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Statement showing Details of Reduction of Teachers' Salaries, to take effect 1st April, 1888.

WE STL AND. Secretary's Office, Hokitika, 22nd May, 1888. In reply to your circular, I have to inform you that the Board has during the past three years conducted its business so economically that, although the recent retrenchment will necessitate some considerable reduction in its expenditure, yet it has not been thought necessary to act too hastily in this direction. A sub-committee of the Board has been appointed to take the whole question into consideration, and to bring up a recommendation for adoption at the next meeting. As soon as any definite course ha.s been resolved upon you shall be made acquainted with the same. The Secretary, Education Department, Wellington. John Smith.

NOETH CANTEEBUBY. Christchnroh, 22nd May, 1888. As desired in your letter of the 17th instant, I forward particulars of the reductions made by the Board in consequence of retrenchments in the education vote. The Board has also adopted a new scale of staff and salaries, by which, when brought into full operation, some further economy will be effected, mainly by the employment of fewer pupil-teachers and by a decrease in the rates of payment for small schools. Details of these are not given, because the new scale is not a result of the

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