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depression, the Board has some time since recommended to the Government that the Reserves for Elementary Education should be increased, so as to make the whole quantity set apart for this purpose at least 100,000 acres. The amount at present set apart is 40,000 acres.
A Bill altering and consolidating the Ordinance on Education now in force was under the consideration of the Provincial Council at its last meeting; the Bill was, however, withdrawn.
Being of opinion that the means of education provided for children in towns is not sufficiently extensive and systematic, the Board has exerted itself for the promotion of measures leading to reform in this particular. Although nothing as yet has been done in the matter, it trusts that at the next meeting of the General Assembly a Bill may be passed for the better provision of education in boroughs.
At the last Session of the Provincial Council, also, it addressed the Government on the same subject, stating that it considered it desirable that, as far as the funds of the Province would allow, provision should be made for the erection of School Buildings in the Municipalities of the Province of a better kind than those which now exist, capable of affording accommodation for an increased number of scholars, and better adapted for the introduction of a more complete school organization, and that the schools to be established should be in the same way as the District Schools under the control of the inhabitants, being managed by a Committee representing the ratepayers. With the view of initiating a reform in the direction above mentioned, the Board recommended the expenditure of the sum of £2000 in aiding the inhabitants of Municipalities to effect an alteration of the nature suggested.
Prizes have been given by the Board to forty-two of the scholars in the Ordinary Schools for diligence and good conduct during the past year. The names of the children to whom these prizes have been awarded will be found in the Appendix.
Twenty-nine candidates for Teacherships have been examined. Fourteen of these received certificates for the special appointments they were desirous of obtaining, and four were passed as competent for the management of Ordinary Schools.
Books, Maps, and Apparatus have been disposed of out of the Educational Depot to the value of £499 1s. 7d., an increase of £30 11s. 9d. on the value of articles sold during the previous year. The Board considering it desirable that there should be, to a certain extent, a uniformity in the Elementary Text Books in use in schools receiving Government assistance, has, with this object in view, revised the catalogue of books to be sold out of the Depot.
HENRY JOHN TANCRED,
Chairman.
March 31, 1870.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1871, No 24A
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Annual Report of the Board of Education for 1870-71
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🎓 Education, Culture & Science31 March 1870
Education, Scholarships, Annual Report, Schools, Canterbury, District Schools, Ordinary Schools, School Fees
- Henry John Tancred, Chairman of the Board of Education
- Henry John Tancred, Chairman