The actual amount payable under the revised Schedule for passes in extra subjects under Rule No. 22 of the Schedule is at present under consideration, but I have meanwhile calculated the amount at the rate of $2 for an extra pass in each extra subject of Standard VI of Schools in Class IV, as fixed by the Schedule in Rule No. 22.
The amount total provided for Grants-in-aid in the Estimates for 1880 is $6,000. Of this sum we have already spent $230 in gratuities for those Masters of Government Schools whose schools were classed respectively as "very good", and as "good." There will therefore be an excess of $354.54 over the sum estimated, in explanation of which I have but to refer to the fact that several schools were accepted under the Grant-in-aid Scheme after the Estimates for 1880 had been prepared.
I did not employ an Assistant Examiner, but as regards the classification of the merits of the needlework in Girls' Schools, the following Ladies kindly undertook to act as Judges, viz., Mrs. BURDON, Lady SMALE, Mrs. CHALMERS, Miss S. J. ANDERSON, M.D., Mrs. VIRGINIA A. R. DO ROZARIO, Miss SCHROEDER and Miss JOHNSTONE.
As there has been considerable delay in the preparation of this complicated account, in consequence of circumstances over which I had no control, I beg to recommend that an advance warrant for the sum of $5,753.80 be issued at once, so that the Managers may, without delay, receive the sums which their schools have earned in the past year.
I reserve all comments regarding the educational results of the year 1879, as disclosed by these examinations, for my general report.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
E. J. EITEL. Inspector of Schools.
The Honourable W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.