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T H E
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.
EUGENE J. O'CONOR, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XXIII. NELSON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1874. No. 36.
Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
July 22, 1874.
THE following Report and Returns are published for general information.
WILLIAM ROUT,
For the Provincial Secretary.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR
OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
NELSON, July 2nd, 1874.
TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTRAL BOARD OF EDUCATION.
SIR,—The return now before the Board show an increase of 162 scholars during the past year, the total for 1874 being 3833. There are at present 56 schools under the control of the Board. The daily attendance for the year has been very good, averaging rather more than 70 per cent. The complaints so frequently made that the children leave school at an earlier age than they did formerly, do not appear to be borne out by statistics, for the returns show that the number of scholars over 12 is both relatively and actually larger than it has ever been before. The number of readers marked "good"—that is to say who can read a passage from a newspaper with tolerable facility, and so as to be understood—is 1012, being 62 more than there were last year. The quality of the reading throughout is, indeed, decidedly better than it was. The number of good writers is also largely in excess of last year's return. In arithmetic the number of those who can work vulgar and decimal fractions is about the same as in 1873.
I have expressed myself with some plainness on several matters of detail, in which a reformation is much needed. Not having found private remonstrance very effectual, I have thought it best to point out publicly in what respects amendment is required; this being, on the whole, the least invidious method of procedure. I do not apprehend that those who are referred to will find any difficulty in making the application for themselves.
School and Class Registers.—Quarterly Returns.—Although it was found necessary, several years ago, to include among the rules for the management of our Provincial schools an injunction that school and class registers should be neatly and carefully kept, there is still room for improvement in this respect. Few of these important documents, upon the accuracy of which the income of many of our teachers largely depends, are kept with such an amount of neatness
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1874, No 36
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🏛️ Publication of Official Notifications
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationProvincial Secretary, Official Communications, Nelson
- Eugene J. O'Conor, Provincial Secretary
🎓 Publication of Annual Report of the Inspector of Public Schools
🎓 Education, Culture & Science22 July 1874
Education, Schools, Annual Report, Inspector of Schools, Nelson
- William Rout, For the Provincial Secretary
🎓 Annual Report of the Inspector of Public Schools
🎓 Education, Culture & Science2 July 1874
Education, Schools, Statistics, Attendance, Inspector of Schools, Nelson