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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honour's command,
ALFRED DOMETT, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. VII. NELSON, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1859. No. 9.
Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson,
April 26, 1859.
HIS Honour the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Returns for general information.
ALFRED DOMETT, Provincial Secretary.
REPORT OF THE CENTRAL BOARD OF EDUCATION.
FEBRUARY, 1859.
To his Honour J. P. ROBINSON, Esq., Superintendent, Nelson.
SIR—I have the honour to forward to you the enclosed Returns of the Schools under the control of the Board, and the accompanying remarks of the Inspector.
The report of their Committee has already put you in possession of the suggestions for further improving the condition of the schools which have been considered and adopted by the Board. Until it is known how far these can be carried out in practice, the action of the Board is necessarily confined to the superintendence of the schools, the economical and impartial distribution of the funds at its disposal, and to the improvements which the education loan for building purposes enables it to effect.
Owing to difficulties which have arisen respecting the terms on which the property of the Nelson School Society should be transferred to the board, much less has been done in the way of providing additional accommodation than was anticipated; but where no such cause of delay existed, some progress has been made.
Thus, at Hillside, Suburban-north, a dwelling-house for the master has been built; at Clifton, in the same district, the school-house has been put into a state of thorough repair, and otherwise improved, and the ground substantially fenced; at Richmond, the liabilities have been discharged which the Local Committee had incurred in securing an eligible site, and erecting a school-house on a plan commensurate with the requirements of a
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1859, No 9
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🏘️ Publication of returns for general information
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government26 April 1859
Returns, Information, Nelson, Provincial Secretary
- Alfred Domett, Provincial Secretary
🎓 Report of the Central Board of Education
🎓 Education, Culture & Science1 February 1859
Education, Schools, School buildings, Nelson, Board of Education
- J. P. Robinson (Esquire), Superintendent of Nelson