generally, to devote his time and energies to the advancement of Education within the Province.

Eighth. That provision should be made for the establishment of Branch or Side-Schools, and for the Salaries of Male or Female Teachers as the case may require, in such outlying parts of the Province as may not from their limited or scattered population be able to support first-class Teachers.

Ninth. That, looking upon professional training on the part of Schoolmasters as of extreme importance to the interests of Education, provision should also be made for the training of Pupil Teachers.

Tenth. That, with a view of making a more permanent provision for Education, the Government should purchase or make reserves of land in each Educational District constituted or to be constituted within the Province; the lands so to be reserved to be granted by the Government for the benefit and advancement of Education therein, and for the endowment of a High School and College in Dunedin in all time coming.

Eleventh. That a copy of these Resolutions be sent to the Rector of the High School in Dunedin, and also one to each District School Committee and Teacher, with a request that any suggestions which they may think proper to make as to the details of the new Ordinance should be forwarded to the Provincial Solicitor as early as possible.

Twelfth. That a respectful address be presented to His Honor the Superintendent, requesting him to instruct the Provincial Solicitor to prepare also a Bill, embodying the principles contained in the foregoing Resolutions, in order that the same may be printed and circulated through the Province.

JAMES MACANDREW, Speaker.
ROBT. CHAPMAN, Clerk of Council.

RESOLUTIONS
OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF OTAGO
ON THE "NEW PROVINCES ACT, 1858," AND
THE "WASTE LANDS ACT, 1858."

1. THAT the tendency of the legislation of the recent Session of the General Assembly being for the most part highly beneficial, it is with extreme regret that the Provincial Council of Otago finds itself called upon to record its opinion that by the ‘Waste Lands Act’ and the ‘New Provinces Act,’ principles are established which may possibly in future be attended with injurious consequences to the Provinces.

2. That by the Waste Lands Act, a power is taken away from the Provinces, which, if wisely exercised, would have been attended with the best results to every interest of each individual Province, without in any degree impairing the general interests of the colony. But this Council is particularly impressed with the conviction that by the operation of the New Provinces Act the prosperity and advancement of this Province may be very injuriously retarded.

3. That by the Constitution Act, no change in the constitution of any of the six Provinces of New Zealand could be made without the assent of her Majesty to an Act of the Colonial Legislature, passed for that purpose.

4. That this provision of the Constitution Act ensured to any Province proposed to be dismembered an opportunity of being heard upon the merits of the measure and a deliberate decision founded upon the justice of it, by the Colonial Legislature in the first instance, and in the second, by appeal to her Majesty’s ministers if aggrieved.

5. That it is believed it was not the intention of the British Parliament, or of her Majesty’s ministers, by the absolute repeal of the 69th section of the Constitution Act, to deprive any one of the Provinces of the right and privilege to defend, maintain, and preserve its existence undivided and entire, unless there should exist valid and invincible reasons for resorting to a measure so injurious to its most vital interests as its dismemberment in any circumstances must prove to be.

6. That by the New Provinces Act three-fifths of the registered electors resident within any district of certain dimensions may, upon a petition to the Governor signed by at least 150 such electors, and upon certain other conditions having no reference to the utility or justice of the measure, obtain from the Governor in Council an order for the severance of such district from the rest of the Province; which order the Governor has no option to refuse, but is bound to grant with all convenience.