240
to supply vacancies, as the elders leave.
If accommodation is provided for 72 children, I fancy
it will meet the demand for the next five years as personally
I am inclined to doubt that more than 40 will seek admission,
immediately on the opening of the school.
6. Temporary Building.
All that is required are two classrooms, 18 X 28
each; the size of one smaller class rooms, which comfortably
seat 36 scholars a piece.
An airy well-built house, with two such rooms on the
ground floor, leaving four rooms for the occupation of the
master and mistress should serve.
Such a house might be hired by the Government for a
year or so while the permanent house is being erected.
By this means, the school could be opened from 1st
January, 1899.
7. Staff.
A Master and Mistress, a married couple, ages
between 25 and 30, each duly certificated as a teacher, would
appear the most suitable arrangement for a mixed school, and
prove