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North Road ... Inspected March 1 ... Present 18 ... Register satisfactory; school in good order.
Heathcote Valley ... Examined March 5 ... Present 31 ... Average last week 26; attendance increasing. The school has recommenced satisfactorily under the new master. The new buildings are in course of erection.
Lower Heathcote (Ferry Road) ... Examined March 6 ... Present 31 ... The enlargement of the building has just been completed. The progress is, on the whole, satisfactory, although the school has suffered a serious loss by the resignation of the former mistress. The sun’s rays falls fiercely on the heads of the children; blinds are wanted to all the windows.
Papanui School ... Examined March 12 ... Present 91 ... The school has been re-opened in the old premises, pending the erection of new buildings, but under the District Clauses of the Education Ordinance of 1871. The progress under the late master, Mr. Fleming, is satisfactory. Mr. Mayo, who for many previous years had conducted the school with remarkable efficiency and success, has been re-appointed and supplied with competent assistants.
St. Albans ... Examined March 13 ... Present 163 ... The school, re-organised and re-opened under good auspices, affords every hope of the most successful results. Instead of a large room thinly occupied, the present number nearly fill the room. Some big backward boys have never been to school before. The average attainments are, at present, about the lowest.
Harewood Road ... March 14 ... Present 42 ... Satisfactory as to the attainments and progress. Certain defects and requirements were pointed out on the form of report annexed.
North Road ... Examined March 15 ... Present 28 ... Satisfactory.
Upper Heathcote ... Inspected March 19 ... Present 21 ... Improving.
Halswell ... Inspected March 19 ... Present 46 ... Attendance increasing; school in good order.
Tai Tapu ... Inspected March 19 ... Present 31 ... Satisfactory.
Greenpark ... Examined March 19 ... Present 22 ... Generally satisfactory for the first examination; but the school is at present comparatively new, and the organisation improvable.
Tai Tapu ... Examined March 20 ... Present 32 ... Satisfactory; except as to the Sacred History of the second class.
Waltham proposed temporary premises and school. The present premises are only tenable, if better cannot be found; generally unsuitable, and not large enough for more than about 20 children. No register, no roll-call, no record of attendance, and no suitable appliances or material. Only 13 attendants, of whom 11 were present. The progress of the few regular attendants is creditable; but they appear to have been taught with more of labour than of skill.
Upper Heathcote ... Examined March 22 ... Present 23 ... Improving; but the number in attendance, and the accommodation provided, do not at all represent the requirements of the district.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1872, No 39
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- Fleming (Mr.), Late master at Papanui School
- Mayo (Mr.), Re-appointed master at Papanui School