8th. Akaroa Church of England boys’ and girls’ school.—There is one building consisting of a school-room 30 by 16½, and a master’s residence, containing 4 rooms, built in 1859, at an outlay of £400, out of the Government grant.

The site is about two roods in extent, reserved by the Provincial Council for a school, and vested in the Superintendent under the Public Reserves Act, 1854. The building was erected for the purposes of a school, in connection with the Church of England. The schoolroom requires lining and other repairs; the furniture is in a bad state; there is only one desk in the centre of the room, unfit for school use, a very insufficient supply of books, slates, and apparatus. The attainment of the pupils is very low, the master having had no previous experience in teaching; the number of pupils is decreasing, and altogether the school cannot be said to be in a satisfactory condition; the number on the books only 18.

9th. Riccarton Church of England School for Boys and Girls.—The buildings consist of a school-room 32 x 16, and a master’s residence under the same roof, containing five rooms, erected in the year 1859, at a cost of £450, of which £100 was obtained from private subscriptions, and £350 from the Government grant for a school in connection with the Church of England, on land set apart in perpetuity for school purposes. The site consists of one acre, private donation, vested in the Bishop of Christchurch, and his successors in trust for a school in connection with the Church of England. The schoolroom is in tolerable repair, though in a somewhat unfinished state. There are 28 children on the books.

10th. Papanui Church of England School for boys and girls.—There is one room built for the purposes of a school-room, 30 x 20, built in the year 1859, at a cost of £180, out of the Government grant for a school in connection with the Church of England on land set apart in perpetuity for school purposes. The site contains half an acre, being part of a block of 10 acres given by a private individual for church and school purposes in connection with the Church of England, and vested, as well as the building, in the Church Property Trustees. The schoolroom requires lining, the floor is improperly laid, and the teachers and children suffer much from cold, which causes irregularity of attendance and otherwise interferes with the proper conduct of the school. The number of children on the books is 60.

The sixteen buildings used for the double purpose of religious worship and school-teaching are the following:—

1st. St. Luke’s Church of England infant school (with some elder girls).—This school is held partly in St. Luke’s Church and partly in the vestry; it is composed principally of young children, and is under the management of a mistress. The building is utterly unfit for the purpose of a school, being generally unlined, and there being no fireplace. The approach to the school is such as to render attendance in wet weather almost impracticable, there being no formed road leading to it.

The attendance has consequently been much interrupted in winter, and the mistress resides at such a distance as to prevent her from attending punctually in bad weather. It is in contemplation however to erect a new school-room on part of a reserve purchased by the Canterbury Association on account of the ecclesiastical and educational fund, and vested in the Church property Trustees as a site for a church, parsonage, and school. There is here a general deficiency of school furniture and educational appliances. The number on the books is 48.

2nd. Kaiapoi Presbyterian Boys’ School.—The school is held in the Presbyterian Church, a room 34 x 18, now in the course of being lined, erected in the year 1860, at a cost of £120 of which £60 was raised by private subscription, and £60 was apportioned out of the Government Grant. There is a great deficiency of school apparatus. The site is a quarter of an acre in extent, vested in trustees for Church and school purposes in connection with the Presbyterian Church. The building is under the control of the minister and local committee. Number on the books 18.

3rd. Woodend Wesleyan Mixed School.—The school is held in a room 22 x 17, built in the year 1860 at a cost of £55, the whole raised by voluntary subscription. The site upon which the building stands is only about 20 yards square, a private donation not yet conveyed to trustees, but placed under the control of the Superintendent Minister according to the provisions of the Wesleyan Methodist model trust deed. The room is unlined and not properly ventilated. The number of children on the books is 35.

4th. Akaroa Presbyterian School for Boys and Girls.—The school is held in a building, newly erected as a church from funds partly raised by subscription and partly from Government grant, the site is one-third of an acre granted by the Provincial Government for church and school purposes, vested in the Superintendent in trust for the Presbyterian Church. It is in contemplation to erect a separate building for school purposes on the same site. The master holds a certificate from the Free Church Training College, Edinburgh, 2nd class of the first year. The school was only established at the latter end of April last. Number on the books, 14.

5th. Okain’s Bay Church of England mixed school. There are two buildings separated from each other by a distance of about half a mile. The school-room, built originally for a church and school combined, under the designation of a chapel school, 30 x 15, and a master’s house. These buildings were erected in 1860, the former at an assumed cost of £300, partly out of the Government Grant for educational purposes, partly from that for church purposes, on a piece of land three acres in extent, and held in trust by the Superintendent for church and school purposes. The latter upon a Government reserve of ten acres, likewise vested in the Superintendent for school purposes. The number of pupils on the books is 36. Until lately