which the Government and the private managers have
hitherto worked together in the field of education which, in stongstong, is annually widening proportion as the population increases from year
is erot
in the same
to
year.
I am convinced that the expansion of the Grant in aid system of payment by results
only the more economical system (as compared with the system of Government-Schools) but more adapted to the peculiar circumstances of this Colony.
6.
I enclose a table shewing the number of schools, the amount of grant annually voted and annually earned, and the pro-rata reductions made, from 1873 to the present.
day.
220
day.
It will be seen.
from
this table that; whilst; up to
1888, the mcrease
amount
of am annually camed Kept pace with or lagged behind the
increase in the number
of Schools under the Grant- in-Aid scheme, there was a
sudden rise of rearly $3000 in the earnings of the
Schools in
This was
1889 and 1890-
clearly caused
by
the impulse, given by the Cambridge Local & Belilins
Examinations, to a movement which set in about 1888, as stated in my Annual Reports for
1888, 1889 and 1890, in the
dpection of raising the standard of education in Secondary English Schools and
of giving largely increased attention to the special subjects of a
higher