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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5981, 18 January 1881, Page 5

The Wanganui Herald, in an article on the financial condition of Wellington Gol- : lege, refers to the question of educational reserves. "We quote the following passage : —" The Legislature will have to review the question of reserves set aside out of public lands for educational purposes. The value of the reserves ■is enormous, but they have been so unequally distributed that, _ while some parts of the * colony are basking 'in princely revenues, others are so poor as to be continually appealing in forma pauperis for relief. ! This should not be so in a country hardly forty years old. The reserves for primary education ware colonised, and: we do not sefe why the secondary reserves, should not be treated in the same way. Wherever a reserve has been made out of the public lands, the State has a right to say how it shall be used. The time lias come when something must be done to put the whole educational system of the colony on a better financial footing, but it will not meet the demand for reform to nibble at the system of primary education, while the endowments for higher are allowed to remain in their present position."