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Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th December, 1865.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to license
SAMUEL LOCKE, Esq.,
to be a Surveyor under "The Native
Lands Act, 1865."
A. II. RUSSELL.

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th December, 1865.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to license
WILLIAM ELLISON, Esq.,
to be a Surveyor under "The Native
Lands Act, 1865."
A. II. RUSSELL.

Napier, December 30, 1865.
SIR,—I have the honor to submit the
following report upon the state of
Schools, and the progress of Education
generally in the Province of Hawke's
Bay.
Since the date of my last report one
new School-house has been completed at
Puketapu, and two others, one at Hamp-
den and another at Waipawa, will shortly
be commenced.
At Waipukurau an amount has been
subscribed by the inhabitants for the same
purpose, sufficient, together with the grant
in aid from Government, to provide a
building suitable for the wants of that
neighbourhood.
It is gratifying to be able to report a
steadily increasing number of scholars,
with a greater interest shown on the part
of the parents, and consequently a more
regular attendance than formerly.
The number of scholars attending the
schools receiving Government aid is 261.
The progress made during the past year
is very satisfactory. The following table
will show the different branches of ele-
mentary education, given, together with
the proportion of scholars taught in each.

Needlework is also taught in the Girls'
Schools.
At the commencement of the year the
Schools will open as follows:—
St. Mary's, Catholic Girls' School,
Teacher, Sisters of Charity. Number of
scholars, 54.
St. Mary's, Catholic Boys' School,
Teacher, Mr. Mulhern. Number of scho-
lars, 39.
Clive. Teacher, Mr. Robson. Num-
ber of scholars, 24.
Puketapu. Teacher, Mr. Hardie. Num-
ber of scholars, 14.

Havelock. Teacher, Mr. Godwin.
Number of scholars, 25.
Waipawa. Teacher, Mr. Drover. Num-
ber of scholars, 29.
Napier, Girls' School. Teacher, Mrs.
Brooke Taylor. Number of scholars, 21.
Hampden. Teacher, Mr. Hudson,
Number of scholars, 15.
Napier, Training School. Teacher,
Mr. Haswell. Number of scholars, 19.
Wairoa. Teacher, Mr. Thomson. Num-
ber of scholars, 15.
Petane. Teacher, . Number
of scholars, 6. Total, 261.
In all eleven schools.

The trained teachers lately introduced
by the Government from Great Britain,
will be the means of greatly improving
the system of teaching throughout the
province. The success of any educational
scheme depends so much upon the class of
men placed in charge of schools, that the
importance of selecting well qualified per-
sons for the duties, cannot be too strongly
appreciated. Not only the present effi-
ciency of the schools will be affected by
such appointments, but the prospect of a
future supply of teachers from the ranks
of the provincial schools, will very much
depend upon the care now taken in the
selection. If sufficient inducements were
held out to persons of high attainments to
change in the work of education, not only
would more correct methods of instruction
be introduced into the schools, but the still
more important object would be gained, of
creating a staff of teachers capable of
training the habits and developing the
characters of the children, so as to prepare
them for the proper discharge of their
duties in after life.

As it would be premature to attempt
anything in the nature of a Normal School,
dependence must be placed for some time
to come upon the supply of teachers as
they are required, from the mother
country.

The necessity for providing an institu-
tion for the education of young men, more
advanced than the province at present af-
fords, is beginning to be felt, and it is much
to be desired that some united action on the
part of the inhabitants should be taken
for the purpose of attaining this object,
otherwise the youth of the province will
be obliged to seek elsewhere those branches
of study which, with a little effort, could
be provided for them nearer home.

The plan of awarding one or two Go-
vernment prizes in each school, which was
suggested in a former report, and which
has been adopted, promises to do much
good, showing as it does the interest taken
by the Government in the progress of the
scholars, and as affording them an addi-
tional incitement to exertion.

I have the honor to be,
Sir, your most obedient servant,
JAMES H. CAMPBELL,
Inspector of Schools.