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Legislative Assembly","@language":"en"}],"DateAvailable":[{"@value":"2016-03-30","@language":"en"}],"DateIssued":[{"@value":"[1881]","@language":"en"}],"DigitalResourceOriginalRecord":[{"@value":"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/collections\/bcsessional\/items\/1.0059974\/source.json","@language":"en"}],"FileFormat":[{"@value":"application\/pdf","@language":"en"}],"FullText":[{"@value":" 44 Vio. Correspondence\u2014\"Wellington School. 455\nRETURN\nTo an Order of the House, dated 31st January, 1881, for copies of all correspondence\nbetween the present Superintendent of Education and the Trustees of the\n\"Wellington School.\nT. B. Humphreys,\nProvincial Secretary.\nProvincial Secretary's Office,\n7th February, 1881.\nCopy of Circular to Trustees.\nEducation Office,\nVictoria, 20th September, 1878.\nGentlemen,\u2014I am directed to inform you that no provision has been made by the\nLegislature for the incidental expenses of heating and cleaning the Public Schools of the\nProvince. It will therefore be your duty to do whatever you may judge expedient\nwith regard to warming and keeping in order your district school (Consolidated Public\nSchool Act, 1876, sec. 30), provided always, that no liability so incurred is chargeable to\nthe Government.\nI am further directed to request you to forward me your accounts to date, in full\nand in detail, for the information of the Government, and for the probable payment of\nall outstanding liabilities, should funds for the purpose be available.\nI have, &c,\n(Signed) C. C. McKenzie,\nSuperintendent of Education.\nTrustees to the Superintendent of Education.\n\"Wellington, September 27th, 1878.\nSir,\u2014I have the honour to state in reply to your letter that, so far, no liabilities have\nbeen incurred for this year, all liabilities having been paid up for last year by \" school\nrent\" for Societies' meetings, at a small sum of $1 per month to defray the expenses of\ncleaning the school. As to the heating of the school for this winter, we (the trustees)\nshall do our best until such time as the school grant will be received.\nTours, &c,\n(Signed) Geo. Thomson,\nSecretary-Treasurer Trustee Board.\nTrustees to the Superintendent of Education.\n\"Wellington, May 19th, 1879.\nSir,\u2014I beg leave to apply for the sum granted by the Government for incidentals\nincurring on this school. I have at present contracted a small debt on the school, viz.:\npickets for fencing around the school, and other little jobs the trustees wish.to have done.\nI have, &c,\n(Signed) Geo. Thomson,\nSecretary-Treasurer Trustee Board. 456 Correspondence\u2014Wellington School. 1881\nThe Superintendent of Education to the Trustees.\nEducation Office,\nVictoria, 22nd May, 1879.\nSir,\u2014The practice of sending the money for incidental expenses in a lump sum to\ntrustees is now discontinued. According to the School Act, and the Revenue Act, 1879,\na statement of items for which money is needed must first be forwarded to this office,\nand if approved of, trustees will be authorized to incur the liability, and the liability so\nincurred will be paid through the Government Agent in your district.\nI forward blank vouchers on which are to be made out your liabilities to date, one\nvoucher for each creditor. I also forward School Act, 1879, and Rules and Regulations\nfor Schools, 1879.\nI have, &c,\n(Signed) C. C. McKenzie,\nSuperintendent of Education.\nTrustees to the Superintendent of Education.\nWellington, B. O, June 26th, 1879.\nSir,\u2014The following improvements are requested by the Trustee Board, Wellington\nPublic School:\u2014\nPutting pickets on fence, and repairing the same $2 50\nScrubbing and washing school house 2 50\nDoor lock for school 2 00\nCleaning out-houses 3 00\nTotal $10 00\n(Signed) Geo. Thomson,\nFor Trustee Board.\nThe Superintendent of Education to the Trustees.\nEducation Office,\nVictoria, 30th June, 1879.\nSir,\u2014Tou are hereby authorized, in answer to your letter of 26th inst., to repair\nthe fence of the school, to clean the school and out-houses, and to put a lock on the door\nof the school house, to the amount of $10. Messrs. Dunsmuir, Diggle & Co.'s bill will\nalso be attended to and paid by 31st;July, it having arrived too late for this month's\nrequisition.\nI have, &c,\n(Signed) C. C. McKenzie,\nSuperintendent of Education.\nThe Superintendent of Education to the Trustees.\nEducation Office,\nVictoria, 9 th August, 1879.\nSIR\u2014Mr. Thain informs me that he is so over-crowded that he has no seats for the\nchildren. Should you deem it necessary, will you apply as soon as possible to remedy\nthis state of thin^o ?\nI have forwarded Dunsmuir, Diggle & Co., a cheque for $12. This amount, with Mr.\nGanner's $2, leaves your school $26 to be still expended for 1879.\nI have, &c,\n(Signed) C. C. McKenzie,\nSuperintendent of Education. 44 Vic\nCorrespondence\u2014Wellington School.\n457\nOS\n1^\nCO\nT-<\nw\"\n\u00ab\nP\n1-5\nM\nH.\nO\nCO\nrt\nfe\nH\nfi\n?!\nw\nM\n\u25a04\nH\nH\niJ\no\no\no\nH\n03\n05\no\no\nn\nP\n\u201e\np.\nfi\nO\no\nW\no\n \"is\n- 8S\n\u00ab K c3\nIII\nO oj ffl\nill\n3 \u00a9 \u00a3\n3 Iff\n\u00ab E B*\nOS'S\nllp3'S\np\no\nM\nj\no\no\np\nS3\n\u00ab3\np\nEh\n! E a\n'3- E B\ntjtj o a\nP B \u00ae ^\no 3^53\nS \u00ab \u201e;\ngo-\nc s\no o\nss\n6 .^-d\n.'a 3 \u00ab\nP \u25ba\n\u25a0S-S S\n\u00ab!.f\nB S \"\nO O ft\nB t3\n\u25a0a tfS\ng.gCQ\na \u00a7\n53 \u00a3 \u00a3\n|So\n. t. a\nq\no\n05\na\n<\np\nh a\nShB S\nB-g\"3\n\u25a0gsl\na\"\"\n3 3\n< 44 Vic\nCorrespondence\u2014Wellington School.\n461\nAnnual Keport.\u2014Concluded.\nTABLE E.\u2014 FULL RETURNS OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE BY TRUSTEE BOARD DURING THE YEAR.\n1879.\nDr.\n9 8 00\n2 00\n2 00\n4 00\n6 00\n1 50\n75\n9 75\n12 00\nCr.\n8 40 00\n50\n1880.\n12 00\n1879.\n52 50\n23...\n1880.\n\u201e 21\t\nFebruary 12\t\n46 00\n6 50\n(Signed)\nGEO. THOMSON,\nARCHD. COWIE,\nAARON GARLAND\n:.}\nTrustees.\nThe Superintendent of Education to the Trustees.\nEducation Office,\nVictoria, 8th September, 1880.\nSir,\u2014I forward a voucher, payable at Nanaimo by the Government Agent, for Mrs.\nHoskins, for $5. The amount comes out of the vote to 30th June, 1881.\nI have, &c,\n(Signed) C. C. McKenzie,\nSuperintendent of Education.\nTrustees to the Superintendent of Education.\nWellington, December 14th, 1880.\nSir,\u2014Enclosed find voucher for scrubbing school. Please to return for payment by\nreturn mail, as the party is desirous of the money.\nI have, &c,\n(Signed) Geo. Thomson,\nSecretary Board of Trustees.\nThe Superintendent of Education to the Trustees.\nEducation Office,\nVictoria, 16th December, 1880.\nSir,\u20141 have received your letter of the 14th instant, and have to state in reply\nthat the voucher sent by you will be paid at the end of the month. In the Education\nDepartment, accounts are paid once a month, so that you will not have to wait very\nlong.\nI have, &c,\n(Signed) C. C. McKenzie,\nSuperintendent of Education. 462 Correspondence\u2014Wellington School. 1881\nThe Superintendent of Education to the Trustees.\nEducation Office,\nVictoria, 4th January, 1881.\nSir,\u2014I forward a voucher for Mrs. Smithurst for $10. The Government Agent at\nNanaimo will pay.\nI have, &c,\n(Signed) C. C. McKenzie,\nSuperintendent of Education.\nTrustees to the Superintendent of Education.\nWellington, January 14th, 1881.\nSir,\u2014Enclosed find voucher to amount of $27.50, for desks to Wellington Public\nSchool. The amount will exceed the vote by $5.75, including previous payments; could\nnot be helped, as it was necessary to place the extra seats in the school.\nI have, &c,\n(Signed) Geo. Thomson,\nSecretary Board of Trustees.\nThe Superintendent of Education to the Trustees.\nEducation Office,\nVictoria, 17th January, 1881.\nSir,\u2014The voucher sent down by you by last mail is, as you say, in excess of the\nbalance of the incidental expense vote of your school. I have therefore made out two\nvouchers in its place, so that tho one may be paid as soon as possible, and the other\nwhen you are again in funds. If they meet with your approval, sign them in the\nproper place, and return them to this office.\nI have, &c,\n(Signed) C. C. McKenzie,\nSuperintendent of Education.\nPetition.\nTo C. C. McKenzie, Esq., Superintendent of Education:\nSia(\u2014We, tho undersigned parents and guardians, beg to append our names, together with the number of children of each, who attend, or would attend, the Public\nSchool at Wellington, with the following object, viz.: to protest against the present\nstate of the school house, the insufficiency of the means of teaching, and the niggardly\namount of money spent for educational purposes at Wellington; also to ask that the\nschool house be improved and enlarged, its grounds enclosed, and an additional teacher\nbe provided.\nWe say that we are shamefully neglected. We say that the whole concern is a\ndisgrace to the Province, a disgrace to the Government, a disgrace to the place, and a\ndisgrace to the educational system and management of any country.\nWe put the matter thus strongly, because all former representations have been\ncompletely ignored, and we feel it necessary for the same reason to publish this petition.\nThe school house is 29 feet long, 19 feet wide, and 13 feet high. There are 79\nscholars on the school roll, and there would be more were it not for the disgusting,\nunhealthy, and\u2014if the inculcation of cleanliness and decency be a branch of moral\ntraining\u2014immoral state of the buildings.\nThere are two small water-closets within a few feet and in full view of each other,\nfor boys and girls of all ages, and there is no partition. You are aware of these facts. 44 Vic\nCorrespondence\u2014Wellington School.\n463\nYou, as the head of education in the Province, must see the absurd incapacity of\nthe house, and the impossibility that one teacher can do justice to himself or his scholars\nin their mental or moral training. We are of opinion that the present teacher, a most\nefficient, hard-working gentleman, is over-worked and under-paid.\nWe think that for the present it would be more consistent with judicious economy\nto enlarge the present building, and to add a teacher for the younger children, than to\nbuild a second school house, which, however, will be necessary in another year or two.\nWe conclude with this: It is now over a year and a half since Wellington, with its\n79 scholars, and a school population of 229, and being 70 miles distant from the Capital,\nhas been visited by the Superintendent of Education.\nWe are, Sir,\nYour obedient servants,\nNames.\n[Geo. Thomson\t\nTrustees < Aaron Garland\t\n>';T (Archd. Cowie\t\nGeorge Vipond\t\nGeorge B. Lockway\t\nThomas S. Brown\t\nW.[Macnaughton Jones, M.D,\nJohn Curry\t\nJ. Blessing\t\nGeorge Williams ,\nJohn Thompson ,\nAbsalom Uren ,\nAnnie Carstairs\t\nD. McKay\t\nThomas Munro\t\nGeorge McGarrigle\t\nRalph Hardy ,\nJohn Cravein\t\nBa lph Craig\t\nJames Haggart\t\nA. Cameron\t\nJ. Vreethy\t\nS. Harris\t\nNo. OF\nChildren.\nNames.\nR. Drew\t\nJ. G. Stewart\t\nRobert Beauehamp\nJames Sharpe\t\nThomas Wall\t\nM. A. Hoskin\t\nW. Emmanuel\t\nT. S. Brown\t\nElijah Smethurs ..,\nM. Campbell\t\nArchd. McAliston.\nPeter Morrison\t\nS. Hudson\t\nMark Churchill\t\nJohn Bryden\t\nA. E. Hilbert\t\nWm. Tregonnen...\nJoseph Ramsay\t\nRobert Scott\t\nWm. Wearn\t\nWilliam Noye\t\nZebulem Crane\t\nNo. op\nChildren.\nThe Superintendent of Education to the Trustees.\nEducation Office,\nVictoria, 17th January, 1881.\nSir,\u2014I acknowledge the receipt of a communication signed by your trustee board\nand others the parents of the children attending the Wellington school.\nI have to take exception to your assertion that all your former representations have\nbeen completely ignored. You have made none.\nThe water-closets of your school should have been attended to by your board from\nthe time they were first put up until now, and by your board alone. Instead of doing\nso last year, you allowed to lapse and failed to expend the sum of $32.50, the uncalled\nfor balance of the incidental expense money allowed by vote of the Legislative Assembly\nfor Wellington school to 30th June, 1880.\nMy object in writing now, however, is scarcely to defend myself from attack but to\nrequest you to place the needs and requirements of your district in such a business-like\nshape that they may be intelligently considered\u2014as for instance, the nature of the\nrecommended addition to the school building, with probable cost; also the amount you\nwill require beyond the usual $40 for incidental expenses, &c.\nShould a second or assistant teacher be considered necessary, please to state the\ngrounds for such necessity. An enrolment of 79 in the school register is no guide;\naverage attendance alone can be so considered.\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) C. C. McKenzie,\nSuperintendent of Education. 464 Correspondence\u2014Wellington School. 1881\nStatistical remarks on the statements contained in the letter sent to the Superintendent of Education by the parents of the children attending Wellington School, and\npublished in the Colonist newspaper:\n1879-80.\n24 of those who signed the letter sent no children to school.\n*i \u00bb \u00bb \u00bb 40 \u201e \u201e\nOf these 40 children, 1 was under age;\n5 attended between 1 and 7 days;\n2 attended 13 days or less;\n3 attended less than 30 days;\n3 attended less than 45 days, &e.\nOf the 79 children enrolled on the register,\n9 have left Wellington for stated places;\n4 have left for parts unknown;\n2 left school to go to work.\nThirty-six is the average daily attendance of the school.\nThe size of the school room is said to be 29 feet long, 19 feet wide, and 13 feet high,\nor contains 7163 cubic feet.\nThe following is an extract from the compendium of school law and regulations,\nEducation Department, Ontario:\n\" Thus, for instance, a room for 50 children would require space for 6,000 cubic feet\nof air, and this would be equal to a cube of the following or equivalent dimensions in\nfeet, viz.: 30 feet by 20 feet by 10 feet, which is equivalent to a room 30 feet long by 20\nfeet wide by 10 feet high.\"\nC. 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