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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 41
Order B.—Mission Schools
Order B.—Mission Schools.
1. Aid is granted to mission schools in eligible districts or localities previously approved by the Government, as well within as out of towns and villages, in order to provide for the education of those portions of the population who are wholly unable of themselves to found schools.
| Class I. | —Where there is a series of schools, infant, juvenile, and industrial, the annual allowance shall be £75. |
| Class II. | —Where the children form only one school the annual allowance shall be £30. |
| Class III. | —To schools at out-stations, the annual allowance shall be £15. |
3. No portion of the Government grant shall be appropriated otherwise than to the support of the teacher or teachers of the school, for the performance of their duty as teachers.
4. Before any new grant or renewal or augmentation of any grant is made, the Superintendent-General of Education shall be satisfied that proper arrangements are made for the maintenance and management of the school, and that the local income of the school, with the grant in aid, can efficiently provide for the secular instruction of the children of the locality in which the school is placed.
5. The schools shall be under the management and control of the churches or missionary bodies with which they are connected, but shall be subject to inspection by the Superintendent-General of Education, or his deputy duly appointed by the Governor, who shall have the right of entering the school at any time during school hours, of examining into the state of the buildings and the school furniture, of ascertaining the progress of the children under instruction, and enquiring generally into the efficiency of the school in regard to the district or locality in which it is placed, and of calling for such returns as he may require, in order to obtain satisfactory information on these subjects.
6 Suitable school buildings, furniture, and offices, and a recreation ground, must be provided, to the satisfaction of the Government.
7. The ordinary school hours are to be computed at not less than two hours in the forenoon and two hours in the afternoon; and the secular instruction given during the school hours shall include, at least, reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic.
8. No scholars shall be compelled to attend for religious instruction without the consent of their parents or guardians.
9 The Governor shall have the right to appoint, in each mission school, five free scholars; such appointments to be restricted to scholars who are unable from circumstances to pay the necessary school fees.
10. The instruction during the ordinary school hours shall, as far as practicable, be given through the medium of the English language.