The Short Title of this Act is “The Gisborne High School Act 1885 Amendment Act, 1895.”

“The Gisborne High School Act, 1885,” is herein called “the principal Act.” The Education Board of the Education District of Hawke’s Bay is herein called “the Education Board.”

Until the permanent establishment of a high school in terms of the principal Act, the Board shall have power to devote such part of its rents, profits, and annual income as it shall see fit to the promotion of secondary education in the Gisborne District High School by making grants of money to the Education Board, or otherwise providing for the building of additional class-rooms upon or in the vicinity of the District High School premises at Gisborne, or by paying or contributing towards the payment of the salaries of teachers, or of the fees of the scholars, and by the giving of prizes, exhibitions, and scholarships in such District High School.

The Board may also, in its discretion, until the permanent establishment of a high school aforesaid, contribute from its rents, profits, and annual income towards the support and maintenance of classes in the Gisborne District High School for secondary or technical education, and for instruction in any special subject from time to time approved by the Education Board, inclusive of drawing, type-writing, and shorthand, whether such subjects are included in “all the branches of a liberal education” within the meaning of section fifty-six of “The Education Act, 1877,” or not.

The temporary maintenance and supervision by the Board of secondary education at Gisborne since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and until further arrangements (if any) are made in terms of this Act with the Education Board, shall not be deemed to be the permanent establishment of a high school within the meaning of the principal Act or any amendment thereof, inclusive of this Act. But, for the purposes of Government audit and inspection in terms of or implied by the principal Act, the provisions of the said principal Act shall apply during such period of temporary maintenance and supervision: Provided always that if no arrangements are made between the Board and the Education Board for the resumption by the Education Board of secondary education in the Gisborne District High School within a reasonable time, in the discretion of the Minister of Education, the continuation thereafter by the Board of such maintenance and supervision of secondary education shall be deemed to be for all purposes the permanent establishment of a high school.