EDUCATION BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 27, 25 February 1909, Page 4

EDUCATION BOARD.

The Taranaki Education Board resumed its monthly meeting yesterday morning. Present: All the members, with the exception of Mr. Tisch. TEACHERS' SELECTION COMMITTEE The Teachers' Selection Committee recommended that the following nanus of applicants be forwarded to coinnmtees concerned:— Bell Block sole teacher, salary £l5O Miss E. Bicheno, E3, Uruti; Miss B. Mead, E4, Lower Maagorei; W. L. Hughes, D 3, Auckland; Miss M. I. Potts, E4, West End. Dunham, sole teacher, salary £l5O Miss B. Mead, E4, Lower Mangorei; W. L. Hughes, D 3, Auckland; V. H. L. Long, i £3, Matau and Purangi; Miss L A. luster, Do, North Canterbury. Denbigh, sole teacher, £l2o.—Miss A. Mead; Miss B. Olausen, D, Wellington; Miss G. L. Coleman, D 5, Toko. Rowan, sole teacher, salary L. Hughes, Auckland; M. H. I. Jauieson, D 5, Southland; Miss G. L. Coleman, Toko; Miss L. I. Cameron, Co. York, sole teacher, salary £l5O. Miss B. Black, 83, Central; W. L. Hughes, D 3, Auckland; Miss L. I. Cameron, C 5. Central, male assistant," salary £l2O. —J. Sullivan, Pukeho; D. J. Rogers; E. Turner, Marco. Fitiroy, assistant mistress, salary M. Riordan, E3, Tariki; Mist L. I. Cameron. Norfolk, assistant mistress, salary £oo.— Miss E. Knox, Norfolk; Miss. P. -I. Meyer, Nelson; Miss L. I. Cumberworth.. Salisbury, assistant mistress, salary £90.-& i» M. H. Breen, Bird Road. Technical School, New Plymouth, sewing instructress. Miss Amy Annie Jones. The report was adopted. A MEMBER'S REPORT.

Mr. Kennedy reported on matters referred to him at last meeting of the Board. He had arranged with Mr. Coxhead for the lease of a temporary school site at TaOiora. He had arranged for the Marco commissioners to lease about eight acres oi the school reserve. The Wnaogamomona school site had now been located. The section, previously fenced as e. school site some jears ago was not near the gazetted site. The Makahu committee was proceeding with fencing, draining, etc., the cost of which was to be subsidised by the Board. The report was adopted, and the necessary action will be taken. STRATFORD.

Tjhe Stratford school committee asked the Board for a grant towards providing the salary of the swimming instructor and caretaker at the school baths. Owing to the inelasticity of the regulations the instruction given during the past two years in swimming had brought no additional capitation. The committee therefore asked the Board to recognise the value of the instruction, by a grant of, say, £25 from its ordinary funds. Since the bhths were opened about two hundred hoys and fifty girls had been taught the art of swimming. Mr. C. D. Sole, chairman of the Stratford District High School Committee, interviewed the Board. He stated that the new shelter shed, 00ft x 30ft, costing £l5O, would he completed tiefore next meeting. The committee was finding half of the cost, but would not have £75 to pay to the contractor when the job was done. The committee had a larger amount' due from the Department under the District High Schools Act, and he asked the Board to advance the amount required for the time.—Agreed to. , PUKEHO. Mr. Faull, reporting on the Pukeho school site leased to Mr. W. P. Hawke, recommended that, since the available grazing had been reduced by the erection of the new school, the remainiug area be offered to him at £2 per annum, and that he jbe instructed to remove his stables. ) The report was adopted. A meeting of the householders will be held at Pukeho on 9th March to elect a committee and decide boundaries, Mr. Trimble representing the Board. PUPIL TEACHERS. The headmasters of the Waitara and Fitzroy schools forwarded explanations in regard to .the non-success in examination of two of their pupil teachers. Mr. Oscar Johnson, headmaster of Fitzroy, added to his explanation: "A matter against which I desire to lay my most emphatic protest is the appearance in the columns of the morning paper of uhe fact that I was to be asked by the Board for an explanation of the cause of the failure of the pupil teacher. Will you kindly ask the reporter to exercise a little more judgment, and not insert in the columns of bis paper anything that is calculated to do harm to the reputation of any of your employees." -The protest was received amidst laughter and "chaff." LINCOLN SCHOOL. The Lincoln committee notified the resignation of Mr. H. Maseman as chairman; that Mr. A. W. Yeates had sue ceeded him; and that Mr. A. Nisbet had been asked to fill the vacancy on the committee. The committee also forwarded correspondence expressing dissatisfaction with the conduct of the school.—This was dealt with in committee, and a course of action decided on. STANLEY SCHOOL. 'A parent 'forwarded a complaint that one of the .teachers at the Stanley school was in the habit of addressing insulting remarks to his children. Members of the Board found it impossible to credit the complaint, in the face of the estellent record of the teacher concerned and of the school. —A resolution was passed to the effect that the committee having found the complaint groundless, the Board saw no reason to institute a further enquiry. BffiD ROAD BUSINESS. Mr. 6. Seabright, chairman of the Bird school committee, wrote that the committee's minute-book could be inspected by any authorised person; that Me&sr.s. M. T. Phillips and J. Rogers having forfeited theii seats, Mrs. J. Breen and Mr. H. Kemp had been elected to fill the vacancies; and that the committee had met on September 2S, November 2, and January 21. Mr. John Pattinson forwarded a declaration that he had received notice of all three committee meetings held since August! 31st (namely, September 28, November 2, and January 21), and had delivered notices to other members. Messrs. J. T. Walsh and E. O'Sullivan admitted 'having been notified of ail meetings. t Messrs. M. T. fhillips, E. O'Sullivan, and John Rogers forwarded a joint letter denying the chairman's statement that the committee had met on November 2nd.

In discussion, several of the Board's members declared oP their own knowledge that no meeting was held on Xo.Teonber 2nd, ' Mr. Morreon said the Board was being laughed at in the locality. He thought some miction should be taken that would show the householders whether or not they upheld the position assumed by Mr. Seabright. It wis pointed out that if the committee were now declared to have ceased to exist, an election ■would have to lie lieW, and the annual election by the householders would follow right afterWards. A long discussion culminated in n resolution that Messrs. Morton and . Trimble be appointed to overlook the books of the Bird committee and report to the chairman, who, if necessary, shall call a meeting of householders. SCHOLARSHIPS. Mr. S. Wyllie wrote that he found that his daughter Irene, wtho came second for "the Board's junior schoJar- . ship, had been allotted £5 only. The distance to and from Stratford (GO miles daily) was too great for her to undertake, and he asked the Board to grant I "£3O travelling allowance. To clear the way, he would surrender the Boards senior scholarship just allotted to Jiis son Melvynl—tNf,e application was granted, providing this surrender is made. ■The request of Mr. H. P. Smith for the transfer of his son's (Charles F. M. Smith's) junior scholarship to the Auckland Gtaipmar School was granted. RESIGNATIONS. (Resignations were accepted: Miss Haimerton, assistant, Salisbury: Mre. | Anns, Denbigh; Mss Bmnt'on, assistant. Central; S. Hazel, pupil teacher, West End; Donald Cameron, Douglas. The ' Usual steps will be taken to fill the vacancies. Leave of absence was granted to Mrs. ; Wilson, Batapiko.