S.C. BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2709, 8 September 1894, Page 2

S.C. BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Tjbe monthly meeting of the South Canterbury Board of Education was held on Thursday. Present:—Mr S. W. Goldsmith (chrirman), Revs. G. Barclay and J. White, Messrs M. Gray, J. Jackson and VV. B. Howell. chaibman's statement. The chairman stated that since the previous meeting the resignations had been received of Mr Goldstone and Mr Hawkes, who had accepted other appointments in the district. Another teacher sent in her resignation, but it was cancelled at the request of the committee with her request. Mr Mulvahill had been written to asking if he would give up the lease of the other - nine acres included in the Te Moana school site. The lease has seven years to run, but the Government could resume on giving twelve months' notice to the tenant. Perhaps the board would approach the Government on the subject. ABUNDEi. Mr Earclay, on behalf of a committee appointed to visit Arundel to inquire into conflicting claims regarding the school, reported that the committee visited Arundel on August 20th, and met a large number of persons interested in the school. The present school is so situated that to shift it to Arundel would simply convenience one set of children at the expense of the other; one portion would have the Bchool at their doors, while another, about half the whole, would be seriously inconvenienced, some of them cut off altogether. The Arundel children were not so badly off, as some of them are within two miles of the Bchool, while two or three may have to walk 2} miles. To establish at present a second school at Arundel would be to have two weak aided schools within a distance of less than two miles, a very expensive procedure on the part of the board. But should by and by the population of the village settlement grow numerous, the board may find it expedient to make some special arrangement on their behalf. The committee concurred in the opinion that the present school stands in need of' immediate enlargement.—The report was adopted. NEW SCHOOLS WANTED. The Rev. G. Barclay reported an interview he had had with residents at Eapua (seven miles from Waimate), and Pareora Village Settlement, where new schools were asked for. He pointed oat that the board had no funds available for building, and asked his hearers to apply to the board for conveyances to cany their children to the nearest schools, but they would not hear of it. It was decided after a long discussion that the board could not build at present, but it was resolved that school districts be proclaimed at Pareora and Kapua. APPOINTMENTS. A long discussion took place over the appointment of'a teacher to Upper Otaio school. The committee selected two candidates, first Misa Alley, E 4, now in a North Canterbury school, and Miss Bruce, D 3, a South Canterbuay teacher. It was eventually carried by three to two that Miss Bruce be given tbe appointment, the dissentients being Messrs Jackson and Howell. The resolution stated that it is to be understood that j Miss Bruce occupies the residence.

Mr H. Mclntyre (Hakateramea) was appointed to Upper Waitohi.

The Bangitata Station Committee recommended Mr McLeod (uncertificated) of Burke's Pass, with Mr Irwin, of Bangitata Sou th, second. The committee bad been requested (but not directed) to select a female teacher, but this they declined to do. Neither of the candidates nominated was named among the Inspector's selections. A petition was received from parents asking that Mr Irwin be appointed, and Mr Winter, a member of the committee, waited on the board in support of this. The result of long deliberation was a resolution requesting the committee to reconsider their recommendation.

The Arundel Committee wrote asking the Board to cancel the appointment of Master S. E. Meredith as pupil teacher, as the name had been sent in by mistake, and recommended Miss Mary Wharton. —The appoiutment having been made, the board did not see its way to retrace the step, and resolved to inforn the oommittee to that effect. ALLEGED FORGERY. Correspondence was received from the Post Office, Wellington, regarding a certificate presented by a candidate for a situation in the Post Office, purporting to be signed by the late Mr Bryars, formerly master of the Temuka school, and setting forth th'<t the candidate had passed the Sixth Standard. The certificate was found to be a forgery, and the Board was asked to institute a prosecution, The secretary stated that a note on one of the letters said this was the second instance from Canterbury. The board declined to take the onus of prosecuting.

COMMITEES' CORRESPONDENCE,

Among the committees' correspondence received was the following : Gapes's Valley asked that the coal house bo shifted close to the school and a door opened into it, tho committee to bear the expenses,—Agreed to.

Temuka asked for a refund of £5 incurred for repairs.—-Claim repudiated aa the Board had not been consulted about the expenditure, and there wm nothing urgent about it. FINANCIAL. In reply to a question the secretary stated that there was only £62 in the bank that day, with some cheques out-, standing to a larger amount. The building fund was now in debt to the maintenance account £1574. .The board. had fixed £I2OO as the limit of such borrowing, but the limit had been exceeded by orders for expenditure given from time to time. SfANDABD BXAHIirAXIONS.'

Reports by the Inspector were received on the standard examination of the Blackburn, Kingsdown, Claremont,Sear down, Fairview, Washdkye, St. Andrews,, Wai-iti, and Upper Waitohi Schools. Tha results were : presented in the form provided by the recent new regulations, which sets forth the number on the roll, number presented, and number passed in each class. The first and second standard children are now examined by the master and advanced by him, the Inspector also examining and approving the advanoes. The ** class subjects" and "additional subjeots " are estimated for each standard. The Inspector had to be celled in to explain some facta of the numerical statement of results on the form supplied by the department, and a member remarked that the figures were rather more pusxling and misleading than the old forma were. The Inspector said the regulations '' regarding the examination of standards 1 and 2 did not relieve the Inspectors much if at aU. The headmaster was to t pass up the children, but the Inspector'' was to show in his report what was the " condition of the classes in different subjects, and give his opinion of the - discretion in passing the children on or otherwise. Yet he. must not revene any any of the master's decisions. The reports were ordered to be sent on to the respective oommittees. -