WANGANUI EDUCATION BOARD.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 23 October 1915, Page 2

WANGANUI EDUCATION BOARD.

At the recent meeting of the Wanganui Education Board it was rhown that the bank overdraft was .£?.tbi. Accounts passed for payment amouated to £3,542. It was decided that no teachers, instructors, or members of office staff shall act as supervisors at the Government examinations.

The latest reason for closing a school comes from Mcawhango, where the School Commissioner asks for school business to be suspended because a Maori tangi i s in progress! Enlistments.— The following teachers who had enlisted were granted leave of absence: T. A. Blyth, Ohakune; F. G. Campbell Street; R. Rees, Waiata; H. W. Thomas, Rotokare; T. B. McAuliffe, Kakatihi; A. H. McLean, .Fitbherbert East; A. J. Trevena, Lytton Street; W. H. McLean, Feilding; R. D. Mcßae and H. Henderson, Taihape. There are 98 farmers attending Mr Browne's classes in the Northern District. At Mangatoki alone Mr Browne visited over forty farms in furtherance of his work during the month.

Proficiency Exams. The Senior Inspector's recommendations were approved, subject to alterations to be made consequent on Department's -refusal to pay railway fares for candidates. The examinations will be held about November 15. Dr Elizabeth Gunn is still finding out wonderful things. At one large school in this education district she examined 54 children and found that 24 suffered from malnutrition, 30 from enlarged glands, 34 frcm defective teeth and 11 from defective vision! The Board shuold be delighted at the fact that the doctor has only unqualified praise for the new school at Wanganui East. It has been arranged with the Wansjanui Hospital auhtorities that certificates in invalid cookery gained at the Technical College classes, on the course arranged by the matron of the hospital and the cookery instructor, shall he accepted as sufficient for the nurses' examination. It was decided to ask other hospital authorities to follow the same course.

The Education Department ajsked the Board to be strictly economical in regard to buildings, to which a reply is to ben sent pointing out that that hail always been the rule, but that the dilatory manner in which the Department dealt with aoplications for grants was exceednigly discouraging, notwithstanding the strong reports on the urgency of works by their own officers. —The Department declined to make grants for enlargement of Rangiotu school or additions to Taihape school. Grants to Committees. Porewa, Table Flat, Pakihikura. S. Makiriri, and Whakamara, half cost of fencing; Oroua Downs, part cost of shed; Tangiwai, £5 towards shelter-shed; Terrace End, fencing to be done, provided Committee fence northern boundary: Lacy's Landing, £6 towards fencing school site; Ohakune, £1 15/ for fencing; Union, alerations to residence declined; Hurleyville, foreman to see to drainage and ereorion of. porch; Normanby, foreman to carry out recommendations, and Town Board to be asked to explain interference with school property. Proposed Appointments.—Lytton St., Mr G. J. Caiman, assistant; Fitzherbert East, Miss Grant; Taihape, Miss Watts; Carnarvon, Miss Sunaway; Campbell Street, Mr Browning and Miss West to betemporaril y promoted, Miss Bourke to be appointed acting sth assistant, Miss E. L. Piggott, 10th assistant; Rotokare, Mrs Sandford; College Street, Miss Bowler, from Training College, 7th assistant; Waiata, Mr S. G. Parlane; Qakatahi, Mr A. Dourie; Waitohi, Miss Frayne; Awahou South, Miss G. Price; Kaukatea, Miss Pennefather; Tiritea, assistant, Miss Abraham; Pohangina, Miss P. Wildbore; Te Roti, Miss G. M. Hammond; Sanson, Miss E. H. Dons: Waictara, Miss P. Clemance (the last four teachers' are from the Training College) ; Apiti, Miss Piercy, Ist assistant

' and Mis s Duncan, 2nd assistant; Kimbolton, Miss Prentice, Ist assistant; Miss Fowler 2nd assistant; Makino Road, Miss I. Hodgson, assistant; Foxton, Mrs J. Taylor, assistant: Hawera, Miss XL Strack, assistant; Taoroa and Taoroa Road, Mr and Mrs Percy to exchange; Feilding D. H.S. five names selected for first assistant.