SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
OTAGO AGAIN LEADS [FROM 0”R parliament art reporter.] WELLINGTON, July 23. While primary schools attendances throughout New Zealand are good, Otago, against severe competition, maintains its place at the top. The Education Department report shows that regularity of attendance has continued at a highly satisfactory figure, tile average attendance for the year 1924 being 90.0 per cent, of the average weekly roll number The Otago Education district again has the highest degree of regularity, but the figures for all districts are creditable, in no case falling below 89.6 per cent. It is of interest to note that the percentage for the dominion _of Canada, is reported to be 71 (varying from (34 in one province to 82 in another) ; for the United States of America, 68 (ranging from 44 in one State to 77 in another); for Australia, 82 per cent.; and for Itngland, 88 per cent.
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Evening Star, Issue 19001, 24 July 1925, Page 2
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149SCHOOL ATTENDANCE Evening Star, Issue 19001, 24 July 1925, Page 2
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