aEDUCATION BOARD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 62, 12 March 1880, Page 1

aEDUCATION BOARD.

, V>" .AiSpepiaijhieetipgyOf the Eddcation Board . ii iwae.held yesteriday^ndPresenC— Messrs Barnu \ I .;coa l t.'.( < Qhairman^,yJout,>Shephard ( Dencker, Campbell, and the Bishop of Nelson. .., < , „., ,Tjie-_l3oacd?a-,report,.fof. 1879 was read; in adop^ed^and [ordered : tc>t)e printed. r ' y The^yeariy'^ctttt^ts^ere al3o! laid be^org' the ati§ signed by, ;'t\\e Chairman ' and Secretary.' ;. r '." M ' -'.' '"''''.. ' • /St'^tiqficaUrp^ot'ifSrfpr'iS^g were also laid " belore . thb 1 Bjaapdj r '.ahd';- ordered jto be fpr- -'■ "warded to J the Education I)epartmeiit. -^ =? . . . The "Board having • proceeded with the ; election, of three ! iqemijefs requised' Hd'^iV 1 ' the vacancies in the Board, the three follqwB.'i'ng geditlemen were found to have the] greatest number of rotes from the School' nwf^Committees, and- were therefore! declared to be duly elected :— i ■--- I .Votes. , ; , . v ; Jphn/Wallis Barnicoat ;... 23 '.''«..,. /C^risKan Dencker ... 5... 19 „, 1 ijXohii Graham ... j... 15 ' ;, , t (?The Board thenvreyised the salary list for 18i8dj hiving previously resolved] "That the -.• augmentation systern | be continued during 'the pre3erit year.'* ' The Secretary was directed to notify to the several School ".. Cpcumtttees interested what additions and , . reductions the, Board had resolved to make. • ' The .'consideration of the question of appointing an assistant . Black's! Point was,, -^deferred until the Inspector's return from . v.the 1 West Coast. ! • .: Tbe Board; o£ Examiner 9 having reported . } ;on 'the papers of the candidates for assistant 3 teacherships; : which had been '-submitted to ; . thecriythe Board resolved, '•? Thai the Upper r Wakefield Committee be infortoe'd that Mis's 1 : Laura Blyth ia, in their" opitilob, the only eligible-candidate for the- assistant teacher- - 1, shipat Upper Wakefield. Kesolved, also, That) thejTowri Contniittee' Ir be'iafornied that ?!Miss Ivate Newton and ~ l naiS;iare, in the opjinion'of the ° ~ Board~i the only" eligible applicants for the *- officeof their j assistant, atj Toi-[Tpi Valley school, and that,Misa Gouland is the • - : °dnly l eligible applicant > if (|r thje assistant' , T (vjteachership.at the Tasinan-atreet (Preparatory- . .".SChiooL- J- ;; I ! - . if ■ . -. c .... Resolved, That Miss Ghralan(l be .teniT: pprarily appointed assistantjat Tasman-street . Iscboplj and that:the in_speotor bje.instrucfced 1 ~. .>to make arrangements forj drafting some oO ./.the ..younger children from Tasman . street; - Preparatory-school, £p the room , in Bridgjß- r „ Taitte^.nately hired by the Board. ,:;,: i' vlx, ' .-» v-.TheTila^pector-GeSeral having explained 2. . Jp_the.. Board ..that, indepenaeat qf the: ques^. tion of the expenpe.iof holding; ( lo6al examinations of teachers in, Westpprt and : ; Keefton, • tijn^ would-noti now- admit of the alteration- - of the existing] arrangements, the Secretary to inform those teachers on - "•the^Wes't Coast, who;had s«nt in;their names ll_lfpltj^yai_natipp, thatthe ioardi would not " -expect them to' incur: the great expenses of „: ""coniiffgto Nel3on for.-examination in March.