2. English Department.—To include Advanced English Reading, Grammar, Composition, and other collateral branches, Geography, History, &c.

3. Arithmetic and Mathematical Department.—To include Arithmetic and Mathematics, in theory and practice, Book-keeping, &c.

Writing, Drawing, Religious Instruction, &c., shall be taught by the several masters agreeably to such arrangements as may be hereafter made; and care shall be taken, if possible, that one or more of the masters shall be qualified to impart instruction in Natural Science to the more advanced pupils by means of lectures, experiments, &c.

4. Provision shall be made for the formation and maintenance of a well-selected Library for the use of the pupils of the institution, and also for the supply of suitable apparatus, including diagrams, maps, globes, models, specimens, &c.

5. No boy shall be admitted a pupil of the institution until he shall have passed an Entrance Examination of such nature and extent as may be fixed by the Education Board.

6. Until provision shall have been made for the board and residence within the walls of the institution of the masters and the pupils, every facility shall be afforded to settlers at a distance to avail themselves of the advantages of the school by arranging with the masters for the reception of boarders, and by registering or recommending boarding-houses, subject in virtue of such recommendation to visitation and inspection by the masters of the institution.

The Board at the same time took into consideration the steps necessary to be adopted to procure the services of three thoroughly qualified masters for the proposed High School, and resolved to request his Honor the Deputy-Superintendent to forward instructions for the engagement in Britain of a Principal (or Classical) Master, an English Master, and an Arithmetic and Mathematical Master for the proposed institution. His Honor was also authorised to defray the cost of those gentlemen’s passage from Britain to Dunedin from the sum of £400 appropriated for that purpose by his Honor the Superintendent and the Provincial Council, and to enter into such engagements with those gentlemen as he shall consider advisable and proper. His Honor was further requested to instruct the home agents to forward, along with the masters, a supply of such school-books and stationery as may by the masters be considered necessary for the classes in the High School. At a subsequent meeting of the Board his Honor reported that he had authorised the home agents to place the selection of the three proposed masters in the hands of the Provost of Eton, the Rector of the Edinburgh High School, and the Rector of the Edinburgh Academy; that to each of those gentlemen he had addressed a letter soliciting their aid in making selections so important to the Province; and that he had authorised the following salaries to be offered, viz.:—the Principal, £550, with £100 in lieu of house; each of the other Masters, £450, with £75 for house.

Expenditure.

The Expenditure on account of education during the past year has been as follows, viz.:—

Secretary and Inspector’s salary ....................... £326 5 4
Teachers’ salaries ......................... 1880 16 1
Contingencies ......................... 86 6 7
Expense of Establishment ......................... 2293 8 0
New School Buildings, Fencing and Repairs, including the High School ......................... 4132 16 10

Total Expenditure ......................... £6426 4 10

Appended to this report is a tabular view of the expenditure on education by the Provincial Government and by the settlers in the different educational districts, from the establishment of the schools to the 30th September, 1862, and also for the year ended 30th September, 1862. (See Appendix D).

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your very obedient servant,

JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary to the Education Board.

Education Board Office,
Dunedin, 10th October, 1862.

APPENDIX A.

REPORT

Of the Inspector of Schools for the year ended 30th September, 1862.

Dunedin, Oct. 10th, 1862.

His Honor Major Richardson,
Superintendent.

Sir,

I have the honor to report that during the past year I have visited and examined all the schools within the Province, established under the provisions of the Education Ordinance. In order to become personally acquainted with the state of educational affairs in the different districts, immediately before preparing my annual reports, I have hitherto visited the schools.