SCHOOL INSPECTORS IN THE COLONY.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1892 Session I, E-10

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1892. NEW ZEALAND.

SCHOOL INSPECTORS IN THE COLONY.

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives, dated sth August, 1892. Ordered, " That a return bo laid before the House showing the names and number of School Inspectors in thecolony, their scholastic status, and their experience in teaching before being appointed Inspectors of Schools."—(Mr.. Fish.)

Statements of the several Education Boards respecting the Number and Educational Status of the Inspectors of Schools employed by them respectively. Auckland. 1. John Sandeeson Young Goodwin.—Appointed Inspector, March, 1879. Scholastic status: Certificate Dl,. Education Department, New Zealand. Teaching experience prior to appointment as Inspector : April, 1868, to March, 1871, assistant master, Adelaide School, Shepherd's Bush,. London, England, and West London College, Bayswater, London (both private middle-class schools); March, 1871, to March, 1872, private tutor, London; April, 1874, to April, 1875, headmaster of Thames (now Waiokaraka) public school, Thames, New Zealand; May, 1875, toFebruary, 1879, headmaster of Tauranga public school, Tauranga, New Zealand. 2. Walter Henry Airey, B.A. —Appointed Inspector, March, 1888. Scholastic status: Bachelor of Arts, New Zealand University. Teacher's certificate 81, Education Department, New Zealand. Experience in teaching prior to appointment as Inspector : February, 1875, to 31st December, 1877, assistant master, Mount Hobson Boys' School, Auckland, New Zealand ; Ist January, 1878, to August, 1881, head teacher, Mangere public school, Auckland, New Zealand ; August, 1881, to March 1888, second master, Thames High School, Thames, New T Zealand. 3. James Collett Dickenson. —Appointed Inspector, November, 1889. Scholastic status : English Education Department: Teacher's certificate, first division,, after two years' residence in Training College, Science and Art Department, South Kensington; teaching certificates in physical geography, animal physiology, natural philosophy, Stages 111. and IV. mathematics, and a full drawing certificate; teacher's certificate, Dl, Education Department, New Zealand. Experience in teaching prior to appointment as Inspector: Pupil-teacher and assistant in the Melton Mowbray British School from January, 1866, to December, 1871; British and Foreign School Society'sTraining College, February, 1872, to 1873 ; first assistant, Friends' Endowed School, Penketh, Lancashire, May to December, 1874 ; headmaster, Snodland British School, Kent, May, 1875, to August, 1882 ; first assistant, Wellesley Street School, Auckland, New Zealand, June, 1883, toDecember, 1885 ; headmaster, Newton West School, Auckland, New Zealand, January, 1886, to October, 1889. 4. Eichaed Crowe. —Appointed Inspector, November, 1889. Scholastic status : 1876, entered Trinity College, Dublin ; spent three years in the study of arts and medicine ; teacher's certificate C 2, Education Department, New Zealand. Teaching experience prior to appointment as Inspector: 1879 to 1883, teaching in private school, Birkenhead, England; 1883 to 1886, teacher of Maketu School, Auckland, New Zealand; 1886 to 1889, first assistant, Grafton Eoad School, Auckland, New Zealand. Taranaki. William Murray.—Was trained as a pupil-teacher at the Free Church Normal Training College, Edinburgh. Has had eighteen years colonial experience as headmaster of the Maungatua School, Otago ; second master North Dunedin School; and second master of the Napier District School. He holds aDI certificate. Was appointed Inspector in this district in 1884. Wanganui. William Henry Vereker-Bindon, M.A., Chief Inspector.—Educated at Ennis College and Trinity College, Dublin. Erasmus Smid Exhibitioner. B.A. 1876; M.A. 1883. Classified Bl New Zealand Education Department. Teaching experience : Began teaching in February, 1878. as probationer ; had charge of a country school for a short time as sole teacher; assistant master in Auckland City School for a year; headmaster of large city school for four and a half years, roll number 400 on taking charge, increased to 900. Inspector of Wanganui District since January, 1884. W. E. Spencer, M.A. —Assistant Inspector. Status : Passed the M.A. degree (with honours) New Zealand University, and the B.Sc. degree. Classified Al. Experience, twelve years and seven months in the employ of the Otago Education Board as teacher.

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Wellington. Eobbet Lee.—Scholastic status: Certificate Class 1., Division 2, Privy Council of Education, England, with endorsements entitling to highest obtainable classification. Drawing certificates (full in four subjects) from Department of Science and Art, South Kensington ; organic and inorganic chemistry certificates from Department of Science and Art, South Kensington; College certificate, double first class. Experience in teaching : Pupil-teacher, four years, Grantham ; first-class Queen's scholar and student, St. Mark's Training College, Chelsea, London, three years ; master in charge of the Practising School, upper division, St. Mark's College, and resident master in College, two years; headmaster, All Saints Normal School, Preston, Lancashire, five years; headmaster, Bishop's School, Nelson, New Zealand, ten years. Thomas Eeid Fleming.—Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws, New Zealand University; barrister at law ; scholar of New Zealand University ; scholar of Nelson College ; first-class honours, University of London Matriculation examination. Previously Examiner to the Wellington Education Board in the scholarship and pupil-teacher examinations ; Examiner to the Board of Governors of Wellington College and Girls' High School; Examiner to the Education Department in the Teachers' and Civil Service examinations. Previous to appointment as Assistant Inspector eight years experience in teaching: five years as assistant master-, Wellington College, and three years as a private coach and instructor in mathematics and political.science to the University classes held by the Wellington Graduates' Association. Two years' experience as an Inspector. Hawke's Bay. Henby Hill, B.A.—Experience : Served five years' apprenticeship in England as a pupilteacher, where the school attendance was over 1,500 pupils; two years as the holder of a Queen's scholarship in an English training college for teachers (Cheltenham). Headmaster of St. Mark's schools, Nottingham, England, which position he held until appointed by the late Lord Lyttelton to proceed under special engagement to Canterbury, New Zealand ; arrived there in October, 1873. Remained in Ghristchurch working under the Education Board until appointed Inspector of Schools for Hawke's Bay in June, 1878. Scholastic status : English trained first-class certificated master. Full drawing certificate from Science and Art Department, England, for the following subjects : perspective, model, geometrical, blackboard, and freehand. Science certificates from the Science and Art Department as follows: (1.) First-class Queen's prizeman in higher mathematics; (2.) First-class Queen's prizeman in acoustics, light and heat; (3.) Honours, physical geography, and physiography; (4.) Second advanced in geology; (5.) Second advanced in physiology. Graduate of University of New Zealand; Fellow of the Geological Society of London. In addition to the above experience Mr. Hill was a Science teacher in England for several years, taking geology, geography, and physiology in connection with the Science and Art Department examinations. Maelbobough. There is one Inspector of Schools in the Marlborough Education District, who also performs the duties of Secretary and Treasurer to the Board of the district. The name of this officer i 3 John Smith, who has no scholastic status, as that term is usually understood. He was educated at King Edward the Sixth Grammar School at Marlborough, Wiltshire, and upon leaving this institution he was placed for two years under the care of the late Dr. Badham, subsequently Professor of Greek at the Sydney University. As regards experience in teaching, he was headmaster of the Nelson Town School for eleven years ending in 1874, and had previously taught about two years in two country schools under the Nelson Education Board. He left the Nelson District upon being •chosen (from about fifty applicants) for the position of (first) Inspector and Secretary under " The Westland Education Ordinance, 1874," and this office he held until he received his present appointment. Nelson. VV. 0. Hodgson—Has no academical status. He received a public-school education at Manchester Grammar School, which was completed under the tuition of his father. Previous to his appointment to the Inspectorship of Nelson District, he had six years' experience in teaching as headmaster of Bridge Street School, Nelson. GkeY. E'dwabd T. Bobinson. —Experience in teaching : seven years. Scholastic status : None, as represented by parchment or paper. Westland. The Board has one Inspector only, Mr John Gammell, who is also the Secretary. He is a Bachelor of Arts of the University of London, and has spent most of his life in teaching in one form or other. At about the age of eighteen he became a student at Homerton College, London, at that time the Training Institution of the Congregational Board of Education ; and, on the completion of his course as a student, received the appointment of master of one of the six training schools connected with the College—viz., the Upper Boys' School. For the first ten years of his residence in New Zealand, to which he came twenty years ago, he was the principal of a high-class private school in Wellington, at which the sons of many of the leading colonists were educated ; and was also for a short time mathematical master of Wellington College. In 1882 he was appointed Inspector of Schools for Southland; in 1890 Eector of the District High School, Hokitika; and in the following year obtained his present appointment. NOBTH CaNTEBBUBY. Lawbenoe Bebey Wood. — M.A., of Edinburgh University, with first-class honours in mathematics and physics. Teaching experience, fifteen years, made up as follows: Two years

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pupil-teacher at Peebles; nine years and a half student-teacher and assistant master in Picardy Place School, Edinburgh; Park School, Glasgow; Board School, Irvine; three years and a half headmaster Port Chalmers District High School. William John Andeeson, M.A., with first-class classical honours, and LL.D., of the Queen's University, Ireland; also graduate with similar standing and life member of Convocation of the present Boyal University of Ireland. Teaching experience : Two years (1875-77) engaged principally in private tuition, and as visiting master in schools for special subjects ; upwards of three years (1877-80) principal of the Sullivan Upper School, Holyrood, Belfast, Ireland; three and a half years (1881-84) second master of the Public Grammar School, Bockhampton, Queensland, a position held till appointment as Inspector of the South Canterbury District, New Zealand. South Canteebuby. James Gibson Gow, the Board's Inspector, is an M.A. of the Edinburgh University; prizeman in Latin; class honours in mathematics, natural philosophy, moral philosophy, logic, and metaphysics ; was pupil-teacher for four years in Taylor's Institution, Crieff, Scotland; Queen's scholarship holder and student for two years (1875-76) in the Church of Scotland Training College, Edinburgh. Held the position of assistant master in the North Fort Street public school, Leith, from January 1877, to October, 1878. Appointed assistant master in the Merchant Company's School, Edinburgh, from October, 1878, to October, 1885; head-teacher in Waiareka public school, Otago, February to October, 1886 ; and has had the appointment of Inspector to this Board from October, 1886. Otago. Donald Peteie.—Master of Arts of the University of Aberdeen. Taught for six years in the Scotch College, Melbourne. William Tayloe.—Held a schoolmaster's certificate of the first division of the second class from the Committee of Council of Education, England; matriculated in London University. Served five years' apprenticeship as a pupil-teacher; held for two years a Queen's scholarship in the ■Glasgow Free Church Training College. Had twelve years' experience in teaching. Peteb GoYen.—Held a first class (highest) trained teacher's certificate of the Education Department of Victoria. Had twelve years' experience in teaching. Southland. B. G. Beaik, M.A., Edinburgh.—Scholastic status: Departmental classification B2 ; studied at the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Dunedin, and at the Edinburgh School of Arts. Experience : November, 1879, till December, 1882, private tutor for three families of which the boys were attending the Edinburgh High School; June, 1883, till June, 1885, sixth assistant, Arthur Street School, Dunedin ; June, 1885, till June, 1886, third assistant, Union Street School, Dunedin; June, 1886, till April, 1890, first assistant, Lawrence District High School; April, 1890, appointed to present position. James Hendey, B.A.—Scholastic standing: Departmental classification Bl; B.A. and senior scholar, University of New Zealand. Experience : Was in the employment of the Otago Education Board for a period of ten years and a half as follows, viz.: Ist April, 1875, to 30th June, 1876, second assistant, William Street School; Ist July, 1876, to 31st March, 1877, second assistant, Albany Street School; Ist April, 1877, to 30th September, 1879, relieving teacher (principally about Dunedin and suburbs); Ist October, 1879, to 28th February, 1881, master, Waiareka School; Ist August, 1882, to 31st July, 1885, second assistant, Albany Street School; Ist August, 1885 to 28th February, 1887, first assistant, Normal School. Was engaged in the Boys' High School, Dunedin, under the late Dr. Macdonald. While acting as relieving teacher under the Otago Board, of Education, assisted Mr. Petrie in the examination of the District High Schools ; and while first assistant in the Dunedin Normal School was selected by the Board to assist Mr. Wood, of North Canterbury, in the examination of the Christchurch and suburban schools. Approximate Cost of Paper.—Preparation, nil; printing (1,100 copies), £2.

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