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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 658, 24 March 1879, Page 2

The Education Reserve Commissioners, ac Auckland, are making a bold and impudent attempt to deprive Poverty Bay of the valuable reserves set apart as revenue for buildings and management of our public schools. We think no time should be lost by those whose duty it is to watch over our interest, to see that this nefarious attempt to deprive the Hawke's Bay Educational District of its territorial revenues is frustrated.

Says the Auckland Herald : — " The Educational District of Auckland does not include the whole of the provincial district, a portion of Wairoa and Cook Counties being included within the Hawke's Bay Educational District, and the question was as to the distribution of revenues arising from the education reserves. It was referred to Mr. Brookfield, who gave his opinion, after a careful perusal of the Act, that the Auckland district was entitled to the whole of the revenue for reserves for primary education, but that the reserves for secondary education was divisible on the basis of population. The only schools for secondary education in Auckland were the College and Grammer School and the Girls' High School. Acts were passed for the establishment of high schools at the Thames and Whangarei last session, but they had not been established? and in the Hawke's Bay portion there were no high schools. — Mr. Tole said that in that case Hawke's Bay would get nothing, aB they had no high or secondary schools established. — Mr. May said that would not suit the people of Hawke's Bay, and he hardly thought it fair that this district should get the revenue which belonged to them, for they must build the schools. On the suggestion of the chairman, it was agreed to lay the opinion of their law adviser before the Government in regard to the distribution of revenue from the reserves. — The secretary said that £939 was lying to the good in the meantime."

It will be seen by the above that it is high time we should look to our own interests, and not permit ourselves to be defrauded of our just entitlements.