NOT MANY CHANGES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17179, 8 February 1930, Page 5

NOT MANY CHANGES

PRIMARY SCHOOL ROLLS - /'?! i fl- — There have been small, variations in the school rolls at the suburban schools, Kaiti being the only, one at which the difference between this year and last year is measured by more than 10. There the 1928 standard VI was a large class, and the number passing out of the school with proficiency and competency certificates was larger than usual, with the result that last year’s roll, at the heB ginning of the first term, was smaller than usilal. This year the Kaiti school has a large standard VI again, and the roll number has been increased by good enrolments, so that this year’s figures compare favorably with those registered at the beginning of 1929. -At the Kaiti school the hew enrolments, for the year 1930 numbered about 31, and the sehool roll yestcrdjay was 365, as compared with 304 ■for the first week in 1929. At To Hapara thero were practically no changes in the numbers of new enrolments and of pupils who 1 ft the school at the close of last year, the roll number yesterday being about 440, approximately the same as last year’s. similar, the school opening with 553 on the Toll, as compared with 555 on the first day of the 1929 school year, while at Awapuni there was an in*trease of one in the roll, as between 1929 and 1930, the number being 164. The Gisborne Central School’s roll records also are interesting. Last year started with 743 pupils, 83 having left at the end of 1928, and 122 having enrolled. This yeSr the roll was 740, the number who left at the end of last year being 71, while 111 new , enrolments were made when the school opened for 1930. The total number of pupils receiving instruction in the Gisborne Central, Mangapapa, To Hapara, Kaiti, and Awapuni schools during the past week was 2202, as against 2255 during the opening week of 1929.