Education Board.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 168, 27 June 1901, Page 3

Education Board.

A special meeting of the above "Board was held yesterday, there %eing present Messrs Howell ‘(chairman), Talbot, Farcie, and the Rev. G. Barclay. Technical matters-. A great deal of discussion took place in connection with plans and proposals for technical instruction. Letters bearing on the subject were received from Timaru-, Waiinate and elsewhere.

With regard to the disposal Of 'the £l2O granted for the instruction of teachers themselves, Mr Barclay proposed that either the monev might be distributed among ■such instructors as could be found in the various larger centres who should hold classes in their own particular localities, or that central classes might be set up in Timaru, with an allowance for railway fare to persons coming from outside. The latter idea found most favour, and the office is to look out for some competent expert Or experts to give effect to it. In connection with an application from Timaru Main school, that 'cerealft classes being already held there should be recommended to the Department for capitation, Mr Rare ay pointed out that any recommendation of that kind might he of a wider character, and* in order to give time to Waimate, Temuka, and possibly other places to hold meetings for local conference nnd organisation, gave notice )f motion that next Board day he would move that the Board make •ecomraendations re the recogni:ion of certain classes in Timaru

la.- 'NT 10 PLACES DOWN SOUTH

r ;e k Mr Gow, accompanied iy the Kev. G. Baaelay, visited mral places in the neighbourhood * W?.imate, with a view to reportlag on petitions fat shifting schools, aew schools, etc. As a result, the Iclloving resolutions were passed, noved by Mr Barclay and seconded >y Mr Farnie “ That a school >6 granted to Waihao Downs, -lasses to be opened as soon as lossibie in a building to be supilied by Mr Douglas”; “ that a lew school be erected at Waikakahi m a site freely offered by Mr )on”; and “that the Waitaki Tillage settlement schodl be shifted o a more central position, in e accommodate, children who have low to walk some nine or ten miles

• day. the present buildings at the am 9 time to be enlarged.’ The iibove resolutions involved a lumber of conditions respecting tee cartage of materials, fencing, igats-of-way, etc.

WAIHA.OKPMA.* In respect to A site for A school i this district, the Board had a utt reply from the Assets RealisAon Board, stating that nothing uder £6 pec aero could be Gcspted. . * , Mr Barclay expressed astomshlent at this, as they had it on ood authority that the site wanted as not, at the very outside, orth more than £9llos or £S pef ore. It would Som6 arsons had an interest in the land ot being sold for 'settlement, kherwise a school in that locality loukl invite purchasers. A com* 'unication has been sent to- Mr : | *. 1 !>„ r-- r.-.U Jilon ot. M~ iJalbot, Miu.** i,’ re ip* oiait." * lipive? . S'n‘Tsl oiimi* mfttUu’d ot minor »porUnce having been di grossed ud c&oklod upon, the • Board jse.