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FRESH TENDERS WANTED for furnishing and breaking one hundred and forty (140) cubic yards of metal, more or less. Tenders will be received up till the 6th of April, at 7 p.m. Specifications can be seen at my house and particulars given.—THOS. C. BURT, Clerk to the Board. Green Island, March 23, 1872.

BRIGHTON ROAD BOARD — Tenders wanted for the insertion of a box culvert opposite Knox’s, and the levelling of the road at Blair’s bridge. Specifications to be seen at the house of Mr J. B. Blair, with whom all tenders must be lodged on or before eleven o’clock on Thursday the 4th April. The Board will meet at two o’clock on Saturday, 30th inst., when they will point out the works to intending tenderers.—PETER LEITCH, Clerk. Brighton, 21st March, 1872.

WANTED for the Queenstown Main District School, a Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress. Salary, Government subsidy of £160, and School fees of 1s. per week added, subject to a deduction of £30 per annum. Probable salary from above sources, £300 per annum, with a good house rent free. Must be duly qualified teachers, and the master able to teach singing. Engagement to be for one year, only. Average attendance during 1871, 77. Apply Chairman of School Committee, Queenstown, enclosing testimonials.

R. W. BRETHERAM, Chairman.

NOTICE.—The consideration of the proposal of Enfield, Windsor, and Teaneraki Local Road Boards to borrow £24,000, has been postponed by the General Road Board until Monday, 15th April, at 11 a.m., at Provincial Government Offices, Dunedin.

TO Election of a School Committee having taken place in the Educational District of Kaihiku, His Honor the Superintendent has fixed Friday, the 26th day of April, 1872, at 7 o’clock, p.m., for the election at the School-house of a School Committee for the said district of Kaihiku.

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS for the Province of Otago will appear in next week’s ‘Gazette.’

TO SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SCHOOL TEACHERS.

THE following Minute of the Education Board is published for the information of School Committees and School Teachers.

By order,

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

Education Office,

Dunedin, March 25, 1872.

Dunedin, March 21, 1872.

The Board having carefully considered the Education Statistics for the year 1871, as contained in the Returns compiled by the Secretary, resolved—

1. That the following Regulations take effect on and after the first day of October, 1872:—

(1.) The Board will pay two-thirds of the cost of Pupil Teachers, including the payments to Masters for their Education, instead of the whole cost as at present.

(2.) The Board will pay two-thirds of the Fees for the Education of Orphan and Destitute Children, instead of the whole cost as at present.

(3.) The District Schools will be classified somewhat as follows:—

(a.) Grammar Schools, as provided by Ordinance.

(b.) Main Schools—Teacher’s Salary, £100; must have an average attendance of 40 pupils at least.

(c.) Side Schools—Teacher’s Salary, £75; must have an average attendance of 25 pupils at least.

(d.) Temporarily Subsidised Schools, £60; to be discontinued or connected with another Half-time School, if attendance does not eventually reach 20.

(e.) Schools under Itinerant Teachers, if such can possibly be established.

(4.) No school shall be recognised as a Main School or a Side School unless the returns for the preceding year show an average attendance for such year of at least 40 pupils in the case of a Main School, or 25 pupils in the case of a Side School. All schools at present ranking as Main or Side Schools which do not fulfil the required conditions as to attendance, will be brought under this rule, although a reduction in point of rank be the consequence, but due regard will be had to the professional status and merits of the present teachers in the adjustment of salaries. The payment of salary as specified above, will only be rigidly adhered to on the appointment of a new teacher, or when a falling off in the attendance is fairly and clearly attributable to the inefficiency or negligence of the teacher.

(5.) The following average attendance respectively will be required before the Board will consider applications for salaries for additional teachers:—

(a.) For a schoolmistress at £60, there must be at least 75 pupils.

(b.) For a schoolmistress with a pupil teacher, 110 pupils.

(c.) For a sewing teacher at £25, 50 pupils.

(d.) For a pupil teacher alone, 55 pupils.

(6.) To secure payment of a schoolmistress’ salary the school committee must undertake to pay to her at least £25 per annum in addition to the Board’s allowance; in the case of a teacher of sewing, the committee must undertake to pay £10 in addition to the Board’s allowance; and before the employment of a pupil teacher is sanctioned, the school committee must undertake to pay one third of the total cost of such pupil teacher.

2. That the Inspector be instructed to make the fullest possible investigations during his next round of inspection as to the practicability of lessening the cost of the smaller schools, and of also meeting the educational wants of sparsely peopled districts by a system of half-time schools, and the employment of itinerant teachers.

3. That the Inspector be instructed to submit in his report for the year 1872 suggestions as to the best mode for enabling the Board to judge of the results of the year’s teaching in each school, and for enabling the Board, with the consent of the Provincial Council to bestow honorary grants of money upon the most meritorious teachers; such grants to be bestowed strictly in accordance with well-ascertained results.

4. That the Board express their satisfaction at the comparatively large sums contributed towards the teachers’ salaries and other school expenses in many of the school districts, and also their regret that in some districts the amounts contributed locally bear so very small a proportion to the moneys advanced to such districts from the Provincial revenue, and strongly recommend to School Committees and the inhabitants generally of the different school districts, that strenuous efforts be made to secure that every school teacher shall

house of Mr James Aitken. Tenders will be received by the undersigned until the fourth day of April.—GEORGE ROBERTSON, Clerk to the Board. March 19, 1872.