Education Ordinance, 1861.

On the passing of the Education Ordinance, 1861, Mr (now Dr) John Hislop, of the East Taieri school, was appointed to the joint offices of Secretary to the Education Board and Inspector of Schools; and he held these offices until January 1878, when he removed to Wellington to assume the duties of Secretary to the Colonial Education Department.But the ordinance of 1861 was page 146disallowed by the Governor, on account of a technical error that occurred in some of its provisions for levying a school rate on heritable property within the several school districts. The Provincial Government was consequently under the necessity of carrying on the schools upon its own responsibility until another Ordinance should be passed by the Provincial Council.