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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. XIX. NELSON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1870. No. 26.
Superintendent's Office,
Nelson, 4th August, 1870.
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 1st, 1870.
TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTRAL BOARD OF EDUCATION.
SIR—So many new schools have been opened, and so many new appointments have been made, since I last reported in detail on our Provincial Schools, that I cannot well avoid repeating a form of report that offers several advantages in compensation for its unavoidable tediousness. For not only are the teachers themselves benefited by a short comparative estimate of the progress and present standing of each school, but I have reason to believe that many Local Committees feel their hands strengthened by an official, and presumably impartial, summing up of the merits and demerits of the schools within their respective districts. Where doubts that may have arisen as to the competency or the conduct of a teacher are confirmed by the report of an Inspector, the responsibility of the Committee is, to a certain extent, lightened, while the effect must, in most cases, be still more satisfactory where such doubts are clearly shown to have been groundless.
It will be most convenient to preface the special notices of the different schools by a few general deductions, drawn chiefly from the quarterly and annual returns now before the Board. I have again the pleasure of recording a considerable accession to the numbers who have attended during the past year; the total for this year being 3387, as against 3078 in 1869; but the number of children who have remained at school after attaining their 12th year is, I regret to say, almost stationary, that is, it is relatively smaller than last year, the number being 560 in 1869 against 580 in 1870. It is all the more creditable to our teachers that, in spite
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- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary
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