EDUCATIONAL RESERVES.

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A.—No. 3,

Public Schools. Supposing the tuition fees to be fixed at £20 per annum, and deducted from the proceeds of the scholarship, the fourteen scholars would contribute £200, which might be devoted to the salary of an assistant master. If the school were properly managed, and acquired a reputation as a successful educational institution, it may be reasonably expected that a large accession of numbers would follow, and that the fund, from additional fees, would provide for additional teachers. The whole of the land mentioned in the resolutions (or if not, nearly the whole) has been reserved, and it now only rests with the Provincial Government to make arrangements for letting it. A block of land has also been selected (about 400 acres, as mentioned in the resolution) as a site for the school. It is proposed to set apart a portion of this, say fifty acres, as a school-close and play-ground, and another portion, say another fifty acres, as an experimental farm, should it be thought expedient in future years to create a department of Agriculture or Agricultural Chemistry ; the remaining portion to be let under some arrangement, whereby the tenant should supply the school with meat and other agricultural produce. I nave. &c -> Henry John Tancred, Chairman. His Honor the Superintendent, Christchurch.

B. —LIST of EDUCATIONAL RESERVES not Let to Date. (Referred to in Evidence of Mr. Alexander Lean.)

No. on Map. Acreage. Situation. Purpose. 157 396 398 399 678 679 699 700 710 712 713 714 715 716 718 719 720 721 726 727 728 729 731 737 738 739 916 917 918 919 920 921 922 923 924 925 926 927 928 929 930 931 932 933 934 935 936 937 939 940 A. E. P. 640 0 0 42 0 0 97 0 0 70 0 0 473 0 0 754 0 0 328 0 0 263 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 152 0 0 150 0 0 83 0 0 157 0 0 164 0 0 100 0 0 112 0 0 102 0 0 152 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 134 0 0 272 0 0 900 0 0 607 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 159 0 0 100 0 0 140 0 0 31 0 0 68 0 Of 36 0 Of 68 0 Of 350 0 0* 34 0 0* 104 0 Of 500 0 Of 498 0 0* 400 0 0* 735 0 0* 560 0 0* 350 0 0* 474 0 0* 522 0 0* 75 0 0* 150 0 0* 480 0 0* 1,230 0 0* 314 0 0* Wairewa Bangiora Oxford Waimate 33 Near Timaru Mandeville District Oxford District 33 33 Selwyn and Bakaia Boad 33 Cryer's Boad, Bakaia Near Selwyn S. 33 33 It 33 Courtenay 33 Ellesmere Ashburton 33 Educational tt 33 33 Classical School 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 Bakaia Near Weeden 33 Educational Purposes 33 33 Bealey's Boad 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 Oxford 33 33 33 33 33 Ashburton 33 33 33 33 33 Bakaia Hawkins Waianiwaniwa Little Biver Wainui Upper Ashley Orari 33 33 33 33 . 33 » 33 33 33 33 * Grant not issued. + Grants dated 9th September, 1860.