S.C. BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2160, 7 February 1891, Page 3

S.C. BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The monthly meeting of the Board of Education was held on Thursday. Present Messrs S. W. Goldsmith (chairman), J. Jackson, M, Gray, and W. B. Howell, and Eev. T. Jasper Smyth. THE LATE MR BABKER. After confirmation of the minutes, Mr Smyth proposed that the board should adjourn at 12 o'clock, after dealing with any pressing matters, as a mark of regret for the death of one of their membera, He was not aware ©f Mr Barker's death until he reached town, or he would not have been there, but would have gone to the funeral,— Mr Howell heartily sympathised with Mr Smyth's suggestion, but he did not think it was practicable, unless they got through the work, bat he hoped they would get through the work so as to be able to go to the funeral, Mr Barker had been one of the most public-spirited men in the district, and every member of the board would bear testimony to the conscientious way in which he had done his duty. He had not only been a member of the Education Board for a number of years, but a member of school committees, road boards, and the harbor board, and in whatever capacity he acted he was never found wanting in public spirit.— The chairman said Mr Barker had been a member of the board since June 1879, and had attended every ordinary meeting except 16, and many special meetings, and they little thought that when they parted from him five weeks ago that they would see him in his place at their board no more. He h6ped the board would put something on the minutes to record their appreciation of his practical experience and pleasant wit, and their sense of the loss the board had sustained by the death of Mr Barker. —Proposed by Mr Howell seconded by Mr Goldsmith, and carried unanimously—" That the board desires to express its sincere sympathy with the relations of the late Mr R. A. Barker, and also their aense of the loss sustained by themselves of a most painstaking, conscientious colleage, who had served on the board for a long period of years." RESIGNATION OF MB BABCLAI.

The chairman read the resignation of the Rev. Geo. Barciay as a member of the board. Ever since the origin ot the board Mr Barclay had been one of the most prominent members, and to his facile pen and wide, comprehensive views they owed all their regulations aad much of the success which had attended their existence as a beard. He trusted the board would put on record its high sense of the benefits they had derived from the presence of Mr Barclay at their table, and, as chairman of the board, he spoke feelingly when he expressed his

deep regret that from the circumstance of his being no longer a resident in the district Mr Barclay should have felt himself compelled to resign his seat. He was perhaps not the best qualified to enlarge on Mr Barclay's broad views, his ready eloquence, and his abundant knowledge, bat he could testify to his singleness of heart in promoting the interests of education, and of his wisdom in dealing with all manner of details. He regretted that they would miss him from their future deliberations, and wished him a speedy recovery from his accident and renewed health and prosperity to the end of a long and useful life.—Mr Howell endorsed the remarks of the chairman. Mr Gray moved, Mr Smyth seconded, and it was carried unanimously—" That the resignation of the Rev. George Barclay as a' member of the board be aocepted with great regret, he having been a member of the board from its establishment and given the greatest assistance by his thorough knowledge ot every branch of the business, his unwearied attendance at board and committee meetings, his work as scholarship examiner, and in preparing most of the rules and regulations which have been adopted of late years; the board feel therefore that they are suffering a great loss in his resignation." —Carried unanimously.

APPOINTMENTS. 7he chairman said Miss Islip bad been appointed pupil teacher at Seadown, and Misa Sutherland sewing mistreßS at the Cave.