EDUCATION BOARD.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 289, 12 September 1874, Page 3

EDUCATION BOARD.

The ordinary 'monthly meeting of the Education -Board- took place on Tuesday last; present—His" Honor the*Superin-' tendent, Messrs/ Reid, Turnbull, and -Stout.. £'■ ■:......-:: -

Several claims for repairs to school buildings were 'approved. The applications 'to raise the status., at Hyde, Gummies' Bush, Clifton, and Pp akaio were deferred. Several applications in r . reference; -;to, school. -buildings were referred to thfi_. Executive. Proposed regulations for the examination and classification, and -payment of pupil teachers, •.and a syllabus showing the course, of in- • struction for- -Provincial schools, with directions and recommendations relating to them/w'ere'qrdered to be printed and to tie brought'up' for consideration at an adjourned meeting to beheld on the 16th. ' 'ji BT. BATHAnS. An application was received-from St. Bathans School- Committee asking that the.amount of £6O, formerly voted for the erection of a wooden building therefor school purpose's, should be increased to £l5O. as'they proposed erecting a. stone building*' which .they considered would be suitable to "the requirements of the district. • '

-The Chairman : Will they put up the new building on the present site ? The , Secretary presumed that they would do so-

The-Chairman: The Koman Catholics are' starting^a schcol there. They took away about,half the children. Do you know what the attendance is at present at this school ? >

The Secretary : There were 25 present at the end of last year, and 29 during 1872. - ' The Chairman : I do not think we are warranted "in putting up a new schoolhouse there at present.

• The Secretary : .The present building is a very" old one, and was never very efficient. - You might refer the matter to the Government." -

The suggestion of the Secretary was acted upon, and the matter was accordingly referred to the Government.

Th,e other business presents features of no local interest.