EDUCATIONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 258, 1 May 1912, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL

THE SOUTH CANTERBURY BOARD. By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, Last Night. Last year the Education Board received from various local bodies and agricultural associations subsidies amounting to £l5O a year towards the salary of the agricultural instructor, Mr. Brown, because he gave lectures to farmers from time to time. Mr. Brown has now resigned, and some members of the Board thought it would be preferable to have an instructor experienced in teaching children, disregarding lectures. The local bodies declined to assist in paying such a teacher. The Board to-day decided to advertise in New Zealand andj Australia alternatively, offering £350,' and £SO more for a lecturer able to lecture to farmers. The Board has under consideration the procuring of some wood-working machinery for the foreman carpenters' shop, to facilitate making school furniture. A member of the Board, a retired teacher, declared that a single desk made in the workshop was the best he had yet seen in New Zealand. AN ACTIVE MINISTER. Wellington, Last Night. The question of establishing a system of medical and physical inspection of school children, which has been discussed for some time past, has taken concrete shape at the hands of the Hon. J. A. Haiian, Minister for Education. The proposals submitted by him to the Cabinet have been approved, and authority has been given for the purchase of weighing machines, etc. The appointment of two medical inspectors has also been authorised, and applications for the > positions will shortly be invited. The j Minister for Education has been givin? J some attention to the question of extending the facilities for frc<> education at the universities. Tlu> Cabinet hat now decided, in pursuance of the proposals put forward hv Mr. Hanan, t« extend the principle of free education b, 1 ! opening the door to university bursaries somewhat more widely. >