EDUCATIONAL RESERVES.

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A.—No. 3.

B.—RESERVES UNLET.

Nelson Non-Sectarian Schools(Noiv under Central Board of Education.) Mr. Mathew Campbell, being duly sworn, states :My name is Mathew Campbell. There were six grants of land made to myself and other trustees —1. Nelson; 2. Hope; 3. River Terrace (Wairoa River) ;4. Spring Grove; 5. Riwaka; 6. Upper Wakefield. These lands were all granted as sites for schools for children of all denominations and classes, without the imposition of any sectarian creed. Schools were established on this principle at various places. These were for some years the only public schools in the Province of Nelson. Others were sometimes commenced, but were discontinued until the Government took up the question. It was commonly said that, but for these schools, most of the children in the country districts, and even in the town, would have gone without education. Sir George Grey for some years made a grant of £30 per annum for these schools ; and in the year before the Central Board took it (I think in 1855) as much as £180. Mr. Tuckett also rendered great assistance in the early days of the settlement, by giving the rents of certain lands for several years on which there were seven or eight tenants. Mr. and Mrs. Fox also assisted by paying a teacher, and giving tuition themselves to the children, and in many ways promoting the object of the trust.

Nelson College Trusts.

Letter from Mr. R. Pollock to the Secretary to the Commission. Sir, — Nelson College Office, Bth February, 1870. I have the honor to state, for the information of the Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Religious, Educational, and Charitable Trusts in the Province of Nelson, that the objects of the trusts have been fully carried out as regards the grants specified below. It is necessary that I should explain with respect to the several properties set forth in the grants, that those marked with an asterisk have been exchanged with the Crown for the land specified in the grant numbered ninety, being Highfield Run, Amuri. I have, &c, F. Wakefield, Esq., Robt. Pollock, Secretary to the Commission, &c. Secretary, Nelson College. 26—Nelson, 7 acres.* 26—Opawa, 800 acres. „ 17 acres. Massacre Bay, 415 acres.* ~ 1 acre.* ~ 158 acres.* „ 8 acres. 00—Amuri, Highfield Bun, 2,780 acres 3 rrods. Motueka, 331 acres

Number. District. Acreage. Number. District. Acreage. 33,34,35,36 43 3 of Square 23 ... 13 Part 2, 165 49 of Square 8 8 of Square 11 46 55 and 56 ... 13,42,59,87 o Waimea West Wai-iti Hills Suburban North Takaka Ditto ... Upper Takaka Ditto ... Clifton Ditto ... Milnthorpe... Milnthorpe Suburban Ditto ... Ditto ... Ditto ... TownofBulwer Town of Howard Westport Suburban ... Collingwood Suburban Aorere Valley Tadmor Thorpe Suburban A. E. p. 1 200 0 0 279 0 0 66 3 32 150 0 0 75 0 0 55 0 0 79 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 0 4 0 0 4 3 10 15 1 0 37 2 0 43 1 2 1 2 0 0 3 0 15 0 0 50 0 0 63 0 0 44 0 0 26 0 0 71 72 17 66 102 ... 3,37,65 111,133,170 ... 171,196,217 ... 218, 278, 313 ... 338, 357 15 27, 96,361,587... 315,420,375 ... 594,90, 65, 236 ... 434, 283, 335, 392 396, 448, 156, 241 178, 299, 351, 403 455, 546, 567, 572 613, 625, 662, 797 771, 730, 790, 733 106 and 107 Ngatimoti ... Matukitaki... Wairoa Ditto ... Collingwood Town ... Ditto ... Ditto ... Ditto ... Ditto ... Ditto ... Seaford Westport ... each Ditto ... „ Ditto ... „ Ditto ... „ Ditto ... Ditto ... „ Ditto ... „ Ditto ... „ Ditto ... Upper Motueka A. E. P. 85 0 0 45 0 0 54 0 0 136 0 0 0 2 16 0 3 0 1 0 10 114 1 2 12 1 0 32 2 2 0 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 476 0 0 2 20 26 "99 19, 58, 80 19,50,99 16,17,29 203,204 59,61,63 6 5 The rents de: Board of Educatii rived from such of th. m to the maintenance e above rese i of the Nelsi rves as are let are )n Public Schools. v». applied annually by the Central V Secretary to the T. C. Hodgson, Central Board of Education . r> .' -V TVT-l