Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1854 – No. 9

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✨ Education System Proposal



NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature, are to be considered Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor’s command,
H. G. GOULAND, Provincial Secretary.

[Vol. I.] THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1854. [No. IX.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication, for general information, of the following minute of the Executive Council, on the subject of Education.

H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.

Extract of minutes of the Executive Council, dated April 10, 1854.

His Honor the Superintendent brings under the consideration of the Executive Council the subject of the expenditure of the sum voted by the Provincial Council for the service of Education for the current year.

The Council agree to the following minute thereon.

  1. Until the details of a system of Education for the Province shall be settled by a local Ordinance, the grant shall be expended in accordance with the provisions of the Education Ordinance of New Zealand, Sess. VIII., No. 10.

  2. Two classes of schools shall be established, (1) Upper schools, providing a classical and commercial education. (2) District schools, providing education adapted to the wants of the mass of the population.

Upper Schools.

  1. The Grammar School established at Christchurch shall receive such assistance as may be necessary for the addition thereto of a department of commercial Education, the school remaining under its present system and management: provided that it shall be subject to the inspection, and its accounts to the audit, of the Government, in such manner as His Honor may direct.

  2. A Grammar and Commercial School shall be established at Lyttelton under the superintendence of the Bishop of the Diocese.

  3. The Bishop, or in his absence the Bishop’s Commissary, shall, with the approval of the inspector appointed by the Government, appoint the masters, and, with the approval of the inspector and of the headmaster, make rules for ordering the system of instruction to be pursued, and the general conduct and management of the school.

  4. A fee of £2 10s. a quarter shall be paid for every pupil.

District Schools.

  1. District schools under the superintendence of the Bishop shall be established as soon as possible in the following places:—Christchurch, Riccarton, Papanui, the Ferry Road, Lyttelton, Governor’s Bay, Akaroa, Okains Bay, and from time to time in such other places as the wants of the population may require, and the funds at the disposal of the Government may admit.

  2. At Christchurch and Lyttelton, the schools shall consist of two departments, one for boys and the other for girls, which shall be under the charge of a master and mistress separately. A similar division will be made in all the schools as the funds arising from the fees shall justify the increased expenditure.



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🎓 Executive Council Minute on Education

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
10 April 1854
Education, Schools, Funding, Canterbury, Grammar School, District Schools
  • H. G. Goulard, Provincial Secretary