CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9] — Page 507

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December last that no new pupils should be admitted. Of the ten students one died. One was permitted to withdraw, as he represented he could no longer afford to remain there and wished to obtain remunerative employment. The refunded the sum that had been paid to him. A third asked permission to withdraw, but absconded to avoid being compelled to refund what money had been advanced to him. A fourth student was quite recently permitted to withdraw for urgent and satisfactory private reasons and on the condition of refunding the monies which he had received from Government.

On this occasion the Governor directed enquiry to be made from the Acting Inspector of Schools whether, with the reduced number of pupils (six), there was any necessity of keeping up the Normal School as a separate establishment. To this Mr. Wright replied that there was no room in the overcrowded Central School for the separate...

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501 December last that no new pupils should be admitted. Of the ten students one died. One was permitted to withdraw, as he represented he could no longer afford to remain there and wished to obtain remunerative employment. The refunded the sum that had been paid to him. A third asked permission to withdraw, but absconded to avoid being compelled to refund what money had been advanced to him. A fourth student was quite recently permitted to withdraw for urgent and satisfactory private reasons and on the condition of refunding the monies which he had received from Government. On this occasion the Governor directed enquiry to be made from the Acting Inspector of Schools whether, with the reduced number of pupils (six), there was any necessity of keeping up the Normal School as a separate establishment. To this Mr. Wright replied that there was no room in the overcrowded Central School for the separate...
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the Acting Inspector of Schoole

whether, with the reduced number of pupils (six), there was any necessity of Keeping up the Normal School as a separate establishment. To this M. Wright replied that there

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overevended Central School

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