WELLINGTON EDUCATION BOARD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10177, 1 March 1911, Page 5

WELLINGTON EDUCATION BOARD.

NEW SCHOOL FOR EKETAHUNiA REFUSED.

(By Telegraph—Special to the Age.)

WELLINGTON, Last Night. At the monthly meeting of the Wellington Education Board to-day, a. debit of '£329 10s 4tß was reported. ■' , A suggestion made by the Commandant of Cadets that teachers should 'be instructed in drill by officers of the -cadet force -was* approved.. It was decided to- Jiold school instruction in agriculture for (teachers at Greytown from May 19th to June 19th, inclusive. . Inspectors reported that owing (to the unsatisfactory time-table cooking classes could not be conducted in the Wairarapa. Leave was' granffced Mr A. B. Charters, of Greytowni School, to attend the military instruction camp at Tauherenikau between March 10th and 17fth. Appointments were made to various .schools subject to the approval of committees. Correspondence 'was read . from Eketahuna Borough Council, protesting .against the present school building being transferred ito a new site. Messrs Hogg, and Vile, urged that an effort should; be made to secure a grant for a new school for Eketahuna, hut they were but-voted, and it was decided that the Board adhere to its former decision to re,move the existing school, though the chairman pointed out that this could no* be done for :somo months.

PHYSICAL TRAINING IN • SCHOOLS.

ABOLITION OF APPARATUS RE- ' COMMENDED. [By Telegraph — Prcsx Association.'] WELLINGTON, Last JS T ight. j This afternoon a letter from Major McDonald,- Cotpmandnnt of Oadets, was read at the meeting of- She Education Board, initimatmg that ar- , rangements would be made, for Staff - Sergeant'.'.'lnstructors, to instruct teachers- in physical drill without cost to the Boardi, provided that the Board would assemble the teachers i at suitable centres. j He also suggested' the desirability of limiting the physical training in schools to free exeroises without apparatus. TTiis had already been decided with regard to the cadets. It was now universally recognised that j the use of apparatus, tended to stiffen limbs, besides which the apparatus was costly. It was also intimated that all !the Board's male teachers who cared to attend the annual camp or school for junior cadet officers would ibe' provisioned free of cost. "These excellent suggestions," the Inspector wrote, "are heartily approved by us." / After some discussion on a motion to co-operate on the suggestions, an. amendment shelving the matter till next meeting was carried. It was remarked by some members,' that if the new theory was correct, a-great - ' 1 deal of time and energy had been wasted in the past on the exercises, with apparatus.