WELLINGTON EDUCATION BOARD.
• ANNUAL KEPORT, f Per Pbess Association.] Wellington, March 28. Tho annual roport of tho Wellington Education Board, presented at to-day's meeting, sl'owa tbat at tho end of 1892 tlioro were 87 schools in operation, this number beint; augmented during 18<J3 by theestablishmont of coven new (schools, whilo two others were in conrse of erection, and sites had been acquired for threo more. At the close of tho your there wore 307 teachers in tho 6ervico of the Board, and tho number of children entered on tho books wns 12,254, with an average of 9713, increased to 9816 on the working average, being an mcronse of 414 on the books and only 95 in avornge attendance.
At Terauka on the day of tlio local option vote a man was "locked up for being drunk, and both the prohibitionists and the publicans party vainly importuned his grim custodian to .allow him to vote. Sib Gec-boe Gbet, X.C B-.—k magnifi cent portrait from the most recent photograph, suitable for framing, may be had from Mcliee and Gamble, N.Z. Press Agency, Wellington. Prico,2a Id, inclu. ding pu3tago. Agents wsntod — Advt,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11951, 29 March 1894, Page 2
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189WELLINGTON EDUCATION BOARD. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11951, 29 March 1894, Page 2
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