Board of Education.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2936, 28 June 1888, Page 2

Board of Education.

The monthly meeting of the Board of Education was held yesterday morningand wasattemled by Messrs H Bunny (in the chair), W. C. Buchanan, A. W, Brown, 6. Bectham, J, Young, F. H. Fraser, Dr Newman, and Rev J. Patereon. Miss E. M. Gurr tendered her resignation as a pupil teacher in Mount Cook Infants' School, The resignation was accepted. A letter was read from Mrs Llewellyn offering to lease the old school site at Porirua for five years at a rental of £2O per annum, she to have the right to purchase the property for -£2OO. The Board decided rat to acoept the ofter. A The Education Department wrote offering for sale copies of a diagram gymnastic exercises arranged by M. d% Mey. The Board decided to procure 50 copies, and to ask that they should be supplied free of charge, as the dia« gram was prepared by their own inRtructov. The Tinui Committee asked |>oi;tn((j

sion to oxtoml tho midwinter holidays and shorten the Christmas vacation ! proportionately. This was agreed to. \ The Greytown Committee applied for j a new board and easel. It was resolved ji to ask them to explain what had lie- jj como of all the other boards and easels, j Plans of tho now school at tliej Palnatua settlement wero approved, I and it was decided to call for fresh ( lenders fur the election of the litiilding as soon as the site had been clouted by the settlers. The appointment of a sewing teacher at .Kaiwarra was deferred until the new regulations are considered. Tho sum of -£5 was voted towards tho erection of a shelter shed at Kaitoke. The sum of £8 was voted for a similar purpose at Wadcstown, An application from \V. L. Morison for an increase of salary as teacher in the School of Design, was referred to tho Committee of that institution. —• Post.