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THE
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF NELSON.)
Published by Authority.
All 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.
ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XVII. NELSON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1869. No. 29.
Superintendent's Office,
Nelson, 17th August, 1869.
THE Deputy-Superintendent directs the publication of the following Report and Returns for general information.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.
REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Nelson, August 5th, 1869.
To the CHAIRMAN of the CENTRAL BOARD of EDUCATION,—
SIR,—The Report that I have now the honor of laying before the Board is, to a certain extent, a compromise between the plan adopted last year, which compelled me to enter at some length into the special merits and demerits of each of our Provincial schools, and such a more general summary of the result of the year's work as I have occasionally drawn up in previous years. I am aware that special objections may be raised against either method. A detailed report is usually chargeable with a wearisome sameness, while a general review is apt to degenerate into a mere essay on primary education, having but slight reference to the particular system on which it is founded, and with which it ought almost exclusively to deal. By way of avoiding the inconveniences attending both of the plans referred to, I purpose touching briefly on each of the subjects usually included in our school course, naming, at the same time, such of the schools as have been most conspicuous, during the past year, for success or failure in each branch. Where faults that were pointed out in my last report have been remedied, or where a marked improvement has taken place in any respect, I shall endeavor to do justice to the teachers by whom these changes for the better have been effected.
Reading.—I am unable to report any general improvement in this, by far the most important branch of an elementary education. Though the number of scholars above twelve years old has increased by nearly 100, there is a slight falling off in the number of readers marked "good," as compared with last year. Several reasons may be assigned for this. I find, for instance, that in some of our schools only one reading lesson a day is given ; but, whatever else is left out, it is clear to me that all the scholars should read twice daily, even though no explanation is given, either during or after one of the lessons. Indeed, a plan that has been adopted in one instance, according to which a whole day in each week is devoted to the practice of reading, to the exclusion of everything else, seems to be, on the whole, preferable to the partial
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