WANGANUI EDUCATION BOARD.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 86, 7 August 1878, Page 3

WANGANUI EDUCATION BOARD.

At the last nionthly i sitting of/tlie Board; the following are' the' [principal ianaiters dealt -with, wh|ch are of inteFest to.the residents 6i this district :— Proposed^by Mr Dalrymple, seconded" ly Mr Ross, and carried— -That the sum £400 for a schoolhouse aiid residence for Terrace End; iTalmersfcon North, be placed on next year's estimates. - Moved by /Mr Sansoii i, v seeon3ed by j Mr Ross and^CMrried^-That the request ;pf the Comnaiiteo of Palmers ton North be complied^ yith&s soon as funds are 'ftTailal)le.vv:7;-' ;> "-.'- : : .^': ■ -Y<\ . ''-"'"■■ ": X :'- i:i :' i MrDalr^plo suggested that the pompulsory elates^ of the Act be -printed forthe information of parentsof children not attending school. -:_, ::; .-- Proposed by; Mr Dalrynnple/ seer conded ;by Mr Sahsoh, and jcarried >-r That printjidtorms containing^ the third schedule of the Education Act, be supplied to the various Committedsy with the view of enabling , them to carry out the compulsory clauses of the Act. . fbilding .scHboi. .- ...-.':■"■' Very careliir consideration ,-, was given to the report sent m by the "Feeding Committee on th.c rejuirements of the district. The: report stated that the prer Benfc school accofatnodatioa w&s ; very mv sufficient fo^'thb ; large i;and inicreasingT £250 vpteiat the previous tdeeo^'6f^ißdax^^w£3qaS;e, ln^equate for the work needed*? It.w.as est^u^ejt i^hat iquife £420 wouia bere-. qvWeeoFfb defray tke post of necessary buildings, and reptirs to niaster' 8 resii denee.. A ne^r residence for the master was v.ejry heceiisary, but so argent.- was the need of school; accommodation that the Committee were willing to let the mtter s^ndover f pi- another year, when it was hoped .that the revenue of -the. Board^woiiliTso greatly increased by the • a«ccesßioh to the number of ptipils, tliat they would: see? their way to ; granting the funds -for that work also. Were. the school jaccomraibdatibnVhat it should ])e the attendence would be trebled. More teaching power vwasi also imrequired. v Mr Sans'pn advocated the•reconsideration bjr^ ftie.Bqard of the ; vote passed at Jast meetirig,.' £250 was insufßeient for the work required; No township of the ipame popuJlatipn so inadequately supplied Fith : s'clibol accommodation. The nunib>r6f children absoiutely run-^ niDg wild becau|ip the Jimited .space of the schod-buil.dings prphibitcd their adr mission would scarpely; bo credited by those not : -"/..tho;/diis£ncti The teacher's , residence trss miserably small and dilapidated, and consisted of but two rooms, ; and a loan-to, and was ■o badly m nbed of repairs, that during a shower tjieraJn streamed througlt the roof, and m a bad weather the; pdrson^ engaged in preparing.dinnef at. the fire-, place m the lean-to M;as dbliged to carry on operations unde* ' cover- of an umbrella. . , ; ; EBTIMATE FOB FCHOOL Br'ILDTNOS. Resolved— That there bo placed on the next yearns estimatPs the sum of £SQO for new schools; nrar Feilding ; one betwoch Bull'b Mill and Nanestesid's, and the other m: the Makina Road, and Jhat. the Secn-'ary write to MrVHalcombe and ascertain if a site for school purpocs, can bc'.srturcd m those places m anticipation of building thereon. ■■■.-'■• "■: .'•■ ■'-"■■ :/.'■■ •■"'.-■" : -'\ -'■■ Resolved— That tho sum of £300 be placed o;j next year^a estinates for building a schoolmaster's TCi-ideace: at : ;3?pxton,- .-.- . . ; -V/V^n-. ''■■ ■ " ";■ ■

-llesolved— That the sum of £2uO be placed on. nest year's • -estimates for building a schoolmaster's residence for Terrace End, Palmerston North.— " Chronicle."