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then kept up the boys^ school at his own expense. The average 

 daily attendance was twenty-five^ and the ages tour to eleven, Mr. 

 Wade Browne kept on the girls' school, giving the children a 

 distinctive dress, viz., red cloaks, blue gowns, and white aprons and 

 collars. The average daily attendance was thirty, and the ages four 

 to twelve. On Mr. Wade Browne's death this school was still kept 

 up by his widow by means of a bequest of ^35 a year, which Mr- 

 Browne had made for that purpose. This bequest, however, was 

 conditional on the family's continuance in the manor, and when 

 they left it lapsed. The school was held in the cottages opposite 

 the Church Farm, and there it was mantained until the year 1870. 



In that year the present National School was built at a cost of 

 £626 \Qs. Id., towards which each one of the principal landowners 

 subscribed the sum of £100. The site is on glebe land. There is 

 a master's cottage and garden attached, and the buildings are vested 

 in the rector and churchwardens for the time being. 



The school is denominational, instruction in the Bible and in the 

 doctrines of the Church of England being given by the rector every 

 morning from 9 to 10; it is a school of boys and girls mixed, iu 

 charge of a mistress, and is maintained partly by the Government 

 grant in aid, partly by school fees and partly by voluntary sub- 

 scriptions. The report of 1881 shews the general working of the 

 school, and the details of the several sums paid for its maintenance. 



These details, when they are analysed, shew the very important 

 fact, viz., that there is scarcely one person in the parish who does 

 not, according to his ability, contribute towards the education of 

 the youth of the parish — the rector, the landowners, the quarry- 

 masters, and others, in the shape of voluntary contributions, and the 

 villagers in the shape of school pence. 



MONKTON FaELET NATIONAL ScHOOL. 



Jteport made to the Education Department, for the Year ending 

 dlst March, 1881. ■ 



N.B. — It is computed that the attendance of children in elementary schools 

 ehould be at the rate of one for every six of the population. In our case it ought 



