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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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minations:Church of England, 235; Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, 81;Roman Catholic, 86; Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland, 57;Methodists, 95; Congregational Independent, 19; Baptist, 17; and ten SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN NEW ZEALAND. 253 other bodies with from one to seventeen ministers each. The Episco-pahans of various kinds have over 200,000 adherents; the Presbyterians,113,000; the Methodists, 50,000 ; and CathoHcs, 70,000. The Avhole country is divided into school districts for educationalpurposes; the education is secular and free, the common branches beingtaught on the same basis as in the schools of most of the United States.There are high-schools and academies in the cities and larger towns;there are colleges and universities in the principal cities, and there isthe University of )^ew Zealand, which is an examining body only, andhas the power to confer the same degrees as the Universities of Oxfordand Cambridge. All things considered, the educational system of the
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SEWIXG-CLASS IN AX INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. colony seems to be an excellent one, and the people deserve credit forthe attention they have given to it. We were invited to visit some of the schools in Auckland, and alsoin Xapier and Wellington, and while travelling through the country we 254 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. have had ghmpses of some of the smaller schools. It was very muchlike visiting similar establishments in New England or ISTew York, thebranches of study as well as the form of instruction being practicallythe same. They tell us there are more than eleven hundred schools ofall kinds in the colony, and nearly one hundred thousand scholars at-tending them. Seventy-three per cent, of the male, and sixty-eight percent, of the female, population can read and write, and about five percent, can read only. In the coming generation the proportion willbe much greater. In another respect New Zealand resembles England in having anenormous public debt in proportion to her population.

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