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average attendance at the school, and consists of a
sum of £2 per annum for every such scholar up to
the maximum, as hereafter specified; but in districts
where, from the paucity of inhabitants, or from any
other cause, this grant may be insufficient to support
a school, a grant may be made of an additional £2
for every child up to the limit of £30, or, as the case
may be, up to the limit of the highest scale of contribution allowed out of the revenue towards the
teachers’ salary.

And the managers might, as before-mentioned, be
required by the Board to raise something additional,
in order to receive the extra grant.

Supposing, however, that he has twenty-five
children in average attendance, then if he were
allowed from the Board £2 for every child in addition
to the ordinary grant of £2 per average scholar,
the grant from the Board would amount to £100, or
£25 more than the fixed maximum; the extra grant
would, therefore, be reduced, so as not to exceed that
maximum, and the items of his salary would stand
thus:—

On account of 25 children at £2 per
child ..................... £50
Equivalent from managers .... 50
Extras grant from Board of £2 up
to £25 ..................... 25
............................ £125

Which must be increased by the managers if the
Board think fit.

If the average attendance in any school exceeds
forty, or in infant schools sixty, £2 per annum is
given for every scholar beyond that number up to
£30; and if the average attendance exceeds eighty,
or in infant schools 120, then also £2 may be given
for every additional scholar up to £30, provided that
those payments are devoted to the payment of
assistant teachers.

Teachers.

Teachers are appointed by the local managers.
Before any school can be aided, the teacher must
have received a certificate from the Board.

There are two kinds of certificates, named respectively, certificates of the first degree, and certificates of the second degree.

The maximum allowed by the Board towards the
salaries of teachers is:—

For masters of 1st degree, £75 per annum.
For .......... 2nd ......... £50 ......
For mistress of 1st ....... £50 ......
For .......... 2nd ......... £35 ......

In order to give a claim to the first of these sums,
at least thirty-eight scholars must be in average
attendance; to the second, twenty-five; to the third,
twenty-five; and to the fourth, eighteen, for whom
£2 each will be paid up to the specified maximum.
In thinly peopled districts, however, as above
stated, an additional sum may be granted up to £30,
or up to the maximum salary.

These contributions by the Board, however, with
the exception of the last, must be supplemented
from fees or otherwise by an equal amount.

As an illustration of the working of this scheme,
let us suppose a teacher holding a certificate of the
first degree to be in charge of a school with an
average attendance of thirty-eight children, he would
receive—

From the Board, £2 per child (up to £75) ... £75
Equivalent from managers ...... 75
Total salary .................. £150

Again: Suppose the case of a teacher of the same
degree in charge of a school in a thinly populated
district, with an average attendance of only fifteen,
entitled to the additional grant applicable to such a
district, he would receive—

Ordinary grant from Board at £2 per child ... £30
Equivalent from managers ...... 30
The Board then might give an additional grant
of £2 per child; in this case reaching the
maximum of .................. 30
Total salary .................. £90

In the same way the salaries of assistant teachers,
where the number of scholars require such an appointment, are paid at the rate of £2 for every
scholar above the number already mentioned, up to
the maximum of £30 by the Board, with an equivalent from the managers.

With a view of encouraging persons qualified to
undertake the duties of teachers to settle in the province, a clause has been introduced into the Waste
Lands Regulations, providing that any person producing a certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board, that he is qualified to teach reading, writing,
arithmetic, and English grammar, shall be entitled
to receive a land order for 80 acres of land, for
which, however, a grant will issue only after the
lapse of five years, on his being able to satisfy the
Superintendent that he has been engaged during the
whole of that period in teaching in some school in
connection with the Board.

Sites and Buildings.

The Board has no property in the sites or buildings of the schools, but refuses aid where these are
insufficient or unsuited, or where they are not kept
in proper repair, and where the school apparatus is
deficient. The appropriation of sites, however, for
the purposes of the Board seems to be contemplated
in the future, as a clause in the Waste Land Regulations gives power to the Superintendent to make
reserves for sites of schools as well as of land for
their permanent endowment.

Religious Instruction.

The Board has no power of either prescribing or
prohibiting religious instruction; the responsibility
of dealing with this question is left entirely with the
managers.

II.—WELLINGTON.

Legislative Enactments.

The law relating to education in the province of
Wellington consists of three short Acts, the principal
object of the two first being to establish schools in
the various districts of the province, and that of the
last to provide for the management of lands which