The Teacher in South Australia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Ordinance No. 11, 1847. The Act of 1852 provided a salary range of £40 to £100 per annum, exclusive of school fees. The actual level of salary was based largely on attendance and on the teacher's qualifications.

South Australian Register, 24th April, 1850.

Butts R. F. Assumptions Underlying Australian Education. Melbourne: A.C.E.R., 1955; Jackson, R. W. B. Emergent Needs in Australian Education. Melbourne: A.C.E.R., 1962; Partridge, P. H. Society, Schools and Progress in Australia. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1968.

South Australian Register, 24th December, 1851.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1848, 232.

South Australian Register, 25th January, 1850.

South Australian Register, 6th January, 1851.

South Australian Register, 25th January, 1850.

Act 15, Vic., No. 20, clause 5.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1848, 140.

Minute Book, Central Board of Education, 1852/76.

S.A. Legislative Council Votes and Proceedings, 1851, 14.

Minute Book, Central Board of Education, 1853/968.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1853, 98, 99.

Minute Book, Central Board of Education, 1859/6154.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1859, 199.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1862, 375.

South Australian Register, 22nd December, 1864.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1865, 498.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1866, 613.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1872, 540.

See Turney C. , (Ed.) Pioneers of Australian Education: A Study of the Development of Education in New South Wales in the Nineteenth Century. Sydney University Press, 1969.

South Australian Register, 1st December, 1871.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1883, No. 27A, 99, 100.

Act 15, Vic., No. 20, clause 10.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1859, 201.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1860, 363.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1860, 366–377.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1860, 362.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1860, 365.

Minute Book, Central Board of Education, 1858/4007.

South Australian Register, 12th December, 1859, 10th January, 1859; Minute Book, Central Board of Education, 1859/5207.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1860, p. 378.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1860, p. 378.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1860, p. 378.

Minute Book, Central Board of Education, 1871/1599.

Minute Book, Central Board of Education, 1875/4415, 4667, 4668.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1874, 470, 574.

Minute Book, Central Board of Education, 1874/3406.

S.A. Government Gazette, 1873, 463.

S.A. Parliamentary Debates, 1877, 409.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1877, No. 21, 7.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 2, 3, 7; 1885, No. 34 9, 10.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1891, No. 30, 133, 135.

Act 6 Georg., No. 1223, clause 16.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1881, No. 122, 72, 76, 82.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1884, No. 44, 25.

The Education Gazette, October 1898, No. 144, 133.

Professor (later Sir) William Mitchell, quoted in the South Australian Register, 6th August, 1898.

Provisional schools were those unable to maintain an average attendance of at least twenty pupils. In this case the central authority would support the school once it was established by local initiative and if a teacher could be found.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1877, No. 21, 5.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1877, No. 34 6; 1897, No. 44, 6.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1877, No. 21, 8.

See for example, the South Australian Register, 25th July, 1877 and 30th July, 1878.

S.A. Parliamentary Debates, 1877, 408–409.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1883–4, No. 27A, 96.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, pp. ix–xi.

The Education Gazette, July 1889, No. 41, 62–63.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1899, No. 44, 17.

Correspondence Files, Education Department, 1909/1472.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1878, No. 40, 27.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 16.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1883–4, No. 27a, 41.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1878, No. 40, 22.

Correspondence Files, Inspector General of Schools, 1878/5815.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1881, No. 122, 90.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1891, No. 30, xvi.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1903, No. 44, 14.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1887, No. 44, 3.

South Australian Register, 3rd March, 1880.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1908, No. 44, 15.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1881, No. 44 6.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1884, No. 44, 6; 1898, No. 44, 10.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1901, No. 44, 24.

The Education Gazette, October, 1895, No. 144, 139; S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1900, No. 44, 15.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1892, No. 44, 7; 1902, No. 44, 6.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1912, No. 27, xxii.

S.A. Parliamentary Debates, 1875, 625, 1013, 1014.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1881, No. 122, 18.

Acts 54 and 55, Vic., No. 507, clause 1.

S.A. Parliamentary Papers, 1903, No. 44, 19.

S.A. Parliamentary Debates, 1875, 221, 222, 357–391, 427–435, 509.