EDUCATION BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 15 January 1914, Page 5

EDUCATION BOARD.

special I At ;i special iiieelinj.' of the "111l".t--usV:i Ktlncation Board yesterday, there we l -'" jn'c^i'iit:*~ Messr-. 11. Trimble (in inp A. Morion. W. 1.. Kennedy. \V. A. M. iiiiuiliui V; I!. Masters, J. Young, a:i< 1 (•'. A. Atl;.;tn. Ijssw. of a I>sence wa.s granted lu Mr A. I!. Halcombe. Till) chief business before (lie was the uppuintiii'-iit' "f a number of teachers. and of the instructors for the Technical College. . ' *!! Lite rccomm-irlation of llie tors (Messrs iiallantyiu- ami YYlicttir). the following a])iu)i)ii-mcitt3 of mi|iil teachers ami probationers were made:--Probationers: Tariki, Miss A. Mace: Leppcrtnn, Miss U S'|i«nrp; Kitaroy. lUiss A. \V. I'cach: N;;,ieiT. Miss M. Mackie; Norfolk. Miss "Ooris lx'obiiison; Stratford, -Mr das. (VesSwel!: Central (New -Plymouth), "Miss >. r . D. Moore. Pupil teachers: Wesi. End. Mi.-:s M. Lenuon and Miss A. Harle; W'aitara, Miss M. Harrison: Stratford, Misses K. James, B. Palmer. A. Kelleher, and Vi'ta Cl:ri!OV. Appointments of other teachers were made, subject to am'JliilWi* l>\* tlu' i\]\jminiocs, ami to tli»: approval of tin; mOcnol < o?mmUo'jS. OOURTEXAV STIiKET SCHOOL.

T!ie chief inspector (\!r Vv. A. F.allar.tvne) having veiled the Courtonay Street Rrliool with t'-"-Hoard's overseer, recommended, with rcu'ai-.I to the school, as follows:

That the larjre room lie divided by folding doors similar to those used at the West End School. That, all the olatforms pxcent the lwH; one in the larjwr room lie taken out. This will enabl'.' the room to lie re-desked to 'letter advantage. That, as fu- as possible, tli" end windows in the hi rev room lie made moveable. That two extra windows he placed in the side wll of the smidh-r room, and that, the fro-ii'ii; be removed from all windows and blinds hi' suhslituicd. That clipboards be let in the walls of both rooms, and that hpvola ;e blackboards be substituted for the cumbersome ones now in use, in order to ftive better flooring space. That a "Unique" radiator stove lm plaead in the part of the room cut, oil' 'bv the folding doors, and that t-iie smaller room b# re-desked. The overseer estimated the cost of the work to he exclusive of the desks and hypolatc. It vra3 decided that the work be &>*«.