EDUCATION BOARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 44, 27 January 1916, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

U NEW WARDS ARRANGED. BOARD OF SIX MEMBERS. The Taranaki Education Board met yesterday. Present: Messrs 11. Tiim- : ble (chairman), A. Morton, E. MarfeJl, if. J. Mackoy, J. Young, It. Masters, \\. Adhun, and the Itev. A. B. Chappell. Leave of absence was granted to Mr A. H. Halcombc. The Wards’ Committee reported that .t met at the Board’s office on Wednesday, January 19, and with the assistance of Messrs Patrick O’Dea ind Edwin Dixon, members of the Wanganui Education Board, decided to make the following recommendations : (1) That the wards be known as the North, Central, and South. (2) That the schools in the present faranaki education district and those schools now in the Auckland and Wanganui education districts which will ;ome into the Taranaki Education district in August next be divided so as to provide 2884 children in the Centra] .vard, 2663 in the South ward, and 2839 in the North ward . The report tlso gave a detailed list of the schools ,u the different wards, showing 66 schools in the Central ward, 50 in the North, and 38 in the South. The North ward embraced the area dong the coast from Warea to Awakino, the Central ward extended from Inglewood to Stratford, and took in die Ohura county, and the South ward ;overed from south of Warea the remainder of the Taranaki district taken in from the Wanganui education district. The report was adopted. With reference to the division of the newly-constituted Taranaki education district into wards in connection with the forthcoming board election, the Director of Education wrote pointing out that it appeared doubtful whether the borough of New Plymouth was as urban area. The estimated population of New Plymouth on December 31, 1913, was given as 7983, and the population must now be considerably more than 8000, but unless it could be diown that the borough had a population of over 8000 at the time the last jeiisus was taken (April 2, 1911), the borough would have to be considered as in the. rural area, and the schools in New Plymouth would have to be placed in one of the wards when the rural irea was divided into three wards. If ,io census was taken this year the vhole of the new district would have :o be divided into three wards, and the ,iew Board would consist of six mem>ers only. It was decided to send the Department a copy of the Ward Committee’s report. OVERSEER’S REPORT. The overseer reported re the propared new school between Marco and fahora.—Although there is nothing in writing from the Public Works Department about this school, they have agreed to rail all material free from Wltangamomona and find the piles. Tiio people interested will clear the site and help us in other ways. TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS. The chairman reported that during she interim he had made the following temporary appointments : —Stratford District High School, Miss M. Terry, txfth assistant; York, Miss M. Peach, assistant; Bell Block, Miss K. Eustace, assistant; Central, Miss Belle Allen, eighth assistant; Awatmia, Miss C. McGregor, assist int; Toko, Miss L. Spence, second assistant; Carrington,'Miss D. Gillivev, assistant; Kaimata, Miss D. Robinson, assistant. GENERAL. Miss G. Thompson, assistant at the Kaimata School, was granted two months’ leave of absence on account of illness. The following resignations were accepted :—Miss E. Sinclair ( I baia), Mrs White (Kahui), Mr N. Taylor (Opnnake). Miss Una Rice (Awatuna), Miss M. Kirton (Toko), Mrs Somerville (Bell Block), Miss C. A. Robinson (York), Miss V. Corney (Stratford), and Miss Gordon (Stratford). The Stratford School Committee wrote recommending the purchase of a block of land for a site for a high school. The Board recommended that the property should be acquired, and it was decided to forward a copy cf the letter to the Minister of Education. It was decided to ask the Frankiey Road School Committee to contribute half the cost of erecting a shelter shed. The Rev. A. B. Chappell brought forward the following notice of motion : “That the Board’s decision of October 28. 1914, adopting the report of the inspectors concerning reading books, and directing the Alexandra Readers to be brought into use in 1916, and also the Board’s resolution of November 24, 1915, deferring the adoption of these readers for a year, lie rescinded, and that a committee of the Board confer immediately with the inspectors and the Taranaki branches of the New Zealand Education Institute with a view to a satisfactory choice.” The chairman and Messrs Chappell and Masters were appointed a committee to go into the matter.