CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9] — Page 492

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the desirability of a Normal School appeared to be well worthy of your Consideration and I hoped that the matter would receive Your attention, though these words were not intended to give you Authority to embark on a Scheme of so costly a character, before the details had been submitted for my consideration, or before the provision had been made in the yearly Estimates of the current year, and before the report of the Committee appointed to Enquire into the Central School should also have been laid before me.

GR489

The report of the Committee appointed to Enquire into the Central School had to be waived in order that I might be enabled to form a more definite view of the Educational wants of the Colony.

18. The Salary of the head master should in no case exceed $1680 per annum and I cannot at present approve of the expensive allowance for education which is being given to the students.

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the desirability of a Normal School appeared to be well worthy of your Consideration and I hoped that the matter would receive Your attention, though these words were not intended to give you Authority to embark on a Scheme of so costly a character, before the details had been submitted for my consideration, or before the provision had been made in the yearly Estimates of the current year, and before the report of the Committee appointed to Enquire into the Central School should also have been laid before me. GR489 The report of the Committee appointed to Enquire into the Central School had to be waived in order that I might be enabled to form a more definite view of the Educational wants of the Colony. 18. The Salary of the head master should in no case exceed $1680 per annum and I cannot at present approve of the expensive allowance for education which is being given to the students.
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desirability of a

Normal

School appeared to be well

worthy of your

Consideration

and I hoped that the matter

Evoreld

rective

Your

attention,

thais

in as

but these cords not

intended to give you

Authority

A Scheme

to embark on

of

So

costly

A character. before the

details had been submit

ted for my

or

consideration,

bes fraision had ban

for

the expenditund

made in the yearly

Of the current

Estimates, and before

the toport of

the

I should also have

denied to liave

before

GRA

of the

The repent

489

Committee appointed to

Enquire into the Central

School load be waived in order that I anglat Good enabled to form

be

a more definite view

of

the Educational wante

of the Colony

18. The Salary of the

head master should in

no case exceed $1680

Jeu

An num

and I

2

cannot at present

afprove

the expensive

allowance

education which is the

the given

being

to the students

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