EDUCATION BOARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 26 June 1913, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. Ac the monthly meeting of the Taranaki Education Board yesterday, the chairman reported re the heating atoves in the Stratford school. In company with Messrs Masters and Kennedy, he had visited the school, and found that the overseer had altered one by placing a 3ft. pipe on top of the stove, and then lead it into the chimney. From this stove, after a good fire had been »ade, there was sufficient'heat to thoroughly warm the room. The overseer was of the opinion that if a pipe Bft. long wero used, instead of one of 3ft., which was the length, of the one filtered, much more heat would be obtained.- The. chairman recommended that the alteration be effected. It was only right to say, that Mr Sanderson (architect of the school) contended that there wns no necessity to make Hie alteration, and that the stoves were specially designed to heat rooms without the use of ijipes.—The report-.was adopted. ' The Director of the Technical School reported that at Stratford an assistant class in machine construction had been started. ■ The Truant Inspector reported that ho had personally served notices on several private schools to comply with sections 152 and 170 of the Education Act, 1908. Miss Stanford (New Plymouth) and Mrs Morgan (Stratford) were the only ones who had so tar made application. He would like to ask that instructions be given to write all private and convent schools, asking them to forward' a return or defaulters at ,the end of every month. —Received. •' [\ • . Mr Robert Masters reported having met the householders of the Cardiff school district, when the Waingongoro school district was. agreed upon as follows:—On the north, from the forest Reserve down the Patea river to the north-west boundaijy, of section 17, block 4, Kaupokonui 2 survey district, following the section boundaries to the Waingongoro river, then following the river up to the Forest | Reserve. He would also recommend that the Mahoe school committee be asked to agree that sections 4 and 4b of the same survey district be transferred to the Waingongoro school district, as they were approximately xour miles from the Mahoe school, and about three-quarters of a mile from the Waingongoro school. Ho might say that he was making this recommendation at the request of the owners of the above soction. Mr A. David had been elected chairman of the first committee of th« school, with the following committee :w«Mpßsrj H. Woulfe, Haylock, Mdrrisey and E. O'Sullivan. i ■•'■■■ ' ■ m The overseer (Mr C. H. Moore) reported that blinds and!Sundry small repairs l had been attended to at Stratford A radiator had been placed in the■■ Cardiff school, while atiMidhirst the whole of the outsideiofritkte school and residence i had I Keen tpaintea and general repairs attended)'to, including' a new tank at the residence. His estimate for drainage, etc.,; at Ngaere

™s;£l2..; '-< ■« H " "'« , • ' ficiivo. of absence was gran-ted the •falßwipß iteMfcwa Eivmklyn (as*Lstft;it HutapiUo), -M«S/ -Jemisoiy, (assistant, fiuiakama), Miss Bullard (assistant, Bird Road). The resignation of Mrs Riclimond, assistant at Stanley Road, cepted. _ ; . A fresh application will be made to the Department with regard to adequate playground for the Stratford Hiyh School, and also accommodation for th» head;-, master fttr F.\Tyrer): ' ■., ,„'