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Miscellaneous

No. 201.

PRIMARY EDUCATION IN THE

COLONIES AND CYPRUS.

(Mainly_compiled from the Special Reports on Educational Subjects-Cd. 416, 417, 2377-9, and the Colonial Office List.)

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

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ANTIGUA. Vide Leeward Islands.

AUSTRALIA.

The State system of education

compulsory

and undenominational in all the States. In New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia, primary educa- tion is entirely free of charge. Small fees are charged in Tasmania; but these are not enforced when the parents can reasonably plead poverty.

BAHAMAS.

There are over forty Government schools which were made free in 1885. There are also twelve sided private schools, and a number of denominational schools.

BARBADOS.

There are no Government schools, strictly so called, although the entire cost of elementary education is borne by the general revenue of the Colony, with the exception of the providing of school buildings. The majority of the schools connected with the Anglican Church are the property of the vestries of the several parishes, and a few which were built by private subscrip- tions are the property of the district in which they are situated. With a few exceptions, the Moravians and Wesleyans are the owners of all the schools in connexion with their missions. Small fees are required, but may be remitted in cases of poverty.

BASUTOLAND.

Education is almost exclusively vested in the missionaries. There are nearly 250 schools, with over twelve thousand scholars, a very large proportion being in the schools of the French

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