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RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE, AND

ABSTRACT of SCHOLARS' STUDIES, &c.

DISTRIBUTION.

Mr. Watt, being duly sworn, states : I know the land comprised in the grant, a copy whereof is produced, and is referred to as taken from Register 1., folio 52. There was a Native school and residence there at one time. The residence was accidentally burnt down, and for some years (six or seven) after, nothing apparently was done with the property. The house built for Mr. Nichols was burnt down about March, 1860. About October, 1866, the house now occupied by Mr. Godwin, the schoolmaster, was built. The object of the grant, as a means of supporting a school, has been departed from. In place of its being a school for indigent children, the fees for pupils are higher than those of any other school in the place. The amount of income derived from the trust property exceeds the amount annually expended upon it. It is thought that more might be done with the endowment. The land is of the best description. 10 acres, Wanganui. — Church Mission. The Rev. Mr. Taylor, being duly sworn, states: My name is Basil Kirkc Taylor, M.A. I reside in the mission house, Fulike, and am resident minister and member of the Church Missionary Society. I know the property comprised in grant, a copy whereof is produced and referred to as in Register A. folio 39. When I first came to Wanganui, the mission house was nearly completed by my father, the Rev. Richard Taylor, M.A. This was the second house built on the land. The Rev. Mr. Mason had resided there previously in a raupo house. (He was drowned in the Turakina River.) The mission house is now in a state of decay, and tho foundations of a third one are being laid. This is to be a substantial house of timber, with iron roof. The property is fenced in, and otherwise improved. It was given as a place of residence for the mission. Part has been fenced off for the church and churchyard, with a durable fence of Australian timber. The church is of timber and shingled, and will accommodate 300 or 400 in the way Maoris sit. It is undergoing improvements, and contains a harmonium. There has been no change in the trustees. The trustees named in the grant continue to be the trustees. The Rev. Richard Taylor is absent from the Colony on a visit to England. There is no revenue derived from the ground. There is no charge for accommodation in the church. There is daily a service morning and evening. On Sunday three services and a school. The numbers in attendance on the Sabbath would bo about twenty or thirty before the war, with exceptional additions when the Natives were in greater numbers in the pa. They now vary from ten or twelve to between thirty and forty. On special occasions the numbers are greater. There is a marked difference in tho attendance since the war. Tho military operations during the war being almost invariably commenced or effected on the Sabbath, has induced a belief in the Native mind that there is no Sabbath to the soldier. There is a residence for the schoolmaster and a school-house of timber, and shingled. An English schoolmaster is maintained by the Church Missionary Society. It is a mixed daily school. The average attendance is extremely variable. The attendance being optional, it is difficult to secure it. They varied from possibly two to possibly twenty. The Maori children are allowed their own way very much by their parents, and if there bo any excitement elsewhere within reach, will abstain from coming to the school to be present at it. (The Putike Natives have been great supporters of the Government during the war, and it has been mainly from them that the Native Contingent from the West Coast has been raised.) Evidence taken before Mr. Domett. Wednesday, 3rd November, 1869. Otaki School. — Otaki School Reserve. The Venerable Archdeacon Iladfield having been duly sworn, stated : My name is Octavius Hadfield. lam one of the trustees of the lands comprised in the grants for the school at Otaki.

Forms. XUMBER OF Sots. Course of Instruction. IV. and Y. III. ■{ 13 { JEncid, Boots I., II.; Cresar, Books I., II., III., IV.; Eclogte Ovidiance.—Greek Testament: Gospel of St. Lute, [ chap. ii. — Arithmetic: Colenso, miscellaneous examples.—Algebra: fodhunter, quadratic equations.—Euclid, | Books I., II., III., IV. —Mechanics : Tate, inclined planes.—Trigonometry to solution of right-angled triangles.— General Geography.—English History : Norman and Plantagenet lines.—Jioman History to Second Punic War. Ctesar, Book I., chaps. 1-20.—Greek Grammar to verbs in mi.—Arithmetic : "vulgar and decimal fractions, practice, proportion.—Algebra to simple equations.—Euclid, Book I.—History and Geography as fourth form. Latin Grammar : passages from Subsidia Priraaria.—-Arithmetic : compound rules, vulgar fractions. Elementary Class. —English subjects. IT. I. 10 8

Nuji: IEK OF lOTS. i-GE! At' ?enda: :ce. Dbni Oil IS" ATI [ONS. H o i P S I* o "s CD h a p CO o e P O CO <P n i s U o i i I CD a o P5 Cm O | -■= o i r0 3 a m o 3 5 a I" £ REiTABKS. 1 o M o g O <l I 38 43 18 12 School hours—9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Days of attendance—every day but Saturday. Vacations—midwinter, 2 weeks; Christmas, G weeks. 10 ii 13 32 "ndu ; trial Sc: u,: .2t: itati Henbt II. Godwin, Head Master. Want ■an 1 smber, 186: