NELSON COLLEGE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 48, 25 February 1878, Page 2

NELSON COLLEGE.

Report. 1. Very little pf a noteworthy character has occurred, since the publication of the last Annual Report, in connection with the College. The annexed Balance Sheet continues to exhibit its sound financial condition. To that sheet the public are also referred for the number of boarders and of day scholars during the past year, who, in each case, it will be seen are more numerous than at any previous period. 2. The published Report of the Rev. S. Poole (whom the Governors have again to thank for undertaking the examination for the Annual Prizes, as well as for the Scholarships), will have been read witl* much interest and satisfaction by all concerned in the well-being of the College. A complete list of the Scholarships, and of their holders as affected by this examination, will be found below. 3. Soon after the lamented death of the late Principal, an effort was made by some of his former pupils permanently to connect hia name witb the College by means of a Pri?e Fund, and the sum of £50 then contributed was with this view oSered to the Governors of the College. An equivalent being added by the Governors out of their Fee Fund, they arc thus enabled to perpetuate the memory of one to whom, the College and the country qwc so much, by the institution of a prize, for the best Paepr on 6ome subject connected with English Literature, to be competed for annually by the pupils o_ the College. The first two " Simmons Prizes" were awarded at the examination Just referred to, 4. Instruction in Drawing, after some unavoidable interruption, has been resumed under the direction of Mr. Raikes. 5. The vacancy in the third Mastership created by the retirement of Mr. Howlett, B.A , has, after the usual resort to advertisements, been filled on the recommendation of the Principal, by the appointment of Mr. James T. Barnicoat, formerly a College pupil. C. The sum set apart by the Governors from attendance fees remitted by them now amounts to £800. It is intended immediately to devote the annual interest of this sum in some way not yet determined to the bqneflt of tho College : probably by tho establishment of a Scholarship or Schlarships in Modern Languages. 7. It may not be generally known that a By-law of long standing limits the aggregate annual holidays of the College to ten weeks. In view of the common tendency to the undue multiplication of holidays, the Governors deemed it not inappropriate to direct \ the attention of the new Principal on Irs entering on his duties to this Rule. 8. A balaucc amounting to £550 accruing uuder the Education Loan Act of the Province of Nelson, {which had become due to the College, has during the past year been handed over by the General Government, and as will be seen from the Balance Sheet, has been added to the College Endowment. 9. Tlie exterior lining of the fabric of the College has, so far as found necessary, now been replaced ; and the Governors have at w outlay oi nlwit-£2{fy e£fectea suqU repairs .

f — • — to the structure as they hope will render it fairly tenantable for many years. 10. The Governors, after due consideration of a communication fiom the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, enquiring what steps, if any, had been taken by them to. establish a School of Medicine in connection with the College, have replied that they did not contemplate taking any action in that direction at present. i I -1