File contains new school laws, certificate of eligibility as county or city examiner, a list of individuals eligible to be appointed public school inspectors, etc.
File contains various documents from the Hastings County Board of Public Instruction, including accounts information, a notice from the Department of Public Instruction for Upper Canada, and letters.
File contains a newspaper clipping about teachers attending a seminar to use newspapers to teach students to be analytical and critical; one seminar attendant was William H. Lesurf of Belleville.
File contains a printed Bay of Quinte District Secondary School Programme description, printed evening class schedules for the 1959-1960 season, a blank typescript application for high school transportation 1959-1960,. and several newspaper clippings concerning budgets for teaching staff wages, and tenders for school additions.
File contains a printed booklet commemorating the official opening of Queen Alexandra and Queen Victoria Public Schools. Includes a historical sketch of public schooling in Belleville.
File contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings from 1969 about education in Hastings County, for example, the increased cost of education, teachers to students ratios, building of a new school, etc.