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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 Honor's command,
ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XIV. NELSON, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1866. No. 19.
Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
August 10, 1866.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Report and Returns for general information.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.
REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
To DONALD SINCLAIR, Esq., Chairman of the Central Board of Education.
SIR,—The Educational statistics for the last twelve months, if taken as a whole, afford but little matter for comment, though that little is, with the exception of one point to be noticed presently, almost entirely of a favorable nature. The gross attendance shows a slight advance on last year's numbers, 44 additional pupils having raised the numbers for 1865-6, to 2,107. The number of good readers, 476, is nearly stationary, as is also the number of those who know something of geography, grammar, and history.
But in the two branches to which I have pointedly referred more than once, as being hitherto indifferently taught in the bulk of our schools—penmanship and arithmetic—I have every reason to be satisfied with the improvement that has already taken place, and is still going on. The number of writers classed as "good," amounting to only 116 two years ago, now reaches 256. In arithmetic, the advancement made has been, in one sense, more satisfactory to myself, inasmuch as it is capable of being more exactly tested than handwriting can well be. The number of scholars having a fair knowledge of proportion and practice has increased by more than a third during the past year, while about one-seventh has been added to
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1866, No 19
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🎓 Publication of Report and Returns of the Inspector of Public Schools
🎓 Education, Culture & Science10 August 1866
Education, Schools, Statistics, Attendance, Penmanship, Arithmetic, Nelson
- Donald Sinclair (Esquire), Chairman of the Central Board of Education
- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary