TARANAKI EDUCATION BOARD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 39, 26 May 1910, Page 2

TARANAKI EDUCATION BOARD

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Taranaki lulueation Board was concluded yesterday, when all the members were .present. ARCHITECTS' REPORT. The architects, Messrs. Sanderson and Griffiths, reported .that the material was oil the ground tor the additions at Awatuna, .and work was proceeding. At Kaimiro .the additions were practically completed, and at Frankley road tn'e contractor had finished shifting the old schools. The contract time for the Xewall road school had been extended. The frame of the Tarata residence had been erected, and the contractor was making good progress at the York school. Work had been commenced on the Inglewooil technical school. The Wo-: I; End school additions would be undertaken tin ring the holidays, and would not interfere with the working of tire school. At To Kiri the timber was on the ground for the additions, and the work would be .proceeded with during the holidays. The report was adopted. GENERAL. The appointment of Mr. A. Nielson as a member of the Hukikama committee, vice Mr. West, was confirmed. Mrs. C. Brown wrote from Stratford that she intended residing on the Radnor road, and wished to know if there was a possibility of obtaining a scnool there. There were schools, she knew, on the York and Denbigh roads, then .why not on .the Radnor road? The writer also drew attention to /the fact that for the Radnor road children to. go to ithe Denbigh school they had to use a verydangerous crossing over a big stream. She understood ithat the Monmouth road people were .prepared to support a school on the Radnor road.—Mr. Rogers will enquire and report to next meeting of the Board, j A circular letter was received from the Wanganui Board, suggesting that a conference of two delegates from each Education Board in the Dominion be ■held in Wellington in the third week of July next to consider subjects oi interest to the cause of education.—The Board .was fully in accord' with the suggestion, and will appoint delegates. The Audit Inspector will be informed that his recommendation had been adopted, and that (the Board had given instructions for a return to be supplied each year of all furniture and apparatus in the technical schools.

The following resignations were accepted:—Upper Mangorei, Mr. R. Morgan; Kaimiro, Miss Gibson; Kalmi, Mr. Maunder. .. , The action of ithe Rahotu committee in closing their .school on account of an epidemic of scarlatina in that district was confirmed. Messrs. H. Okey and W. T. Jennings, M.P.'s, wrote promising to do what they could to improve the unsatisfactory position of Boards caused by the curtailment of the maintenance grant by the Department. The Board acceded to the request of the teachers of the Oakura, Pohokura, and Urubi schools'to have a fortnight's ■holiday in midwinter instead of two separate weeks in autumn and spring, as decided previously 'by the.Board. This is subject to the approval of the committees concerned. The Assistant - Inspector - General of Schools wrote that the Minister had approved the extension of Miss Laura j Clemow's junior national scholarship at the Stratford District High School for a year, until December, 1910. The Board approved Major Sandford's recommendation that Mr. Mackie be at>pointed lieutenant of the Fitzroy school' cadets, vice Lieutenant S. Bailey; and Lieutenant Mills, of Hillsborough, promoted to the position of captain of the Fitzroy company, consequent upon Captain Johnston's appointment to the staff. These two officers would sibill superintend their respective sections, but Captain Mills would take.charge of the Fitz-I roy company at battalion parades.—The recommendations will be forwarded to headquarters. ' Mr. Kennedy gave notice to move at next meeting that a technical management committee be set up, comprising members of the Board, on the lines adopted by the Nelson Board of Education. Accounts amounting to £2337 16s 9d | were passed for payment.