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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 41

Application for aid to any School must be accompanied by full information on the following points:—

(1.)	The name and exact situation of the proposed school station.
(2.)	The number of children of a school-going age (from 4 to 15 years) who live within a mile of the school-station.
(3.)	The number of children in actual attendance, if the school is already open; or, the number that will probably attend.
(4.)	Whether any other aided school is situated in the neighbourhood?—If so, why these children cannot avail themselves of that school?
(5.)	What grant is applied for?
(6.)	What local income is proposed to be given to the teacher or teachers? What school-fee is to be charged?
(7.)	The names and credentials of the teachers to be employed; and certificates of their competency to conduct the secular instruction of the school in the English language, or in the Native language.
(8.)	The dimensions of the proposed school-rooms, how floored and furnished? Whether provided with necessary out-offices; also with recreation ground; extent of accommodation for written exercises; ditto for infant lessons.
(9.)	Who are proposed as the managers of the school?