SIR:

The Board of School Trustees for the Town of Woodstock herewith submit to you, as required by law, a statement of their receipts and expenditures for 1894.

The schools have been in a very satisfactory condition during the past year.

January 5, 1895.

Respectfully submitteed,

A. B. CONNELL, Secretary.

SIR:

Chief Superintendent of Education.

The Annual Report of the Board of School Trustees for the Town of Campbellton for the year ending December 31st, 1894, is herewith submitted.

Grammar School.-- The year just closed has witnessed several important changes. in the organization and general equipment of our school system. The County Grammar School was transferred from Dalhousie to Campbellton, the change to take effect at thecommencement of the year 1895. The Campbellton Superior School of the past, therefore, becomes the County Grammar School of the future. Principal Lewis, anticipating the proposed change, presented himself for examination for the Grammar: School license in June last, and, it is needless to say, passed very creditably. Grade VII. was accordingly removed from the advanced to the next lower department, and other necessary re-arrangement of the grades effected, as required by the law relating to Grammar Schools.

Accommodation. --- Owing to a large increase in the attendance, and the consequent over-crowding of several of the rooms, especially those occupied by the lower grades, the opening of another department became an imperative necessity. The "Venner Hall" was accordingly leased and fitted up and a new department opened at the commencement of the Second Term, with Miss Clara Shannon as teacher. Hence, to maintain the harmony of the work, another re-organization of the grades had to be effected, as will be seen by the tabulated statements herewith appended.

The Trustees have under consideration the election of a new School Building and the centralization of the various departments of our Schools, to take the place of the four isolated buildings now occupied, and intend pushing the work with all possible speed as soon as a suitable site can be procured.

Repairs. The old desks and seats in the High School department have been replaced by a complete set of the latest and most approved modern school furniture, including automatic seats and combination desks and supports. An improvement has

also been made in the heating and ventilation of several of the rooms in the main building.

Finances. Notwithstanding the repairs, improvements and increased accommodation made within the last two years the Board can now boast of being entirely free from debt, the last note having been paid during the past summer.

Library. Through the efforts of Principal Lewis and the pupils of the High School the nucleus of a First Class Library has been established, containing already nearly 250 volumes of the best standard literature, and is very much appreciated.

Teachers. Miss Clara Shannon, as above mentioned, was engaged at the beginning of the Second Term to take charge of the new department, just then opened. At the close of the year Miss Mary Kerr resigned her charge and Miss Mary E. McBeath was employed to succeed her in charge of grades VI. and VII. Miss Kerr has proved herself a faithful and hard working teacher, and to her untiring industry is due at least a measure of the success which attended pupils who afterwards distinguished themselves in the higher grades. While a majority of our present teachers hold only a Second Class License, and withal have proved themselves faithful and exceptionally successful in their work, yet we feel it our duty, whenever vacancies occur, to give the preference - other things being equal to First Class Teachers, for while Second Class Teachers continue to receive the same salary as teachers holding First Class Licenses, the tendency is to check genuine ambition by subsidizing a spirit of indifferent unprogressiveness.

Attendance. Notwithstanding the prevalence of scarlet fever in the Town throughout the entire year, the attendance has scarcely fallen off to any notable degree. With all respect to the opinion of eminent authorities to the contrary, it has been pretty clearly demonstrated that neither closing the schools nor keeping pupils at homehas any effect in checking the spread of this disease, as during the long summer vacation it was as prevalent as at any time during the year, and outbreaks of the epidemic have been as frequent in families not represented in school as elsewhere.

Progress. Besides the unusually large number of our pupils who have passed the Normal School Entrance Examination in July last, two have passed the University Matriculation Examinations. These were Donald McLean, who matriculated in the University of New Brunswick, carrying off the "Restigouche County Scholarship," and John McKenzie, who passed the Matriculation Examination of Dalhousie University, Halifax. Both these young men are now pursuing the regular Arts Course in their respective colleges.

In conclusion, our schools have been favored with the usual official visits of Inspector Mersereau, whose kind words and wise counsel have always been of inestimable value to us in our efforts to secure for the pupils of our Town a first-class liberal education.

1894.

Receipts and expenditures of School Board for year ending December 1st, 1894:

APPENDIX E,

Retorts of the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Fredericton, and of the Blind Asylum, Halifax.

Fredericton Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.

Chief Superintendent of Education:

SIR : In accordance with your request, I beg to forward a brief abstract from the Twelfth Annual Report of the Fredericton Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.

It is a pleasure to be able to report that the educational work of the Institution during the past year has been of a satisfactory nature. The progress made by the (97)

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