. The official handbook of New Zealand : a collection of papers by experienced colonists on the colony as a whole and on the several provinces ; edited by Julius Vogel . of Revenue devoted by the Provinceto Education. The necessary information on this headmay be gathered from the foregoing , the funds available in Canterburyfor education are derived, firstly, fromannual votes of the Provincial CouucU;secondly, from areas of land set apart asreserves and endowments; thirdly, fromrates and contributions from the first amounts are expended, for primaryeducation, by the B
. The official handbook of New Zealand : a collection of papers by experienced colonists on the colony as a whole and on the several provinces ; edited by Julius Vogel . of Revenue devoted by the Provinceto Education. The necessary information on this headmay be gathered from the foregoing , the funds available in Canterburyfor education are derived, firstly, fromannual votes of the Provincial CouucU;secondly, from areas of land set apart asreserves and endowments; thirdly, fromrates and contributions from the first amounts are expended, for primaryeducation, by the Board appointed underthe Ordinance as above stated ; the secondare administered by a Steward of Eeserves,who has power to let the lands to tenants oncertain conditions ; the third are paid overto the Board and dealt with by them, as arethe first. It is evident that the first, or theannual votes of the Council, are dependenton the state of the Provincial revenue, andmay therefore be expected to be not alwaysso large as they have been of late second and third sources of revenue,depending on the increase of population,which is a matter of certainty, and the. SIvKLIiTON OF TQE EXTINCT A SrCClilliN IX IDE CAXItRBUiJY lllSi; PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY, 149 general prosperity of the country, which is,to all appearance, probably also increasing,may fairly be expected to grow larger everyyear. Summarizing as briefly as possible, itmay be stated that, as regards primaryeducation, the system in force in Canter-bury is secular or undenominational, iuwhich the State, refusing to recognize anyresponsibility for giving more than therudiments of material and commercial in-struction, has placed the means of obtainingsuch instruction within the reach of thepoorest inhabitant. The multiplication ofschool districts, the abolition of school fees,and the provision that no person shall paymore than £2 per annum for having hischildren taught, whilst all have to paysomething whethe
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