Education Board.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO GISBORNE DISTRICT. J| (from our own correspondent.) Napier, last night. The Education Board met yesterday morning, when Mr J. Ormond was re-alected chairman for the ensuing year. The result of the election to the vaeanoy on the Board was made known, tho voting being as follows: —Mr T. Tanner, 21 votee/, C. Hall, 16votes. - The following correspondence reloting to Gisbome district was read and Aneiderodt— From Gisborne Committee, intimating that there were euffioient desks without ordering any new ones,—Received. From Mr Mann, of the High School, Giaborne, applying for an increase of salary. The Committee recommended an additional £l5 per annum.—The Board approved of the increase, but it did not guarantee any bonus at the end of the year unless money is available out of the High School funds and the report of the department is satisfactory. From Mr Morgan. Gisborne, applying for £2O for passing Mary Baker and John Trimmer for Class E.—Mr Hill, secretary, said Mr Morgan was only entitled to £lO under the regulations, and this sum was voted. From Maraetahi, applying for a tank to hold 400 gallons, for the teacher's residence, and asking that the master’s salary be paid on the December quarter’s attendance instead of March, the Te Kooti scare having lowered the attendance.—There are no funds for providing a tank, but the teacher's salary will be paid on the December average. From Mr Evans, Te Arai, asking whether the Board would increase the grant of £7 10» to £l5, to complete the school porch; also, that a grant of £5 be made to provide a porch for the teacher’s residence.—The grant of 10s was increased as asked, on condition the work be completed satisfactorily.
The Bev. Mr Ewing end other reverend and sectarian gentlemen, ot Melbourne, are indignant at certain things being left out oi school reading books. One writer remarks:— Now. I think it would be far more sensible if they were indignant at certain things being left in. I have in my possession a book called s Royal Reader, which I am told circulates in our schools by tens of thousands and which beat! in improbability Nosh’s Ark, the Tower ot Babel, or Jonah and hie whale. It tails, among other tales, how a little Dutch boy, who had been told by hie father that if a leak occurred in a dike it must be at once stopped, sew water trickling through a mighty embank, ment; and how thia brave little boy put hie finger in the hole, kept it there through the cold dark night, and so saved the land from bring destroyed by a terrible inundation. The story of dame Partington mopping back the Waters of the Atlantic is always told as a joke, but the story ot the brave little Hollander keeping out the ocean by putting his finger in the hole is read every day in our schools, and is no doubt regarded by the rising generation as a fact. Here is a just cause of complaint X to conscientious believer* like Mr Ewing. It the national conscience strain* at the Biblical whale, why should we expect our young people to ewallow the secular Dutch boy ?
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 288, 18 April 1889, Page 2
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535Education Board. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 288, 18 April 1889, Page 2
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