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which the Government and the private managers have

hitherto worked together in the field of education which, in stongstong, is annually widening proportion as the population increases from year

is erot

in the same

to

year.

I am convinced that the expansion of the Grant in aid system of payment by results

only the more economical system (as compared with the system of Government-Schools) but more adapted to the peculiar circumstances of this Colony.

6.

I enclose a table shewing the number of schools, the amount of grant annually voted and annually earned, and the pro-rata reductions made, from 1873 to the present.

day.

220

day.

It will be seen.

from

this table that; whilst; up to

1888, the mcrease

amount

of am annually camed Kept pace with or lagged behind the

increase in the number

of Schools under the Grant- in-Aid scheme, there was a

sudden rise of rearly $3000 in the earnings of the

Schools in

This was

1889 and 1890-

clearly caused

by

the impulse, given by the Cambridge Local & Belilins

Examinations, to a movement which set in about 1888, as stated in my Annual Reports for

1888, 1889 and 1890, in the

dpection of raising the standard of education in Secondary English Schools and

of giving largely increased attention to the special subjects of a

higher