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of the colony, and at such places most suitable for the con- 

 venience of the population. 



Fifth. The training and primary schools to be under the 

 control of the Board of Education, and subject to the supervision 

 of the inspector. 



Sixth. The expenses of erecting and maintaining the school- 

 houses, with 1 suitable accommodation for teachers, and the 

 salaries, to be defrayed from the funds of the wards. 



Seventh. No person to be appointed master or mistress 

 unless such person has produced a certificate of good character 

 to the satisfaction of the Board of Education, and until such 

 person has undergone an examination by the Board, and has 

 received a certificate of efficiency. 



Eighth. At the primary schools instruction to be provided 

 for day scholars, and for evening and adult classes. 



Ninth. Admission to the primary schools to be gratuitous. 



Eleventh. Instruction to be given at the training and primary 

 schools to be secular, and without direct religious or doctrinal 

 teaching. 



These "resolutions formed the basis of the system proposed by 



J his Excellency Lord Harris. This system was strongly objected 



to, on acccount of the resolution which made the instruction 



/ purely secular ; and experience has proved, I apprehend, that it 



was neither intrinsically the best, nor the most suitable to the 



I requirements of the population. 



Two training or normal schools were established, one for j 

 males and another for females, and to each was attached a model 

 school. 



In the year 1863 Mr. Keate, the then Governor of the 

 colony, established the Queen's Collegiate School, for secondary 

 education, on the plan of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland. 



Sir Arthur Gordon, finding that the system of primary 

 education established by Lord Harris in 3 851 had only partially 

 effected the object for which it was designed, proposed for the, 

 adoption of the Legislative Council certain important modifications. 



Schools established by private persons became entitled to 

 receive aid from the Government, on compliance with the fol- 

 lowing conditions : — 



First. That the property and control of the schools is vestec 

 in a local manager, or managers, having the power (A) U 



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