The Daily Telegraph. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1889.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5508, 24 April 1889, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1889.

It is generally supposed that when a person has held a seat ou a Board, or has been a member of a public body, that he has been placed in a position to know more than others who have nover had such an experience. As a rulo, those who have had opportunities of administering tho law as it relates to local government, or of directing the affairs of a public institution, do make themselves lutter acquainted with matters iv ronnection therewith than others who have had no executive oflice. It was therefore with some surprise that we read in the Woodrillo Examiner, whose editor once held a peat on the Education Board, that tho Board lust year altogether set as-ide the special object of scholarships by making them so small as to bo useless to country children whoss parents are not well-to-do. Our contemporary says:— "In fact the proteut arrangement seems only a tioiljje to limit the i-cholarships to Napier. What was the result of tho kst scholarships examination ? Country children decline to take them up becnuee tho amounts were, so paltry that they would have been a mere jot in keeping a child in Napier to attend tho High School and their parents could not fifford the balance required. We trust the Education Board will remember in future that these scholarships are intejided for country as well as town children and increase them accordingly " The above paragraph is wholly Uiitileading. From the report of Chairman of th*i Jtoiii-d to the Minister for Education for tho year ending: ISSB we take the following:—"On tlie results of Standard VI. examination the Board grants its H'holar.-hips, to enable pupila who <lis-tirig-iiLA themselves to proceed to tho High Schools, for one or more years. Each scholarship \i Huflicient to provide for the fees charged at tho High Schools ; but in the case o* country pupils an additional £20 is allowed as agrant-in-tiid for maintenance wbilsf. residing away from homo. Twenty scholarships hare, been current during the past year, eleven of them being tenable for two years, and nine for one year. In place of tiuw which expired i:i December the following , scholarships were granted ;-— Tenable for two years.—Annie Magill, Adolph Slitter, Lily Witty, John McAra, Edward Thomson, Minnie King, Ella Baker, Winnie Hill, Mary Montgomery, and David Wait. Tenable for one Year.— Ada Gannon, Alexandria Stevenu, Wellwood Keoves, Mabel Tucker, Eva DeLatour, Robert Caiswell, Kato Isaacs, JSllyn Anderson, David Sutton, and Martha LeQuesno. The scholarships of Mary King, Louisa Smith, Jew-ie Hull, Willie Coles, and George Ebbet have been renewed for another year on thußpeoiul r.eoommcndution of tho teachers of tho (schools whore they are attending."