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together. Were this suggestion adopted,
of course a new kitchen would have to be
attached to the rear of the building, and
the present chimney would have both to
be removed and rebuilt; but as the
same materials for this would serve for
the purpose, this part of the alteration
would not incur much expense.

6. We have particularly to recommend
   that the eaves of the building be
   fitted with water-channels, and that
   casks of adequate number and size be
   adapted to the spouts thereof. As these
   will not only tend, when wet weather
   prevails, to keep the immediate environs
   of the building in a comparatively com-
   fortable state, but will afford generally a
   convenient supply of soft water for do-
   mestic purposes, and likewise prove of
   ready access when fire or other exigency
   may so demand.

7. The number of scholars has varied
   very considerably in the interval of the
   school’s commencement in 1846, and the
   present time. At about the former date,
   twenty-five Maori children were educated
   as day-scholars, and about the same
   number of Maori adults as evening pupils.
   From August, 1848, to March, 1852, the
   numbers averaged from eight to twenty-
   nine, including four European boys, during
   the last eighteen months. The number
   of scholars on the commons of the
   institution at the recent period of our
   visit was, Maori, twenty-eight; half-caste,
   one; European, three; or thirty-two in
   aggregate, and whose ages varied from
   seven years to seventeen.

8. When the school was first estab-
   lished there were no funds to provide for
   its support, hence originated the idea of
   farming a portion of the land appertain-
   ing to the Mission for the purpose. As
   the School went on, its utility became
   more and more manifest, and as, with
   that, cultivation became more extended,
   the farther thought occurred to
   Mr. Turton of erecting permanent school-
   buildings, and receiving therein scholars
   only as boarders. This was realized in

9. The cost of the building was
   conjointly defrayed by the Colonial Gov-
   ernment and the Wesleyan Missionary
   Society. The boarding and clothing of
   the scholars, together with the con-
   current expenses of the institution, have
   been about equally provided by the above
   two public bodies for one year, and by
   the Mission alone for the remaining time.
   The farm of one hundred acres belonging
   thereto, has been chiefly cultivated in the
   first instance, i.e., in the breaking-up

stage, by European labour at the ex-
pense of Mr. Turton, he having stocked
it also with sheep and cattle, and ob-
tained from England, at considerable
cost, several of the most improved im-
plements of modern agriculture; thus
laying a most promising basis for the
successful progress and future indepen-
dence of the institution, but unavoidably
leaving, for the time being, a heavy debt
on the estate.

9. The stipends of the Superintendent,
   the Teacher, and his wife, are paid by
   the Missionary Society, and those of the
   Farm Overseer and Matron by the Colo-
   nial Government.

10. The yearly cost incurred for the
    education and maintenance of each pupil
    has been found so difficult to arrive at,
    that only a probable approximate to a
    correct estimate can be calculated. We
    have examined attentively, and con-
    sidered carefully, Mr. Turton’s calculation
    and estimate, which is as follows, and we
    regard it as about as near an approach
    to what is likely to be the fact, as can at
    present be arrived at:—

Clothing, Boarding and Educating 50
Pupils at £7 10s. each per annum ... 375 0 0
Extras ... ... ... ... ... 50 0 0
Farm Overseer’s Salary ... ... ... 52 0 0
Housekeeper, or Matron ... ... ... 35 0 0

Total ... ... ... £512 0 0

which sum he proposes should be paid
over to him by the Colonial Government.
Of course the expenditure of this amount
will depend entirely on the number of
scholars—fifty being the maximum. But
it may be anticipated that the amount of
pupils will fluctuate, say between thirty
and fifty; or, again, some may enter at
the half or quarter year, or at still more
broken periods; while, on the other hand,
some, through caprice or other unavoi-
dable contingency, may not continue as
alumni beyond a few months. By such
an annual grant as we have stated, Mr.
Turton presumes that in four or five
years the debt now on the estate would
be paid off, and the income then derived
from it would be found probably more
than sufficient to maintain the Institution.
The details of Mr. Turton’s plan are as
follows:—

1. That thirty acres of land be set apart
   for arable purposes, the profits of
   which are to be appropriated to the
   maintenance of the scholars, a separate
   account thereof to be kept.

2. That when such profit is less than
   £100, or at the rate of £2 each, the