✨ Provincial education report
THE
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
Published by Authority.
ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XXI. NELSON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1872. No. 29.
Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
August 16, 1872.
THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication of
the following Report and Returns for general
information.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR
OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Nelson, August 1, 1872.
To the CHAIRMAN of the CENTRAL BOARD of EDUCATION.
SIR,—I find that clearness will be gained and reference
facilitated by my placing the subjects treated of in this report
under several distinct heads, which, however, I have not at-
tempted to arrange in the precise order of their importance.
Numbers and Attendance.—Four new schools have been
opened during the past year, the number being now 52. The
total number of scholars on the roll is 3,472, showing an in-
crease of 174 on the previous return. The average rate of
attendance, 65 per cent., is somewhat lower than it was last
year; the number of children over 12 years of age, 599, being
proportionally about the same, and still amounting, I am sorry
to say, to rather less than 17 per cent. of the whole.
As I append a detailed account of the progress of the
scholars in every subject taught, I need only state here that
the unusually large addition of 248 has been made to the good
readers, the writers marked as "good" having increased by a
fifth. In arithmetic a fair advance has also been made.
Revenue and Expenditure.—The income of the Board is at
present almost entirely derived from the annual grant made
by the Provincial Council, the revenue from all other sources
being under £250 per annum. For the last two years the
amount of this grant has been the same, £7,200, a sum that,
when the revenue and resources of the Province are considered,
may fairly be termed munificent. There is no reason for
expecting that the grant will be increased hereafter, nor is it
probable that the rents from Educational Reserves will be
largely added to for some time. Six-sevenths of the Board's
funds are absorbed in paying teacher's salaries on the modest
scale that has been adopted for some years, a scale that has
hitherto sufficed to secure and retain the services of a body of
teachers inferior, I believe, to none in these Islands. Any
considerable reduction in salaries would probably end in
driving our best teachers to other Provinces where the pay is
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