BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1157, 6 October 1883, Page 3

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The usual monthly meeting of the Board of Education was held last Thuisday. Tfle-Ohairtnan (Rev G Barclay) stated that applications had been received for the post of assistant master at Temuka, that Mrs Cain had been appointed sewing mistress at Milford, and that Mr Westrap had been appointed master of the Orari Bridge School. As the site had not been settled on, no tenders were accepted for the removal of the Belfield School. Mr Wigley, on whose land the best site for the Kakahu Bush School was, had promised to call on the Board some day. Out of 23 applicants Major Bamfield was appointed Secretary to the Board, conditional on his meeting with the approval of a Committee consisting of Messrs Goldsmith, Wakefield and the Chairman. Failing Major Bamfield’s appointment the' Committee were empowered to select one of the following candidates, viz., Messrs King, Mansfield and Guinness.

The Kakahu School Committee applied for a second master instead of a pupil teacher, the attendance being 55, and the Chairman was authorised to carry out the rule dealing with the matter. The Committee of the Waitohi Flat School wrote asking the Board to define what meetings were referred to in a circular regarding insurance of school buildings, as ‘ religious, political and scholastic.’ Was a Good Templar or a Blue Ribbon meeting to be classed as a religious, or a meeting of an Orange Lodge as a political, meeting ? It was pointed out that the same circular advised the Committee to make a charge for the use of the rooms, to meet the expenses of insuring and to repair damages, and after some conversation it was decided to allow the Committee to interpret the circular for themselves. An application for the appointment of a pupil teacher at Waitohi Flat School was acceeded to. The Temuka School Committee wrote requesting the Board to favorably consider the position of Mrs Rowe, who had been a long t : me in the school, in any rearrangement of the staff necessitated by the school becoming a District High School. Also for the appoint ment of a second master of higher status and at a higher salary than the one now about to leave.

The question of the staff of District High Schools having been referred to a Committee whose recommendations had not yet been considered, both questions were deferred till next meeting, the Chairman in the meantime to make the best provisions ho can for a temporary second master

An application was received form the Geraldine Flat Committee for the erection of a teacher’s residence, the master at present having to live a mile from the school in an unsuitable house. It was decided that nothing could possibly be done in the matter until t!ie next building grant is received A grant of £2 was made to the South Qrqxi Committee for- repairs to windows of qf master’s house and to plaster qf coiling in the schoolroom

The Gapes’ Valley Committee applied for some new desks, a blackboard, and three maps, and these were ordered to be supplied as soon as possible.

Flies and bugs, beetles, insects, roadies, an Is, bedbugs, rats, mice, gophers, jackrabbits, cleared out by ‘Bmigh on Bats.’ Moses, Moss and 00, Sydney, General Agents. 3