BOARD OF EDUCATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4540, 8 October 1875, Page 2

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The Education Board met yesterday at 11 o'clock. There were present Messrs. Gisborne, Andrew, Bunny, Fleetwood, Ross, Toomath, and Watt. Mr. Gisborne was elected to the chair. . The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. REGULATIONS OP TEE BOARD. The Rules and Regulations of the Board were read and adopted, and subsequently ordered to be printed. CARNARVON. Miss Rae was appointed assistant-teacher t<y the Carnarvon school, and an advance of £5 was agreed to. ENDOWMENTS. On the subject of educational endowments it was agreed to present the following address to his Honor the Superintendent : " We, the Education Board of the province of Wellington, most respectfully address your Honor on the subject of the resolutions (a copy of which has been forwarded to you) passed unanimously at a recent full meeting of the Board relative to the reservation of public lands in the province for educational purposes. The existing reserves vested in the Board amount only to 3606 acres, and the enactments, quoted in the resolution contemplate a very much larger extent of public land as an endowment for public education. To secure sound education for all children now and hereafter in the province of Wellington is an object of paramount importance to the present and future welfare of the whole community, and ample endowments in land afford substantial and progressive means 'of attaining that object without undue recourse to taxation, whether by rates or otherwise. In this belief, and relying on the known interest which your Honor takes in the cause of education, the Education Board respectfully submits this subject to your earnest consideration, and trusts that your Honor will take such step 3 in the matter as may conduce to the advancement of education in the province under your charge.—Signed for the Board by W. GISBORNE, Acting-Chairman." EXPENSES OF COUNTRY MEMBERS. Resolved, —That country members be allowed 15s. per day while engaged on the Board, that is, from the time of their starting from home for that purpose until they return. The Board will meet again to-day at eleven o'clock.