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gent, persevering, and industrious habits, out of its children who have been 
trained under these codes. The present Governor, Sir. F. M. Hodgson, has 
shown much sympathy with the teachers; but he too has feared to strike 
at the root of the evil, although his hands were strengthened by the elective 
section of the Combined Court which has had to wrench from the Secretary 
of State, against his advice, a Board of Education to advise what should 
be done to make the system of education in the colony of real service to 
it. The inhabitants are awakening to a definite interest in this matter of 
vital importance to them; and the Hodgson regime will undoubtedly be long 
remembered as the administration which first moved forward in educational 
affairs for the general good, although undue caution has been its watchword. 
When it is considered that the vast majority of respectable inhabitants believe 
in sending their sons and their daughters to be educated in these primary 
schools, and that they do not see the taint im morals their children must in- 
evitably get by the contact with the children of the poor who have to reside in the 
“ranges,” and there to see and to hear things that they should not know, all who 
are interested in the progress of this colony must be convinced that it is a first 
duty of the State to get teachers able to train the children and set them the needed 
examples, and to see that those teachers are the servants of the State and have 
definite status. Sir Frederic Hodgson has done well in carrying through the 
scheme to have the teachers trained for their important duties ; it is to be hoped 
that he will get for them that which they had under the Longden system,— 
security of tenure of office and greater fixity of salaries. The State must alone 
be responsible for the subjects to be taught under its Codes, and that will 
soon be. 
(Lo be Continued). 
