Wanganui Education Board.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 16 March 1891, Page 3

Wanganui Education Board.

The editor of the Chronicle is the Chairman of the Board, and in a leader on Saturday thus replies to " Nemesis '' from whose letter to the Herald we published some extracts. The leader is as follows : — No scholarshipholder has been required to board at the college. The number of scholarship winners who are receiving their education at the institution is four, two of whom come from long distances in the country, and the value of whose scholarships is doubled in order to enable them to reside in town. Of these two girls one boards with a private family and it was open to the parents of the other to make a similar or any other arrangements they pleased with regard for their child. It is obvious that there is no truth whatever in the statement that the secretary of the Board of Governors told the parents of one of the girls that sbe must board at the college — see* ing that the other girl does not board at the college, and has never been required or desired to do so. Fo far from difficulties having b^en put in the way of country scholarshipholders, every consideration has bo >n shown them. The regulations of the college require that all fees shou'd be paid in advance ; but -n the c ase of the scholarship holders in question the Chairman authorised a relaxation of the rule, and indeed instructed the Secretary to make provision for the books required by the girls, should such provision seem to be desirable or necessary: