The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-08-14 00:00:00

DUDLEY SCHOOL BOARD.

A meeting of the above Board was held on Mon-
day afternoon, at the Town Hill. The Rev. M.Gibson (chairman) presided, and there were also
present Messrs. W. North, D. liowat W. Cooper
and T. Billing.
Department approving of the
The Clerk (Mr: T. Allen) read communications
of the enlargement of
plans
thaendEdsupesacti!.fiocnatllions
Netherton Board Soho°le, at a cost of £4BO, and also
the enlargement of the Kate's-hill Board Schools,
at a cost of £3ll.

Upon the motion of Mr. Billing, seconded by Mr.
Forth, it was decided to apply to the Public Works
Loan Cummissioners for loans to the amount
named

Mr. William Darby and Miss C. Turley were re-
spectively,appointed assistant master and assistant
mistress, the former to the Kate's -hill School and
the latter to the infant department of the Nether-
ton School.
The Clerk read the reports of Her Majesty's In-
spector as to the result of the recent examinations
at the Netherton, Kate's Hill, and Dudley Wood
Board Schools. In each instance the examinations
had been at-ended with satisfactory results. With
regard, nowever, to Netherton School it was stated
that no grant could be pail to either the boys' or
girls' department, Article 17 C having again been
broken. The balance of the grant earned at that
s,hool. for the infant department, after a reduction
of £2O, was £73 6s. At Kate's Hill schools the
grants earned were £76 17s for the boys' depart-
ment, £64 Ss girls department. and £59 2s infants'
total £203 7s. At Dudley Wood mixed school the
total amount of the grant earned was £94 12.
The Clerk explained, with reference to the grant
earned for the boys' and girls' department at Nether-
ton, that its disallowance was in consequence of
the alterations in, and enlargement of, the schools
as required by the
Department not having ben
c•Arried out.

Mr. Billing suggested that the Education Depart-
ment should he written to and informed Of tle
difficuhy which that Board had experienced in en-
deavourin to secure a suitable site far another
school at Netherton, and that ;.it was due to the fact
that a site could not be secured that:the school had
not been commenced, and asking that under the
circumstances the grant should be allowed.
It was remarked that deputations from the Board
had gone in every direction in search of land for a
site, and had been unsuccessful in procuring any,
and the Chairman observed that if a copy of Mr.
Taylor's (Lord Dudley's estate agent) letter to the
Board on the sutject; and which was publisheel a
week or two ago, was enclosed, it. might weigh with
their lordships, and cause them to „alter their de-
cision.
The course suggested was agreed to.
The treasurer's balance was reported to amount
t ) £934..
THE CHAINMAKERS' STRIKE.

On Monday morning a meeting of the small chain
and trace maciers (outworkerA), who are now on
strike foi ah advance of wages, was hPld at the
ManchpstPr Inn, Four Ways, Cradley Heat} • It
was report,d that in several districts Al the men
had oea-eA w:;r1:, but in others a cu..% men still con-
tinu :I,t w•.rk at the old is. it aln i ;Ned
that two of the employer, (Mess. Price Lud
letts) had offored to pay their operatives the new
advanced list, and therefore desired that their men
slould be allowed to return to work at once. It was
urged that this plan had proved disastrous :in,for.