NRS-635 | Press copies of semi-official letters sent by the Secretary of the Board

These are letterpress copies of semi-official letters sent by Wilkins, mainly to teachers, District Inspectors, the Chairman of the Board, the Examiner and Headmaster of the Model School, Fort Street. This volume also contains statistical tables and returns compiled in 1866 by Wilkins with reference to the proportion of children of each religious denomination on the rolls of the National and Denominational Boards at December 1862 and March 1866; returns of "expenditure in purchase of land, erection and repair of buildings, 1849-66", and "the value of (National School) property held in New South Wales handed over to Victoria and Queensland" are included together with a comparative estimate of cost of education per child under the National and Denominational Boards. "Notes on the History of the National System of Education in N.S.W." (in effect a chronology of the major developments in the National System, 1848-61) and a note on the fallacy of the argument that the Denominational System is less expensive to administer than the National System (illustrated by details of inaccuracies present in the Denominational Board's annual reports) were also prepared. The remainder of this volume contains letters written by Wilkins in his capacity as Secretary to the Council of Education. (1/355 part). 1 vol (part). Note:This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.