THE SOUTHLAND EDUCATION BOARD AND THE EDUCATION VOTE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 4 September 1880, Page 2

THE SOUTHLAND EDUCATION BOARD AND THE EDUCATION VOTE.

(BY TELEGRAPH.)

Invercargill,, September 3*

At the monthly meetiog of the Education Board to-day,, the following resolution was agregd to :—That in the opinion of this Board the reduction of the Parliamentary vote for education by the sum of ten shillings per pupil, being the amount hitherto allowed for division among School Committees for ordinary school expenses, is practically a departure from the scheme of free education, and being so, they consider that such a change ought to have been, accompanied by a legislative enactment, making substantial provision for enabling School Committees to raise by an annual capitation charge or otherwise a, sum equal to the cost of ordinary school management- 2. This Board feels an> urgent necessity for making the foregoing; suggestion in the educational interests; of the district from the fact that the great, majority of its teachers are underpaid, the salaries in the case of three-fourths off the number being under Ll5O, and the Board feels itself impelled in justice to the teachers to curtail expenditure by a larjra reduction in the allowancs to School Cr, m . mittees for school managements, so rnuch. so as will render it next to impossible for the Committees to meet current "expenses; without some supplementary provision for providing a school fund. Mr, Lumaden was the proposer of the foregoing, and the Hon. Ik.. Menzies the Ssccod der. Mr. Denniston and the Chairman (Mr. T. M. M'Bonald supported the resolution. Mr. Mcintosh opposed it.