EDUCATION BOARD.

Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 174, 31 January 1883, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD.

A meeting of the Wanganui Educacation Board was held yesterday. The following .business relating to this district was transacted : — Resolved that Mr Smith, on bem^ examined by the Inspector, be appointed second master ot'the Palmerston School. We extract from the Chronicle the following portions of the Education Board reports : — Palmerston Nortm. — The Committee wrote; stating that they had accepted a contract for gravelling and draining the school gx'ounds at a cost of £51. — The Secretary said that the draining work was unauthorised (the gravelling, to the amount of £16, having been sanctioned), and though he had, by the direction of the Chairman, written and asked the Com" niittee io hold it over, the work had been finished. — Mr Notman condemned the conduct of the School Committee, but admitted that the work was very necessary, especially the draining, as the ground was below the level of the street. — -Mr Sanson thought too much money had been laid out m Palrner&ton, where the school grounds had cost more than the buildings had cost m other places. He thought that the Committee ought to raise half of the cost of the works. — Mr Snelson was inclined to think that the Com* . mittee had made application to have the draining as well as the gravelling' done, and the Committee might therefore have been under some misconception, and may have thought that it was unfair to the Board to do one work without the other. He would suggest that the matter be J held over, and the Committee be asked for their authority for undertaking the drainage works. — Agreed to. It was resolved that the funds would net warrant the granting of application for additions at Jackeytown. The secretary was instructed to make enquiries relative to the erection of a school at Fitzherbert.