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who

cannot.

I also called

for

the total

number of pupils in each school and the number that could create huglich.

5.

In his reply, M. Stewart says

I that when the Central School was established the teaching of English

was

labolished in all the other schools. Ite

He

says that neither Master nor scholars know anything of English,_ with one exception, the Master of the fovemment School at Aberdeen; but even in that school he says, though the master can speak English,

none of the pupils

epeat it.

6.

can

M. Ryrie, M. Lowerck,

and other members of the Legislative

Council have expressed surprise at

learning that there should be in un English Colony, Government Schools supported entirely by Government Funds,

in which neither teachers nor scholars

know anything of English.

In other respects also

am

disappointed with the progrep of the Native Schools maintained by the Government. In a report M. Stewart has just placed in my

he says:

#1

8th February 1878, he

hands, batik

The decrease in the native schools

nent was:.

maintained by the Government

fifth

fifteen, equivalent to one and a "per cent, and is therefore has..