KUMARA EDUCATION RESERVE.

Kumara Times, Issue 1141, 26 May 1880, Page 2

KUMARA EDUCATION RESERVE.

THE AC'S -TO BE BROUGHT itfTO FORCE. : —■■ When a short time ago, A deputation appointed at a public meeting in this town relative to tile Education Reset ve waited on the School Commissioners in Hokitika, they were informed by that body, after hearing the views of the deputation on the subject, that the Commissioners Uroiild make a tenommendatipn thereon to the Government. Subsequently we published an extract of a letter forwarded by the Chief Commissioner, Di v Qiled, lo the Government arid which'iri effect* in no way coipfeided With.-thp opinions, expressed by the as' it made no special i'ecolnmead4tion > bUt simply left matters in stato *qud.‘ 'However, the indefatigable them her forthis district (though In this ihstance r his cognomen of the “ irrepressible’* might be most appropriately applied),. when he ascertained that there was little; probability of thb views of; the residents on the Reserve being complied with, immediately placed himself in communication with the-Government,on the subject, and, as the following gratifying telCgrafit received; this 'morning will showV "with the most. satisfactory result ; To R. J. Seddon, ■ Eaq.j M*H.Ri, • Eumara-. The Eumara Education Reserves Act wiU be brought into operation., :j “ . E. Oliver. . Wellington, May 26,1880. The following reply was transmitted to the Hon. R. Oliver during the afternoon : To the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington., .. On behalf of the inhabttants.jof Eumara I thank Government heartily ior bringing the Eumara Education, Reserve Act into force. ’ R. : J; Sbddon, M. H. R. Eutiiarai, May 26f 1880As in every instance the Hon. the Minister of Public Works 'has carried out the pi'oniiabs He made when in Kumara, and this was the'only one now remaining, his .telOgrain ' rin regard thereto, although., brief,~<hm’ be unltesi. tatinglyAccepted asj'a guarantee that the Eumara Education ! Reafef4e will be shortly' classed "among: one'' of those grievances of which it may be truly said “ tße nW' knows it* shall know it no more.”