EDUCATION BOARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 98, 25 April 1912, Page 3

EDUCATION BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. The meeting of the Taranaki Education Board was continued yesterday, when there were present: Messrs H. Trimble (chairman), W. Rogers, McL. Kennedy, A. Morton, G. A. Adiarn, R. Masters and Jas. Young. Overseer’s Report. The overseer (Mr Ck H. Moore) reported on the various work in hand as follows;—At the Oaomii residence the tank had been removed and a new one erected on another* site. The drainage had been attended to, and various repairs effected' Tire erection of a new bathroom at Tihama had been completed,’as had also the painting of the school ’and residence. Various repairs, had been attended to at the Puniho residence. At Okato a now tank and new lavatory basins had been put in, besides ■ considerable drainage. 1 Both the Lower and Upper MangolDi schools had been painted inside arid out, register grates and lavatory basins had been put in, drainage and general repairs attended to. The new school and residence at Wailii were well under way and would he completed next month. The Awatumi residence was being attended to, and he suggested that while in the district they’ should erect the washhouse, bathrefern and scullery at Mangahume. Hit also asked Tor instructions re the 1 verandah at this residence, for wlffcli the Department had refused a grant. As instructed, plans had been prepared for the sheltershed at the Central School and a new school at Yogcltown. In planning tiio school he had taken into consideration the fact that in the near future it might he necessary to add several more rooms to the school, which would eventually become a fairsized school, and lie therefore proposed that the whole of the foundations should lie of concrete, the two classrooms to lie built of brick. ’The floors of the porches would he made permanent, hut the outside walls would he of wood and unliued, so as to he easily replaced with, brick in making additions. The Board decided to erect a verandah at the Maiigahume losidence. Cadet Offers’ Camp.

Captain Stevens, staff officer for the Junior Cadets, informed the Board that lie was aware that a week’s holiday had already been granted to teachers for the purposes of an Easier camp, hut for many reasons it was found impossible to hold the camp at that time. it was proposed, however, to hold the camp at Hastings from May 24 to June 1, and lie wished to know if the Board would consider applications from teachers for extra leave for the camp, as the Wanganui Board had done. Members of the Board did not feel disposed to grant the necessary leave, lb was pointed out that leave had been granted at Easter, and extra leave would disorganise many schools, as some twenty teachers wer eaffeoted. A suggestion was thrown out that the camp should he held in the winter. Mumps. The regulations of thu Department of Public Health provide for the exclusion from school of children suffering from any infectious disease, or who had been exposed to infection from any infectious disease for a specific time. in regard to mumps, , it provides that the patient shall ho kept home for one month, and any contact for three weeks. it was pointed out hy tlio headmaster ol the Central School that often one mem her of a family took the mumps just as the time for exclusion had expired, which meant a further term oi exclusion for the family. In the ease of a large family it might mean that the members attending school might be k;pt away for months, I he matter was communicated to Dr. H. Chosson, acting district health officer, who replied that the fact of the contacts developing mumps on the eve ol returning to school only proved the necessity for exclusion for the stipulated period. The {'net, too, that a case might he of a mild nature, only rendering the

patient seriously ill for a lew days, did not lessen tlio chance oi injection. The period of incubation, i.e.. the time between exposture to the disease and the actual development of mump:-., during the time widen the j disease was in the system, was. {recording to recognised authorities, from eighteen to twenty-four days, tie therefore thought that the time specified in the regulations, viz., 21 days, was both reasonable and necessary. Exclusion for the prevention of infections diseases wa.s not so likely- to have a had effect on the attendance as would he tlio case it the contacts were 1 allowed to attend school and affect a large number of other children. CsnoraL Tlio Board decided to grant the Bird School Committee a £ for £ subsidy for stumping and clearing two acres of the horse paddock. 'The Board could not make a grant towards trimming the trees. The matter of painting the Inglewood school and erecting an office for the headmaster was referred to the chairman to i nquire into. The overseer was instructed to attend to the chimney at Stanley School. The Pukeho School Committee was granted £2 10s for the purpose of the erection of*three gates. The Denbigh School Committee is to he informed that the Board does not find cupboards for school libraries. The overseer was instructed to report to the chairman with reference to the ventilation of the Oakura School. In reply to the Board’s letter re removing the Vi'hanganioniona powder magazine, which was about to he erected close to the school, Mr C. 'i. Murray, Resident Road Engineer, reported that after carefully trying other sites, that «ns found to he the only site that would suit for a magazine, and that it would have to he erected there. •He would, however, take all reasonable precautions to make it safe. Mr G. H. Bullard, Commissioner of Crown Lands, wrote that the request for a school site in lanora township would receive consideration when the township was being dealt with.— “News.”