Taranaki Education Board.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7830, 24 May 1905, Page 3

Taranaki Education Board.

Education c Bo»ni met on Tuesday. Present' (Chairman), Mrs Dougherty, and Messrs Adluin, Me Don i Id, Miickay. X'aull, Monkhouse, Maunder and Morton. —Manual and Technical Work The Chief Inspector, Mr W. E. Spencer, reported that Mr Tyrcr had written asking that a*class it* dairying be held in Stratford during the winter "Tiolidays, considering that he could cosily obtain a class of 20 children. The iidea, commented die inspector was a good one, and he asked the board's - permission to makethe necessary arrangements The sum pf £279 :1,7 s 8d had i come • for instruction.in.handwork in 1904, and the sum of £1 Us, had been granted for apparatus for hotany at paonui. , " •>' r In , 'view of 4he i partment's refusal to allow one of their instructors to give lectures to r the farmers at Stratlord th 6: fnspccl or U.Wl's,peauJSiiott.. to try and obtain one from Lincoln College should' suflicient induc&nent offer and reasonable terms** . be arranged. r:®jkreport was . . The '^Sn^S&nV ford anPlhspcCTSl tlfr Kt'pfir"Tanks, vouch were now compleleil. The contract for fencing would be proceeded with at once. Painting work had been completed at. Oanin, Kahoiu, Pungarehu, and Warca. The niU\U tions and ,lhe.Fitzroy School were completed*.

was adopted. hut a request' from the committee that the Fitzroy # .Schpol ;be. re-painted at a cost of £3 iOs was not agreed with. |t was decided to inform the Tarik'i Road School Committee that the architect did not anticipafo* any danger from their school chimney.-

—Chaicjuan's wCJ:..w ' - • - Itjc Chairman reported that in pursuance of the recom»|ed(Utions oT the comrni ttivs interested he had made the following 1 appointments :—Miss Mead,-; teacher of the Lower Mangorei School ; Mr K: Swart, W' the I'ruti sislnnl at Ihc Toko School. Mr J. C. Dromgool had on tho secondary staff of the Stratford School, and Mr W. C. Colcc" on the primary staff. Owing to the latter refusing ,!</• take up the appointment ■ Mr W. IT. Johnson, of the lioys' (Jot lege,. Nelson,- had been appointed th<? position. The following teHipor-" nry,apiioingiH^ptd had,-been made Mrs Warper, teacher at.Oakura ; Miss Jlutcheson, assistant at Oakura ; and Mrs Sutherland, assistant at Waiongona, With reference to the Fitzroy School extras amounting to £ls had been authorised, being necessary lo > coinplete :;kli(S work. As ■•grant of ill l.y, tp, provide a-cupboard at the,ww% i&seonsuieraled. Thc'report was adopted-*-—Finance Coramittee.— '■ " ' \i ■ The Finance Committee recaimittrtulCd _ ; f | f£ -' ' " f" " ' , f J , Rzr6y > .T—TJiat 'in answer to th» ftv. A, fowler's letter,, the architect £o vajuc triaoui-oflipes ami*'to : eriti&i vour 'to* clT6et a sale

thereof. Aurafcrao. That the m&U«i- »pf Jointing the school interior, etc., be fon«i«lpi-pri —whan—.tenilWi>~ are— «extr called. '' ' * JSM-WKt: instructed in the? school. j Pembroke TRbad.-r-Tfiat the architect be instructed the forms and the *#alifedr• * ' ' Waflli.—That the committee be informed that the usual subsidy of £7 10s wouW be granted for the 1 erec-' tion of a shelter shed. Whangan»omoiva- —That, the arch iToko—That ( .the be informed tfiir tlfe board,cafinOt make th<! aarfiti3nß ; lsked'-for" out 'of the maintenance grants but that application' would .tp E /tfe Depart-, ipent . ~|he That' the cofyimitlee be" asked ""partictilafS - of the ; nature and the teacher's .ie'sidence. 'Te Kiri thQ. committee be asked for.' 'fiafti ?hiaVg' ot addittap to residence, "and that on tlie information being supplied application' be made- to the- Department for ,a speeial grant. Purangi, Punewhafcau, Huiroa, and Slakahu -Thq,t f™cin g wiro ana staples for* taking fe saifrliedy • - Matau.—That the committee be granted the anourit necessary to reafcSsas&^ae'WJfilss bear a share of the cost. painting j the following schools :—Dudley Road, J£9 3s Koru JE4S- Bs, Mahoe i-8 4s The report was received aid the recommendatioih, ,f<Jopted. . t , 1 , ■ujiaw Schools.— » A report was,sulwnit,fei. by the lnepector oi» a visit t 9 pie district, in connection with the disputed fluestfan,, pi t sites at Hatire and Mangapapa. The anspeetor was not <at . all certain as to ~ the nennancency oi a large _ f*chpol at Satire, and tje therefore rwomifacnded the erection of a mojffiaWe.. school to frfnmmndaiß ,-H> jjljpilb. The inspector' Lhut : a. perpiajient building as large as could be erected |»y the at Mangaroa. The report 'was , adopted,. 'V "was agreed that tenders be let as jsooo as possible, and the schools L *rected in the early spring. '' " ■ Committee.— , Wectlote commit too i. .recowmwiD 3 ;Mr T. lllaitf, D 4 • Mr '"J", jcington, 82. ; It -Was recommended that the two applications for the position of assistant at Oakura ue treld ovor uttt/U< tho appointment of the head teacher. H was lurthei recommended :—(1) That the c air•uan 'bo instructed to communicate with Mr Ed. John Dillon Patterson regarding the vajcancy at Tongaporntu, and with Messrs J. P. El, and G. W-: Phillips, E2, .wife reference to. fte 'fcacancy, at the twoj halt-time schools of Purangi and Ma'tau ; (2) .that Mr Becker, at present at Punewhakau, be informed that the Makahau Committee are prepared to recommend him for appointment to : that school, tribe report waa adopted.

>—Pupil Teachers Regulations.— It was resolved that the Department's letter referring to the suggested amendments to the proposed ■pupil teachers' regulations- ■>»■ referred to t|ie chairman in order that ho may represent to the . 'Department the benefits to be derived from tl'u grouping of pupil teacher* /or iiiat ruction, and the desirableness of decreasing the number of examination teste ricjuiratl /rprq papil tepchere. —Teachers and AppointiAents.-~-The Taranaki Teacher.':' institute 'f A. Gray, hort. siitmutted following: resolution passed / at , meeting.—"That this meeting of . l . ->» regrets that, in many cases, if? ninca of local teacher.* who P"' " nc, and are doSnp, good work have do been sent on to school —Ho. Meetings ' . . tarfirt 1 that. those commitnot reported the re' teex w h "f h i, v. nual ' meeting of housesuit of. tlu? o» , repdrt us soon as holders be • osl * ( t i losc districts IKissible, a committee bo that foiled to * lec * ris-advertised. ■ urance ._ —Government, .SVe The generaJ roa»Bg er . ' office wrote the State Flre'lnsluraflW } asking Tor support'/- , r Cl>n sid« The letter was &■Merred -to. cration when the .time tune. —M ahoc School. — I ' In rcsponai to a. letter from ® fi Mahoe Comui H-tec i,t was dcc.dcd th Si application 1* • made to the Edu £f' fijil tion Department tor a res.dence school.

—Ground Improvements.— •A letter from the Fitzro.v Committee asking the Hoard for a £ for £ subsidy up to £lf>, for the puiposo of improving the school'grounds) was referred to the finance committee. —Resignations.—

' j Resignations were accepted as foil- ' lows : —Mr Humphrey, of Ma'tau and | l'urangi ; Miss Hodgson, of rrenni ; ■ Lady le Fleming, of Durham Road : ' Miss E. lioese; of Egmont V'illag* ; ill" Harre, of Whitangi. —Waitara School.— The Education Department notified that the grant for the Waitara school enlargement and repairs . had been increased to £3OO. The architect was instructed to prepare plans and specifications for additions,' etc., the coat not to exceed £100:. j]