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respecting Education in this Colony, including the small amount of fees and the defective teaching of English in the Central School.
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In that minute I said:
Having thus before him the views of the Secretary of State on the resolutions of the Education Conference, and on the question of raising the fee at the Central School, Dr. Stewart will be able to let the Surveyor General know the probable number of pupils the new school should be built to accommodate, and thereupon, Mr. Price can, at once, prepare the final plans and estimates for approval." As regards the doubling of the fifty cent fee, ordered by Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Dr. Stewart requested me to put off doing so till the 1st of January 1880, and to that I agreed.
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Your Lordship will see from the enclosed correspondence and Minutes, that on the 29th of April 1879, Mr. Price, the Surveyor General reported that the number of pupils Dr. Stewart had originally estimated for was increased by him on the receipt of my minute, from 500 to 700. My decision on this point (and the new proposal to build houses for the Assistant Masters) was given on the 9th of May 1879, to the effect that the Plans and Estimates should be prepared in accordance with Dr. Stewart's wishes.
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I left the Colony for three months from the 31st of May; and,