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considerably modified by a separate list of the items
of income and expenditure of each individual school.

The whole number of teachers, male and female,
employed in schools receiving Government aid, exclusive of the four masters of Christ’s College
Grammar school, is 46, distributed as follows:—

Of these only 7 hold certificates of some kind from
the United Kingdom—6 males and 1 female, the last
being first class probation certificate of the Com-
mittee of Privy Council on Education. One master
holds a certificate from Frederick Town, British
North America.

Five of the certificates from the United Kingdom
are held by masters in connection with the Presby-
terian Church, while the certificated mistress and one
master are the only certificated teachers in con-
nection with the Church of England. The Frederick
Town certificate is held by a master in connection
with the Wesleyan Church.

Twelve teachers, 9 masters and 3 mistresses'
though holding no certificate have received a greater
or less amount of special training. The period
during which they were trained varying from ten
weeks to two years; under this head is included a
teacher who attended no training institution, but re-
ceived instruction under a certificated master, and
was accustomed to teaching in England.

The remainder, 26 in number, have received no
special training of any kind, but some of them have
had experience in teaching, previous to their appoint-
ment in Canterbury.

The masters of Christ’s College Grammar School
are not included in the above summary, as the sub-
jects taught, the scale of fees paid by the pupils, as
well as the general system pursued there are some-
what different from those in any other school in the
province. The course of instruction is that adopted
in grammar schools in England, and the qualifica-
tions required in the masters are of a different
order from those required in masters of other schools.
Two of the masters are graduates in arts of the
universities of Oxford and Cambridge respectively,
a third master is more particularly engaged in giving
instruction in mathematics, while other general sub-
jects of an English education are taught by a master
trained at Cheltenham Training College, who holds
a first-class Government certificate.

As to the remuneration received by the teachers,
it appears that there are different plans in opera-
tion; in some schools, the whole of the fees in addi-
tion to a fixed sum in aid derived from the grant,
form his salary. In others, the amount paid out
of the grant varies according to the average atten-
dance, while in others a fixed salary is given inde-
pendently of attendance or fees.

There are 37 buildings used for school purposes,
10 of these are buildings built expressly as school
rooms; 16 are buildings used for the double purpose
of religious worship and school teaching; 8 schools
are held in buildings belonging to the Municipal
Council in Lyttelton; 1 is held in a dwelling house
purchased with the view of being adapted to the
purpose of a school building; 4 are held in private
houses, rented for the purpose, and 3 in private
houses where the accommodation is given gratuitously.

There are 18 teachers’ houses built originally as
such, of which 10 are detached from the school-
room, and 3 where the school is held in the same
building; provision for the teachers’ accommodation
exists in the case of 8 other schools which either are
or have been private dwellings, and serve the double
purpose of school-room and teacher’s house.

One of these has been purchased, four are rented,
and the use of three is a matter of private arrange-
ment, no direct payment being made in the form of
rent.

Two of the teachers’ residences included in the
above summary form part of the buildings belonging
to Christ’s College Grammar School, and are here
given under the head of separate dwellings, although
the class rooms form part of the masters’ houses,
and the principal school-room now in course of erec-
tion is a separate building.

The ten school buildings mentioned above as
having been built primarily for school purposes, are
the following:—

1st. Christ’s College Grammar School, consisting
of two masters’ residences, with one large school-
room, 40 x 27, and two class-rooms, 27 x 16 and
30 x 15, respectively, included in these buildings,
besides a new building in course of erection, 60 x 30.

The whole cost of the buildings in connection
with this school appears to be about £5,300, in-
clusive of the cost of the new school-room not yet
completed. The sources from which this amount
was derived are as follows:—

£ s. d.
Endowment ... ... ... 500 0 0
Subscription from England, about 2,000 0 0
Government Grant in 1858 ... 500 0 0
Ditto ditto in 1863 ... ... 1,000 0 0
Compensation for Cathedral square 1,200 0 0
To be raised ... ... ... 100 0 0

£5,300 0 0

In explanation of the last item it should
be mentioned that the Government Grant for the
errection of the new school-room amounted only to
£1,000, while the actual cost will, it is supposed,
reach nearly £1,100, thus leaving the sum of £100
to be provided in some other manner.

The nett income of the school from endowments
is about £270 per annum.

The site on which the buildings stand is ten acres
in extent, and was conveyed by the Provincial
Government to a corporation entitled Christ’s Col-
lege, Canterbury, consisting of the warden, sub-
warden, and fellows of Christ’s College, in trust for