The Waikato Times. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1878.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 864, 3 January 1878, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1878.

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The Education Act, 1877, came into operation throughout the..colony on .1 nesday. Ic provides what had al most co»>e to -br* looked ui»-n aho,ielesß in the casu of JN.ew Z al;>n«l. —a natiotial' system dt education, and the admitiistratiou of this 1 places undei tbecontio of a Minis ter ot the Cro^n.—l he EducnioBoard•» of the Beveral district—as, 1 for ius.auee, of A . ••kl-inil -will con- [ hist of nine memb rs, and t'heae wil i be no longer noininu'.ad by the (.jo vernmen , but eleoied by the local School Committees of each district. Between the Ist and 3lst davs ot the present mouth each of the Committeeman ech educational district will transmit to the Eduction Board the names of two persons, qualified ro be;.members of the: Board, their wiitien .consrtit. being. first obtained, and the • oaid sha . thereupon pubiuly nbtity tlie'namks of such p■ rsons, state the day oti which;the election shall be held,ant transmit to each local fonmitiei the names of ah such persons nominated, the day of election being not later than the Jsrb March. Each lo.al committee will thei., taking the lull list of names, select nine, and transiu.t cheiu to th< Board, and of all the names so sen in, the - nine having the large-1 number of will be duly ejected members of the Educa ion District Board. Uf Board" three members will annually resign, and their successors 'be elected iu the.same manner as the firs'. Every person; male or female, of the full age 01 twenty-one years, unless special)\ dirqualified, iu the educational district is qual fi c\ to be a member of the Board. These educational Boards will have eootivl over the Board Fum's, which wi 1 be derived from grants from the Consolidated Fund, rents and pnfi ,- from endowments vested in the Bo ud,special endowments or yrant-, special fits for higher educition, donations nnd subciip'io s; will also i rem >ve teachers at wi 1, may establish h.gh suhool.aud hclmlarships, and iegulatH the conduc' and disposal of same.

We next come tn the School Com mifctees of «he locai d stiicts. These will conWis "of seveii householders resident »vithih"the school "district. holders tor ihe elecJpn of thesi coramithes will, this yenr, /p'stated etaewleie, I e fixed-and notified bv he Board, but in sticcetdin«r veir.s'

>i.l b * b»-id on first viondayLr Jaiuttiy: iu each ; j ear, and a Mitch «mee!iiig, a,i-hairhi<iu having bfceri chosen, aiid the ou i<oiiiir rbnimittee having given a full report of its steuar ship, the huUoeholderi>r°Bi ut. shall proceed ro the el« ction of anew committee by ballot, each ImiUHiholtlei h.ving as n any vote*, •ih there are candidates, iinl nsin•• h,s discr tion whether be «ball, givt aii bis seven Votes io\me cair idari oi- otherwise divide them. The powers and duties of school cornmittees apply to the establish men oi' pub ic schools,' with the sanction of the Board, to tlu'- management t,I •u'ucational matters in ' school di - diets subject to the general sup. tvision of the HoaM and inspection bv the Inspec i>ri »Jtfd tjio appo'iW ment of teachers «>f aew njr. Tin following hhall be eta oi

instruction in public mjliools, aniely :—readings writing, arith- , me»ic, Engish grammar and ' o-nipositi.*), y#§ ®KXsl el mentary science, and drawing object lessons,] in the case of girls, Bowing and u«edlework and (the?) economy. This is a p e jry comprehensive course of educate n for our common school, and, faithfully carried out, will affort an oppor. tunity to every child of obtaining a sound ai.d through English - <-uca tion. 'lhe snbj.ct oi "h'Sory/ however, as forming a sort of deba'abl' gioind between «-eeular a ;d religious reaching is no cojjpufeory in the cases wliere paten is or guardians ohjeo' to it. The .\<j: declares that all teaching in s<-h ol hours shall be entirely secular, but. in providing that " the school build, ings may be used on days iid <it hours other thmi those us d for public school purposes upon such terms as the commits ma\ from time to time prescribe," it gives an opportunity to iho e wh t-e du y' : it is 10 ptovide leli.iiouH te c ings to arrange with the local committee's fur doing s- Tt is acarceor' fjr tlm, 'to Cull the

measure a " God Jens Act" Th , termer untrue- ! lionf qualihV tfherasrajjpicb prop. ilj Nlfflß/hini, Niljof * ''wr 8 ,^chlt, S j B-gfeiHeinploye-i ftHi« ; oue by tlSfta teethe o het;. j by;tii eonuiegatioVfor real truly giving instrnc ion to the vomig daring the ween is us much the duty of tin -eh r* y : :*..ms ~ preach or. tnree sermons o • the Sunday. A very useful clause has been in I s- i-.e.i which will, at anv rae,mak' •« iiiu I'nlar Chris ams" o~ yoniu | New Z iih.ud. It iS enacted that in | pui-lic schools provision .>ha 1 br ina «f. r the insfcttte&io in tuilirat . .trill of all ■•••■ schools as i pro vision sball^ltky-b^i^u^prliiliyßic

• I'ainiujr. The compulsory clauses-of ahe Act re permissive, and can only '«• i rutight into force' in any : ficlob' district up n the vote bt r amajbru M»f (he Committee of such dtscrie j When ci.;ii reti r b^efwee r ir an thirteen, the pleas for ex-mptio. '■eing either that, a child is undt efficient or regular instr Ciiou oticwise, or attending week day .seh.xelsewhere, that he is sick, in danger of intecti n, 01 4 suffering from temporary or pennantnt iunniiir or p evented from attending by otliej 11 "avoidable causes ; that the 10aet veen the pareut's house and tin s« nbol is iiopassable for children, 01 that- he possesses a «. ; e.rtino e bom an. Inspdcof or, mas er of a publischool that he has reached a certati standard ot educat n. Tf am child between seven and thirtet years living within two miies of . *chool does not attend, the com nit tee is to give notice to the parent*., requiring,the child's attendance; ;l his notice i* neglected, the par-en or guardian may be summoned befor ny t«o Justices of the Peace, an or.iered to send bin cl il.l to school. nid then refusing, he sba I be. liabii •o a fine exceeding forty slrlltn,". ud the s-mns proceedings nny <« aken wtek by week, so long as sh« to spnd ihe chid cintinur.*-. In very ninuv ca>es tkie local co;. - mittees will do well to bring the com- , u sory clauses into foice. A paretic or guardian has 110 more right t ■> -rain up bis children to becom.: larrakius and hoodlums,* as many «.?vori in our country townships ar doing,' then he li«h to iutrodu,-e B nirai tigers and ra'tlssnakes iin.u i lie colony, nay, of the two the tiger* ant snikes would be the less nit«hj evoUHj una educa.ion is the ouly thing that will draw the teeth and '■• xrract the fangs from the hoodlum n I larrakin who arn the tigers and rattlesnakes of human society. ..