EDUCATION BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 327, 28 November 1879, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

(From the N. Z. Times). The ordinary monthly meeting of the Education Board was held at the offices on Wednesday. Present—The Hon C J. Pharazyn (in the chair), Mr Toomath, KerJ. Paterson, Ven Archdeacon Stock, Mr Hutchison, and Dr Newman. FINANCE, Teachers' salaries to be paid to Decernber 1, £1305 9s 6d.—Building account, available balance to 30th June, £1404 6s. ~A tender of £27105, by Mr Hopwood, for new closets at Te Aro was accepted. OLAREVILLE SCHOOI. An application was received from the Uarevillfi School Committee, asking for the Erection of an attached infants' classroom. The present accommodation was for seventy children : average attendance eighty. Request agreed to. PAKE VAXE, CARTERTON, Application was sent for a number of extras for the new school house and master's residence, amounting to about £3l. Deferred to next meeting: the Inspector to report. NEW DESKS. .A Mr Schwartz wrote, suggesting that the Board should employ him to construct new and improved desks for schools. He submitted plans and drawings of his proposals, and claimed that his desks would be far more conducive to health—the prevention of consumption, &c.—than the ones at present in use.—lt was resolved that L 5 should be spent on an experimental sample for the Newtown school RESIGNATION TO MAERr. The resignation of a lady teacher (Miss Richmond) at the Te Aro school, who wished to get married, was accepted amid loud applause. ]

DISMISSAL FOE DRUNKENNESS, The Chairman of the.Mount Cook Committee wrote as followslt is my painful duty to have again to call the atfont:o"of to o Board to the gross misconduct of Mr Thos. Donnelly, schoolmaster, at Newtown on Monday, the 17th inst. Complaint having been made to me by Mr Weedon, of Newtown, charging the aforementioned schoolmaster with drunkenness and protesting against such a man holding the responsible post of head master i and ■ in other respects referring to the hardships entailed upon himself and the other residents in that district in having to send their children to the school under his charge, I, accompanied by Mr Sweeney (secretary), waited on Mr Donnelly on Tuesday morning, and informed him of the lepurt, and asked it there was any foundation in the charge, He omphatically disowned all knowledge of actin" as imputed to him, although to my own and Mr bweeney s mind, from his appearance the report had but too much truth in it.' However; that same afternoon he was again (undoubtedly) under the influence of drink, and on. Wednesday was in a worse state, according to the evidence of Miss Barnard, his assistant, and a lad named Wilaon, Several of the parents in consequence withdrew their children from the school, at the same time loudly complaining against the cause. With such clear evidence before me, and after consulting with several of the committee, I suspended him on Friday, pending an inquiry and investigation into the charges brought against him at a special meeting convened for Monday night, the 24th inst., informing hiin of the same; and inviting him to be present to repudiate the charges if lie could. The evidence adduced at the meeting was so conciiisive to the committee that they unanimously recommend/his instant dismissal by the Board. I. would stop to mention that Mr Donnelly, attended that meeting very much the worse -for. drink, and, i» fact;

| bordering on delirium tremens. In conclusion, the committee respectfully request that a teacher be temporarily appointed by the Board to take charge of the school at once.—O. Molhtyre. •Itwas resolved that Mr Donnelly be instantly dismisied, a temporary teacher appointed, and a permanent headmaster for Newtown advertised for, ABSBNT TEACHERS, It wag agreed that the Secretary should report at every meeting of the Board on the cases of teachers absent from duty. It ,_was reported that Mrs Huntley (Mount Cook) was:absent through bad eyes -granted another month's leave. The absence of Mr Austin (of the Terrace School) was reported, and a course of action resolved on by the Board. BAILOT FOB MEMBERS 10 RBTIRB. It was resolved. that this should be postponed till next'meeting, /iniffiu. C, J; Pharazyn'said he hiiwJHHfci retire voluntary, It Charles Pharazyn would retire.