BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6491, 16 December 1881, Page 6

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

NORTH CANTERBURY. An ordinary meeting of the Board of Education for the district of North Canterburr was held at 3 p.m. yesterday t prrsent —Messrs John loglifi (Ohairraw>)» W. Mont* gomery, H. W. Peryman, —. Cunningham, G. Booih, and the Rev O. Fmrer. BCSISIMi »ONB Bt CKAIIIMAN. The business done by the Chairman since lait meeting was approved. asroßre. An Inspector’s report on tho Eiecarton main school and side school* was hid before the Board. NOKMAL SCHOOL. The following report of the InspectorGeneral of Schools on the Normal school was read : The ilinis'rr of Education. '■Christchurch Normal s hod. “ I visited this school on Oct- 24. The arran.-ement* for tho instruction of the atudent# and for affording them opportunity of practice in the art of teaching, appear to be quite satisfactory. In the practising echoed there i* good order everywhere, and an ri.r o! industry and diligent application to ri. t hat is creditable alike to teachers and scholar*. I am mrry to be obliged to say lhal.l was not at all well pleased with the reading so far as it came under my notice. Go vd readirg is a fair sign of general intelligence aiid culture, and bad reading » j-fifsi, r reason for suspecting that the reader’s education ha* been neglected, or ns# been conducted on defective principles. 1 think that lh;s important hnr.ch of instruclion require* more earnest attention than it has received in this school. (digne-;) “ Wiixiam Jambs Hamm." It **< agreed that the report should be published. BRIBING MBMBEI9. The Chairman slated that the member# of the Board who would retire by rotation on llarv-n SI, ISS2, were Messrs Montgomery. Bow.-a ard Booth. SOUIIATS. It was agreed that the offices of the Board should be closed from the evening of Dec. 23 to Jan. 10, and that tho meeting of the Board on the first Thursday in January should not take place unless convened by the Chairman. MISCBLLANBOCS. An application from the Lyttelton School Go remit :ce, for an increase of salary for tho I second master, on account of the unusually braiv nature of his duties, from the fact that tie school was a mixed one, was refused. It was agreed to grant Mr Chisholm, who J had teen appointed to the Waikari school, ■which was not yet ready for occupation, half pav from the dale of bis appointment. An application from the Little River Bchoc! Committee, for the Board to defray the expense of certain planting, fencing, and gymcastic apparatus procured by the Committee without tho Board's sanction, was refused. Another application from the same Committee for the sum of £5, coat of a well, vres granted, sj it appeared the work was indispensable. The Green park School Committee wrote requesting the Board to sanction the expenditure necessary for fencing new ground, and levelling the playground and the erection of a chimney. The Board decided to sanction the cost of fencing and of levelling the playground. The Kangiora School Committee asked the Board to grant the sum of £25 for the erection of a wash-house and for repairs to the master’s house.

The Beard resolved that they could only grant the sum required for repairing the teacher's house. It was resolved to call for tenders for repairs required at the school premises at Waikori, recommended by the architect.

After the sanction of some farther business of co great importance, the Bead went into Committee, a; d on resuming adj .turned.