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and 80, which provide that the " Board Fund " and the " School Fund " respectively shall include " donations and subscriptions," as well as other moneys that may be granted for educational purposes. As explained by Circular No. 7, the capitation payments to Boards will be made by monthly instalments according to the actually-ascertained average attendance. It will be necessary for Boards to show that the moneys granted for special purposes are expended by them on the objects so specified. It is scarcely necessary to remind your Board that beyond the moneys above mentioned there will be no funds at the disposal of Government for distribution among the several Education Boards, and that it will be absolutely necessary for Boards so to regulate their expenditure for the year that it shall not exceed their income for the same period. It is also to bo understood that the ability of Government to grant moneys for the special purposes herein mentioned will depend upon the will of the Legislature. John Hislop. (Circular Xo. 10.) Education Department, Wellington, The Secretary to the Education Board, . 22nd June, 1878. Government have hail under consideration the advisability of encouraging and assisting the teachers employed in the public schools of tho colony to make provision for themselves on their retirement from active duty, and for their widows and orphan children, and they have accordingly instructed the Actuary of the Government Insurance Department to submit for consideration a scheme calculated to secure so desirable an object. That officer has represented the necessity of obtaining from the several teachers such information as would furnish him with a sufficient amount of reliable data upon which to base tho calculations required in the framing of the proposed scheme, aud I am therefore directed to ask you to be good enough to forward copies of the accompanying forms to all the teachers (except pupil-teachers) in your Board's employment. The memorandum upon the form furnishes all the information required by them. An envelope for each teacher is herewith forwarded, which will save payment of postage. The reason for asking that the returns should be sent direct to the Actuary is, that the particulars of information supplied will be held as strictly confidential, and will not be communicated to any other than the Actuary. It is intended that two blank forms and one specimen copy should be sent to each male and female teacher, but only one copy of the return when filled up is to be sent to the Actuary. The specimen return will show the nature and kind of information wanted. I am to state that Government rely upon the hearty co-operation of Education Boards in their effort to secure so desirable ati object as that herein indicated. JonN Hislop.

SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS, Administering Education Eeserves under the provisions of " The Education Reserves Act, 1877." [Vide New Zealand Gazette, No. 49, 30th May, 1878, and No. 58, 20th June, 1878.] For the Provincial District of Auckland. —John Logan Campbell, Esq., James Dilworth, Esq., Joseph May, Esq., John McEffer Shera, Esq., Daniel Austin Tole, Esq. For the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay. —Richmond Beetham, Esq., John Davies Ormond, Esq., Bobert Stuart, Esq., Frederick Sutton, Esq., John Thomas Tyler, Esq. Eor the Provincial District of Taranaki. —Harry Eyre Kenny, Esq., Thomas King, Esq., Robert Parris, Esq., Benjamin Wells, Esq., Charles Douglas Whitcombe, Esq. Eor the Provincial District, of Wellington. —James Coutts Crawford, Esq., the Hon. William Fox, the Hon. William Gisborne, Joseph Godfrey Holdsworth, Esq., Charles Plummer Powles, Esq. Eor ihe Provincial District of Marlborough. —William Evans Dive, Esq., Cyrus Goulter, Esq., Stephen Luun Muller, Esq., Alfred Rogers, Esq., Arthur Penrose Seymour, Esq. For the Provincial District of Nelson. —John Wallis Barnicoat, Esq., Lovvther Broad, Esq., Alfred Greenfield, Esq., James Sclanders, E*q., William Wastney, Esq. For the Provincial District of Westland. —The Hon. James Alexander Bonar, Joseph Giles, Esq., Edward Patten, Esq., Matthew Price, Esq., Henry Lee Robinson, Esq. For the Provincial District of Canterbury. —Andrew Duncan, Esq., tho Rev. William Gillies, Henry Porchcr Lance, Esq., John Marshman, Esq., George Lilly Mellish, Esq. For the Provincial District of Otago. —John Bathgate, Esq., James Pillans Maitland, Esq., the Hon. James Alex. Robertson Menzies, Donald Eeid, Esq., the Hon. William Hunter Reynolds. By Authority : Geoege Didsbcbt, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB7B. Price 2s. 9d.]