S.C. BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2289, 5 December 1891, Page 3

S.C. BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The monthly meeting of the Board of Education was held on Thursday. Prosent—Mr S. W. Goldsmith (chairman), Rev. T., J. Smyth, Messrs Pearpoint, Rhodes, Storey, Talbot, Jackson, Howell, and Gray. Members expressed their pleasure at seeing Mr Jackson back again, after an absence from several meetings in consequence of his accident. chairman’s statement. The chairman stated that since last meeting Miss Menziea, of Kakahu Bush, had resigned. A plan of the Te Moana site had been sent to the Land Office with a request that the site be reserved for the school at the next leasing of the reserve. The building grant for the year had been received, the amount being £1260.

Bt reply to Mr Storey it waa stated N that the grant had been anticipated, as [usual, to the extent of £7OO. Mr Talbot said the grant waa scarcely sufficient to keep the buildings in repair, to say nothing about building, or making additions. The board were utterly unable to provide for the increase in the number of children, and also to keep the buildings together. Mr Howell said the Department did not seem to take it in that it must cost money to keep the buildings in repair. He feared it was working towards a local rate for the support of the schools; it seemed that the Government were trying to drive them to it.

Mr Jackson said this year’s grant only meant about £2O to each school. Mr. Talbot reckoned the buildings must have cost £20,000, and making a moderate allowance of ten per cent for repairs, there, was £2OOO at once. It was resolved, on the motion of Messrs Talbot and Gray—“ That the Minister for Education be. informed that this board will find it utterly imposible out of the building grant just announced, £1260;- to keep the present school buildings and residences in repair, and at the same make provision to meet increased demand forfurther school accommodation. The number-of .-school building, which are‘mainly of wood, exceed 100, and the Minister will therefore see that the whole would , be absorbed in maintaining existing buildings, especially when it is pointed out that from want of fundsOKitherto the buildings are at present much, in need of repairs, painting etc.:. • Under : these, circumstances the board would; respectfully ask for an enlargement of. the grant by at least £1600.” ' • * The architect, Mr West reported that the contract 'for Te Moana school was proceeding satisfactorily. Tenders for distempering .and painting at Temuka would be in by the 14th inst. He submitted a plan for additions at Waimataitai, deviating from the original design, to allow of windows being put in the present end of the infants’ room to letin the afternoon sun. The chairman and Messrs Jackson, Gray, and Pearpomt, were appointed a building committee; and the committee were empowered to have distempering and fainting required at Temuka and Waimate done, and to have alternative plans and specifications (for wood and brick) for additions to Waimataitai. . : examination reports. Reports by the Inspector on the examinations of the following schools were received and ordered to be sent to the respective committees, (A, roll number; B, percentage of passes; O, of failures; 'I D, 'of class subjects; E, additional

jTfite inspector sent in a memo, that the per coutage of failure# at Winchester School, at last meeting, should ; Jim hew* 32, npt 34. ,

committees’ correspondence. The Sutherlands Committee asked for a grant for repairs of fittings in residence, damaged through the carelessness of the late teacher. —£3 was granted. Mr Smyth moved and it was carried — « That in future all teachers employed by the board be required to sign an agreement that during their occupancy of the school residences they shall keep and hand them over at the termination of their occupancy in equally good order to that in which they received them, ordinary wear and tear excepted. And that the secretary be empowered to retain a month’s pay from the teacher pending the receipt of a certificate from the chairman of the committee that the agreement has been fulfilled.” * The Waitohi bommittee wrote respecting the report on the examination. —The teacher to be communicated with. Requests for repairs, painting, etc., from Rangitata station, Washdyke, and Waimataitai, were referred to the building committee. Rangitira was allowed £1 to fence small birds out of the roof of the school. SCHOLARSHIPS EXAMINATION, The scholarships committee fixed the examinations for 6th January, candidates to send in their names by the 12th inst. At the request of the committee the board resolved to defer their next meeting till the third Thursday in January (21st) in order to receive the report on the examinations before the February meeting. ANNUAL ELECTION.; It was stated that the members to retire next April (eligible for re-election) will.be Messrs Goldsmith, Jackson, and Rhodes. The election to fill the vacancies requires the committees to nominate in January. MONEY ORDERS. The chairman mentioned a case of a teacher who was in the habit of giving orders on the office, for payment of small sums of money, with “ please pay and stop it out of my salary.” The board decided that this kind of thing cannot be allowed. This was all the business.

>K*narks) : — • School A B 0 D E Arundel... 29 44 7 62 50 Hook 25 44 45 45 24 Orari South 105 60 10 56 71 Otaio Upper ... 38 44 22 63 68 Rangltata Id. ... 18 22 56 48 42 Redcliff 27 26 56 55 30 Teniuka... 325 41 22 61 81 Waimataitai 286 48 14 69 80 Waimate ... 519 63 5 74 74