Education Board.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 148, 11 May 1901, Page 3

Education Board.

I A meeting of the above Board was Id on Wednesday at the usual hour, , i a agenda paper was filled with ; jttera more or less important, the ■ !a ter portion of which was dealt th. 1 Correspondence from the DepartAnt was read intimating—(l) that a I n c f £125 was being transmitted in ‘linection with technical matters; I p, a t a sum of £460 was being ■warded to pay the long promised .■reinents to teachers for the quarter ifcing March 31st, and stating that in I course of a few days the Royal ■emission in reference to the pro»nd colonial scale of salaries would ■in Timaru. ■Vith regard to the amount for ■hnical purposes, the Rev. M■relay moved ahd it was ran-ied-.•hatthe Board consult tho Educa •ftal Institute as to tho best means ■ utilising the money.” It wa= ■ant, he said, for the instruction of ■chars ui subjects of a technical 1 ■uro. Petitions were received from Glenavy « Reddiff, con,plaining of irregu .■ties in connection with the rec a nt p mtions of school com uittees. —Tho ■lid's solicitor to bo consulted. ! ■joiwral nom'nations to teachershins ■ e made, Mr T’neo. Strong being ( ■jointed head mister at H'lton. 1 ■ Renton at BAkitaramaa, and Miss ’ ■Buff at Greenhills, ■’Wo deputations waited on the ' ■■ud, one from Avmclnl, a-dcing to , ■ve a reddence built, and the other ■ai the Tim u-n Main School, setting Dp it 3 claims to he raised to tho ■tns of a District High School. £ ■Tin question of a residence at v Bmdd w;is relegated to tie Building Hnimti f t-"G. v ■Di-.rusdou of the Timaru Main c ■hool’s request was postponed till a c ■eial meeting to be held on Wadues- 1 I c ■ y next. , ■Mr B irelay reported for the Building ,* ■anuittee as follows : —Alhni’v to ■ ir V C ■vs certain repairs etleotea on linlition that the residents would ■ atribnts £o, it being eonsi lured that j In floors have suffered more from tho g liori’jg parties and other convivial q lulv.-riugs held; fiiera than from their f I, by the children. To Ng-iwii was e rant d a porch at a cost of £lO. A i Inn of Tod was voted for sundry t rj'iiii'' to tho residence at th? Timaru 1 |l do School. Mr Black’s tend t ot 1 5 a f„• a po-ch at St. Andrews was L. 1. To,; matter of fencing at l-.o Tur. au S mth School was held j Ivor on account ot the hign leodeia Ixviv. d, '.Vi;h r-.'p?ct to the question ( if cnrirWir.-ut ot th j W i.talv. \iil.igo |-»t! -in•;!*, R was reaoinmand'.'d that, L;R , i.rd discus.’wd the nviltcr, [a M"fiocxs hr a-h id w'.iedvn’ they 1 [mineu plated ohtainsn' n new nod h-.ft.-i- An assistant mistress was I 1 1 fjntiU-vi. A number of matters weie handed ■; io to- 1 Building Coiumo.tce to examine and iv-p wt upon, and the architect j was ifisa'ucted to report on others.