DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7367, 21 January 1902, Page 2

DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS.

The Napier correspondent of the Naw Zealand Times says :— The sooner the Department informs Education Boards what are the latest regulations governing district high schools the better ie will ba in the interests cf education generally. Things here seem to be in a bit of a tangle over this question. A headmaster is wanted for the Gisboroe Distriot High School, but, pending the receipt of the Department's regulations, no appointment con be made. lhe school is, therefore, likely to be re-opened without the reorganisation of the staff resultant upon the master's resignation. The Gisborne District High School, under the old regulations, was subsidised by the Education Board, but until the Board knows its position under the new scheme the question of staffing cannot be proceeded with. Meantime, the committee is clamouring for information, and the Hawke's Bay Board can give it no satisfaction, because it does not know itself what to do until it hears from the Department. Another im- | portant question to be settled is that oE scholarships in districts controlled by Education Boards where there are district high schools. As the latter are free under recent regulations, it would be interesting to know what Education Boards are to do in the matter of granting scholarships won by children who can in any case get free secondary education.