EDUCATION BOARD JOTTINGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 182, 23 July 1908, Page 3

EDUCATION BOARD JOTTINGS.

The chairman of the Tongaporutu School Committee wrote to the Education Board drawing attention once more to the insanitary state of the teacher's residence. It is so bad that the teachers wife has gone away with the family until (he summer.

The Tataraimnka school teacher forwarded the followinjj plaint:—"The colonial oven in tin* resilience is in very bad condition, so bad. indeed, that' Miss Ahmoi-i! uses a hilly for roasting meat in." The Board authorised the installation of a modern cooking range. The Education Hoard-lias given the truant ins|ieclor |ienuission to appeal against the decision of the .lustices in the case brought by him against 1!. ICnrotli under the School Attendance Act. charging liini with not having sent regularly to school a child named Clarence Allen, who was living with him. Mr. Knvoth denied being the guardian of the child, although his name was so entered upon the admission register at th? West Knd school. He pleaded that the child was only staying with him, ami that therefore he was not responsible for its education. The Justices dismissed the information. The truant inspector, writing to the Board, points out that if the .lustices' ruling is correct the Act is practically useless, as any person could evade (he Act by sending his children to stav at a friend's house.

St. Michael's Square, in front of the Technical School, is lieing fenced with' posts and wire. There will be brick and plastered piers and iron gates at the foot of the concrete steps, and at the Pendavves-streot comer' picket gates and square-dressed posts and caps.