✨ Education Report and Notices
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 to be obeyed accordingly.
ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XXII. NELSON, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1873. No. 23.
Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
July 18, 1873.
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, July 3, 1873.
TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTRAL BOARD OF EDUCATION
SIR,—I find that 199 names have been added to the school rolls during the past year, the numbers being now 3671. Three new schools have also been opened, making a total of 55 under the control of the Board. It is a hopeful feature in this year's returns that the average daily attendance has risen to more than 70 per cent, as against only 65 per cent in 1872. And I am glad to be able to report that the increase in the number of children is altogether those above nine years old, of whom there are 209 more than there were last year, while the columns for those above 12 years old show the large increase of 109.
The great length to which my detailed report of each school has unavoidably extended prevents me from referring specially upon this occasion to the manner in which the several branches of education are now being taught in our schools. On the whole, the results appear to me very satisfactory, the children being at least as well instructed as in former years, while they are certainly much better disciplined.
The number of readers marked "good" is 950,—of writers 581, of advanced arithmeticians 395, these numbers corresponding pretty closely with those given last year.
It may not be amiss to prefix to my usual detailed account of each school a description of the method of inspection hitherto pursued, in order to show how the results given in the annual returns are arrived at. Rather more than two-thirds of the schools are regularly examined twice, and inspected at least once more during the year, seven of the smaller and more inaccessible schools—chiefly in the Golden Bay District—are visited twice only, while the ten schools on the West Coast
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