Excerpt from First Report and Proceedings, With Appendices, of a Commission Appointed to Enquire Into and Report Upon Certain Matters Connected With the Educational System of the Colony Resolved, - That the Secretary be instructed as soon as possible after the adjournment of the Commission, to address a circular to the various Boards of Managers of all the graded Undenominational Public Schools in the towns and villages. Requesting the managers of such schools to supply the Commission with information on the following points, viz. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Chairman: J Warrington Rogers Acting chairman: J M Templeton "Note --In consequence of the Reports of the Commission and the Evidence of Witnesses having been issued at various periods, the numbers of the pages are similar at different portions of the work For facility of reference, therefore, it has been considered desirable to re-number the pages throughout "--General index, p [3]; constituent parts retain also their own pagination Education Commission First report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Enquire into and Report upon the Administration, Organization, and General Condition of the Existing System of Public Instruction; together with a portion of the minutes of evidence (1882 Victoria, no 26)-- Education Commission Second report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into and Report upon the Administration, Organization, and General Condition of the Existing System of Public Instruction (1883 Victoria, no 19) -- Royal Commission on Education Report of the chairman of the commissioners; third and final report of the commissioners; memorandum by the acting chairman; and memorandum by those commissioners who have not signed the report (1884 Victoria, no 47) -- Royal Commission on Education (1884 Victoria, no 47* (Being continuation of Paper no 47) Item labelled "1882-83" contains Paper 1884:No 47* only.