and Barry's Bay schoolmasters' houses were authorised.

An,application from the Sydenham school committee to join with the adjoining pro--—perty holder in the equal share of the cost of an iron fence, was then considered, and it was •need that the Board will pay half the cost of a legal fence. The Board then went into committee, and on resuming adjourned.