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Advanced scientific instruction is promoted by special courses of study 

 for teachers at South Kensington, and for all classes at the Royal School of 

 Mines, College of Chemistry, and the Metallurgical Laboratory, London, 



Elementary drawing, as a part of national education, and fine arts applied 

 to industry, form the second branch of the department. Under this head are 

 maintained the National Art Training School, with 765 students, and 122 

 local schools of art, with a total of 22,854 students. 



Aid is also granted to 538 night classes, with 17,256 pupils, and in 1,770 

 elementary schools 194,549 children were taught drawing. 



The grand total of persons taught drawing, painting, or modelling in 1872, 

 through the agencies of this department in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 

 was 244,134. Training schools for teachers are maintained in the highest 



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degree of efficiency, and grants are made by the department in aid of the 

 purchase of the necessary apparatus, models, etc. 



The educational and art museums of South Kensington, Bethnal Green, 

 Edinburgh, Dublin, with several local exhibitions, also under the care of the 

 department, have been patronised during the year 1872 by 3,795,000 visitors. 



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science and art in connection with the various agencies for the same period, 

 amounted to nearly 299,000. 



The total expenditure of the department for all its branches, charges, 

 and expenses during the same financial year was less than £210,000, 



Thus, while a simple calculation will show the cost per head of such 

 instruction, no estimate can be made of the gain to the community through 

 the increased intelligence of that class to which is due the nation's greatest 

 material prosperity. 



At the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, Cheltenham College, Eton, 

 Harrow, Marlborough College, Sherborne School, Winchester, and Taunton 

 Collegiate School, training in science and art has now become a recognised 

 part of the school course, and the London School Board require by regulation 

 18 " systematised object lessons, embracing a course of elementary instruction 

 in physical science, and serving as an introduction to the science examinations 

 which are conducted by the science and art department." 



With an unknown wealth of natural resources we are every day 

 witnessing waste and loss through careless ignorance, and unless some measures 

 are taken by our Government to provide a true system of education the next 

 generation will feel the incubus of a heavy debt, without that knowledge 

 which properly applied will enable our colony to meet all legitimate demands 

 and become a wealthy and prosperous nation. 



To establish and maintain in Auckland a school for nractical education in 



