TARANAKI EDUCATION BOARD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 126, 30 May 1902, Page 2

TARANAKI EDUCATION BOARD

(Continued from yesterday.)

Osr resuming at7pm. it was resolved, that the Inspector's report in reply to the Teachers' Institute be received, and a copy forwarded to the Institute. j The Inspector submitted a report on I Saturday clashes, and recommended a grant of £5 to Mr Join Ron towards His expenses in potng to We'lingtoa for instruction. The report was adopted, after a short discuwion. The Inspector reported on the aub-. ! ject of Hciftic". rerommending the Board to grant » £ fir £ subsidy, to be limited to £3 in a year to each school, to nssist. in the procuring of necessary appliances. Mr Mickay thought that before tbo. Board took any steps it should see what was going to be done in the matter of technical education. Mr Allsworth agreed, and submitted thar, the Board's finances would not stand the strain. If technical schbo's were established there would bo a useful collection of apparatus, under proper ore. He quire pyrapathised with the Inspector's proposals. !The Chairman concurred in those views, and thought the matter might be held over. The Inglewood. Committee wrote asking for a subsidy towards science apparatus procured by the Norfolk-rod teacher. Mr Mackay moved that the report and the letter be held over till some understanding is come to legnding technical- education. Mr Morton seconded, and hoped that science would before long be plaood on a footing. The Inspector applied for an increase of salary and that the master of his trav.:llin!; expanses be adjusted. —Held over till nex> meetinjr. The Nelson Education Board wrot«

that i'i I.ad found the capitation grant allowed by Government uider tl.el School Teachers' Salaries Act, 1901, had been quite inadequate to p ovHe tor cos f s of udmiuis 1 ration, a"d asked if the Taranaki Board would join in a coDiererica of Board representatives at Wellington prior to next session to see if an increased grant cou'd be obtained ' The Chairman thought the proposal a rary good one. Nelson and Taranaki were going to suffer by redueed incomes, and other Boards were also dissatisfied.

Mr Allsworth said the Department had adopted a course which the teaching profession and Boards had advocated for years. The jev*ral Boards wera dissatisfied for various seasons, and it would be found probably at th« confet eace that all the delegates would be pulling in different ways. Tho Department was doing its bes"-, and them had cot y&t been time for anomalies to be put right. He thought t 1 at next aes-ion further alterations and improve merits would be made in our education syst:>m. Hw symp ithiaed with Nelson, but was averse to drying to fovea the hand of tbe Depan moot, which was apparently in the snme position as tht. I Board -it was feeling its way.

I Mr Mackay expressed similar views Continuing, Mr Mackay said he ha< tread th A '•lwi''ii!a»> l 8 report of his inter [view witii thj Minister, and though! there was nothing ia it to lead th< ftoird to spend anything over its in [ come. The Minister had been makinj verbal promises to other Boards, an< •he(llr Alack ty) would like to see mat ters in black aud white. Mr Morton hud little faith in Minu ters' promises, The Chairman said that when ha an< Mr Allsworth went to Wellington on i previous occasion all the pr. tniaoa thti given by the Minister were cariiedoir Mr Allsworth suggested the fioin should notify the Nelson Board that i agreed with the suggestion, bu thought t'-'i initiative should come frow tho Department. A resolution to this effect was car ried.

The North Canterbury Board wrote lubmittiog a number of instances in v hich the Manual and Technical Initructioa Act had been found cumwms and expeni-ivd in its operation. The Inspector and the regulations vera cumbersome ; but he thought the iifficulties could be met if they were epwsented properly t> the Department. The Bjard decided to inform tbe Soith Canterbury Board that it coniders the matter should be referred t'j hj« Education D"p irtment. The Waagmui Board wrote, inreferstioe to a case trojght before th»> Teachers' Appeal Court.—The letter U 5 j acknowledged. The Tuihore-road settlers' petition, aeld over from last mee'.ing, wa§ agaiu wnsidered. Correnpondenoß on the guhj ot was :e»d. Some discussion follow d. Mr Allsworth favoured thd t*reotion of a tumpo:ary building : t the site near Gatton's Mr Kennedy concune). Mr Muckay mentionid tint th( settlers in the distr c • were prepared to raise a la> ge sum of money for roac irapvoveiae.it, and he Board should ir tbe meantime defer futther discussior. till nest we ting, The Chairman movd that th( Board's original resolution should b< sarried cut, but this kpa>.d for want o: i B".cond>:r. The ruatttr was theu defer od, M. Morton giving notioe <>f a mo'ioe trescind th>< Board's resolution of 26il March, dealing with Mr Mackay's re port on tbe Mangaehu echod site. The Teachers' S lee ion Committee' report was read. The following name were recomm<-nded to he forwarded ti the Kaiauai lommitte" : Mr A. G Rohertaon D2, Mi-s M. A. Balfo'ii D2, Miss E. C. Riluy 04, Miss J. F Fras-r D2; to Tututawa: Miss J Mooie E3, Misi M. Brown E3. M Brownlee, at present at Tututawn, «* recommenced to be sens to Uruti f >: the time beinp, and Miss J. Adams'i was recommended fo,- Toko-road, 0 .ht-i recommendations wera thiit Mr Greei be kept on at present at Upland-r- ad that «s the number of pupi's at Huh kama is barely over 40, and tbe sihoo is in chirge of an enei'teto tcaeher the appointment of an ns&is'atit then bs d«fer red ; that Miss Tuck, of th Central School, and Miss Beut, o N'gaire, exchange pi ces. I hid was signed by .Me-srs J. Mac kay and G. A. AdUm. Mr Allswortl appended the following > - " Mr All? worth disagrees with the recommenda tion regarding the Ka'ati<i sshio, am recommends the names be siut, in th following order Riley C 4, Mis Balfour D2, Mr A. G. Robartson D2 Miss Fraser D2." Mr Mackay movtd tbe adoption o the report-. Mr Muokfiy made un cxplmation ii reference to the selection by himsel afid Mr AdUu of nimes for th> Kaituai appointment. He was guid'i in the selecion by the qualifications o applicants. There had beeu a sort o understanding tha f , all things beinj equal, teachers from the Board's o«ri

==«' ■"" i,„,iJ '4.: •'isirict «>ouli 1) ve tSe pwiVenoe, ■ •■ J » Mr Al'H«i'orth submitted t&at Mitt * Riley and Miss Balfour had Mtljy ~, higher qu diticati ius than Mr Rebtrt*on, and he favoured Mist Riley u being h lot? xl teacher. Mr Rjbtrteonhad navcr had control of or any Fxperienoa in a Hcbcol of the class, of Kaieuti, having only be-n fourth assistant in a larger school, whil» Mi»s Bibb's oertificite showed higher lit«rtry attain. * men's, and she ir:d had the neoesfiry exporinrce i" -evral Hcheols, and wbiu in charge of Rahotu school had dose good work under ad?er«e circumstance-. ' He-" qualifications wan jUttA. ■' tho.-;a « h'ich ih'.ed her fjr the position™ .; at Kaim d, md her Inspectors' rtports ,"J wero good. The Board should b» careful not fr> pliee a young man who had had no < xp»rience of the work (fa, at Kaiauai in charge ef the school. Mr Kennedy agreed with Mr AUI« wor'h'a contention.

Mr Morton thought the Board should adopt the rf port of the mijerity , of the coraimit'ne, and he underat'»o4 th« committee wanted a male teacher. The Chairman would support the majority report. Mr Mackav replied. Speaking of Mr Robertson's attainments, Ur Mae- * kny mid he was our yeirs a pupfl . teacher, a term at the Normal Schoal, Dunediu, where the art of ttaohing and orsariisition was aimed to bo t,, ught, und he bed for eight years ben an HFsi-Unr, in a large school. Mr Mack»y considered this experience should bo sufficient to qualify feta for the Kaiauai pmition, and bit reports thow d hiui to be a good teacher, Mr Miu'Uuy «aid he had carefully examined Miss Riley'a r«poits, andtbeeoaoiisKMß he came to was that she was % fifr y ' teacher. After all, however, the order of the nam-s did not mitter <naeb, and if tha Kaianai C.mtni.tee had a nrsoV liction for any one Uaohtr tbey wooll se!ec> that oue. ■ '

The adoption r f the report waa then ; put »nd carried on division, ayei hung ', "' Mtssrs Morton, Mackay and MeAJWus» and noes Mesnrs Allsworth and Km- ',' .< nedy. ~\ ' ' The Reserves Committee submitted a report regarding the position of various reserves in the district. Tfcer alto recemmended that Mr Ooortneyv request for an extension of Imm be not acceded to. Mr Allsworth pointed oat thai ''} several reserves Wf re in an tumtM- | factory state, especially one, in Stat* ford, formerly he'd by McOraekeo, and should be inquired into. The report was adopted. Mr Kennedy moved thitall onles x . ) sections, including school site*, should*!'' be advertised for Imm by tender.— -,;,'/' Carried. V.| Accounts totalling £1437 10s were passed. ,A Te Kiii committee's lett r r» In- '*•% spector's repo.t was again considered,. *"; The Inspector's report on the nutter Jj was rend. The «;hoal was in a dirty , k state, an 4 desks cut and smeared with 'h ink. -- Tbe committee's latter was ts> l>d Wived. CM

The F mbroke-road CooamitfceV letter was again brought up.—lt w»| •-'*' derided to call the teacher's attention , J to the Inspector's report. ' l ; The question of enlaig. menta rev Slj quired at IngUwoodsahoolwi.sbronglifc',i,*"' up, and Mr Morton expbieul that:/j what w«s r. quired was an a<Mfrtfont» '\ the school cap tble of Mating 80 pupils, a The committee were willing to carry oo J till nest year, even at a diaadvanteg", -A as long as they were assured a proper J room would then he built. ' \ Mr Allsworth thought tbe otly -Ji remedy was ti spend a lounitdHhble *"il sum in building an up-to-date additioix m of sufficient size to hold at least 100 M children. . J§

Mr Mo'ton thought the workoontd be carried out if the turn already Allocated, with the Bum released f«w» Salinbury-road, ware u«ed. If *hi* ! were not mough next year's building grant might be Huticipaud. ; After soino fur her diicneeion the ,' rnater was deferred iill nex mettJiif, \ The Board adjourned at 10.30 p.m.