EDUCATION BOARD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 158, 6 July 1877, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

The monthly meeting of the Education Board was held yesterday. Present: Messrs Barmcoat, Rout, Hill, Catley, Wastney Leighton, Campbell, Fairhall, Dencker, Condell, Shephard, Holland, Jackson, and Atkinson. Minutes of last meeting read and confirmed. Ihe report of the Works and Finance Committee was laid before the Board, and appropriations to the amount of £487 5a were sanctioned. (See appendix A.) Resolved, That the following teachers' salaries be increased, on the ground of the length and efficiency of their services- such increase to date from July Ist, 1877:— Afis3 Spencer, Richmond Girls', from £107 to £120; Mrs Bryant, River Terrace, from £80 to £84; Mrs Robinson, Motupipi, from £72 to £84. Resolved, That a master afc £200 per annum be allowed for Motupiko. - Resolved, That the following salaries be increased to £60 each:-Misa Burns, assistant at Haven Road, and Miss Percy, assistant at Hampden-streetj such increase to beein from July 1. 6 j Resolved, That a salary of £120 be allowed for a mistress at Westport Girls' schoo! Resolved, That a salary of £72 be allowed for an assistant at Cobden. Resolved, That the further discussion of the two following recommendations of the I finance Committee be deferred until next I meeting, and that a sub-committee be appointed to consider the report thereon at the next meeting of the Board; such committee to consist of the following members : Messrs bhephard, Atkinson, Barnicoafc, Broad, LeighJackson, Wastney, and Dencker:— 1. That the salary of each teacher should henceforth be fixed according to the standing of the particular school to which he or she shall be assigned, and according to the efficiency, and irrespective of sex, of such teacher. 2. That in order to provide a better education for the most promising boys in the Nelson public schools than can be given under existing arrangements, the fixed salaries of the head-masters of Haven-road, St. Mary's, Hampden-street, and Bridge-streefi schools be equalised, and that the Board give a free education at the Nelson College for two years to twenty boys selected from town and country schools by an annual competitive examination. Resolved, That tenders be invited for the future supply of books, maps, and stationer? to the Board. * . ■ / . The Government having authorised the Board to occupy a portion of the Westporfe | reserve as a site for a girl's school, the [ Secretary was instructed to advertise for tenders for building a girl's school on the same plans as the Ta9man-street school a small room for the mistress being added. ' The Inspector's annual report was laid before the Beard and ordered to be printed. Resolved, That the Secretary advertise for tenders to rent the Cobden reserve. A letter having been read from the Dovedale Committee, requesting the Board to concur with the dismissal of the master, it was resolved that the further consideration of the matter ba postponed for one month. A letter having been read from the Waimea West Committee, requesting the Board to allow an assistant for the village school, ifc was resolved that the application be not acceded to, on the ground that the numbers at present in attendance do not warrant such an appointment. The following notices of motion were given:— 1. By the Rev. Mr Leighton, That, in consideration of the Toi-Toi Valley school requiring repairs, and additional accommoda-' tion being urgently required in the Haven Road school, the Haven Road school (at present a mixed school) be made a boys' school only, and a girls' school be builfe -to accommodate the girte both from Haven Road and Toi-Toi Valley schools. 2. By Mr Campbell, That it is systematically desirable to recognise length and efficiency of service on the part of the teachers generally. APPENDIX A. Speciai, Gsants to Local Coikiittes fob 1877-8. 1. Nelson— sheds fop fuel, gravelling, fencing, school furniture, £140. 2. Ngatimoti— window and fan-light, £3. 3. Spring Grovefencing, bell, and general repairs, £35. 4. Upper Wakefield— fencing, gravelling, and

general repairs, £30. 5. Lower Moratare— re-buiidrag chimney and re-shingling, £19. ■iJ? ?« imcia 8> Btove > paiating, papering, ;£27 log. 7. 88-Valley-verandah Sting jhmpg, £24 109. 8. Motueka -1 spouting, .drams, and gravelling, £15. 9. Motupipi— ire-building chimney, lining, clearing schoolsroand, £25, 10. i,ower WakefieM— closets fencing, new desks, £40.' il. Richmond— fencing and improving play ground, £5 12 Suburban North-tank, Happy Valley; painting, Hiilside-£24. 13. Hope -closets, painting, Unmg, and general repairs, £54. 14 Dovedale— closets and pump, £6 15a. 15* Colhngwood — completion of fencing, &c (former grant), £17 10s. 16. Upper Moutere — painting, Neudorf — £9. 17. East lakaka— tank and closet, £7. 18. Aorere— clearing gorse, £5. Total, £487 ss.