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the grant was paid the patron was to certify that the fees 

 received from scholars were equal to at least one-third of 

 the previous year's grant. Under certain conditions, how- 

 ever, supplementary grants in aid of teachers' sala- 

 ries, in aid of repairs, and for the supplying of station- 

 ery were made, apart from the ordinary grant. Un- 

 trained and uneducated individuals could be employed 

 as teachers, provided they won the patronising smiles of 

 managers. A heavy penalty was imposed on the con- 

 scientious teacher should he refuse to falsify his register 

 to make good the school fees due by careless or dis- 

 honest parents, whilst the unscrupulous schoolmaster 

 who flagrantly "cooked" his returns to bring them into 

 conformity with an unjust and unrighteous regulation, 

 was lauded and praised, held up as an example worthy 

 to be imitated, and received at the hand of a judicious 

 and conscientious Government a considerable augmenta- 

 tion of pay ! This system was introduced in January 

 1870, to continue until the year 1876, when amid the 

 hearty rejoicings of teachers, and to the satisfa6lion of 

 managers, its death knell was sounded by the Commis- 

 sion on Education appointed by Governor LONGDEN, 

 and, after lingering a few months, it was at last consigned 

 to the grave of well-merited forgetfulness. 



To rectify the evils laid bare by the witnesses exam- 

 ined before the Commission of Enquiry, among other 

 things it was recommended that Education should be 

 compulsory ; that the whole salary of teachers should 

 not depend on the results of examination nor flu6luate 

 with average attendance, but have a solid basis in the 

 shape of a portion of the salary remaining stationary ; 

 that teachers should not be entirely dependant on the 



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