Teaching in New South Wales.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 39, 10 June 1890, Page 2

Teaching in New South Wales.

The New South Wales regii atioas provide that a public school may be established in any locality Where a regular attendance of twenty children between the ag*s of six an I fourte n can be guaranteed. Free railway passes are granted to children living in country districts, t<* enable th.-m to reach tiie school nearest their ho nes, and the railway authorities are extremely accommodating. Several times thetrainby which I was travelling (lulled up where there was no station, and I found that a number of sometimes four or five, snn tim s a dozen—were waiting to b* tikm to school; the children worn living remote Irotn any town, ha f met at a point >u the line nearest their homes ; when school was over the return train dropped them at the same place. A provisional school may be established in any locality where not fewer than twelve, but pot more than nineteen children of school age can regularly attend the school, provided that there are no means of vducation within four miles by the nearest route “ practicable for children.” The curriculum in the provisional school is less ample than that in the ordinary public school, but it must include reading. writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography, and history, with needlework for th •* girls whenever practicable; and the instruction must be imparted ia accordance with the prescribed siauvd ~ of proficiency. But there are where th re are not evmi twelve children within reasonable distance of any site that can be chosen for a school, and therefore the regulations provide that ** wherever twenty children between changes of six and fourteen are residing , within an estimated radius of ten mile# from a centra! point, and can be cof* leered in groups of n>t less ioaii ted children in each,” iw> oal.-ti a.*- soaooli Shall be establish'd; and oiu loacier is to divide his time equally between ciem. Jrdiuatilv he is to give the monung to one school and the aftenijou to tne other; but he cm mik iulie? aiVrthg--ments with toe sanctidii of the oif. —rFrotn u Impression ol A is.rhlti, ’ by ii. Vy, Ualc, LL P.