✨ Education Board Annual Report
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s Command,
EDWARD JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XIII.] TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1866. [No. XXXVII.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION,
For the year ending March, 1866.
To His Honor the SUPERINTENDENT
Sir,—The Board of Education has the honor to present its Annual Report for the year 1865-6, according to the terms of the “Education Ordinance, 1864.”
The Board has to lament the death of one of its members, Dr. Lillie, and desires, before adverting to other matters, to bear testimony to the zeal in the cause of education which distinguished their late colleague, and to put on record its sense of the loss which the removal of a gentleman of so much experience in dealing with questions relating to education has entailed upon the Province generally.
The Board has the satisfaction of believing that the system of public education now in operation is working upon the whole beneficially, and that the different schools in receipt of grants of public money, as a general rule, are both actually efficient and give promise of further improvement.
The feature in that system upon which its promoters most confidently relied for success was its tendency to excite local interest, and call forth local co-operation in the establishment and supervision of the different schools; and as a consequence of this to bring home to the community, as a whole, the great importance of the question of popular education.
It was felt that without this co-operation the plan most perfect in theory would be of comparatively little value in practice, because it would be wanting in that most important element of success—a constant and vigilant local supervision.
Many facts have come under the notice of the Board which seem to indicate that this object has been to no small extent attained, and that an earnest desire to see the education of the province placed upon a sound basis has become very general.
As illustrations of this feeling the Board refers to the following circumstances:—
- Several new schools have been established, or are on the point of being established in various parts of the province, all at the suggestion of the residents in the different districts, who have, by means of voluntary contributions undertaken a con-
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 37
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🎓 Annual Report of the Board of Education for 1865-6
🎓 Education, Culture & ScienceEducation, Board of Education, Canterbury, Annual Report, Dr. Lillie
- Lillie (Doctor), Deceased member of the Board of Education
- Edward Jollie, Provincial Secretary