✨ Education Board Report
The High School, Lyttelton, is no longer in receipt of aid as a Superior School, no funds having been voted by the Provincial Council for that purpose during its session in October and November, 1869. The Superior Schools had, previous to that date, been examined by Examiners appointed by the Board, in accordance with a resolution passed by the Council.
The New Schools that have been brought into operation in regularly constituted Educational Districts, are those of Hororata and North Kowai.
School buildings are in the course of erection in the Halkett District, and steps have been taken with the view of starting Government Schools in the Milford, Pleasant Point (near Timaru), Waihi Crossing, Kowai Pass, and Stoke (Moeraki Downs), Districts.
The school at South Selwyn has been brought under the operation of the Ordinance, and is now carried on in suitable buildings lately erected.
A Master’s house has been built in the Mount Grey Downs District.
The school at Prebbleton has been brought under the control of an annually elected Committee, in accordance with resolutions passed at a Public Meeting summoned by the Chairman of the Board, the Committee of the Church School, previously in existence, having forwarded to the Board an application requesting that a Government School might be founded in the district. A New Schoolroom has been put up on land vested in the Superintendent for school purposes, on which a Master’s house had already been built by the Board in the year 1864.
The total amounts paid out of the Provincial Treasury for the erection of the buildings above mentioned, have been as follows:—
| Location | Description | £ | s. | d. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hororata | Master’s House and Schoolroom | 250 | 0 | 0 |
| North Kowai | ... | 195 | 5 | 8 |
| South Selwyn | ... | 267 | 0 | 0 |
| Mount Grey Downs | Master’s House | 60 | 0 | 0 |
| Prebbleton | Schoolroom | 70 | 0 | 0 |
| Halkett (on account) | ... | 97 | 0 | 0 |
Of these sums the inhabitants in each of the respective districts have contributed at least one fourth, in accordance with the terms of “The Education Ordinance, 1864.”
The school at Broadfield, near Prebbleton, at present in receipt of a Special Grant of £2 per head for every child in average attendance, will shortly be replaced by one founded under the provisions of the Ordinance.
A new and commodious building for St. Andrew’s School, Christchurch, has been erected by means of local contributions. The Board is informed that the residents of Kaiapoi are making efforts to provide better accommodation for the children of the Kaiapoi Wesleyan School.
Public Meetings have been held in Timaru, with the view of obtaining increased educational facilities, and the Board has expressed its willingness to aid the residents to the best of its power in furthering the desired object.
With regard to the statistics for the year 1869, it will be found that the total number of attendants at Ordinary Schools aided by the Board during the December Quarter, was 8356, being an increase of 374 on the same quarter of 1868.
The average attendance during the December Quarter, 1869, was 2862, an increase of 330 on the same quarter of the previous year.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1870, No 21A
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🎓 Annual Report of the Board of Education
🎓 Education, Culture & Science2 May 1870
Education, Schools, Statistics, Canterbury