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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

School Commissioners

School Commissioners.

The School Commissioners for the Otago Provincial District are Messrs David Barron (chairman), Thomas MacGibbon, Donald Borrie, William Dallas, and the Hon. Alfred Baldey. Secretary, Mr. C. Macandrew. Office, Education Board Offices, Jetty Street, Dunedin. Telephone, 494. P.O. Box, 3. Bankers, Bank of New Zealand. This body was constituted under the “Education Reserves Act” 1877; the members being appointed for a term of three years; three are Government nominees and the other two are appointed respectively by the education boards of Otago and Southland. The duties of the commissioners include the management of all primary education endowments, the revenue from which is handed over on a population basis to the two education boards already named. There are also some secondary education endowments, the income from which goes to the Otago. Southland. and Waitaki High Schools Boards of Governors.

Mr. Colin Macandrew . Secretary to the School Commissioners for the Otago Provincial District, is the eldest son of the late Mr. James Macandrew. who was so prominent as a politician in New Zealand. Born in London in 1849, and educated at North page 162 East Harbour and at the Dunedin High School, the subject of this notice, who accompanied his parents to Port Chalmers in January, 1851, in the schooner “Titan,” was at one time employed by the Otago and Southland Investment Company; and afterwards was an officer in the Bank of Otago in Dunedin and at Milton. In 1870 he entered the stamp office under the General Government, remaining about four years in the service; was afterwards for a short time employed as a ship broker and custom house agent; and was appointed in February, 1879, to the position he now holds. For five years Mr. Macandrew was a member of the North East Valley borough council. As a Mason he is attached to Lodge Celtic, S.C., No. 477, of which he is a Past Master and at present the Treasurer. In 1879 Mr. Macandrew married a daughter of Mr. Henry Brown of Kings Lynn, Norfolk, and has two sons and a daughter.