CANTERBURY EDUCATION BOARD.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1929, Page 2

CANTERBURY EDUCATION BOARD.

The monthly meeting was held on Friday at Christchurch of the Canterbury Board of Education, when there were present Messrs R. AVild (chairman), AV. A. Banks, J. AA 7 . Preen, G. AA 7 . Armitage, J. G. Gow, AA 7 . H. AVinsor, N. Johnson, T. Hughes, E. H. Andrews, AV. P. Spencer, and H. J. Bignell.

Appointments confirmed included Greymouth, Miss G. T. Charles,, assist-ant-mistress. .1 ,

'Resignations accepted included— Arabura Road, Mr.J. AA 7 , Maloney, headmaster (retiring). ’it was resolved to send letters of ap predation to Mr J. AA 7 . Maloney (Arahilira rcjad), and Mr AA 7 . G. Cookson (AA 7 oolston), tvho are retiring after long service.'

A. letter was received from the Der partment approving a grant, for the erection of, an, open-air classroom at Launston.

The Chairman and the Secretary were authorised to arrange for the closing of the Upper Kokatahi School, the institution df a, conveyance contract, and the staffing, of the lower school as a central School when the necessary information came to hand regarding the cost of the bus service.

BUILDINGS COMMITTEE. ' Blackball.—A letter was received from . the Department approving a grant for the .acquisition of a new site comprising 5 acres, Greymouth.—The. Deaprtment wrote advising that the Hon. Alinister and the Director of Education will be in Christchurch towards the end of November or the beginning of December and will take the opportunity of discussing with the Board the matter of additional accommodation at Greymouth'.

HOKITIKA.—A letter was received from Air S. 0. V. Holley, Hokitika, enquiring whether the Board contemplates selling the school site of one acre. It was resolved that the matter he left in the hands of the Chairman of the Board, with power to act. ■ Taylorville.—The Department intimated that a grant had been approved to enable the Board to subdivide the larger room in the school-by means of a partition in order to provide a room for each teacher on the staff.

The foreman’s report for the month was received and adopted:— Blaketown.—Authority given for the painting of the shelter-shed at*a convenient opportunity. Hokitika.—Authority given for painting of interior and exterior of South Spit School recently removed to Hokitika for the accommodation of the commercial classes. Huatapu.—'School building and outoffices to be painted on completion of repairs. Humphreys.—Visiting members to "West Coast District to consider a tenant’s application for the provision of a washhouse at the residence. 'Hie Agricultural Instructor (W. H. Johnston) in the course of his report stated:— The most successful school gardens visited by me during the current month are at Southbridge, Leeston, Lyndhurst, Eiffelton in Canterbury, and on the Coast (I have still quite a number to visit) Barrytown, Humphreys, Woodstock, Koiterangi Upper, and Hokitika. It is pleasing to note that Taylorville has got its plot fenced and is doing good work both out of school and in class. The garden at Barrytown is a model of neatness both in its experimental and ornamental plots. At Eiffelton the teacher and pupils, supported by the school committee, are doing not only splendid work in a poor shingly soil, but are also beautifying the school surroundings by rustic fences built in a workmanship-like way. Under the leadership off Mr Partridge, the headmaster, the Hokitika grounds have been transformed from a wilderness of rushes into grassy lawns bordered by pleasing flower borders.