WELLINGTON EDUCATION BOARD

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10669, 26 June 1912, Page 5

WELLINGTON EDUCATION BOARD

MONTHLY MEETING.

The mc-rJlhly meeting cf the Wevliag',;oni Education Board was held yesterday, the whole of the members •b;ing jpreeeob.

The statement of finances .showed a -debit oalanco cf £370 14s Bd.

The! following granta were made for Wairarapa /Schools: — Ponatahi, straietc., £1 10s;'Rakauwui, nc'w aad urinal, repairs., etc., £45 Lg; painting and p'apernng cf residence, £34 10s; .VScairbor-■c-vgh, repairs, papermig elf 'residence, •£3l 10s; (Scarborough, repairs, £5; Pirinca, extra tj'atnk, etc., £l2; Hast■vki.% t_c,dr.q, £l3; Makuri, repairs' «h:d, •etc., £o; ißtmgomai, repairs to (fcixujg fiiad spouting, £2; JRongoko'Jcaxo. u.i!i'.'idy c'n amount.raised for '. grotiul improvemGhihs, £1 2s 6d; Kai-jpaoK-o, metal, £2; Kaiwaiwaii, removal of fence, to new position, £2 10s. : An application of the Rongokokako tSjntmi'ttee for filters was declined. ElU'hsidias were granted as follows:: Hiuraua, 12s 6d; Lamsdowne, £2; Martiniborough, £l. The Clerk of Works was instructed to report further om the question of Meeting repairs at the Kaiwaiwai School. The exchange of a'n acre of 'land offerad iby tlhci lEketiahuna Borough iCoumcil for a frontage of .©Oft at the fcctk cf itlia old school ..site was opJproved. Messrs Hogg and Vile Tecoromended > it'll at a Bwn. of £SO ibe offered for an, " area cf land at the Lower Tatter u for tlio extension 'of the present grounds. —?Kie tt'ccomme'indationj was adopted. The iGreytowni Committee wrote, stcftLng that it had no conumemt to <m.:tce ■upc'.T. the cppcdntimeiut of a keaduxm&bcc. The report elf the Comimitbeo which •enquired rato the fire at iGrsytown was adopted, together with" a .roeommotidaiion that ia. ifufcuto- the ohiimM "Vlsj-s cf ixSioo-b sliced ho .plastered. It was diocikk'cl that four aiameis be i>.id»nGfcted .to itlie Mteterton School CWmitt-ee of applicants for the posi* trim, of assistant master caused by the fippcyratanent of Mr C N. Haislam -to' ytsjand Bay. There, were, no applicants ifor the position of aasistant iriistrciss Sat the school.

Mr Vile drew ■attention to a report ajPj>earMig da the Wellington ncf.vGpapers of a meeting of the .Wellington - ttran'oh cjf .the Teadions' He the i'uggesti'ari that momibans of Ithei Board allowed themselves •<to foe canvassed hy teachens -applying 4for jpasMons, and stated that the only tpts'rson, who had canvassed him for years past was the father of the ycning imam who had proposed the resolution, iat the meeting, af the Institute.—-The Chairman tnutodi that itho matter was ttot !b:ifcirc tlra Bc'aa'd, and therefore <m>uM not ho discussed.— iM-r Vile bherettipom gaivc (notice to move in, the Blotter at tho next meeting. Jt wais decided that Arbor Day (bo * observed in the sehdols of thei disr 4riGt.