The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1897. CENSUS, 1896.
The returns show in every 100 persons 80-60 could read and write, 289 could read only, and 16 51 were unable to read. The proportion per cent unable to read fell from 23 72 in 1878 to 21 19 in 1886, and further to 16 51 in 1896. Of persons at the age period 10-15 years in 1896 £8 73 per cent were able to read and write, while 065 per cent *;ould merely read, and only 062 per cent were unable to read. The pro portion who could not read increased with each succeeding quinquennial period of age until at 50-55 years it stood at 404 per cent. At 75-80 the proportion was 705 per cent, and at 80 85 advanced to B*o7 per cent. Similarly the proportion of persons who could read only increased from 065 *t 10 15 years to 3*66 at the period 50-55, and again to 9 74 at 80 and up *yards. The better education of the people at the ecrlier ages is thus exlibited.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 175, 27 January 1897, Page 2
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186The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1897. CENSUS, 1896. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 175, 27 January 1897, Page 2
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