EDUCATION BOARD EXPENSES OF MEMBERS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3967, 29 May 1885, Page 3

EDUCATION BOARD EXPENSES OF MEMBERS.

TO THE EDITOK.

Silt,— Since the recent election the hoard ia now practically a new adminietralio' 1 , of which the first financial moft-u-B has been to place our Otmaru district high school on the full regulation allowance, and the second to take action for correcting an abuse ta expenses of members that had crept in under the old regime. The scale of allowpnce fixed by the original regulation may have been fair enough ; though that is now to be reconsidered through the committee appointed to enquire and report. But some change in relation to board meetings bad brought about the undesirable result of an amount of allowance beyond what can be really regarded is expenses of members on board business at a distance from their homes. And the whole matter is now to be set right. The manner in which the subject was unhappy on accouut of circumstantials of ostensible personality ; and the intended effect of the resolution adopted is, Betting aside circumstantials, to daal with the Bubstance of the matter fairly and squarely on the merits. I proposed the resolution as bping, on account of distance from Dunedio, the greateat gainer from the abuse it is intended to correct. After last year becoming a member of board I was informed that travelling expenses are allowed, which I thought quite right. I never charged them, but they wpre handed or sent to me as matter of official routine. On two occasions, when I made a remark about the largeness of the amount coming to me, I was informed that this resulted simply from the regulation. I now have taken the first real epportunity — to one hitherto in a very small minority — of effective action toward cutting down the tree which had come to boar auch fruit. In connection with your article of today, allow me to repeat, what I said at the board, that there ought to be no exception, but all members ouoht to be plared on the same footing. For instance, if only country members be allowed their expenses, this will be unfair io town members sent to the country on board business ; and though they should like this, it is very undesirable that the board should be tempted to select them for important commission work simply in order to Bave expense. Ia like manner M.H.R'b ought not to be dealt with differently from other member ; and in their case there is this additional reaaon against exceptional treatment that school committees might be tempted to elect M.H.E 's to the board merely for Baying of expense. It ia important that none should be on the board except on account of supposed qualifications for the office, and that all should be under the same kind and amount of felt obliga tion to give full attendance upon meetings and attention to the work. But the question about exceptiona, as well as about the ordinary rule, will fall to be considered upou the committee's report ; and enquiry hy a committee, of men variously qualified, appears to be the beßt method of dealing with such a matter in the first instance, as contemporaneous settlement of it would be little better than guess-work. James Macgregof.. May 28, 1885.

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