THE QUESTION OF MIXED SCHOOLS.|1899-11-11|Glamorgan Free Press

THE QUESTION OF MIXED SCHOOLS.

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THE QUESTION OF MIXED SCHOOLS. HIGHER GRADE SCHOOL REJECTED. A special meeting of the Pontypridd Scheol Board was held at the Board Room, Gelli- wastad Grove, on Friday, Mr James Richards (chairman), presiding. The members present were. Rev. F. Me Manus, Rev. U Ll. Davies, Rev J. R. Jones, Messrs W. M. Jones, W. Jones Powell, and J. W. John, with the clerk Mr D. M. Jones. Mr W. M. Jones, following uphismotion, pitiJflM- the resolution passed on the 13th Dwf&kBer with regard to the re-arrangement and re-organisation of the Lan Wood and Mill St. School, be recinded. In doing ao Mr Jones said: -At last I rise to move the motion over my name on the agenda, "That the resolution parsed by this Board on the 13th day of De- oeiabeT, 1898, with reference to the rearrange- ment and re-organisation of the Lan Wood and Mill Street Schools be recinded." It will be the Board's recollection that a majority of it decided to use the Lan Wood Schools for the three departments of Boys, Girls, and Infanta, and moreover, the Board resoived "that plans be prepared for converting MiLi Street Girls' and Infants' Departments into a. Deaf and Dumb Department sad Mixed Sefccoi. whioh shail provide accommodation for the Hopkinstown children who attend the pre- sent Mill Street Schools, and that in each Msed Department a special class for Standard VU. children be formed in accordance with the recommendation of the Head Teacher of the Central Classes, which class shall be taught by a special Assistant Teacher, who will be subordinate to the Head Teacher of the Mixed ^Department." The consideration of these piacs for altering Mill Street Schools has pre- cipitated the recurrence of discussion upon these important matters, for had it not been for these plans, I should probably have been satisfied to wait until the next winter was over before calling your attention again to them. The attendance of the scholars would ltavs so decreased by them as to have made it -inn--cessary ff i me to c. your attention to the dire effects upon the average attendance of tbe pets' nt arrangement*. I tun still firmly convinced that the Board hae not adopted that C l'rae which is best conducive to the attend- of the children affected, neither has it ft derated, in my opinion, the best course for the education of the children of the parish in the C. b and 7th Standhrds. I beg to present to yc'jr notice four reasons (among others) why these arrangements ought to be altered. First, t'at the accommodation provided for in Lan Wood Schools is much too large for the ntsmber of children that can reasonably be expected to ettend them. Some of you will exclaim, "Bat Lan Wood Schools are at present full, and more than full." So we would expect-them to be, end they ought to be according to the report prepared by our Clerk lat year, if we include those who even according to present CJT&ogements have to go elsewhere. That re- [ftrt showed that there ought tD be 314 boys in Lon Wood in average at 80S at pre- sent constituted, but the attendance sheet for September 30th last only shows 298 boys. The cierk anticipated last year having an average attendance at Lan Wood of 317 girls. The actual number on 30th September waa 320. The r»n*i £ ipated average attendanoe of Infanta was 255. Last September showed only 210 infants- Bat as already intimated, the boys and girls departments are not filled with children win can reasonably be expected to attend them at all seasons of the year. I 'should have been glad if they had been. But at present, they arA. most of them, children from Hopkinstown and. Pwilgwaun. During the spring and sum- nyrr months I have no doubt that those children fcave managed very well upon the whole to attend at Lan Wood. Circumstances have favoured a good attendance, and this favourable attendance is likely to lead some of us astray ai to the future prospects of this school. The mctelty of a new school with its new inner and outer surroundings, and the very dry and fa- vourable season which we have had, have no doubt contributed to keep up so far a satis- factory attendance. But when the cold, chilly --tbo-,r.,wmes on with its rain and frost, ita biting winds and snow, how can young children be expected to attend school regularly with the great distances they have to get to the school. Thq average attendance is low enough in Wile-i as it is, as we well know, without our going to add to the difficulties of attendance by arranging long distances for young children to attend school. When I introduced this matter before, I clearly showed that, according to the report of our clerk already referred to, that the number of available boys and girls for Lan Wood Schools waa an average of 285 child- ten, including the 7th Standard, for an accom- modation provided of 640 children. According to present arrangements, Standard VII. child- ren axe to attend at Mill Street. Take these out, and we have an average attendance of 271 children for an accommodation of 640. Clearly one of the departments in Lan Wood, with aocozamodation for 320, is sufficient for 271 children, including, as it does, the 6th Standard. If this Standard is further taken away, as I suggest, then we shall only have an average at- tendance of 243 boys and girls all told. I have shewn that according to present arrangements, the number of children who can fairly be Em- pected to these schools is 271 boys and girls (in- cluding 6th Standard), and 210 infants in aver- age attendance, or a total of 481 children in all, whereas thera is accommodation provided for 1,125 children. It is absurd on the face of it that 914,000 of the ratepayers' money is to be used to supply buildings for 481 children. It amounts to about three times the usual rare per chili for providing accommodation. My second reason for rescinding what has been re- solved La. that in consequence of scarcity cf children:, or, rother, the over-accommodation o? Lan Wood Schools for ordinary departments, that they would be best utilised y converting the Girls' Departments into a Mixed School, and the Boys' Department into a Centre School for teaching Standards VI. and VII. of the whole parish, the same to form a nucleus for a Higher Grade Schoo', etc. Inasmuch as the accommodation provided at Lan Wood by the previous Board has been considerably too large —«s I have already t-Itowu-and as a consider- ably larger expenditure has been incurred there than was necessary (a fact which has been made very patent to the public the last few weekri), we must make the best possible use we can of tfeese premises. The -whole of the parish being sufferers owing to our financial difficultie"- fwnrdal difficulties arising partly in consequence of these pnomiøes-l think it would be well and just if the wbbte ef the parish benefitted by these schools. This would best be done by t providing for the education of the 6th and 7th Standards of the whole of the parish in one of the departments at Lan Wood. It is stated in the report submitted by our clerk that the education of Standards VI. and VII. is un- doubtedly neglected. If Standard VI., as well as Standard VII., is neglected as stated, why allow it any more than Standard VU. to re- main neglected. The number of children in Standard VI. being so many more than in Standard VII. the crime is greater. It is well- known that all above Standard V. are not posted forward and persevered with as are those below; yet we know that the up standards are those which tell most in the education and equipment- of the child for its life's struggle. In the whole of the parish there were according to the cierk's report already referred to, a total of 247 children in the 6tb and 7th Standards. These manifestly would find mo central accommodation in the present department in Lan Wood School, which has an accommodation for 320 scholars. The proximity of this school to the County School would cre- ate aspirations in the centre children which would have beneficial effects upon them, and bring about a closer relationship between Pri- mary and Secondary Schools. In the near future this relationship will become closer aa regards their management. It is already prac- tioally agreed amongst educationist* that the School Boards of the country shall have one third of the representation upon the School Management in the proposed Secondary Edu- cation Act. The Government grants earned would be about 5s per head more when taught in tbe collective way suggested than when taught as at present. My third reason for ask- ing you to rescind your previous resolutions re- ferred to is, that the children of not orly Hop- kinstown should be educated at Mill street as proposed, but that the Rwllgwaun children also should not be Mlced to pass Mill street to Lan Wood, but be educated in Mill street, the Girls' and Infants' departments there to be am- verted into a Mixed School. The time is com- ing, and that very soon, when Hopkinstown must have a school of its own for its bigger boys and girls, established in Hopkins town on the land already bought for the purpose. We may be wise after events, but it is now plain enough that if a few of the thousands of pounds overspent in Lan Wood had been spent in Hop- kinstown to provide an adult school there, that t would have been a wiser expenditure than that already made. At present we lose money in Hopkinstown in consequence of Standard I. being kept there in connection with the Infant Department. We lose probably 58 3d per head on the boys, and about 3s 9d per head on the girls. For the present I suppose, as Mill street School is on our hands, it is probably the gener- al feeling of this Board that Hopkinstown children shall go there. For my own part, I would build an adult school almost immediately in Hopkinstown. In any case Pwilgwaun children should go to Mill street, what earthly reason there is for taking these children put Mill street Schools and make them walk an additional 733 yards in order to get to Lan Wood in all weathers I know not. It is be- ycnd my comprehension. It ia authoritatively recognised that when children have to walk these distances to school that it has a serious effect upon the attendance, and yet we call upon them to do what we know full nwH is damaging to the average attendance, which is tantamount to saying that we considerably lessen our financial receipts. I make the total children in Pwllgwaun and Hopkinstown to be about 347. The acoommodatioa in Mill street GirW and Infants' Departments, converted into a Mixed School, would be about 400. Or ff it is decided to build immediately in Hopkins- town—one department-Mill Street Schools could be converted into a Mixed School. The Deaf and Dumb in the one case could be edu- cated in the iron building associated with Mill street, and in the other case, in one of the de- partments. It is intended though that early they shall be collectively educated by several Boards joining. My fourth reason for asking for the rescinding is that the resolution to cen- tralise Standard Vil. only is not in accordance with the recommendation of the Head Teachers of the Pupil Teachers' Centre, as that resolu- tions states. The Centre master distinctly re- commends in his report that Standards VI. and VII. be centralised, and dilated much on the benefits and advantages of a good Higher Grade School. I before attempted to show the vast importance of giving our children the facilities for obtaining Higher Grade Educa- twn-the distinctive places of Higher Grade and Intermediate education—that most dis- tricts of any importance had already provided Higher Grade facilities, the Rbondda and Car- diff being noted in particular, and the method of conducting Higher Grade Centres, etc. It would appear to be the feeling of tue majority 0' the members of this Board that Higher Grade Classes are desirable, and that provision should be made for the same, but-the ever- lasting but comes in—and creates some small obstacles and puts them in the way of progress in this matter. Little or small ob- stacles are allowed to defeat the accomplish- ment of a great end. Either it will upset the present arrangement of head-teacher or teach- ers, or alter the existing arrangement of one cr more schools, or a mixed school is objected to, or a few hundreds of pounds cannot be spared especially at the present time to effect slight alterations and additions, or the distance is too great for distant children to come to one cen- tre te be taught, although the 7th Standard children have already been agreed as not being too great a distance. All these, and other petty excuses—for I call them nothing else, when compared with the great character of the work proposed, I say all these petty excuses, which most other respectable School Boards have over- come, are allowed to stay the progress of this nmcb needed educational reform in Pontypridd. Just a word on the alterations required and cost. The cost of Mill street alterations has already been stated as £ 450. This morning Mr Evans, the Board's architect, has favoured me with a communication to the effect that there are two ways in which the alterations I suggest could be carried out at Lan Wood, nei- suggest could be carried out at Lan Wood, nei- ther of which would necessitated new w.c.'s. The cost of one would not exceed £ 45, and the other, the best arrangement, about £ 80. Both arrangements will provide separate entrances for boys and girls, and the present boys' school and the present girls' school-in both cases it is an alteration of boundary walls and construction of new doors. Even if it does cost little more than has been stated by Mr Evans, I submit that these vast premises at Lan Wood should be fully and completely used,and that to the best educational advantage of the whole parish. Finally, I submit that the rea- sons I have advanced against the arrangements made call loudly for the rescinding of the re- solutions bearing on the Lan Wood and Mill street Schools. If it should be your pleasure l to da se, which I taopa it will, then other ar- rangements can be substituted for them, which would include or exclude any or all of the pro- pcsala which I have ventured once more to bring to your notice.. For some time no seconder was found, until Mr J. W. John filled the breach, as he said, for the sake of a discussion, The Chairman said Mr Jones's object was to give a better education to the neighbourhood at I'" .ass expense, but the Board had gone to great expense in building the Lan Wood School, and it was scarcely fair to that school to make the alterations suggested by Mr Jones. They had not been tried long enough, but were at pre- sent fairly full, and if another school was budt at Hopkinstown and the Mill street school uti- lised, that would meet the present require- ments of Pontypridd parish. He perfectly .ore^'i with Mr Jones that it was time they should have a seventh standard class and appoint a master to teach it, but he would re- f the alt«ations suggested by Mr Jones to the armost.lwid he had mlby reasons for his ob- jections. One was against mixed schoolawhich were generally put up in districts where they could not afford to pay a headmaster and head- mistress. He thought the members of the Board would not like that their daughters should (be mixed with the boys. He stood against mixed classes -in the Intermediate School, but it waa decided to have them. He hoped, however, the School Board would resist tl.at resolution. It was not fair to make those alterations until the Lan Schools had time to shew what they could do. Rev U. Lloyd Davies endorsed all the chair- man had said. The reader of that valuable paper had endeavoured to shew that the Pont- ypridd School Board had acted very foolishly building those schools, but if they followed h-s suggestions now, he thought they would not slow any greater wisdom than they had in the past. It waa not fair to alter the whole char- acter of the schools in a few months. He objected to the formation of a sixth and seven standard in the interests of the scholars them. selves. If it was a great hardship for the scholars to walk from Hopkinstown; it would be a greater hardship for scholars from Cilfyn- ydd and Hawthorn to walk to this school to the seventh standard, and he did not think parents would keep -their children in school if thiey had to walk that distanc,& Uo objected t., anything approaching a Higher Grade School at the present time in that town. Only 100 jards off they had an Intermediate School, which took children from the 5th standard, and if they had a Higher Grade they would have two schools overlapping each others, and doiDg. 119 same work. He believed that in the schools -.1 the Pontypridd parish ample provision was made for teaching the 6th and 7th standards. The Board didtr not undentaff a single achopl, and the staff waa quite capable of teach of tie 6 h and 7th standards. He was sum the teach- ers under that Board would not like it to be authoritatively stated, cA had been done, that tbe 6th and 7th standards were neglected. Tbe The members of the National Union of Teach- ers said it was their wish to keep scholars in school longer than at present. The head- teachers under that Board did not oome up to tbeir profession if they had neglected the upper standards. If they had a Higher Grade School tLey would have three agencies doing the same -rk--rk that was taught in the 6th and 7th standards, (Higher Grade, and Intermediate School. That was a great waste of education and energy. In years to come there would be ai improvement. The Intermediate Schools would take more advanced scholars, say at 15 years of age, and keep them until they were fit to enter college, and thus be what it professed to be—a real Intermediate School between the Higher Grade and College. Mr Jones bad said it was too far for children to walk from Hop- kinstown to the Lan Wood. When be (Rev LI. Duvies) was a boy he had to walk 21 miles eacli way to school every day, and although < was -t then robust he soon because a very fail athlete,, and at the present time, when the country was threatened with various things, they didn't want to bring up their boys as molly-coddles, but as robust men and women wt rthy of the nation. He would do all he could t> keep open the National School at Gyfeillon. He would not allow it to be said he had closed the school voluntarily, but immediately he fcund it necessary for the Board to build at Hopkinstown, he would not be an obstacle in their way, and he would hand over his school to the Board. (Hear, hear). Having held out for ten years and given in under those circum- stances, he would be doing that whichh our brave countrymen had been doing—giving up an untenable position. Hear, hear). Mr W. Jones-Powell much appreciated thlJ: paper read by Mr Jones, but he was compelled to endorse all the Rev Ll. LI. Davies had said. The Board would be foolish to interfere with tf, arrangementa of the Lan Wood, School after going to such great expense in building them. The schools were adapted for the purpose re- quired, and he moved a direct negative to Mr W. M. Jones' motion. Mr J. W. John was sorry the Vicar had not seen his way clear to have a Higher Grade School, inasmuch as the working class had not the means of sending their children to the In- te 1 mediate School. The Rhondda Board had erected Higher Grade Schools, and they also had a County School in their district. If that Board could do it with benefit to itself and scholars, he could not see why the Pontypridd Board could not organise a Higher Grade School at Mill street. Rev Lloyd Davies said it would pay the Board better to give the children in the upper sierdards scholarships in the County School, rather than go to any expense in making pre- paration for them. The Rev M. McManus highly complimented Mr W. M. Jones on his speech. The motion was, however, lost, the only member supporting it being the mover.

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+ Mr James Richards presided at the ordinary Greeting of the Pontypridd School Board, held ut their offices, Gelliwastad Grove, on Tesday. The Attendance also included Rev Joshua Thomas (vice-chairman), Messrs Phillip Jones, Jones-Powell, J. W. John, Revs J. R. Jones, and Ll. Ll. Davies, D. W. Thomas, Thos. Thomas, and W. M. Jones. The Clerk reported that the overdraft on the current account, after the day's payments, amounted to,,26,877 16s lOd. At the end of the half year it was ;C3,900. The chairman expressed a hope that by that day month they would be in a way to clear the overdraft off. The finance report, upon being read. was adopted. The vice-chairman (Rev Joshua Thomas) thanked the Board far their kind and touching sympathy with him and his children in their recent lead bereavement Respecting the proposed conversion of the Mill street Schools into three departments for the purpose of a mixed, Higher Grade, and Deaf and Dumb Schools, the chairman said it would be well for them to consider the legality of the question before proceeding with the mat- tor He had read a speech in the "Daily Mail" on the previous Saturday that the Education Department were raising objections in granting loans to build and equip Higher Grade Schools. The Clerk said the London School Board had had 18 surcharges against them, but in every case they had been allowed. Plans and particulars of the proposed altera- tions were submitted by the Board's architect, M- A. O. Evans. There would be separate en- trances and separate playgrounds to each de- partment, and the total cost would not exceed £480. Chairman: That is a consideration if what I have read is true. Mr D. W. Thomas said that inasmuch as his motion, the next item on the agenda, that of considering plans for the arrangements of the Mill street Schools, had a bearing on the no- tice of motion, he respectfully asked that it be considered in the discussion which would arise.-The Board agreed. Mr Thomas then moved that the Board pro- vide school accommodation at Hopkinstown for the adult scholars residing in' the district. He said: I find that the number of children at- tending the Lan Wood School are as follows: Boys, 91; girls, 89; total, 180. 'In addition to this there are 36 in Standard I, children at- tending the Hopkinstown Infants School who really ought to attend the school for older scLolars, aa the Board are losing a certain amount of grant annually, roughly speaking, about 3s per head, so that, if you agreed to my motion we will require accommodation for 216 children residing only in Hopkinstown. This locality is situated a great distance even from tie Mill street School. Assuming the Board to say they must attend the Mill street School, I find by comparing that you have not sufficient room even at Mill street School for the Hopkinstown children, leave asideany children who will certainly come to this school from Pwllgwaun and Pantygraigwen. The argument may be used that if the Hopkinstown children have to come from the Lan Wood School, the r.umber left will not be sufficient for such a large building. I find that last month the boys had 360 on registers, with accommodation for only 320, so it will be seen my scheme is most reasonable, and will save the Board from provid- ing extra accommodation at this school. Poat- ypridd is continually increasing. Without speaking of relieving Coedpenmaen Schools, which are already overcrowded, and which we will have to face sooner or later. It might naturally occur to you that if we build at Hop- kinstown, what are we going to do with Mill street Schools. I entirely agree with my friend Mr W. M. Jones that better provision is sadly needed for educating the upper standards un. (kr our Board, but I am sorry I cannot go as fa- as be in moving that the already well. aIr and splendidly equipped Lan Wood Schools be distributed, besides which I am against large mixed schools, which is, of course, only a matter of opinion. Why not convert Mill street Schools into a Deaf and Dumb and Up- per Standards, 6 and, 7 departments, with: a cookery room for girls, which is nndoubtedly much needed. I am also painfully aware of the danger of serious accidents to young children attending Mill street Schools. I am also aware the fact that our respected Vicar has already m* excellent school in Gyfeillon, and I am also sure that the accommodation at present is bare- lj sufficient. We have already purchased half an acre of land, which I am pleased to say is paid for, bÚi wuich has for more than two years remained simply useless. I am, therefore, of opinion, that a mixed school should be pro- vided on this land for 250 mixed scholars. I strongly submit that this mixed school could b erected and properly equipped for teaching 250 children at £ 8 per head, which will mean a total outlay of say, at most 92,ODO; the effect of this upon the rates wilt be 1.30th of the prin- cipal annually,. 21 r cent, interest will amount to RA per annum principal, with an average rate of interest during the 30 years of L28, making a total cost on the rates for 30 years, until the loan is repaid, of £ 94 li"- annum exclusive of the actual maintenance The Rev Ll. LI. Davies, Vicar of Llaawonno, remarked that if it could be proved that a new school was necessary at Hopkinstown—and he must say there were telling facts before them- he would not put any obstacle in the way of building the school. He would hand over the Gyfeillon schools to the Board or close them, although it was very much aganist the grain to do so. He didn't want to fi,ght against fate any longei. Furthermore, be thought that at the present time, when the rate was getting up, u was an unpropitious time to build a new school, which he thought would cost £ 5,000. Taking cost and maintenance, it really meant £7,BOO a year. In another year's time he would net be inclined to oppose it for a moment. Mr D. W. Thomas: The same thing was said three years ago as to putting the time off. The ratepayers are grumbling in Hojjlgnstown that they won't send their children to the-Lan Wood Schools. Mr Phillip Jones: As the vicar said, I don't Ilea why we should build at the present time. Why should we not keep a mixed school in the Mill street School. Mr J. W. John thought they had better build a school at Hopkinstown than extend Mill street Schools. The ratepayers in that quarter were grumbling about their lack of facilities. He begged to second the motion. Mr Jonies-Powell: Have you tested the rate- ptyers there, Mr John? Mr John: No, I have not tested them. Mr Jones--Powell: The feeling of the town is against this Board spending any more money having regard to our present financial crisis. The feeling is that Mill street Schools ought to be made suitable to meet the present needs of the district. If the school can be altered to suit, it is our duty to go in for that. Mr D. W. Thomas: But the ratepayers want a school at Hopkinstown. Mr W. M. Jones: No doubt, we ought to build a school. Other parts of the town have tern provided for, and it is only fair to treat Hopkinstown in the same manner. I heartily go in for the motion. The Vicar said he had not heard a single man or woman at Hopkinstown complain about t.he matter. The Chairman said it was very unfortunate their overdraft was so heavy, bu. money spent upon education was well spent. Mr Jones-Powell proposed an amendment that they postpone building a school for twelve months until their banking acoount was in a better state. He believed in cutting the coat according to the cloth. The Vicar seconded. On being put to the vote there voted for the motion the chairman, Rev Joshua Thomas, Rev J R. Jones, Thomas Thomas, D. W. Thomas, J W. John, W. M. Jones; for the amendment, the Vicar, Phillip Jones, <». Jones-PoweH. The motion was declared duly carried. It was then decided to appoint a committee to arrange a date for the commencement of building opera- tions to consider the accommodation, and the various departments to be included. Upon the application of the fourth year P.T.'s under the Board it was agreed to grant them leave of absence for the two weeks preceding the scholarship examination in order that they might have more time for study. This was granted upon the understanding that they at- tended the Pupil Teachers' Centre during the period when required. The Clerk reported that the three boys who had broken into the Gradg Schools and damaged the place to the value of 218 at least, had been caught and dealt with before the magistrates. He had also asked the boys how they had got in, and they replied, "Through the window." He (the Clerk) had seen some schools which had been broken into during his time, but the Oraig beat them all; the damage was some- thing terrible. The culprits were scholars at the Graig School. The magistrates ordered them to be birched, and locked up for 24 hours. The Board thought it was a shocking state of affairs. Nineteen applications were received for the post of caretaker at the Graig Schools. The successful candidate was to devote all his time to the Board, not under 25 years of age, and married. The salary was 30s per week. In the final voting the applications of the follow- ing-were considered: John Morris,James Dally, and D. J. Arnott, Pontypridd. Dally was'de- clared out in the semi-final, and the final voting was: Morris, 4; Amott, 6; consequently the latter received the appointment. The Board's treasurer, Mr B. A. Lewis, Lloyd's Bank, wrote declining to accept a salary of £ 25 per annum for acting in the capacity of treasurer to them. He had oonsulted the gen- eral manager on the point, and he considered that the amount should at least be 250 per annum. Chairman: I find that this Board is 1.3rd of Cardiff Board, and they pay 910D to their trea- surer. If we pay one-third of that amount I think it would meet the case. Mr Phillip Jones proposed that LS per an. nam be paid. Mr Jones-PoweU seconded. The Clerk said that he had written to sevenl Boards in South Wales according to instruction [ and found that only in one instance a salary was paid to their treasurer. It was agreed to pay a salary of &% per annum.

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XiLANTftlSANT SCHOOL BOAIID. The members of the Liantrisant School Board held their monthly meeting at Tonyrefail en Monday, the chairman (Mr Rhys Davies) preeiding. The other members present were Rev E. Stephens, Messrs G. T. Davies, Rich- ard Morgan, and Gomer Evans, with the clerk (Mr J. Colenso Jones). It transpired that at a recent" meeting of the Board Dr Naunton Morgan, Gilfach (vice- chairman) was appointed the Board's represen- tative on the Governing body of the Porth In- termediate School, vide Mr Daniel Thomas. Mr Jacob Bees, the architect, submitted plans and estimates for proposed alterations at various schools, and it was decided to negotiate to carry out the work. The Bctacation Department wrote requesting He Board to proceed to fill up the vacancy on the Porth Governing Body in place of Mr Dl. Thomas. This had, of course, now been done. It was reported that the attendance at the Tonyrefail Evening Continuation School had gone down to 17. That being so, it was decided to dispense with the services or Mr Arthur's assistant. Several pupil teachers applied for a fort- night's vacation, to enable them to study im- mediately before the scholarship examination. Their request was granted. The teachers of the National School, Llantri- sant, pointed out in a letter that the practice of a boy when he reached the age of 13 leaving school without any qualification was quite illegal This twas pernicious and dangerous to tSe schojl. Nothing had been done to parents who aHoweJ their children to absent themselves from school, and the attendance officers were instructed to leave them alone. A boy had no right to I. ave without a certificate. In consequence of rh.A the percentage in standards and 7 last wea: he. i been only 65 per cent. The Chairman stated that the return of at- tendances was not sent to the Board, althougr they had asked for it. The Clerk remarked that it did not pay the Board to take proceedings in the matter. If they had not passed the labour examination they could generally obtain a certificate f): 00 effect that they bad attended school 250 times in the year for the last five years, and that would exempt them. The teacher of the Gilfach evening .001 suggested that the Board should not charge fees at Gilfach, inasmuch as the" was anotho r esvening school there, where fees were not charged. If the Llantrisant Board insisted on their fees the attendance would probably be very much affected.—It was decided to con- tinue the school free of charge. A letter was received from the Joint School Boards of Pontypridd and Llanwonno offering tha following new terms for the tuition of the Llantrisant Board's teachers at the Joint Beards' pupil teachers' centre at Pontypridd: LS per annum, or the net cost to the rates per head. The Chairman: Then we have a representa- tive. The Clerk was instructed to ascertain which rate of payment would be the cheaper. It having been reported that the pupil teach- ers under neighbouring Boards were compelled to purchase tbedr own books whilst at the Cen- tre, it was decided that the same rule in future apply to the Llantrisant teachers. In response to an application from the Vicar of Llantrisant it was decided to allow the church the use of Tonyrefail school on Sunday and week nights at the Board's scale of charges. The Vicar further stated that a new church would soon be built at Tonyrefail. The following appointments were made:- Miss John, Llantrisant, as assistant mistress at Mi skin; Miss Priscilla Watk.ins, Aberbeeg, ex- P.T., to Tonyrefail; and Mis Lenning, Black- burn, assistant to Gilfach.

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NOVEMBER. November is a dangerous month. The J Cold and Damp of early winter attaek ) those who are unprepared for their j assault. ) i Dr. Williams' Pink Pills! for Pale People j will prepare you if you are not ill yoty will cure you if you are beginning to feel NOVEMBER ILLS. A EBBW VME SEPSATIOP. WELSH STATION RASTER S Anawria, Indigestion, and Heart TROUBLES. Troubles Cured. —— A Martyr to Rheumatism for Tears. AN interesting architectural cariosity is to be seen at Newtown, Ebbw Vale, Mon. It consists of a chapel which had beeu converted into four A nn fu. cosy little dwelling-houses, and the addresses A ction mastbb ou the Snowdon tram-road- of all tbe inmates of these is "Ctiapel House." Mr. Samuel Wilhams, of Brithdir, has been It was to one of those bouses that a Smtk Wales interviewed by a representative of the North Daily Star reporter recently paid a visit in order to verify the truth cf something he had "eies Obterter ana Express to glean some par- heard of approaching the house by way of a tiealars of the painful illness from which he —— • bad suffered and his rumoured marvellous re- covery. He at once expressed readiness to ak i^SSm. V topply every iuformatiou required. 11 My feet," he said. "for three years- summer and winter alike were intensely X-nF~ •ufj. '•!• V painful. 80 painful wers tbey that I often BT"' haHL wished myself dead. They were burning like ■L « seething fire, and though I tried a number of e. __r> • £ MHHb remedies — including embrocation, Puller's earth. kc., I could find no relief, until I took Dr. Pink pm. for Pale People." AI1d bow maoy boxeø bave you taàen altogether P" "Only three. After taking the first box I T./i found hardly any improvement, but the second „ box eased my pain considerably. Tbe third CHAPKL HOUSE, NEWTOWN. box gave me complete and permanent relief." (From a Photograph). « Do you continue to take the pills ? No ( 1 took the last box two montha ago, neat little garden, the reporter knocked at the .7? n2 ,'nce" ?ow c,a?„w*^c door and inquired for Mr. Henry Griffiths. It without suffering any pain, and if yo« .transpired that that gentleman was at his work J" ur coming in one of the adjacent collieries, but Mrs. hsre I should have been on my way across that Griffiths narrated a story wbich cannot but mountain. be of world-wide interest. It referred to Mrs. ??u. wbtt was tha cause of Griffiths' daughter! Rachel, a prepossessing yoo* eomplamt ? young lady of nineteen summers, who was '"J present at the interview, and bore out what from 1885 to 1887 with the 23rd Royal was said by her mother. ■ 1 1 ■ "When Baobtl was fourteen," said Mrs. Griffiths, referring to her daughter, she had a « scarlatina. Phe nrver got over that property. <K^L at jft She lost flesh gradually she never had much 1 colour, but she got very pale. Two years ago, when she was seventeen, she seemed to get What was the matter with her P inquired the reporter. 11 She suffered from weakness of the blood 1 (ansemia) and palpitation of the heart. She £ could scarcely get up the hill hers. She also fl| v "iwqufff suffered from indigestion, her appetite waa very •> poor, and site had a bad cough. I intended her — jS to become a dressmaker, but she had to give it up. She could do nothing; you wouldn't know her now for the same girl. Before, she oould not walk without a dreadful palpitation of the 1 heart, nor take her food at all weU The Welch Fusiliers I had t» mareh continually with doctor attended her. but she etiU continued to wet feet. It was subsequent to this that the decline in health.? pain began, and as yean rolled on it grew if* Then how do you account for her recovery? Intensity. For some time 1 was employed at* It seems to be quite retnarkaqle." the Dinorwig Slate Quarries, but I had to give 11 Well, somebody in the neighbourhood told up my work owing to the pain I suffered, her father about Dr. Williams pink pills for Having had a slight relief I got employment at pale people, and we also read in tbe news- the Glynrhonwy Slate Quarry, but my old corf' papers of the cures they had effected. We plaint again compelled me to leave my work- got some, and I determined to give them a good Lastly, I was appointed to take charge of tlW trial. Whilst taking them she had no other Hebron Station on the Snowdon tramroad bt*- medicine nor pills. The result-you see! it was with the greatest difficulty that I wold Miss Griffiths here stated that she took four attend to my duties. It took me three-quartet* boxes of Dr. Williams' pink pills without a of an hour tovalk a distance I could.oo- -vOw break. The first boz." sbe said, seemed Badly in a awwter Of an mw." do me good. It was about two years ago I What is tbe state' of your health at started taking them. After the first box my present P I appetite improved, and as T continued taking Very good; I can go about without the them the indigestion and palpitation of tbe least difficulty and I feci a happier man than heart disappeared, and I could walk better. I have been for a long time. Previous to- After taking four boxes I had improved so much taking Dr. Williams' pink pills my life was that I only took them occasionally. Two nothing but misery. I am glad of the day months ago I stopped taking them altogether, when I first took the pills, and I know of others I am now quite well." who have taken them with great benefit." If substitutes are offered, write direct, PRAISED BY WELSIf PEOPLE. enclosing price, to Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Holbom Dr. Witliams' Pink PiUs are praised by all Viadnrt. London E C classes of people for the way in which the; V lauuci, UOUUVU, m.v. have cured pankl7Bi8f loc0motor ataxy, rheu- C-V r V x m<r- y matism, and sciatica also all diseases ar'sing Z/° iff 1L*L* 1 /\r*l £ > fiml\ from impoverishment of the bloid, scrofula, r WIT ffnfl ljj\ rickets, chronic erysipelas, consumption of the MB fllril C PL 'l'i bowels and lungs, anaemia, pale and sallo^ II Rgl L LO complexion, general muscular weakness, loss of 8111 it<v—J SH i I appetite, palpitations, paini in the back* It & 1 .r. pit il nervous headache and neuralgia, early decay# "T^ WMfU all forms of female weakness, and hysteria* whMfr LVJ I W tPSs/ These Pills are a tonic, not a purgative. The/ (Kkgistbbbd) are genuine only with the full name, Pink Wrapper, Printed in Red. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People-. Only Genuine as above. + Pink pills sold loose or from glass jars a"7 Price 2s. 9d. j Six Boxes 13s. 9d. But Mind you ask for DR. WILLIAMS'.

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Lord Tredegar on the War. Speaking at the 19th annual dinner in connec- tion with the Newport Cabmen's Sick Benefit Scciety, held at the Newbridge Inn on Mon- diiy evening, under the presidency of the Mayor ot Nlewport, Lord Tredegar, who responded tJ the toast of "The Army and Navy," said that he had never returned thanks on behalf of tbo88 frees in a time of such anxiety, and suftllno*" or when they had more reason to be pJOUd of their Army and Navy. (Applaaae)- In Soo Africa their Army was in an unfortunate posi- tion, opposed by am enemy Jargely superior in nui-bere, superior in artillery, and in rifle marksmanship; but in spite of that our soldiers lrd stormed positions wiere almost impreg- liable. (Loud applacse). In South Africa the Army were trying. to maintain the British in- fluence in a sphere as large as Germany, France, fcj.ain, and Hungary all rolled into one. It ,wm> therefore necessary that the Army should have the good wishes of all their countrymen. (Applause). There would be errors and mis- trkes. He was quite sure there was not a hitle Englander in Newport. There would be -ics, but he thought they would be those who v "ild mther criticise their own country than aiy other. In the words of an American naval officer, "Our country; may she always be in the right; but our country, whether she is right or wrong." (Loud applause). Colonel Wallis also responded.

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