In several eases the residents were making considerable sacrifices m adding to the Board's grant, but m others teachers received just 80 much as, and no more, than that grant might amount to. Under these circumstances the Board, while still declining to undertake the

full cost of tho maintenance of schools under 25 m averato attendance, deemed it necessary to assumo tho full control over the appoint ment and payment of teachers m such schools requiring as a necssary condition of con tinued maintenance the quarterly payment on the part of the residents of a lixed sum based on tho estimates or previously ascertained average attendances, and ranging from £19 per annum for an averago of ten children to £5 for an averago of twenty-four. When the average reaches 25 this contribution from the residents ceases, and tho teacher receives the full amount of his salary from the Board's funds on the ordinary scale. At tho same time, the Board increased tho capitation allowance for salaries m such schools m favour of male teachers and m favour of certificated teachers. These arrangements place the teachers on a more satisfactory footing both m regard to the amount of their salary (the sum of the Board's grant and the residents' contribution paid through tho Board) and m regard to the certainty of en joyment. At the samo time, tho oppor tunity was taken by the Board to re vise its ordinary scale of salaries, so as to remove some irregularity m the rates of increase and to apply the greater part of the special capitation grant of Is Gd m the pound to the purpose of rewarding by means of a bonus payment, special attention paid to instruction m the ' class subjects ' of the new regulations ; caro being taken to placo, as far as possible, the teachers of the smaller schools lin an equally favourable position as regards tho total amount of their income with the teachers of schools iv which the division of labour might be presumed to produce mor*e eflloiont instruction m such subjects. It is a matter of regret that m carrying out these objects the narrow financial circumstances of tho Board absolutely forbade that the total expenditure should exceed the limits of the sum previously paid m salaries. 