The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26 00:00:00

KINVER GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

On Monday evening a public meeting of the parishion-
ers of Kinver was held in the Grammar School, to re-
ceive a report of the Committee appointed to consider
the Draft Scheme for the management of the above
',hoot, which be been issued by the Endowed Schools'
Commission. The Rev. J. Hodgson, vicar of the parish,
occupied the chair, and amongst those present were the
Rev. %V. H. Bolton, Messrs. I'. Bolton. G. Williams. B.
Williams, T. If olyoake, J. Morgan, J. Stevens, %V. Yeo-
mans, Z. Belcher, F. Wheeler, J. Clarke, J. Birch, A.
Birch, &c., .

The Chairman said he thought all present had caner.
dared well the object of their meeting on that occasion ;
that was to receive and refuse to receive any alterations
such as had been made by their Committee appointed at
their previous meeting on September the 9th, to consider
the Draft Scheme for the management of the Grammar
School, eet down by the Endowed Schools Cornmissiou,
Now, at that last meeting that sad the benefit of two
legal gentlemen—Mr. Collis and Mr. G. Lee—they met
four different times, and went very carefully into the mat.
ter, and the result of their meetings was to suggest the
alterations to the scheme which he held in his hand.
They endeavoured to carry out the wishes, as far as they
were expressed, of the first meeting. At the previous
meeting it was thought desirable that having made the
suggested alterations in the scheme they should draw up
a paper of reasons for having these alterations. A paper
of reasons had been drawn up, and he was desired to
draw up a letter which might explain them. As they had
not all got copies of the scheme, he did not know whether
it would be well for him to go through it entirely, as it
would take some time; bet he thought if he read the
reasons that would be sufficient for them to understand,
and if any person wished to read it through he should be
glad to do so.
The Rev. W. H. Bolton suggested that itwould not oc-
cupy much time to read the clauses which had been
altered. _

The Vicar then proceeded to read the alterations, which
are as follow :—Clause 3 to be altered to The govern-
ing body hereinafter called the Governors, shall consist
when full and complete, of nine persons, of whom six
shall be representative governors. and three co-optative.
In clause 5. of the representative Ccvernors three shall
be elected by the parishioners of Kinver, in vestry as-
sembled, and three by the School Board of Kinver. In
clause 6, if during his tenure of office any representative
Governor becomes bankrupt or incapacitated to act, or
expresses to the Governorns in writing his wish to retire,
or omits for the space of two years to attend any meet-
ing, the Governors shall cause a record of the fact to be
entered in their books, and shall give notice to the par.
ishioners or School Board, and upon such record being
entered to the Governor to whom it applies shall forth-
with cease to be a Governor, and thereupon, or upon the
death of any representative Governor, the parishioners
or School Board, as the case may be, shall as soon as
convenient proceed to elicit • new Governor to hold
office for the term hereinbefore described. In clause 7,
the name of J. H. W. B. Foley, Esq., Prestwood, is
added to the list of co-optative Governors, and the real.
deuce of William Orme Foster, Esq., altered from Stone.
ton Castle to Apley Park, Salop. Clause 25 is altered as
follows: The Governors may, with the sanction of the
Charity Commissioners, sell any real estates of the
Trust, and shall with the like sanction invest the pro-
ceeds on the purchase of other real estates, or such mode
of the Court of Chancery in exercise of its statutory
powers, or as any Act of Parliament may authorise forth.
investment of Trust Funds in general. Lo. clause 30 the
following is inserted: The Head Master shall be a great.
ate of some university within the British Empire.
Clause 36 is slightly altered as follows : Neither the
11,qtd Muter nor any Assistant-Muter shall receive Of
demand from any boy in the school or from any
'homonym in behalf of any such boy any gratelhe

elcePspr° Birch payments initilletnn ern ridburi
as are
this scheme. clause 43, the tuition fee is altered
l prescribed
during
ascuthhooorlishedoubv
hour'
from not less than £2 or more than £5 to not less than
£2 and not more than £8 in the year. In clause 45, the
age of boys leaving the school is altered from 1510 18
years. Clause 53 is altered as follows; The subject of
secular instruction shall be reading, writing. spelling,
arithmetic, bookkeeping, mathematics (purely applied), '
the English Language and Literature, the Latin Lan- j
guage and Literature, French or German, or both. His- j
tory and Geography, and at least one branch of Natural
Science and Drawing. The boys than be instructed in
the foregoing subjects, according to the classification '
and arrangements made by the Head-Master. It shall
be competent for the Governors to make arrOgements
for any other subjects to be taught to boys whose parents
or guardians expressly desire it, at an extra fee to be
fixed by the Governors. The following is added to clause
57: The objects of attracting and retaining good scholars
by giving a preference in some cases in the award of ex-
hibitions to boys proceeding from such schools. In
clause 60, the sum of £333 6s 8d Government Stock is
to be placed by the Governors to a separate account in
the name of the official trustees of Charitable Funds en-
titled " Repairs and Improvements." In clause, 66 :
'Nothing in this scheme shall prejudice the interests of
any boys who were admitted on the Foundation on or
before the find day of August, 1872."
The paper of reasons drawn up showed that if Cladses
3,4, and 3 remained as they were in the scheme, they
would give the sole control of the Grammar School to
the Kinver School Board ; that, under present circum-
stances, a compulsory sale of the school property seemed
undesirable, besides which it might be desirable to alter
the present school premises, and to have power to pur-
chase land for the purpose; that the limiting of the age
of boys to 15 would detract from the usefulness of the
school, the isolated position of Rinver preventing boys
who might be so excluded, and who lived with their par-
ents, from attending schools in any neighbouring town.
It was also remarked that in a scheme emanating some
j time ago from Lord Lyttelton, in which the present trus-
tees concurred, eighteen years was fixed as the limit of
j age for pupils attending the school, and, moreover, the
j Education Department recognised in their scheme of
1 grants eighteen years as the limit for pupils in public
' elementary schools. It was further urged that many
j pupils from the school continued their education at the
Universities, and had taken houours in the final exami-
nations, and futnre pupils would be debarred from doing
this unless a wider runge—such as the committee had
: noted in their suggestions—were allowed in the number
of subjects of instruction. Finally, in incorporating the
j 56th and 57th sections, the committae had endeavoured
j to simplify and adapt them to local requirements, so as
to give encouragement to the pupils at Kinver elementary
schools to avail themselves of the higher education of
' the Grammar School.

After some desultory conversation,
Mr. O. Matthews moved, and Mr. J. Birch seconded, a
resolution to the effect that the alterations in the
schemes suggested by the committee, and the reasons
drawn spin support id them, be adopted.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
The Chairman Oren read the following letter, which he
had, at the request of the Committee, drawn up with a
view to its transmission to the Endowed Schools' Com-
mission, with a copy of the suggested alterations:—
" Kiaver, County of Stafford, Endowed Urammar
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