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Overcrowding at Glan Conway. 11 The quarterly meeting of ^he Denbighshire Education Authority was held in the Queen Hotel, Chester, on Friday afternoon. Mr W. G. Dodd, Llangollen, presided, the other members present being Miss Gee, Mrs R. J. Powell, Messrs Edward Roberts, J. E. Powell, D. S. Davies, Colonel Sandbach, Messrs Christmas Jones, Simon Jones, John Allen, R. A. Jones, J. Wilcoxon, J. Stephen Jones, F. A. Sturge, W. J. Williams, Edward Allen, E. D. Parry, J. D. Jones (Cysulog), and George Cromar; with the Secretary (Mr John Roberts) the Organiser (Mr J. C. Davies), the County Architect (Mr W. D. Wiles), and the Accountant (Mr White). Apologies for non-attendance were received from Professor J. E. Lloyd, and the Rev. Thomas Lloyd, Colwyn Bay. INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION. In moving the adoption of the Intermediate Education Committee's report, Mr J. E. Powell, the Chairman, said that as an educational auth- ority, they could congratulate themselves upon the exceedingly good work that was being done in the imtermediate schools of the county. As an instance of this, he might make the fact known that out of eleven times that the Chief Inspector of the Central Welsh Board had offered a gold medal for competition .amongst Welsh intermediate schools, Denbigh had cap- tured it six times. (Hear, hear.) That in itself proved that they were well served by the head- masters and mistresses, and the very efficient staff. Miss Gee: What about the pupils? Mr Powell said that of course there was the material, and he felt that they should pay a tri- bute to the heads of the elementary schools of the county who prepared the material for the secondary schools. Referring to the buildings, the speaker said that their system had been so successful that the Central Welsh Board and the Board of Education were pressing upon them in several areas for the extension of their bound- aries, and pointing out at the same time that if they were to maintain their position that they had held in the past, it could only be dor.Dy a considerable increase in the accommodation of their schools. He should like to mention that the Cheshire Authority had decided to spend a sum of yC 2;, 000 upon the secondary schools at Crewe. Of course Denbighshire could not pro- vide such a sum, but at the same time they must be prepared to provide the necessary equip- ment and accommodation to enable their head teachers to do their work at the best. Mr Christmas Jones seconded the adoption of the report. Mr Edward Roberts said there were references in the report to extensions at Wrexham amd Llangollen schools, in which it was recom- mended that the proposed extensions be eon- sidered jointly with the plans for the proposed conversion of the Ruabon County School into a dual school, and that the matter be adjourned for six months. About twelve months ago, plans were submitted to the Board of Education to carry out extensions at the Ruabon school, and he should like to know why these plans had been kept by the Board? Mr J. E. Powell replied that the Board recom- mended the erection of a temporary building, but the Education Committee felt that spending money on a temporary building was simply waste. They were now in communication with the Board upon a question affecting the scheme, and when that was decided upon, the scheme would be ready for submission to the Local Governing Bodies. Mr Edward Roberts: And the extensions at Ruabon will be proceeded with. Mr Powell: Yes, if the scheme becomes law. Mr E. R. Parry said he would move that the recommendation referred! to by Mr Edward Ro- berts should be deleted. The feeling was very strong at Llangollen that the extension scheme was going to be shelved for six months. The accommodation at Llangollen. was for eighty pupils, whereas there was an attendance of 125 or 128. Supposing that the extension scheme at Ruabon were carried out, the pupils from that district were taken from Llangollen, they wouid still have about 20 pupils above the accommoda- tion, and the governors felt it imperative that the scheme should be pressed forward. He also referred to a grievance by the managers of the elementary schools that the time had long gone by when a cooking centre should have been in- ,stituted at Llangollen. The Chairman, in seconding the amendment, said that Llangollen had usually been pioneers in the development of higher education, and if left to themselves they would have provided good cookery accommodation long before this. His objection to the recommendation was the fixing of a definite date. If it was simply de- ferred, it could be brought up at any time. Mr D. S. Davies said that the fixing of the date was really in favour of Llangollen and Wrexham. Mr Christmas Jones supported the recommen- dation. Mr J. E. Powell said that although his sym- pathies went in favour of the amendment, his vote would have to' go the other way, owing to the unanimity of the Committee on the question. Mr Parry was asked to withdraw his amend- ment, and this he agreed to do. THE LLANRWST COUNTY SCHOOL. PROPOSED ENLARGEMENT. At a meeting of the Intermediate Education Committee, a letter was read from the Govern- ors of the Llanrwst County School giving the present accommodation at the school, and the proposed enlargement, the Latter including in the boys' department the conversion of class- room and manual training room into one class- room, a new manual, training room, new cloak room and lavatory, caretaker's store, headmis- ter's room, teacher's common room and lava- tory, and a new play shied; and latrines. In the girls' department, the extensions include a cookery and laundry room with scullery, pantry, new cloak room for elementary scholars, new porch, caretaker's store, and teadher's lavatory. The report of the Committee went on to sta- that the reason for proposing to etnlar,g« the school buildings is to be found in a report to the following effect, despatched from the Board of Education on the 6th August, 1908, viz. The school has increased in numbers, and the classroom accommodation is found to be small. It is difficult to keep floors clean, and feet dry, for the boys and girls are partly taught together, and the old (or boys') school and the girls' school are only connected by a path about forty yards long, uncovered, and often muddy. The girls use the small cookery room for lunch and recreation. On wet day a the boys use in the intervals a cloak-room and adjoining corridor. The offices on the boys' side are old, dirty, and damp. There is no assistant master's room, and the workshop is too small." At the time the girls' school was erected, viz., in the year 1898, the plans of existing school buildings were approved by the Charity Com- missioners, but the requirements of the Board of Education have increased to such an extent that the class-rooms are now too small for the existing classes, which have to be divided con- sequently an extra demand is made upon the teaching staff. The additional expenditure in connection with the service of the loan from the Public Works Loan Board will be met out of the annual in- come of the school. The balance outstanding in respect of the loan existing on school buildings was £ 1,343 119s. 2d. at the 41th April, 1909, the loan having been obtained under Order dated -Ath October, 1898. The County Architect having verbally ex- plained to the committee the plans for the pro- posed extension of buildings, it was resolved to approve of the Governors proceeding with the proposed extensions on the understanding that the additional expenditure in connection with the service of the loan will be met out of the annual income of the school, but that the plans be referred back to them for re-consideration with a view of making provision for the educa- tion in housewifery of the girls in the district. Colonel Sandbach said that since the resolu- tion had been made known, the Governors of the Llanrwst school had held a meeting, and it was very evident that if rumouir had it, that the n- nual income of the school was to be reduced by ,6400 or £$00, they would not be in a position to dio as requested. They did not know what they had to face, and he should like that Auth- ority to give him an assurance that the income of the Llanrwst school, would not be reduced by any considerable amount, or that they would strike out the words in the recommendation that the additional expenditure was to be met out of the annual income of the school. Mr D. S. Davies said the very important fac- tor that no pecuniary aid was required from the County Authority, induced the Committee to pass the resolution. Llanrwst was very well able to look after themselves, and Colonel Sana- badh, with his usual tactics, made a very strong case and got the scheme passed through with- out dissention. He hoped they were not goiris to retract now from that position, because that was a condition upon which the plans were passed. Mr J. E. Powell said that if Colonel Sandbach would refer to page 828 of the reports, he would find that the Llanrwst balance had increased from £ ,649 to £r,096. Colonel Sandbach: Quite so. Mr j- owell said he considered that eminently satisfactory. He could not give an assurance to the Local Governors, but assuming that the scheme went through, they were satisfied that another school should be set up in the county. In the new scheme there was a provision which did not exist in the old one, and that was that where any puipils who came from outlying coun- ties, an additional charge could be made. Therefore, with the substantial number of pupils that were attending at Llanrwst from the county of Carnarvon he took it that any dimi- nution there might be in income ought to be made up, or more than made up by the in- creased charge that could be levied to boys and girls from Carnarvonshire. Mr W. J. Williams said that at the last meet- ing of the Governors, Colonel Sandbach signed plans and sent them on, on the understanding that the present recommendation was altered. He did not know whether the colonel was satis- fied with the expression, of opinion given now. Mr Powell said that it was on the written re- solution they had to proceed. As the Chairman of the Committee, he could not recommend the Authority to accent facts stated across the table, when the resolution of the Governors provided in another way. It was their own fault. The question must be re-considered by them and re- presented to the Committee before they could deal with it. Colonel Sandbach said that after the explana- tion of Mr Powell, he thought the Llanrwst Governors would be satisfied and would be pre- pared to incur the responsibility which was thrown noon them by the resolution. The matter then dropped, and the recom- mendation of the Committee was agreed to. THE SCHOOL BUILDINGS. A WRONG IMPRESSION. In presenting the report of the Building Com- mittee, Mr Edward Roebrts referred to too fact that they found very great difficulty in rural districts to supply schools with pure, wholesome water. They had already made arrangements (that the Tanyfron school in the Denbigh dis- trict should be supplied, and the supply to Tynyfelin in the Cerrigydruidion district, and Rihiwlas schools had been referred to the County Architect and himself. They also hoped that the Ruthin Rural Council would carry out the plans that had been provided to supply the school buildings at Gytfylliog. He would also like to refer the Committee to a statement he had prepared giving the details of the work carried out by the Building Committee during the three years ended June 30th last, and of the expendi- ture of carrying out such works. There was an impression abroad that the Building Committee had been too lavish in their exipenditure on Council schools. A Member No, no. Mr Roberts replied that that was so, and that he had heard it often, and it was said that the Committee were to a great extent responsible for the increase in the education rate. ^ne County Architect and himself, as Chairman of that Committee, come in for a great share of the blame ————- Mr Cromar: Two scape-goats. (Laughter.) Continuing, Mr Roberts said he thought it only right that the real facts should be made known. As they were aware, he had acted as Chairman of the Building Committee since the appomted day, and they had all along had two objects in view, the first being the health and comfort of the children entrusted to their charge, and the second was economy in the rates. They had built ten new schools-eight permanent cnes and two temporary. Of the eight perman- ent schools, seven had been built in single school areas-, and the other was ait N antyrhiw, in the Llanrwst district. In the ten "schools, provision had been made for 1,280 children. Ex- tensions and alterations to existing buildings had been effected in four schools. The expenditure worked out as follows:—Eight permanent schools, cost ^14,107 5s. IIYD., additions and alterations to four schools cost 66,741 9s. lod. and two temporary schools cost £823 10s. The total accomim-odation-was for 1,714 scholars at a cost equalling twelve guineas per head. The total amount of the re-payment of principal and interest from the appointed day to the 30th June, 1909, was £41,494 17s. id., made out as follows: —In respect of loans raised by the late School Boards, C,36,701 os. gd. in respect of loans raised by the Local Education Authority, £4,793 6s. 4d. The whole of the work was carried out under the supervision of the County Architect. The average cost per annum was £ 2,436 18s. 6d., or equivalent to a rate of a penny one-sixteenth in the £ on the assessable value of the county for Part HiI. of the Education Act, 1902— £ 548,916. Mr Wilooxon seconded the adoption of the re- port. The Chairman said he was sure the Com- mittee were obliged for the lucid statement which would be of great service to the members. He thought it would be in/tenesting to have had the actual amount of loans that they took over on the appointed day, and the amount now uut- standing. The Accountant, in reply to a question, said

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he could not give exact figures, but he believed the loans they took over ran to over ^100,000. The Chairman said that the property of the county was kept in very good repair. It meant a large amount of work on the part of Mr Edward Roberts, in addition to the large amount of work he had done aince the appointed day. 'He (the Chairman) did not think there was a meeting of the Building Committee which Mr Roberts had not attended. On behalf of the members, he thanked Mr Roberts far his excel- lent report. The recommendations of the Building Com- mittee were tihen adopted. Mr Simon Jones Mr Edward Roberts' Bud- get was carried unanimously. (Laughter.) AN UNNECESSARY SCHOOL. A communication was read from the Board of Education stating that they had given careful consideration to the circumstances of the Byl- ohau school, and they had decided that the school was not necessary, and inquiring when the Local Education Authority proposed ceas- ing to maintain the school. Mr D. S. Davies proposed that the school be closed on the 31St December, and that the head- master be given three months' notice, and the assistant teacher notice to terminate at the end of December. The Organiser suggested that the teachers should be told that the further retention of their services would be considered by the Staff and Supply Committee. The. Chairman said he did not think the Com- mittee should dismiss the teachers, because they had served the Committee well. It was decided to give the teachers the legal notice, and. to inform them that the Staff and Supply Committee would consider the question of their re.terutioili. MR. D. S. DAVIEIS AND TEACHERS. The report of the Staff and Supply Committee was presented by Mr D. S. Davies, who referred in eulogistic terms to the services rendered to the county by Mr C. H. Wykes, headmaster of the Rhosddu school, and Mr H. Lewis, head- master of the Llangollen mixed school, both of whom were leaving the employ of the Com- mittee. There was also Mr J. T. Jones, of the Penygelli scnooil, who had faithfully served the county for a period of thirty-eight years. Re- ferring to M,r Lewis, of Llangollen,, the speaker said that he had gone to a higher sphere. (Loud laughter.) He meant educationally. The other would come by and by. For one of the vacant posts, there were over 150 applicants, many of ,them being graduates' of very hil,h standing, so that, although the Denbighshire Authority were sometimes the object of bitter criticism, they al- ways found numerous applicants for vacant posts under them. Mr J. E. Powell seconded the adoption of the report. Mr E. R. Parry and the Chairman also spoke highly of the siervioes of Mr Lewis, Llangollen. The report was adopted. MAGISTRATES AND SCHOOL ATTEND- ANCE PROSECUTIONS. Mr J. Stephen Jones submitted, the School At- tendance Committee's report, and said that with regard to attendance prosecutions, things were not so satisfactory. The great complaint was that they did not get the sympathy they required from the magistrates in, the county. Still, he hoped that by persevering, the magistrates would be taught at last that they must have education for the children at all costs. OVERCROWDING AT GLAN CONWAY. At a meeting of the Staff and Supply Com- mittee, the following letter, was read from the Correspondent of the Glan Conway N.-P. :school In reply to yours, dated August 3rd, 1909, the Managers of the above school have had un- der consideration your reference to an alleged overcrowding of the school, and in reply I am desired to state that the Managers are of opin. ion that the state of affairs is considerably ex- aggerated. Should there be any further increase in the population, the Managers will be prepared to consider as to whether they will incur the necessary expenditure for the provision of the same." The following letter of the Board of Educa- tion was alo read — I am directed to inform you that H.M. In- spector has reported to the Board that, the pre- mises of the above-named school are seriously over-crowded. The accommodation upon the basis of ten square feet per scholar appears to be 102 for the main room, and eighteen for the classroom, while the average attendance for the half year ended 30th June, 1909, was 127.4 older children, and 36.7 infants, and for the week previous to H.M. Inspector's recent visit, the average attendance was 135.8 older children, and 49.2 infants. I am to request that, this matter may receive the serious attention of your Authority at the earliest possible opportunity, and that measures may be taken to remedy the overcrowding, ot the nature of which the Board should be in- formed. The Managers should at once proceed to, provide a. partition in the main room, and also to take into consideration the provision of addi- tional accommodation to the older children." 1 The Attendance Commimtee resolved to ask the I Managers to state definitely whether it was their intention to provide the additional accommoda- tion, and to send a reply by Friday last. Mr W. J. Williams now asked whether any reply had been .received. The Secretary said that no official oomimuni- cation had been sent, but a communication had come to say that they were prepared to make some alterations tlh the view of adapting some of the headmaster's house to extend the -pre- mises, and -that would come before the next Building Committee. LLANRWST N.P. SCHOOL. At a meeting of the Attendance Committee a communication was read from the Board of Edu- cation stating that the average attendance of the infants' department at Llanrwst N.P. schools must not be allowed to exceed 38, the number for which it is recognised., or payment af the grant will be endangered. (Art. ig of the Codie). It was reported that the average attendance at the department for the half year ending June 30th was 45. It was resolved thiat the School Managers be asked to furnish the Committee with their ob- servations upon the matter. LLANRWST GIRLS' COUNCIL SCHOOL. A letter was read from the head teacher ot the aibove school on behalf of the cleaner, applying for, an increase in her salary. The Secretaries stated that they had referred the matter to the Llanrwst District Managers for their consideration, but up to the date of this meeinig had not heard from them. It was resolved that the matter be referred until tlhe Llanrwst District Managers have made a recommendation. GOSENi COUNCIL SCHOOL. The Secretaries sated that in drawing up a previous minute dealing with the apportionment of the annual rent of Z5 between the parish, served by the school and the general fund, the Lftancrwst R wral Parish had been entered in error, and that it should have been the parish of Eglwyslbach. It was decided that half the amount of the rent be charged: to the Eglwysbach parish. N AN T YRHIW COUNCIL SCHOOL. The following report of the County Architect was read, approved, and adopted :—" I have to report that the erection of this school has been satisfactorily carried out by Mr Hugh Hughes, builder, Llanrwst, and tlhie term of n-Laintenance has now expired]. There has been a-a extra on this building contract, consequent upon tne Local Government Board insisting upon the in- stallation of a system to deal with the sewage from the urinal and lavatories. This, as you are aware, necessitated negotiations for the ereto tion of a oesspoolt on adjoining 'land, and the laying of 100 yards lineal of drains, most of which had to be out through rock. Other extras have been incurred, viz. :—A sink for the care- taker, blinds to the windows, and fireguards to the fireplaces. The total claim made by the buildler for this work amounts to £36 3s. iod. I have gone into the account, and have valued the work on the site to be £20. I recommend the acceptance of this amount. The builder has agreed to accept my valuation. He has had £ 900 on account of this contract., and I now certify for the balance, viz. ^30 to be paid to him." Tho County Architect reported as follows on the proposed water supply: —■" An excellent water scheme has been installed at this school. It comprises—gathering ground laid with agri- cultural pipes, a filter tank, and storage tank. This work has been most satisfactorily carried out by Mr Hugh Hughes, builder, Llanrwst. The cast of the undertaking hast been somewhat 111 excess of the cost of similar schemes I have in- stalled in other schools in' the county, but this is mainly accounted for by the stipulations laid down by the owner of the adjoining land in procuring this water supply, which necessitated a length of 2414 yards llineal of I inches dia- meter pipe being laid, when i inch diameter pipe would have sufficed; this would account for an extra sum of about £112. Also laying an additional length of over 200 yards lineal of supply pipe extra over that for school purposes was necessary to take a supply to an adjoining farm. This would account for a sum of about £II, making a total of about ^23. To comply with the requirements for easement, the toia.1 length of supply pipe laid for this scheme is within a few yards of a third of a mile. I have received from the builder a detailed statement of the cost of this scheme, amounting to £80 19s. 7d. I have carefully gone into this matter, and vaLue the work at 675. The builder has agreed to accept my valuation, and I recom- mend that the account be discharged at this figure." The report was adopted. GWYTHE.RIN COUNCIL SCHOOL. The Architeot reported that he had visited this school and school house for the purpose of re- porting as to the recommendation of the Local Managers on the question of putting the house into tenantable repair. He found the following works were necessary to be carried out at the house —There is no, coal-house. I recommend that one should be erected. A new stove in the scullery; the present one is unsuitable. The inside of the house requires -papering and paint- ing. Small repairs are also, required to the school in the matter of repairs to bonncfaiy wall, eaves, gutters, and a new door is required to ashpit. It was resolved to accept the tender of Mr Hugh Hugibes, amounting to the sum of ^35, subject to his executing the usual contract to be prepared by the Secretaries. A BUILDER'iS LOSSES. The following letter was read at a meeting of the Building Committee from, Messrs R. Evans & Sons, the contractors for the Colwyn Bay and LLanf airtalhaiarn Council schools — We are very? sorry to trouble you, but we have lost money in the Llamfairtalhaiarn and Colwyn Bay schools,, over £275. The Secretar- ies of Education can tell you that we wanted to withdraw from the Llanfairtalhaiarn school con- tract before signing the agreement, but they held us responsible, for the contract, and we have completed same, and the time of maintenance is up on the 29th, and we are writing to ask if you, as a Committee, could not see your way to meet us with part of the above sum we have lost. We know we have no legal night or claim, but we think we have morally, because we were not allowed to withdraw our tender however, we will not trouble you with a long letter, only simply state the fact, and we would be greatly obliged if you will give our application a favour- able consideration." It was resolved that this Committee regret they cannot legally recommend any contribution towards the loss the contractors state they have sustained on the contracts for the extensions to the above schools. EGLWYSBACH CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL. The following letter from the Board of Edu- cation, which had been addressed to the Corres- pondent of the School Managers at Eglwysbach, and which the Board had forwarded for the in- formation of the Education Authority, W r.e,ad With reference to the statements of the Managers forwarded with Form 9 for the above- named school for the school year ended 30th June, 1909, I am directed to state that the re- quirement that the Managers should hold a meeting at least once in every three month's is a statutory one, which the Board have no power ,to relax, and that the Board will therefore re- quire an assurance that the provisions of schedule I.B. 6 of the Education Act, 1902, will in future be strictly complied with. With regard to the statement of the Managers that they can- not sign the agreements with the teachers, as they will not become responsible for the sal- aries, I am to point out that they are under a misapprehension in this respect. Under section 7 (1) of the Education Act, 1902, it is for the Local Education Authority to pay the salaries of the teachers as part of their duty of main- taining the school, and so long as the salary entered in any agreement corresponds with that which the Local Education Authority have al- ready sanctioned, the Managers would appear to have no good grounds for refusing to enter into an agreement with a teacher for fear of any pos- sible liability for the payment of the salary. The Courts having decided that in the case of a Non-Provided school, the contract of engagement must be between the Managers of the one part and the teacher of the other part, although the ultimate liability to find the necessary funds rests with the Local Education Authority. The Board trust that the Managers will now feel no further difficulty in entering into the written agreements with the teachers which are required by Article 15 of the Code, as a condition of the school remaining upon the list of those in re- ceipt of annual grants." I