SOUTHLAND EDUCATION BOARDS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 346, 8 April 1884, Page 6

SOUTHLAND EDUCATION BOARDS.

Fbiday, 4th April. The Chairman announced that the follow- ; ing school districts had failed to elect '..com- -.' mittees :— Kedan Valley, South Forest Hill, - " Pinnacle, Moke Creek, and Avhol. It would therefore be necessary for the Board to fix a day for the new elections. Oa the, motion of Mr Morison the . elections were fixkl to take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, the ~ ZGih. •■ April. ; . • /'■ - ■•■ The following gentlemen were elected as the Executive Committee for. the ensuing •-' year :— The chairman and , ..lessrs Lumscten; - M'Leod, Turnbull, Matheson, Baldey, and ' Shanks. Mr R. O'Parrell was appointed .-ha'ad- - master of the. Lumsden School, . and Me ■ Jonathan Golding, 8. A., headmaster of the :: Wyndham School. / ' , '.-"%■ The carpenter was instructed to'- prepare 1 plans and specifications for a new school, to ' accommodate fifty pupils at ' OtaTa and Bedan Valley respectively, tehdersCto be. 5. afterwards invited. r V ! A grant of LlO, in addition to the snia of V* Ls!'already granted 1 , was voted to the -South^ 1 • Wyndham School Committee for. extension "\ and repairs to residence.. '. ,■ .■',-£ 1.-1..;3"^ The, Mataura School Committee, applied (■} : : for a second pupil teachei?, the number oii) ■ the roll being 152-37, and i'ecdmmended;- Ihe v '}■ appointment of Miss Isabella .ShanksH~sßh^ request was granted, and the appoiiitmenf; recommended made. ( ; \ •■ j-'ri?*^££g*. The inspector , . reported oii a 'conaplEint£./; made by a country school committee ithafy^ v their teacher was inefficient. The report wafe-.-^ to the effect that the teacher; was. dQinyv' fairly gopd work, and that ,the- ; comnnttea)§i had failed to make out a case against/ hia^X The Board resolved to inform the cbmmiif^S^ that their request for the 'dismissal of '*?s&^ teacher cbuld not .bfe acceded Jto. > : :{ - • * ■' ' •£& Another complaint ;«<>f ■ ) "-a s - similar ijia^^was considered, and,lfc being Welt "foMidia^- - it V7as';defcided u tO' ; giVe thU^teacher.^eW*^ months' ndtice that his,service»TC6Md^ia^t^; peufied.wtth; ; , •,.,.,;; ■ Y^^-Sm^M^