MAORI VILLAGE SCHOOLS..

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18495, 4 September 1923, Page 9

MAORI VILLAGE SCHOOLS..

INCREASED ROLL NUMBERS.

GOOD ATTENDANCE RECORD.

According to the annual report on Maori education presented to Parliament, the number of pupils on the rolls of native village ' schools at the end of 1922 was 6161, including 5347 Maoris and 814 Europeans, the latter representing 13 pei cent, of -the-roll. The roll exceeds that of' the' previous year by 339, 304 of this number being Maoris. The increase in numbers represents one of 6 per' cent, as compared with the increase in public schools of 3 per cent, in the roll number. In 'the last three years the number • of pupils, in. native schools has increased by 1000 or 18 per cent. A corresponding increase in the number of Maori, pupils attending public schools supports the ; evidence ,of an arrest .in the declino in the numbers of tlie native population. ' ■ /Compared with the percentage of regularity of 'attendance in public schools— 90.8 the hirh figure of 88.8 achieved 'in native.schools,, situated as they are in very remote country districts, is a matter for congratulation. , ; The number of pupils on tho rolls, of the native mission schools at' the end of 1922 was 363,..and on-the rolls of the j native. boarding-schools 413.