S.C. BOARD OF EDUCATION.'

Temuka Leader, Issue 1924, 3 August 1889, Page 1

S.C. BOARD OF EDUCATION.'

The monthly meeting, of the board was held on Wednesday in the BoardV offices. Present Messrs 'Goldbmitfr ( chairman), R, H. Pearpoint',' J.' Jackson, Melville Gray, arid’ ft .A. Barker, and G. Barclay and Jasper Smyth. i ' ; 1 »; ~,' The chairman 1 , in, his opening statep ment, apologised fojr ; ofMr' Talbot &om the’ meeting, owing to a domestic bereavement. Mr Jackson suggested that a letter of eondolence be forwarded to. Mr Talbot from the board expressing sympathy in his Barclay supported this suggestion,, Mr Talbot was one.of; the, ;oldes,t #nd most useful members of the board ;(and.the late Mrs. Talbot was known to several of the members as-a. (Very, estimable) lady, He moved—“ That this board deeply’ sympathise with otie of its members, Mr Talbot, -in his domestic affliction.’’^—Carried unanimously. " A letter Was read froth the,Education' Department, asking for a return of expenditure for members’ travelling allow-. 1 ances, &c.,duringThe past three years.— ' The (Chairmani stated that ' the required information bad been supplied. Any member who wished .for information on, the subject could obtain it on application to the secretary,—The Rev. Mr Barclay, thought if men sacrificed their time and business for the public good, it was only reasonable to suppose that they should not be asked to pay travelling expenses, &c., out of their own pockets. The inspector’s ordinary reports on the Timarn Main School and Waimate School were read and approved. On the motion of the Rev. Mr Barclay, seconded by Mr Jackson, it was resolved —“ That a site of ten acres be procured for a school at Hakateramea, the sum of £2O to be paid by the residents towards the purchase of site and erection of school.—Carried.—A school has been conducted in this district for the past three years in the kitchen of a four-roomed bouse, but the attendance had now grown so large that the school will have to be closed in summer if other arrangements are not made. The Milford School Committee wrote asking for a grant towards repairs to tb.e school house ; and also asking permission to use schoolroom for a dance in aid of prize fund,—Estimate of oopt of

repairs to be forwarded ; permission granted to use building for a dance for purpose notified. j ’ The Pleasant Point School Committee asked for a school tank and, spouting.— jApplioation refused ; no funds, I The South Orari School Committee asked *for an' expenditure of £l7 3Oa on school ceiling to make the same safe.— Application refused ; committee to remove dangerous piece? of plaster,

1 The Cave ,School Committee asked, that the school site be fenced in,—Application granted. ; The Totara Valley Committee wrote that the schoolhouse chimney was defective, and *| smoked ” very badly .• —The Rev. JJr Barclay bore out the,statement of. the committee ; on a fire being lighted the room was filled with sparks and kmoke.- IThe maps, etc., on the wall are' smoked brown; The draught appeared' to be dowh the chimney instead of up. lit was suggested that a drain pipe jmight remedy the defect, and the committee!were granted £l. I Mr Barker’s motion, Under notice, that!' the; additional cost of district high, schools ba made by increasing (he 1 fees, was avowed to stand over. ( , Mr Pearpoint called attention to an apparent hardship under the Board’s regulations, whereby aided schools, if the attendance falls below 25, suffer for want of incidental funds. If one child less, than the-prescribed 25 attended, the-* cost to ihe ; inhabitants of the district became very heavy. In the case of Gapes’ Valley, through the attendance being lower than 25 r the inhabitants bad had: to find a sum of”£7 towards the school. This was very bard on this committee, especially as he bad seen -the whole of the school committee Working it a gravel pit, with their sleeves tucked up; in order to gravel the school ground. The committee had done this rather than ask the board for funds for, the phrpose, and it was hard when tbey asked for a paltry IQs, as .?t last meeting, it was not granled. If they were allowed more money for incidentals such an application would not come before the board.—ln the course of the discussion which followed the Rev. Mr Barclay said if the incidentals were increased the grants to masters would have to be reduced. jTemuka had been more hardly dealt with than Gapes’ Valley; that school had lost an extra teacher through the average attendance falling off one-tenth of a child.—Ultimately the Gapes’ Valley Committee were granted 10s towards painting and repairing school gate.' Other matters not effecting this disv trict were dealt with, antj the meeting terminated. s