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The Denominational

(So Called, Though Improperly),

The System of National Education

Best Adapted to the Needs and Circumstances of this Colony.

By the Rev. Arthur Baker, M.A.,

Wadham College, Oxford;

Resident Pastor of St. Paul's Church, Wellington.

"It would be difficult to conceive that any man of parliamentary experience could gravely propose that local municipal boards should be invested with power to establish rate-supported schools in every parish, with whatever constitution, to the inevitable destruction of the schools of religious communions." Sir J. K. Shuttleworth.

Wellington, New Zealand: Printed at the Office of the "New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian." 1856.

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To his Excellency

Colonel Thomas Gore Browne,

Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and Over the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.

As to one who has manifested special interest in the Schools of the Church of England Educational Society, and in matters of Local Education generally in Wellington,

This Pamphlet,

Written, with Necessary Haste, on Occasion of his Temporary Visit to this Settlement, is Very Respectfully and Gratefully Inscribed.

Wellington, New Zealand, Christmas, 1855.