EDUCATIONAL MATTERS IN AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 1432, 3 May 1879, Page 7

EDUCATIONAL MATTERS IN AUCKLAND.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

The Board of the Auckland Grammar School and the Improvement Commissioners have again come to loggerheads, and are .reviving the vendetta which has so long subsisted between them. This time it is not a struggle as to tbe possession of certain premises, but as to title and control of certain lands. The Improvement Commissioners allege that the Grammar School site encroaches on a road laid out by the Commissioners, and of course the mo3t natural and reasonable thing to do was for the two corporate bodies to go to law over the subject. At this stage, however, an amusing difficulty presented itself, The personnel of the two bodies is almost identical, so that it wholly depended upon what day of the week a certain Board was sitting, as to whether its members were plaintiffs or defendants, or whether they enforced or accepted the service of a writ. The "in-and-in" system of selecting men to serve on public bodies in Auckland has led to this very mixed state of things. Nothing equal to it has been seen since Colonel Wynyard held the quadruple posts of Colonel of the 58th Regiment, Officer Commanding the Forces, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, and Officer Administering the Government. The way the old veteran, as colonel of the Black Cuffs, used to stir up the Officer commanding the Forces was totally subversive of the first principles of the Mutiny Act, while the Superintendent was accustomed to move the colonel, to move the officer commanding the forces, to move the offices administering the Government, in a way that would have gladdened the heart of the Circumlocution. Office. The gallant colonel gat through the trying farce very well, with the exception of his share in Provincial politics, and after a faint struggle at the orthography of his civic title, he subscribed himself in the Provincial archives, for the first time, as "R H. Wynyard, Superintendent "