EDUCATION. FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION. [In Continuation of E.-1, 1881.]

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1882 Session I, E-01

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EDUCATION. FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION. [In Continuation of E.-1, 1881.]

Presented to both Souses of the General Assembly by Command of Sis Excellency.

CONTENTS. REPORT. Page Page School Attendance ... ... ... _i Normal Schools... ... ... ... xiy Ages of the Scholars ... ... ... ii Education Reserves ... ... ... it Subjects of Instruction ... ... ... iv University Reserves ... ... ... xvi Number of Public Schools ... ... ... y Native Schools ... ... ... ... xvi Number of Teachers ... ... ... vi Deaf-and-Dumb Institution.,. ... ... xvii Finances of Boards ... ... ... vii Industrial and Orphan Schools ... ~. xvii Departmental Expenditure ... ... ... xii Higher Education ... ... ... xix Inspection of Schools ... ... ... xii Gilchrist Scholarship ... ... ... xxi Scholarships ... ... ... ... xiii APPENDIX. Statistics — Statements of Accounts of Boards — continued. Income of Boards (Table No. 1) ... ... 1 Wanganui ... ... ... ... 64 Expenditure of Boards (Table No. 2) ... 2 Hawke's Bay ... ... ... 67 Management of Boards, Cost of (Table No. 3)... 3 Wellington... ... ... ... 68 School-Buildings, Expenditure, &o. (Table Marlborough ... ... ... 69 No. 4a) ... ... ... ... 4 Nelson ... ... ... ... 70 School-Buildings, Proposals for 1882, &c. (Table North Canterbury ... ~. ... 74 No. 4b) ... ... ... ... 5 South Canterbury ... ... ... 77 Ages of Scholars (Table No. 5) ... ... 6 Weslland ... ... ... ... 81 Standards, Scholars classified according to Otago ... ... ... ... 83 (Table No. 6) ... ... ... 7 Southland ... ... ... ... 87 Officers of Boards and Training Colleges (Table No. 7) ... ... ... ... 8 Drill Instructor's Report, Christchureh... ... 74 Education Department, Expenditure under (Table No. 8) ... ... 8a Art Master's Report, Dunedin ... ... 84 Schools, Expenditure on each, and Names and r Salaries of Teachers (Table No. 10) ... 9 „, . . _, ~ Schools, Area of each, Number of Residences, and Training College Reports— Attei.dance (Table No. 10) ... ... 42 *£ c*. T "' '" '" '" on Wellington ... ... ~, 89 Reports of Boards- Christchureh ... ... ... 92 Auckland ... ... ... ... 57 Dimedin ... ... ... „. 93 Taranivki ... ... ... ... 61 Wanganui... ... ... ... 62 Reports and Accounts of School Commissioners — Hawke's Bay ... ... ... 65 Auckland ... ... ... ... 94 Wellington... ... ... ... 67 Taranaki ... ... ... ... 95 Marlborough ... ... ... 69 Wellington... ... ... ... 96 Nelson ... ... ... ... 70 Hawke's Bay ... ... ... 97 North Canterbury ... ... ... 71 Marlborough ... ... ... 98 Soutli Canterbury ... ... ... 75 Nelson ... ... ... ... 99 Westland ... ... ... ... 77 Canterbury ... ... ... 100 Otago ... ... ... ... 81 Westland ... ... ... ... 102 Southland ... ... ... ... 84 Otago ... ... ... ... 103 Statements of Accounts of Boards— Circulars — Auckland ... ... ... ... 60 Insurance of School-Buildings (82/6) ... 105 Taranaki ... ... ... ... 61 Purpose of Building Funds (82/7) ... 105

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Presented to hoth Souses of the General Assembly by Command of Sis Excellency.

Offi.ce of the Department of Education, Sib,— Wellington, 3rd June, 1882. I have the honour, in accordance with the provisions of " The Education Act, 1877," to submit to your Excellency the following report upon the progress and condition of public education in New Zealand during the year ending the 31st day of December, 1881. I have, &c, Thomas Dick. His Excellency the Hon. Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, G.C.M.G-., &c, Governor of New Zealand.

EEPOET. " The Education Act, 1877," prescribes to the Minister of Education the duty of reporting " upon the progress and condition of public education in New Zealand during the year." It has been found convenient to prepare separate parliamentary papers relating to certain departments of public education which do not come under the operation of the Act, and to give here only a brief summary of their work, devoting the greater part of this report to the state of the "public schools " established for the purpose of primary education, and to the accounts of the School Commissioners, who manage the reserves appropriated to the partial maintenance of primary and secondary schools. The separate papers contain reports on Native schools (E.-2), industrial schools and orphanages (E.-3), and the institution for deaf-mutes (E.-4), to all of which (except some of the industrial schools and orphanages) the Education Department sustains a relation similar to that which the Education Boards sustain to the primary schools; on the annual examination for teachers' certificates (E.-1a) ; on secondary schools (E.-8), several of which are required by law to make annual reports to the Minister; and on the University of New Zealand (E.-5), the University of Otago (E.-6), and Canterbury College (E.-7). The Boards' reports, and those of the School Commissioners, are contained in the Appendix, and the reports of the Boards' Inspectors in a separate paper (E.-1b). School Attendance. The annual increase in the number of children attending the public schools was much smaller in 1881 than in any other year since the Education Act now i—E. 1.

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in force was passed. The number belonging to the schools at the end of 1878 exceeded the corresponding number for the year 1877 by 9,352. For the next year (1879) the increase was 10,526, and for the following year (1880) it was 6,835. Last year the increase was only 1,159, or about 13^ per cent, of the average annual increase of the three previous years. The average attendance of scholars for the iast quarter of 1881 compares still less favourably with that of former years, the increase for the year being only 337, whereas the average increase for each of the three previous years was 7,545. The increase of average attendance for the whole year is not so much below the mean of other years, the number for the year being 1,501, which is 21 per cent, of the mean for the three years preceding —7,132. The smallness of the increase for the year is due to several concurrent causes. In the first place, during the second quarter of the year a circular was sent to the Boards, directing them in future not to include any children under five years of age in their quarterly returns. The number of such children on the rolls at the end of 1880 was 2,621; it was probably above 2,700 at the end of June, 1881. Most, if not all, of these were suddenly removed from the school-rolls during the second quarter, and the number on the rolls fell during that quarter from 84,816 to 82,804. The change would not have been felt so much had it occurred in the fourth or the first quarter of a year, because the summer months usually bring large additions to the schools, while in the winter there are few or none. No recovery took place in the next quarter, but on the contrary a further diminution to the extent of 408, so that the whole number on the rolls was five less than it had been nine months before. During the last quarter there was a satisfactory increase of 1,164. The increase for the year was, as already stated, only 1,159, but it must be remembered that the addition of 1,159 to the rollnumbers is equivalent to an increase of 3,780 in the number of children above five years of age, because 2,621 children counted at the end of 1880 were below that age. In the second place, the school-attendance for several years was gaining rapidly on the population. Prom December, 1877, to December, 1880, the estimated increase of the population between five and fifteen years of age was 18,036, but during the same period the increase of the school-rolls was 26,713. The gain may be attributed to the abolition of school-fees, and the extension of the public-school system to new districts. The growth of the public schools during this period was, to some extent, at the expense of private schools, for the whole increase of attendance at schools of every kind, as shown by a comparison of the census returns of 1880 with those of 1877, was only 23,870. A disproportion of this kind between the increase of the population and that of the attendance at public schools must in the nature of things have a limit, and the statistics for this year suggest that the limit has been nearly reached. A third point to be observed is that the rate of increase of the population was slower in 1881 than in the two previous years. The estimated increase between five and fifteen years of age for 1879 was 7,962; for 1880 it was 6,274; last year it was only 4,122; and, as has been stated, 3,780 children over five years old were added to the rolls in the year. Further, several of the Boards report that serious epidemics prevailed last year : scarlatina at Auckland and the Thames; measles in Wanganui and North Canterbury; measles and scarlatina at Napier and Gisborne; diphtheria in Westland; measles and scarlet fever in Otago; and measles and other complaints in South Canterbury and Southland. The effect of these diseases in reducing the average attendance is not very apparent, for the proportion of the average attendance to the roll-numbers is nearly as good (76-4) for the whole colony as it was last year (76"6). Otago shows the greatest falling off in this respect; and Southland, Westland, South Canterbury, and Nelson suffered more than the colony taken as a whole. The following table contains the most important particulars of the attendance for the year. Table No. 10, Appendix, pages 42-56, which gives the details school by school, shows 27 more children on the rolls than appear in Table A, these children being under five years of age, and on that account excluded from all the more important calculations and statistics contained in this report.

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TABLE A.—School Attendance.

It will be seen that the number of new admissions for the year was less by 3,088 than in the previous year, while the number of children leaving the schools was greater than in 1880. Very little weight attaches to these numbers, because many children are transferred from school to school during a year, and the attendance of many is so irregular that they come within the operation of the rule which requires that a child absent for a whole quarter shall, when the quarterly return is made up, be regarded as having left. In the first case the same child is counted both among those that have left and among those that have been admitted, and in the other case he is so counted if he return to school before the end of the year. The sum of the number at the beginning of the year (74,359) and the number admitted during the year (46,206) is 120,565; and as the whole population between five years and fifteen was estimated at 124,561 on the 31st December, 1880, and at 128,683 a year later, it follows that if some of the admissions and withdrawals were not attributable to the causes here assigned the number of individual children under instruction in the public schools during the year would be almost equal to the whole number of children of school-age in the colony. There is at present no means of ascertaining how many of those reported as withdrawn have been subsequently readmitted. The fair presumption is that the number is very great, that many children are grossly irregular in their attendance, and that undue advantage is taken of the unrestricted right of removal from one school to another. Of those on the rolls at the end of 1880, as many as 8,042 were struck off as not attending during the first quarter of 1881, and 37,005 (including 27 who for the purposes of this report are to be reckoned as having left, being under five years of age) have since been removed from the rolls, so that 45,047 (considerably more than half the number at any time on the rolls) have nominally left school in twelve months. The following table is interesting as showing an increase in the number of Maori and half-caste children attending the public schools, the increase being, however, chiefly in the attendance of half-castes. The increase might easily be made much larger but for the unwillingness of many parents of both races— European and Maori—to allow their children to be taught in schools equally open to them all. In some Maori settlements that are too small, and too near to public schools, to be regarded as entitled to have Native schools established in them, the children are growing up in ignorance, being either withheld or excluded from the

Education Districts. Number of Scholars belonging at Beginning of Year. Number Admitted during the Year. On Sch. )Ol-rolls. Number Number who Left belonging during at End of the Year. Year. Strict Average. Average Daily Attendance. Working Average. « S ni E S Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Quarter. Year. Males. Females. Total. Luckland ... Paranaki ... (Vauganui... Wellington rfawke's Bay Harlborough felson Ifortli Canterbury ,., South Canterbury ... iVestland ... )tago Southland... '3,337 1,367 4,070 5,H4 2,831 1,041 3,456 14,858 3,248 2,974 i7,58i 4,45 2 9,995 1,183 2,625 4,220 L778 815 2,092 9,229 t,86i 1,011 8,948 2,449 7.5°2 841 2,207 3,217 1,423 535 1,486 8,040 ',578 1,053 7,255 1,868 i5, 83o 1,709 4,488 6,147 3,186 1.321 4,062 16,047 3.53' 2,932 19,274 5.033 11,962 1,156 3.431 4,8 [o 2,056 975 3,076 11,322 2,492 2,195 15,918 3,616 11,946 1,148 3.329 4,782 2>252 ! 9'3 \ 2,987 10,984 2,475 2.243 15,327 3,436 61,822 60,625 6,457 649 1,843 2,65.5 1,214 549 1,661 6,269 1,364 1,127 8,382 1,980 5,818 588 1,651 2,221 985 449 1,518 5,49' 1,249 I,H9 7.679 1,796 ■2,275 1.2.37 3,494 4,876 2,199 998 3,179 11,760 2,613 2,276 16,061 3.776 12,158 1,212 3,4'5 4,867 2,348 936 3,082 11,501 2,597 2,324 15.589 3.706 77'4 73'8 76"2 78-4 74-2 75'S 76-5 72'O 72-1 76'! 80-3 75'6 Totals for 1881.,. Totals for 1880... 74,359 68,124 46,206 49,294 37,005 35,o '7 83,560 82,401 63,009 62,946 34,'5O 33,88o 3O,594 30,527 64,744 64,407 63,735 62,234 76-4 766 Increase in year,.. 6,235 - 3,088 t,988 i,i59 63 1,'97 270 (>7 337 i.5°i Totals for 1877... 55,688 4i,773 40.837 Increase in4jears 27,872 22,971 22,898 Average yearly increase ' ... 6,968 5,743 5,725

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public schools on account of antipathy based on difference of race. The numbers in Table B are included in Table A.

TABLE B.—Maoris and Children of Mixed Race Attending Public Schools at the End of 1881.

Ages op the Scholars. A detailed statement of the ages of the scholars is given in Table No. 5, Appendix, page 6. The following is a summary: —

TABLE C.—Ages of Scholars at the End of the Year.

In making a comparison between this year's statistics of the ages of the children at school and those of last year, the children under five years old are thrown out of account. It appears that 58- 14 per cent, at the end of 1881 were between five and ten, the corresponding number for the previous year (58*32) being practically the same. The census returns show that of the children of school-age rather more than 54 per cent, are under ten years old. It may be assumed that some of the children of the primary schools are sent to superior schools during the latter part of their school-life; but the early age at which boys and girls are able to obtain profitable employment probably constitutes the principal cause of the comparatively small attendance of the older children. Subjects op Instruction. The classification according to standards of examination has not rendered it altogether xmnecesary to make inquiry as to the number of pupils receiving instruction in each subject. The following table gives the numbers as returned by the several Boards :—

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Pure Maoris. Of Mixed Race. Total. Education Districts, Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Luckland ?aranaki S1 2 29 80 2 25 3 72 7 5 5 "9 125 3 13 244 3 23 3 48 4 1 170 2 24 3 84 4 3 ■4 6 1 25 13 154 3 24 3 36 7 3 10 12 1 '7 »3 324 S 1 120 iVanganui Wellington lawke's Bay ilarlborough ... kelson ■forth Canterbury louth Canterbury .,, (Vestland )tago louthland '4 11 10 52 2 3 20 S 3 3 32 2 2 11 6 2 I 5 1 6 I 10 12 '9 18 24 18 2 42 26 1 2 6 19 '3 >7 13 36 26 Total for 1881 Total for 1880 I3S 123 72 81 207 204 214 "5 211 116 425 231 349 238 283 197 632 43S

Ages. Boys. Girls. Total. Percei (excluding unde ntage. I Children *5). five and under seven years ... leven and under ten years ... .'en and under thirteen years .'hirteen and under fifteen years )ver fifteen years ... 10,014 15.477 '3.214 4,089 674 8,983 14,111 12,179 3,9.31 888 i8,997 29,588 ■25.393 8,020 1,563 1881. 2273 35'4' 30'39 9'6o 1-87 1S80. 22-33 35"99 30-25 966 i'77 Totals for 1881 Totah for 1880 43.468 42.734 40,092 39,667 83.560 82,401 IOO'OO lOO'OO Increase .., 734 425 1.159

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TABLE D.—Subjects of Instruction.

In every subject except reading the number receiving instruction is larger in proportion to the number on the rolls than it was last year. This is especially the case with respect to vocal music, and also to needlework, considering that in this latter subject the roll-number to be compared is that of the girls alone. It appears, however, that there are 3,065 children not being taught writing, of whom 2,123 are found in Otago alone; and 5,038, nearly half of these also being in Otago, are not learning arithmetic. In the Hawke's Bay Education District every child on the rolls is returned as learning writing and arithmetic, and it is difficult to understand why it should not be so in every district. Number or Public Schools. The diminution of the rate of increase of attendance is certainly not due to any want of desire or effort on the part of the Boards to keep pace with the wants of a growing and spreading population. The number of schools, which at the end of 1877 was 730, had risen by the end of 1881 to 869, the increase for the four years being therefore 139; and the increase for the year now under review was 33, a number very little below the average. The number of teachers also was raised during the year from 1,971 to 2,087, the difference (116) being about one-sixth of the whole difference (687) between the numbers at the end of 1877 and the end of 1881 respectively. The following table shows the distribution of large and small schools in the several districts. More minute information on the subject will be found in Table No. 10, Appendix, pages 42-56.

TABLE E.—Number of Schools Open at the End of 1881. (In this enumeration every two half-time schools are reckoned as one school.)

Education Districts. I'Si's a 1-1 a OS I "C < ~d . ||l 50 n. s o a I w 1 II o > o . > ■ —. +3 g aj o i§ d s c M Auckland Paranaki /Vanganui Wellington lawke's Bay ttarlborough kelson ... forth Canterbury louth Canterbury (Vestland )tago ... louthland 15,830, 15,830 1,709! 1,709 4,488 4,488 6,147 6,147 3,206 3,206 1,321 1,321 4,062 4,062 16,051*16,050 3.531 3.53 ■ 2,935 2,935 19,274 19,274 5,O33 5,033 t83,587 83,586 82,401 82,400 1,186 1,186 1,709 4.439 6,128 3,2o6 1,267 3,868 15,665 3.53" 2.935 4.793 15,830 1,665 4.399 5,9 2° 3,206 1,079 3,622 15,332 2,936 2,875 16,972 4,713 8,739 765 1,956 2,910 1,077 6,7 2,081 6,i59 1,298 1,217 8,343 2,098 37,260 35>849 10,600 1,063' 2,538 3.5'° 1.54* 8311 2,466, 8,230 i,86r 1,583! 10,441 2,955 47,620 45,033: 5.943 586 i,736 2,682 947 608 i !,96i , 5.573 , 1,270 1 1,098 7,565 i,975 4,630; 498, 841 1,289 453 427 982 2.757j 613 435 4,591 1,030 18,545 16,889 12,227 ',379, i,86i 4,°i7; 1.474 519 "6, I 10,167 ; '.979; 656; 9.832 2,518 13.938 1,276 3.5°5 4.793 2,430 746 1,088 13,^3 2,484 '.913 13,380 3,396 62,232 60,405 n,8ro 962 2,465 4,161 2,478 421 505 10,818 2,647 ',435 14,515 3,552 55,769 47.7°5 j 6,411 53i 1,353 i,97° 962J 368| 1,267 6,,52 i.i6s! 747i 6,475 1,514 U8.9I5 27,166 2,398 123 250 354 42 107 ■12 1,281 281 141 i ■•• 424 208 Totals for 1881 Totals for 1880 80,522 78.318 78,549 75,693 2,856 31.944 I 28,784 47.205 45,867 I 1,338 5,58o 5,i° ] 14' Increase 2,204 1,411 2,587 3.160 .,656! 1,827 8,064 i,749 479 (?) * One boy unable to speak. f This includes 27 children under g years of age, not reckoned in other tables or calculations.

Education Districts. U3 *3 If 11 n u 3 O <||§ .2 o f s I I 1 Number oi School: TO o in which the s, i s 3 Oh S ft rt 1 rt "in O .ttendi O o .nee for the Quarter was— ■Si I! r u . . w - T3 w • u * C 2U g| »^ O «) O u) OS M* CO -U) ■f « I S a. "=° So S Us "S-S Z C3^ 00 y-< ° S o 0 .- 0) 3 Auckland Paranaki Wanganui Wellington Sawke's Bay Marlborough S"elson ... North Canterbury... South Canterbury... Westland ... '94 3° 57 48 36 20 70 129 33 35 '54 63 869 836 12,275 1.237 3,49+ 4,876 2,199 998 3,179 11,760 2,613 2,276 16,061 3,77 6 64,744 64,407 63-3 41-2 6i- 3 ior6 611 49'9 45'4 91-2 79'2 65-0 i°-V3 yr1) H ! 2 2 1 6 3 2 23 2 6 4 3 6 12 7 3 5 10 5 86 80 2/ 3 8 1 3 2 7 12 7' '5 i 23 20 10 3 26 46 17 13 56 37 20 5 3 6 4 4 12 18 6 11 2 3 2 6 7 '7 14 1 5 2 2 1 3 11 8 6 1 1 4 "e 1 1 i ■■• 1 2 5 1 37 6 10 3 9 9 1 2 2 3 5 2 1 3 •3 3 8.5 90 1 20 8 2 12 4 66 58 3 2 '4 3 9 1 2 12 1 2 9 2 2 7 "5 2 8 Dtago ... Southland 6 2 2 Totals for 1881 Totals for 1880 74" 5' 77'° 40 34 337 321 : 107 ! 96 60 65 49 46 27 3° 14 16 47 44 64 59 4 8

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The exclusion of children under five years of age has apparently affected the largest schools most seriously, and probably these schools have also suffered more than others from, the prevalence of epidemics : the number of schools having more than 300 children each has been reduced by five. The natural tendency to an increase in the mean number of children at each school has been overcome by the special circumstances of the year, so that that number has been reduced from 77 to 7-l"5. The comparative diminution of income has led to an increase in the number of " aided schools" from 59 to 64, and the Committees of many schools not described as aided have found it necessary to supplement by local contributions the sums granted by the Boards. The Boards' reports refer in several places to the moneys raised by Committees. (Boards' reports in Appendix — Wanganui, page 62; Hawke's Bay, pages 65, 66; South Canterbury, pages 75, 76; Southland, page 87.) The Auckland Board has extended the operation of the half-time system, upon which the following remarks are made in its report: " The utmost caution is observed by the Board in opening new schools ; but, owing to the scattered settlement of the outlying districts, the demand for the establishment of small schools is frequent, and in most instances well founded. The Board has been obliged to consider the question of how these small schools can be maintained upon an income which is entirely dependent upon average attendance of scholars. In many country places there are but few children of school-age, and some of them have to travel a long distance to and from school. Rainy days, and almost impassable roads, have a serious effect in lowering the attendance and in reducing the funds (already quite inadequate) for the maintenance of such schools. The Board has been obliged, in many instances, to reduce the grant to a capitation allowance of £4 a year on the average attendance. Wherever it has been possible to do so, the Board has introduced the half-time system. The schools at lluakaka and Waipu Cave, at Brookside and Kariaotahi (Waiuku), at Harapepe and Te Rore, and at Mackaytown and Waitekauri, have been combined into half-time schools. The Board is glad to report that the halftime system has been found to work with fairly satisfactory results." The same payment is made by Government for attendance at a half-time school as for full attendance at an ordinary school. Number of Teachers. The number of teachers employed at the end of the year is shown in the following table: —

TABLE F.-Number of Teachers.

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Number of Teachers, exclusive of Teachers of Sewing, employed during the last Quarter of 1S81. 9. 10. Average teachers Number "Sewing Pupils I \«&** Education Districts. Males. Females. S. Average Attendance for last Quarter of 18S1. r. Teachers. Assistants. Tc P^- rs> 4Teachers. 5- 6. Assistants. Te^a _ Totals. Auckland I'aranaki 160* 18 26 15 1 7 5 9 1 43 12 i°3 8 i°5 5 27 46 25 2 45 2 44 108 12,275 i,237 3.494 4,876 2,199 998 11,760 2,613 2,276 16,061 3<776 27-2 28-1 32"4 34'3 26-5 31-2 30-6 28-8 46 iVanganui Wellington Etawke's Bay... YTarlborougk £ ,. kelson STorth Canterbury South Canterbury Westland )tago Southland 44 35 29 16 37 120 31 27 141 61 3 17 1 1 3 17 4 4 43 5 45 7 15 64 7 12 13 11 7 33 80 3 76 M 26 8 5 31 35 16 16 111 23 21 7 6 20 142 83 32 104 408 84 90 429 ill 1 1 32 10 31-1 25'3 37'4 34'° 29 4 22 7 Totals for 1881 ... Totals for 1880 ... 719 687 124 130 i?6 139 311 373 296 209 461 433 2,087 64,744 64,407 31-0 327 120 127 Increase or decrease - 6 - 62 116 32 37 87 28 337 - I"7 - 7 * Including J visiting teachers,

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The usual increase in the proportion of female teachers has not been maintained during the year, the additions to the number of teachers being 63 males, of whom 37 are pupil-teachers, and 53 females, of whom 28 arc pupil-teachers. Of the whole number employed in the schools at the end of the year there were 1,019 male teachers, and 1,068 of the other sex. The decrease in the number of headmistresses appears to be due in great measure to some uncertainty as to the persons entitled to be so designated. Many of the assistant teachers are uncertificated, but there are now more certificated teachers than there are senior places in all the schools. The number of such places, as shown in Table F, was 1,030 in December. The number of persons holding certificates at the present time (June 3) is 1,096, and, besides these, 96 have the " license to teach," and the "district license" has been granted to 33. There are also 147 persons who have passed in most of the subjects of examination, and who will receive certificates on passing in the subjects in which they were weakest; and there are about 120 cases in which, satisfactory attainments having been proved, candidates have either been advised of the rank proposed to be assigned to them, but have not yet accepted it, or have been promised certificates on completing two years' service, or on obtaining Inspector's marks. Of the teachers that were employed by the Boards at the end of 1881, 32 head-teachers, 236 teachers in sole charge of schools, and 213 assistant teachers, are uncertificated; but some of these have partly qualified (as described in the last preceding sentence), their numbers being as follows: —7 head-teachers, 24 in sole charge, and 39 assistants. • • • Income and Expenditure op Education Boards. The amount expended by the Boards on school-buildings (including sites, teachers' houses, and school furniture) is of necessity almost wholly limited to the amount voted by Parliament in each year for this purpose. Apart from this, their ordinary expenditure on the maintenance of schools depends almost exclusively on the statutory capitation allowance of £3 155., according to average attendance. Their receipts for scholarships and training of teachers are applicable only to the purposes for which they are granted, and the grants for inspection are made by way of subsidy. Seeing that during the year the Boards have opened 33 new schools, and appointed 116 teachers in addition to those previously engaged, and that the attendance, on which their income depends, was at the end of the year greater by only 337 than it was twelve months before, it is evident that they must have suffered some embarrassment. The difficulty of their position was, moreover, enhanced by a permanent deduction of about 11^ per cent, from their ordinary income, which took effect in August of the preceding year, when the parliamentary capitation grant of 10s. per annum for the incidental expenses of schools was withdrawn. By this change, and the exclusion of children under the age of five years, the parliamentary vote is reduced by probably not less than £40,000 a year. It is not possible to ascertain from the accounts furnished by the Boards whether the revenue of the year has enabled them to meet their expenses without losing ground. This could only be ascertained by comparing the assets and liabilities at the end of the year with the assets and liabilities at the beginning of the year, and these are not stated in every case. The accounts show that the balances in the hands of the Boards (deducting overdrafts) on the 31st December amounted to about £5,000 more than on the Ist January, but that during the year they received for building purposes about £6,600 more than they expended, so that on the ordinary account (excluding buildings) their balances are less by about £1,600 at the end of the year than at the beginning; besides which the Auckland Board paid salaries to probationers to the extent of several hundred pounds out of money granted for the training of teachers. The details of the Boards' income and expenditure are given in Tables Nos. 1 and 2 in the Appendix, and again with their annual reports.* Tables G and II contain a summary for the year, and similar summaries for the four previous years, so as to show at a glance the accounts for the period of five years during which the schools have been maintained by grants from colonial revenue.

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TABLE G.—Summary of Boards' Income.

TABLE H.—Summary of Boards' Expenditure.

With regard to the income it must he explained that the Boards do not derive any advantage from the sums paid by School Commissioners as proceeds of education reserves, such sums being always deducted from the amounts which would otherwise be paid out of the capitation vote; and that the payment of £64,318 for buildings was partly on accoimt of the parliamentary vote of 1880 and partly on account of that of 1881. The amount of the vote'in 1881 was £85,000, of which £3,700 was devoted to the payment of balances due to Boards on account of the vote of 1880, £6,300 was reserved for Native and industrial schools, and £43,582 was not paid to the Boards until the first quarter of 1882. The Boards' accounts show that money voted for buildings has in some cases been applied to other purposes than the purchases of sites, the erection of buildings, and the providing of school-furniture, andpaidfor fire insurance, for interest, forrent of schoolbuildings, and even as rent-allowance to teachers of schools to which residences are not attached. Payments of this kind have been excluded (so far as they could be ascertained) from the amounts entered for buildings in Table H. In some cases the erroneous method of charging such payments is of no consequence, because the Boards have supplemented the grants for buildings by money derived from other sources. Table No. 4a, Appendix, page 4, shows the amounts that have been practically diverted from the purposes of the building grants. The case of "Westland requires special consideration. In that district during the last three years £4,700 out of votes for buildings has been applied to other purposes, and the Board, although in 1879 it received a special grant of £2,000, had an overdraft of £1,021 12s. 4d. on the 31st December, 1881. All the Boards

Principal Heads. Year 1877. Year 1858. Year 1859. Year 1880. Year 1881. 1. Balance (deducting overdrafts) on 1st January, 1877 2. Parliamentary grants —Maintenance ... 3. „ „ Buildings 4. Education reserves ... 5. Local receipts—School fees, contributions, &c.... 6. „ „ For buildings 7. Interest on current accounts ... £ s. d. 32,490 7 6 157,392 15 10 46,812 76 16,604 4 3 £ a. d. £ s. d. £ b. d. s s. a. 216,666 4 0 101,2,57 2 ii 8,862 3 9 217,876 2 o 150,581 4 7 21,330 7 1 24i,5S5 M o 104,436 16 8 19,749 o 4 '233.587 o 9 64,318 o o 23,533 6 7 *44,754 2 3 1,190 7 1 9,366 1 10 1,284 14 3 4,5o7 '9 7 1,23' 7 9 3,048 17 2 398,575 18 2 3,817 17 ii 1,965 12 3 i,739 5 o 373,264 6 2 3,684 17 4 599 1 2 380 o o 8. Total income for year for public scbools 9. Add—Public libraries for 1879, 1880, 1881 0. Auckland and Otago High Schools, 1877 ,.. 1. Balances on 1 st January 299,244 4 5 337,436 6 9 326,102 5 10 f6,i79 2 1 4,945 8 o 453 10 9 9>°25 7 5 23,323 ° 9 36o,759 7 6 58,173 3 " 42,437 1 6 32,419 10 9 it. Totals 308,269 11 10 462,928 4 2 420,646 15 8 358,975 7 4 * Including sums raised by School Committees ai louth, £<iio is.; Hawke's Bay, £814 4s. Jd.; Otago, t Including balances excluded from summaries of ad expended on education without going through the Boards' books, as follows : New Ply£20,828 3s. ad. ' former years.

Principal Heads. Year 18}}. Year 1878. Year 1859. Year 1880. Year 1S81. 1. Cost of management by Boards 2. Cost of inspection and examination 3. Maintenance of schools—Teachers' salaries and allowances, grants to Committees and schools, scholarships, training, fire insurance, &c... 4. School-buildings 5. Refunds and sundry extraordinary payments £ b. d. 10,484 14 10 5,606 19 7 £ s. d. 10,225 I2 2 6,142 14 5 £ s. d. 11,109 8 10 7.735 4 ° £ s. d. 10,037 I7 6 8,273 13 9 £ a. d. 8,109 6 9 8,387 15 4 173,726 9 7 80,351 16 9 192,736 19 7 89.255 3 7 221,053 4 o 172,867 14 3 247.' 21 3 5 117,410 1 10 243,257 3 6 58,254 12 6 6. Total expenditure on public schools .. 7. Add—Public libraries, 1879, 1880, 1881 ... 8. Auckland and Otago High Schools 9. Balances (deducting OTerdrafts) on 3 1 st December 3,610 8 4 273,780 9 1 4,225 13 10 1,651 11 o 726 7 o 383.S69 3 6 2,011 15 10 302,586 3 7 414,417 2 1 320,020 13 11 6,074 o 7 4.658 1 5 I.S53 17 8 11,166 2 o 23,323 o 9 308,269 11 10 58,i73 3 " 360,759 7 6 42,437 1 6 32,419 10 9 420,646 15 8 37,400 15 9 o. Totals 462,928 4 2 358,975 1 4

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have been advised that Government regards school-buildings as colonial property, and does not wish to have them insured; and, further, that interest, rent, and rentallowances are not in future to be paid for out of grants made for buildings. Tables Nos. 1 and 2, Appendix, pages 1 and 2, contain a more detailed statement than that given above of the Boards' income and expenditure, and a further analysis of their expenditure on management and on inspection and examination is given in Table No. 3. The cost for each scholar is shown in Table J, stated for the several Boards in detail, and divided under the several heads of expenditure, excluding only the refunds and payments of a similar character included in line 5 of Table 11. Under the head of maintenance the cost of normal schools and training of teachers is reckoned.

TABLE J.—Expenditure per Scholar by Boards.

The salaries and allowances of teachers at the rates in force at the end of the year amount to about £213,000 per annum. The details are given in Table No. 9, Appendix, pages 9-42. Some rent-allowances, which do not appear in that table, would make the amount a little larger. When this is divided between 2,210 teachers it gives them an average salary of £96 each, the majority being paid at a lower rate. Excluding some rent-allowances (above referred to) the distribution of salary and allowance is as stated in Table K. In the first column are included 637 pupil-teachers, and 120 teachers of sewing. The teachers receiving salaries of £100 a year and upwards number 1,004, which is less by 26 than the whole number of head-teachers.

TABLE K.—Salaries of Teachers. (The numbers show how many teachers in each district are paid at rates within the limits stated at the heads of the columns respectively.)

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Cost per Scholar for the Year 18S1, calculated on the Average Daily Attendance. Education Districts. Number of Schools, December, 1881. Number of Teachers, December, 1881, Average Daily Attendance for 1881. Current Expenditure, Total Srhnnl Current Bulldogs. K"Pe a «f ure Buildings. Management. Infection. Maintenance. Total. luddand Faranaki SVanganui Wellington ... ETawke's Bay Vlarlborough... kelson " ' ... ' Jfortli Canterbury South Canterbury Westland Dtago Southland 194 3° 57 48 36 20 70 129 33 35 154 63 869 836 452 44 108 142 83 32 104 408 84 90 429 in 12,158 1,212 3.415 4,867 2,348 936 3,082 11,501 2,597 2,324 15)589 3./O6 63.735 62,234 s. a. * si 4 °i 3 6 2 li 3 °i 3 8 2 4 2 3 4 «i 7 oi 1 6i 2 9 2 6| 3 *i o 8 s. d. 2 8 3 2 2 ill 2 10 5 i°i 4 of 3 o 2 if 3 if 4 4 1 9i 2 8f £ s. d. 3 15 2 2 18 ii| 3 6 2f 3 18 4f 3 15 10 3 11 3 3 9 4i 3 19 4i 3 11 oi 3 18 2| j 407 3 '5 >f 3 16 4 3 19 5 £ s. a. 4 ° 3i 3 6 ii 3 i2 8| 4 3 4 4 4 8! 3 18 nf 3 14 8i 4 3 9i 3 18 3i i 4 9 7 4 3 «i 4 o 7i 416 4 5 3* £ s. a. 1 7 ni o 17 oj I 0 12 6J I 1 6 5 in 1 o 13 io| 012 1 o 19 4i 0 8 ioi 1 18 2! o 7 Si o 16 2 £ s. d. 5 8 2i 4 3 2 4 5 2! 5 9 9? 5 15 9t 4 12 10 4 6 9 i 5 3 2 4 7 2 6 7 9 | 4 11 4i 4 16 6i 4 19 9i 6 3 9 Totals for 1881 Totals for 1880 Decrease ... 2,087 i,97i 2 7i 2 8 o oi 0 18 3 i 1 17 8J o 19 5i o 3 1 ° 3 9l 1 3 3 Totals for 1881 cal-"| culated on mean j of roll-numbers at > ends of four quarters—83,406 J Similar totals for 1880 i uj 2 oi 2 18 3 f 3 2 3I o 14 o 3 16 3i 2 5f 2 oi 3 ° I0 3 5 4 1 8 vof 4 14 ii

Education Districts. Under £100, £100 and under £200. rf'200 and under £300. £300 and under £400. £400 and upwards (maximum, £460). Total. Auckland [kranaki /Vanganui Wellington lawke's Bay ... tlarlborough. kelson Canterbury iouth Canterbury /t'estland Hago Southland 302 26 73 6S S 1 !7 59 268 57 59 185 45 1C0 19 27 55 26 H 39 144 32 22 202 66 3° 9 16 4 1 5 7 1 1 6 1 1 1 498 45 no 143 83 32 104 442 94 go 452 118 S 23 4 7 49 6 1 1 2 12 1 4 Totals 8o6 36 2,211 1,207 '54 Note.—The numbers do not exactly a ;ree with those in Table F, because here vacancies ire included.

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If to the salaries of teachers are added the expenses of Boards at last year's rates (£8,100), the cost of inspection of schools and examination of pupil-teachers, also at last year's rates (£8,400), and grants to Committees and other incidental expenditure on schools (£21,500 last year), the sum is at least £251,000. On the other side may be set £243,000 for capitation at the rate paid in the first quarter of 1882, and (at last year's rates) £4,000 as a grant in aid of inspection, making a total of £247,000. (The income and expenditure for normal schools and for scholarships are excluded from both sides of this computation.) The result is a deficiency at the rate of not less than £4,000 a year. A continued increase of attendance at the rate of rather more than 700 a quarter for the first three quarters of 1882 would, however, add so much to the Boards' income as to carry them through the year, provided that the expenditure did not also increase. But the required increase can probably be obtained only by opening new schools, each rendering new expenditure necessary. The returns for the first quarter show an increase of about 1,800. But fifteen new schools were opened in that quarter, and it should be borne in mind that the two remaining quarters of the nine months are those which include all the months of winter: it is therefore by no means certain that the statutory capitation allowance will be adequate to the payment of all the current liabilities chargeable against it. In the last quarter of the year, when fine weather may be expected, and when the demands made by the opening of new schools will have risen to the maximum for the year, the grants will be made on the basis of the attendance for the worst winter quarter, and this renders it still more doubtful whether the resources of the Boards will be equal to the occasion, • If all the Boards were equally prepared for a struggle the case would be serious enough; but some of them are barely solvent. The Westland Board, which in five years has used £6,700 of extraordinary revenue for ordinary expenses of maintenance, begins the year, as it began the year 1877, with an overdraft of more than £1,000. It has, however, books and school appliances in stock to the estimated value of £2,175, a very large supply for less than 3,000 children. It will be seen by reference to Table J that several of the Boards are paying for the maintenance of schools, independently of office expenses and inspection, more than the capitation grant of £3 15s. In Auckland, Wellington, North Canterbury, and Otago this is explained by the fact that the cost of the training of teachers is included in the calculation; but in Westland, Hawke's Bay, and Southland, if more than the whole, or as much as the whole, of the capitation grant is expended on the schools there is nothing left to pay the expenses of the Boards' offices. It will be observed that the cost of maintenance in proportion to the number of pupils is less for 1881 than for the previous year in every district except Wellington, the difference for the whole colony being 3s. 9^d. The cost was diminished from £4 7s. Bd. in 1879 to £4 ss. 3^d. in 1880, and to £4 Is. 6d. in 1881, including the expenses of the Boards' offices and of inspection. The cost for each child on the school-rolls, taking as the basis of calculation the mean of the roll-numbers at the ends of the four quarters of the year, was £3 2s. BJd., which shows a reduction of 3s. Ofd. as compared with the cost in 1880, and of 4s. 3fd. as compared with the cost in 1879. All these calculations exclude the cost of school-buildings, which varies from year to year irregularly, being for 1881 at the rate of 18s. 3|;d\ for each child; for 1880 it Avas £117s. Bfd., and for the year before that, £3 3s. 2d. The expenditure for buildings is analysed in Table L, which shows also the increase for the year in the number of masters' residences, and the decrease in the number of schools carried on in rented buildings. The £75,000 of last year's building vote available for public schools (£lO,OOO as already stated being required for unpaid balances and for industrial and Native schools) was apportioned as follows: Auckland, £14,330; Taranaki, £1,942; Wanganui, £4,649; Wellington, £5,932; Hawke's Bay, £3,194; Marlborough, £1,252; Nelson, £3,413; North Canterbury, £13,969; South Canterbury, £3,300; Westland, £2,698; Otago, £15,731; Southland, £4,590. With the exception of £1,000 divided between Wanganui and Taranaki, to meet demands on account of lands recently occupied, the amount Avas distributed according to population. Nearly all the Boards agree in stating that the grants for buildings were quite inadequate to the wants of their districts. The Auckland and HaAvke's Bay Boards object to the principle of

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TABLE L.—School-Buildings Expenditure.

At the end of 1881 the Boards had balances in hand on building account alone amounting to £18,390 4s. 3d., beside which they were entitled to receive balances, since paid to them out of last year's vote for buildings, to the amount of £43,582, so that there was altogether £61,972 4s. 3d. at their disposal for building purposes. Against this is to be set £35,349 10s. Id. for works in hand at the end of the year, leaving £26,622 14s. 2d. for proposed new works. The Boards have supplied estimates of works which they think should be undertaken, the total cost of which would be £172,065 ss. 6d. Deduct from this amount the above stated sum of £26,622 14s. 2d., and there remains £145,442 11s. 4d. as the estimated cost of proposed works for which no provision has yet been made. Table No. 4a, Appendix, page 4, shows the receipts and expenditure of each Board during five years on account of buildings, and the balances above referred to; and Table No. 4b gives a summary of each Board's proposals and estimates for buildings, together with some statistics which afford the means of judging to some extent of the reasonableness of the demands. The table No. 4b shows that in every district, except that of Wellington, there is sufficient accommodation for all the children on the school-rolls if it were distributed with perfect suitability, but that there are about 1,000 children (most of them being in Otago and Southland) in excess of the accommodation in a few crowded schools. To make room for these children, and to provide for about 6,500 others who are at present either unprovided for or taught in hired buildings, enlargements and new buildings are proposed, with space for between 12,000 and 13,000 children. The districts that anticipate the largest proportional additions of new scholars are South Canterbury, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, and Otago. The proposals include 135 schools altogether new, additions to 45 old ones, and new schools to take the places of 6 old ones condemned as unfit for use. The number of hired schoolrooms is 96, of which 43 are in Auckland district alone, and a large proportion in the districts of Maiiborough and Hawke's Bay. It is also proposed to build masters' houses in connection with 190 schools: at j>rcsent there are 266 schools without residences, 105 of them in Auckland district, and a large proportion in the districts of Westland, Taranaki, Wellington, and Nelson. The estimate of capitation grants for the present financial year is the same as that for the last financial year, which, from the causes that have been already stated, proved to be £12,000 in excess of what was actually paid. Several of the Boards in their reports, express the opinion that the principle of payment accord-

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c S3 II Education Districts. £ ■o g Z Q s-s o rf o 2 -a om ° M bfi d.S.3 z New Buildings. School Improvements, F«™'urc and preceding. Expenditure in 1881 U ipon Plans, Supervision, and other Expenses. Total. Purchase ol' Sites. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson ... Worth Canterbury South Canterbury Westland Otago ... Southland 194 30 57 48 36 20 70 129 33 35 63 869 836 89 "5 42 27 23 •4 40 122 28 138 52 604 569 43 £ s. d. 8,522 14 6 667 5 11 628 19 8 2,501 19 9 2,567 14 7 130 o o 1,036 5 8 5,245 17 ' 449 10 6 1,661 5 9 2,461 19 7 1,485 11 o £ s. d. 3>9'3 2 o 164 2 9 i,453 '9 3 2,828 3 5 313 10 10 448 2 Oj 522 8 4 4,007 3 6 546 6 8 1,850 9 9 2,568 3 5 936 10 2 £ s. a. 1,798 7 5 80 11 11 120 726 14 7 : 198 8 5 47 '5 6 214 19 3 912 11 g 131 14 6 429 17 7 207 13 o 152 4 4 ■ £ s. d. 2,045 10 7 46 2 1 £ s. a. 709 3 11 75 o o 57 1 3 374 8 o 37° 8 3 22 14 9 38 16 9 739 o 1 22 19 5 208 2 9 502 11 2 37i o 2 £ s. d. 16,988 18 5 1,033 2 8 2,141 2 2 6,431 5 9 3.650 2 1 648 12 3 1,862 o o 11,156 2 5 1,150 11 1 4,441 12 10 5,805 17 2 2,945 5 8. 4 s 8 5 8 200 o o 3 2 49 10 o 251 10 o 4 11 3 291 17 0 65 10 o Totals for 1881... Totals for 1880... 96 89 27,359 4 o 7M4i 9 5 '9:552 2 I 30,476 7 4! 4,902 o 3, 8,210 4 10 2,949 19 8 1,832 11 7 3,491 6 6 5,449 8 8 1,958 2 2 58,254 12 6 117,410 1 10 Decrease 44>o82 5 5 10,924 5 3 3,308 4 7 , 59,'55 9 4

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ing to average attendance involves great hardship in times of wide-spread sickness, and that some modification is required beyond that which is afforded by the distinction made between strict average and working average by the Order in Council now in force. Departmental Expenditure. In estimating the cost of each child's education no account was taken of the expenses of the Education Department. These, however, scarcely exceed £2,000 for the year, and one-half of that sum is fairly chargeable to Native and industrial schools, and other subordinate branches of the work of the department. Inspection of Schools. The several Boards have submitted the reports received by them from their Inspectors. It appears from these reports that 51 per cent, of the number of children on the rolls at the end of the year were presented for standard examination during the year : the proportion for 1880 Avas only 466 per cent. Of those presented, 73-4 per cent, passed, a proportion somewhat larger than that of the preceding year—72 per cent. Table M gives the proportions presented and passed in the several districts, and the proportions of those passed to those presented in the several standards respectively.

TABLE M.—Numbers and Proportions of Passes in Standards.

The total proportion of children that passed some standard during the year was 37"4; and for every 1,000 children on the roll 8 passed Standard VI., 22 passed Standard V., and 45 passed Standard IV.; all the children that passed the fourth or a higher standard being therefore 75 in a thousand. The arrangement of the children in their classes according to standards at the end of the year is shown in Table N. It relates to a definite time, and represents the judgment of the teachers as to the proficiency of all their scholars ; while the statistics given in Table M are compiled from the returns of examinations held at different times, represent the judgment of the Inspectors as to the results attained, and do not include children who did not pass during the year.

TABLE N. —Classification according to Standards in the Last Quarter of 1881.

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Passed Standards Education Districts, Roll (Dec, 1881). Presented. Passed. I. 11. III. IV. V. VI. Total. Per cent. io"9 80 of Roll Number. All... 83,587 \ 51 p.c. of roll number 73-4 p.c. of number presented. n'o 4'5 2'2 o-8 37-4 I Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington ... Hawke's Bay... Marlborough... Nelson Worth Canterbury I.* ... North Canterbury II.* South Canterbury Westland Otago Southland Pi cent, of Numbei 7 I-S 60-5 74'4 S8"3 79 77"9 817 58 74-2 69-5 83-5 81-4 77 66-2 70 60 82-3 62-1 85-8 72-6 94 74 84 73 70-3 38-6 1 present* 69 76-8 69 fi 77-6 7°'S 57'4 S3 64'1 54'5 66 70 27*5 2d in eacl 696 58-5 90-4 76 68-5 75 7°'5 58 39'6 54 67 4 8'2 686 h Standard. 82'S 7°'S 33'3 67 977 81 76 737 77 7i6 70 80 73'2 71 58 70 73'2 741 53'6 73"4 9i 83 73 77 7'"4 59'3 IS,8.3O 1,709 4,488 6,147 3,206 1,321 4,062 7.752 768 2,376 3,755 1,693 691 ' 2,358 3,680 3,669 ',833 1,408 9,972 2,680 5,469 5>S I.92S 2,772 1,213 SS3 1.675 2,S98 2,720 ',346 1,162 7,712 1,588 79'4 601 857 83-1 69'1 85-3 81 90 83T 76-8 94 83 779 } 16,051 [ 3,531 2,935 19,274 5,°33 Totals 42.635 31,248 82T 64'S 64"3 747 73H 83,587 779 * North Canterbur I. is Mr. Edj ;e's district] II. Mr. Restell's.

Standards. Boys, Girls. Totals. Percei itagc. '00 young for line next following 'reparing for Standard I. ,; ni. ... „ iv. ... jj „ V. ... „ vi. ... ?assed Standard VI. it,213 8,997 7.249 7.293 4,877 2,491 1.044 320 10,060 7.992 6,819 7.030 4,686 2,296 949 271 21,273 16,989 14,068 14,323 9.S63 4,787 1.993 59' 1881. 25'45 20-32 1683 17-14 11-44 573 2-38 0-71 i88o. 26-36 2I'2I 1795 l6'34 IO-72 499 1*90 °'53 Totals for 1881 Totals for 1880 43.484 42.734 40,103 39,667 83.587 82,401 lOO'OO IOO'OO

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This table shows that in the judgment of the teachers nearly 80 per centof the children have not yet satisfied the requirements of Standard III.: for 1880 the proportion was nearly 82 per cent. The improvement for the year is rather apparent than real, seeing that in 1880 there were 2,600 children under five, and this year there are none under that age. The proportion above Standard IV. in this table is 8"82 per cent-, which is not much greater than the proportion (7"5) shown by the Inspectors' returns, and is higher than the corresponding proportion for 1880, which was 7"42. The proportion of children not considered ready to pass Standard I. is 45-77 : last year it was 47-57. Most of the Inspectors have stated the mean age of the pupils at the time of passing the several standards. Their statements are collated in Table O. They show results very similar to those of last year, the mean difference of age between Standards V. and VI., being however rather larger, and amounting to nearly six years. The mean age of passing each standard is reduced by about one-fifth of a year, the age for Standard VI., unlike the ages for the other standards, being rather higher than it was last year. The ages are higher in North Canterbury, Otago, and Southland than in the other districts from which returns under this head have been made.

TABLE O.—Average Ages of Pupils at Standard Examinations.

SCHOLARSHIPS. The scholarships current at the end of the year, under section 51 of " The Education Act, 1877," were as shown in Table P.

TABLE P.—Scholarships.

Average Ages (in Years) for Standard Education Districts. Mean of Ages, I. II. III. IV. V. VI. Luckland (average age at time of passing) ... few Plymouth (average age as presented) ... Vanganui (average age at time of passing)... Wellington ,, ,, „ lawke's Bay „ „ „ larlborough ,, „ >, kelson „ ,, ,, ... forth Canterbury „ „ ,, louth Canterbury „ „ „ A^estland ,, „ ,, 8V2 8-5 B-'i 8-6 8-3 8-9 9i 9-6 io'6 ii'i 1 i-8 111 109 117 I2'3 127 I2'I I2"3 118 12-6 I2'9 13-5 i3'5 I3'3 I2'I '3'4 14-2 14-2 i4'6 14-1 14-1 H-3 1 1'4 n-6 ii"8 1 1-4 ii'i i r8 9'3 9-6 IO'I 8'o 91 92 9'5 io'6 io'4 107 n-8 101 119 12-8 I2'I I3'i 135 14-1 I4'o 14-4 147 n "i )tago „ „ „ Southland „ „ „ I2'0 "7 Mean of tlie nine returns Eange (difference between lowest and highest) ... 8-4 1'2 IO'O 1'3 IT2 17 I2'3 I'O i3'3 2'O I4'3 07 09

Open to Education Districts. Number held in 1880. Pupils ... ilzi c^«. Annual Value. Period of Tenure. Expended on Scholarships in 1881. Remarks. Auckland 18 '3 5 £ s. d. 30 o o Years. 2 £ s. d. 697 14 7 With free tuition at Auckland College and Grammar School, or Grirls' High School. No scholarships instituted. One at £20; two at £25; and one at £30. Two at £10 ; two at £15 ; two at £20 ; two at £25 ; and four at £30. Taranaki 4 4 Various 1 87 19 8 Wanganui "Wellington 12 12 Various 2 272 6 10 Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury 6 2 S 21 3 2 5 3 30 o o 40 o o Various 40 o o Various 2 2 2 1 and 2 93 S 6 86 11 o 200 6 6 838 1 10 206 17 o Four at £40 ; and one at £50. 21 9 9 1 Three at £25 ; two at £30; one at £35 ; and three at £40. Two at £40 ; and two at £50. £20 if holder resides at home. Junior tenable for two years; senior for three years, with free tuition at High Schools. £20 if holder resides at home. Westland Ota go 4 33 4 33 Various 40 o o 2 2 and 3 180 o o 1,075 Io ° Southland 8 8 40 o o 2 l8o 2 [O Totals 36 86 3j9'8 15 9 122

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Normal Schools ok Training Colleges. The four Boards that have charge of training colleges have supplied full information as to the work of these institutions. The reports of the several Principals are given in the Appendix, pages 88-94. The most important particulars are contained in the following table :—

TABLE Q.—Normal Schools.

The relation of the Board or of the normal school to the practising school is described by the Board of each district in a special report. These reports are as follows: — Auckland. —The Wellesley Street school is used as the practising school, under agreement with the Auckland City School Committee, subject to the Government regulations. The school is an ordinary public school, having an efficient staff of teachers, and an attendance of over a thousand scholars. The Principal exercises, co-ordinately with the Headmaster, a general superintendence of the practising school. Wellington.' —The Thorndon Public School is the practising school, and is in close proximity to the normal school. It is one of the best schools in the district. Both the training school and the practising school are under the control of the Board ; and the Committee of the Thorndon School sanction its use as a practising school. Ohristchurch. —The normal school is under the direct control of the Board, which also, with regard to the practising school, has to exercise the functions of general supervision, care of buildings, and attention to practical details, which in the case of ordinary schools devolve on the Committee. The Principal is in charge of, and responsible to the Board for, the management of both the training and the practising departments. The students are required by the regulations to devote a certain time every day to teaching in the practising school, under the direction of the Principal and the chief members of the staff, who are appointed with special regard to their qualifications for this duty. The first and second tutors are required to assist in the practising school when and as necessary. The practising school is divided into a boys' and girls' and an infants' school, each officered by an efficient staff, few pupil-teachers being employed, on account of the necessity of having in each room a teacher competent to supervise and direct the students; and, judging from the Inspectors' reports, and the average number of children who pass the several standards, it compares satisfactorily with the other large schools in this district. Dunedin. —The relation of the Board to the practising school is the same as that held by it to the other schools of the district, but in addition it stands in the relation of a School Committee. The Headmaster of the practising school has all the powers and responsibilities of the Headmaster of an ordinary school, but he is required to consult with the Hector on organization and method, so that the students may have the necessary facilities for practice in teaching. While the students are engaged

Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch. Dunedin. The Four Schools. Date of opening 1881. 18S0. 1855. 18)6. Students in 1881, —■ Remaining from 1880 ... Aamitted in 1881 Left auring 1881 On the books, December, 1881 ... M. F. Total. 1 11 12 2 2 1 9 10 M. F. Total. 4 8 12 5 '4 19 3 5 8 6 17 23 M. F. Total. 5 19 24 9 12 21 2 2 14 29 43 M". F. Total 10 25 35 12 7 19 14 12 26 8 20 28 M. 19 27 '7 29 F. Total, 52 7i 44 7i 21 38 75 I04 Left during 1881, — Teaching in public schools Teaching in other schools Left the service Occupation not known... Deceased On sick leave 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 5 1 2 1 1 1 1 10 10 1 1 2 20 2 2 11 1 3 1 16 1 2 1 27 2 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Left at any time, — Teaching in public schools Teaching in other schools Left the service' Occupation not known... Deceased On sick leave 2 2 3 5 8 2 2 14 12 26 !7 21 38 1 1 1 4 5 11 29 40 ... 4 4 4 20 24 2 17 19 1 1 64 62 126 23S 12 921 S 1 6 246 1 3 4 76 2 17 8 2 1 96 7 3° '9 5 3 172 9 47 27 7 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 5 8 17 7i 88 86 82 168 106 160 266 Expenditure in 1881, — Salaries Allowances to students Incidental expenses Training classes £ s. a. 560 0 o 232 11 8 J47 9 3 188 o o £ s. a. 795 16 8 338 5 5 37 '3 6 £ a. d. £ s. d. 1.397 1-3 4 1.382 o o 748 15 o j 67S '7 o 44 2 2 152 5 s £ b. a. 4,i3S 10 o i>995 9 1 381 10 4 188 o o Totals.., 1,128 o 11 «jl?l *5 7 2,190 10 6 2,210 2 5 6,700 9 5 Government grants in 1881 2,000 O O 1,214 S 7 2,000 o o 2,000 o o 7.2H 5 7

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with a class the Rector has all the powers of the Headmaster over that class. The training staff is insufficient for the work of the training school, and four of the practising school-staff are required to give part of their time to training work. The practising school has the loss of time recouped by the training school undertaking the whole of the needlework, and by the work of students who have completed their course of study, but remain for further practice in teaching. The educational state of the practising school as compared with other schools may be judged by the results of the Inspectors' examinations. The following are the average percentages of the Dunedin schools and the percentage of the practising school for the past three years : — 1879. Dunedin District schools ... ... ... ... 91 '3 per cent. Practising school ... ... ... ... ... 96 „ 1880. Dunedin schools ... Presented, 57 percent; passed, 84 „ Practising school ... ~75 „ „ 85 „ 1881. Dunedin schools ... „ 576 „ „ 836 „ Practising schools ... ~68 „ ~ 85 „ On the whole the practising school derives little advantage from its connection with the training school in so far as the students' teaching is concerned. Such demands are made on the practising school-staff for assistance in training school-work that students' teaching, which would otherwise be of great advantage, goes chiefly to make good the loss. Not that all students' teaching is of value: a student giving a single lesson to a large class, knowing little of the names and characters of the pupils, and nothing of their school-record, cannot be expected to teach with the same force and point as the class-teacher, who for the time being stands aside and watches the practice. "When, however, the large class is divided into small drafts which come again and again under the same students, work of acknowledged value is done. The Matron, who belongs to the training school, relieves the practising school of the needlework, and thus makes a large return to it. This arrangement enables her to provide the female students with ample practice in one of the most important of the female teacher's duties. In cases of vacancies in the teaching staff, or absence of teachers from sickness or other causes, the services of students, especially of those who, having completed their course, are awaiting appointment, are of considerable value; but this advantage is freely shared by other schools under similar circumstances in this and other districts. Large classes of junior teachers meet every Saturday for instruction at the Auckland Normal School, a Saturday class for instruction in method has been held at the Ohristchurch Normal School, and lectures have been delivered on Saturdays to teachers at Dunedin. Education Reserves. The reports of the several bodies of School Commissioners follow the reports on the Normal Schools (Appendix, pages 94-105). The Commissioners make some suggestions and recommendations of an important character. These relate chiefly to the difficulty of dealing with certain reserves that ought to have been definitely appropriated either to primary or to secondary education, but have not been so appropriated, and to the desirability of conferring power to grant leases for a longer term than twenty-one years, and power with respect to lands that have been offered at public auction and not disposed of to let by private contract at the upset price w Tithin a given time after the date of the public auction. These are matters that can only be dealt with by way of legislative enactment. Table R is an abstract of the Commissioners' aecoixnts.

TABLE R. —Summary of School Commissioners' Accounts.

Income for the Year 1881. Arrears of Rent Liabilities or Engagements on 31st December, 1881. Receipts during Year. due on Provin ial Districts. Balance on 1st January, 1881. Primary Reserves. Secondary Reserves. Total Income. 31st December, 1881. Auckland laranaki Wellington Hawke's Bay Maryborough Nelson Canterbury Westland £ s. d. 187 14 9" 43^7 8* 436 16 5 526 10 3* 54 13 3 536 19 1* 626 o 1 £ s. d. i,S37 i° 7 598 19 9 768 1 10 846 3 2 81 15 o 480 11 4 9,807 4 1 35° l0 6 8,401 15 g I 22,872 18 o 20,996 10 o £ 8. d. 586 18 o 406 s 91 25 o o I 300 8 7 '703 189 17 2 459 1 6 1,271 19 3 63' 7 8 3,877 18 2 2,350 o 8 £ s. d. 2,312 3 4 1,049 3 2 1,229 18 3 1,673 2 o 143 8 6 1,207 7 7 10,892 s 8 1,622 15 9 13,284 10 2 £ s. d. 558 7 10 720 15 3 36 9 o 91 1 6 172 15 o 'Si S 9 1,010 19 6 192 o o 1,613 11 8 £ s. d. 79 16 o 3 IS ° 200 O O 7 IS 8 650 34 '5 21 45 o o 272I16 4 Otago Totals for 1881 ... Totals for 1880 ... 4,251 6 9 6,663 18 3 I 6,846 911 33,4H 14 S 3o,i93 o 7 4,547 5 6 S.]S8 10 5 650 3 845 9 2 1 * Including fixed deposits of £400 and £462 10s. 7d. respectively, not shown in the balance-sheets for the year.

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University Reserves. The lands reserved under " The University Endowment Act, 1868," the proceeds arising from which are now applicable, under section 30 of " The New Zealand University Act, 1874," to purposes of higher education, in such manner as the General Assembly may from time to time determine, have not yet been productive of any considerable income. The whole amount received at any time up to the 31st March, 1882, £97 17s. 6d., less £1 for expenses, is held by the Treasury for appropriation in due course. Some of these reserves are in places at present practically inaccessible. The Crown Lands Commissioners in the several provincial districts have authority to let the lands when opportunity arises. Native Schools. The progress of education in Native schools is very satisfactory. The number of village schools at the end of 1880 was 48. Twelve new ones were opened in 1881, and were attended by about 300 children at the end of the year. It was not found necessary to abolish any one of the schools during the year, so that the number of schools open in December was 60. The number of children on the rolls in December was 2,010, nearly 400 more than at the end of 1880. The average attendance for the quarter ending December was 1,526, showing an increase of 249 by comparison with the corresponding quarter of the preceding year. Rather more than 57 per cent, of the children are under ten years of age. About 77 per cent, are Maori, or between Maori and half-caste; about 10 per cent, half-caste; and about 13 per cent, between half-caste and European, or purely European. About 140 Maori children, the numbers at the end of December being 63 boys and 72 girls, have been maintained wholly or partly at the expense of Government in boarding schools during the year. The principles which regulate the admission of children to these schools were stated in last year's report. The cost of the education of Native children (excluding those that attend the public schools) was for the year 1881 as follows : — £ s. d. Village school salaries (1,406 in average attendance) ... ... 7,609 12 9 Boarding schools (135 children) ... ... ... ... 3,313 11 6 School-requisites and contingencies ... ... ... 1,872 5 6 Buildings and furniture (including £218 7s. 3d. from Hokonui Beserve) ... ... ... ... ... 4,658 12 11 inspection (including travelling) ... ... ... ... 759 5 4 Office salaries and clerical assistance ... ... ... 213 19 10 Apprenticeship and maintenance of sons of chiefs ... ... 272 1 7 £18,699 9 5 The report of the Organizing Inspector, and full statistics of Maori schools for the year, will appear as a separate paper (E.-2).

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Provincial Districts. Office Expenses and Salaries. Expenses of Leasing: Auctioneers, Advertising, &c. Expended on Crown Grants Reserves: and Surveys, Law Fencing, &c. Expenses. Paid to Boards for Primary Education. Paid for Secondary Education. Balances Sundries. D ™ember, 1881. Total. LucMand ?aranaki Wellington lawlse's Bay ... larlborough ... Felson 'antevbury VeBtland >tago £ s. d. £ s. d. 100 12 in 85 7 3 102 12 1 i'i 19 11 3 80 13 2 8 10 o 78 7 6 4 15 7 25 o oj 35 ° 4i 13 13 9 556 17 11, 11 8 3 128 13 8: 44 4 9 546 6 o 88 9 3 I 1,654 4 53?6 ° 1 1,683 9 7 227 '5 9 £ s. d. : £ s. d. 248 17 o 37 14 6 180 19 o 43 14 6 500 412 11 6 3 220 £ a. d. 808 8 1 200 o o 1,084 4 IT 475 ° ° £ s. d. 260 1 6 ; £ s. d. ... 1 4 "5 8 £ a. d. 771 2 1 402 5 6 43 3 4 *i,ioi 10 8 118 8 6 *662 s 9 238 1 10 $1,205 H 1 £ s. d. 2,312 3 4 1,049 3 2 1,229 l8 3 1,673 2 o 143 8 6 1,207 7 7 10,892 5 8 1,622 15 9 13,284 10 2 902 7 17 8 26 12 2 1 8 o 12 12 2 487 7 7 9400 o o 678 O O; 1.i3S 9 IO! ".473 13 1 217 11 1 26 11 10 Totals for 1881 Totals for 1880 ! 447 10 3 143 14 4 360 14 8 ; 130 8 o 23,928 13 8 19,479 6 2 2,073 11 4' '.577 8 o; '248 8 7 198 o o 4,542 11 9 6,535 l8 3 33,414 H 5 3o,i93 o 7 * Including iixi £30 19s. ; refunds, ancc with the law, ; ed deposits of i6 J4OO and tg4 £q2 19s. 3d.; repaid overdrai as contained in " The Kama [.63 10s. 'jd. respectively, not s] ft, £67 8s.; sundries, £26 4s. 10 ra Education Reserve Act, 1870. hown in the balance-sheets for the year. d. t £1,195 Ios> > arising from sale of reser t Westland sui 'eSj must be invc ndries : Rates, :sted in accord-

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The valuable services of the District Superintendents have again to be acknowledged. Since the end of the year schools have been opened at Kaikohe and Moari Kaeo, and a subsidized school at Te Ore Ore, and a school at Mangamuka has been substituted for one at Rakaupara. New buildings are required at Waitetuna, Maungatapu, Te Awahou, Ruataniwha, Waiomatatini, Waiapu, "Whakarapa, Te Kao, Waimamaku, Tangitiroria, Kirikiri, Te Waotu, Waioeka, Ramoto, and Chatham Islands, and probably in other places. Institution for the Deaf-and-dumb. The institution at Sumner for the deaf-and-dumb is now attended by 24 pupils, 13 being boys, and 11 of the other sex. Eight of them come from Otago, 8 from Canterbury, 4 from Auckland, 2 from Wellington, 1 from Hawke's Bay, and 1 from Melbourne. The admission of another case from Auckland has just been approved, and one from the same district is now under consideration. The method of instruction—the articulation method —is producing very satisfactory results. The institution is subject to regular medical inspection, and it has been visited during the year by the Minister of Education, the Secretary for Education, the Inspector-General of Schools, and other officers of the department. Hitherto the Director, whose ability and zeal deserve high commendation, has had only one assistant. The peculiar difficulty and laboriousness of the work are such as to render it almost impossible for one teacher to do justice to more than ten pupils, and the appointment of another assistant cannot long be delayed. The nominal charge made by the Government for each pupil is £40 a year; but, in- some instances, this is reduced or abandoned, in order that no child capab of receiving benefit from the course of instruction may be excluded. The cost for the financial year is shown in Table No. 8, Appendix, page 8, and the report of the Director will be found in another paper (E.-3). Industrial Schools and Orphanages. The Burnham and Caversham Industrial Schools are wholly maintained by Government. The cost for each child at Burnham for the year (including salaries of officers and teachers) was £13 9s. 4-|-d,, or deducting sums received from relatives of the children £11 14s. o|d. To this should be added £1 ss. 3d. for each child, for the value, £235 19s. Bd., of produce raised on the farm and consumed. During the year £1,325 was spent on buildings, and £224 was spent on the farm in excess of the returns from sale of produce and the value of produce raised and consumed; and these two items represent about £8 ss. for each child. It would not be quite fair to charge this to annual maintenance, seeing that it has been expended on permanent extensions and improvements, and on stock. The cost at Caversham was £12 11s. 6d., or, deducting sums received from relatives, £11 9s. 2d., to either of which the expense that may be added for buildings is £2 ss. lOd. The Kohimarama Naval Training School established under "The Naval Training Schools Act, 1874," has also been maintained by the Colonial Government. The cost for the year was about £35 ss. for each boy, about £1 of this amount being for expenses not properly chargable to annual maintenance. Contributions from parents to the extent of £2 os. 6d. reduce the cost to £33 4s. 6d. At the end of March in the present year the school was broken up, it being considered that in the present circumstances of the colony no adequate return was obtained for the comparatively large outlay on an institution of this character. Most of the boys were sent to suitable places of service or to their relatives, and the remainder —twelve in number —were committed by the Resident Magistrate to the industrial school which now occupies the Kohimarama premises. The Auckland Industrial Home was until March of this year maintained by a benevolent society, and Government gave £1 for every pound voluntarily contributed to the society, and paid £10 a year for every child committed under " The Neglected and Criminal Children Act, 1867," or admitted at the instance of the Relieving Officer, besides which the Auckland Board of Education received a capitation allowance of £3 16s. 6d. under "The Education Act, 1877," for every inmate attending the day-school of the home. This arrangement ceased on the 31st March, and the school is now maintained in the same way as those at iii—E. 1.

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Caversliam and Burnham. The boys —except a few very young ones —have been removed to the premises formerly occupied by the Naval Training School, and the girls remain at the home in Howe Street. It is proposed to sell the Howe Street property, and to provide new accommodation for both boys and girls on a reserve made for the purpose of a site for a lunatic asylum near Mount Eden. The St. Stephen's Orphanage at Auckland is maintained by a Church of England charity, and the St. Mary's Industrial School and Orphanage (also at Auckland) by the authorities of the Roman Catholic Church. The payments made by Government to both these schools are £1 for every pound of voluntary contributions, and £10 for each child sent in by the Relieving Officer, and, in the case of St. Mary's, for each committed child. The Thames Orphanage is practically maintained by the Borough and County Councils; and the Lyttelton Orphanage by the Charitable Aid Board: the accounts in both cases being paid in the first instance by the Colonial Secretary's Department, and then charged against the subsidy payable to the local bodies. The amount so paid by Government for each child at the Thames Orphanage was £21 4s. 3d., and the Education Board received £8 16s. 6d. for each child in average attendance at the day-school. The payments paid by Government on account of the Lyttelton Orphanage amount to £16 15s. for each child, the remainder of the cost, £2 ss. 7d., being met by contributions of relatives. Eor each child sent to St. Joseph's, Wellington, by order of the City Council, the cost is Is. a day, which is borne in equal proportions by the Government and the City Council. The payment for children maintained by the Government at St. Mary's, Nelson, is Is. a day; and at Motueka Orphanage (which is a school carried' on'by a private person) the charge is 7s. a week in some cases, and Bs. a week in others. The schools at Burnham and Caversliam have been for the last two years under the direct management of the Education Department, and the Auckland Industrial School at Howe Street and Kohimarama has been placed on the same footing during the current quarter. The other industrial schools and orphanages, though they have all been inspected by, and made returns to, the Education Department, receive their income from the State out of the Charitable Aid vote administered by the Colonial Secretary, or out of subsidies to local bodies. The site and buildings at Caversliam, as appears from a report supplied by Dr. Hector, which will be found in the paper (E.-4) on Industrial Schools and Orphanages, are not well adapted to their purpose. The adoption of a new site for the Auckland School will involve expenses that may not be covered by the proceeds of the sale of the Howe Street property; and extensions are needed at Burnham. The boarding-out system, if adopted as proposed in the Industrial Schools Bill now under consideration in the House of Representatives, will probably have the effect of greatly diminishing the number of inmates in large institutions, but this process is not likely to be very rapid in its operation for the first few years, and provision must be made for the immediate future. The number of the children received into and dismissed from these institutions during the year, and the number of children maintained in them at the beginning and at the end of the year respectively, are shown in Tables S and T, of which the first relates to children committed under " The Neglected and Criminal Children Act, 1867," and "The Naval Training Schools Act, 1874," and the second to children admitted as destitute.

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Institutions. Nun on 31st iber in School December, 1880. Admitted during 1881. Total Number at all in 1S81. Placed out lander License. Discharged or Absconded Died. Nun on 31st iber in Si Decembt :hool :r, 1881. Total Number at all in 1881. industrial Home, Auckland ... St. Mary's, Auckland Hiames Orphanage ... iohimarama Naval Training School ... it. Mary's, Nelson ... 3uniham ... Boys. 58 Girls. 28 Total. 86 26 26 Boys. Givls. 37 32 Total. 87 32 9 "(g 32 2 3 2 8 53 4 139 36 10 4 ■39 36 10 I S 4 SS 6 8 56 108 55 '4 170 262 24 24 82 i°5 79 38 252 367 7 '9 53 12 "26 72 110 S3 38 217 249 79 38 367 114 '54 7 21 27 93 169 1 4 '45 139 Totals 393 234 627 294 921 62 5 404 281 68e 921

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The number of committals for the year (294) exceeds the number for 1880 by 21, and the licenses, discharges, and deaths were 22 more than in 1880, so that the increase for the year (58) is less by one than the increase (59) in 1880. The deaths in 1881 were 5, as against 8 in the preceding year. The proportion of dismissals to admissions is about as 4to 5. The only considerable additions to the number of inmates are at Burnham, and at St. Mary's, Nelson ; at some schools the number diminished during the year. Many of the children have been restored to their families under license, this practice having been adopted as affording a means of probation in cases in which there is reason to hope that the parents will prove able and willing to perform their proper duty. !1 VZ There is a slight diminution in the number of children maintained at the cost of the Government without being committed by Magistrates. Table T shows that 46 such children were admitted in the year, and 55 restored to their friends, or otherwise discharged, or sent to service. In this table no account is taken of children maintained by charities that only receive £1 for £1 out of the Charitable Aid vote.

TABLE T.—Children (not Committed) in Orphanages, etc., paid for by Government.

The ages of the children in all the institutions on the 31st December were as follows : Under one year, 7 ; between one and two, 6 ; between two and three, 9; between three and four, 33; between four and five, 33; between five and seven, 119 ; between seven and ten, 247 ; between ten and thirteen, 295 ; between thirteen and fifteen, 135; more than fifteen years old, 11: total, 895. It thus appears that nearly 10 per cent, were under five years of age, rather more than 40 per cent, between five and ten years, and not quite 50 per cent, above ten years old. Nearly 800 were receiving regular day-school instruction, the numbers being as follows : Auckland Industrial Home, 69 ; St. Mary's, Auckland, 30 ; St. Stephen's, Parnell, 16 ; Kohimarama, 53 ; Thames, 18 ; St. Joseph's, Wellington, 11 ; St. Mary's, Nelson, 50; Motueka, 21; Lyttelton, 77; Burnham, 215 ; Caversham, 217 : total, 783. Those at the Auckland Industrial Home and at the Thames are included in the returns of "public school" attendance; the rest (684) are children taught at the public expense in addition to the pupils of the public schools. Beside the actual inmates of industrial and training schools and orphanages, there were, at the end of the year, 314 young persons (210 boys and 104 girls) out in service or with their friends, but still subject to the authority of the institutions. The numbers in connection with the several institutions respectively were as follows : Auckland Industrial Home, 26 boys and 13 girls; Kohimarama, 25 boys; Thames, 2 boys; Motueka, 4 boys and 7 girls; Lyttelton, 17 and 3 ; Burnham, 20 and 15 ; Caversham, 116 and 66. Institutions for Superior Education. The report of the Senate and other documents relating to the New Zealand University are printed in another paper (E.-5). The Senate will be in a position to summon the first meeting of Convocation after the conferring of degrees obtained at the next annual examination, the number of graduates of the necessary standing being now only one less than the number required by law for the constitution of the inferior Court. The University has had conferred upon it by the Imperial

Institutions. Nun on 31st iber in S> Decembt :hool :r, 1880. Admitted during 1881. Total Placed Number out at all to in 1881. Service. Restored to Friends or Discharged, Dled on 31st iber in S< Decemb< :hool :r, 1881. Total Number at all in 1881. [ndusfcrial Home,.Auckland ... 3t. Mary's, Auckland 3t. Stephen's, Parnell Chames Orphanage... 3t. Joseph's, Wellington 3t. Mary's, Nelson ... tfotueka Orphanage Dyttelton Orphanage Boys. 9 G-irls. 2 2 8 Total. 11 2 17 9 21 33 28 98 16 j 1 ,51 ::: 21 43 32 S 116 10 265 17 Boys. 7 Girls. 4 3 S s 20 28 Total. 11 3 18 16 5 1 4 4 4 9 5 3 21 4 21 26 16 4S 3 2 13 5 10 7 12 53 10 4 18 I 9 6 6 8 52 20 34 21 13 21 43 32 116 '3 13 41 93 Totals 95 124 219 46 38 91 119 210 265

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Government the privilege of nominating one of its students in each year for a cadetship at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. A cadet so nominated will receive a commission after keeping one year's terms at the Military College. The annual report of the University of Otago is printed as a separate paper (E.-6). The term of five years during which that institution has received, a Government grant of £500 a year in aid of its School of Mines has just expired. The usual statement as to the proceedings of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College will be printed as a parliamentary paper (E.-7). The Agent-General has been requested to make arrangements in England for the selection and appointment of a Professor of Classics and English, and a Professor of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, for the proposed University College in Auckland. Several secondary schools are required by law to submit annual reports to the Minister of Education. Some other schools have furnished reports, though not under legal obligation to do so. The reports of all these schools are contained in another paper (E.-8). A summary of their accounts is given in Table U, and Table V shows the number of their teachers and pupils, together with the rates of fees and salaries.

TABLE U. —Income and Expenditure of Certain Secondary Schools. Income.

Expenditure.

Schools. Balance on Jan. i, 1881. From Public Votes, 1880-81. Interest, Rents, and Proceeds of Endowments. From School Commissioners for Reserves. Day, Evening, and Boardingschool Fees. Sundries. Overdrafts or Deficit, Dec. 31, 1881. Total. Auckland College and Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School Thames High School Whangarei High School New Plymouth High School... Wanganui Collegiate School... Wellington College... Nelson College Christchurch Girls' High School Christchurch Boys' High School Ashburton High School Timaru High School Waitaki High School Otago High Schools Southland High Schools £ s. d. £ £ e. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. a. 3 1 6 287 2 o 55 13 7 188 10 1 1,888 o 10 1,394 18 9 900 500 400 1,500 4,021 10 o 116 19 6 500 71 19 6 587 17 5 1,073 6 7 1,416 3 3 3°4 8 5 1,199 14 3 4'3 19 3 i,i75 l6 5 742 10 2 1,798 6 6 947 " « 34 1 9 34 1 9 61 17 4 130 o 8 1,438 5 ° 1,620 2 o 35° 7 2 31 6 7 158 15 o 752 12 9 4,231 17 6 1,204 ° 9 686 4 6 212 1 o i,053 ° 7 25 o o 4 10 8 18 2 1 145 9 4 972 17 11 29 1 5 *90 14 8 S57 8 I0 1724 6,494 16 2 2,841 5 9 1,113 19 o 3S9 8 o 2,360 o 4 837 7 1 3,901 10 3 7,188 8 10 2,225 1I 6> 3.677 3 S 1,464 9 o 2.655 14 4 1,926 13 11 7,438 13 8 3,018 10 1 1.765" 7 8 269 9 7 167 16 3 293 7 10 601 18 10 20 3 6 6,935 IO 5 400 300 o o 25 17 o 18 19 2 42 1 1 55° ° ° 217 o o 896 1 6 167 5 2 2,390 8 2 890 15 11 4,142 6 10 1,049 '4 4 16,930 14 o 21 16 5 811 19 7 Totals 3,"oo 13,875 2 4 3°i 15 9 3,31° ° 8 47>5°3 " 4 * Not a liability, but difference between recei; )ts and ex] >enditure : which onl are shown in the accounts of the school.

Schools. Liabilities on Jan. 1, 1881. Teachers' Salaries. Boarding Account. Scholarships and Exhibitions. Buildings, Furniture, and Works. Other Expenditure. Balances, Dec. 31, 1881. Total. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. i £ s. d. £ s. d. £ b. d. £ b. d. £ s. d. luckland College and Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School L'hames High School tVhangarei High School tfew Plymouth High School... iVanganui Collegiate School... ! Wellington College... kelson College ]hristchurch Girls' High School Jhristchurch Boys' High School i-shburton High Scliool rimaru High School iVaitaki High School )tago High Scliools Southland. High Schools 942 18 o 229 14 2 I *2,93i 16 8 1,802 17 o 1 840 14 8 116 13 4 1 1 595 '6 8 2,016 00 72 9 o 1,780 10 10 2,130 o o' 1,609 10 3; 1,631 16 8] 500 o o. 1,635 10 S 5.417 13 7j 1,368 12 a 22,247 12 3 2,202 9 o 20 o o 381 10 o 854 12 7 ■95 l6 3 95 18 10 25 12 9 1,756 7 o 41 5 1 477 16 6 1.023 S 7 60 17 3 703 n 7 444 12 o 3°5 '5 6 1,788 2 5 700 10 9 8ro 17 9 9,185 1 10 1,763 6 11 336 10 4 177 5 6 31 6 11 25 o 2 200 5 4 1,085 i° 7 809 9 3 412 19 o 673 6 11 129 8 8 363 5 9 38 2 2 1.275 15 9 283 13 5 7,605 6 8 220 606 2 2 185 15 ° 578 13 2 1,063 '3 2 6,494 '6 2 2,841 s 9 1,113 19 o 359 8 o 2,360 o 4 837 7 1 3,901 10 3 7,188 8 10 2,225 11 6 3,677 3 5 1,464 9 o 2.65S 14 4 1,926 13 11 7.438 13 8 3,018 10 1 142 5 o 668 8 3 390 8 4 309 2 8 100 9 4 44 '3 7 42 o o 555 6 9 Totals 1,870 3 11 443 10 o 3.949 7 8 47.5°3 11 4 * Not including payment for evening classes.

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TABLE V.—Staff, Attendance, Fees, and Salaries at certain Secondary Schools.

The High School at Whangarei is a new one, opened in 1881. The New Plymouth High School has been opened since the end of the year. The Board of Governors of the proposed Wanganui High School is now making preparations for the establishment of its school under a special Act passed in 1878. Gilcheist Scholarship. Copies of the London University June Matriculation Examination papers are expected to arrive by an early mail for the second biennial competition for the Gilchrist Scholarship. This scholarship, of the annual value of £100, and tenable for three years, is offered by the Gilchrist Trustees to residents of New Zealand between the ages of seventeen and twenty-two. In 1880 there was only one candidate. He was placed next to the seventh of all that were examined by the London University in June of that year, and he is now pursuing his studies in England. This year there are three competitors, one from Wellington, one from Christchurch, and one from Dunedin. They will sit for examination at the places in which they reside, the University authorities having promised to send out four sets of sealed papers.

Attendance c,(T for Last Term btatt- or Quarter of 1881. Ages for Last Term or Quarter of 1881. i o a Annual Rates of Fees. Annual Salaries at Rate Schools. i bo & bo a ■a > 1 bJ) g < U B B D 2 S> I s 2 3 I 2 For ordinary Day-school Course. For Board, exclusive of Day-school Tuition. for Last Quarter or Term of 1881. Fob Boys only. Auckland Grammar School... 10 163 7 £ s. d. 8 8 0 C 7 0 0 { 6 0 0 (13 4 0 1 10 12 0 8 8 0 12 10 0 (12 12 0 I 9 9 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. (1)3,100 0 0 149 101 53 2 163 60 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 ( 3)12 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 J7anganui Collegiate School 8 25 24 2 18 5 25 5 ] 800 0 0 j ( 2) 1,350 0 0 Wellington College 3 87 70 67 20 87 35 fapier Trust High School ... tfelson College Jhristchurch Bovb' High } School ... ) 2 5 2 1 52 120 47 p 6 p 39 p 7 p '?' 52 120 17 p ( 4)420 0 0 ( 5) 1,780 10 10 (°)2 J 156 3 4 5 3 91 85 3 71 17 91 )tago Boys' High School ... 12 272 264 9 170 90 3 272 29 2 0 0 ( 10 0 0 I ( 7)8 15 0 | ( 8)3,616 10 8 Totals ... 41 13 810 810 13,223 4 10 Fob Gibls oNi/r. Auckland Girls' High School /hristchurch Girls' High } School ... ) 8 4 188 169 6 111 64 7 188 8 8 0 (12 12 0 (.990 f 2 10 0 (200 1,807 16 0 5 84 77 54 28 2 84 ( 6) 1,551 3 3 )tago Girls'High School ... 171 154 6 88 74 3 171 ( 9) 1,272 12 6 Totals ... a I* 443 400 12 253 166 12 443 4,631 11 9 _j l_ Fob Boxs and Gieis. iVhangarei High School ihames High Schools (b. 6 iff- 8 (6.21 l<7-26 f 6.69 1-7-66 (6.57 1^.48 b. 153 5 6 19 24 63 60 51 44 1 3 9 6 4 2 1 2 12 15 45 37 44 26 3 5 8 8 13 21 9 20 2 1 2 6 8 21 26 69 66 57 48 ] 8 8 0 ] 8 8 0 ] 10 10 0 200 0 0 ( 10)870 0 0 ?imaru High School 1,541 0 0 louthland High Schools 10 0 0 8 0 0 } (») 1,350 0 0 Totals ... 18 4 138 14 102 33 4 153 3,961 0 0 Totals ... ff. 148 134 11 80 54 3 148 (1) Exclusive of drawing and [H) Day-boarders. (4) Exclusive [6) Drawing is taught by the masti one visiting master paid by fees, master paid by fees. six i oi jr o tgb Qg mast< wo visiti he Schoc Not incl ers, w] ing tea >1 of Ai hiding ho an ichers rt, no] visiti e paid j paid t coun ing te! Ibyp by f< ited as (acherf rapils 1 ees. 5 one < fees. (5) ] rf the (10) T< (2) late i :each( ro vis Exclusive lot stated. 3rs. (7) 1 siting teaohi of two visiting t( The amount foi Weekly boarders, irs paid by fees. sachers paid by fees. 1 the year entered. (8) Exclusive of (11) One visiting Dirt (9)

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Table No. 1. Income of the several Education Boards for the Year 1881. (Compiled from the General Statements of Income and Expenditure attached to the Boards' Reports.)

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From Government. Vom Local Sources. Interest on Current Accounts. Public Libraries. Overdrafts on 31st December, 1881. Education Districts. .Balances on 1st January, 1881. From Votes for Maintenance, Inspection, Training, and Scholarships. From Special "Votes for School-buildings and Playgrounds. Hi™ol D-«-otherFees. tI0nsSale of Old Sundries Not Sites and Classified, Total from Buildings, and chiefly Local Sources. Rents. Refunds. From Education Reserves. Contributions by Committees. Total. Total from Government. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ 8. d. Auckland 4,805 10 5 47,456 18 11 21,200 0 0 68,656 18 11 50 0 0 37 1 0 147 6 6 234 7 6 772 8 6 74,469 5 4 Taranaki 907 8 10 4,261 6 7 1,650 0 0 5,911 6 7 7 5 2 87 16 3 95 1 5 155 17 8 7,069 14 6 Wanganui 681 5 4 12,853 15 2 1,500 0 0 14,353 15 2 102 12 6 253 15 6 356 8 0 *509 11 5 15,900 19 11 Wellington 3,613 0 9 19,572 10 11 4,750 0 0 24,322 10 11 22 1 0 35 0 0 345 8 6 402 9 6 696 12 0 29,034 13 2 Hawke's Bay 3,155 10 11 f8,571 4 4 2,000 0 0 10,571 4 4 400 0 0 400 0 0 510 19 7 14,637 14 10 Marlborough 635 17 4 3,559 16 11 750 0 0 4,309 10 11 11 10 0 ... 5 11 0 17 1 0 4,962 15 3 Nelson 2,424. 4 10 11,475 12 5 3,300 0 0 14,775 12 5 41 2 0 644 3 6 685 5 6 422 16 7 60 0 0 18,367 19 4 North Canterbury 16,350 3 4 39,014 15 6 11,000 0 0 50,014 15 6 20 0 0 179 13 9 292 16 7 492 10 4 7,601 16 2 320 0 0 74,779 5 4 South Canterbury 1,091 3 9 8,529 16 10 2,250 0 0 10,779 16 10 115 0 0 17 17 8 132 17 8 1,814 19 9 13,818 18 0 Westland 9,317 1 3 5,698 0 0 15,015 1 3 ... 608 5 3 608 5 3 60 6 4 1,021 12 4 16,705 5 2 Otago 56,105 0 4 7,220 0 0 63,325 0 4 245 7 0 388 11 8 633 18 8 9,035 10 2 453 10 9 679 11 0 74,127 10 11 Southland 1,449 0 6 12,869 1 7 3,000 0 0 15,869 1 7 16 10 0 50 0 0 39 0 0 120 3 8 225 13 8 1,952 8 5 19,496 4 2 Total 35,113 6 0! 233,587 0 9 64,318 0 0 297,905 0 9 418 0 6 353 15 6 1,242 13 7 2,269 8 11 453 10 9 363,370 5 11 4,283 18 6 23,533 6 7 380 0 0 1,701 3 4 Total for 1880 43,677 15 2 241,555 14 0 104,436 16 8 345,992 10 8 508 3 6 785 13 1 ! 1,596 4 2 2,893 9 5 5,783 10 2 19,749 0 4 1,739 5 0 4,945 8 0 2,693 15 3 424,581 4 7 * Including £21 4s. 5d. from secondary school reserves for Wanj ;anui District High School. t Including £50 special subsidy for Te Arai (partly Native) School.

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Table No. 2. Expenditure of the several Boards for the Year 1881. (Compiled from the General Statements of Income and Expenditure attached to the Boards' Reports.)

1. 2. S. 4. s. 6. 7. 8. 9. Boards. Office Staff, Members' Allowances, Printing, Advertising, Stationery, Law Costs, and other Office Expenditure. Inspection of Schools, Examination of Pupilteachers. Maintenance of Sch< iols. ihool Buildings Distributed among Public Libraries from Special Vote and Committees, Contributions for Books. Education Districts. Balances or Liabilities, 1st January, 1881. Teachers' Salaries and Allowances, Training of Teachers. Committees and Schools for Educational Purposes. New Buildings, Enlargements, Repairs, Furniture, Sites, Fencing. Professional Services. Sundry Payments Not Classified, including Refunds, Interest, &c. Balances 31st December, 1881. Totals. Salaries and Expenses. Scholarships. Insurance . of School Buildings. Total for Maintenance. Plans and Supervision, Conveyances, Total for School Buildings. | £ s. d. £ s. d. £ 8. d. I £ s. d. £ b. d.;. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. a. £ 8. d. £ s. d £ a. d. £ s. a. £ 8. d.| £ S. d, Auckland 1,480 12 8. 1,620 13 5 42,052 18 9 2,466 9 5 697 14 7 477 3 3 45,694 6 0 16,279 14 6 709 3 11 16,988 18 5 97 12 2 209 16 0 8,377 6 8 74,469 5 4 Taranati 243 16 8, 192 10 0 3,276 6 4 294 17 4; ... , 3,571 3 8 958 2 8 75 0 0 1,033 2 8 79 19 4 1,949 2 2 7,069 14 6 "VVanganni 596 17 5 506 15 1 10,500 9 11 658 9 8 87 19 8 61 10 6 11,308 9 9 2,084 0 11 57 1 3 2,141 2 2 1,347 15 6 15,900 19 11 Wellington 524 8 1 688 9 0 16,893 7 6 1,905 3 9 272 6 10 3 19 0 19,074 17 1 6,056 17 9 374 8 0 6,431 5 9 500 8 8 1,815 4 7 29,034 13 2 Hawke's Bay ... 357 19 1 j 686 0 0 7,778 12 8 956 16 4 93 5 6 75 1 9 8,903 16 3 3,279 13 10 370 8 3 3,650 2 1 6 0 0 1,033 17 5 14,637 14 1C Marlborough ... 171 15 1 189 13 0 2,841 10 0 403 19 7 86 11 0 2 12 6 3,334 13 1 625 17 6 22 14 9 648 12 3 618 1 10 4,962 15 I Nelson 358 10 9 462 10 0 9,237 19 6 1,249 3 9 200 6 6 10,687 9 9 1,823 3 3 38 16 9 1,862 0 0 207 1 1 4,790 7 9! 18,367 19 A North Canterbury 1,299 16 4 1,230 17 7 39,215 16 7 5,591 15 6 838 1 10 45,645 13 11 10,417 2 4 739 0 1 11,156 2 5 332 6 7 15,114 8 6 74,779 5 A South Canterbury 539 10 9 407 8 lj 7,976 3 1 862 0 5 206 17 0 175 17 11 9,220 18 5 1,127 11 8 22 19 5 1,150 11 1 8 9 2 2,492 0 6 13,818 18 C Westland 1,113 4 2 819 3 10 504 6 8 8,028 13 2 812 8 6 180 0 0 65 14 9 9,086 16 5 4,233 10 1 208 2 9 4,441 12 10 740 1 3 16,705 5 i Otago 1,580 11 1 1,206 7 10 1,391 8 3 56,369 8 2 5,359 13 8 1,075 10 0 62,804 11 10 5,303 6 0 502 11 2 5,805 17 2 3 2 3 1,335 12 6 74,127 10 1] Southland 510 8 3 507 4 3 12,718 19 5 896 17 5 180 2 10 128 7 8 13,924 7 4 2,574 5 6 371 0 2 2,945 5 8 45 4 6 1,563 14 2 19,496 4 5 Total I ! I 2,693 15 3 8,109 6 9 8,387 15 4 216,890 5 1 21,457 15 4 3,918 15 9 990 7 4 243,257 3 6 54,763 6 0 3,491 6 61 58,254 12 6 2,011 15 10 1,553 17 8 39,101 19 1 363,370 5 i: Total for 1880 1,240 13 8| 10,037 17 6 8,273 13 9 214,237 10 9 28,242 9 9 3,615 18 7 1,025 4 4 247,121 3 5 111,961 13 2 5.44S 8 8 117,410 1 10 726 7 0 4,658 1 5 35,113 6 0 424,581 4 '

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Table No. 3. Detailed Statement of the Expenditure of the several Education Boards on Management and on School Inspection (including Examination of Pupil-teachers) for the Year 1881. (Compiled from the Detailed Statements of Expenditure forwarded by Boards.)

Management by Boards. Inspection of Schools and Examination of Pupil-teachers. Education Districts. Staff. Secretary, Treasurer, Clerks, Messengers, Clerical Assistance, &c. Allowances to Members of Boards. Office Rent, Furniture, Repairs, &o. Total of Management, Inspection, and Examination. Fuel, Light, and Cleaning. Law Expenses. Printing. Advertising. Stationery. Sundries, including Stamps. Totals as in Column 2, Table No. 2. Salaries of Inspectors. Inspectors 1 Travelling Expenses, &c. Pupilteacners' Examinations. Totals as in Column 3, Table No. 2. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ S. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.i £ 8. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.i £ s. d. Auckland 925 10 10 '81 3 5 38 6 6 47 o 2 83 12 (>', 121 16 o 67 14 4 15 8 11 1,480 12 8 1,123 6 8 451 10 o 45 '6 9 1,620 13 5 3,101 6 1 Taranaki 158 12 6 52 o o ... 300 22 6 o 7 ]6 2 020: 243 16 8 192 10 o ... 192 10 0 436 6 8 Wanganui 323 6 o "3 4 1 3 8 1 17 7 o 66 3 6 38 5 " 30 14 6 484 S9 6 '7 5 370 o o 99 17 1 36 18 o 5° 6 15 1 1,103 I2 6 Wellington 270 o o 39 o o 14 7 9 980 46 7 3 7i 8 3 73 1( J 10 524 8 1 500 o o 184 5 o| 440 688 9 o 1,212 17 1 Hawke's Bay 250 o o 176 260 45 18 o 23 12 6 22 9 3 12 5 10 357 »9 ' 500 o o 150 o o 36 o o 686 o o 1,043 19 1 Maryborough 112 IO O .- 8 14 c 11 13 6 25 12 2 10 1 5 190 171 15 1 125 o o 64 13 o ... 189 13 o 361 8 1 Nelson ... 231 5 ° n 3 o o 16 o 46 1 ol 49 7 7 8 6 4 11 11 10 358 10 9 462 10 0 462 10 o S21 o 9 North Canterbury 1,028 10 o 13 12 o 36 8 2 2IOO 100 5 6 41 7 6 58 13 2 1,299 16 4 900 o o 206 15 8 124 I II 1,230 17 7 2,53° 13 'i South Canterbury 302 15 2 1400 80 18 2 33 16 9 52 18 6 5 '5 IO 35 " ° 13 15 4 539 IO 9! 300 o o 95 3 10 12 4 3 407 8 1 946 18 10 Westland 323 5 9 192 ii 6 1780 20 17 6 670 112 8 9 44 3 6 28 11 o 73 *° 10 819 3 10 360 o o 144 6 8 I ... 504 6 8 1,323 10 6 Otago ... 835 o o 87 14 o ... 5 1 9 3 88 4 8 59 5 4 84 14 7 1,206 7 10 925 o o 45° 19 3 15 9 o i,39i 8 3 2,597 16 1 Southland 283 18 o 32 3 9 64 13 2 17 17 o 28 16 o 52 12 9 3° 7 7 S>° 8 3 372 o o 130 o o i 5 4 3 5°7 4 3 1,017 I2 6 Total i ! 5>°44 13 3 555 8 4 363 6 1 220 3 2 93 5 2 685 9 2 5SS '3 4 458 16 2 132 12 1 8,109 6 9' 6,130 6 8 1,977 10 6 279 18 2 8,387 15 4 16,497 2 1 Total for 1880 5,934 9 i| ,636 7 9 716 10 6 202 8 1 '64 3 9 811 3 ioj 743 3 u 539 9 5| 290 1 2 10,037 II 6 i 5,929 16 8; i,9S4 18 o 1388 19 1 8,273 13 9 18,311 11 3

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TABLE No. 4a. RECEIPTS and Expenditure of Boards for School Buildings, Sites, and Furniture, 1877 to 1881, inclusive, with the addition of Balance of Parliamentary Vote for Buildings unpaid at the End of the Year 1881. (Expenditure on Rents, Interest, and Insurance is excluded from this Table.)

1. 2. 3. 4. 8. 6. 7. 8. 9. 1O. 11. Education Districts. Ordinary Government Grants for Buildings, including £43,582 of Vote of 1881 paid in 1882. Receipts from Local Sources for Buildings 1887 to 1881. Other Income, Ordinary or Extraordinary, applied to Buildings. Total Receipts (Columns 1, 2, 3), being also the Totals of Columns 5, 6, 7, and 8. Expended for Buildings, Sites, and Furniture, 1877 to 1881. Expended on other Objects. Balances on Building Accounts, December 31, 1881. Balance of Parliamentary Vote Paid between January 1 and March 31, 1882. Available Balances, January 1, 1882, being Totals of Columns 7 and 8. Estimated Cost of "Works in Hand, January 1,1882. Available for New Work proposed by Boards as shown in Table. Difference of Columns 9 and 10. Auckland ... Taranaki ... Patea' Wanganui... Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson North Canterbury 2 ... South Canterbury ... Westland ... Otago 3 ... Southlana ... £ s. a. 109,624 0 0 11,560 16 5 1,854 16 0 26,6i9 0 0 47,331 5 11 26,496 2 9 9,462 14 5 21,909 12 2 76,380 19 5 22,435 16 11 34,904 9 2 4 84,993 13 6 19,856 5 0 493,459 11 8 £ s. a. 3,138 3 3 2 4 0 208 3 10 413 0 0 10 0 0 207 1 0 259 19 3 £ s. a. 3,241 3 0 252 19 2 3,56811 8 901 9 4 162 13 10 | 39,664 8 6 6 5,000 0 0 6 £ s. a. 116,001 6 3 11,563 0 5 2,107 15 2 26,649 0 0 51,108 1 5 27,810 12 1 9,462 14 5 22,082 6 0 116,252 8 5 27,695 16 2 34,904. 9 2 115,913 13 10 20,006 10 0 £ s. a. 104,721 9 1 9,821 0 10 2,107 15 2 22,812 2 9 48,530 4 0 25,701 2 8 8,034 1 1 18,918 10 4 101,371' 19 10 22,953 8 10 30,202 0 11 101,402 13 10 18,982 19 1 £ s. a. 488 4 4 489 5 5 2 12 6 £ s. a. 5,949 17 2 711 15 3 [Dr. 301 8 2] 575 17 5 915 9 5 174 0 10 1,850 15 8 5,849 8 7 1,640 17 2 £ 5,330 542 3,649 2,182 1,194 1,252 1,313 8,969 2,050 £ s. a. 11,279 17 2 1,253 15 3 3,347 11 10 2,757 17 5 2,109 9 5 1,426 0 10 3,163 15 8 14,818 8 7 3,690 17 2 £ 9. a. 4,434 12 3 793 16 0 3,272 14 6 2,199 15 0 2,401 0 0 980 6 3 3,500 0 0 4,774 13 3 £ s. a. 6,845 4 II 9 459 19 3 74 17 4 558 2 5 [Dr. 291 10 7] 445 14 7 [Dr. 336 4 4] 10,043 15 4 3,690 17 2 [Dr. 1,217 19 6] 6,000 0 0 349 17 7 l,05l' 10 2 4,702 8 3 3 j 1,217 19 6 8,511 0 0 3,263 13 4 35,349 10 1 1,962 3 5 97 10 0 28,957"l6 11? 52 15 0 ... 1,023" 10 11 14,511 2,590 ... 14,511 0 0 3,613 10 11 61,972 4 3 Totals 6,296 4 9 6,734 0 8 26,622 14 2 81,801 16 11 581,557 13 4 515,379 8 5 18,390 4 3 43,582 1 Patea Education District was abolished by " The Education Act, 1877." 2 Incluaed South Canterbury for fifteen months. 3 Included Southland for fifteen months. 4 Incites £480 aavancea in mticipation of parliamentary vote of 1882. 5 Including £28,715 8s. 9d., a balance of Provincial Government grant for buildings, and £10,000 specially voted from the Canterbury Land Fund. 6 A special 'ote from Canterbury Land Fund. 7 Partly derived from payment of fees in 1877 for a period for which Government grants for maintenance were made in 1877 and 1878 ; £2,760 0s. 6d., spent by Committees in buildings in 1877, not included in this account. 8 £150 17s. 9d. applied to diminution of overdraft on general account, 1st January, 1879; £3,048 0s. lid. absorbed in general expenditure in 1879; 2247 2s. 5d. so absorbed in 1880; £1,256 7s. 2d., a nominal balance, 31st December, 1881, which, if recognized, would increase the overdraft on general account to £2,272 19s. 6d. 9 This includes £1,000 in land specially for extension of school-grounds, being part of a sum of £2,200 specially granted for the purpose (included in £109,624).

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Table No. 4b. Boards' Proposals and Estimates for Buildings, 1882.

1. 2. o o d o 3. 4. 5. u fl ° O 6. Szi 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Roll Numbers (Deo. 31, 1881). Number of Schools in Rented Buildings. Number of Schools Without a t Number of New Schools proposed, and their Cost (excluding Plans, &c). Number to be Enlarged, and Cost of Enlargement. Number Condemned, and Cost of Buildings to replace them. Number of Residences proposed, and their Cost. Cost of Sites, Improvements, Furniture, &c. Estimate for Plans, &c. Total Estimated Cost. (Totals of Columns 8 to 13.) Balance required for All Works proposed. Education Districts. Available, as shown in Table 4a. QQ Percentage No. ofSchools in District. Percentage No. ofSchools j in District,' « a o 15 No. Cost. No. Cost. Xo. Cost. No. Cost. 55 £ £ £ £ s. d. £ s. d. £ 8. d. £ a. d. £ b. d. Auckland 15,830 175,440 43 22-2 105 54-1 1,471 2,164 22 8,510 6 4,540 1 450 43 15,150 3,480 0 0 1,606 0 0 33,736 0 0 5,845 4 11* 27,890 15 1 Taranaki 1,709 19,277 15 50-0 230 270 4 1,490 5 1,250 202 0 0 60 0 0 3,002 0 0 i 459 19 3 2,542 0 9 Wanganui 4,488 52,754 4 I 7-0 16 280 55 180 2 400 1 400 6 1,520 700 0 0 205 0 0 3,225 0 0 74 17 4 3,150 2 8 Wellington 6,147 I 56,439 5 I 10-4 21 437 32 546 720 12 5,390 1 550 6 1,450 4,155 0 0 605 0 0 12,150 0 0 558 2 5 11,591 17 7 Hawke's Bay ... 3,206 32,872 8 22-2 13 361 26 445 700 13 4,175 3 550 18 4,400 1,760 0 0 350 0 0 11,235 0 0 [Dr. 291 10 7] 11,526 10 7 Marlborougli ... 1,321 13,336 5 25-0 6 30-0 29 95 190 2 800 1 100 2 450 735 0 0 104 5 0 2,189 5 0 445 14 7 1,743 10 5 Nelson 4,062 45,292 8 11-4 30 42-8 88 290 3 1,500 1 250 a 3,375 375 0 0 5,500 0 0 [Dr. 336 4 4] 5,836 4 4 North Canterbury 16,051 196,914! 3 2-3 7 5-4 73 943 1,665 17 8,650 10 5,600 23 9,650 4,240 15 6 2,220 0 0 30,360 15 6 10,043 15 4 20,317 0 2 South Canterbury 3,531 39,874 2 61 5 15-1 21 705 1,560 15 9,500 3! 495 12 5,200 1,525 0 0 250 0 0 16,970 0 0 1 3,690 17 2 13,279 2 10 Westland 2,935 38,751 4 11-4 21 600 3 94 415 7 1,690 i 250 19 2,980 1,615 0 0 623 5 0 7,158 5 0 [Dr. 1,217 19 6] 8,376 4 6 Otago 19,296 192,022. » 7-2 16 10-4 582 2,470 3,675 30 14,349 - 5,030 5 4,890 36 12,220 3,150 0 0 550 0 0 40,189 0 0 6,000 0 0 34,189 0 0 Southland 5,033 50,597 3 4-7 11 17-4 155 375 675 8 2,160 4 990 ... 8 2,000 1,000 0 0 200 0 0 1 6,350 0 0 349 17 7 6,000 2 5 I "I I i I i I [ Totals ... 83,609 913,568; 96 7,517 12,504 135 58,614 45 18,755 6 5,340 190 59,645 22,937 15 6 6,773 10 0 172,065 5 6 11-0 266 306 976 25,622 14 2* 146,442 11 * See Note 9 to Table 4a.

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Table No. 5. Ages of the Scholars on the Books in the several Districts, for the Last Quarter of 1881.

Under 5 Years. 5 and under 7 Years. 7 and under 10 Years. 10 and under 13 Years. 13 and under ]5 Tears. Over 15 Years. Totals of all Ages. Education Districts. Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total. I Males. Females. Total. I I i Auckland ... i,8S3 I.620 3,473 3,009 2,562 S,S7 T 2,493 2,37' 4,864 yoo 790 1,578 "5 229 344 8,258 7,572 15,830 Taranaki ... 204 185 389 3^3 274 597 272 269 541 82 80 162 5 15 20 886 823 1,709 Wanganui... 52 7 55 1 1,078 844 722 1,566 688 638 1,326 213 212 425 43 5° 93 2,315 2,173 4,488 Wellington 7°7 728 i,Si5 i.'S 1 979 2,130 1,005 824 1,829 294 276 570 46 57 I0 3 3,283 2,864 6,147 Hawke's Bay 436 39° 826 661 526 1,187 472 419 891 138 104 242 30 10 40 i,737 i,449 3,186* Marlborough »54 '45 299 251 216 467 212 192 404 76 58 134 13 4 17 706 6i5 1,321 Nelson 481 407 888 7°3 697 1,400 688 641 1,329 193 194 387 J9 39 58 2,084 1,978 4,062 North Canterbury ... 2,093 1,782 3,875 2,970 2,799 5,769 2,471 2,271 4,742 720 683 I,4O3 117 141 258 8,37' 7,676 16,047' South Canterbury 45° 455 905 624 577 1,201 561 495 1,056 163 l6l 324 23 22 45 1,821 1,710 3,53' Westland ... 354 339 693 ;n 567 1,078 429 425 854 122 122 244 27 36 63 i,443 1,489 2,932' Otago 2,068 1,869 3,937 3,574 3,332 6,906 3,"3 [ 2,912 6,025 1,035 991 2,026 .65 2'5 380 9,955 9,319 19,274 Southland ... 607 512 1,119 856 860 I,7l6 810 722 1,532 265 260 525 7i i 7O 141 ! 2,609 2,424 5,033 Totals for 1881 I I t ... I 10,014 8,983 18,997 '5,477 14,111 I 29,588 13,214 12,179 25,393 4,089 3,93' 8,020 674 888 1,562 43,468 40,092 83,56* Totals for 1880 1,3 > 2 i>3°9 2,621 9,302 8,5'3 i7,8iS 14,998 i3,7'6 i 28,714 12,516 11,620 24,136 3,924 3,783 7,707 682 726 1,408 42,734 39> 66 7 82,401 * Twent' ■•seven children under 5 years of aj ;e (20 in Hawke's Bay, 4 in North Canterbury, and 3 in Westland) are omitted from this table.

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Table No. 6. Classification according to Standards in the several Districts, for the Last Quarter of 1881.

8-6 2 Number Classified according to Standards. Education Districts. fills Total Number Classified. Infants Too Young for Column next following. Preparing for Standard Passed I. II. III. IV. T. VI. am •Lire M. F. Total. St. F. Total. 11. p. Total. M. F. Total. M. P. j Total. M. V. Total. M. F. Total. M. F. .Total. M. F. iToti Auckland 15,830 8,258 7,572 15,830 2,177 1,874! 4,051 1,977 1,728 3,705 1,596 1,480 3,076. 1,406 1,346 2,752! 714 772 1,486; i 307 304! 611 71 62 133 10 Taranaki 1,709 886 823 1,709 H 121 215 291 240 531 170 164 334J 154 162 316 115 98 213 45 28 73 16 10 26 1 2,173 ... Wanganui 4,488 2,315 4,488 390 413 803 565s 514 1,082 446 395 841 391 381 772 308! 280 588 130 130 260 51 42 93 31 18 4i Wellington ... 6,147 3,283 2,864 6,147 795 731 1,526 572 487J 1,059 475 393 868 538 492 I 1,030 399 387 786 j 301 210 511 161 135 296 j 42 29 7: Hawke's Bay ... 3,206 1,749 1,457 3,206 466 436 902 401 293 694 290 246 536 276 242! 518 193 162 355 94 62 156 28 16 44 1 Marlborough 1,321 706 615 1,321 143 138 281 118 127 245 116 85 201 121 104 225 87 84 171 75 45 120 32 21 53 14 11 25 Nelson ,., 4,062 2,084 1,978 4,062 406 349 755 390 316 706 303 278 581 385 351 736 328 339 667 172 185 357 81 ; 120 201 19 40 59 North Canterbury 16,051 8,373 7,678 16,051 2,508 2,186 4,694 1,679 1,484! j 3,163 1,390 1,384 2,774 1,485 1,444 2,929 821 741 1 1,562| 355j j 343j 698i I 1U 87 198 24 9 33 South Canterbury 3,531 1,821 1,710 3,531 544 515 1,059 312 280j 592 310 318 628 274 295 569 226 200 426J 92 75 167 56 23 79 7 4 11 Westland 2,935 1,445 1,490 2,935 336 332 668 315 328J 643 224 234 458J 223 258 481 175 177 352 102 108 210 45 39 84 25 ■J 39 Otago ... 19,274 9,955 9,319 19,274 2,785 2,516 5,301 1,794 1,668 3,462 1,448 1,397 2,845 1,522 1,429! ! 2,951 1,203 1,152 2,355 71(5 675 1,391 349 347 696 138 135 273 Southland 5,033 2,609 2,424 5,033 569 449 1,018 580 527 1,107 481 445 926 518 526 1,044 308 294 602 102 131 233 43 47 90 8 5 13 Totals for 1881 ! ! _ | I 1 .. ! 83,587 43,484 40,103 83,587 11,213 ; 10,060! 21,273 8,997 7,992 16,989 7,249 6,819 14,068 7,293 7,030 14,323 4,877 4,686 9,563 2,491 2,296 4,787 1,044 949 1,993 320 271 591 Totals for 1880 82,401 42,734 39,667 82,401 11,375 10,348 21,723 9,114 8,367 17,481 7,554 7,236 14,790 6,796 6,639 13,435 4,591 4,255 8,846 2,154 1,963 4,117 885 685 1 1,570 265 174 439

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Table No. 7. Return of Salaries of Officers of Education Boards and Training Colleges, not included in Table No. 9, as at 31st December, 1881.

Officers. Salaries. Eemarks. Auckland : — Secretary and Treasurer ... Clerk and Accountant Clerks (2, at £175 and £120 respectively) ... Messenger Inspectors (3, at £550, £350, and £300 respectively) ... .,, ... ... Architect Principal of Training College Taeanaki : — Secretary and Treasurer ... Inspector Architect Wano-anui : — Secretary ... • Inspector Architect Wellington :— Secretary and Inspector ... Clerk .. Messenger Architect Normal Master ... ,, Mistress „ Drawing Mistress „ Singing Master „ French Master Hawke's Bay : — Inspector and Secretary ... Clerks (2, at £200 and £50 respectively) Architect ... ... Maelborough :— Secretary and Treasurer ... Messenger Inspector £ s. d. 450 0 0 200 0 0 295 0 0 40 0 0 1,200 0 0 250 0 0 600 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 75 0 0 325 0 0 370 0 0 500 0 0 250 0 0 20 0 0 Also Secretary to School Commissioners. Also allowances of £1 a day when travelling. Also actual travelling expenses, and 2J per cent, commission, he defraying the whole cost of plans and specifications. Also £100 per annum travelling allowance. Scale of charges agreed upon. Also 3s. a day forage, and £1 a day when travelling. 400 O 0 225 0 0 100 0 C 50 0 0 50 0 0 2J per cent., and actual travelling expenses when out of town. 500 0 0 250 0 0 Also £150 travelling allowance. 2|, 4, or 6 per cent., according to distance from Napier. 100 0 0 12 10 0 125 0 0 Also £1 a day when travelling, and steamer and coach fares. Architect ,,, Kelson : — Secretary ... ... ... Inspector North Canteebuby:— Secretary and Treasurer ... ... Clerks (2, at £270 and £157 10s. respectively) Messenger Inspectors (2, at £450 eacli) Drill Instructor ... Architect ... ... ... 250 0 0 500 0 0 540 0 0 427 10 0 61 0 0 900 0 0 250 0 0 5 per cent, commission. Including all travelling expenses. Also £45 forage, and actual travelling expenses. Ditto. 4 per cent, commission, with a fee of £2 2s. in addition if amount of contract is less than £150 ; and actual travelling expenses. 12s. a day and actual travelling expenses. Clerk of Works ... Normal Master ... Normal Tutors (2, at £414 and £319 10s. respectively Kindergarten Mistress South Canteebuby:— Secretary and Inspector ... Clerk ... Architect Westland : — Secretary Inspector Architect and Overseer 540 0 0 733 10 0 92 10 0 400 0 0 165 0 0 Also actual travelling expenses. 2\ per cent, and actual travelling expenses. 306 0 0 360 0 0 Also £140 travelling allowance. Not exceeding 7 per cent. Otago : — Secretary and Treasurer ... Clerks (3, at £208, £114, and £50 respectively) Inspectors (2, at £509 and £416 respectively) Architect Clerk of Works ... Drawing Master... Assistants (3, at £100, £70, and £55 respectiveiy) Normal Master ... „ Mistress ... ..; „ Gymnastic Teacher „ Drill Instructor ... Southland: — Secretary and Treasurer ... Inspector ... ... ... 463 0 0 372 0 0 925 0 0 350 0 0 240 0 0 416 0 0 225 0 0 555 0 0 208 0 0 143 0 0 18 15 0 Also travelling allowance of £1 5s. a day when on duty beyond reach of Dunedin ; when engaged in office, £1 5s. a week forage allowance. Also travelling allowance, £130. 279 0 0 372 0 0

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Table No. 8. Statement of Expenditure and Recoveries in respect of all Services under the Control or Supervision of the Minister of Education during the Year ending 31st March, 1882.

Education Depabtment. Secretary (one month on leare on half-pay) Inspector-General Clerks and clerical assistance Travelling expenses Teachers' examinations ... Educational Museum Office sundries ... • ... £ a. d. 606 13 4 633 15 ° 583 8 o 216 7 6 367 in 15 3 5 4 15 9 £ s. a. Less fees received for teachers' examinations 2,011 10 5 2,427 4 11 415 14 6 Gkants to Boaeds (not including building grants, shown below). Capitation allowance, at £3 15s. per average attendance ... £239,598 19 5 Less revenue from reserves ... ... ... 20,254 11 9 Capitation allowance, at is. 6d., for scholarships Subsidies for inspection ... Subsidies for training of teachers 219,344 7 8 5,082 8 3 3,889 13 o 7,469 9 6 235,783 18 5 Native Schools (not including buildings, shown below). Salaries of Clerks, Inspector, and district officers Salaries and allowances of teachers ... ... £8,154 12 6 Less refund ... ... ... ... 8 6 8 768 6 8 Boarding-school charges and apprenticing Books, school requisites, sewing material, &c. ... ... £849 4 1 Less recoveries ... ... ... ... 12746 8,146 5 10 3,396 11 10 £849 4 1 127 4 6 Travelling expenses (including removals of teachers) ... £820 4 9 Less refund ... ... ... ... 500 721 19 7 £820 4 9 500 815 4 9 General contingencies, including subsidy to Te Arai Public School ... ... ' ... ... £581 14 2 Less refund ... ... ... ... 7129 £581 14 2 7 12 9 574 1 5 Industeial Schools (not including buildings, shown below). Burnhain —Salaries Maintenance ... ... ... £2,458 17 9 Lees recoveries—Prom parents £433 1 6 „ Farm, &c. 31513 748 2 9 733 11 5 14,422 10 1 Caversham —Salaries Maintenance ... ... ... £2,229 '7 2 Less recoveries—From parents £294 9 11 ,, Sundries 810 1,710 15 o i>'53 ° 9 302 10 n Kohimarama —Salaries Rent and insurance ... Maintenance ..: ... ... £855 5 11 Less recoveries—From parents £102 17 6 „ Sundries 219 104 19 3 1,927 6 3 769 7 1 271 5 6 750 6 8 Schools Maintained wholly ob paetly by ©bants fbom Vote pob Chabitable Aid. 7.315 12 8 Industrial Home, Auckland ... ... ... £>>437 3 5Less recoveries from parents ... ... ... 13 5 ° St. Mary's Industrial School, Auckland St. Stephen's Orphan Home, Auckland Thames Orphanage St. Joseph's Providence Orphanage, Wellington St. Mary's Industrial School, Nelson Motueka Orphanage ... ... ... ... ■■• Lyttelton Orphanage ... ... ... ... £i.729 H 3 Less recoveries from parents ... ... ... 181 14 8 1.423 18 s 563 2 7 421 15 S 384 4 5 183 o o 1,077 19 ° 388 o 5 J.547 '9 7 5,989 19 'o Deae-and-Dttmb Institution. Director ... ... ... Assistant (including board) Bent,- rates, and repairs Furniture and school requisites Travelling expenses Advertising Medical attendance ... ... Contingencies ... ... ... ... Maintenance of pupils ... ... ... ... £'i°28 8 o Less recoveries ... ... ... •■■ 247 8 4 600 o o 113 2 6 274 19 2 83 18 11 78 9 10 1 18 6 13 18 o 17 16 7 780 19 8 i.9 65 3 *

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Statement of Expenditure and Recoveries — continued.

£ s. d. £ s. d. School Buildings. Public schools, grants to Education Boards Native schools ,, grants from Hokonui Native Reserve Fund ... Industrial schools 76,680 o o 4,996 19 10 130 13 3 858 7 8 82,666 o 9 Miscellaneous Seevices. Auckland Girls'High School Thames High School ... New Plymouth High School Wellington College Christchurch Girls' High School School of Mines, Otago ... Illustrations for school-books, engraver's salary ... ,., Purchase of recreation-grounds for public schools 1,200 o o 500 o o 200 O O 900 o o 400 o o 500 o o 152 12 O 2,410 o o 6,262 12 o University of New Zealand 3,000 o o

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Table No. 9. List of the Public Schools in the several Education Districts, with the Expenditure for the Year 1881, and the Names, Status, and Emoluments of the Teachers as in December, 1881. In the third last column, "Position in the School," "H M" means Head Master; "M," one Master only in School; "H F," Head Female Teacher; "F," one Female Teacher only in School; "A M," Assistant Male Teacher; "A F," Assistant Female Teacher; "M P," Male Pupil-teacher; "F P," Female Pupil-teacher; and " S," Sewing Teacher. AUCKLAND.

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■s: <=! Is lo QJ O I* Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. 6*3 SI 's-2 11 Expenditure for the Year. Maintenance. Buildings, Sites, Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. II I Annual tiTn Palary and f, S Allowance J£ £ at the Rate <i .2 paid during &c the Last .9^ Quarter of 'E G^ 1881. P"Z Salaries. Other Furniture, 2 3 4 Mongonui—■ Kaitaia Maungatete ... Oruru Victoria Valley Mangonui ... 1 2 3 4 5 £ s. d. 117 10 0 103 6 8 121 8 4 105 16 8 153 2 6 £ s. d. 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 10 5 0 10 0 0 £ s. d. 47 10 0 265 0 0 315 6 4 3 10 0 1 14 6 Ephraim Shannon ... Mrs. Shannon Isaac Williamson ... Mrs. Rose E. Fletcher Watkins Mrs. "Watkins James Paton Mrs. Dorothy Kitchen Robert Hogwood ... Margarita C. Trimnell Mrs. Johnson Henrietta Slater Frederick Booth Catherine E. Thode Elizabeth Anderson.., Alexander Anderson M S M S M S M S EM FP B 1 I 1 HM FP F M £ b. a. 110 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 30 0 0 56 0 0 100 0 0 130 0 0 40 0 0 130 0 0 80 0 0 2: 2; a li 3! 5 6 7 Totara Kaeo Whangaroa North Hokianga — Hokianga Kolmkohu (1) Bay of Islands — Okaihau Waimate Kawakawa ... 6 7 8 61 6 8 86 6 8 141 5 2 5 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 81' 8 11 103 1 0 1 3: 3! 8 9 9 10 121 3 4 46 6 8 7 10 0 3 15 0 9 13 6 32 14 6 3, 2( 10 11 12 11 12 13 58 5 0 61 5 0 279 0 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 17 10 0 15 5 6 8 6 0 Francis C. Crookes... Mrs. Hickton James Armstrong ... Mrs. Angela Wilson Ella Wilson Evelyn Hastings Mrs. Hastings Mrs. Jane Cains William H. Blyth ... Mrs. Hanson M F HM AF FP M S M S 80 0 0 75 0 0 180 0 0 80 0 0 30 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 56 0 0 120 0 0 10 0 0 3: 1! 8: 13 Pakaru 11 122 14 6 5 0 0 6 10 0 2: TeWharau(2) Russell 15 1G 49 0 0 125 10 0 5 0 Oj 1 17 0 7 11 7 l 2i 14 15 10 Orongo (3) ... ") Wahapu(4)... j Hobson — Arapohuo Whakahara (5) ) Tokatoka (5) J Aratapxi IV 18 108 6 8 120 5 10 5 0 0' 5 0 o[ 17 4 0 17 18 7 Mrs. Mary Crossley Harry W. Wells ... Francis C. Leggett... F M 80 0 0 120 0 0 21 1!) 114 11 8 7 10 0 269 15 0 M 110 0 0 l: 17 20 213 18 9 15 0 0 0 14 6 John Stall worthy ... Eleanor Chadwick ... Martha L. Munro ... John Lindley Elizabeth Seaborn ... Mrs. Lindley John Murray Mary Murray John W. Channon ... Mrs. Anna Jarvie ... Thomas W. Wilson Elizabeth Davis William M. Flower Mrs. Jane Grloyn Thomas Campbell ... Margaret Ross Arabella C. Ryan ... IIM FP AF HM AF -S HM FP M F HM FP M S M S F 160 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 140 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 110 0 0 40 0 0 140 0 0 40 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 72 0 0 6^ 18 Te Kopuru ,., 21 154 12 1 10 0 0! 15 14 6 4; 19 Dargaville ... 22 191 10 0 7 10 0 695 2 0 44 20 Matakohe Omaru (5) ... Paparoa 23 21 25 112 6 8 40 0 0 164 10 0 5 0 0 5 0 Oj 8 15 Ol 15 3 2 14 0 86 10 0 16 7 42 21 22 Maungaturoto 26 135 2 6 5 0 0 5 0 0 31 23 21 Kaiwaka ... Hakaru (6) ... ) Mangawai (7) Kaipara Heads (8) Whangarei— Wharcora Kamo 27 28 29 30 81 16 8 62 0 0 32 13 4 64 3 4 5 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 6 4 2 0 17 Oj 250 12 7 19 18 25 31 32 76 13 4 233 13 4 5 0 0 17 10 0 8 0 0 610 19 2 Thomas Maciie Richard Coates, B.A. Pattalina Holman ... Edith Mair George W. Bradshaw Mrs. Bradshaw Mrs. Ann F. Jackson William Fidler, B.A. Thomas Isemonger ... Amy E. Bottrill ... ( Arthur R. Miller ... I Mrs. Macdonald ... Richard T. Burgess Mary McLeod M HM AF FP HM AF F HM AM AF M S M S 60 0 0 180 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 52 0 0 200 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 ( 130 0 0 10 0 0 11 82 26 Kaurihohore 33 156 11 8 10 0 0 9 11 2 42 27 28 Otonga (9) ... Whangarei ... 34 35 22 13 4 387 6 8 5 0 0 17 10 0 278 10 0 377 13 0 13 108 29 Parua Bay No. 1 (5) ") Parua Bay No. 2 (5) j Whangarei Heads 3(5 151 0 10 10 0 0 0 18 0 30 37 136 4 2 5 0 oj 15 9 3: 31 Maungatapere (5) ") Otaika (5) ... j Ruatangata East (5) } Ruatangata West (5) ) 33 139 3 4 10 0 0 3 0 0 James Thornton ( Edward Millington j (Mrs. Lucy Imins ... M i' li' 32 39 133 19 2 10 0 0 f (1) Opened 1st April. (2) Aided. (6) Closed 6tb May. (S) Half-tii y) Opened 9th I ig ; closed 15th July; aided, toy. 0 (8) Aid ed; closed 30(i) Half-time; aided. ;h June. (9) Opened U (5) Half-time, i July.

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6 « Ss'B Is g-3 " 2 S3 Schools, and the Counties or Boroug-hs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. 6 o fc ° o o Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, fites, o Teachers' Names, "£ . including all Teachers -S 'o and Pupil-teachers gj^ on the Staff at the End g « of the Tear. 'S Annual Palary and Allowance at the Rate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. Furniture, and Apparatus. Whangarei — continued. Mangapai No. 1 (1) Mangapai No. 2 (1) ) Maungakaramea £ s. d. £ s. d. £ 8. d. Daniel I). Metge ... M £ s. d. f 11 36 33 40 116 13 4 10 0 0 7 18 2 M 135 0 0 34 41 163 1 8 7 10 0 .16 19 1 William H. Pooley... HM Isabella Wilson ... F P HM FP 130 0 0 30 0 0 35 36 37 38 Waikiekie East (1) } Wuikiekie West (1) j Euakaka (1) \ Waipu Care (2) ) Waipu Cove,.. 12 43 129 13 4 112 10 0 < 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 7 18 6 9 16 Thomas L. May ... M | Richard Fleet ... M William John Conncll M Annie McGregor ... S Thomas W. Scott ... M Mary McMillan ... S Henry Matthews ... H M Jessie McLennan ... A F Horace E. Eowlands H M F. S. M. Hankin ... AM Amelia Fisher ,,, F Oliver Dean , ; . M George A. Bcid ... M M M 120 0 0 110 0 0 (12 (13 U 112 32 39 40 "Waipu North Biver ... Waipu Central 44 45 40 47 135 2 6 127 3 4 167 5 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 0 18 6 8 9 10 M S M S HM AF HM AM F M M 130 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 140 0 0 30 0 0 150 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 92 0 0 120 0 0 32 42 41 Waipu "Upper Bodney— Te Pahi Albertland Nortli Te Arai Komokoriki No. 1 (3) ) IComokoriki No. 2 (3) j Pakiri Port Albert Wollsford .,. Wharehine ... 217 4 2 15 0 0 8 17 6 57 42 48 44 48 49 50 71 13 4 76 16 8 120 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 15 12 6 14 23 25 (10 I 9 10 31 20 21 51 90 3 4 5 11 0 John Marmont ... M M f6 0 0 45 40 47 48 52 53 54 55 56 13 4 163 17 6 91 13 4 119 13 8 5 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 327 13 6 0 11 6 Edward M. Gravatt M Benjamin M. Gubb M Mrs. Bushbrook ... F James E. Waygood M Mrs. Blackburn ... S Mrs. Eleanor Dent... F Mrs. Mary Stone ,., F Thomas G. Compton M M M F M S F F M 40 0 0 130 0 0 110 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 110 0 0 110 0 0 120 0 0 49 50 51 52 53 Tauhoa Hoteo North Omaha (Little) Matakana Upper (1) Big Omaha (1) ) Matakana Lower (1) Mullet Point (1) ) Mahurangi Heads Warkworth ... 56 57 58 59 105 17 6 112 10 0 130 13 9 128 6 a 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 9 16 6 67 17 0 2 2 6 Laurence Gilshenan M M 120 0 0 21 22 25 (14 [13 (13 [25 17 43 00 61 02 134 15 0 68 6 8 178 5 5 10 0 0 28 0 0 15 0 0 12 19 4 2 17 0 John Lyon Scott ... M Peter Greenhill ... M Alexander Campbell H M Annie Southgate ,,. FP Mrs. E. Cutler ... S Bobert W. Craig ... M Nellie Horsley ... S A. McNaughton ... M Martin Krippncr ... H M Mrs. Krippner ... AF May Eapson ... F Mrs. Faithfull ... F Eobert Kinross ... M Henry Mason ... M M M HM FP S M S M HM AF F F M M 140 0 0 68 0 0 140 0 0 30 0 0 10 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 80 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 130 0 0 100 0 0 28 0 0 54 55 Dome "Valley 03 120 0 0 5 0 0 24 56 57 Kaipara Flats Puhoi 64 65 80 0 0 188 11 8 5 0 0 10 0 0 36 10 0 26 0 0 17 53 58 59 60 Wainui .,. Waiwera ... Great Barrier (4) Kawau _ ... ... Waitemata — Kaukapakapa 6fi 67 68 69 100 0 0 129 18 4 105 16 8 31 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 6 0 0 4 8 6 13 12 9 24 32 16 7 61 70 173 1 8 10 0 0 11 9 0 George W. Murray.,, II M Edith Marks ... FP George Ncild ... HM Barbara C. Anderson AF Cecil A. Tobin ... M ( Charles B. Davis ... M [Mrs. Davis ... S Annie Eapson ... F Edward M. Clinton M Mrs. Clinton ... S Mrs. H. McManus ... F Samuel F. Mayhew... HM Annie Dixon ... A F Mrs. Mayhew ,,. S Thomas Broun ,.. M Mrs. Broun ... S Thomas H. Smith ... HM Edith M. Smith ... AF Janet T. Ferguson ... A F Clara Binney ... A F Mrs. W. H. Nicholson AF Helen D. Hanson ,,. F Henry Holloway ... M Mrs. Caven ... F II M FP HM AF M M S F M S F HM AF S M S HM AF AF AF AF F M F 130 0 0 40 0 0 170 0 0 50 0 0 120 0 0 130 0 0 15 0 0 110 0 0 68 0 0 10 0 0 68 0 0 140 0 0 30 0 0 10 0 0 120 0 0 10 0 0 210 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 110 0 0 100 0 0 32 0 0 36 62 HelensTille ... 71 145 18 4 7 10 0 40 3 11 52 63 Woodhill ... Kumeu (1) .,, | HobBonville (1) j Wade Pukeatua ... 72 73 107 14 2 131 19 2 5 0 0 10 0 0 17 10 3 0 11 0 29 19 15 24 17 61 05 74 75 100 0 0 54 5 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 16 0 0 66 67 Lucas Creek.,. Northcote ... 70 77 54 6 8 189 17 6 5 0 0 15 0 0 l" 2 0 17 47 68 Lako ai ... 78 132 13 4 10 0 0 18 11 4 24 09 Devonport ... 79 420 1 8 30 0 0 43 7 9 120 70 71 Henderson's Mill Titirangi Muddy Creek (5) Auckland [B]— Wellesley Street 80 81 82 112 0 0 100 7 6 12 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 12" 0 0 23 18 8 72 ' 83 1,929 1 11 120 0 0 143 1 3 Henry Worthington H M Charles H. Nicholson A M William H. Nicholson A M II M AM AM 465 0 0 250 0 0 80 0 0 947 (1) Half-timfc (2) Half-time from let July. " (3) Half-time; aided, (■1) Aided j itinerant. (5) Aided \ opened 18th Jul;

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fc'E ll Schoola, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. 63 > DQ II 11 Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Fites, Furniture, ar.d Apparatus. 0 Teachers' Names, "jj^ including all Teachers ■« o and Pupil-teachers gjj on the Staff at the End •$ « of the Year. 'S3 Annual Salary and Allowance at tlie Hate paid during 1 the Last Quarter of 1881. Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. Waitemata — continued. Auckland [B] — contd. Wellesley St.—contd, Beresford Street 84 1,084 18 6 £ s. d. £ s. d. 60 0 0 182 16 11 £ s. d. NeTille Ross Edmund C. Purdie.,, Charles T. Edwards James Ross Frederick J. Olilson Hubert D. Linton ... E. Louisa Dunning.., Annie Jerram Ellen A. Swain Leonora Kilfoyle ... Frances M. George... Elizabeth Martin ... Kate Vialoux Edith Fairburn Clara J. Pearson Emily Spence Jane Smart Janet Wilson Amelia Speight Sophia Larritt ,., E.K.Patterson Charlotte Hougham Asenath L. Morrin .,. Rosina E. Thompson Sarah E. Harris Annie C. Jackson ... E. M. C. Harrison ,., Edwin T. Hart John F. Mackinlay.,. Joseph R. Black Frances Longmore ,,. Mary Taylor Mary C. Howard ... Annie H. Currie Mary A. Lumsden ,.. Mary S. Melyei' Elizabeth MeKerras Lydia Wright Margaret Henry Katherine Leech Martha Johnston .,, Helen Or. Broun Kate Ridings Joseph Brabazon George Thwaites Eliza G. Wallace ... Marion Dunning Annie Hariris Ellen Gibbs Ella Steadman Mary Ballantine Florence Nicholson... Mary S. Gilmer Georgini Thompson Charlotte Wallnutt Annie Barton Annie E. Revell ,.. Marianne Wann Florence Taylor Margaret Coghill ... Peter Leonard Jonathan C. Adams Eliza J. Holder Annie Henry Caroline E. White .., Constance Robertson Mary S. Slat or Sophia Moses A. Grant, M.A. Horatio A. Hawkes Maria T. Mulgan .,. Constance H. Frost Mrs. Jane Grant Jessie Wcston Annie McColl Barbara Hutchison... Emily F.Robb Joseph G-lenny Mrs. Rachel Burns... AM MP MP MP MP MP HF AF AF AF AF FP AF AF FP AF FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP HM AM AM MP AF AF AF AF AF AF AF AF AF AF AF FP FP HM AM AF AF AF AF AF AF AF FP FP FP HF AF HF AF AF HM AM AF AF AF FP FP FP HM AM AF FP HF FP FP FP FP HM AF £ a. d. 80 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 130 0 0 120 0 0 90 0 0 70 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 366 0 0 250 0 0 120 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 70 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 283 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 140 0 0 80 0 0 200 0 0 70 0 0 40 0 0 270 0 0 200 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 200 0 0 80 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 578 Nelson Street 85 720 o 10: 60 0 0 91 10 802 Howe Street 67 86 255 10 2 25 0 0 High Street 87 3G6 15 0 30 0 0 50 4 11 105 73 Parnell [B]— Parnell 88 619 0 0 60 0 0 14 12 8 288 Onehunga [B] — Onehunga Boys' 117 74 89 344 15 0 25 0 0 273 12 0 Onehunga Girls' 338 0 0 25 0 0 57 1 3 109 Whan 192 U 2 1$ 0 0 0 10 6 44 75

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Is Is 3 « Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. > rn ■§ " h ft O &> Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. ear. Teachers' Names, •n,,;i,-v „„ including all Teachers Buildings, and Pu s pi i. teachel . s ■p-,,' -? s> on the StaS at the Eud and of the Year. Apparatus. CD .si a 3 I Annual Pal say and Allowance at the Rate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. IS" Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. 70 Eden — Ponsonby £ s. d. 953 12 7 £ s. d. 00 0 0 £ s. d. 1,089 10 3 B enjamin B ailey William J. Brown ... Frederick W. Kysh... Arthur F. T. Ansley Mrs. Jane Simpson... Margaret Mackay ... Ellen Gaze Ellen E. Bennett ... Bassaleno McLeocl ... Catherines. Smith... Margaret McTver Emma-Kelsher Helen Simpson Margaret A. Clarke... John Edwards Ernest A. Garland ... Maria Walker Elizabeth Fielder ... Emma Fielder Margaret Clow W. v"orekei'-l>indon,B.A, Francis Warren Martin J. Meagher... Algernon G. Silya ... James Jf. Marsdon ... John Fisher Frank P. Burton ... Mrs. Jane Skeen Jane Edwards Jessie McGlashan ... Elizabeth Hungerford Sarah Gibbs Elizabeth Stewart ... Sarah T. Mogiuie ... Kate Keesing Caroline A. Jervis ... Ellen Blades Charlotte Joynt Ada K. Warner Annie Stuart Mary Ton Stunner... Alex. French, M.A.... Mary Loyatt Hannah Astley Margaret J. Diekson Percy S. Smallfleld... F. W. Sanderson ... Alfred Woodham ... Agnes Carr Ethel Durrieu Lucy Anderson Alice Lilian Gilbert James Martin ' Richard T. Talbot ... E. E. Partington ... Mary Ellen Hopper Mrs. E. Martin Mary Ann Fellows ... Era Birley Mary Sloane Taite ... Minnie Whytc Isaac Coburn Mary C. Tregear ... Agnes N. Grice ... Kate Colebrook Mrs. M. S. Harden... Clara B. Westwood Elfrida Barnes Robert M.Mitchell... Mrs. Louisa James ... Mrs. Mitchell Eleanor B ridson John Harvey Scward Isabella F. tells ... Elizabeth A. Seward Emma Fletcher £ s. d. 324 0 0 135 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 220 0 0 120 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 318 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 30 0 0 130 0 0 80 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 200 0 0 80 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 250 0 0 120 0 0 60 0 0 70 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 260 0 0 150 0 0 30 0 0 70 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 180 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 130 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 160 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 130 0 0 91 HM AM A M AM AF AF FP AF FP FP FP FP FP FP HM A M FP FP FP FP HM AM AM 1AM AM AM M P HF AF AF AF AF AF AF FP FP FP FP AF AF FP HM AF FP FP HM AM AM AF FP FP FP HM AM MP AF AF FP FP FP FP HM AF FP FP HF FP AF HM AF S F HM AF FP P 431 77 Newton West 92 479 10 0 37 17 0 660 5 3 169 Newton East '... 93 1,003 4 3 88 14 8 2,225 7 0 417 109 78 Mount Albert 9i 332 18 4 30 0 0 32 12 7 79 Mount Eden 95 507 7 6 37 10 0 35 15 7 225 272 80 Graf ton Boad 9G 571 14 60 0 0 20 4 6 Mount Hobson Boys'... 81 97 321 18 9 17 10 0 139 19 4 116 Mount Hobson Girls'... 98 291 6 3 22 10 0 7 6 10 87 82 Ellerslie 09 180 3 0 7 10 0 14 4 3 36 83 84 TamakiWest Panmuro .., 100 101 114 14 2 241 18. 9 5 0 0 15 0 0 10 7 6 380 14 3 26 68 Mount Eoskill 120 13 4 10 0 0 282 4 5 30 85 102

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i! {i go 0 o ji Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. O m o'o if at rt o S 1 Maint Salaries. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. itenance. Buildings, i_ Sites, n ,. Furniture, Other . " 4 renSe. A^atns" Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. iII § ft Annual Salary and Allowance at the Bate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. 9 3 Manukau —■ Manukau Heads (1) ... HuiaMills(2) Howiek Pakuranga ... £ s. d. 4G 0 0 38 5 0 130 15 0 2-10 8 9 £ s. d. £ s. d. Francis J. Griffiths... M £ s. a. 44 0 0 I! 86 87 103 104 105 106 7 "io 0 15 0 0 0 10 6 383 18 2 Mrs, Ellen Irvine ... W. Woodward, M.A. Mrs. Laura Woodward Tom E. Blandford... Agnes M. Goodwill... Augusta Gillman ... Sarah Hall Kate Bowden Charles M. Carter ... Jessie C. Hart Ada Paseoe William McKee Mrs. Williamson Minnie Crago Herbert Woodham... Esther M. Gill Helen B. Maeky Clifford A. Stevens... James Muir Mrs. Muir George Bevell Susan Cole Charles Cooper Annie Eugg Oliver Stanton Horatio N. LeGallais Jane C. Spence Archibald Douglas ... George B. Eeid Mrs. Eeid Charles Gribblo Elon Bond Evan Eiehards Mrs. Eiehards Fredei'ick Forde Mrs. Forde Anthony Mactier ,.. Alfred Palmer F HM I AF HM FP FP FP FP HM AP PP M S P HM PP FP M M S HM AF HM PP M HM AF M M S M M M S HM AP M M 130 0 0 170 0 0 80 0 0 200 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 150 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 120 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 170 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 110 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 170 0 0 80 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 160 0 0 80 0 0 110 0 0 120 0 0 10 0 0 110 0 0 130 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 180 0 0 80 0 0 92 0 0 32 0 0 "3' 7: 88 Otalmhu 107 331 6 3 22 10 0 289 17 3 11: Mangere 203 3 4 15 0 0 234 14 8 89 108 Woodside 109 121 15 0 5 0 0 13 3 9 90 2' 91 92 Plat Bush ... Otara 110 111 100 0 0 262 7 6 5 0 0 15 0 0 0 12 4 11 16 0 31 r 98 94 Turanga Creek Papakura Valley 112 113 125 2 10 139 18 4 5 0 0 5 0 0 100 1 6 18 6 0 2" 31 95 Papakura 114 248 17 9 15 0 0 119 7 Drury 115 187 3 4 10 0 0 6 10 3 46 96 97 Ardmore Wairoa South 116 117 104 3 4 238 15 5 5 0 0 15 0 0 2 8 9 0 15 0 it: Ness Valley ... Hunua 118 119 112 0 0 120 10 3 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 5 9 27 1 6 2C 26 98 99 00 Maraetai Ararimu Maketu 120 121 122 110 13 4 123 19 2 134 11 8 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 20 13 6 4 3 6 8 18 0 211 3C 20 01 Bombay 123 254 11 8 20 0 0 562 19 0 82 .02 Awhitu No. 1 Awhitu No. 2 (3) Pollock (4) ... Waiuku 124 125 79 13 4 32 13 4 3 13 4 255 7 1 2 10 0 2 10 0 1 12 9 17 10 0 2a 08 126 16 8 6 George Healey Margaret A. Smith .., Margaret H. Currio Mrs. Healey I Alfred Goldsbury... John James Potter... Mrs. Evetts Eebecca May Thomas E. Eochforcl Mrs. Jones ... Adelaide Bisehoff ... James Glanfield James Hogwood ... j Annie Murray Alfred Hosting Emma De Carteret... Isabella Smith ... Mrs. Cecilia Sharp ... Minnie Collins Lucy Bluck Janet Wyllie Denis O'Donoghue... Emma Eevell W. DeE. Turner .... George Calvert Annie Calvert' William C. Castleton HM PP FP S 170 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 10 0 0 Brookside (5) Karioatahi (5) j Kohekohe 127 134 3 4 { 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 1 4 10 8 8 6] 181 11 0 M 130 0 0 fl2 [26 27 128 124 6 8 M S P M S P M HM PP HM AP FP| HF PP HP FP IIM AF M M S M 120 0 0 10 0 0 80 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 120 0 0 130 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 180 0 0 80 0 0 40 0 0 140 0 0 30 0 0 130 0 0 45 0 0 170 0 0 80 0 0 120 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 110 0 0 Maioro Waipipi 129 130 76 0 0 132 2 6 5 0 0 5 0 0 1 14 8 20 37 .01 Waitangi Puni Patumahoe ... 131 132 133 120 0 0 198 2 6 184 15 10 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 19 0 87 14 8 28 32 41 Pukekoho West 134 275 6 5 15 0 0 10 19 0 81 05 Pukekohe East 135 164 15 0 10 0 0 314 10 0 43 06 07 Harrisville ... 136 177 5 0 10 0 0 2 2 3 3G Tuakau 137 250 18 7 15 0 0 321 10 10 75 08 .09 Pokeno Hill... Pokeno Valley 138 139 127 12 6 135 2 6 5 0 0 5 0 0 30 0 4 7 9 0 27 33 Maungatawhiri Valley Coromandel — Coromandel ,,■ 140 105 17 6 5 0 0 13 15 0 22 141 301 18 4 30 0 0 66 10 10 Eobert Coatcs Dyer Mrs. M. Caldwell ... Mary A. Barry Joseph B. Eoeldiff ... ! Lydia De Carteret ... Harriett Longdill ... HM AF FP IIM AF AF 210 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 190 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 114 110 Driving Creek 337 1 8 25 0 0 32 5 0 u 142 90 (1) Aided. (2) Aided; closed 30tli June. (3) Closed 31st December, 1881. (4) Not opened in 1881. (5) Half-time.

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O • 8 5 no Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, o Annual $00 „.,,-,,, fl Salary and £ r-i Teachers Names, Allowance £ h - including all Teachers ■-o at the Eate and Piii> l-tciichere %A paid during 6c§ on the Hail-at (he End r" * the last .Si of the tar. g Quarter of ta Ph 18S1. 3t j p « o c3 CO g It Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. Furniture, and Apparatus. 12 .13 Coromandel — continued. Whangapoua Mercury Bay Thames [B]— Tararu £ s. d. 87 6 8 123 11 8 £ s. d. 5 0 0 5 0 0 £ s. d. 49 0 Josiah Box Harold Fait nor M M £ s. d. 48 0 0 110 0 0 12 21 143 144 .14 15 .16 Waiokaraka Waiotahi Creek PungaFlat (1) Kauaeranga B oys' ... 145 146 147 148 149 376 4 2 120 0 0 970 5 2 423 18 4 898 12 0 30 0 0 60 0 0 28 15 0 5 0 0 60 0 0 25 10 0 218 8 11 42 15 0 31 15 6 Wynne C. Gray Arthur Home Sarah Gott Minnie Lamb Kate Truscott G. Newell Phillips ... Alfreds. Webber ... Carey B. Davies Henry Keary Emily E. Day Anna Horgan Mary Jane Mclllione Jessie J. Whyte Jessie W. Paterson... Rosabel Wolfe Ellen Steedman Andrew Colhoun Albert E. Grigg ... Francis E. Lowe Mrs. H. Osboldstone Agnes Hamilton George B. Horgan ... Mrs. Horgan Horatio Phillips Albert G-erring William J. May W. H. J. Newton ... James Christie Cordelia Crowther ... Mrs. M. Phillips ... Mary J. H. Harris .,, Emma Ashman Kate Ann Fletcher... Priscilla Greenville... Millieent Fisher Beatrice E. Watkin Frances Haselden ... Elizabeth Sinclair ,,. Mary Murrish Mrs. Florence Macky Sarah J. Fisher M. A. H. McDonald Eliza Davies Eliza J. McNeico ... W. H. P. Marsdon... Annie M. Cleveland Elizabeth Keary Thomas Fulljamcs ... John Henry Gillies Mrs. Newby William C. Clark ,.. Frances Douglas William B. Graham Charles K. Cornforth Mrs. Cornforth Thomas M. Minchin Mrs. Minchin John Ritchie Mrs. Ritchie I Walter Sullivan ,., Mrs. Mary A. Harvey HM AM AF FP FP IIM AM AM MP AF FP FP FP FP FP FP HM MP MP AF AF M S HM AM MP MP MP AF AF FP FP FP AF FP IFP HF AF AF AF FP AF FP FP IIM FP FP M M S HM AF M M S M S M S 236 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 276 0 0 160 0 0 60 0 0 30 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 200 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 337 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 250 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 180 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 56 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 60 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 140 0 0 10 0 0 230 115 12 381 133 • 636 5 10 Kauaeranga Girls' ... 150 60 0 0 3 19 8 228 Parawai ... 83 XI 151 235 6 11 [17 10 0 52 10 4 Thames Orphanage (2) Hastings 152 153 92 6 8 123 0 10 5 0 0 3 10 6 321 14 6 24 23 .18 .19 Tairua 154. 156 4 2 10 0 0 8 17 0 44 .20 21 Turua Puriri 155 156 73 6 8 134 6 8 5 0 0 5 0 0 14 35 Hikutaia 157 112 12 6 5 0 0 11 1 6 15 Paeroa ... 158 139 3 4 5 0 0 43 .22 Mackaytown (3) ~) Waitekauri (3) j Te Aroha Gold Field (4) 159 I 93 5 10 65 0 0 57 18 4 5 0 0 5 0 0 13 13 0 0 13 6 31 3 2 M 120 0 0 fl4 i 8 28 160 F 110 0 0 .23 124 125 Raglan — Raglan Waitetuna ... 161 162 97 10 0 110 2 6 5 0 0 5 0 0 42 4 6 3 2 6 Greorge F. S. Horsey James La Trobe Mrs. La Trobe ( Mrs. Ealwasser j William Johnstone (.Mrs. Oldham Arthur C. Ballance... M M S s M S M 120 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 25 24 126 127 145 2 6 I 5 0 0 .500 } 60 10 0 12 Ruapuke (5) ) Te Mata (5) j 163 19 14 128 Harapipi (6) 164 105 0 0 5 0 0 10 6 (1) Closed 31st December, 1881. (2) Aided. (3) Half-time from: (6) Half-time wit! .st October. 1 Te Eore. (4) Aided; opened 1st July. (5) Half-time.

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li la II B o O3G Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B] ■23 if ® Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, bites, oi Annual Teachers'Names, -f . V^* 7 alld including all Teachers •fi'S f^SZ^L and Pupil-teachers sg att-ie Kate --ire— P gH Ph 1881. 188 fl Is in which situate. 3 ce a a o a Salaries. Other OrdinaryExpenditure. Furniture, and Apparatus. .29 Waikato— Mercer ,,, 165 £ a. d. 134 6 8 £ s. a. 5 0 0 £ s. d. 3 15 6 Joseph Calvert Kate Calvert } John T. Spargo ... James B. Murray ... M S £ s. A. 130 0 0 10 0 0 34 30 31 32 Kangiriri (1) Churchill (2) Wairanga (3) Miranda (4) Kaiawa (4) Huntly 5 166 93 13 4 { 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 10 0 15 16 6 249 15 3 26 12 0 M 123 0 0 fl4 I 7 167 18 16 8 M 80 0 0 168 117 10 0 0 13 6 Alfred J. Litten M 120 0 0 (13 (12 43 .33 .34 Taupiri Hamilton [B] —■ Hamilton East 169 170 155 5 0 112 11 8 7 10 0 5 0 0 32 17 0 371 16 3 Richard J. Pearco ... Sarah Donaldson Mrs. Honoria Ecddy HM FP F 140 0 0 40 0 0 110 0 0 22 .35 30 37 ,38 Kirikiriroa (5) Hautapu ... Cambridge 171 172 173 174 332 5 0 101 4 2 135 2 6 456 4 6 25 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 30 0 0 165 7 9 209 12 4 3 18 0 355 2 4 G-eorge Maberly Mrs. Maberly Sarah Ann Palmer ... Mai'y A. Stanton Eobert Maelaurin ... Catherine Maelaurin Ealph D. Stewart ... Martha Alforcl Linda Young Elizabeth Tristram ,.. Lilian Souter Minnie Hyatt James Chappell Andrew S. Taite Isabella Coleman Miss J. James John T. Giffncy Mrs. Giffney IIM AF AF F M S HM AF AF AF FP FP IIM MP AF S M S 200 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 110 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 220 0 0 120 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 160 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 120 0 0 10 0 0 107 23 33 150 Waipa — Ngaruawabia 190 4 8 91 14 8 62 31) 175 15 0 0 40 Pukete 176 125 10 0 5 0 0 3 7 8 26 .41 Hamilton [B]— Hamilton West 177 455 11 3 30 0 0 23 11 9 John M. Murray Edith Nicholson EimnaL. Wily Mrs. Murray Elizabeth Davis E. Gooddine Boler... Mrs. Crawford Isabella Groble IIM AF AF AF !FP M S F 220 0 0 105 0 0 70 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 36 0 0 154 Whatawhata 122 3 4 5 0 0 4 8 9 21 .42 178 43 14 .45 Ngahinepouri TeEore (6) ... Alexandra 179 180 46 13 4 66 16 10 192 11 8 5 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 12 16 6 3 18 2 17 3 John E. Carter Mrs. Carter Mrs. Ellen Trobe ,., B crnard B edford ... Emily Krippnor T. W. H. Coulter ... Mrs. Coulter Mrs. Mary Bruce ... Henry E.'Hyatt Aimee Bright Mrs. Hyatt W. EyallFosbroke... Mrs. Fosbroko Alfred Benge Elizabeth Gibbs Eobert Ormsby Norman Matheson .., Mary Allen HM AF F HM FP M S F HM FP S M S IIM FP M HM AF 140 0 0 50 0 0 120 0 0 150 0 0 40 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 64 0 0 130 0 0 30 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 150 0 0 40 0 0 110 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 9 18 47 .46 .47 Patorangi ... Ohaupo 181 182 121 0 10 183 11 8 5 0 0 10 0 0 376 0 7 26 12 0 28 50 is TeEahu 183 119 0 10 5 0 0 57 3 10 22 19 .50 Pukerimu Cambridge AYest 184 185 95 5 10 147 7 6 5 0 0 5 0 0 40 3 1 16 38 51 Eangiaohia ... 186 134 6 8 5 0 0 301 1 8 31 .52 Te Awamutu 187 179 15 0 11 5 0 4 3 10 53 .53 54 Mangapiko ... Kihikihi 188! 189 115 0 0 189 14 6 5 0 0 10 0 0 13 5 7 29 10 0 23 53 .55 Piako— Waitoa (1) ... "Waihou (1) ... ) 128 0 8 10 0 0 3 13 7 Leslie C. Marshall ,,. M 130 0 0 (18 (12 190 .56 Tauranga— ICatikati No, 1 Katikati No. 2 191 192 103 0 0 203 11 8 S 0 0 15 0 0 18 6 1 11 0 Eosannah B owen ... Mrs. Gallagher Mrs. Morton Alfred J. McCrackcn Percy E. Stevens ... Maud Nicholson Eliza J. Allely Margaret J. Allely ,.. F HF AF M HM AF FP F 110 0 0 150 0 0 60 0 0 90 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 72 0 0 22 52 .57 Katikati No. 3 Tauranga 193 194 86 13 4 323 15 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 1 13 6 57 8 6 12 118 .58 Greerton Whakatane — Opotiki 195 74 13 4 5 0 0 5 0 0 18 .69 196 309 15 11 22 10 0 41 4 7 Thomas E. Wyatt .., Annie Drought .,. Alexandrina Tinling HM AF AF 200 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 105 (1) Half-time. (2) Halt-time; opened 1st May. '3) Opened 1st ( ) Half-time wit] •ctober, l Harapipi me; aided. (5) Opened 32nd February,

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h la O Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. o o fe- O 0 O ill ~ i £] ft jo «■ I Maini Salaries. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. penditure for tne itenanee. Other Ordinary Expenditure. ear. & Annual §jgJ Teachers' Names, f . |fe^? | S. „ .,,. including all Teachers •fi'S ,^ 1i? wa, 1, 1°? fe Building's, .»j TJniii lumi,™. ao at the Kate <iS Apparatus. 1881. £ "g Visiting T '.etchers. Singing, Auckland Singing, Thames Singing, Waikato Drill, Auckland Drill, Thames Drawing, Auckland Reading, Auckland ...i £ s. d. 248 15 0 144 7 6 288 15 0 213 5 1 100 0 0 228 18 7 150 16 6 £ s. d. £ s. d. Thomas Cranwell John Grrigg Thomas A. Bell Owen Mahon William J. Barlow John Gr. Trevithick John P. Gradwell ,., | ... £ s. d. . 260 0 0 . 150 0 0 . 300 0 0 . 200 0 0 . 100 0 0 . 225 0 0 . 150 0 0 Furniture .,, Plans and supervision Hxi teuditure No* Classifieds 42,190 0 0 34 0 0 709 3 11 39,750 2 10 2,466 9 5 16,988 18 5 11,710

1 Taranaki — Okato (1) ... ) Tataraimaka (1) j Oakura 1 ( 53 17 0 I 58 10 0 126 16 0 3 16 6 0 16 6 7 9 0 12 6 8 15 6 2 6 18 3 I Robert James Catley William Richards ... Rowena Fitzherbert M [54 14 0 (.58 4 0 120 8 0 4 0 0 54 8 0 125 16 0 11 20 42 2 2 M FP Koru (2) ... Omata 3 4 43 16 8 91 4 0 4 10 6 2 6 6 435" 1 11 Q-eorge W. Potts ... it 11 34 New Plymouth [B]— West 187 10 0 0 10 6 William Henry Tobin Jane Cock Catherine Hogarth ... Janet Ainslie Mary Brooking AdaM. Roby Lydia E. Shaw Mary St. George Mary Pratt Eliza J. Swanston ... George O'Connell ... Mary Scott James Quilliam 159 16 0 25 0 0 102 0 0 25 0 0 122 0 0 30 0 0 137 0 0 30 0 0 25 0 0 4 0 0 152 0 0 30 0 0 4 0 0 5 M AJ 1 HI AJ EF AJ HF AJ AF JP M AF IP 52 West Infants (3) ... G 60 6 0 7 9 6 57 Courtenay Street ... 7 154 10 0 3 0 0 147 13 7 77 Kawau 8 106 0 0 116 East 180 15 0 162 10 9 81 4 5 Barracks (4) Frankley Road Mangorei Lower Mangorei Upper Kent Road Lower Kent Road Upper (1) } Albert Road (1) j Egmont Village Smart Road (1) ) Egmont Road (1) J Upland Road Bell Block Oirls' (5) ... Bell Block Boys' 10 11 VI 18 14 15 29 7 4 87 6 0 46 16 0 60 8 0 66 8 0 f 59 4 0 (. 56 4 0 120 6 0 C 41 15 6 £ 40 14 6 59 4 0 13 15 0 171 18 0 1 10 0 5 19 6 4 14! 5 1 3; 5 15 8 5 10 0 11 10 6 11 10 6 13 11 8 John A. Hill Ada Tatton E. McLauehlan A. M. Swanston JR. A. N. Earl W. I. Grayling I William Collis ... Louisa C. Dymond .,. M P E F M 95 0 0 45 12 0 56 16 0 65 4 0 ( 58 18 0 (.55 18 0 116 16 0 C 53 10 0 (.53 10 0 58 0 0 21 14 14 21 18 12 39 10 13 13 16 30 11 6 6 6 0 3 10 11 M 17 M 18 19 20 F Waitara West Waitara East Manutahi Huirangi Tikorangi 21 22 23 24 25 141 1 0 148 2 0 130 16 0 73 0 0 182 0 0 2 9 0 2 12 6 3 9 0 3 16 0 28 5 0 5 0 0 2 10 Thomas B. Bennett Julia E. Sampson ... Josephine Colesby ... Emily Cameron John Gr. Ambridge ... James Hall Kate Hall Margaret Sutherland Richard Morgan Mary D. Mace Mary Julia Fuller ... Anthony G. Oldfield Annie E. Drake Robert Stevens Thomas Donnelly ... M AF E FP M M PP F M AF F M F M M 142 0 0 40 0 0 122 4 0 4 0 0 113 4 0 125 4 0 24 0 0 73 12 0 142 0 0 40 0 0 74 4 0 106 0 0 97 0 0 106 0 0 79 12 0 61 50 85 36 27 62 9 10 11 Urenui Wortley Road Inglewood G-his' Inglewood Boys' Norfolk Road 2G 27 28 29 30 73 12 0 87 16 0 118 5 0 85 18 0 81 4 0 1 14 5 22 15 0 24 14 9 3 5 0 3 5 0 16 35 30 85 28 (1) Half-time. (2) Closed 26th (5) Amalg •ctober. mated with Be] (3) Opened 1st July. 11 Block Boys' 1st April. (4) Closed 31st May.

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KB '■'' i ■ i Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs fthe latter marked [B]) in which situate. © 03 4^ © Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. © Annual &£<» 5 Salary and g S H -i Allowance £ R " 'g § at the Kate <t g o ■§ paid during tj g S^ the Last .91 o Quarter of -g0^ FM 1881. £ t Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. Furniture, and Apparatus. Taranaki — continued. Waipulm Midhirst (1) i.'. Stratford (2) Opunake (3) £ s. d. 52 4 0 33 14 0 25 8 0 36 15 4 £ s. a. £ a. d. £ e. d. 64 0 0 31 32 33 34 0 2 6 0 18 6 15 18 10 5 10 6 10 6 14 5 6 Marianne Surrey P M M 83 4 0 103 0 0 4 0 0 24 17 12 William Johnson ... Joseph "W. Williams Louisa Coffey 13 41 Architect No. 3 Committee No. 6 Committee No. 9 Committee No. 11 Committee Exp lenditwe Not Classified. 75 0 0 2 11 3 123 5 5 35 16 6 19 13 2 10 15 0 1,055 1 2 3,465 14 0 1,175 3,276 6 4 272 18 10

Hawera — Hawera [B] — Hawera 3'51 14 6 21 16 6 188 15 0 Alexander Mair Kate Verdon Laura Hills Ann Hobbs Jane Bremer M AI FP FP F 85 3 8 75 0 0 27 0 0 22 10 0 56 5 0 146 Whakamara... Patea — Manaia (4) ... Ngaire (4) .,, Hormanby ... 57 5 5 3 19 0 9 13 6 14 2 2 3 A, 5 3 4 5 2 0 0 0 6 8 159" 5 0 13 13 9 W. A. McCutchan ... Alice McKay Eliza Jane Hay E. T. Brown E, Willis ... A. W.Williamson, B. A. T. Augustine Flood... Annie Gowland W.L.Weiss A. F. Verdon David Scott E. Jordan David Strachan Margaret Maclean ... Charles Bo water S. J. Warmington ... M FP E 1 M M HM AM AF M F M FP M P FP M P F 130 0 0 27 0 0 82 10 0 141 5 0 71 5 0 232 10 0 140 0 0 75 0 0 75 0 0 82 10 0 217 10 0 36 0 0 65 0 0 27 0 0 65 0 0 67 10 0 "55 6 7 8 9 Manutahi Kakaramea ... Woodville (5) Caiiyle District High... G 7 8 9 84 7 6 138 15 0 52 9 5 429 18 6 6 9 1 10 14 3 3 11 0 20 12 9 5 4 6 29 6 0 168 7 10 21 38 16 131 10 11 12 Whenuakura Kohi Waveriey 10 11 12 87 16 3 82 10 0 429 5 0 5 19 4 5 18 3 21 12 3 4 6 0 25 19 0 15 22 129 Waitotara ... Wanganui — Maxwelltow 11 Brunswick ... Groat Valley... Upokongaro... Brownlee (6) Aramoho ■64 13 9 4 11 9 43 3 0 18 13 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 14 15 16 17 18 19 102 10 0 98 8 9 99 7 6 115 12 6 34 7 6 316 13 4 7 19 9 8 0 1 8 0 1 7 5 0 2 2 6 19 5 9 0 4 0 1 15 3 2 16 6 Frederick Austin ... D. H. Pattie Ellen Jordan J. Nelson ... Taeant James Dawson Eosa Dawson Emma Field Eliza Ellis M M F M F M AF FP F 100 0 0 100 0 0 101 5 0 90 0 0 63 15 0 182 10 0 97 10 0 22 10 0 78 15 0 26 27 27 20 7 83 11 13 4 36 5 0 Mosstown Wanganui [B] — Wanganui Girls' District High 20 88 2 6 6 3 9 15 1 3 30 20 21 21 563 5 0 79 18 2 Sarah Blyth Mary Hoey E. A. McNeill Helen West Maggie Hoey Isabella Sim Ellen Browne (7) ... J. P. E. Francis, M.A. Charles Steedman ... Thomas Halliwell ... Frank Parkes H. A. Parkinson David Low Jemima If. Hoey ... A. Macdonald Sarah Patterson Minnie Harding Isabella Blair Edith Manly Lizzie Verdon IIF AF AF FP FP FP 230 0 0 75 0 0 75 0 0 56 0 0 56 0 0 36 0 0 19 0 0 460 0 0 275 0 0 150 0 0 65 0 0 36 0 0 45 0 0 150 0 0 75 0 0 45 0 0 36 0 0 36 0 0 27 0 0 36 0 0 196 Wanganui Boys' District High 98 0 7 26 12 2 HM A M AM M P M P M P IIF AF FP FP FP FP FP 185 22 1,03V 13 4 Wanganui Infants' ... 372 2 6 54 10 2 229 23 (1) Closed 30th September. (2) v (5) Open I01 Dlosed 30th June ; re. nine months. (6) ' >pened ]st Novi Dpen for seven imber. (S) O; months. (7) lened 29th August. (4) Not yet in operation, fisiting Singing Mistress,

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o . IS Co o o ■->-■ r'-l Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. 6 O II o 3) 3\Iain1 Salaries. Maintenance. Expenditure tor the Tear. itenance. Buildings, Sites, Other Furniture, o Teachers' Names, "£ . including- all Teachers •9 ro and Pupil-teachers flj on the Staff at the End -M « of the Year. "H o P4 Annual Salary and Allowance at the Kate l^aid during the Tjast Quarter of 1881. If 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Wanganui — continued, Okoia Mars Hill ... Kaitoki Matarawa Denlair Riverton Wangaehu ... 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 £ s. d. 136 5 0 94 7 6 75 0 0 100 2 1 63 15 0 68 8 9 122 10 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. 10 3 3 26 18 2 7 3 6 9 16 6 5 7 6 10 17 0 7 11 Oj 0 12 6 4 10 6 0 19 6 4 15 1 20 0 0 8 0 6 7 12 0 £ s. d. 10 3 3 7 3 6 5 7 6 7 11 0. 4 10 6 4 15 1 8 0 6 E. O'H. Canavan ... Berkley Tyerman ... I\ G. Newcombc C. A. Curtis E. E. Dowling J. D. Innes John Slipper M M M M M M M M M M M M M M £ s. d. 141 5 0 93 15 0 75 0 C 93 15 0 67 10 0 63 15 0 122 10 0 i 42 I 26 ! 20 I 26 I 18 ] 17 ) 28 42 26 20 26 18 17 28 Eangitikei— Turakina 31 221 17 6 13 18 0 7 4 0 3 4 6 12 19 0 26 7 6 8 0 10 5 5 0 5 17 6 14 0 6 9 10 0 12 0 20 8 9 36 6 6 7 10 10 3 14 6 8 6 0 183 18 2 8 13 9 208 18 2 5 11 22 5 11 5 16 0 8 13 0 2 0 13 18 0 Frederick Parkes Sarah Boddy H. Coventry J. Pilkington Mary McDonald Denis Quinlan Annie Astbury E. J. Manson T. W. Postans Harriett Stedman ... Herbert Sanson Frederick Steviart ... J. C. Hill Johan McDonald ... P.Phillips Andrew Thomson ... Mary Tyerman Mary Campion Nelly Thomson Jane Tait Kato Fraser M AF M M FP M F F M AF MP M M F M M AF FP FP F F 162 10 0 50 0 0 45 0 0 155 0 0 36 0 0 131 5 0 82 10 0 90 0 0 191 5 0 91 17 6 65 0 0 100 0 0 130 0 0 101 5 0 75 5 0 217 10 0 75 0 0 56 10 0 22 10 0 97 10 0 33 15 0 I 72 I ) 12 1 56 I ) 29 I 20 ! 23 I 115 ) I 29 ) 26 t 30 t 23 i 137 ) ) I 1 30 > 9 72 29 31 M AF M M FP M F F M AF MP M M F M M AF FP FP F F 30 31 Glen Nevis (1) tipper Tutaenui 32 33 32 33 36 11 3 194 12 5 3 4 6 12 19 0 12 56 32 33 34 35 Porewa Turakina Valley Western Eangitikei ... Marton 34 35 36 37 34 35 3G 37 127 10 0 82 10 0 93 7 6 341 6 0 8 0 10 5 17 6 6 9 10 20 8 9 29 20 23 115 36 37 88 39 40 Mount View Crof ton Greatf ord South Makirikiri Bull's 38 39 40 41 42 38 39 40 41 <!2 100 0 0 125 18 9 98 8 9 68 5 7 368 0 0 7 10 10 8 6 0 8 13 9 5 11 22 5 11 29 26 30 23 137 Parawanui ... Sandridge 43 44 99 7 6 31 17 6 8 13 30 9 41 43 44 42 Manawatu— Halcombe 45 45 332 12 6 20 8 0 3 7 6 10 14 7 17 0 3 8 14 1 12 6 10 25 4 0 10 0 9 8 0 1 0 14 0 14 14 0 2 18 0 4 13 419 18 5 9 7 0 73 8 9 7 19 4 42 16 0 11 10 9 61 7 6 25 1 0 105 14 6 7 4 0 10 19 6 13 16 6 41 6 4 20 8 0 William H. Harris ... Sophie Harris S. C. Gray Joseph Dinsdale Joseph Guylee Richard C. Dowling Sarah Dowling S.R.Nathan Hannah Eoache Eose Nathan Mary Goodison Alfred Gower Arthur England Ann Sanson S. L. Brown, M.A.... J. W. Alloway, B.A. E. W. Eowson, B.A. Jacob Honore Francis E. Watson ... Agatha A. Watson ... EmmaEelfe Hannah Dillon Ella Stevens George S. Harper ... D. H. Guthrie Talison Thomas M AF FP M M M AF FP FP FP FP M M AF M M M M M AF FP FP FP M M MP 200 0 0 75 0 0 45 0 0 115 0 0 100 0 0 235 0 0 75 0 0 36 0 0 36 0 0 27 0 0 45 0 0 126 5 0 182 10 0 75 0 0 71 5 0 140 0 0 145 0 0 120 0 0 225 0 0 75 0 0 36 0 0 27 0 0 36 0 0 90 0 0 166 5 0 45 0 0 ) 112 I I i 39 i 31 i 176 i i i i i i 27 i 76 I I 20 I 32 I 25 I 42 ) 164 ) ) ) I ) 24 ) 66 ) 112 43 44 45 Bunnythorpe Makiiio Road Feilding 46 47 48 46 47 48 112 10 0 97 18 4 434 8 4 10 14 7 8 14 1 25 4 0 39 31 176 46 47 Ashurst Sanson 49 50 49 50 124 7 6 256 5 0 27 76 48 49 50 51 52 Campbelltown (2) Awahuri Taonui Stoney Creek Palmerston North 51 52 53 54 55 51 52 53 51 55 54 3 9 125 0 0 145 0 0 100 7 3 411 15 0 20 32 25 42 164 53 54 Carnai von ... Karere 56 57 66 57 95 0 0 222 13 4 55 56 Jackeytown (3) Foxton 58 59 58 59 371 3 4 88 15 0 20 12 6 8 5 6 5 8 7 11 3 7 11 10 0 14 7 0 Charles Hulke Sarah Phillips E. A. Nash Ellen Howan G. Nye Clement W. Lee M AF FP FP M M 200 0 0 89 1 3 45 0 0 27 0 0 78 15 0 142 10 0 ) 130 ! ) ) ) 23 ) 40 57 58 Montoa (2) ... Otaki 60 61 56 1 3 145 0 0 ~Ex$ lenditure Not Classified. School furniture Plans, specifications, and inspection 10,500 9 11 12 0 57 1 3 658 9 8 2,141 2 2 I 3,250 (1) f pea lor ten months. (2) Open for nine months. (8) Wot yet open.

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1*1 Schools, and tlie Counties or Boroughs fthe latter marked [B]) in wliich situate. 0H O to o'o *s ■- S3 a ft O CJ Exp Maint Salaries. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. penditure for the itenance. Other Ordinary Expenditure. Buildings, Sites, Furniture. and Apparatus. o Annual Teachers 1 Names, * . S! ary n and including- all Teachers •S'o f^ltote and Pupil-teachers S 8 Zw if ■ on tho Stiff at the End gg >g£& of the Year. S Q uarte roi fc 1881. If 1 2 8 4 Wairarapa East — Tenui Taueru Bidcford (1) Gladstone (2) Waihenga Wairarapa West — Eketahuna ... Mauriceyille Opaki Fern Ridge ... 1 2 8 4 5 £ s. d. 150 0 0 42 16 8 32 15 0 91 15 0 146 13 4 £ s. d. 2 5 0 9 5 0 12 10 0 £ s. d. 5 0 0 6 0 0 Arthur J. S. Seaton Alfred B. Blakely ... M M f" M £ s. d. 150 0 0 140 0 0 100 0 0 160 0 0 10 23 26 28 Dorothea Hamilton James Badlaud S 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 100 0 0 170 0 0 127 10 0 217 10 0 15 12 6 20 0 0 15 12 6 22 10 0 13 10 0 6 0 0 Richard Gr. Williams Laurence Johnstone Ellen Mathews Frederick Gover Lois Feist M M F HM FP 100 0 0 170 0 0 127 10 0 190 0 0 25 0 0 24 36 23 53 Masterton [B] —■ Masterton 10 856 18 10 77 10 0 1,058 2 6 William T. Grundy William Waite Charles H. W. Locke Laura Keeling Mary Robins Christina McKenzie Mary J. Baillie Miriam Mathews John Berry David Barry Edith Feist Marion Powley Edward Samuel John Kay Elizabeth M. Palmer Eliza Jones Frederick Fairbrother Charlotte Ohallis ... Grace O'Halloran ... James Loete HM AM AM AF FP FP FP FP M HM AF F IIM AM AF AF MP FP F M 300 0 0 160 0 0 150 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 45 0 0 40 0 0 45 0 0 100 0 0 210 ' 0 0 80 0 0 100 0 0 280 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 16 0 0 100 00 140 0 0 276 Waingawa ... Clarevillo 10 11 11 12 100 0 0 300 0 0 28 15 0 6 0 0 15 54 12 13 Park Vale ... Carterton 13 14 100 0 0 601 0 0 18 15 0 63 15 0 13 7 6 545 12 0 30 199 Waihakeke (3) Matarawa Greytown [B] — Greytown 15 16 130 0 0 9 7 6 10 8 0 14 2! 15 17 538 15 0 56 5 0 228 15 0 Thomas Porritt Charlotte F. Scale ... Mary Yorke Emily Burch Agnes Ilaigh Tom Wakelin, B.A. Matilda Fugle H. E. Tuokey, B.A. Henry McFarlane ... Bessie Huntley William Singer IIM AF FP FP FP M F HM AM AF M 270 0 0 120 0 0 40 0 0 45 0 0 35 0 0 170 0 0 100 0 0 240 0 0 140 0 0 100 0 0 170 0 0 lGi Kaitara Tauherenikau Featherston... 170 0 0 100 0 0 495 16 8 18 15 0 6 0 0 10 0 0 431 12 9 16 17 18 IS 19 20 43 15 0 2' II 19 Kaiwaiwai ... Hutt— Kaitoke Wallace (2) ... Mungaroa ... Upper Hutt... 2] 160 16 2 18 15 0 23 0 6 27 20 22 23 24 25 99 3 4 61 0 0 122 10 0 340 0 0 5 4 2 18 15 0 32 10 0 20 8 1 110 Charles F. Gulliver Alfred Foden Elisa II. Evans Jeremiah Hurley Henrietta Boulcott... Robert Johnston Nita Johnston Laura Welch Charles A. Richards Charles R. Joplin ... Alice Frethcy Anna Boulcott Ann J. Paterson Laura Medley Frederick W. Connell Georgiua E. Chatwin Charles J. Hansard... Edmund Jupp Susan Jupp James Home Annie Duncan Alice Nott Arthur Clare Martha A. Clare George S. Evans Clara Storey Alice Mullens Angus M. Macfadyen James S. Prendeville Henry H. Dyer Maude B. Dyer M M F HM AF HM FP FP IIM AM FP FP F F M F M M S HM AF F HM AF HM AF FP M M IIM FP 140 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 230 0 0 80 0 0 220 0 0 35 0 0 16 0 0 270 0 0 140 0 0 45 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 160 0 0 142 10 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 210 0 0 50 0 0 142 10 0 170 0 0 50 0 0 230 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 190 0 0 210 0 0 30 0 0 25 22 30 77 21 Taita 26 308 11 8 30 0 0 8 10 6 64 22 Hutt 27 545 16 8 52 10 0 469 14 6 158 23 24 25 26 27 2S Wainuiomata Korokoro Horokiwi Judgeford ... Pahautanui ... Porirua 28 29 30 81 32 83 100 0 0 101 13 4 135 8 4 138 15 0 157 0 4 130 0 0 12 10 0 6 5 0 20 0 0 6 5 0 31 16 6 16 27 27 35 38 24 28 16 9 29 Tawa Flat ... 34 260 0 0 27 10 0 55 30 31 Oh arm Jolmsonville 35 86 180 0 0 225 0 0 20 12 6 22 10 0 19 0 0 25 0 0 35 48 32 Kaiwara 37 315 0 0 35 0 0 15 7 0 74. Wadestown ... Makara Karori 38 39 •10 58 6 8 180 0 0 284 10 0 4 3 4 18 15 0 27 10 0 192 16 6 16 0 0 661 12 6 2! 3i 83 84 (1) Closed. (2) Aided. (8) Only open Jaat quarter, average 26; aided.

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If |a go '/ °, .9 '" Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. O m 6^ if d ft o 5T Expenditure for the Year. Maintenance. Bu Buildings, Sites, Furniture, ar.d Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including- all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. J I Annual f alary and Allowance at the Kate paid dtiring the Last Quarter of 1881. If Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. 35 Hutt — continued. Wellington [B]— Thorndon 11 £ s. d. 1,190 1 8 £ s. d. 95 0 0 £ s. d. 28 10 5 William Mowbray ... William II. Lewis ... J. Katterns Manning Jessie McQ-owan Annie Davies Sarah Dimant Tellira Watson Ada Dowdeswell Mabel Huett William Toomath ... Lydia M. Devereux... francos Bassott Phcobe Myers John Young P.W.Mansfield ... Ellen Young Mary E. Young Grace Lindsay Grace Osborne Olivia Payne Clement Watson William P. Cole ... Jacob II. Reynolds... Francis Bennett Charles Wilson Mary Grady Ann Robinson Amy Davis Margaret Page Elizabeth Page Mabel Mills W. Howard Holmes Paulina Watson Helen L. Twiss Caroline Letham Charles J. Hardy, B. A. John H. Brann Thomas F. Reeve ... Annie E. Robertson Elizabeth McGowan Emma Gooder George Eobinson ... Donald Sinclair James Mclntyre Katherinc H. Tarn... Harriet MeGowan ... Emma D. Maunder... Kathleen Bastin Ellen Butter Emily Brown Margaret Cook Ellen Wallace KateWallis Emma Davis Charlotte A. Francis Sarah Wilkinson Emma Archer Annie II. Lawson ... Charlotte Francis ... Laura Treadwell Grace Balcombe Elizabeth Smith Phoebe Watson Evan R. Lillington ... William P. Brown ... David H. Jenkins ... Jane C. Moore Emma B arnard Jane Sorwall James Ingram Catherine Tait Laura Bradford £ HM AM AM AF AF AF FP IP FP MP HF FP FP HM AM AF FP FP FP FP HM AM AM AM AM AF FP FP FP FP FP HM AF FP FP HM AM AM AF AF AF MP AM MP HF AF AF AF AF FP FP FP FP FP HF AF FP FP FP FP FP FP FP HM AM AM AF FP FP M P FP AF s. d. 370 0 0 200 0 0 160 0 0 110 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 45 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 150 0 0 40 0 0 16 0 0 340 0 0 200 0 0 120 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 360 0 0 200 0 0 120 0 0 120 0 0 100 0 0 120 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 350 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 16 0 0 360 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 112 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 262 10 0 110 0 0 110 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 45 0 0 45 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 240 0 0 150 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 25 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 350 0 0 140 0 0 120 0 0 100 0 0 45 0 0 45 0 0 30 0 0 16 0 0 80 0 0 352 Thorndon Infants' ... 42 229 17 1 45 0 0 51 3 0 12i Terrace 839 3 4 70 0 0 115 10 0 86 48 242 37 TeAro ... 44 1,030 9 6 65 0 0 858 3 7 380 Te Aro Infants' .., 45 497 16 8 70 0 0 397 17 6 184 3S Mount Cook Boys' ... 16 1,332 16 8 91 5 0 4 8 0 331 Mount Cook Girls' .,, 4? 837 18 4 81 5 0 1,003 16 3 290 Mount Cook Infants' 48 556 5 0 103 15 0 37< 39 Newtown ... ■19 832 1 8 86 5 0 427 16 0 21) Sydney Street, Thorndon (site) 29 0 0 JEx'j ten&iture No\ Classified. 85 15 8 15,633 10 0 Not charged against any particular school 15,721 11 II 1 1,480 17 6 6,855 12 0 4,60'

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•s . If la go <o o so OM Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs rthe latter marked [B]) in which situate. O^ o'o ?! II Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. 3ar. Teachers' Names, ~ .,-,. including all Teachers Buildings, and p^.teachers Bites, tll0 stafI at tl . e Bnd a°id lU'e ' of the Year. Apparatus. O o Ph Annual Salary and Allowance at the Kate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. "I If So 1 071 Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. 2 Cook — Orraond Patutalii Wacrcngahika Matawliero ... 1 2 ;; 4 £ s. d. 170 2 6 41 6 8 69 10 0! 187 1 8 £ b. d. 19 8 6 3 15 0 23 0 10 24 16 0 £ s. d. 9 0 0 Henry Iliggins Fanny Bilham Ernest H. Ingpen ... Edwin 0. Bolton ... Mavy Baity Richard Toms M P M M pp M £ s. d. 169 0 0 46 13 4 102 6 8 156 10 0 34 0 0 184 17 4 45 2:s 50 Te Arai 5 158 7 4 15 15 0 34 Gisbornc [B] — Gisborne ... 717 0 10 72 5 0 40 17 0 Thomas Morgan John H. Bull Mary Mclntosli Jane Browne Rachael Forbes Mary Morgan Eva Oatridge James Haughoy Alfred D. Prazer ... M M AP PP pp PP PP MP M 259 0 0 200 0 0 120 0 0 53 0 0 35 0 0 35 0 0 26 0 0 20 0 0 89 6 8 25: Frazcrtown ... 86 13 4 9 7 6 "Wairoa — Wairoa 196 10 10 25 18 0 Louisa dosnell Emily Taylor G-eorge Gkranell Martha Smith F ?P MP F 166 13 4 20 0 0 20 0 0 92 0 0 Moliaka 93 0 0 11 0 0 7 Hawke's Bay— Tarawera Petane Puketapu 10 n 12 46 6 8 124 3 4 105 7 6 2 0 0 12 17 6 11 2 6 60 0 73 0 0 Augustus Hamilton Panny Oliver M F 117 13 4 95 10 0 1 2' 2. 8 Port Ahuriri [B] — Port Aliuriri 13 303 9 8 38 19 0 John Alfred Smith... Mary Murray Mary Palmer .., Abigail Murray A. B. Thomson William Murray Janet M. Stanley Julia Mann John Barclay Emily Eobottom M. Bcdingfield Jane Monteith Florence Eced Kate Harrison Annie Corbin Caroline Davis Oscar Alpers Charles Laws Ada Teyehennc Arthur A. Mabbett... Adeline Baldwin James Smith Annie Frame Alice Smith Frederick Crush Emma Clifton Annie MeGrlashan ... Isaac Jeffares William O. McLeod Hannah J. Percy ... Fanny Wood Edward Bissell Robert B.Kyder ... Mary Cooper M PP PP PP HI AM F AF AM AP| AP PP PP PP PP PP MPi MP PP M PP M PP PP M PP PP MP M AP PP M MP PP 193 16 8 34 0 0 34 0 0 34 0 0 409 2 0 335 0 0 215 0 0 185 0 0 107 10 0 95 0 0 47 10 0 41 0 0 41 0 0 4d 0 0 41 0 0 35 0 0 43 0 0 43 0 0 26 0 0 144 10 0 20 0 0 187 14 8 40 0 0 20 0 0 194 6 0 34 0 0 26 0 0 20 0 0 188 14 0 70 0 0 26 0 0 169 0 0 30 0 0 26 0 0 Napier [B]— Napier 1,693 18 2 150 0 0 1,251 16 4 10 1-1 55 Meanee 21 2 0 11 15 164 12 6 205 11 0 •1.7 Taradale .1(5 249 10 10 33 5 6 •JO 12 Olive 17 292 10 6 42 18 0 30 0 0 116 13 . Hastings IS 291 12 8 41 0 9 2 0 0 109 14 Havelock 19 236 12 10 32 17 0 7 10 0 G5 15 Te Aute 20 43 0 0 16 17 18 Waipawa— Tamumu Patangata ... Kaikora 21 22 23 43 0 0 80 11 8 218 8 10 3 17 6 8 2 6 29 6 6 9 10 0 559 10 0 M. J. Westmoreland John S. Ballantine ... William Thompson... Alice H. Howard ... John M. Praser Sarah Craig Amy Arrow Samuel W. Hardy ... Annie Inglis F M M AF M AP PP M PP 40 0 0 74 0 0 163 6 8 52 10 0 195 0 0 57 0 0 20 0 0 162 0 0 26 0 0 11 15 51 1!) Waipawa 24 290 13 4 40 18 6 101 Hampden 195 5 0 21 10 0 20 25 45

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■H k O O o o MA Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. o 'A 6 o *2 > ~n 'is a t$ o & Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. ear. Teachers' Names, Fu5r e- 0Htt»se M Apparatus. $ _ a I s Annual falary and Allowance at the Iiate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. IS" Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. Waipawa— continued. To Ongaonga Blackburn ... Makaretu Ashley-Clinton Tntaipau Waipukurau £ s. d.i 55 0 0 137 12 6 £ s. d. 7 0 0 8 5 0 11 17 6 13 0 0 15 7 6 24, 16 3 £ s. a. £ s. d. Laura Smith 9id' *7 fi ) Francis II. Brittain Charles Morton ... James Stewart John Poole Mrs. J. Poole Hotti Poole 3 0 0 Jenny Or. Ward 425 0 0 Elizabeth Doria 167 0 6 Charles Rogers Harriett Parsons Charles A. Bruford. ,. Joseph Wavboys Ellen J. Levy Neils Friberg 15 0 Emma Thomson Arthur P. Tennent... William G-. Crawford Annie Keenan En n r» £ s. d. 52 0 0 13 f 11 124 28 26 49 21 2!! 27 28 29 30 31 124 13 4 157 10 0 197 13 4 240 " 7 6 F M M M M S FP F V M AF M IP FP MP F M M AF 131 6 8 121 0 0 137 16 8 193 0 0 12 0 0 20 0 0 42 13 4 40 10 0 162 12 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 42 0 0 34 0 0 20 0 0 106 6 8 133 6 8 172 2 0 55 0 0 22 28 24 2', 26 27 Wallingford. .. Porangahau ... Ormondrille 32 S3 34 50 6 8 49 11 8 172 7 2 6 17 6 ■ 6 7 6 25 16 0 3 0 0 425 0 0 167 0 6 i: i: 51 23 Norsewood ... 35 298 16 8 36 12 6 81 Makatoko Danevirko Woodville ... 36 Si 38 121 15 0 132 1 8 225 8 0 16 12 6 15 5 0 30 16 0 15 0 27 30 73 29 80 Heretaunga ... 50 0 0 50 0 0 Apparatus Plans, &o. Exp lenditure Not Classified. 198 8 51 370 8 3 7,778 12 8 956 16 4 3,650 2 1 7,761 4 8 2,321

Marlborough— Blenheim [B] — Boys' Upper Boys' Lower 1 2 John P. Lucas Arthur P. Burnham Charles Bary Elizabeth J. Harding Kate Macklin Anne Maeklin Mary Bary Edith Stratford Hiram W. Harris ... Marion Robertson ... Alice Jones Sarah Blizzard Francis Severne Caroline Severne William Tissiman ... John Squire Charles Peake Mrs. Peake Lilian Lucas R. H. Beck John Irwin Hart Sydney Amy Hughes Charles A. Ogilvie ... Thomas Stephens ...' Elizabeth Flower ... Matheson J. Smith... H. C. Amner Henry Leigh Severne IIM AM MP HF AF AF EP FP HM AF II F AF M P M M HM AE F M M P M M F M M M 210 0 0 140 0 0 45 0 0 130 0 0 54 0 0 67 10 0 18 0 0 18 0 01 182 0 0 76 10 0 99 0 0 40 10 0 153 0 0 81 0 0 172 0 o| 117 0 0! 153 0 0J 56 0 0 72 0 0 108 0 0 108 0 0 15 0 Oj 140 0 Oj 120 0 0 66 0 0' 108 0 0' 108 0 0 108 0 0 43 62 Girls' 8 662 10 0 89 14 8 60 7 6 65 Infants' 4 140 Picton [B]— Senior 75 5 Junior 6 V 395 16 8 52 11 7 183 10 7 50 3 4 5 6 Havelock Senior Havelock Junior Renwick Spring Creek Tua Marina ... 7 8 9 10 11 ] 234 0 0 236 3 4 117 0 0 208 6 8 30 15 1 29 17 7 17 18 2 27 14 101 59 0 0 32 39 73 38 65 5 6 0 7 s 9 Marlborough Town ... Kaituna Canvas Town Upper Pelorus Grove Town Waitohi Wairau Valley ICekerangu ... Fah-hall Havelock Suburban .., Sounds — Kaiunia Kenepura ... Hopai Analdwa 12 13 14 15 16 17 IS .19 20 21 72 0 0 108 0 0 108 0 0 7 7 6 110 13 4 115 10 0 47 5 0 108 0 0 108 0 0 60 0 0 12 5 0 9 10 7 13 18 9 10 0 21 19 10; 27 18 10! 12 13 9 9 13 1 13 13 8 7 0 0 5 15 6 5 10 2 15 15 17 10 29 10 6 72 6 9 4 17 6 136 10 0 57 48 22 17 21 21 40 14 9 22 23 24 25 113 2 6 14 14 2! George Robertson ... H. L. Twisleton ... M. E. Sadd Walter Andrews M M F M 48 0 0 42 0 0 21 0 0 48 0 0 15 II 29 15 0 General school furniture and appliances Ex% lenditure J^oi Classified. 47 15 6 2,841 10 0 392 19 7 651 4 9 1,954 10 0 97!

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6 o £■£ I a go o o Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. s| Maini Salaries. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. penditure for the ltenance. Other Ordinary Expenditure. Buildings j Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End oil the Year. I II o Ph Annual Salary and Allowance at 1 be Rate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. 1$ So? Waimea — Nelson [B]— Town Boys' Bridge Street Boys', 1st and 2nd division Bridge Street Boys', 3rd division £ a. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1 2 27V 10 0 343 10 0 284 12 1 676 17 6 Chas. J. H. Chepmell James Barton Sadd... Frederick Worley ... M HM AM 300 0 0 250 0 0 125 0 0 29 86 127 10 0 Sopliia Snart Or. Bonnington Jane Thompson Lucy H. Etching ... HE AF AE E 110 5 0 18 0 0 18 0 0 60 0 0 87 Bridge Street Boys', 4th division Hardy Street Girls', 1st division Hardy Street Girls', 2nd division Hardy Street Girls', 3rd division Haven Road Boys' ... 4 55 10 0 52 5 142 10 0 Mrs. Elizabeth Sait.,. F 150 0 0 51 Hampden Street 6 7 8 130 10 0 129 10 0 401 15 0 339 5 0 Mary Anne Dement Annie Hoult Ellen Cothor Elizabeth Leaeh James Leo Hodgson James Veysey Annie C. Frank Mary Kitcliing Robert Sunley E. A. Buckeridgo ... Georgian a Sunley ... Mary C. Gascoignc... Mrs. Hester Ilansen Kate Newton Mary Bowden Mary Brown HI AE HF AF HM AM AE AE HM AE AF HF AE AF AF F 84 0 0 60 0 0 84 0 0 60 0 0 250 0 0 125 0 0 60 0 0 12 0 o 250 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 42 0 0 48 0 0 73 93 157 97 Toitoi Valley Girls'.., 10 316 0 0 128 Toitoi Valley Girls', Junior Port Clifton Terrace Hillside Happy Valley Stoke 43 10 0 45 11 8 9 10 3 4 5 6 Richmond B oys' Richmond Girls' Ranzau Hope River Terrace Brightwater... Spring Grove Lower Wakefield Boys' and Junior Lower Wakefield Girls' Eighty-Eight Valley ... Upper Wakefield Foxhill 12 18 14 15 16 IV 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 55 10 0 66 15 0 66 15 0 66 15 0 186 0 0 178 5 0 178 0 0 122 10 0 120 0 0 90 15 0 117 0 0 199 0 0 188 0 0 92 10 0 72 0 0 181 15 0 160 0 0 31 4 2 24 6 7 47 0 4 26 7 8 57 14 2 39 7 9 u"o i 18 11 11 17 6 2 130 0 0 15 0 0 148 17 6 15 0 0 Sophia S. Blackmore Barbara Robb Alice Wastney Fanny E.Gill John Nay lor Minnie E. Rout James Robson Clara Robinson Sarah Spencer Edith O'Loughlen ... Edward G'owles George Thorburn ... Mrs. Annio Bryant... Ellen Sunley Kate Bird William N. Franklyn Eleanor Knapp Eugene Desaunais .., Mrs. Desaunais Sarah Loach John Moore Walter Ladlcy Kate E. Tarrant Harry Ladley Eliza Holland George A. Blumer ... Mrs. Emily Crichton William Ghinn Ada Annette Colo ... James. Robson, jun.,.. John Roby William Cook Annie Cook Henry George Hill... George Deck Annie Leech Frederick Bisley Henry Boyes Eleanor G. Guy Elizabeth Alexander Richard Sutcliffe ... Herbert Langford ... F. Wray ... Charles James Deck Gordon Ponsonby ... Emily Guy F F F F. HM AF HM AE HE AE M M F II F AF HM AF HM A'F E M HM AF HM AF M F M E M M HM AF M HM AF HM AM HF AF M M F M HM AF 60 0 0 72 0 0 72 0 0 72 0 0 150 0 0 42 0 0 150 0 0 42 0 0 130 0 0 60 0 0 130 0 0 121 0 0 105 0 0 120 0 0 42 0 0 150 0 0 60 0 0 140 0 0 60 0 0 100 0 0 84 0 0 130 0 0 60 0 0 130 0 0 42 0 0 84 0 0 59 10 0 72 0 0 66 10 0 100 0 0 120 0 0 140 0 0 60 0 0 120 0 0 140 0 0 60 0 0 170 0 0 12 0 0 84 0 0 12 0 0 120 0 0 72 0 0 45 6 0 91 0 0 140 0 0 60 0 0 44 24 14 17 68 58 55 33 21 45 44 51 68 31 19 45 37 11 12 13 14 15 Motupiko ... Stanley Brook (1) Tadmor Sherry (2) ... Waimea West Apploby Sarau 2!) 80 SI 32 33 34 35 71 12 6 46 7 6 88 2 G 26 5 0 133 6 8 71 13 4 180 10 0 10 10 8 11 12 10 13 15 0 14 7 0 39 8 10 5 10 0 29 0 0 30 0 0 23 12 18 16 27 33 57 Neudorf Lower Mouters 36 37 120 0 0 180 10 0 22 16 10 22 10 0 34 57 16 17 Motueka Boys' (3) 38 245 8 0 30 16 0 12 10 0 51 Motueka Girls' 39 24 0 0 66 18 19 Ngatimote ... Dovedale Churchill (1) Pangatotara (4) .., Riwaka 40 41 42 43 44 111 0 0 108 0 0 51 12 6 11 10 0 183 0 0 14 8 10 11 0 7 3 10 0 32 2 0 9 0 0 26 20 14 28 71 20 21 2 3 2 42 10 .1 (1) Aidei. (2) Aided; opened 1st April. (3) Divided into two in September. (4) Subsidized; reopened in September,

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I Us m 1 Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [BJ) in which situate. 13 si *s o o > CO 'is o a O §* Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including- all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. 0 g Annual Salary and Allowance at the Rate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. M >, n ■<& MS |* Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2!) Waimea — continued. Brooklyn Marahau (1) Collingwood — Lower Takaka Upper Takaka East Takaka Motupipi Collingwood Rockville (2) If erntown Pakawau Buller— Wcstport B oys' 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 45 46 47 48 49 50 51. 52 53 54 £ s. A. 81 0 0 51 12 6 102 0 0 66 15 0 55 18 4 92 10 0 121 5 0 61 0 0 81 0 0 81 0 0 327 1 0 £ s. A. 81 0 0 51 12 6 102 0 0 66 15 0 55 18 4 92 10 0 121 5 0 61 0 0 81 0 0 81 0 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. 14 13 11 10 13 4 13 2 6 14 6 9 8 0 0 15 8 10 10 14 0 5 12 1 11 2 8 10 8 3 40 0 0 Frances E. Guy John Drummond ... A. F. Goddard Mary Haldane Alice Lowther Coveney Mrs. Mary Robinson J. W. Humphreys ... Florence Neal Elizabeth S. Stanley Isabel Sheppard F M M F , F F M F F F £ s. d. 84 0 0 32 56 6 0 14 108 0 0 31 72 0 0 19 72 0 0 22 100 0 0 27 125 0 0 29 84 0 0 16 84 0 0 22 84 0 0 18 3: l3: 1! 2: 2: 2! 1( 2: 1) 30 55 327 1 0 63 7 0 20 0 0 16 7 9 6 9 9 20 1 0 12 9 5 27 19 0 17 15 0 66 11 10 334 2 6 9 6 11 13 10 4 264 0 3 55 1 9 20 2 0 Arthur Brown Sarah Blaxall Emily Blaxall Annie Falla Annie O'Keefc Mary Elliott Annie O'Brien A. D. G. dimming.. . Lizzie Falla Nellie Falla Robert Ray D. Hogan Richard Delany Mary C. Fries Mrs. Jeanetta Suisted Helen O'Connor Mrs. E. Murphy Edward F. Burrcll... R. John Bakewell ... Richard Chattock ... Mrs. M. J. Parry ... Louisa A. Moller .., Edward Edridge Catherine Anderson IIM AF AF HF AF F F M V F M M HM AF HF AF F M M HM AF AF HM AF 200 0 0 132 84 0 0 72 0 0 140 0 0 79 72 0 0 63 0 0 16 59 10 0 16 140 0 0 32 59 10 0 17 59 10 0 15 150 0 0 21 140 0 0 52 180 0 0 63 48 0 0 144 0 0 66 48 0 0 100 0 0 29 100 0 0 16 160 0 0 24 230 0 0 115 84 0 0 72 0 0 160 0 0 01 72 0 0 13! Westport Girls' 56 50 192 19 0 192 19 0 7! 31 Denniston (3) Fairdown (1) Waimangaroa Rochfort Terrace (4) ... Kgakawau (1) Karamea Addison's Mat Charleston Boys' 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 57 58 59 GO 61 62 63 64 7 0 0 55 3 6 133 2 0 33 17 8 51 13 6 143 2 0 123 9 4 223 4 0 7 0 0 55 3 6 133 2 0 33 17 8 51 13 6 143 2 0 123 9 4 223 4 0 II l( 3: l' 1! 2: 5: 6! 82 83 34 Charleston Girls' 65 65 166 3 0 166 3 0 61 35 ;so 87 Brighton Fern Flat (5) Lyell Reef ton 66 67 68 69 66 67 OS 0'.) 85 12 0 83 6 8 143 2 0 357 1 0 85 12 0 83 6 8 143 2 0 357 1 0 2! 1( 2 li; Black's Point 70 70 216 14 0 216 14 0 61. 88 Capleston (6) ! 29 0 0 School requisites, &c, not charged to particular schools JSxpt 9,237 19 6 JSxp( •nditure Not Classified. 80 0 2 1,120 18 1 1,990 5 8 3,109 1,120 18 1

1 Kaikoura — Kaikoura Suburban ... 1 211 10 5 33 9 9 0 14 7 John B. E. Taylor ... Mary Taylor Henry H. Knowles ... Eliza M. A. Sandford M F M F 173 7 6 73 16 0 147 10 0 81 0 0 57 2 Kaikoura Town 2 234 16 3 38 2 6 83 3 0 75 Amuri — Wadau (1) ... Ashley — Hurunui (7) Mason's Flat (8) ;{ 4 5 92 5 0 7 16 2 81 8 6 16 6 0 22 19 2 3 13 2 577 19 0 681 7 10 Donald Davidson ... Henry J. McClure ... Thomas Brownlee ... Elizabeth Brownlee James B. Cliisholm... George Evoriss Martha Ford Janet Cole' Andrew Everiss Mary A. Preeee Charles D. Husband Mary Fendall Morean Amy . Alice B. May William P. Betson ,., M 96 0 0 16 3 4 5 6 Waikari Amberley (main) Amberley (side) 7 115 0 0 348 17 10 125 5 5 20 10 6 69 13 8 242 3 7 128 19 0 M M 8 M M F AF M S M F M F IP 105 12 0 119 0 0 12 0 0 133 10 0 206 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 120 0 0 12 0 0 130 0 0 61 1 6 156 0 0 80 12 0 40 0 0 22 99 80 8 7 Balcairn 9 189 19 3 24 13 11 46 8 Lcithfield ... :io 265 16 2 37 18 6 0 11 9 74 ;i) Ai( Led. (2) Closed three moni (6)N, is. >t yet (3) Aidecl; oj ipened. (7) pened 16th Aug Opened 5th Di rust. (4) Ai( ecember, (! led; opened 1st March. i) Opened 25th April. (5) Closed two mi mths. I

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la II Ho Schools, and the Counties or Uoroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. *2 - SB - CQ OS gg* o m Exp Main! Salaries. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. penditure for the ltenance. Other Ordinary Expenditure. ear. o Teachers' Names, "£ . Buildings, "^ittir f° and o Apparatus. i Ph Annual Salary and Allowance at the Rate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. If Ashley— continued. Mount Grey Downs ... 11 £ s. d. 267 6 2 £ s. d. 37 18 5 £ s. d. 163 6 4 Joseph Thompson ... Eliza Willis John II. Baird William Halo Margaretta Field ... George Wilmot Jane Wilmot, Ada Hodgson Thomas G. Smith ... Margaret Whiteside Lucy Fawcett Vacant Vacant John Mclntyre Fanny D. Lewis William Cuthbert ... Alice E. Chapman ... John McGillivray ... Emily Aldridge M F M P M F M F FP M F FP M FP M F M F MP FP £ s. d. 158 0 0 78 1 10 50 0 0 157 10 0 65 16 0 145 5 0 69 14 8 32 0 0 162 0 0 81 8 0 40 0 0 160 7 6 16 0 0 129 7 6 65 11 0 209 4 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 24 0 0 10 Loburn North 12 170 6 4 25 12 10 18 18 10 8 1 11 Loburn 13 235 9 9 29 2 11 118 5 6 5i 12 Ashley 14 288 10 4 42 9 0 37 14 3 Saltwater Creek 16 175 16 5 32 11 6 0 0 9 3' 13 11 View Hill ... 16 195 1 2 25 15 6 10 6 0 41 15 Oxford West (main) .., 17 340 8 0 49 19 0 189 14 7 111 16 Oxford West (side) (1) Oxford East... 18 465"17 0 68" 9 10 2 5 9 Thomas May Susan Fee Thomas Stout George Potrie Eliza Blaekmore William A. B anks ... Sophia Dohrmann ... Richard Meredith ... Ellen M. Leach Henry Cooper Robert Frizzell Helen M. Ladbrooke Richard J. Twose ... Elizabeth Dawson ... Fanny Twose James Victor Harriet Victor J ames B. Mayne Sarah Bunker Margaret Chapman... William McClure ... Selina Norton Rev. W. McGregor... Margaret McGregor John G. L. Scott ... Agnes Scott S. Kitchingman (2)... James R. Connor ... F. W. Hunnibell ... Emily Johnston Wallace E. Ho worth Daisy Shrimpton ... Ella Hunnibell F. J. Cumberworth J. B. Cumberworth William D. Bean ... Henry E. Goodeve ... Annie M. Goodeve ... Avis Todd Jessie Duffull William Brock Charles Morris Charles S. Howard ... Lucy E. Thompson .,. Arthur Bramley Rebecca Norton Robert J. Alexander Jane E. Meakes Henry Kitchingman Julia Pashby (2) ... Vacant Martin Todd Elizabeth L^nwin Sarah Hiatt Frederic W. Young Hester Voysey M F MP MP FP M F M F MP MP F M FP S M S M F FP M F M F HM IIF AF AM MP FP MP FP FP M F MP M F FP F M MP M F MP FP IIM II F AM AF AF MP FP FP MP FP 231 4 6 107 0 o| 50 0 0 47 10 0 16 0 0 158 15 0 73 8 0 228 1 6 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 80 0 0 158 7 6 16 0 0 12 0 0 120 0 0 12 0 0 189 10 0 81 . 2 8 24 0 0 121 5 0 57 4 0 146 2 6 73 4 0 291 17 6i 148 0 0 100 0 0 70 8 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 24 0 0 16 0 0 185 10 0 75 10 1 20 0 0 208 0 0 84 3 5 16 0 0 81 0 0 124 7 6 20 0 0 209 14 0 92 4 0 40 0 0 16 0 0 291 4 0 147 12 0 117 0 0 99 0 0 65 10 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 24 0 0 28 10 0 16 0 0 11' Carloton J!) 211 17 9 30 4 11 23 15 0 5i 17 18 Oust (main) Oust (side) ... Eyreton West 20 408 2 5 78 5 10 176 10 5 j-65 7 1 27 15 4 89 9 4 12 19 21 22 7 16 2 2! 5: Stoke 23 129 15 0 24 13 3 81 16 1 21 20 21 Fernside 21 252 8 5 40 17 2 178 4 0 81 Mandevillc Plains 25 176 7 3 23 10 1 82 22 23 Eyreton Rangiora [B] — Rangiora ... 26 213 13 6 25 5 9 58 6 9 4C 24 27 779 1 0 105 0 6 8 16 2 242 Southbrook ... 25 28 316 3 8 45 12 8 17 9 3 26 Flaxton (main) 29 286 2 7 V50 7 11 19 15 2 Flaxton (side) Waikuku 30 31 68 12 0 168 17 6 13 5 2: 3' 27 23 12 9 28 Woodend 32 359 13 8 47 12 2 12 13 2 io; Kaiapoi [B] — Kaiapoi 844 6 2 116 2 6 40 8 10 29 33 281 (1) New school in course of erection. (2) Infant mistress.

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If fi a a Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. ?! II _ II Exp Main* Salaries. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Tear. penditure for the itenance. Other Ordinary Expenditure. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. a o Annual Salary ana Allowance at the Rate paid during tile Last Quarter of 1881. ;go> 0 30 31 Ashley— continued. Kaiapoi Island North... 34 35 £ a. d. 119 11 9 128 5 0 £ s. d. 18 12 0 19 17 0 £ s. d. John Matthews Emma Matthews Alfred I. Gillman ... Emma Gillman M S M S £ a. d. 105 12 0 12 0 0 114 0 0 12 0 0 18 16 Kaiapoi Island Akaroa— Lyttelton [B]— Lyttelton ... 1,481 9 1 218 2 11 11 10 0 James Dawe John Ross Sophia Haughton ... Florence Ookford (1) Louis A. Suckling ... Janet Sinclair Jessie Chambers James R. Taylor Isabella Connal Jane D'Authreau ... Ellen M. Shepheard George Pitcaithley ... Alice Hobbs Elizabeth Morris Mary Maule Elizabeth Malcolmson Emily Macey William Taylor Edwin E. Barnett ,., Sarah McMain HM AM HF AE AM AF AF MP PP FP FP MP PP FP FP FP PP MP M S 390 13 6 241 0 0 172 0 0 127 0 0 115 0 0 80 0 0 47 10 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 40 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 20 0 0 120 0 0 12 0 0 535 32 36 27 33 34 Governor's Bay ,., Governor's Bay South —■ Charteris Bay (2) ... Gebbie's Pass Road (2) Gebbie's Valley 37 130 4 0 20 3 2 38 39 40 ] 108 16 6 19 4 3 14 4 James Willis M 105 12 0 (14 I 9 24 35 134 15 0 18 13 6 8 16 10 James D. Harper ... Grace E. H. Harper Henry Jaggar Albert Proudlock ... Elizabeth Proudlock Donald Stewart Christina Pitcaithley Henrietta Seager ... Thomas Meagher ... Sarah Kerr Arthur M. Husey ,.. Lucy Husey Henry Bussell Charlotte McKay ... Kate Bussell Henry Cox Mary A. Pawaon ... Martin Sheard Joseph Hutt Mary Hutt Rev. Abraham Scholes Vacant Rosney M. Spurr ... Louisa Spurr Alexander Roulston Ernest Watkins Annie Roulston Thomas H. Giles ... M S M M F M S P M S M S M FP S M S M M P M P M S M MP S M 125 0 0 12 0 0 120 0 0 129 7 6 65 11 0 142 10 0 12 0 0 70 8 0 105 12 0 12 0 0 105 12 0 12 0 0 123 0 0 24 0 0 12 0 0 120 0 0 12 0 0 121 17 6 128 2 6 65 0 o 121 2 6 67 16 0 125 0 0 12 0 0 137 15 0 28 10 0 12 0 0 105 12 0 36 37 Port Levy ... Little River... 41 42 117 15 0 187 11 2 16 4 0 25 3 4 896 10 10 13 45 38 Pigeon Bay (main) 43 153 14 2 28 2 5 6 2 6 27 Pigeon Bay (side) Barry's Bay... 44 45 74 19 1 120 4 2 15 9 6 22 24 39 17 16 5 40 French Farm ,,, 46 119 11 9 18 7 10 12 41 Wainui 47 148 11 6 20 16 8 8 10 2 29 42 Little Akaloa ... 48 130 5 4 20 19 3 8 16 8 27 43 44 Duvauchelle's Bay Okain's Bay... 49 50 124 1 3 187 7 8 22 17 2 25 11 10 110 16 1 2 33 35 45 Le Bon's Bay 51 133 12 0 23 0 3 42 46 Eobinson's Bay 52 132 14 0 19 15 0 8 10 0 24 47 G-ennan B ay (main) ,.. 53 171 13 1 80 10 6 > 29 8 5 253 12 4 44 German Bay (side) (3) Akaroa [B] — Akaroa ,,, ... 54 55 340 13 4 44 1 1 63 0 6 Alfred Nicholls Jane Buxton John W. McGregor Benjamin Penlington Dominick Browne ... Vacant Margaret W. Ryan... Julia O'Shaughnessy James Gillanders ... Richard P. Pole ... Ellen Craighead Alice Pole John Blythen Jane Eastwood Sarah Pearson Charles II. A. T. Opie Louisa Opie Henry Willis Fanny Bartrum M F MP MP M M F PP MP M PP S M P FP M P M P 18 48 49 50 51 Selwyn— Kowai Bush Kowai Pass ... Russell's Plat 50 57 58 125 1 9 280 12 7 173 11 9 16 13 0 48 12 0 23 19 9 22 5 3 27 5 8 2 11 3 196 4 0 81 8 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 142 10 0 176 4 0 80 1 8 16 0 0 20 0 0 135 17 6 24 0 0 12 0 0 155 10 0 76 3 10 16 0 0 140 0 0 75 16 0 160 12 6 70 17 5 76 15 81 41 52 Malvern 59 236 5 9 38 8 7 8 7 3 73 53 Malyern South GO 213 13 6 35 13 1 34 1 9 62 54 Hororata 01 225 0 7 29 3 8 14 5 0 59 (1) Infant mistress. (2) The two schools in this district are conducted by one master. (3) Opened 1st April.

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h go o o 3s Schools, and the Counties or Boroug-hs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. d'o rs -m — S 8 o ® Main! Salaries. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. ponditure for the itenance. Other Ordinary Expenditure. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. | Teachers' Names, "^ , including all Teachers ■%'q and Pupil-teachers d 2 on the Staff at the End §& of the Year. "3 I Annual Salary and Allowance at the Eate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. S rt. 55 Selwyn — continued. Kimberley ,.. 62 £ s. d. 141 2 0 £ s. d. 22 17 2 £ s. d. 7 19 6 John J. Mahood Annie Mahood William Taylor Janet Dewar Peter Murray Frederick IT. Poster Emma Foster Peter Cheyne Hester Cheyne Joseph Thomas James Murray Marion K. Gibson ... Henry Hookham Sibella Eoss Lewis G. Wright ... Elizabeth Wright ... Florence Blake Andrew Dawson Florence J. Derry .., George 0. Manning... Sarah IT. Manning ... Thomas Mulligan ... G-eorgina Somerset ... Henry Wilson Ellen J. B. Somerset Edward Morgan Jane M. Jennings ... M. A. Colclough (2) Frederick Alloy Katherine Martin ... G. W. Williamson ... Annie E. Hookham... Edith J. Jaggar G-eorge Culverhouse Catherine Tulley ... W. H. Comerford ... Christina Prebble .., Helen V. Williams... John Hook Mary A. Gordon Louisa Bishop Eleanor Harrison ... Thomas A. Gates ... Sarah E. Derry Henry Grant George Crockett Annie Caddell James Speight Vacant Celia Champion Johann Voss William E. Foster ... Frances Foster Elizabeth Gardiner... William G. Wray ... Mary M. Stephens ... Emma Barrett Bethia Jack Margaret Clarke William Kennedy ... Mary Scrimgeour ... Bey. James Cumming James E. Wilkinson Harry Peat Emily S. Brittan ... Annie Gilmore (2) ... Amy J. Harband ... Eliza Callender Janet Currie Sydney Owen Margaret Menzies ... Catherine Alexander Susan Currie Alice Pickering Fanny Durey M S M F M M S M F M M F M F M F FP M F M S M F M F M IIF AF MP FP M IIF AF M F M HF AF M F FP FP M F MP M F M F FP MP M F FP M F FP F FP MP FP HM AM AM HF AF AF AF AF MP FP FP FP FP FP £ a. d. 130 12 6 12 0 0 156 17 6 63 10 9 120 0 0 120 0 0 12 0 0 125 12 6 66 12 0 125 0 0 128 15 0 60 7 5 150 12 6 74 19 0 169 10 0 74 2 0 38 0 0 108 18 0 57 11 0 120 0 0 12 0 0 129 7 6 65 11 0 151 17 6 57 18 1 217 4 0 127 0 0 112 10 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 191 10 0 122 10 0 43 19 0 150 0 0 59 13 4 163 10 0 112 6 0 43 19 0 184 14 0 100 0 0 32 0 0 16 0 0 169 10 0 87 8 0 50 0 0 159 7 6 64 19 0 180 4 0 100 0 0 24 0 0 28 10 0 170 17 6 75 8 0 38 0 0 183 10 0 83 8 3 38 0 0 122 10 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 372 0 0 275 0 0 172 0 0 286 18 0 144 0 0 137 10 0 100 0 0 90 0 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 39 56 G-reendale ... 63 240 13 3 31 10 11 348 9 0 53 57 58 Kirwee (1) ... Courtenay ... 64 65 129 15 0 18 3 18 0 0 538 18 6 24 59 Halkett 66 188 8 6 26 7 0 39 60 61 Aylesbury ... West Melton 67 68 123 16 11 195 2 0 21 19 9 25 10 5 13 11 0 27 39 62 Yaldhurst ... 69 226 2 0 26 16 2 16 0 0 43 63 Templeton ... 70 262 13 1 40 15 2 37 16 0 83 64 Weedon 71 172 8 6 24 6 7 36 G5 Broadfield ... 72 133 5 0 25 8 7 6 3 6 28 66 Harewood Road 73 195 14 6 25 17 5 45 67 North Road.,. 74 181 14 0 27 14 5 1 16 1 37 63 Papanui 75 506 9 11 63 19 9 217 1 6 137 Bieearton (main) 354 17 10 108 69 76 > 63 5 5 Eiccarton (side) 204 16 2 2 17 6 42 77 70 Prebbleton ... 78 333 2 7 48 6 4 97 71 Lincoln 79 359 17 7 52 18 1 57 4 4 117 72 Springston ... ... 80 302 11 10 45 2 6 4 5 6 91 73 Greenpark ... ... 81 232 2 10 33 10 10 49 2 8 57 74 Tai Tapu 82 318 0 5 48 19 3 18 6 11 108 75 Halswell 83 261 8 9 35 7 9 61 76 Spreydon 34 289 11 5 47 13 7 2 15 0 92 77 Christchurch [B]— Christchurch West (side) (3) 85 49 12 6 ■312 11 1 1,265 3 6 Christchureli West (main) 2,021 11 6 86 819 (1) Opened 20th December. (2) Infant mistress. (8) Opened 1st October.

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h Q) TO is II II oco Schools, and the Counties or Boroug-hs rthe latter marked [B]) in which situate. si ll Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. CfrH •H O d ° <§•§ I Annual Salary and Allowance at the Kate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. M i Salaries. Other Ordinary Exx>enditure. Selwyn— continued. Christchurch [B] — cont. Christchurch West (main) — contd. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ a. d. 32 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 396 0 0 274 10 0 229 10 0 148 10 0 139 10 0 252 0 0 130 10 0 148 10 0 92 10 0 81 5 0 88 0 0 52 5 0 38 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 16 0 0 196 4 0 65 10 0 56 10 0 38 0 0 16 0 0 430 10 0 239 0 0 177 0 0 118 0 0 94 0 0 232 0 0 142 0 0 121 15 0 61 15 0 56 10 0 47 10 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 30 8 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 22 16 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 126 12 0 40 0 0 22 16 0 16 0 0 115 0 0 75 0 0 24 0 0 22 16 0 16 0 0 78 Normal School Bingsland ,., Christehurch [B]— G-loucesler Street ... 81 88 89 2,249 4 3 396 15 2 2,282 1 2 293 3 3 418 19 0 Annie Low Prances Taylor Jessie Menzies Ernest Clark John Malcolm Albert W. Andrew ... Edith Stanton Emily Molnman Edwin Rayner James E. Thornton,.. John J. Patterson ,.. Vacant James Grant Annie M. Patterson Julia W. Barlow (1) Eliza Kitchingman ... Ada E. Foster Isabella Spensley Mary E. Jenkins Alfreda Ratcliffe ... Minnie Cole Eliza Ewing Harriot Smith Jane Malcolm Emily Benelto Jane Ashwin Edward W. Austin... Charles E. Bowley ... Eliza Woodford Kate Woodford Sarah E. Chapman... John Curnow Emile TJ. Just Walter Tipler G-eorge Gilling Charles D. Hardie ... Ada Gresham Emma B. Rowley (1) Edith S. Dunnage ... Annie Spence Annie Barber Alice M. Wilcox Thomas M. Marr ... William IT. L. Foster Charles Francis William E. Glanyille Mary Wells Sarah L. Robinson ... Anne Ansley Mary B. Harband ,.. Annie Keand Jane Goodcn Annie Craddock Emily Guise Edith Guise Mary A. Sutherland Annie Judge Alice Button Mary Shirtcliffo Gertrude Garstein ... Victoria Evans Elizabeth Ilarbidge... Mary E. Elmsley ... Eleanor Cross Catherine Shannon... Ada Mackett Jane Roberts Alice Williams Mary L. Spence Eliza Carey FP EP FP MP MP MP FP FP EM AM AM AM AM HF AF AF AF AF AF AF FP FP FP FP FP FP II M AM F FP FP HM AM AM AM AM HF AF AF AF AF AF MP MP MP MP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP F FP FP FP HF AF FP FP FP 637 151 751 527 5 9 252 0 11 Phillipstown 90 180 19 8 119 Christchurch [B]— South Town Belt ... 91 293 14 4 137 Sydenham [B] — Sydenham 673 TJ [Y> 1,618 6 3 291 7 6 223 10 4 Lockhart D. Easton Archibald Binnie ... John J. Elliott Jessie Bowmaier ... HM AM AM HF 369 6 0 240 0 0 135 0 0 217 10 0 (1) Infant mistress.

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-I a II 6 M Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs ( the latter marked [B]) in which situate. || il Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. o Annual Teachers'Names, f . ary and including all Teaches -3-3 i 1}? 1™™ and Pupil-teachers g2 the Kate on the Staff at the End || P?«l during of the Year. |« «££* ft 1881. Is Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. Selwyn — continued. Sydenham [B] — contd. Sydenham — contd. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Mary Hall (1) Mary Taylor Catherine Thornton Jane E. Watts James O. Taylor Abel Webber Arthur Cooper Emily Sadler Annie D. King Margaret Smith Alexander C. Blake... Ellen Swing Ina Dewsbury Marion Johnston ,.. Elizabeth Forester ... Annie O'Callaghan... Agnes Malcolm AF AF AE AF MP MP MP EP FP FP MP FP FP FP FP FP FP £ s. d. 136 0 0 100 0 0 70 8 0 57 4 0 47 10 0 47 10 0 50 0 0 38 0 0 38 0 0 32 0 0 30 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 80 St. Albana [Bj— St. Albans (main) ... 9;t 798 14 3 Richard P. Soundy... Emily Peach Mary A. Campbell (1) Sarah Fee... Annie Einney Janet Reeve George H. Pope Thomas McGrallan ... Eliza Eriar Ellen Smith Aimee Hunte Laura M. Allison ... Sarah Finnoy Isabella Crummy ... William De Troy ... Ellen De Troy " ... Rev. George Wilks ... William C. Armitage M. Pitcaithley (1) ... Mary A. D. Calvert Annie E. McHarg ... Janet Dick Alice Harper Oscar Johnson Robina Duncan Walter B. Camfield Alice Buxton Thomas Ritchie Georgina Thomson ,.. Marion Schofield Mary Duncan Fanny Dick William Wollstein ... Mary Dixon Denis R. Flavell ... George P. Kay Charlotte ICay John Maddison John Simpson Mary E. Simpson ... Annie Sawle John Baldwin Fanny Holder Kate Baldwin John Watson Martha Crother Lancelot Watson William D. McClure Agnes McClure William E. Ford ... Matilda J. Thomas ... John Woodward David McVinnie MaudM. S. Blee ... Mary D. Bain M HF AF AF EP EP MP MP FP FP FP F EP FP M S HI AM AF AF FP FP FP M P FP M F M F FP FP FP M F M P M S M M F FP M F FP M F M P M S M F M P M P FP E 276 15 0 145 10 0 103 0 0 80 0 0 40 0 0 24 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 108 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 111 13 0 12 0 0 300 7 6 141 0 0 108 0 0 76 0 0 30 8 0 32 0 0 24 0 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 136 17 6 73 16 0 225 2 0 100 0 0 38 0 0 24 0 0 16 0 0 145 17 6 64 19 0 30 0 0 114 0 0 12 0 0 120 0 0 175 17 6 78 12 0 22 16 0 190 10 0 78 9 5 24 0 0 157 10 0 77 14 3 20 0 0 120 0 0 12 0 0 233 12 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 16 0 0 80 0 0 277 211 7 8 12 16 6 St. Albans (side) 91 120 17 7 77 81 New Brighton 95 131 17 9 24 11 7 41 82 Heathcote, Lower 96 688 13 9 115 7 4 32 4 0 268 Bromley 83 97 206 12 10 33 17 4, 37 16 3 55 84 Opawa 98 390 15 2 61 l io; 4 3 0 113 Heathcote Valley 241 1 7 33 19 0 8 0 10 86 !)!) 57 86 Svunner 100 129 10 0 16 13 0 17 87 88 Selwyn Dunsandel ... 101 102 114 1 4 278 16 0 18 0 4 'I 39 5 7 52 2 10 36 0 2 20 69 89 Brookside ... 103 316 9 4 42 9 2 6 12 0 70 90 Killinchy 104 229 19 5 38 12 9 I 77 91 Irwell 105 133 14 0 20 8 8 26 92 Leeston (main) 106 415 6 7 164 6 11 15 14 8 121 Leeston (side) 80 10 10 107 81 (1,1 Infant mistress.

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I| Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. Ob 6 H |l O w Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. •a i 11 I Annual Salary and Allowance at the Rate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. 0) Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 93 Selwyn — continued. Southbridge ... 1( 108 .08 531 8 0 76 0 10 531 8 0 76 0 10 I George Bishop Caroline A. Edwards Alice E. Henderson (1) Jane McKay Annie Carr Mary Wadey Elizabeth J. Elwin... William H. Gorton... Annie J. Elwin Charlotte Gorton ... Phillip H. Cannon ,., Jane McCormick 1 1! A F F F F I F & I S M HF AF FP FP FP FP M FP S M S M 251 1 6 177 IF 114 0 0 i.F 90 0 0J FP 40 0 O: ?P 32 0 0 ?P 24 0 0 ?P 16 0 0, M 138 7 6 45 7P 16 0 0 S 12 0 0 M 120 0 0| 26 S 12 0 Oj .17' Lakeside ... ... 1( 09 168 8 5 25 5 8 25 5 8 94 109 168 8 5 1! 95 Rakaia Little ... 1! 110 .10 130 4 0 ' 24 4 3 130 4 0 ' 24 4 3l Ashburton — Mount Soiners (2) ... V. 111 87 8 1 22 2 0 87 8 1 22 2 0 5 10 0 17 9 9 Q1>7 IQi Q 5 10 0 John B. Williams ... Agnes Fox Michael W. Stack ... Vacant Ernest H. C. Plowden George Silvester M S M S M F M M 114 0 o! 21 S 12 0 0| M 114 0 0' 30 3 12 0 0 M 135 12 0 F 45 0 Oi M 120 0 0 17 96 111 21 97 Alford Forest (main) ... I 1! 112 .12 133 0 0 ■) C ai is 4.1 133 0 0 i 31 13 4 l < ) 17 9 9 30 Alford Forest (side) (3) l: Broughton (4) ... 1. BarrHill ... ... l: Methven (5)... Bakaia South ... 11 113 114 115 >■ ai la * .13 60 5 7 ) .14 11 5 0 .15 117 15 0 16 4 0 3 13 11 L16 272 6 2 43 10 3 60 5 7 11 5 0 117 15 0 16 "4 0 3 13 11 43 10 3 98 99 .00 116 272 6 2 317 19 3 35G 13 9 5 0 0 ah i r\ a 317 19 3 35G 13 9 William Dixon Margaret Milsom ... Kate Doherty David Todd Jane Todd 1 I F 1 g M F FP M S M 185 0 0 87 F 85 16 0 ?P 24 0 0 M 147 10 0 25 S 12 0 0 17 "87 .01 Chertsey ... ... X. 117 L17 137 3 7 23 3 5 137 3 7 23 3 5 5 0 0 25 .02 .03 Pendarves (5) Kyle ... ... I 118 4 16 L18 134 15 0 22 11 9 134 15 0 4 16 22 11 9 27 10 4 5 8 9 13 17 11 27 10 4 5 8 9 F.W.Thompson ... Brunhilde Thompson Gideon Scott Margaret Scott M S M S M 125 0 0 16 S 12 0 0 M 114 0 0 28 S 12 0 0 16 .04 Ashburton Forks .., X. 119 L19 126 13 18 9 11 126 1 3 18 9 11 13 17 11 28 .05 Ashburton [B] —■ Ashburton ... 11 120 L20 736 5 8 115 4 1 736 5 8 115 4 1 271 3 5 0 10 0 464 7 1 7 12 0 8 4 0 21 2 4 1,092 6 3 11 6 0 32 19 6 545 18 0 271 3 5 Vacant Egbert Mayo Ada Seager (1) Martha Dynes Kate McDonnell Eva Henderson James Henderson ,,. Constance Andrews... Annie Tully Edward J. B. Collins Mary J. Collins Isaac Atkinson James McLaughlin... Annie McLaughlin... Vacant Vacant John T. Allsopp Annie J. Wake Benjamin Lowe Sabina Low H. Cape-Williamson H. Cape-Williamson Edward J. Jennings Maude M. Dawkins... William H. Wake ... Vacant Vacant H A A A F F 11 F F I S 1 1 I 3 I I a ] i s a i I s a HM AM AF AF FP FP M P FP FP M S M M F M F M F M F M S M F M S M EM 300 2 6 315 . M 132 0 0 LF 103 0 0 LF 80 0 0 ?P 40 0 0 rp 32 o o [ P 28 10 0 rP 24 0 0 ?P 22 16 0 M 120 0 0 20 S 12 0 0 M 120 0 0 17 M 180 12 6 55 F 69 7 0 M 121 17 6 33 F 61 15 0 M 143 2 6 67 F 77 16 0 M 130 12 6 47 F 69 16 0 M 123 2 6 35 S 12 0 0 M 136 5 0 56 F 73 8 0 M 120 0 0 19 S 12 0 0 M 120 0 0 315 Newland ... ... 1! L21 123 9 5 17 15 0 I .06 121 20 07 .08 Seafield ... ... 1! Wakanui (main) ... 1! 122 123 L22 117 15 0 17 18 1 L23 259 2 7 34 11 4 17 55 .09 Elgin ... ... 1! 124 L24 178 7 5 24 16 10 83 10 Tinwald ... ... 1! 125 ■25 193 3 2 35 2 8 67 11 Willoughby... ... 1! 126 L26 194 19 6 29 2 11 47 .12 Flemington (6) ... 1! 127 L27 68 1 10 23 17 7 :55 13 Longbeach (main) ... 1! Longbeach (side) ... 1! 128 :28 141 8 7") £ 35 8 11 L29 125 15 0 J 56 129 19 .14 .15 Hinds (7) ... ... 1! Lismore (5) ... 130 30 99 18 9 20 3 1 3 8 5 Expenditure Not Classified. Supervision School appliances 36,683 4 11 5,591 15 6 25 4 0 31 9 6 11,156 2 5 37,923 14 710,989 5,591 15 6 (1) Infant mistress. (2) Closed three months. (5) In course of erection. (3) Closed three and a half months. (4) Aided; closed from 31st March. (6) Opened 1st July. (7) Closed four months.

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it i o o Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. d'o ll si Expenditure for the Maintenance. Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staif at the End of the Year. a Annual £3 Palais and rt r^ Allowance "2 c at the Rate o ~ paid during 'a m the Last o Quarter of Ph 1881. .3 3 Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ e. d. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Geraldine — Scotsburn (1) Buvke's Pass (1) Fairlie Creek Opihi (2) ... Mount Gay (2) Rangitata Island Orari Worth (3) Orari South... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 77 2 4 57 13 10 110 0 0 | 124 9 0 7 0 6 4 0 0' 14 0 0 29 12 6 5 17 0 16 11 9 10 17 6 4 10 0 E. McKenzie Eev. L. L. Brown ... F. E. Gillingham ... A. Bellemin M M M M 80 0 0 100 0 0 110 0 0 130 0 0 21 18 28 29 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 16 AVoodbury ... Orari Bridge (4) Geraldine Gapes Valley (1) Kakahu Pleasant Valley G-eraldine Plat (5) Waitohi Flat Winchester ... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 130 0 0! 10 14 8 141 0 0 227 9 11 56 10 5 478 1 11 85 12 6 184 17 11 203 10 0 121 6 2 164 10 10 234 8 3 11 10 3 13 4 18 10 2 33 11 9 3 17 6 47 5 6 2 15 0 28 3 0 22 0 0 13 10 2 21 0 0 24 11 0 9 6 0 8" 9 6 11 1 3 158 13 7 186 19 6 35 8 0 23 17 10 15 7 3 166 1 6 12 13 1 27 17 3 J. M. Beechy Vacant E. S. Sumner Miss E. Smart K. Sutherland Mrs. Murray A. Angus ... T. Hughes Miss J. Hamilton ... F. Bethune A. Erskine Miss P. Freeman ... Miss S. Buck W.W.Taylor Miss M. Meredith ... Mrs. Taylor W.J.King Mrs. King F. W. Wake Miss E. Smart A. Mahan... Miss S. Mahan Mrs. Mahan A. Dunnett Miss A. Young E. Mossman Miss M. 3. Burton ... Mrs. Mossman A. Melntosh Mrs. Bo we E. Smith ... Miss H. E. Klee ... Miss B. Brown Miss E. Guy J. Thompson Miss A. Haskell Miss II. Strong Miss M. A. Sutherland G. Andrews J. W. Balfour Mrs. Illingworth J. Greaves T.A.Walker Mrs. Walker J. Ogihde M M M S M F M M F MP MP FP F M FP S M F M S M PP S M P M PP S HM P AM FP PP FP M F PP FP M MP S M M P MP 130 0 0 130 0 0 130 0 0 12 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 Oj 214 0 0 90 0 0 60 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 80 0 0 140 0 0 30 0 0 12 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 130 0 0 12 0 0 135 0 0 10 0 0 12 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 135 0 0 30 0 0 12 0 0 236 0 0 105 0 0 70 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 200 0 0 90 0 0 30 0 0 20 0 0 130 0 0 25 0 0 12 0 0 130 0 0 156 0 0 70 0 0 25 0 0 28 37 53 23 143 2: 5 5! 3 4' 17 17 5: 18 Milford 18 186 0 0 20 0 0 9 3 6 4! 19 Temuka 19 536 17 11 53 5 0 62 6 9 21. Pleasant Point 338 0 4 25 19 0 20 20 38 11 0 12: 21 Washdyke .,. 21 169 15 3 22 0 0 16 10 0 22 23 Claremont ... "VVai-iti 22 23 130 0 0 252 18 4 12 14 9 27 0 0 5 13 10 11 10 21 7: Timaru [B]— Timaru (main) 1,935 17 9 170 8 9 111 5 7 HM AM AM HF AP AP AP AP AP M P M P MP FP PP FP PP FP FP P PP FP FP 328 0 0 180 0 0 140 0 0 180 0 0 110 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 45 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 24 24 J. Scott ... P. B. Ligertwood ... H. Muller... Miss M. S. Forbes ... Miss F. W. Gillon ... Miss P. Cramond .,. Miss M. Mem Miss A. L. Cox Miss E.Allen A. Cuthbert M. J. Shepherd ... J. Cuthbert Miss A. Knight Miss M. E. Fisher ... Miss A. Pearson Miss Xi, Cameron .,. Miss E. Hooper Miss J. G. Eowley ... Miss J. Haase Miss M. McGowan.., Miss M. C. Mahan... Miss H. Griffin 66i Timaru (side) 25 191 13 4 28 2 10 211 9 1( 121 Aided. (2) Amalgai anated « (2) Amalgamated half-time schools under one master. (5) Opened in A] (3) Closed since January. >ril. (4) Aided; opened in April.

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Note. —A residence or an allowance in money is granted to the headmaster of every school, to the headmistress of every school whore the mistress is alone responsible for the girls' department, and to the second master of schools where the average attendance reaches 300. The following were the rent and lodging allowances in force at the end of the year: Mr. Scott, £50 per annum; Miss Forbes, £35; Mr. Ligertwood, £30; Mr. Barclay, £30; Mr. Wake, £30; Miss Haase, £20. These sums are not included in the annual salaries, column 10. No houses are yet built in the following " aided schools " districts : Orari Bridge, Grapes Valley, and Malrilrihi; and the Board's regulation as to providing a house or granting rent allowance does not apply to aided schools. The payment made for instructing pupil-teachers in accordance with the Board's regulations is not included in column 10. Aided schools are paid £4 ss. capitation grant on the average attendance. The salaries quoted in column 10 are the salaries paid by the School Committees, who mate up the difference, if any, between the capitation allowance and these salaries.

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U go m O a 3 Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs ("the latter marked [B]) in which, situate. O OS d'o 1-8 ■B 0 5 3 Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. O ■3 i ii o P4 Annual Palary and Allowance at the Rate paid duringIho Last Quarter of 1881. Si CO p. H if Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. 25 G-eraldine— continued. Pareora 26 £ s. d. 163 9 2 £ s. d. 19 0 0 £ s. a. 9 12 0 1 J. Stewart Miss H. Jeffcoato ... Mrs. Stewart M FP S £ s. d. 130 0 0 10 0 0 12 0 0 Waimatc — St. Andrews (1) 125 3 4 19 16 2 56 3 9 D. Bone ... Mrs. Bono H. Collins T. H. Ritchie Mrs. Ritchie D. M. Yeats M. Bourlco j E. Bannerman W. Sercombc M S M M S M M M M 130 0 0 12 0 0 120 0 0 130 0 0 12 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 110 0 0 130 0 0 2G 27 3: 27 2H Tipper Otaio (2) Otaio 28 2!) 70 12 10 136 0 0 3 12 6 15 0 0 10 14 6 18 14 10 li 31 '29 30 3] 82 Maldtihi (3) Hunter (2) ... Hook Waituna Creek Waimatc [B]— Waimate ... 80 81 ■it 33 25 12 6 86 10 10 115 0 0 135 3 4 2 5 0 10 15 0 14 0 0 18 4 3 31 18 6 7 14 9 7 0 3 2 5 6 1! 2: 2! 21 33 Waihao Greraldine — Albury Sea view Kingsdown ... Waimate— Eedcliff 84 828 13 5 84 17 0 33 0 11 W. Ward... G-. B. Barclay Miss J. C. Brown ... Miss J. Nicoll Miss M. S. Grant ... Miss S. B. Bruce ... Miss S. Dash Miss M. Bruce Miss E. Bruce Miss J. Miller H. A. Easther II AM 1 HF AF AI AF FP FP| FP FP M 263 0 0 120 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 130 0 0 84! 34 35 130 0 0 14 0 0 6 13 18 0, 0 13 0 15 4' 0 11 0 0 11 0 0 11 0 ! Not opened at end of year. J 2 11 2: 0 11 0 7,964 16 1 1,326 9 0 7715 0 0 862 0 5 2,511

1 2 3 Westland — Arawata Town (4) Arawata Flat (4) Grillcspie's (4) Okarito (4) ... Waitangi (4) Ross [B]— Boss 1 2 3 4 5 45 0 0 101 17 6 109 13 9 76 17 6 45 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 13 15 0 11 5 0 4 10 0 7 13 6 18 12 9 23 13 0 IVIisi MeFarlane James O'Niel C. M. Nielsen J.O.Wilson Mrs. Murphy P M M M P 37 10 0 63 15 0 101 5 0 78 15 0 45 0 0 11 r 2' 2 1: 6 695 9 5 30 10 0 608 11 9 W. Winchester W. D. McKay Mrs. McKay C. DeBakker J. Andrews Eliza Boberts William Andrews ... Mrs. Murphy Lucy Thiel C. J. Sale Mrs. Sale Jane Millner H. Williams Jane Staines Mrs. McHarry Mrs. Harris HM AM AP AP PP PP M P P PP IIM AP PP MP PP P P 260 0 0 150 0 0 123 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 90 0 0 25 0 0 220 0 0 130 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 56 5 0 71 5 0 17: Donoglme's ... 7 131 8 0 7 10 0 15 3 10 3! Kanieri H 399 8 3 23 5 0 106 9 6 8( Woodstock (5) Upper Kokataln Lower Kokatahi 9 10 11 46 5 6 53 15 0 71 5 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 28 15 0 23 18 0 14 1 6 21 II 1! ;d in Januar; Aided. (s: Aided; o; med in Ai fust. 88th clause. Sid, school to the Kanieri.

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o'o o o JJ Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. o'o 0 o ■s ° §■§ - 5 E 3S O 0) CO Exp Main! Salaries. Maintenance. Expenditure for tlie Year. penditure for the itenan.ce. Other OrdinaryExpenditure. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Stan' at the End of the Year. ■a Mi 11 Annual & 5o Palary and £ S Allowance $ £ at the Rate «] iJ paid during tn g the Last .9 3 Quarter of 1881. 11 £ b. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. a. Weatland— continued — Hokitika [B] 12 1,079 0 3 183 15 0 302 2 1 E. B. Dixon J. McLeod Miss Batten Miss Cox E. Jones M. Oliver M.Turnbull Jessie Ralfe Eva Ecclesfield R. McLean A. Banks A. Reynolds G-. B. McAlpine ... James Kirk Mrs. Cameron W. C. Kelsey J. A. Boys R.W.Gill G. Sydes Trevethan Burns ... Susan Hogg F. Robertson A. Stevenson John Mulhearn Jane Hogg Nancy Martin J. Rochfort James "Woodward ,.. J. Harre Mrs. Horneman Mrs. Williams Miss Galland Robert Wylde Mary J. Howe , ... W. Voysey C.J.Patrick F. Byrne HM AM AF AF FP FP FP FP FP MP MP MP M MP F M MP M M HM AF MP MP HM AF FP MP HM AM AF AF AF MP FP MP M M 310 0 0 215 0 0 140 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 33 0 0 33 0 0 20 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 25 0 0 150 0 0 20 0 0 56 5 0 150 0 0 20 0 0 V8 15 0 30 0 0 200 0 0 90 0 0 36 0 0 25 0 0 185 0 0 96 0 0 60 0 0 25 0 0 260 0 0 150 0 0 140 0 0 103 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 86 5 0 52 10 0 328 Araliura Road 18 176 10 0 15 0 0 81 18 3 42 8 South Spit (1) Bluespur 14 15 53 8 9 1V4 10 6 12 10 0 15 1 0 11 0 0 V 6 0 15 40 Upper Crossing (1) ... Rangiriri (1) Stafford 16 17 18 V9 14 3 19 1 3 362 18 0 13 18 0 14 2 9 5 19 0 95 19 6 21 8 96 9 10 2V 16 9 11 Goldsborough IS) 35V 15 0 22 8 j 18 10 3 83 Kuniara [B] 20 761 1 4 54 3 0 131 6 6 245 12 Greenstone (1) Westbrook (1) 10 0 0 10 0 0 23 14 2.1 22 105 6 3 V0 6 3 30 4 0 18 15 3 13 Grey— Maraden (1)... Dunganville... 23 24 V5 0 0 161 14 6 12 10 0 12 10 0 V 12 6 42V 15 3 E. B. Cowan R. Gooch J. Blanclifield R. Gkralding R. L. Clements Miss Tucker Miss Gilroy C. Brown H. Batchelor Maria North C. G-ilroy F. Kemple E. Robinson M.Taylor M. Polling J. Malcolm Miss Brown E. Thompson H. D. Thomas Miss Perkins J. Malcolm Mrs. Gaskin ... W. Malcolm E. Scott J. E. Bromley R. E. Green D. Gratton W. Payne F.W.Campbell ... W. M. Miller J. H. Ralton Anna Prince ¥ M MP HI AM AF AF FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP M AF FP M AF HM AF MP MP M M M M M M M FP 6V 10 0 130 0 0 20 0 0 320 0 0 220 0 0 144 0 0 144 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 160 0 0 90 0 0 25 0 0 150 0 0 90 0 0 200 0 0 110 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 150 0 0 165 0 8 93 15 0 41 5 0 90 0 0 105 0 0 1V0 0 0 15 0 0 18 34 Greymouth [B] 25 1,035 6 0 165 13 0 412 11 4 350 14 51 Cobden 26 2V9 18 0 12 10 0 135 6 6 Paroa 27 216 5 0 22 0 0 161 11 0 4V 15 Brunnerton ... 28 362 V 6 20 5 9 VI 13 3 108 16 17 18 Maori Gully Kynnersley ... No Town (1) Ahaura (1) ... Totara Flat (1) Orwell Creek (1) Hatter's Terrace 29 30 81 32 38 84 135 135 0 0 135 0 0 131 9 3 54 9 2 101 5 10 141 14 2 183 12 0 10 0 0 16 11 0 12 10 0 35 8 3 14 18 3 10 0 0 13 14 6 5 6V 298 8 9 V 19 0 25 10 5 191 8 9 V 3 5 23 6 11 32 29 25 11 24 28 42 19 20 Red Jack's (2) 15 0 0 (1) 88th clause. (2) New school district and school; m

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Js go o o a o 6 ffl Scliools, and tlio Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. d'o !| - CO Cj Ex r Mainl Salaries. Expenditure for the Year. penditure (or the Year. o Annual £S Teachers 1 Namos, *. ary and | 1 S .tenance. Buildings, LaS " «1 U| Ex^enSe. Apparatus, j fc 1881. j|| Exz £ s. d. •enditure Not £ s. d. Classified. £ s. d.i £ s. d. Purchase of house, office, store, &e., Greymouth Alterations to offices, store, and Inspector's office ... Preparation of plans, &c, not charged against particular schools Furniture for schools, consisting of desks, forms, blackboards, maps, diagrams, scientific apparatus, &c. 665 0 0 55 16 2 152 12 3 237 13 4 8,028 13 2 878 3 3 4,441 12 10 2,151

1 2 3 4 5 Waitaki — Kurovr (1) ... Marewhenua Duntroon Awamoko Papakaio 1 2 3 4 5 164 5 0 173 0 0 158 0 0! 202 0 Ol 42 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 22 0 0 100 0 0 12 10 7 David Sinclair Thomas II. Meeting John "Wood William Darley Alice Amy Smith William G. Wallace Margaret Watson ... Margaret Paterson ... Robert Poattio Mrs. M. G. Grrahame William P. Brunton Mrs. McK. Crawford Ellen Adams Mary King Sophia A. Ferens ... Victor MacLymont... James Bee Mary Jane Wilding James Lindsay Selina Amy Spedding Frank J. Forbes Mary Nicol Bertha Bicknell ... Emma Jane Evans ... Mary Islip James Bortlrwick ... John Henry Evans... John Harkness Eice Jean Laird Cooke ... William McDonald... Sarah E. Crump Arthur Gifford Mary Ellen Crawford Margaret E. Hastic Eva B. Cunninghame Thomas McNaught... Elizabeth Symons ... William H. Walker Margaret D. Marshall Ebenezer Piper Mrs. C. J. Worley ... William F. Johnson Minnie Trigoning ... J. G. M. MacLymont Mrs. K. MacLymont Peter McGregor Mrs. M. E. McGregor George Shackleton ... Alexander Pirie Mrs. Annie P. Neish Jane O. Henderson... M M M M S M F FP II M iir AM AF AF FP FP IP MP FP HM H F am! AF AF FP FP MP MP HM HF AM AF AM FP FP FP MP FP M F M S M ¥ M F M 8 MP M F FP 158 0 0 173 0 0 148 0 0 182 0 0 20 0 0 217 0 0 105 0 0 25 0 0 377 0 0 149 0 0 220 0 0 115 0 0 95 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 55 0 0 55 0 0 35 0 0 330 0 0 119 0 0 194 0 0 105 0 0 95 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 45 0 0 40 0 0 327 0 0 129 0 0 194 0 0 115 0 0 114 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 142 0 0 70 0 0 172 0 0 20 0 0 198 0 0 70 0 0 219 0 0 125 0 0 196 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 232 0 0 129 0 0 35 0 0 35 26 33 35 7"l9 6 6 Pukeuri 6 337 1 8 41 0 0 87 Oamaru District High 1,245 7 0 80 10 0 314 Oamaru North [B] — 1,034 16 4 86 0 0 0 15 0 352 Oamaru South [B] — 967 6 8 84 10 0 534 9 10 390 Ngapara 46 8 10 202 17 7 26 0 0 182 0 0 9 Teaneraki 11 193 5 0 22 0 0 io 17 o 36 10 Waiareka 12 235 6 8! 30 0 0 259 0 0 69 11 Kakanui 13 342 0 0 41 0 0 91 12 Mahcno ... 14 261 0 0 30 0 0 53 Otepopo 396 15 0 46 15 0 144 13 15 (1) Not yet open.

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O Q •fcS Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter niarked [B]) in which situate. *M - o o > GO 'is - gg1 Main! Salaries. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. penditure for the Year. Teachers' Names, , -, .... including- all Teachers Ltenance. Buildings, and Pupil-teachers TuSre, »% S™8E*d ■gsas» *J£I •S"3 Jl I Annual Salary and Allowance at the Rate paid during the last Quarter of 1881. (iTr-H fcr.co 31 32 83 14 IB 1G 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 20 27 28 29 30 Waitaki — continued. Hampden Moeraki Pukeiyiti Wai kouaiti —■ Moonlight ... Macrae's Waihemo Dunback Inch. Valley... Shag Valley ... Palmerston [B] Goodwood ... Flag Swamp... Waikouaiti [B] Merton .., ,., Seacliffi Evansdale ... Blueskin Purakanui ... Lower Harbour Port Chalmers [B] ... 16 17 is 19 20 21 22 23 21. 25 2G 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 £ s. d. 364 6 10 189 10 0 305 3 4 104, 0 0 130 15 0 143 0 0 129 3 10 148 0 0 143 5 0 829 0 5 184 10 0 237 0 9 696 10 0 183 5 0 248 18 1 147 15 0 363 10 0 163 0 0 139 0 4 1,383 10 0 22 0 0 30 0 0 16 15 0 45 0 0 24 0 0 15 0 0 107 0 0 £ s. d. 41 0 0 22 0 0 42 0 0 15 0 0 16 15 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 66 0 0 22 0 0 30 0 0 68 0 0 200" 0 0 13 15 0 12 0 0 351 1 3 £ s. d. 240 0 0 21 12 6 4 5 0 John Watt Mrs. Margaret "Watt F. J. Popplewell ... Mrs. Popplewell Wynter B lathway t... Jane Sim ... John Simpson Malcolm Robertson... John Wright Robert Todd John Stables Priscilla Lowry William Porteous ... Jane Black Charles Kerr Thyrza Davies Janet Fleming Josephine Artie Donald Ross James Grant Mrs. Margaret Trotter James Rowney Pollok Mary Stuart Samuel Moore Harriet Darton William Maule Janet Mill Charles Basset James A. Valentine... Philip Bremner B eatrice B runton ... William Millar Isabella Fraser Franklin Hollow ... Richard H. Ferguson Sarah Cross Ellen Ferguson Alexander M. Ross... Hugh D. Stewart ... Laurence B. Wood... Mary Sinclair Walter Turpin Sarah Moore Edward deVils Ivens Isabella Manson Mary Lean Amelia Bott Margaret F. Donald Margaret Harland ... William Wells Greorgc Foster Jane D. Hooper Hannah Murray Frederick J. Fraser... William Bennett ... Eliza Derham Edward Pinder Margaret Blackie ,., John Macfarlane Robert Fergus Agnea Short Mary Ann Duncan ... David M. Mason Rebecca Grordon Robert S. Gardner ... Mrs. Sarah Fergus ... John Brown Park ... Ida Spedding Walter Hislop James W. Smith Annie Anderson Eleanor Coull Mary Owen Margaret Russell ... Susan Cohen Elizabeth Burn Margaret Adams M F M S M F M M M M M F HI HP AM AF FP PP IP MP F M F HM F AM FP MP MP M S M F M M ¥ FP M M HM HF AM AF AM FP FP FP FP FP M M F FP M M F MP FP HM A M F FP MP FP M S HM II F AM AM AF AF FP FP FP FP FP £ S. d. 241 0 0 115 0 0 172 0 0 20 0 0 213 0 0 105 0 0 104 0 0 158 0 0 143 0 0 124 0 0 148 0 0 153 0 0 297 0 0 124 0 0 144 0 0 95 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 187 0 0 174 0 0 70 0 0 288 0 0 134 0 0 138 0 0 40 0 0 55 0 0 45 0 0 167 0 0 20 0 0 174 0 0 70 0 0 143 0 0 218 0 0 119 0 0 25 0 0 162 0 0 143 0 0 377 0 0 164 0 0 254 0 0 105 0 0 124 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 25 -0 0 152 0 0 223 0 0 105 0 0 25 0 0 153 0 0 247 0 0 129 0 0 45 0 0 80 0 0 292 0 0 124 0 0 134 0 0 40 0 0 60 0 0 35 0 0 167 0 0 20 0 0 385 0 0 143 0 0 257 0 0 185 0 0 110 0 0 95 0 0 30 0 0 35 0 0 35 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 99 39 108 24 31 28 21 31 23 210 41 61 233 43 62 29 126 49 27 367 304 19 7 Mount Cargill Sawyer's Bay 39 107 34 36 36 37 152 0 0 353 15 Oj 22 0 0 52 6 0 36 37 St. Leonards Ravensbourne [B] 38 39 155 10 0j 474 18 11 15 0 0 48 10 0 27 143 38 North-East Valley [B] -10 741 17 6 64 0 0 215 Pine Hill Dunedin City [B]— William Street 184 15 0 61 5 5 40 39 41 22 0 0 40 42 1,386 4 3 127 1 0 514

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h 4) O ox, Bchools, and the Counties or Boroughs fthe latter marked [B]) in which situate. 6 o I* If g& Maintenance. Expenditure for the Tear. Buildings, Mtes, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, , including all Teachers -s'o and Pupil-teachers £ j^ on the Staff at the End £ £ of the Year. '55 Annual Falary and Allowance at the Rate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. i MS a;! if Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. Waikouaiti — continued. Dunedin [B] — contd. William Street-co»W. Arthur Street £ s. d. £ s. d. £ b. d. Selina Jane Dale Alfred Burn Abraham Barrett ... Isabella R. Hay John H. Chapman ... David Cossgrove Christina Miller John Williamson ... Rosalie McGeorge ... Robert Cowan Jane Wilson Alexander Lindsay ... George Williamson... Richard J. Barrett... Annie Stansfleld Elizabeth Ann Mason Abel Warburton Andrew Campbell ... Henry P. Kelk ■Tohn L. Ferguson .,. Mary Grace Nicholls James Mahoney Lillias Amelia Fowler James Arthur Six ... Elizabeth Gillies ... Alexander Sutherland James Robertson ... Greorge Stewart Margaret McDougall William Thomson ... James Fleming James Garrow Mary McMillan Jane Campbell Alexander Stewart ... Christina White David White George Balsille Mary Ann Roberts ... James Fitzgerald ... Janet W. Paterson ... L. Kippenberger John Dagger Hugh Mclntyre Mary Ann Gibson ... Mary Ann Robertson William Spencer Marion Jane Powell Margaret T. Dutch ... Grace T. Thomson ... David Alex. McNicoll Jane Spratt George Henry Smith Alexander McLean .,. Rankeilor Stewart ... William Fitzgerald... Agnes Somerville ... Emma Lacey Lily Thompson John Moodie Marion B. Cowie ... Alfred Matthews ... Jane Dow Mrs. Jane Whitman Ellen Bird A. Montgomery Emma Stevens William H. Kneen ... Marjory Huie William J. C'attan ... Thomas C. Earnie ... George Davidson Samuel P. Seymour... A. P. Drummond ... Helen Martin John Knox FP MP HM HF AM AM AF AM AF AM FP MP MP MP FP FP MP MP MP HM HF AM AF AM AF AM MP MP FP MP MP MP FP FP HM HF AM AM AF AM AF AF MP MP FP FP MP FP FP FP HM HF AM AM AM AM FP FP FP MP EP MP F F FP HM HF AM AF AM AM AM AM AM AF MP £ s. d. 25 0 0 40 0 0 415 0 0 163 0 0 261 0 0 214 0 0 115 0 0 124 0 0 105 0 0 114 0 0 40 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 55 0 0 30 0 0 35 0 0 55 0 0 45 0 0 40 0 0 409 0 0 183 0 0 261 0 0 124 0 0 157 0 0 100 0 0 124 0 0 55 0 0 55 0 0 30 0 0 45 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 415 0 0 153 0 0 271 0 0 224 0 0 115 0 0 133 0 0 105 0 0 105 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 55 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 25 0 0 370 0 0 153 0 0 257 0 0 195 0 0 110 0 0 114 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 45 0 0 25 0 0 40 0 0 95 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 450 0 0 183 0 0 271 0 0 144 0 0 163 0 0 163 0 0 138 0 0 128 0 0 114 0 0 95 0 0 60 0 0 1,904 11 8 145 11 0 43 640 611 Albany Street 44 1,731 10 140 1 0 6 o e Union Street 45 1,860 8 4 165 6 0 2 16 0 648 G-eorge Street 46 1,315 1 2 125 13 6 510 « 51 52 Stafford Street Bath Street 47 48 128 5 0 138 0 0 49 10 0 75 15 0 Normal .,. 49 1,871 10 5 88 9 10 749

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KB 11 Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. 0 O is O TO Js Maint Salaries. Maintenance.' Expenditure for the Year. itenance.' Buildings, Sites, Other Furniture, Ordinary . and, J Apparatus. Expenditure. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-toaehers on the Staff at the End of the Year. SQ o Annual Salary and Allowance at the Rate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. fccco I s. Waikouaiti— continued. Dunedin [B] — contd. Normal— continued. £ s. d. £ b. d. £ s. d. Alexander Mcol Robert Stewart Hamilton Scott John S. Tennant Laura E. Kingston... Elizabeth Bolton ... John Egmont Ghinn Catherine Livingston John Fitzgerald G-eorge Hume Isabella B egg Margaret Somerville George Poole Bell ... Ida Bell William O. Duthie... Mary Robertson William Stewart John Henry Wilson James Barton Martha Kirkland ... William Henry Grigg Jessie Brunton Emma Bowden MP MP MP MP FP FP MP FP MP M F FP M S M S MP M M F M F F £ s. d. 60 0 0 45 0 0 45 0 0 45 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 45 0 0 25 0 0 40 0 0 231 0 0 105 0 0 35 o 0 197 0 0 20 0 0 172 0 0 20 0 0 45 0 0 148 0 0 190 0 0 70 0 0 166 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 Peninsula— Anderson's Bay 41 50 375 10 0 43 0 0 102 42 North-East Harbour ... 51 209 10 0 22 0 0 43 4» HighclifE 52 238 0 0 26 0 0 46 44 45 Broad Bay ... .,, Portobello ... 53 54 149 0 0 305 0 0 18 10 0 32 15 0 4 5 0 21 2 11 32 58 46 Sandymount 55 244 0 0 30 0 0 10 0 0 53 47 48 Taiaroa Heads ... Taieri — AVaikari 56 57 119 13 4 322 15 0 7 10 0 41 0 0 7 13 6 William A. Paterson Catherine Falconer ... David MoLauchlan... Isabella Turnbull ... Alexander Stott Jessie Russell Jessie Ross Georgina BlahMarion McLauchlan Eliza Sheriff William Milne Elizabeth L. Donald Owen James Hodge... Margaret McCloskey Mary MeEwen John C. Browne Maria Anderson Jamea Methven Maria E. Thompson Elizabeth M. Harrison John A. McPhee ... Robert Milne Jane Wilson William James Moore Jessie D. Kinvig Walter Eudey John Grant Bessie U'Ren George Reid ..! Forestina E. Grant... Richard Gill Whetter Mary Walker John Robert Don ... Margaret P. Waddell James Couper Reginald H. Draper James Hardy William Carswell ... Jessie Maxwell Alexander Kyle Janet Mclntosh James Jefferey Elizabeth C. Jones ... Annie Wilkinson ... James Jack Ethel Smith William Duncan Ellen Jane Home ... William McElrea ... Maria Mills John Matheson John Blair Jessie Mills M F HM HF AM AF FP FP FP FP HM HF AM AF AF AM FP MP FP FP MP MP F HM F AM MP FP HM HF AM AF AM AF MP MP MP MP FP HM HF AM AF FP MP FP HM F AM FP MP M F 197 0 0 105 0 0 319 0 0 144 0 0 192 0 0 115 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 378 0 0 153 0 0 247 0 0 119 0 0 110 0 0 114 0 0 40 0 0 55 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 95 0 0 273 0 0 124 0 0 148 0 0 60 0 0 30 0 0 355 0 0 144 0 0 208 0 0 115 0 0 114 0 0 95 0 0 55 0 0 55 0 0 45 0 0 45 0 0 25 0 0 301 0 0 124 0 0 172 0 0 95 0 0 35 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 281 0 0 124 0 0 144 0 0 35 0 0 40 0 0 199 0 0 115 0 0 17 84 49 Kaikorai [B] 58 913 16 7 76 15 0 68 8 1 308 50 Caversham [B] 59 1,344 11 8 108 10 0 394 13 0 508 Beney. Institution [B] Kensington [B] 51 60 61 95 0 0 667 7 8 64 0 0 70 2 24 230 Forbury [B] ,,, 1,300 8 2 101 10 0 .52 62 408 Mornington [B] ,,. 786 5 0 53 63 71 10 0 158 3 11 288 Q-reen Island ... 54 61 609 11 8 60 0 14 0 0 190 Walton 337 15 0 42 0 42 6 5 55 65 97

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h si Is II II 3* Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. o do it - m <3 Exp Main! Salaries. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. penditure for the Year. itenance. Buildings, Sites, Other Furniture, Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. o ■B'3 is I Annual f alary and Allowance at the Rate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. I?" © n n 56 57 58 59 Taieri— continued. Saddle Hill ... Brighton Euri Bush ... Otokia 66 67 GS 69 £ a. d. 140 11 8 133 10 0 124 0 0 325 0 0 £ s. d. 20 5 0 35 0 0 7 10 0 37 15 0 £ s. a. 9 4 8 Joseph Stewart Esau Fisher P. Me0wan Wilson John Menzies Catherine P. Menzies Leonard Cockayne ... Elizabeth McKay ... James Waddell Annie Gray Shand ... James Noble Waddell Donald Macleod Mary Algie Malcolm Hendry ... G-. Blyth Anderson... Jane L. Couper Jane Anderson Charles C. Hubbard Andrew Purves John Whyte David Murray Catherine Haig Ritehings Grant John Chisholm T. Campbell Eraser... Mary Mclntosh Henry Henderson ,.. Mary Ann Garry William Ferguson ... M M M M E M E M F MP M F MP M P FP M M M M P MP MP M E M P M £ s. d. 157 0 0 143 0 0 124 0 0 228 0 0 70 0 0 192 0 0 105 0 0 240 0 0 119 0 0 55 0 0 234 0 0 109 0 0 55 0 0 253 0 0 115 0 0 25 0 0 124 0 0 124 0 0 148 0 0 255 0 0 109 0 0 45 0 0 45 0 0 200 0 0 70 0 0 167 0 0 60 0 0 157 0 0 41 25 15 69 60 Greytown 70 275 0 0 35 10 0 72 61 East Taieri ... 71 409 0 0 45 0 0 136 02 Mosgiel 72 398 5 0 56 10 0 111 63 North Taieri 73 392 8 4 42 0 0 106 64 Go 66 67 Hindon Strath Taieri Whare Flat... Outram 74 75 7G 77 124 0 0 119 0 0 141 15 0 472 4 3 2 15 2 15 0 0 15 0 0 48 10 0 10 0 0 177 12 5 15 0 17 19 32 136 West Taieri 269 12 9 30 0 0 65 68 78 (59 Maungatua ... 79 219 10 8 26 0 0 43 70 Lake Waipori 80 192 1 3 24 0 0 39 71 Bruce — Taieri Ferry.., 81 253 0 0 30 0 0 C. Haekett Morgan... Harriet Morgan Robert Bell J. Lief child Bonnin Jane Watson G. W. Carrington .., E. Antonio Joseph ... Christina Gow John Lake Cooke ... James Reid Mary McLaren Cornelius Mahoney... George II. Macan ... Helen Alexander Robina Todd Arthur E. A. Palmer James Parlane Sarah Albert John Lyttle Mary Brown Neil McLeod Jessie Grant Alexander Ayson Magdalen Ayson John Anderson Grey Alexander McDuff ... John Boattio John Youngson Bessie Carriithers ... James Robertson ... C. McAra Graham John Nicholson Helen Galloway Cornelius P. Schmedes Charles Nicholson ... Annie Hope Henry Stuart MoColl Alexander Drain ... Mrs. M. Stevenson ... James McNeur Mrs. M. McCracken David McKissock ... Alexander Grigor ... Mary Kinloeh Allen William P. Marris ... Jane Blackley William Renton M S MP M F M M E M IIM HP AM AM AF PP MP MP PP M F M F M S M M M M FP M F HM P AM MP FP M M S M S MP HM F AM F M 190 0 0 20 0 0 45 0 0 195 0 0 115 0 0 167 0 0 202 0 0 105 0 0 152 0 0 372 0 0 149 0 0 220 0 0 124 0 0 105 0 0 35 0 0 55 0 0 45 0 0 30 0 0 192 0 0 105 0 0 100 0 0 124 0 0 182 0 0 20 0 0 134 0 0 152 0 0 124 0 0 177 0 0 25 0 0 124 0 0 100 0 0 240 0 0 119 0 0 124 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 124 0 0 172 0 0 20 0 0 202 0 0 20 0 0 45 0 0 240 0 0 109 0 0 124 0 0 100 0 0 143 0 0 56 Waihola 303 0 0 41 0 0 79 72 82 73 74 Taieri Beach Waihola Gorge 8:s 84 153 13 0 299 11 81 22 0 0 35 10 0 8 10 0 42 73 75 76 Circle Hill ... Tokomairiro District High [B] 85 86 152 0 0 1,156 10 10 20 5 0 78 10 0 10 0 0 37 279 71 77 Fairfax 87 312 9 10 38 5 0 78 79 80 Akatore (1) ... Glenledi Southbridge... 88 89 90 102 0 0 113 13 9 202 5 0 7 10 0 27 10 0 20 5 0 17 10 0 16 17 35 81 82 83 84 Glenore Manuka Creek Adams Plat ... Lovell's Flat 91 92 93 94 134 0 0 149 0 0 133 10 0 181 16 8 15 0 0 16 15 0 15 0 0 20 5 0 19 37 23 43 4 0 0 85 8G 87 Stony Creek... Hillend Kaitangata ... 95 96 97 133 10 0 102 10 0 481 13 4 15 0 0 22 16 170 54 "o 0 214 17 0 88 89 Wangaloa Tuapeka Mouth Clutha— Stirling 98 99 124 0 0 177 3 10 11 5 0 22 0 0 16 45 90 100 262 0 0 30 0 0 70 Balclutha [B] 101 477 10 0 58 0 0 136 93 BalcluthaNorth [B] ... Te Houka ... 102 103 97 7 0 138 5 0 26 0 0 15 0 0 32 27 92 (1) Subsidized.

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CD O Io o & ■+= Expenditure for the Year. it © Annual C Salary and rti-j Allowance 'b § at the Kate .2 'o paid during :£ cG the Last o Quarter of fk 1881. II pEeO Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) ill which situate. Maintenance. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers 1 Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ a. d. £ s. d. 93 Bruce — continued. Waitepeka ... 104 241 13 4 26 0 0 John Porteous Mrs. Annie Porteous Simon Dalgleish Robert Huio George B. Clark Windsor G. Fraser ... James McEwen Jessie Henderson ... Annie G-eggie William Waddell ... George H. Querini... George Laing Sarah Dawson William S. Saunders Francis Golding Mrs. Christina Darling Thomas Harrison ...' Christina Harrison... Charles Young Vilant Graham Ambrose Dowling ... M S MP M M M M IP S M M M I? M M F M S M M M 192 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 148 0 0 182 0 0 162 0 0 222 0 0 30 0 0 20 0 0 202 0 0 124 0 0 157 0 0 70 0 0 104 0 0 188 0 0 115 0 0 192 0 0 20 0 0 143 0 0 143 0 0 123 0 0 47 94 95 96 !)7 Warepa Kaihiku Waiwera East Clutha... 105 106 107 108 181 1 8 176 15 0 158 5 0 265 15 0 18 10 0 24 0 0 22 0 0 24 0 0 5 0 0 34 6 11 273 12 1 10 3 7 33 46 45 45 1)8 99 00 Port Molyneux Ahuriri Owake 109 110 111 150 13 6 128 15 0 232 0 0 18 10 0 15 0 0 28 0 0 11 1 7 35 21 44 .01 .02 Tahatika Clinton 112 113 104 0 0 303 5 0 15 0 0 38 5 0 4" 0 0 19 67 03 Wairuna 114 257 0 0 22 0 0 10 0 45 04 05 .06 Waipahi Glenkenich ... Waikoikoi ... Tuapeka— Mount Stuart Waitahuna ... 115 116 117 145 10 0! 146 10 0 118 5 0 15 0 0 16 15 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 29 27 25 .07 .08 118 119 41018 8 45 0 0 10 0 0 Not yet open Williani McAndrew... Jane Kelly Leonard A. Line Angus McDonald ... Andrew Anderson ... Mrs. Helen Anderson James Rix Langley Pope Elizabeth Morrison... John Stenhouse Jane Beatrice Fowler Thomas Johnston ... Sarah Ponsonby Anstiss Dottin Silk... Bessie Bushell Jane Robertson Francis Nicol Robert Neill Jessie Pope Frances Lily Maokin Janet White George A. Thomson William A. Rcilly ... Mrs. Amy Reilly ... Ewen Pilling James Gunning Closs Neil Kennedy Charles W. G-. Selby James T. Bryant ... Mrs. E. Bryant James Urc Murray... James Guthrie Annie Darton John T. Campbell ... Catherine Lawrence Charles Richardson... Henry Mitchell Charles Roseveare ... James Kerr Menzies Selina M. Bennett ... William Christie ... Mary McQueen Mary Jane Hay M F MP MP M F M M F HM HF AM AF PP FP FP MP M HF AF FP MP M S MP M M M M S M M F M F MP M M HM F AM FP FP 240 0 0 109 0 0 55 0 0 45 0 0 215 0 0 125 0 0 163 0 0 192 0 0 105 0 0 372 0 0 149 0 0 220 0 0 95 0 0 60 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 45 0 0 243 0 0 134 0 0 95 0 0 35 0 0 40 0 0 187 0 0 20 0 0 55 0 0 143 0 0 148 0 0 152 0 0 157 0 0 20 0 0 153 0 0 172 0 0 70 0 0 231 0 0 115 0 0 55 0 0 134 0 0 153 0 0 239 0 0 119 0 0 134 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 140 Waitahuna Gully 338 10 0 41 0 0 82 .09 120 .10 .11 Clarke's Flat Weatherstone 121 122 163 0 0 299 15 0 15 0 0 38 5 0 10 18 3 26 74 .12 Lawrence District High [B] 123 1,033 9 2 69 15 0 245 Bluespui181 .13 124 490 15 0 58 0 0 Waipori 261 15 0 24 0 0 4 0 0 44 .14 125 .15 16 17 .18 Tuapeka West Tuapeka Flat Evans Flat ... Beaumont ... 126 127 128 129 126 1 8 118 0 0 163 5 0 167 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 22 0 0 22 0 0 20 3 0 25 31 38 43 .19 .20 Heriot Moa Flat 130 131 155 10 0 231 10 0 15 0 0 28 0 -0 20 0 0 25 46 21 Roxburgh [B] 132 414 13 1 42 0 0 102 22 23 24 Crookston Swift Creek ... Tapanui [B] 133 134 135 129 0 0 154 5 0 552 5 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 50 5 0 22 26 151 Vincent— Bendigo Cromwell [B] 108 15 0 320 3 2 433 2 8 William Johnson ,.. William H.Arnold... Christina Scott Jane Goulding Alfred Charles Augur Mrs. S. Graham Ann Frances Jonea... James McFadzean ... M M F F M S FP M 104 0 0 211 0 0 115 0 0 144 0 0 196 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 104 0 0 as .20 136 137 15 0 0 41 0 0 20 100 27 .28 Kawarau Bannockburn 138 139 139 0 0 249 0 0 15 0 0 30 0 0 6 0 0 10 53 Nevis ... 104 0 0 35 0 0 18 2!) 140

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'o . Is 1-3 §1 Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs fthe latter marked [B]) in which situate. •Sri o'o si II O H O B* Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings. Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. I I Annual Salary and Allowance at the Kate paid during the Last Quarter of 1881. 0 Salaries. Other Ordinary Expenditure. .30 Vincent— continued. Clyde 141 £ s. a. 410 10 0 £ s. d. 41 0 0 £ s. d. Joseph E. Stevens ... Mrs. Dora Stevens ... William Hueston ... Frederick £3. Aldred Bethia Bringans William Henry Wicks Mrs. Mary B. Wicks Henry Bishop Maud Bishop Grerald Morris Greorge Sydney Pope M F MP M F M S M S M M £ 8. d. 239 0 0 125 0 0 45 0 0 207 0 0 115 0 0 157 0 0 20 0 0 166 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 134 0 0 .31 Alexandra [B] ,,, 142 320 0 0 41 0 0 45 11 6 & .32 Drybread ... ,,. 143 156 8 4 22 0 0 39 0 0 4( .33 Black's 144 156 10 9 22 5 0 171 6 0 5( .34 .35 .36 .37 .38 .39 .40 .41 Ida Valley (1) Bald Hill Flat Maniototo— Eweburn ... .,. St. Bathans ... Cambrian Blackstone ... Rough Ridge (1) Naseby [B]... 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 66 13 4 129 4 8 104 0 0 133 0 0 153 5 0 108 15 0 44 1 3 445 18 11 15 "o 0 11 5 0 15 0 0 22 0 0 15 0 0 38116 4 John Botting James Fairlie Morris Agnes McNaughton Charles G. Hunt ... Jane Perry William. Worsop ... Mrs. Annie Clarke ... Harriet Anderson ... Annie Bohning Ealph C. Darling ... William Ridland Elizabeth Robertson David Pearson Elizabeth Annett ... M M F M F M HF AF FP M M S M S 104 0 0 124 0 0 152 0 0 104 0 0 100 0 0 232 0 0 119 0 0 95 0 0 25 0 0 158 0 0 183 0 0 20 0 0 162 0 0 20 0 0 2: l' 21 3; 2 V, 14' 50 5 0 Kyeburn Diggings Hamilton and Sow-) burn ... j Hyde 158 0 0 15 0 0 142 .43 153 154 155 156 183 8 4 22 0 0 3 4i 144 172 9 1 22 0 0 4! Salary of Drill Instructor School Buildings— Supervision of erection Preparing plans, &c. ... Not chargeable to any particular school School appliances >endittire Noi Classified. 18 5 0 152 11 2 350 0 0 107 3 5 110 13 0 53,439 14 1 5,359 13 8 5,805 17 2 15,186

1 2 3 4 louthland — Lumsden ... ... Dipton ... ,,, Limehills Winton [B] 1 2 3 4 147 3 9 138 15 10 146 16 8 283 0 11 18 4 11 10 12 5 11 16 2 17 3 10 3 15 0 7 14 10 15 0 0 32 17 3 Walter W. Madden,,, Joseph Kilburn Atherton L. Fuller ... John Anderson Sarah J. Cameron ... Thomas Horan Janet Henderson ... Eobert Nesbitt F. J. Bennett Duncan McNeill E. H. Jenner Herbert H. Wild ... Arthur J. Millard ... Samuel E. Girle Alexander Mathieson William A. Eowe ... Charles A. Sfcrack ... Agnes C. Tait Joseph Southwick ... Eric K. F. McKay ... Alice Cr. Lucas Andrew McDonald... Elizabeth M. Bain ... George Hardie Margaret O'Eourke Mary Hardie M M M M F M S MP M M P M M M P M M M MP S M M F M F M F FP 151 10 0 136 0 0 146 10 0 180 2 0 105 0 0 151 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 147 0 0 40 0 0 55 5 0 148 0 0 45 0 0 68 5 0 131 0 0 159 4 0 55 0 o 20 0 0 145 10 0 179 2 0 100 0 0 184 5 0 100 0 0 197 4 0 110 0 0 30 0 0 A' 3: 3! 8i 5 North Forest Hill 5 218 6 6 9 18 0 23 4 9 4: 6 Elderslie 6 185 0 10 13 3 8 4: >7 8 South Forest Hill Eyal Bush ... 7 8 31 2 11 196 13 4 5 0 0 11 18 0 80' 0 0 l' 3! 9 10 11 Heddon Buah Wrey'sBush ... Waianiwa .,, 9 10 11 63 1 8 61 5 0 251 6 10 7 10 0 2 10 0 15 3 2 261 18 0 161 18 0 30 0 0 2 2i 5' 12 13 Wallacetown Waikiwi 12 13 147 18 4 277 18 5 12 0 6 17 4 11 20 0 0 10 0 0 31 r 14 Waihopai 14 292 8 1 19 18 1 7 0 0 81 15 North Invercargill [B] 15 346 12 3 22 0 7 186 10 0 IK Invercargill [B] — Central School .,, 1,184 14 9 148 0 0 244 4 7 16 16 John G-urr Mary A. Smith Thomas B. Bennett Frederick G. Cato ... W. S. Bain HM HF A M A M AF 300 6 0 135 0 0 216 10 0 156 2 0 102 10 0 42! Subsidize

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i-i o . if 12 So | I 1! Schools, and tile Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. > rr> if - o <u Exp Maint Salaries. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Tear. penditure for the itenance. Other Ordinary Expenditure. Buildings, Sites, Teachers' Names, ~£^ including all Teachers •« o and Pupil-teachers g j^ on the Staff at the End £ " ol the Year. -S I Annual Salary and Allowance at the Rate paid duringthe Last Quarter of 1881. IS I? Furniture, and Apparatus. Southland — continued. Invercargill [B] — emit. Central School — cont. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. Annie Thomson Jane Fairweather ... Fanny B ethune Frederick Joyce Caroline MeLeod ... Flora Mclvor James Orr Kate McKenzie Jane G. Smith Alice MclSfeilage Grace Bryden William G. Mehaffey Christian M. Bain ... Jame3 Hain Edwin Gurr Margaret Sangster ... Thomas Williamson Lucy Joyce Margaret Gilmour ... Christian Hain Ellen Cumming John Kelly James Murdoch Sarah A. Murdoch ... Thomas Merrie Andrew Young Mary McDonald Ann L. Henderson ... Bessie Shepheard ... A. F. Elwell Neil Sutherland William Gazzard ... John Bennett Kenneth McDonald A. B. Tuson JohnNeill Margaret Buchanan Flora Eoss W. J. Williams Alexander W. White Mary Milne Margaret Williams ... Francis L. Dalziel ... Thomas Monteath ... James Lumsden Andrew Murray Thomas Carsewell ... Dayid Wassell John Gray Dugald Cameron George Adams Thomas Warnock ... Joseph J. Scoullar ... Margaret Scoullar ... Jessie Carnahan John L. Field Colin Stevens George Gazzard AF IP FP M PFP FP EM II F AF FP FP II M HI A M AM AF MP FP FP FP FP M M S MP M S FP F M M M M M M M F £ s. d. 102 10 0 45 0 0 45 0 0 45 0 0 30 0 0 25 0 0 216 15 0 125 0 0 102 10 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 296 1 0 135 0 0 213 16 0 153 12 0 105 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 131 0 0 146 10 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 165 6 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 78 0 0 148 0 0 149 0 0 133 0 0 130 0 0 140 10 0 132 0 0 173 0 0 102 10 0 15 0 0 131 0 0 180 18 0 102 10 0 15 0 0 141 16 0 140 10 0 76 15 0 136 0 0 55 7 0 145 18 0 61 5 0 152 0 0 140 10 0 134 10 0 144 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 149 0 0 58 10 0 134 0 0 North School 164 17 545 1 6 South School 18 1,044 10 3 410 Otatara Bush Clifton 26 39 17 18 19 20 83 0 10 193 7 9 10 0 0 13 8 1 73 0 0 Campbelltown [B] 203 14 4 13 19 2 57 0 0 65 19 21 20 2L 22 23 24 25 26 27 Athol Waikaia Knapdale Pukerau Otaraia Pinnacle ... ... Chatton Grore 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 65 2 6 164 12 4 143 8 4 133 0 0 108 0 5 150 16 8 116 15 10 293 10 10 10 0 0 12 8 5 11 9 3 7 15 9 10 6 10 10 15 6 10 4 4 17 4 4 20 0 0 20 0 0 34 18 0 24 43 44 28 23 33 27 75 44" 18 9 13 5 0 28 29 Tuturau Mataura 80 31 131 6 8 310 4 7 10 3 8 20 7 6 M M F FP M M M M M M M M M M M S FP M M M 26 94 30 31 32 33 34 35 30 37 38 39 40 Wyndham ... Ed'endale Miraihau South Wyndham Pine Bush ... Fortrose Hedgehope ... Grove Bush... Roslyn Bush Myross Bush Woodlands ... 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 142 4 4 148 5 11 113 18 9 115 14 3 50 18 4 139 4 8 53 15 1 151 18 4 143 0 0 134 18 9 196 12 4 11 7 6 12 8 8 10 3 1 2 10 0 11 0 1 7 10 0 11 19 4 11 7 5 10 9 5 12 13 8 37 33 23 26 17 47 19 37 33 27 45 25 0 0 165 10 0 53 0 0 41 42 43 IiOngbush Oteramika ... On -Tree Point Wallace — Orepuki 43 44 45 140 0 10 87 9 7 132 19 2 10 16 9 11 7 1 10 4 4 12 12 0 10 0 0 39 18 29 44 45 Riverton [B] —• Otautau 46 47 194 18 1 661 2 1 167 18 9 13 7 10 38 9 11 42 0 0 160 0 0 215 0 0 John Andrews Kate W. Andrews ... Elizabeth Seott Edmund Webber ... Jane Doar William Sebo Kate Fullarton Emily G. Cassells ... Alice A. Smith George Louis Vincent Mary A. Vincent ... Thomas Jolly John MeLeod Henry P. Young John Macrae Rev. Charles Connor M S FP EM F AM FP FP FP M S M M M M M 153 8 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 246 1 0 130 0 0 130 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 147 2 0 20 0 0 144 10 0 141 0 0 137 0 0 137 0 0 140 0 0 56 227 40 46 48 12 18 8 47 48 49 50 51 Grroper's Bush Flint's Bush Gummie's Bush Limestone Plains Pembroke 49 50 51 52 53 152 11 2 145 5 0 137 18 4 136 1 8 141 15 0 12 2 10 8 15 7 10 16 9 14 14 9 11 8 7 17 0 0 37 31 30 30 37 15 0 0

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[Note. —In Table No. 9 the column for " Buildings " for Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson, and Southland includes rents which ought to be transferred to the other columns. Also the Marlborough and Southland Boards have entered " Insurance" in the column for "Buildings," and the Westland Board has entered it in the second column, while other Boards exclude insurance from this table. In Table No. 2 the necessary corrections are made.]

Table No. 10. List of the Public Schools in the several Education Districts, with the Number of Teachers' and Custodians' Houses, the Area of each School, and the Attendance of the Pupils, for the Year 1880. Note 1. — In column 3, dimensions of buildings not belonging to Boards are entered within brackets, thus [ ]. Note 2. —In the case of a school not open during all the four quarters of the year, the figures in the "Whole Year" average column represent the average attendance for the period within the year during which the school was actually open, and consequently the exact average of the four quarters' attendance for the whole of an education district in which all the schools were not open during the entire year is less than the sum of the "Whole Year" average column. In the total of each education district both results are shown, the upper line giving the sum of the column, the under line representing the exact total average of the four quarters. AUCKLAND.

■3. ill $ ■'. Si 5^ i Schools, and tlie Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. <4H O m *s — if - o © Kxp Maint Salaries. Maintenance. for the Tear. penditure for the Tear. q> Annual j^oo Teachers' Names, * . Sl^y ™* | S, __ jwf' on the Staff at the End || !£& || 52 53 54 55 56 57 Wallace— continued. Cardrona Macetown ... Upper Shotover Millar's Flat Lower Shotover AiTowtown ... 54 55 5G 57 58 59 £ s. d. 131 18 4 59 10 0 84 3 9 94 3 9 140 0 8 274 12 Oj £ s. d. 20 5 7 10 0 0 10 1 3 10 1 3 11 16 9 17 16 1 £ s. d. 24 10 0 4 10 0 203 0 0 Cfeorge Hassing Joseph Needham ... William W. Browne D. C. Stock P. W. Culligan John F. Sutherland Margory F. Sutherland John Mehaffey Beatrice E. Mehaffey Amy E.Scully John Monagle Christina Wraytfc ... M M M M M M F M F FP M F £. s. d. 130 0 0 61 5 0 132 0 0 61 5 0 149 19 0 172 9 0 100 0 0 193 12 0 110 0 0 30 0 0 52 0 0 48 15 0 25 19 27 19 46 75 58 Quecnstown... GO 317 13 10 23 1 2 22 0 0 116 59 60 Moke Creek ... Fairlight Stewart Island— Half-Moon Bay 61 (32 15 3 4 59 11 8 10 0 0 16 15 61 63 130 1 8j 10 9 4 William Peterson ... M 136 10 0 29 West Plains —School built but not opened School appliances and requisites Plans, specifications, and supervision (3 years) Rents of schools, &c. TSxp letidilure Not Classified. 155 15 0 152 4 4 371 0 2 373 5 0 12,490 8 9 880 10 9 3,318 10 2,547 10 0 3,605

hi Us (3 t'Z « p re iS "H O = E SjEj. 2 School Roll. Average Attendance. Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. IIS is & " u- 3 t; u Is Strict Average. ■si Is fa6 Fourth Quarter. Working Averagi Is 5> Whole Year. Boys. Girls. Total. ( Kaitaia Maungatcte Oruru Victoria Valley Mangonui Totara Kaco Whangaroa North Hokianga Kohukohu Okaihau Waimate Kawakawa Pakaru To Wharau ( Russell -< Orongo V. Wahapu Arapohue ( Whakaliara Aratapu Tc Kopuru 1 1 1 1 1 [280] 455 330 455 640 480 000 [600] 483 [589] 334 [300] 1,100 263 480 600 [306] [144,] 384 455 375 1,100 8-10 27 26 27 24 39 20 22 45 27 11 7 5 5 15 6 40 20 22 36 34 6 G9 11 9 23 7 9 8 8 3 13 2 15 14 4 11 9 5 53 13 1 23 24 29 30 24 26 41 24 47 51 45 25 40 26 118 31 20 34 22 22 17 18 33 15 30 41 39 22 33 19 85 24 19 25 23 21-75 19-25 18-75 35-75 13-75 29 40 33-75 19-33 19-5 17-25 81 23-5 13-75 26-75 15 8 24 1325 9 66-5 405 12 10 8 10 19 10 13 23 21 9 13 9 53 18 11 12 11 12 10 9 16 6 19 19 19 14 21 10 35 8 8 13 23 22 18 19 35 16 32 42 40 23 34 19 88 26 19 25 24-25 22-25 21-5 19-5 37 15-25 30 40-5 34-25 20 20-5 18-25 83-75 25-25 14-5 27-5 15-5 8 29-75 1375 9 67-75 42-75 1 1 1 15 25 102 33 12 37 17 8 40 11 1 1 5 24 10 33 36 5 18 8 40 17 10 84 51 8 23 14 9 66 42 2 16 10 4 35 26 6 12 5 5 32 17 8 28 15 9 67 43 91 45 "40 30

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- in •s°tj •-"n'S « 2 rt ia.2 a id •** t fc- 4J tf> c " rt o J2. O E°| Z, Sen School Roll. Average Attendance. Schools. lII which belong to one School District connected by bracket. Me c •- ■£'&" CD £] g rt o s tn £.5 I? Is ili is BIS* tS. If! If go ■°gs !«£ z'~ Strict Average. 3 S 1 ? o 5 >£ Fourth Quarter. Whole I Year. Boys. Girls. Total. V 1* Working Average. Dargaville ( Matakohe \ Omaru Paparoa Maungaturoto Kaiwaka Mangawai Kaipara Heads ( Wliareora ( Kamo Kaurihohore Otonga Whangarei ( Parua Bay No. 1 ... .( Parua Bay No. 2 ... Whangarei Heads f Maungatapere (Otaika f Euatangata East ... \ Euatangata West... ( Mangapai No. 1 ... (Mangapai No. 2 ... Mauri gak arainea .., f Waikiekie East I Waikiekie West ... Kuakaka Waipu Cave Waipu Cove Waipu Nortli River Waipu Central Waipu Upper TePahi Albcrtland North ... To Arai f Komokoriki No. 1 ( Komokoriki No. 2 Pakiri Port Albert Wellsford Wharehine Tauhoa Hoteo North Omaha (Little) ... ( Matakana Upper ...' Big Omaha ( Matakana Lower ... j Mullet Point (, Mahurangi Heads Wark worth Dome Valley Kaipara Plats Puhoi Wainui Waiwera Great Barrier Kawau Kaukapakapa ( Helensville ( Woodbill ( Kumcu Hobsonville Wade Pukeatua Lvicas Creek Nortbcote Lake Dcvonport Henderson's Mill... Titirangi Muddy Creek f Wellesley Street ... j Beresford Street ... -j Nelson Street Howe Street IjEIigh Street Parnell 1 840 600 216 967 680 600 455 [800] [336] 1,680 800 455 1,600 448 300 432 [462] 280 455 455 455 [456] 840 [280] 242 [384] 192 375 640 800 756 [1,350] [320] 455 [180] [150] 300 600 600 456 456 [360] 504 480 480 480 330 448 1,084 600 483 648 455 450 50 21 10 51 49 33 12 27 23 99 49 28 12 5 18 9 7 13 12 4 47 18 26 86 13 3 19 2 16 8 8 4 5 11 4 4 4 13 6 23 18 9 6 6 4 1 2 1 28 14 19 7 7 14 7 3 8 8 6 30 23 7 7 13 13 3 1 12 41 18 18 5 13 24 28 24 18 130 19 9 10 622 642 450 45 197 422 17 5 2 6 20 11 2 39 9 33 11 3 72 12 2 12 2 19 16 2 3 5 15 3 1 5 8 7 15 8 16 7 61 28 13 63 38 29 23 45 16 9 40 28 18 18 44-25 17-5 8-5 415 30 20-75 15 27-5 14-75 80-25 40-5 14 98-25 21-75 9-5 29 165 15 14-25 16-25 10-75 9-75 37-75 13 11-25 11-5 10-33 32 25 41-5 53-5 14-25 19-33 24-25 9 9 105 32-5 17-25 18 19-25 23-25 26-5 13 14-25 12-75 26 15-75 4-4-25 22 15-25 495 23 32 16-25 6'5 40-25 50 23-25 155 15-75 21-75 16-66 17-66 48 26-5 136-75 25-25 18 8-5 963-75 571-25 320-5 67-25 109-5 289-75 27 7 6 22 19 10 11 18 11 3 19 13 9 8 45 18 9 41 32 19 19 45 18-5 9-5 43-25 33 22-25 16-25 27-5 15-75 80-75 41-5 15 102-75 22-5 9-75 3125 16-5 15-75 15-25 17-25 11-75 105 40-25 14 12-25 11-75 1066 33 30-25 42-5 56-75 14-75 21 25-78 9-75 9-5 11 34 18'75 205 20-25 24 27-25 14-25 14-5 13-75 26-5 17-5 48 24-75 165 53-75 24-5 34-25 16-5 65 40-5 50-75 24 19 16 22-5 17-66 18-33 52 28-5 140-5 25-25 20 8-5 966 576 321-25 67-25 111-5 290-5 1 1 1 1 1 "l 1 1 1 1 1 1 111 25 11 29 17 20 24 20 13 10 57 16 11 16 9 37 38 41 78 18 25 31 11 10 13 43 23 32 24 31 29 16 16 15 30 18 54 28 20 63 32 39 17 7 47 49 22 10 20 22 7 1 2 29 11 18 6 4 8 1 18 113 56 23 125 26 12 36 17 17 16 26 14 10 53 17 14 15 14 36 46 51 71 17 31 28 11 10 14 42 26 33 25 34 35 22 19 16 33 21 71 42 18 62 39 40 18 6 51 71 33 22 20 27 20 18 55 38 201 30 25 9 1,038 763 397 73 131 392 11 82 36 16 110 17 10 26 16 12 12 17 13 8 34 14 11 12 11 32 19 42 54 14 22 23 9 9 11 31 16 22 16 24 22 15 17 14 27 16 48 20 15 CO 26 27 18 0 42 56 23 15 14 21 16 17 88 25 142 28 18 9 932 604 313 68 85 289 7 44 19 8 64 9 2 16 8 5 5 10 8 6 19 8 6 8 4 20 20 21 26 8 10 11 5 6 5 15 6 14 7 11 12 9 7 5 16 8 24 14 9 23 10 17 11 5 20 32 17 5 8 11 7 11 27 11 82 21 11 4 502 312 158 39 55 150 6 38 18 9 47 9 8 12 8 7 7 8 5 3 17 7 6 5 7 12 11 21 29 7 13 13 5 4 7 17 12 9 10 14 11 7 10 10 11 9 28 13 6 30 17 16 8 1 23 25 7 13 6 11 10 6 23 15 61 7 9 5 436 295 156 29 31 140 13 82 37 17 111 18 10 28 16 12 12 18 13 9 36 15 12 13 11 32 31 42 55 15 23 24 10 10 12 32 18 23 17 25 23 16 17 15 27 17 52 27 15 53 27 33 19 6 43 57 24 18 14 22 17 17 50 26 143 28 20 9 938 607 314 68 86 290 1 1 1 1 1 1 i [468] 840 600 600 [540] [540] 455 455 600 880 840 2,530 600 540 [140] 10,510 6,770 3,316 [900] [1,840] 5,280 7 5 3 13 9 9 8 6 12 2 2 8 19 7 6 5 8 •4 10 29 19 100 13 6 1 525 491 375 58 198 294 l l l 60 39 171 30 22 "l 941 612 322 86 132 264

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si. ■S °s 6 = B <u — i is! C do w J;Z. « C C rt O *" E * ° Q ~3 School Roll. Lverage Attendance. Schools. .11 which belong to one School District connected by bracket. 11 _. &.= > to Is in Strict Average. Working Average. ■^gs |s£ is Is Fourth Quarter. Whole Boys. Girls. Total. ■;s C Onehunga Bojs' ( Onehunga Girls' J Whau ... Ponsonby (Newton West \ Newton East Mount Albert Mount Eden G-rafton Eoad ( Mount Hobson Boys' \ Mount Hobson Girls' Ellerslie... Tamaki West Panmure Mount Koskill Manukau Heads Huia Mills ... Howick ... Pakuranga Otahuhu ... Mangere Woodside Flat Bush Otara Turanga... Papakura Valley ... ( Papakura (Drury ... Ardmore ( Wairoa South Ness Valley Hunua Maraetai ( Ararimu ( Maketu Bombay ( Awhitn No. 1 ( Awhitu No. 2 fWaiuku I Brooksido j Kariaotalii -j Kohekohe Maioro I Waipipi [_Waitangi f Puni \ Patumalioe Pukekohc West ... Pukckohe East ( Harrisvillc ) Tuakau Pokeno Hill ( Pokeno Valley Maungatawhiri Valley Ooromandel Driving Creek Whangapoua Mercury Bay Tararu fWaiokaraka -! Waiotahi Creek ... ( Pur.ga Flat ( Kauaeranga Boys' \ Kauaeranga Girls' Parawai Thames Orphanage Hastings Tairua Turua ( Puriri ( Hikutaia fPaeroa 1 MackaTtoivn ( Waitekauri Te Aroha Gold Field Raglan l l l l i l i i l l l l l l l l 3,680 [960] 5,866 3,350 6,336 2,100 2,136 2,986 1,701 2,070 600 700 1,840 600 [100] [180] 680 1,150 1,926 1,150 550 600 [1,220] 600 600 1,375 600 300 1,100 [384J [600] 455 [448] 840 1,260 400 [440] 1,340 400 [220] 847 400 435 400 600 800 1,400 840 600 800 600 600 600 1,296 1.301 [450] 352 3,105 4,400 1,872 400 3,105 3,520 1,200 [050] "600" [560] [325] 480 600 600 [264] 480 [552] [490] (158 U?6 58 409 222 418 132 213 297 97 112 45 36 56 49 13 16 40 110 142 67 29 32 107 27 50 81 59 27 83 25 31 25 36 34 113 24 9 103 11 19 33 24 28 36 46 57 122 53 52 87 48 44 27 89 118 10 34 181 351 157 14 413 253 63 81 28 49 15 89 25 48 10 13 115 105 67 534 169 426 86 230 355 144 94 63 18 127 37 5 33 25 79 17 23 23 53 18 12 33 23 5 34 6 12 5 13 28 32 15 6 32 18 12 8 13 30 15 30 44 85 14 9 37 11 19 9 108 57 10 15 44 441 87 5 236 184 111 11 15 28 7 15 14 53 11 17 45 19 99 94 44 395 144 297 vs 139 308 VI 69 43 16 86 34 3 16 17 12 48 14 1G 12 54 14 10 27 19 5 21 11 2 2 11 27 31 8 5 28 8 5 3 10 7 8 23 23 35 7 17 13 22 11 9 37 . 49 14 22 48 397 75 5 160 126 82 9 8 27 6 7 16 35 2 9 8 6 174 187 81 548 247 547 140 304 344 170 137 65 38 97 52 15 56 123 173 70 36 43 106 31 52 87 63 27 96 20 41 28 38 35 114 81 10 107 21 26 38 27 51 43 53 78 172 60 44. Ill 37 49 27 160 126 6 27 177 395 169 14 489 311 92 33 35 50 16 47 23 66 19 21 37 28 124 135 58 452 169 439 117 255 268 130 98 48 26 66 31 11 42 74 119 61 28 33 83 25 40 69 49 19 76 12 28 23 28 23 83 17 7 75 14 26 23 17 36 28 34 49 114 43 29 73 25 31 19 113 89 11 18 133 271 133 11 383 245 61 28 16 39 13 34 16 41 16 16 25 20 123-5 127 49-5 444-25 177-5 412-75 116-75 232-5 279 114-75 89-25 40-75 26 62-25 34-5 11 10-5 37-5 72-5 115-5 57-75 25-5 30 79-5 20 39 70-5 49 19-25 75-25 18 26-5 23-25 30-75 23-75 80-5 18 7-75| 78-25 11-33 20-25 26-75 16-5 36 26-5 31-5 44-5 87-25 44-25 37-25 72-5 30 33 20-5 110 97-75 12-75 24-25 139-25 281 130-75' 11-75 384-25 241-5 76 24-5 21-75 43-25 13-25 32-25! 16-5 38-25J 13-25 12-25 26 19-66 121 33 249 93 " 243 71 146 145 92 32 28 18 38 11 7 15 38 65 35 16 18 37 14 21 38 20 10 35 7 19 13 15 10 41 9 3 42 6 16 15 . 11 17 14 21 21 56 23 13 42 15 17 12 64 52 7 14 73 150 67 5 247 66 33 13 12 20 6 23 4 22 8 12 17 16 3 135 25 203 77 196 47 110 123 38 68 22 11 31 22 5 29 39 55 27 13 16 47 12 20 31 30 10 41 7 10 11 15 13 57 10 5 35 9 10 11 8 20 17 15 30 59 21 20 34 11 16 7 54 39 4 7 60 121 66 7 137 179 29 15 10 21 7 12 13 21 8 4 10 10 124 135 58 452 170 439 118 256 268 130 100 50 29 69 33 12 44 77 120 62 29 34 84 26 41 69 50 20 76 14 29 24 30 23 98 19 8 77 15 26 26 19 37 31 36 51 115 41 33 70 26 33 19 118 91 11 21 133 271 133 12 384 245 62 28 22 41 13 35 17 43 16 16 27 26 124-25 128-75 53-25 444-25 178-5 412-75 118-25 233-5 279-5 11525 92 43 28-25 64-75 35-25 11-75 12-5 40-25 76-75 116-25 58-25 26-75 30-75 81-25 21 41 70-75 49-75 20-25 75-75 19 27-25 24 32 24-25 91-25 20-75 8 79-75 12-33 20-5 28 18-25 36-75 29 33-75 46-5 90-25 45-25 39 74-75 31-5 34-75 21 112-75 99 13 25-75 140-5 283-75 133-5 12-25 397 242-5 79-75 24-5 23-5 43-75 13-25 34-25 17-25 40-75 14 12-5 27-5 ■22 1 i "l l l i l i l l l i l i l 15

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SchoolsAll which belong to one School District connected by bracket. "en aj £ 3 • 13.2 c 1 rf u « c cv_) < b/J ■8|S| lis fa z.s c 2 £ u -a School Roll. S§ "'3 6-S S 3> 3 3 £ -3 Strict Average. .verage Attendance. Working Averagi ■5 si Is Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Boys. Girls. I Total. Waitetuna Euapuke Te Mata Harapipi Mercer Eangiriri Churchill Wairanga Miranda Kaiawai Huntly Taupiri Hamilton East Kirikiriroa Hautapu Cambridge Ngaruawahia Pukefce Hamilton West ... Whatawhata Ngahinepouri TeEore Alexandra Paterangi Ohaupo TeEahu Pukerhnu Cambridge "West ... Eangiaohia Te Awamutu Mangapiko Kihikihi Waitoa Waihou Katikati No. 1 ... Katikati No. 2 Katikati No. 3 Tauranga Greerton Opotiki 1 1 1 1 1 485 600 480 600 760 281 455 [198] [150] [142] 600 600 2,185 455 600 2,065 870 456' 1,950 680 600 600 868 840 720 600 600 600 600 840 455 680 458 [680] 455 600 600 1,024 456 980 21 18 15 20 37 18 17 7 26 15 32 10 8 18 13 14 38 22 104 37 20 109 54 12 83 11 5 17 28 14 28 5 13 28 15 35 6 24 12 4 27 26 13 123 17 43 1 10 13 5 13 5 1 37 15 28 30 56 23 7 18 15 8 58 28 157 33 44 212 80 32 194 28 16 29 72 44 61 33 26 57 43 63 33 67 23 13 22 71 18 149 25 116 23 11 19 21 38 16 7 18 11 6 43 20 105 22 31 148 57 23 156 18 11 20 52 33 43 25 19 42 32 56 24 48 19 11 19 54 12 121 19 87 21-5 13 18-75 16-75 34 13-25 733 18 6-25 6-75 43 21-75 111 26-5 31-25 153-75 57-5 24-25 158-75 20-5 8-75 16-25 45-5 30 47-75 21-5 17 38-25 34 49-75 23-5 48-75 18 10-5 20-25 50-25 14-25 124-75 16-5 102-75 10 7 11 12 18 5 3 11 7 6 26 10 57 11 19 85 28 10 85 10 7 12 29 14 24 12 10 26 17 29 13 28 11 6 9 26 7 68 10 50 15 5 8 10 20 11 4 7 G 4 18 11 53 11 14 75 30 16 72 11 5 9 21 20 20 14 9 18 16 27 11 22 8 5 11 29 6 55 10 43 25 12 19 22 38 16 7 18 13 10 44 21 110 22 33 160 58 26 157 21 12 21 53 34 44 26 19 44 33 56 24 50 19 11 20 55 13 123 20 93 24-25 13-5 19-25 17-25 34-5 14 7-33 18 13-75 10-75 44 23 115-25 26-5 33 158 58 26 159-5 23-5 95 17-25 47-75 31 4925 23 17-5 39-75 34-75 50-25 23-75 50 18 10-75 21 53-25 15-5 125-75 17-75 106 17 13 51 44 124 15 19 31 38 71 4 11 79 34 9 57 22 2 8 13 16 17 8 6 11 16 18 5 19 6 3 17 27 13 90 11 44 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 35 182 60 29 168 39 13 20 57 46 50 36 19 40 44 46 32 62 17 12 12 72 18 116 19 117 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Totals 92 3,060 13,337 9,995 7,502 15,830 6,457 5,818 12,275 12,263-81 12,157-50 11,962 11946-13 11844-75

Okato Tataraimaka Oakura Koru Omata 'West West Infants' Courtenaj Street ... Kawau East Barracks Frankley Road Mangorei Lower ... Mangorei Upper ... Kent Road Lower Kent Road Upper Albert Road Egmont Village ... Smart Road Egmont Road Upland Road Bell Block Boys' ... Bell Block Girls' ... "Waitara West Waitara East Manutalii Huirangi Tikorangi TJrenui 1 1 " 1 294 294 395 17 19 41 16 48 84 20 17 30 6 14 63 118 60 124 83 11 23 4 14 10 17 8 23 4 10 6 69 10 62 28 35 18 9 10 12 11 12 22 10 75 31 36 85 48 36 8 3 18 10 8 8 26 11 11 25 25 59 * 15 18 39 11 30 53 64 73 123 83 13-5 20-25 42-25 9-25 31-75 60 54-66 74-25 114-5 7925 25-5 19-5 14 17 20-5 19-5 14-5 33-75 12 9 16 50-25 20 47-25 35-25 40 25 62-75 155 10 9 25 7 14 54 44 7 13 17 5 20 17 22 42 12 34 54 67 75 124 84 14-75 22-5 44 10-75 34-5 60-5 57-66 75-75 117-5 80-25 25-5 22-75 14 17 22 19-5 14-5 40-25 12-75 11 16 58-5 1 796 300 1,980 674 1,496 490 484 280 280 294 395 294 80 116 79 25 24 13 21 31 19 20 54 20 17 18 38 21 45 49 58 39 95 15 52 72 87 104 155 114 42 84 23 75 82 1 1 39 14 17 31 28 20 51 13 16 24 76 21 13 14 19 19 14 31 10 6 15 46 12 8 6 9 9 7 21 7 5 11 33 13 5 8 12 10 7 18 3 5 4 27 25 13 14 21 19 14 39 10 10 15 60 " 1 280 395 395 487 294 700 672 692 574 900 280 31 31 30 26 29 14 20 7 *77 51 64 43 84 18 53 32 43 24 61 15 25 25 22 10 31 6 31 11 24 18 30 10 56 36 46 28 61 16 49-25 37-75 44 275 64 15-75 1 1 1 * Closed. t Not o) >en. t Amalj ;amated with Bell Block Bo rs'.

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Schools. Jl which belong to one School District connected by bracket. "2 S! •a °c Sffi'C SB « I5.s C5 rt u <" ■sisi ° B o^ o a Z.S School Roll. bo c 211 -a 2-« to Tj-d . z™ 1 Strict Average. Average Attendance. Working Average. il n is t> Fourth Quarter. Whole __ Ycar< Boys. Girls. Total. ("Wortley Eoad | Inglewood Girls' ... -{ Inglewood Boys' ... I Norfolk Eoad iJWaipuku fMidlirst I. Stratford Opunake 1 1 1 1 395 679 588 520 520 280 280 600 ■15 46 50 41 24 15 24 22 47 24 21 20 V GO 76 22 36 25 17 10 22 29 11 45 57 49 45 34 28 35 30 30 L6 * 31-75 31-5 33-25 29-25 20-25 1533 19-66 39-5 17 3 30 15 9 13 32 30 35 30 33 20 35-25 32-5 34'5 33 23-5 17-33 22-66 40-5 18 11 "55 65 * 20 16 35 40 34 38 15 24 t Totals 14 19,277 1,367 1,183 841 1,709 1,156 1,217-4 1,148 649 588 1,237 1,269-4 1,212

Patea — Novuianby Hawera ... Maimtalii Whakamara Kakaramca WoodviUe ... ■ Carlyle ... VV Jienuakura Kohi ... Waverley Waitotara Wanganui — Maxwell... Brunswick G-oat Valley Upokongaro Brownlee Aramolio Mosston... /-Wanganui Girls' ... i Wanganui Boys' ... Infants' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1,178 1,498 459 [120] 459 [168] 1,745 459 324 1,596 468 70 153 31 19 52 155 25 26 155 17 78 123 11 6 34 34 204 16 3 90 17 63 80 10 7 38 7 159 16 2 74 8 85 196 32 18 48 27 200 25 27 171 26 57 150 23 15 27 15 158 22 24 137 18 54-75 146-75 23 14-75 36-25 15-25 133-75 19-25 21-75 135-5 17-5 38 87 14 5 18 9 82 16 10 75 7 27 75 9 10 14 8 77 6 14 63 11 65 162 23 15 32 17 159 22 24 138 18 58 153 23-25 15 38 17-25 144 19-75 22-25 139-25 17-75 . 1 1 1 1 393 414 432 258 234 2,128 400 2,730 3,198 2,046 [477] 569 480 600 400 500 408 384 39 27 31 34 18 129 36 263 260 7 10 21 12 4 108 26 136 123 15 9 14 12 22 117 15 94 109 31 28 38 34. 120 47 305 274 25 25 ■ 27 25 25-75 25-5 25-5 23-75 13-66 99 30-5 205 198-25 13 12 14 17 13 13 13 9 . 44 15 212 26 25 27 26 92 29 212 211 27-5 26 27 25 14-33 100 32-5 206 199 1 1 92 26 212 211 "48 14 211 ( ... ~ ( 1 1 1 1 1 i 334 254 314 274 251 248-5 124 129 253 251-25 Okoia Mars Hill Kaitoki ... Matarawa Denlair ... -Riverton Wangaeliu Rangitikei — Turakina ... Glen Nevis Upper Tutaeimi ... Porcwa ... Turaldna Valley ... Western Rangitikei Marton ... Mount View Crofton ... Gfreatford South Makirikiri ... Bull's ... Parawanui Sandridge Manawatu — Halcombe Bunnythorpe Makipo Road FeUding Askurst... Sanson ... Campbelltown Awalmri Taonui ... ■ Stony Creek Palmerston North Carnarvon , Karere ... Foxton ... Moutoa ... Otaki ... 40 28 24. 27 19 21 33 38 12 5 18 17 2 22 29 5 10 16 7 3 14 49 35 19 29 29 20 41 40 27 18 25 23 18 30 43 24-5 19 25 17-75 17-25 28-25 26 13 9 19 14 8 19 14 14 9 7 10 10 11 40 27 18 26 24 18 30 43-25 25 19-5 25-5 18-5 17-25 28-5' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1,200 216 419 475 361 237 2,046 648 400 857 420 2,078 708 [160] 77 17 68 38 29 34 127 35 39 43 19 160 32 48 2 27 18 13 10 80 21 11 27 16 113 10 12 35 3 18 22 17 19 62 15 18 33 6 83 6 2 90 16 77 34 25 25 145 41 32 37 29 190 36 10 76 11 63 29 20 19 112 29 26 30 21 143 29 9 70-25 11-25 55-75 29-5 21-75 22-25 106-75 25-25 24-75 31-75 19 136-25 27 9-25 41 9 36 16 11 9 69 17 15 14 12 71 12 35 2 27 13 9 10 44 12 12 16 11 72 20 9 76 11 63 29 20 19 113 29 27 30 23 143 32 9 70-5 11-5 57-25 30-25 21-75 22-5 107-75 27 27-5 31-75 21 137 29-5 9-25 1 1 1 . 3,430 531 1,032 2,262 231 1,008 800 800 640 806 1,945 476 1,122 2,460 354 1,032 134 51 43 234 36 101 80 27 28 113 14 36 59 31 18 39 152 19 29 67 21 53 87 24 25 92 16 25 23 36 19 20 80 12 21 48 7 64 127 54 46 255 34 112 36 54 43 69 284 84 79 160 29 57 119 42 29 182 26 89 ' 22 32 26 46 199 25 65 13416 41 116-25 40-5 27-75 183-75 26-25 76 19-5 31-75 26 46-75 177-25 23-75 68-75 129-75 17-75 41-25 72 24 16 91 1G 49 16 19 16 22 105 14 35 69 8 17 49 18 14 92 10 42 7 15 12 25 94 12 30 65 12 25 121 42 30 183 26 91 23 34 28 47 199 26 65 134 20 42 118-25 41 28-5 186-25 26-25 78 20-5 35-25 28-5 48-25 181 25 69 130-25 21 43-25 1 1 1 1 1 1 59 44 50 212 27 71 141 15 68 1 Totals 42 52,754 -4,070 2,625 2,207 4,488 3,431 3,332-41 3,329 1,843 1,651 3,494 3,41833 3,41475 •Cloi icd. Not o; ten.

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Schools. ,s>- ■£ —■ £§5 Jl which belong to one School District o 3 connected by bracket. fc"o y ia.5 28 u "* • *- OJ Irt rt u 2 3 ri CT £.;} K £•= "" <+* c £ ° o a o SSj. S I?l School Roll. Average Attendance. g1! .5 if i 1 Z.S 8 il to II go z" Strict Average. ■5 S Fourth Quarter, Working Avera; 2s Whole Year. Boys. Girls. | Total. Tenui Bideford Tauera Gladstone Waihenga Eketahuna Maurice villc Opaki ... Fern Ridge Masterton Waingawa Clare ville Park Vale Carterton Waihakeke Matarawa Grey town Kaitara 'Tauhcrcnikau Featherston Kaiwaeivae Kaitoke ... Wallace ... f Mungaroa I Upper Hutt Taita ... Hutt ... Wainuioniiua Korokoro .., Horokiwi Judgeford Pahautanui Porirua ... Tawa Flat Ohariu ... Johnsoiwillo Kaiwara "VVadestovrn Makara Karori \ Thorndon [ Thorndon Infants' Terrace fTeAro [ Te Aro Infants' ... ' Mount Cook Boys' Mount Cook Girls' Mount Cook Infants' Newtotvn 1 288 [500] [500] 480 486 450 656 494 560 1,800 586 648 420 2,320 [500] 480 2,040 480 320 1,840 420 224 [200] ~420 1,000 816 1,960 392 296 400 391 680 320 1,160 656 480 816 360 480 1,416 3,080 [1,421] 2,080 5,872 2,560 5,328 4,000 3,232 3,232 20 19 23 24 19 2 8 3 12 27 24 21 227 12 70 11 207 19 12 13-75 17 20-5 23-25 27 26-5 38 25-75 48-25 301-75 16-5 63 26-5 220 26 27 169-25 27-25 14-50 107-75 26-25 23-50 21-33 31-25 79-5 62-25 153 16-5 27-75 22-25 37-25 30-5 21 55-75 36-25 45-75 79-25 28 31-5 65-25 3635 124 242 379 188 337 295-75 406-75 322 9 3 12 155 17 15-5 25-75 27-25 26-75 39-75 26-75 52 303-23 18-5 65 29-5 225-25 26 29 177-25 28-25 15-75 110-25 26-50 25-33 22-66 31-25 82 67-25 166-25 17-25 29-25 24-75 37-25 32-75 23-25 57-75 37-25 47-75 81-75 28-66 33-5 70 366-75 127-75 249-5 385-25 193 338-25 295-75 422 331-75 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 33 25 31 51 38 68 353 30 102 41 238 30 207 36 23 129 31 38 101 85 205 23 27 30 43 21 29 83 53 48 114 26 12 13 18 30 25 35 256 8 54 8 243 28 23 126 22 6 63 12 47 32 8 68 52 143 10 25 11 9 49 13 31 14 56 40 39 16 57 239 133 159 737 317 177 183 316 208 10 105 13 9 57 14 15 2 13 70 36 121 9 20 11 16 16 8 32 18 29 47 6 12 52 261 106 102 264 133 200 183 329 231 24 37 35 37 54 39 82 382 26 86 38 274 28 43 228 45 20 135 29 32 30 33 99 101 227 24 32 30 36 54 34 82 49 75 107 33 47 90 428 171 287 473 289 383 343 513 384 18 24 30 31 47 29 50 322 17 64 25 218 26 32 175 29 13 106 26 23 23 27 81 61 169 15 28 18 36 40 23 58 36 51 82 29 35 67 356 123 236 381 200 319 273 397 326 11 15 16 18 25 15 27 109 12 40 12 118 17 19 103 14 6 59 15 15 9 16 49 34 102 11 7 14 13 15 17 33 17 28 46 19 17 41 213 68 145 188 114 319 7 11 14 13 22 15 26 153 6 26 15 104 9 17 74 17 9 48 11 10 16 11 34 30 71 5 22 8 23 28 8 25 19 26 36 10 18 29 143 55 91 193 93 18 26 30 31 47 30 53 322 18 66 27 222 26 36 177 31 15 107 26 25 25 27 83 64 173 16 29 22 36 43 25 58 36 54 82 29 35 70 356 123 236 381 207 319 273 401 328 1 1 1 "l 1 43 85 450 144 230 105 406 343 526 407 273 190 154 211 174 Totals 27 5,144 4,220 3,217 6,147 4,810 2,655 2,221 4,876 5,002-4 4,867-25 4,730-75 4,781-58

Ornioud Patutahi Waerangahika Matawhero Te Arai Gisborno BVazertown Wairoa Moliaka Petane Tarawera Puketapu Port. Aluiriri Napier Mcanee Taradalo Clive Hastings ' 1 " 1 " 1 1 432 [352] [144] 1,300 [480] 2,950 500 700 [300] 800 [120] 400 1,300 7,500 400 1,300 1,200 1,400 44 14 19 77 47 287 29 79 25 29 19 26 .100 625 56 109 127 114 28 18 24 30 121 164 54 41 10 13 3 17 95 331 50 70 .81 99 14 7 13 33 70 143 45 39 10 9 22 19 60 263 43 42 62 76 58 25 30 74 98 308 38 81 25 33 39 11 17 34 26 169 22 54 20 26 41 10-25 17-25 49 22-25 230-50 19-50 54-75 22 ■25-50 15 20-75 92-50 521-50 47-50 83-50 117-50 101-50 21 6 9 24 22 112 13 30 7 13 21 7 9 21 13 69 10 27 14 17 42 13 18 45 35 181 23 57 21 30. 43 lloO 18 52-75 28-25 235-50 20-25 59-50 22-75 27-75 16-S3 22-25 95 : 537-75 49'75 86-25 121-50 104-25 1 1 1 1 1 1 24 135 693 63 137 146 137 17 95 453 46 95 108 92 8 51 254 26 55 66 59 11 48 227 24 42 49 38 19 99 481. 50 97 115 97

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Schools. l]1 which belong to one School District connected by bracket. "w 1) W 3 - 515 ia.s c 4} — i ■s s si 6Ej,S -° ° 12-1 2 Urn t3 g rt o E-g> £-3 ►• S I" 1 II l.s School Roll. Strict Average. .verage Attendance. Working Average. If Is Fourth Quarter. Whole I Boys. Girts. | Total. re; Havelock Tamumu Patangata Kaikora Waipawa Eampden Te Ongaonga Blackburn Makaretu Ashley-Clinton Takapau Waipukurau Wallingford Porangahau Ormondyille Norsewood Makatoko Danevirk Woodyille 1 1 1 1 1 1,300 [210] 500 1,300 1,500 800 [150] 500 500 390 [540] 750 300 500 850 1,200 400 400 1,500 86 12 24 71 107 51 23 25 32 37 34 57 36 3 7 77 92 25 7 6 17 6 42 21 24 6 60 29 9 11 56 44 4 11 55 33 16 10 11 11 8 37 10 14 22 81 29 83 14 40 78 11 20 88 166 60 20 20 38 35 39 68 10 9 117 130 34 37 121 64 9 13 75 106 45 10 10 23 26 31 37 9 8 81 65 24 31 65 71-25 10 15-50 67-75 102-25 46 12 14-50 24-75 27-25 31 47 11 10-25 61-50 79 31-75 30-75 66-75 40 7 10 41 70 28 3 5 15 16 22 22 6 4 51 33 9 20 36 25 4 5 84 40 18 10 7 10 11 11 27 3 5 80 33 15 11 89 65 11 15 75 110 46 13 12 25 27 33 49 9 9 81 66 24 31 75 72-50 11-25 17 70-25 108-25 47 13-25 15-75 25-50 27-75 33 53-50 11-25 11-25 63-75 83-50 31-75 31-25 73 " 1 1 1 1 25 88 130 58 40 105 1 1 Totals 22 2,831 1,778 1,403 3,206 2,056 1,214 985 2,199 2,352-0! 2,348 2,252-25 2,248-25

C Blenheim Boys' Upper < Blenheim Boys' Lower (.Blenheim Girls' ... Blenheim Infants' ( Picton Senior t Picton Junior f Havelock Senior ... Havelock Junior ... Benwick... Spring Creek Tuamarina Marlborough Town Kaituna... .. . f Canvas Town (. Upper Pelorus Grove Town Waitohi... Wairau Valley Kekerangu Fairhall... Harelock Suburban ( Kaiuma < Kenepuru (. Hopai Anakiwa... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2,997 1,305 1,818 976 632 480 1,000 756 416 304 [200] 600 600 320 280 252 600 [200] [!80] [200] [200] 30 66 85 130 110 72 44 53 79 33 74 28 23 28 32 40 55 169 53 48 17 22 30 20 49 18 4 18 8 76 28 3 7 17 36 7 27 12 13 51 113 54 57 10 12 13 8 41 20 5 14 2 34 24 6 3 13 5 5 6 50 93 90 180 109 63 51 67 96 45 82 26 22 32 6 75 61 25 19 36 31 17 21 7 17 46 72 67 142 83 47 28 43 69 32 51 19 12 23 5 52 41 22 16 26 29 16 14 4 16 39-25 58-5 63-5 121-5 83 53-25 30-75 40-75 675 30 58-5 19-75 14-75 20-5 4-75 39 47-25 20'25 15-75 23 28-33 15-25 12 6 11-33 46 72 79 44 20 14 20 35 25 34 8 6 12 3 34 25 10 8 15 12 6 8 3 10 67 69 39 27 14 23 36 10 19 12 8 11 2 20 18 12 8 11 17 10 6 4 6 46 72 67 148 83 47 28 43 71 35 53 20 14 23 5 54 43 22 16 26 29 16 14 7 16 39-25 60 64-25 127-25 83-25 52-75 30-75-40-75 70-25 32-75 60 20 16 20-75 4-75 40-75 49 21-25 15-75 2325 283a 15-75 12-5 7 11-33 1 1 1 34 56 28 15 31 ' 1 1 15 7 31 14 Totals 11 1,041 815 535 1,321 975 92441 913 549 449 998 947-66 936

'Town Boys' (1st division) ... Bridge Street Boys' (1st and 2nd division) Bridge Street Boys' (3rd div.) Bridge Street Boys' (4th div.) Hardy Street Girls' (1st div.) Hardy Street Girls' (2nd div.) Hardy/Street Girls' (3rd div.) Haven Road Boys IIinnpcTen Street ... Toitoi Valley Girls' Toitoi Valley Girls' (Junior) Port "Clifton Terrace ... HillSide Hnppy Valley Stoke 600 1,240 30 91 44 62 24 41 50 112 30 86 3125 86-75 30 86 30 86 31-25 86-75 900 [720] 861 720 648 2,280 1,332 2,040 504 [1,200] 576 228 294 1,518 84 67 40 60 102 125 112 127 54 36 61 70 64 151 43 136 93 32 8 3 6 25 56 41 41 37 68 85 28 68 49 29 6 8 6 15 82 62 60 93 113 191 127 200 44 49 35 19 24 85 83 48 48 67 88 158 97 133 38 39 25 14 17 57 78-75 5175 51-75 70-50 91-75 146 97 133 33-75 45 24 14-25 16-75 59-50 84 49 162 63 46 67 91 36 133 49 18 15 7 11 30 84 49 46 67 91 162 99 133 49 40 25 14 18 59 79-25 52-75 5175 71-75 94-50 150-25 99 134 42 45-50 24-50 14-75 17-25 64 3 46 33 24 24 75 22 10 7 7 29 1

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Schools. kU which belong to one School District connected by bracket. Up! *- it ill S'Si 3 rt Si mlv » •a o a E ° a rt S 111 i?.s ■8 "8)3 %%> g rt o 2.S te'§s s School Roll. Si Is go *OT3 . Eg1 z'~ Strict Average. Average Attendance. " i> Working Average. 11 Fourth Quarter. Whole i i Year. Boys. Girls. | Total. ( Richmond Boys' ... (_ RiohHiond Giris' ... fBanzau Hopo ( Rircr Terrace < Brightwater (.Spring Grore ( Lower Wakeficld Boys' and < Junior (. Lower Wakefield Girls' Eighty-Eight Valley Upper Wakefield ... Foxhill Motupiko Stanley Brook Tadmor Sherry Waimea West Appleby f Sarau Lower Mouterc ( Motueka Boys' \ Motueka Girls' ... Ngatimote DoTedale Church Hill Pangatotara ( Riwaka i Brooklyn Marahan Lower Takaka LTpper Takaka East Takaka Motupipi ... Collingwood EockTille ... Fern Town Pakawau ( Westport Boys' ... \ Westport Girls' ... Denniston Fairdown ... ... Waiman garoa Rochfort Terrace ... Ngakawau Karamea Addison's Flat ( Charleston Boys' ... 4 Charleston Girls' ... (.Brighton Fern Flat Lyell Reefton Black's Point i > } 2 ( 2 f 741 I. 760 C 578 I 720 r 512 ] 720 C 720 rii34 (. 600 356 720 600 480 240 416 384 420 540 f 1100 I 648 665 825 825 336 640 [500] 330 f 640 I 340 [240] 768 396 640 540 720 320 1,000 200 1,800 S00 [250] [240] G20 240 360 594 600 1,200 720 600 280 [800] 2,0 tO [710] 72 59 49 29 50 40 73 87 20 22 29 13 28 37 26 33 25 17 24 9 30 18 32 30 67 64 54 33 48 59 67 90 58 56 36 22 35 46 51 74 58-75 54 31 2050 37-25 36-25 52 68-25 58 18 15 15 13 33 02 57 19 9 26 35 18 20 58 57 37 24 41 48 51 82 58-75 54-75 32-50 22 39-50 52 70-25 1 1 1 1 "l 1 ] * 1 "l 1 } > 1 1 1 34 32 61 46 21 17 27 34 32 65 46 80 141 41 33 18 76 50 16 41 27 35 36 44 6 18 28 141 110 21 8 29 10 13 9 13 20 11 16 27 9 12 42 02 14 13 4 33 33 10 7 21 11 16 10 15 22 9 8 48 41 23 7 33 24 9 8 56 44 2.) 5 12 23 54 IS 9 9 30 10 4 5 7 1 8 3 16 10 11 119 9 20 16 6 13 15 4 23 10 7 5 23 10 4 4 28 59 4 7 37 6 1 8 29 31 22 6 8 9 41 12 46 31 60 52 30 21 33 19 37 45 76 45 81 64 83 35 30 16 33 96 45 19 39 28 44 41 36 18 23 24 159 92 19 17 33 18 20 30 09 86 91 42 21 43 163 81 36 17 42 39 23 17 29 19 23 39 57 31 54 54 57 22 20 13 26 76 33 17 27 19 32 27 27 15 22 17 127 81 18 17 32 17 17 24 51 CO 63 81 14 28 109 (!3 28-75 18-25 42-50 38-75 19-50 14-50 22-50 16-33 23 31-25 54-50 32 51-25 74-50 41 23-50 19-50 14-25 18 67-50 33 15 30-25 18-75 25-75 2750 29-50 11-66 21-50 18 129-75 83-50 11-33 16 33 16-75 14 24 41 63TO 62-75 31-25 15-25 26 109 62-50 11 21 20 14 8 15 9 15 19 32 18 30 45 10 8 7 13 41 14 7 20 9 17 13 18 10 13 10 127 38 8 23 19 9 9 14 10 10 22 26 15 27 59 14 13 6 13 43 19 10 8 11 16 16 11 5 9 8 38 19 41 39 23 17 29 19 25 41 58 33 57 45 59 24 21 13 2G 81 33 17 28 20 33 29 29 15 22 18 127 81 18 17 32 17 17 24 52 63 63 32 15 29 121 63 29-75 20 43-50 38-75 20-50 14-50 23 16-33 24-75 31-75 57 33-75 54-75 77-75 41-66 26-25 20-50 14-25 18 71-50 33 15 30-75 19-50 27 28-50 30-75 12 21-50 18-25 129-75 83-50 11-33 16 34-25 16-75 14 24-25 42 C5 68 33-23 16-25 26-75 116 62-50 1 1 '"l7 37 8 8 17 11 7 13 24 63 81 10 9 15 6 10 11 28 " 1 12 30 42 73 84 43 17 29 150 75 15 6 19 77 36 63 17 9 10 44 27 Totals 2987 28 3,456 2,092 1,486 4,062 3,070 1,661 1,518 3,179 3,082-25

Kaikoura Suburban ICaikoura ToTvn ... Waiau (aided) Hurunui Mason's Flat ... Waikari Amberley Amberley (side) ... Balcairn ... IjcitUficld Mount Grey Downs Loburn North Loburn Asbley 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 918 1,616 [308] 630 850 600 1,580 820 800 760 1,080 630 1,010 1,500 63 88 15 # t 22 126 8 48 95 94 53 63 127 40 59 9 24 36 8 81 45 40 37 47 84 33 41 14. 29 8 2 6 75 15 29 28 25 14 18 39 89 118 16 24 34 24 132 38 65 104 116 73 78 129 52 83 14 23 25 18 92 83 43 69 78 33 49 70 49-25 75-75 14-50 23 21-66 18-50 101-25 27-50 40-25 70 66-75 35-25 48-50 74-50 42 44 9 14 10 12 55 20 24 34 44 25 29 39 20 41 5 9 10 6 3S 13 19 30 35 19 28 47 62 85 14 23 20 18 93 33 43 70 79 44 57 80 55 79 14-50 23 22 18-50 104 29-25 43 7325 73-75 43 52 8325 med in December [uarter. School O] >ened in "uni [uarter.

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Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. a in J- [fl III m ||.s d u -f" ■ »- OJ f «^» ° 3 rt o !°J to o 'g 2.5 60 n S 3 S z-p 1 School Roll. Is 11 do go t gg Eg1 Strict Average. Average Attendance. Working Averagi 11 fs *6 Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Boys. Girls. Total. Saltwater Creek View Hill Oxford West Oxford East Carleton ... ... CCust \ Oust (side) Eyreton West Stoke . Fernside Mandeville Plains Eyreton Bangiora Southbrook (Flaxton (Flaxton (side) Waikuku Woodend Kaiapoi ... ... Kaiapoi Island North Kaiapoi Island Lyttelton Governor's Bay ... G-overnor's Bay South— Charteris Bay ... Gebbic's Pass Eoad Gebbio's Valley ... Port Levy Little River CPigeon Bay ( Pigeon Bay (side) Barry's Bay French Farm Wainui Little Akaloa Duvauchelle's Bay Okain's Bay Le Bon's Bay ... Eobinson's Bay ... f German Bay £ German Bay (side) Akaroa Kowai Bush Kowai Pass ' Eusscll's Flat Malvern Malvern South Hororata Kimberley Greendale Kirwee Courtenay Halkett Aylesbury West Melton Yaldhurst Templeton Weedon Broadfield Hare wood Eoad ... North Eoad Papanui ( Eiccart on (Biccarton (side) ... Prebbleton Lincoln Springston Groenpark TaiTapu Halswell Spreydon f Cliristchurch West (. Christchurch West (side) ... Normal School Christchurch East— Bingsland 1 1 1 1 1 ! > l l l l l 2 1 1 1 1 1 1-1 1 1 1-1 1 1 1 1 1 } » 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 880 600 1,545 2,190 600 ( 1638 I 600 540 480 1,420 540 650 4,970 1,540 1,550 990 540 1,600 4,730 620 380 9,840 420 600 600 480 540 1,338 C 540 I 400 520 660 600 560 540 520 600 600 < 540 ( 724 2,070 540 1,348 550 1,200 1,230 1,250 540 990 900 540 770 600 540 895 1,490 940 520 650 600 2,540 1,571 778 1,660 1,460 1,430 1,360 1,520 1,540 2,110 11,032 1,804 12,424 44 68 156 201 72 154 46 60 31 100 51 50 359 125 127 28 50 138 419 26 26 678 39 26 14 33 16 59 35 25 35 18 34 42 55 44 55 35 49 # 14 40 CO 83 13 39 5 22 25 33 22 12 117 61 66 33 7 37 167 15 12 217 14 4 10 10 5 51 10 10 10 15 26 24 15 9 21 15 29 41 50 8 79 25 67 69 49 19 35 36 20 30 16 28 19 46 22 16 24 30 102 54 46 39 64 57 33 27 35 75 791 253 861 16 35 54 86 16 37 16 17 12 22 30 7 138 67 53 24 21 47 149 12 13 195 17 5 8 10 5 31 14 6 5 5 27 15 23 10 26 18 28 16 82 12 111 24 63 70 22 15 20 42 73 162 198 69 156 35 65 44 111 43 55 338 119 140 37 36 128 437 29 25 700 36 25 16 33 16 79 31 29 30 28 33 51 47 43 50 32 50 25 112 23 125 61 121 87 82 49 85 36 36 67 23 54 64 120 54 45 73 47 240 140 75 128 161 150 88 136 87 138 1,039 232 908 25 40 98 141 50 110 23 47 35 72 24 37 256 78 76 22 30 97 275 25 19 563 25 16 10 23 15 52 24 23 19 21 25 27 27 36 41 21 33 19 75 15 77 31 53 62 59 36 50 27 23 40 21 38 47 77 32 32 45 31 157 104 56 102 117 88 59 94 64 95 770 171 700 32-25 41-50 100-50 152-75 51-75 112-50 29 47 27 76-75 32-25 38-75 250-50 86-75 80-50 20-25 34-75 98 273-50 19-25 20-50 572-75 26 15-25 8-25 23-25 13-25 39-25 25-50 21-75 21-25 14-75 29 27-50 30-25 36 33-50 24-50 39-25 17-33 82 16 84-75 34 65-50 62-75 54-25 34-50 43-25 27 23 39 26-25 40-25 45 73-75 34 27-50 43-25 33-75! 137-75 100 45-75 96-25 110-50 85-50 53-25 99-75 63 98-50 810-50 171 683-25 16 22 57 85 26 65 12 26 17 38 17 23 146 46 54 8 14. 52 158 12 11 289 13 9 5 8 8 28 15 9 16 11 8 14 16 17 21 17 24 10 45 7 39 17 35 29 30 19 32 15 15 25 14 20 21 46 23 20 25 14 72 55 22 58 62 52 33 57 35 52 423 101 363 16 23 ■ 47 60 25 52 13 22 18 38 11 17 113 38 38 16 17 47 137 13 8 274 13 7 5 16 7 25 10 16 5 10 17 17 13 19 20 6 16 11 31 10 44 19 28 35 31 19 21 12 9 19 12 19 26 32 13 13 22 18 90 51 35 47 55 54 30 42 31 47 360 74 337 32 45 101. 145 51 117 25 48 35 76 28 40 259 84 92 24 31 99 295 25 19 563 26 16 10 24 15 53 25 25 21 21 25 31 29 36 41 23 40 21 76 17 83 36 63 64 61 38 53 27 24 44 26 39 47 78 36 33 47 32 162 106 57 105 117 106 63 99 66 99 783 175 700 36'50 45 10(3-25 160 52-75 118-50 30 48-75 27-75 79-75 35 41-50 26050 91-25 9025 21-75 36-50 99-75 291 20-25 20-50 573-50 28 16-50 8-50 25-75 13-25 44-50 26-75 22-75 22-75 15 29 30-25 32-50 36 36-50 26-75 43 19-66 84-25 17 91-50 40-25 70-25 65-25 57 35-75 52-50 27 24 44 28-75 41-50 45-75 79 36-75 29 45-25 34-50 146-75 105-50 47 101 114-25 93-75 58-50 101-75 65-75 101 845-50 175 696-75 S ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 144 27 157 60 117 88 55 45 70 t 30 66 46 53 59 116 51 40 67 42 194 121 57 130 143 131 85 128 92 129 1,012 14 29 39 27 14 42 19 11 18 25 56 35 28 41 46 38 30 19 40 66 764 21 702 1" 1 749 1 2,100 218 193 153 258 179 165-50 92 87 179 169-25 * School opened in June quarter. t School opened in December quarter.

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Schools. which belong to one School District connected by bracket. ■6° o rt E -C 0} 4-1 w B a 13.5 c v "* tn ri U 2 If I fa ill Hi « Si 1.1 I |! f School Roll. Strict Average. Average Attendance. Working Average. Fourth Quarter. Whole Boys. Girls. I Total. Cliristclmrch East'— cont. Gloucester Street Phillipstown South Town Belt Sydeuham ( St. Albans \ St. Albans (side) ... New Brighton Healhcote Lower ... Bromley Opawa Heathcote Vailey ... Sunnier Selwyn Dunsandel Brookside Killinchy Irwell ( Leeston Leoston (side) Southbridge Lakeside Eakaia, Little Mount Somers ( A] ford Forest I Alford Forest (side) Broughton (aided) BarrHill Rakaia South. Chertsey Kyle Ashburton Forks ... Ash burton Newlana Seafield Wakaniti Elgin Tinwald Willowby Elcmington ( Longbcaeh (.Longbeach (side) ... Hinds 1 1 1 }« 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ! ■ l l l l 16,720 1,410 2,992 8,926 (4690 ( [1414] 540 3,208 1,190 1,901 1,350 600 1,070 1,440 1,395 1,310 600 (2150 | 568 2,080 540 540 540 ( 575 I 308 [144] 600 1,288 600 600 600 4,792 630 600 1,080 630 1,440 700 900 800 600 900 1,131 177 240 924 440* 95 59 412 73 176 79 27 24 100 109 95 43 195 28 236 54 21 20 41 30 11 17 115 33 27 24 400 28 26 91 50 87 74 767 144 14S 934 229 93 21 173 53 114 49 27 17 43 31 52 24 72 35 89 32 28 20 28 18 * 745 159 161 922 228 78 26 165 40 124 52 31 10 44 34 42 23 90 17 79 26 10 13 17 8 11 8 36 14 49 7 192 14 10 34 30 51 31 3 20 25 13 1,153 162 227 940 441 115 54 420 86 166 76 23 31 99 106 105 44 177 46 246 60 39 27 52 40 889 131 165 736 297 87 34 281 53 128 56 16 25 71 77 56 28 121 35 153 43 23 13 37 25 834 125-75 150-25 705-50 300-50 79-25 36-75 278-25 53-25 126-25 60 15-25 19-50 69-25 77-50 63-75 25 118-50 27-50 170-25 42 18-75 18-25 32-25 24-50 9 13-25 87'50 23 16-50 24-25 267 18-25 18-50 53-25 27 62-25 44-50 35-66 44-25 19-25 22-50 494 62 90 383 160 42 22 150 36 83 30 11 10 40 38 42 16 69 14 91 24 11 7 24 18 395 73 77 353 140 47 16 133 18 47 26 8 15 35 43 31 14 56 21 71 19 18 7 13 9 889 135 167 736 300 89 38 283 54 130 56 19 25 75 81 73 30 125 35 162 43 29 14 37 27 854 13175 157 716-25 311 86-25 39-50 288 56 131 60-25 18 20-25 74-25 80-50 70-75 28-25 125 28-25 17(5-75 44-25 21-50 18-75 33-25 26 9 14-50 91-25 24 18-25 25-75 292-75 19-50 19 62-50 31-50 65 47-50 36 49-25 20-25 24-75 I > ■ l l l l l l-i l l l l i l l l l 18 78 16 46 35 209 14 13 26 26 55 28 50 36 17 39 27 157 35 24 52 417 28 29 83 46 91 71 47 71 32 26 16 114 28 23 30 253 21 21 56 29 62 48 39 51 20 22 8 69 17 16 19 155 12 12 37 22 36 19 19 24 11 14 9 47 12 8 14 136 11 10 39 10 27 31 20 30 10 11 17 116 29 24 33 291 23 22 76 32 63 50 39 54 21 25 t 55 40 t Totals 5,491 11,760 11462-66 11501-50 122 14,858 9,229 8,036 16,051 11,322 10949-40 10981-50 6,269 * Closed 31st March. f Opened June quarter. X Oldened March quarter.

Scotsbmrn Burko's Pass J?:iir!ie Creek Opihi Mount Gay Bangitata Island ... Orari North Orari South Woodbury Orari Bridge Geraldine Gapes' Valley Kakahu Pleasant Valley ... Gcraldino Flat WaitohiFlat 'Winchester Milford Temuka Pleasant Point "Washdyko Claremont Waiiti Timaru Timaru (side) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 600 600 600 400) 400) 600 600 600 1,200 600 1,960 [210] 560 840 480 520 1,280 560 2,330 1,240 520 600 1,200 9,530 1,870 30 20 36 ' 40 34 '"43 88 193 29 60 69 14 14 19 25 6 42 36 30 108 26 9 16 47 22 23 20 122 42 33 15 48 522 304 16 9 12 25 3 24 54 2 108 24 5 17 4 19 44 20 112 45 29 11 58 508 117 28 25 43 40 37 61 70 28 193 31 64 68 43 76 71 58 350 168 53 31 84 887 187 17 15 28 25 26 38 50 23 132 25 50 49 34 43 49 36 192 107 42 24 65 689 129 19 15 28 28 25-50 35 58-25 16-50 145 23 48-75 55-75 33-75 40-25 54 41-25 196-50 112-50 39-75 24 75-25 669-75 127-50 12 7 14 13 12 21 27 18 86 11 29 25 21 26 27 25 112 62 27 15 36 351 78 T 9 16 13 14 18 26 7 61 14 24 26 14 25 24 21 95 55 16 10 30 354 57 19 16 30 26 26 39 53 25 147 25 53 51 35 51 51 46 207 117 43 25 60 705 135 20-25 15-50 29-25 29 25-75 35-75 60-75 1725 151-25 23-75 50-50 56-50 3475 49 57-50 45-75 21675 117-50 40-50 24-75 77-25 690-25 13375 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 73 92 58 340 171 49 27 94 873

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Schools. .11 which belong to one School District connected by bracket. j|t3 li 15.2 S Ssfj ■sill SS s, S o c s %"° Z.S bo a 3 u |-S>•a School Roll. El || II to go "sj "d ■ -° c b IS 1 Strict Average. .vcrage Attendance. Working Averag. Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Boys. I Girls. | Total. Pareora St. Andrews Upper Otaio Otaio Maldhikihi Hunter Hook Waituna Creek Waimate Wailiao 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 864. 600 600 600 [168] 600 600 600 5,120 600 58 22 34 37 33 56 550 39 18 55 15 23 25 2 12 32 120 16 19 12 14 17 3 *7 14 35 175 16 57 43 23 4.0 22 32 31 53 495 39 38 36 17 35 19 26 28 33 349 23 35-75 30-25 17-75 31-25 18-50 22-75 26-50 28-75 345-25 23-50 24 12 4 21 11 12 11 15 186 13 17 24 13 14 9 15 17 21 170 13 41 36 17 35 20. 27 28 36 356 26 40-71 30-51 18 31-2! 19 24 26-71 34-2! 362-2; 25-7! Totals 32 40,152 3,248 1,861 1,578 3,531 2,492 2,492-50 2,47475 1,364 1,249 2,613 2,615-21 2,597-5

(ArawataTown Arawata Flat Gillespie's ( Okarito \ Waitangi C Ross { Donoghue's f Woodstock Kanieri Upper Kolcatahi ... | Lower Kokatahi ... ( Blue Spur \ Upper Crossing Rangiriri r Holritik.i 3 South Spit Road Stafford Goldsborougli ( Kumara J. Greenstone C Westbrook f Marsden (^ Dunganville ( Greymoutli J. Cobden C Paroa ( Brunnerton \ Maori Gully No town ( Ahaura (TotaraFlat Orwell Creek Hatter's Terrace ... Kynnersloy } * ( 288 (. 288 210 150 [150] C 3400 { 800 ( 500 j 1612 ( 240 I [200] 500 [450] 200 ( 6965 ] 120 t 500 1,609 1,128 (•4050 ] 240 I 200 585 555 (6965 ] 1490 (. 800 1,390 500 798 ( [300] I 560 500 1,008600 12 33 33 20 12 251 61 39 122 16 17 47 26 15 421 14 51 141 116 308 35 27 28 49 504 74 70 186 41 52 19 31 44 59 1 3 3 3 3 94 11 5 23 2 10 9 22 3 13 9 10 23 27 23 12 288 49 33 116 10 22 46 34 4 454 18 58 130 111 328 27 28 21 4,4 447 70 62 161 46 34 13 32 38 67 49 10 12 25 19 11 239 36 24 67 9 17 40 21 3 336 15 38 100 87 242 19 12 17 29 345 56 47 107 40 25 10 24 32 47 34 11-50 19-25 27-50 19 12 197-75 33 26-50 81 12 18 41-50 18-50 8-33 338-75 14-75 37-50 99-50 85-50 259-0 23-75 14-50 19 36-50 365 55-50 49-75 115-25 34-75 25-50 11-50 23 31-50 45-50 31-25 4 8 10 10 3 118 14 18 38 5 4 17 11 5 180 4 16 52 50 126 13 10 4 19 177 28 22 51 16 13 5 16 15 23 22 6 8 16 11 8 121 24 7 43 4 14 23 12 1 161 11 26 51 42 120 7 6 13 11 175 29 27 64 24 13 6 9 18 25 13 10 16 26 21 11 239 38 25 81 9 18 40 23 6 341 15 42 103 92 246 20 16 17 30 352 57 49 115 40 26 11 25 33 48 35 11-50 22-50 28-25 20-75 12 202-75 39-25 26-75 87-25 13-50 19-50 41-50 22-50 9-66 342-25 14-75 42 104-50 89-50 263-25 24-75 17 19 36'75 372-75 56-50 51 119-50 36 30-50 12-25 24-75 32-75 46-75 32 } * J 1 { 1 3 57 23 11 29 8 5 10 14 11 143 1 I 2 }' 176 4 15 29 21 161 9 21 5 8 174 13 10 46 19 19 6 10 4 11 61 8 40 26 141 17 20 12 13 231 17 18 71 14 37 12 9 10 3 12 I' ! * Totals 11. 2,974 1,011 1,050 2,935 2,295 2243-08 2241 1,127 1,149 2,276 2326-K 2323'7i

* Maraewliomia Duntroon Awamoko Papakaio Pukeuri ( Oamaru District High 3 Oamaru North (_ Oamaru South. Ngapara TeaneraM Waiareia Kakanui Maheno Otepopo Hampden 1 1 1 1 1 530 600 600 648 900 5,796 2,724 3,960 1,140 600 1,208 750 600 1,584 1,188 45 29 37 52 97 346 374 288 61 39 71 114 63 187 105 29 19 19 16 44 212 186 373 13 26 38 21 50 30 56 7 10 10 16 43 165 155 189 21 24 16 23 46 44 47 67 38 46 52 98 393 405 472 53 41 93 112 67 173 114 42 28 37 36 88 324 353 385 45 37 75 92 54 142 98 38-75 26-5 30-5 325 84 320-25 358-75 378-75 44-25 37-5 64-25 85-75 56 141-5 95 24 14 14 17 47 176 181 193 24 16 50 50 33 79 47 20 14 24 22 43 148 172 192 22 22 30 44 24 63 56 44 28 38 39 90 324 353 385 46 38 80 94 57 142 103 41-75 26-75 31-5 36-5 85-75 32175 359-5 380-25 46 38-5 66-25 87-25 58 141-75 97-25 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

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Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. "SSS il .sis c U "■ i 6 t) « rt u 5 3 rt iH o ssi !?■§ to n o c & E ni o 3 bn School Roll. fc0 I 3 Strict Average. .verage Attendance. Working Average. ■s s si fa 6 V . Fourth Quarter. I Whole Boys. Girls. Total. Moeraki Pukiiviti Moonlight Macrae's Waihenio Dunbaek Inch Valley Shag Valley Palmerston Goodwood Flag Swamp Waikouaiti Merton Seacliff Eyansdale Blueskin Purakanui Lower Harbour ... Port Chalmers Mount Cargill Sawyer's Bay St. Leonards Bavensbourne North-East Valley Pine Hill fDunedin, William Street ... Dunedio, Arthur Street Dunedin, Albany Street I Dunedin, Union Street Dunedin, George Street Dunedin, Stafford Street Dunedin, Bath Street IJDunedin, Normal Anderson's Bay North-East Harbour Highcliffe Broad Bay Portobello Sandy mount Taiaroa Heads Waikari Kaikorai Caversham Benevolent Asylum Kensington Forbury Mornington Green Island Walton Saddle Hill Brighton Kuri Bush Otokia Greytown ... East Taieri Mosgicl North Taieri Hindon Strath Taieri Whare Flat Outram West Taieri MauEgatua Lake Waipori ... ■ ... Taieri Ferry Waihola Taieri Beach Waihola Gorge Circle Hill Tokomairiro District High ... Fairfax Akatoro Glenledi Southbridgo Glenore Manuka Creek 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-1 1 1 1 1 1 1-1 1-1 1-1 1-1 1-1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 640 1,200 600 612 600 600 600 234 3,132 600 1,248 2,964 648 600 600 1,584 600 512 4,937 600 1,200 525 1,440 2,500 567 4,500 6,306 5,740 9,324 8,096 [050] [560] 0,791 1,556 720 404 600 1,056 1,000 392 1,565 3,320 4,706 [300] 3,296 3,206 2,330 1,400 1,095 681 392 450 600 1,140 1,281 1,336 1,494 [432] 600 600 1,540 1,155 480 648 600 1,329 600 1,176 600 3,834 1,313 348 [195] 540 800 392 44 107 27 43 32 36 35 23 264 44 74 274 64 66 39 152 58 20 440 43 142 43 183 256 43 583 674 657 702 500 64 63 793 138 50 4,8 40 86 87 20 108 344 537 3d. 259 495 291 230 124. 39 25 31 88 83 163 143 129 27 22 42 163 72 61 56 63 109 46 80 39 335 101 27 24 40 26 41 14 82 14 3 8 13 11 16 143 13 33 79 31 34 13 61 27 25 305 24 91 15 73 215 32 230 302 335 399 436 50 72 461 72 12 25 15 22 19 5 53 160 325 8 312 327 224 117 76 20 10 13 24 51 48 44 28 16 4 10 44 18 25 22 15 52 13 15 9 169 35 9 21 6 6 .37 21 62 8 9 8 17 13 4 120 5 27 64 28 29 12 60 21 15 239 13 76 14 57 179 24 228 237 283 372 306 30 77 410 65 19 10 14 23 21 5 38 123 237 10 249 268 125 72 59 7 11 24 30 33 39 39 12 24 3 12 42 16 28 21 9 53 8 8 10 135 44 11 18 5 6 22 37 127 33 37 32 32 33 35 287 52 80* 289 67 71 40 153 64 36 512 54 157 44 199 292 51 585 739 709 729 630 78 58 844 145 49 63 41 85 85 20 123 387 625 26 322 554 390 275 141 52 30 20 76 101 172 148 145 19 23 40 165 74 58 57 69 108 51 87 38 369 92 25 32 41 26 56 35 109 24 26 27 20 29 29 242 41 68 243 51 58 33 130 52 26 401 41 119 28 166 231 42 477 628 615 646 522 60 41 731 110 39 54 31 62 60 18 95 323 540 22 223 448 327 220 118 44 23 12 70 79 146 128 114 17 21 30 145 55 46 42 55 92 44 76 34 337 71 17 20 37 19 42 * 37-25 105-5 22-5 30 27 24 31 25-5 235 39-75 59-75 232-5 42-25 59-75 30-25 131-75 48-5 20-5 370 38 117-75 20-5 147-25 210-75 375 497-5 042 607 045-5 492 54 52-75 747-25 111 42-75 49-5 29-5 62 60-25 17-25 91 307-25 506-75 25-25 225-5 412-25 280-75 199-5 100-5 37-25 20 15'25 71-25 75-5 133-25 116-75 105-25 17-5 20-5 29;75 141-75 55-75 39-25 39-25 50-75 87-5 40-5 73 33 314-25 74-5 14-5 19-25 34-5 19-5 35 22 60 13 17 20 17 13 16 140 20 37 120 25 30 9 72 35 14 217 18 69 11 97 118 21 243 349 304 355 283 34 25 328 56 27 39 14 33 33 11 53 165 282 11 112 233 169 109 54 23 18 6 39 49 66 80 60 11 12 16 94 30 27 28 28 40 29 39 18 168 38 5 15 21 10 20 14 49 12 11 9 6 16 13 102 21 32 125 28 29 24 59 21 14 185 24 51 17 69 113 21 234 279 311 292 239 26 16 404 54 14 16 18 29 28 8 43 158 264 11 112 215 158 112 64 24 6 7 31 31 81 49 54 6 10 15 51 27 20 10 29 52 16 37 18 170 35 13 6 18 10 22 36 109 25 28 29 23 29 29 242 41 69 245 53 59 33 131 56 28 402 42 120 28 166 231 42 477 628 615 647 522 60 41 732 110 41 55 32 62 61 19 90 323 540 22 224 448 327 221 118 47 24 ■ 13 70 80 147 129 114 17 22 ■ 31 145 57 47 44 57 92 45 70 36 338 73 18 21 39 20 42 # 39-5 105-5 2325 31-75 28 25-5 31-25 25-75 235-25 39-75 01 238-5 44-75 00-5 31-75 133-75 50-75 27-25 383-75 38-75 119-75 27-5 153-75 222-75 38 499 642 607 645-75 494-25 55-75 57-5 747-5 111-75 43-75 50-25 32-5 65 62 175 94-25 308-25 50675 25-25 229-5 438-5 290-5 207-5 106-75 39-25 23 16-25 71-25 76 136-5 119 105-25 17-5 21 30-75 142-25 57 41-25 41-5 53-5 88-5 41-25 73-25 '35-5 315-25 76 17 20-5 35-75 1975 35-25 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

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Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. w .sis ld.5 c rt o <" P a) i3 ° o S o |c . E « ° 11 a its -5 School Roll. Is f>_ 1-3 zT Strict Average. Average Attendance. Working Average. If Is Fourth Quarter. Whole Boys. Girls. I Total. # Adams Flat Loyell's Flat Stony Creek Hillend Kaitangata Wangaloa Tuapeka Moutli ... Stirling Balclutha Balclutha North ... Te Houka Waitepeka Warepa Kaihiku Waiwera Puerua Port Molynoux Ahuriri O wake Tahatika Clinton Wairuna Waipahi G-lenkenioli Waikoikoi Waitahuna "Waitaliuna Gully Clarke's Flat Weatlierstone Lawrence District High Bluespur Waipori Tuapeka West Tuapeka Flat Eyans Flat Beaumont Heriot Moa Flat Roxburgh Crookston Swift Creek Tapanui Bendigo Cromwell Kawarau Bannockburn Nctis Clyde Alexandra Drybroad Black's Ida Valley Bald Hill Flat ... Ewcbum St. Bathans Cambrian Blackstono Hill ... Rough Ridge Naseby Kyeburn Diggings Hamilton and Sowburn 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 450 675 345 [280] 2,062 525 600 600 1,859 [320] 320 655 600 700 600 510 504 600 600 [336] 1,140 600 600 600 600 1,700 1,200 600 1,120 3,969 2,037 905 600 405 600 600 600 900 1,167 600 816 1,945 600 1,293 300 510 600 1,250 1,170 600 840 600 600 [300] 600 300 300 [300] 1,721 476 ( [391] i 600 600 25 41 29 21 199 19 44 68 186 42 28 61 38 59 55 56 46 30 83 27 95 52 38 42 28 156 108 32 95 283 199 65 34 34 45 47 41 71 139 27 35 154 31 106 26 73 22 124 112 58 53 28 32 26 29 42 21 22 168 44 10 24 5 5 68 17 22 35 79 18 12 15 22 8 13 19 17 13 34 13 33 12 25 13 13 98 32 3 38 105 74 25 5 20 14 9 12 19 72 12 13 121 10 38 11 25 4 29 23 12 31 2 11 16 5 15 - 10 7 112 8 7 17 9 7 33 20 9 23 94 18 4 17 12 6 13 26 15 12 29 14 29 9 18 14 10 74 32 2 38 101 47 27 3 11 14 8 11 18 59 11 9 70 14 21 7 23 8 28 28 16 31 8 11 17 13 8 7 12 76 5 28 48 25 19 234 16 57 80 171 42 36 59 48 61 55 49 48 31 88 26 99 55 45 41 31 180 108 33 95 287 226 63 36 43 45 48 42 72 152 28 39 205 27 123 30 75 18 125 107 54 53 22 32 25 21 49 24 17 204 47 21 42 21 16 211 16 51 69 148 34 31 47 39 52 44 47 42 24 51 22 80 47 37 24 24 161 94 28 83 264 180 41 28 32 38 43 27 53 113 22 29 177 20 109 22 59 16 94 91 38 47 17 24 20 19 39 18 14 157 32 21-5 38-5 22 16-5 185-5 16-75 42-5 66-5 147-5 32-25 25-5 45-5 33-75 45-75 40 43-25 34 21-75 49-75 20-75 73-25 44-75 30 27-25 23-25 137 91-75 25 75-5 258 182-25 44-25 26-5 22 38-25 42-75 24 53-25 108-5 20 28 150-5 21-5 101 20 55-5 17-25 98-25 96 35-25 43-75 15 23-5 18 21 37-75 20 15-5 156 31-75 8 19 12 6 114 8 27 39 72 15 18 25 14 28 26 29 25 12 32 12 48 25 18 17 13 77 58 10 49 139 85 19 "10 19 17 25 13 30 62 10 13 82 11 54 9 40 11 44 45 21 23 10 14 9 13 16 10 7 99 12 14 24 10 11 97 8 24 30 76 20 13 25 2G 24 19 20 19 13 21 10 32 23 19 8 12 84 37 18 34 125 95 25 19 14 21 19 17 26 57 13 17 95 10 55 14 20 6 50 47 19 26 8 11 11 6 24 9 7 58 20 22 43 22 17 211 16 51 09 148 35 31 50 40 52 45 49 41 25 53 22 80 48 37 25 25 161 95 28 83 264 180 44 29 33 38 44 30 56 119 23 30 177 21 109 23 00 17 94 92 40 49 18 25 20 19 40 19 14 157 32 22-5 40-25 22-5 17 186 17-25 43 67-25 148-25 32-5 26-25 48-75 35-25 47-25 42-5 45-5 36 23-25 55-75 20-75 75-5 47-25 31-25 28-25 24-5 137 93 25-5 79-5 258 182-25 46-5 27 26-5 38-25 43 27-5 55-5 111 21-5 28-75. 153-75 22 101-25 20-25 56-75 18 98-25 96-25 39 44-25 1533 24 18-5 21-75 38 20-75 16 156-5 32-5 1 1 1 \ 47 11 4 54 46 43-25 21 25 46 44-25 Hyde 1 60 11 13 58 44 43-25 25 19 44 45-75 Totals ... 17,581 7,255 19,274 15331-25 15327-5 t 8,382 7,679 16,061 15593-8 15589-25 t 154 8,948 15,918 * In the case of any school which was nol luring which the school was open. t Ihcse numbers represent the averages open for the entire y< jar, the fi| urea in 1 bhese columns represent thi averagi attendance for the period >f the total attendanc es for the Four quai rters.

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Schools. t ll which belong to one School District connected by bracket. I* ■ ■§jS.S s x s §5.5 25 a V '" tn rt u « 3 rt Si O*CVJ °8Sl SEj. S -a o 1=1 [a w O G 7JC1. P M M C 1 School Roll. in z~ Strict Average. tverage Attendance. Working Averagi c. Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Boys. Girls. Total. Lumsden Dipton Limohills Winton North Forest Hill Elderslie South Forest Hill Ryal Bush Heddon Bush Wrey's Bush Waianiwa Wallacetown Waikiwi Waihopai North Invercargill Invercargill— ( a. Central School ] I. North School C c. South School Otatara Bush Clifton Campbelltown Athol Waikaia Knapdale Pukerau Otaraia Pinnacle Chatton Gore Mataura Tuturau Wyndham Edendale Mimihau South Wyndham ... Pine Bush Fortrose Hedgehope Grove B ush Roslyn Bush Myross B ush Woodlands Iiongbush Oteramika One-Tree Point ... Orepuki Eiverton Limestone Plains ,.. Otautau Grummie's Bush ... Q-ropcr's Bush Flint's Bush Pembroke Cardrona Macetown Upper Shotover ... Millar's Flat Lower Shotover ... Arrowtown Queenstown Moke Creek Fairlight Half moon Bay 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 600 600 600 1,314 600 600 600 600 400 400 648 400 1,200 1,200 1,200 46 18 50 128 65 55 " 64 9 52 55 26 52 20 22 40 5 30 45 18 12 36 83 85 26 32 12 74 30 15 6 24 5 4 17 14 33 70 94 72 41 64 106 55 62 34 45 34 41 77 43 102 123 135 50 26 37 54 40 47 21 28 26 30 61 35 72 95 91 47-25 28-75 35-25 67 38-75 40-5 16-66 31-75 19 27 60 38 72-75 95 108-5 30 14 21 36 21 19 16 14 9 18 30 17 40 61 46 24 16 23 25 20 31 9 19 18 14 31 19 34 34 50 54 30 44 61 41 50 25 33 27 32 61 36 74 95 96 48-75 32 40-25 77-25 44-25 45 19 37-75 20 29 60-25 38-5 76-25 96 113-5 1 1 1 76 45 99 110 144 1 1 4,472 2,500 4,100 400 576 1,200 400 800 400 400 600 600 400 1,232 1,200 465 800 391 336 500 [400] 480 400 600 525 600 1,200 684 375 600 400 2,400 432 800 432 391 600 600 560 400 288 725 600 1,080 2,211 [240] [200] 480 404 238 467 29 71 72 22 59 50 28 33 46 34 125 128 32 46 52 38 26 22 35 25 48 45 41 65 43 30 38 63 324 40 58 43 53 44 35 30 18 26 28 54 98 183 453 88 226 13 49 47 13 11 20 16 17 24 7 84 49 18 28 37 22 12 4 27 11 25 7 5 16 34 10 28 21 99 19 29 19 17 26 23 13 13 12 23 20 61 40 18 9 5 253 108 172 7 50 33 10 14 8 7 8 19 604 218 521 35 70 86 25 56 62 37 42 51 41 151 156 43 55 55 38 26 19 53 25 54 38 35 53 61 30 56 71 313 45 67 35 58 48 50 32 22 36 39 63 96 157 18 23 30 494 152 400 25 46 63 23 44 45 28 23 40 21 102 87 29 34 35 27 21 18 34 17 37 28 23 43 46 15 28 57 204 27 51 24 37 33 41 27 20 28 25 36 77 116 17 20 26 459-5 169 400 23-25 44-75 57-75 21-75 42 38-75 29 22 30 20 80 96-75 25-25 35-75 37-5 24-75 23 17-25 31-75 13-75 34-5 31-25 23-5 44-5 32-5 17'25 23-75 55-5 231 26-5 45-25 28-5 36-25 31-25 38-75 25 18-25 22-5 18-5 34-75 74-5 113-25 16-5 1625 27 230 84 223 11 24 35 11 22 28 16 10 20 15 59 49 16 24 20 14 15 10 25 12 17 19 14 26 23 14 16 31 117 19 28 12 21 23 15 14 11 14 15 20 42 74 4 14 12 264 70 186 14 25 31 13 24 19 14 15 21 10 44 43 16 15 18 14 9 8 21 6 20 12 13 18 23 8 15 26 98 13 23 15 18 15 26 13 9 14 13 26 35 43 13 6 14 494 154 409 25 49 61 24 46 47 30 25 41 25 103 92 32 39 38 28 24 18 46 18 37 31 27 44 46 22 31 57 215 132 51 27 39 38 41 27 20 28 28 46 77 117 17 20 26 459-5 173-5 415 24 49-5 59-25 22-25 43-75 41-25 29-5 24 34 24-75 85 100 27-25 38 38-75 26 24-25 175 40 17-5 3625 3375 26-5 45-75 365 21 27-5 57-25 237-75 31 46-25 30-75 37-75 33-75 40 26-75 19-75 24 23 42 82-75 118-5 16-5 17-25 28 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 58 21 7 19 34 22 12 7 9 11 19 14 11 28 16 10 10 13 110 14 20 27 12 22 8 11 9 2 12 11 63 66 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 19 35 "5 10 Totals 51 4,452 2,449 1,868 5,033 3,616 3,638-41 3,436 1,980 1,796 3,776 3,742 3,705-75

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REPORTS OF EDUCATION BOARDS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1381.

[Note. —Minute details relating to school districts are in some cases omitted. Tables are not all reprinted, the substance of most of them being embodied in the tables in or attached to the report of the Minister. The order of details has been in. some instances changed in the statements of accounts.]

AUCKLAND. Auckland, 10th March, 1882. _ In accordance with section 102 of the Act, the Board presents the following report of its proceedings during the year 1881. Board.—Thirty-three meetings of the Board were held during the year, with an average attendance of six members. The Executive Committee, consisting of five members, met fifty-two times. An election was held in March to fill the vacancies caused by the retirement of Mr. Joseph May, Mr. Moat, and Mr. Dargaville. Mr. Moat and Mr. Dargaville were re-elected, and Mr. Eichard Hobbs was the successful candidate for the third vacant seat. Through the retirement of Mr. May, who did not offer himself for re-election, the Board has lost a member whose experience and knowledge of country districts enabled him to render much useful service. Public Schools. —There were 215 schools in operation during the year. Of these, 38 were halftime schools, 14 were " aided " under section 88 of the Act, and one (Great Barrier) was conducted by an itinerant teacher. The number of schools according to the numeration in Returns I. and ll.* accompanying this report was 196. The number of school districts was 162. New schools were opened at Kohukohu, Otonga, Kirikiriroa, Wairanga, Mangawai, and also at Churchill (half-time with Eangiriri). Half-time schools have been opened at Whakahara and Tokatoka, instead of the employment of an itinerant teacher for the district (formerly known as Wairoa North). Aided schools have been opened at Muddy Creek and Te Aroha Gold Field. The schools at Awhitu (No. 2), Huia Mills, Hakaru, Orongo, Pollock, and Punga Mat (Thames), have been closed, but arrangements are contemplated for reopening the school at Pollock. The Kaipara Heads School was taken over as a Native school at the 30th June, 1881. The half-time school at Whakatiwai (Miranda) was closed, and a school was opened at the Miranda Settlement (half-time) with Kaiawai. Kaiwaka became a full-time school at the closing of Hakaru School; and the schools at Lucas's Creek and Pukeatua have been made fulltime schools. The utmost caution is observed by the Board in opening new schools; but, owing to the scattered settlement of the outlying districts, the demand for the establishment of small schools is frequent, and in most instances well founded. The Board has been obliged to consider the question of how these small schools can be maintained upon an income which is entirely dependent upon average attendance of scholars. In many country places there ai'e but few children of school age, and some of them have to travel a long distance to and from school. Bainy days and almost impassable roads have a serious effect in lowering the attendance and in reducing the funds (already quite inadequate) for the maintenance of such schools. The Board has been obliged in many instances to reduce the grant to a capitation allowance of £4 a year on the average attendance. Wherever it has been possible to do so, the Board has introduced the half-time system. The schools at Buakaka and Waipu Cave, at Brookside and Kariaotahi (Waiuku), at Harapepe and Te Bore, and at Mackaytown and Waitekauri, have been combined into half-time schools. The Board is glad to report that the half-time system has been found to work with fairly satisfactory results. Teachees. —The staff of teachers has increased from 466 to 495. This number is distributed as follows: — Male. Female. Total. Head teachers ... ... ... 153 43 196 Assistant teachers ... ... ... 26 103 129 Pupil-teachers ... ... ... 15 105 120 Sewing teachers ... ... ... ... 46 46 Yisiting'teachers ... ... ... 7 ... 7 201 297 498 Eegulations for the employment of pupil-teachers received the approval of the Minister of Education and came into force in June last. They provide for the employment of pupil-teachers at a minimum age of fifteen years. The term of service is three years, secured by agreement^ but subject to termination by three months' notice on either side. Candidates are expected to have passed the Sixth Standard or an equivalent examination ; but the Board has discretionary power to accept candidates of the Fifth Standard. The first annual examination of pupil-teachers under the new system will be held in April next. Eegulations have been framed so as to enable a pupil-teacher to pass into the Training College at the minimum age of eighteen, immediately after completing the three years' term of service. Advantage has also been taken of the regulation (made by Order in Council) for the issue of district licenses to pupil-teachers upon completion of their term of service.

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Reference may here be made to the date at which the annual examinations of teachers are held. As Auckland has hitherto furnished the largest number of candidates, the Board ventures to suggest that almost any other period of the year would be more convenient. The time chosen (the last week of January) falls at the hottest season of the year, following immediately after a period which should be one of entire relief from school duties, and necessitating, in many instances, an undue prolongation of the Christmas holidays.

Attendances. —A slight increase has taken place in the attendances during the past year:—

The increase would have been much greater but for the outbreak of scarlatina both at Auckland and at the Thames, which greatly reduced the attendance for the last two quarters of the year. The Board's income was seriously and suddenly diminished. The regulations (Order in Council, 28th May, 1878) provide that a second computation of the average attendance shall be made " in order that the capitation allowance may not be unduly affected by bad weather, epidemics, or any unusual occurrence." It was shown that the epidemic had unduly affected the average, and that the regulation failed to secure the object for which it was declared to have been made ; and it was suggested that the Order in Council might reasonably be varied to meet the special requirements of the case. The Government, however, declined to take the action necessary to authorize payment of the capitation allowance at the normal rate ; and the Board, not having my surplus funds with which to meet the contingency, was obliged to make reductions in the staff and salaries of its teachers. Greater attention appears to have been given by Committees to the enforcement of the provisions of the Act for compulsory attendance. In twenty-seven school districts the clauses of the Act have been brought into force, and in seven districts the assistance of the police has been obtained in giving effect to the provisions. Only four convictions are recorded. So far as the Board has been able to collect information, it appears that the mere act of notifying the compulsory clauses has been sufficient in many cases to secure attendance. The Auckland City Committee report that, immediately upon notices being served, the schools became so full that it was impossible to take further action for want of accommodation. At the Thames it has not been considered necessary to enforce the provisions, the attendance being both general and regular. In the country it is rare to find children of school age residing within a radius of two miles from the school and not attending school. Regular attendance is encouraged by the issue of " good-attendance certificates." The number of these certificates increases every year, but the practice of granting them has not been universally adopted by Committees. The number of Maori and half-caste scholars at the end of the year was as follows : Maoris, 80 ; half-castes, 241. The attendance of Maori children at Board schools is generally fitful and irregular. It is probable that better results would follow if, in some instances, schools now attended by both races were conducted as Native schools under the department. Ao-es.- —The number of scholars above school age has increased from 274 to 341*. This number is exclusive of those in attendance at evening schools, conducted under section 86 of the Act. Standards.' —The report of the Inspector of Schools shows the results of the standard examinations held during the year. Subjects of Instruction.' —Visiting teachers have been employed as usual to give special instruction in reading, singing, drawing, and drill and gymnastics. The visits of these teachers have been extended, as far as practicable, to country schools. A proposal to establish a class of instruction in mechanical drawing was considered, but no action has yet been taken in the matter. Finance and Accounts. —The statements of accounts required by the department are appended to this report. The expenditure during 1881 was considerably less than that during the preceding year, owing to the difference in the amount granted for buildings. The cost of office staff and departmental expenses was £1,480 12s. Bd., as compared with £2,181 10s. sd. in the previous year. The increase in the staff of teachers has caused a corresponding increase in the item " Teachers' salaries." The expenditure on " Grants to Committees" was £2,466 9s. 5d.; in 1880 it was £4,231 13s. sd. The Committees have greatly assisted the Board in carrying out the retrenchment insisted upon by the late Parliament. The Board considered it right that the 10-per-ccnt. reduction on salaries should continue only so long as a similar reduction was enforced in the other branches of the public service; and the reductions ceased accordingly at the 31st August. As the Board could not rely upon a sufficient surplus income from which to provide funds for Committees, application was made to Government for a capitation grant of 4s. a year for that specific purpose. The Government could not see their way to increase the vote for education; and it has only been possible by the exercise of a rigid economy to continue the grants for school-cleaning and other incidental expenses. The maintenance of a large number of small " non-paying" schools continues to be a most serious encumbrance. Unless some more liberal provision is made for their maintenance the Board will shortly be obliged to close some schools in districts where no other means of education can be had. The question is one of great difficulty ; it has frequently been represented to Government, but no remedy has been supplied. The capitation grant of £3 15s. is fairly sufficient to maintain a school of 50 children; above that number the grant is generally ample; but where, as in Auckland, there are no

No. of Schools. Roll. Average. 'ecember quarter, 1881 ... 212 Males. 8,258 Females. 7,572 Total. 15,830 Males. 6,457 Females. 5,818 Total. 12,275 •ecember quarter, 1880 ... 208 7,787 7,152 14,939 6,245 5,594 11,839 Increase... 436 471 420 891 212 224

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less than 64 schools with an average attendance under 25, and 71 schools in addition having from 25 to 50 scholars, the system o£ a capitation grant presses most unequally, and it becomes a hard task for the Board to pay its way. Under these circumstances it will be seen that the sudden decrease of the capitation grant for the last two quarters of the year involved the Board in a financial embarrassment which it will take time to overcome. The Board earnestly hopes that something may yet be done in this matter. Buildings.—The expenditure on school-buildings amounted to £16,988 18s. sd. The strictest economy was exercised in the administration of the funds available for buildings. Fifteen new schools and 17 teachers' dwellings were erected or contracted for during the year. Additions were made to the schools at Newton East, Ponsonby, and Cambridge, to meet the increasing demand for accommodation ; and various other enlargements and improvements were made to existing buildings. The Board was reluctantly obliged to refuse many pressing applications and to postpone others. Notwithstanding the Board's frequent representation of the special claims of this district to a larger share in the distribution of funds for school-buildings, the grant was distributed on the strict basis of population. The amount (£14,330) so allotted to Auckland was utterly inadequate to meet the requirements of the Board. In a letter addressed to the department on the sth August, 1881 (prior to the distribution of the vote), it was shown (1) that, in respect of schools and dwellings alike, Auckland was far less liberally provided than the other education districts of the colony; (2) that, owing to the small number of settled boroughs and to the scattered nature of settlement in the Auckland District, neither population nor school attendance could be regarded as a fair basis of distribution. The Board regretted to be obliged to record its protest against the allocation of the grant. It appears that, if ever Auckland is to be placed on an equal footing in regard to buildings, it must bo by means of a liberal grant specially voted for the purpose. At the end of last year there were 39 schools held in buildings not belonging to the Board, and 100 schools were unprovided with dwellings. Many buildings require immediate enlargement and improvement, and a large outlay is necessary for the purchase of sites and playgrounds. But the chief want is that of dwellings. Teachers, i.e., efficient teachers, cannot be obtained for country schools if no adequate and suitable provision is made for their accommodation. In most places there is actually no dwelling whatever available unless the Board erects one. Returns have been furnished (in accordance with Circular No. 82) of the buildings " absolutely required to meet the wants of the population as on Ist January, 1882." A sum of £28,000 is required (above and beyond any balances in hand or to be received) to enable the Board to erect the buildings most urgently needed. This amount does not represent the cost of all the buildings with which Auckland is unprovided, or for which a demand may arise during the coming year. Only the immediate and most pressing wants are set forth in the return. The Board has had brought before its notice during the past year the very great importance of providing sufficient area for a playground in conjunction with each school. In country places the Board has always endeavoured to obtain enough land for school and playground, and for teacher's dwelling, garden, and paddock. In the town schools, however, it has been impossible, for want of funds, to make adequate provision in this respect: indeed, the Board has experienced great difficulty in obtaining even the necessary sites for buildings. It is, however, chiefly in the town schools, where the numbers of scholars are reckoned by hundreds, that playground accommodation is required. For example, at the Wellesley Street School, situated in the City of Auckland, and attended by 1,100 children, there is absolutely no playground except the public streets and a vacant piece of ground belonging to the Auckland Improvement Trust. Application was made for a grant towards the cost of levelling a portion of the reserve adjoining the school. It was thought that this was one of the objects sought to be attained by the special vote of £5,000 for " Purchase of recreationgrounds." Owing, however, to a technical difficulty, that vote could not be applied to the purpose; but the Board is glad to learn that there is a prospect of the want being supplied at the next session of Assembly. Grants were made from this vote for the purchase of suitable land at the Newton and Ponsonby Schools. There are still other similar requirements, of which particulars have been communicated to Government. Sciiolaeships.—A list is appended* of the scholarships held during the year. Four open and thirteen district scholarships were awarded as the result of the examiuation held last December. These honors are gradually becoming more widely distributed over town and country schools. Eighteen unsuccessful candidates obtained certificates of proficiency, with the privilege of free tuition at the Auckland College and Grammar School or the Girls' High School. The Board regrets to have to report that the Governors of the Thames High School declined to accord a similar privilege to the successful candidates from the Thames District. Regulations for the maintenance of scholarships have been under consideration during the year, but, owing to various reasons, the Board has thought it advisable to postpone for a time their final adoption. A copy of the programme* of scholarships for 1882 is appended to this report. School Libraeies. —The Board has endeavoured to encourage the formation of school libraries, by offering small grants in aid. Grants are made in books of a kiad suitable for young readers, and a condition is required that no books are placed in the library except such as are approved by the Committee and the Board. Trailing College.—Regulations for the management of the Training College were submitted to, and approved by, the Minister of Education. The College was opened in March, under the superintendence of the Principal, Mr. McArthur, whose report is appended. There were six students at the beginning, and eleven at the end of the year. The course of training is designed to extend over two years. A yearly allowance of £45 to male students and £40 to female students is granted for maintenance. Students are required to give security that they will teach in the public schools of the colony for at least two years after leaving the College. In addition to the ordinary duties of Principal, Mr. McArthur conducts the training of teachers by classes and by correspondence, in continuation of

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the system which has been in operation in this district for many years past. The work is carried on in part of the new building at the Wellesley Street School, erected in 1880 for the purpose. That school is used as the practising school under agreement with the Committee, subject to the regulations. A portion of the space set apart for the Training College is now temporarily used for public-school purposes, and it is probable that further accommodation will have to be provided before long. School Committees. —In April last the Board received a report from a Conference of School Committees held at Auckland to consider the powers and duties of Committees as defined by the Act, and their relation to the Board. The Conference was said to represent 49 of the 162 Committees within the education district. The report set forth the claims of Committees to a larger share in the management and supervision of schools, and to a fuller consultation in the appointment and removal of teachers, and suggested several alterations in the regulations issued b} r the Board for the guidance of Committees and teachers. The Board met the delegates appointed by the Conference, and discussed with them the paragraphs of the report seriatim, and the various alterations suggested in the regulations. It was shown that the functions of Committees were already defined by the Act, and that the Board had no other desire than to assist and uphold Committees in their exercise of those functions. With regard to the appointment and removal of teachers, ifc was stated that the requirements of the Act would be fully complied with, but that the power of appointment and removal must rest with the Board, as prescribed in the Act. The Board devoted considerable time to the consideration of the changes suggested in the regulations, and readily adopted such alterations as, it was considered, could be made in accordance with the spirit of the Act, and with a due regard to the efficiency of the system. The Conference has resulted in a clearer understanding between Committees and the Board as to their relative powers and duties; and the Board gratefully acknowledges the co-operation and support which it has received from School Committees generally in the administration of the Act. The Hon. the Minister of Education. J. M. Clare, Chairman.

General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the luar. ending 31st December, 1881. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance, Ist January, 1881— By Office and BoardMaintenance Account ... ... 2,496 16 0 Office Btaff, salaries ... ... 925 10 10 Public Libraries Account ... ... 209 16 0 Departmental contingencies... ... 555 1 10 Buildings Account ... ... 2,098 18 5 School Inspection — Grants from Government— Salaries ... ... ... ... 1,123 6 8 Statutory capitation (£3 155.) ... 44,204 19 6 Travelling expenses ... ... 45110 0 Scholarships (Is. 6d.) ... ... 751 19 5 Examination of pupil-teachers ... 45 16 9 Training subsidy ... ... ... 2,000 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances ... 39,750 210 Inspection subsidy ... ... 500 0 0 School Committees, &c, for educational Specially for playgrounds ... ... 2,200 0 0 purposes ... ... ... 2,466 9 5 Specially for buildings ... ... 19,000 0 0 Scholarships— i Payments by School Commissioners from Paid to holders ... ... ... 590 0 0 education reserves ... ... 772 8 6 Expenses of examinations ... ... 107 14 7 Subscriptions and donations specially ■ Training of teachers ... ~. ... 2,277 15 11 for buildings ... ... ... 50 0 0 Insurance of school-buildings ... ... 477 3 3 Contractors'deposits forfeited... ... 55 0 0 School-Buildings— Insurance refund ... ... ... 29 6 6 New buildings ... ... ... 8,522 14 6 Sale of sites ~. ... ... 37 1 0 Enlargement, improvement, and repairs 3,913 2 0 Refund Rent Account ... ... 13 0 0 School furniture and appliances (not ivRefuud Secretary's advance ... ... 50 0 0 eluded in preceding) ... ... 1,798 7 5 Purchase of sites ... ... ... 845 10 7 Purchase of playgrounds, special ... 1,200 0 0 Plans, supervision, &c. ... ... 709 3 11 Library Committees, out of Public Libraries Vote ... ... ... 209 16 0 Grant to teachers' library ... ... 2500 Bank interest ... ... ... 97 12 2 Bank Balances— Maintenance Account ... ... 2,427 9 6 Building Account (including £1,000 specially for playgrounds) ... 5,949 17 2 £74,469 5 4 £74,469 5 4 J. M. Clark, Chairman. Vincent E. Eice, Secretary. I hereby certify that I have examined the accounts and vouchers of the Education Board of the District of Auckland for the year ended 31st December, 1881, and, on comparing this statement therewith, I find it to be correct. —L. A. Dtjrrieu, Auditor. 3rd March, 1882.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1881. Assets. £ s, d. I Liabilities. £ s. d. Balances in hand — Teachers'salaries for December, ISBI ... 3,543 711 Board Fund ... ... ... 2,427 9 6 Unpaid accounts ... ~, ... 350 0 0 Building Fund ... ... ... 4,949 17 2 Building contracts and grants ... ... 4,434 12 3 Building Fund—Playground Account ... 1,000 0 0 Building Account—Playgrounds... ... 1,000 0 0 Balance of building grant ... ... 5,330 0 0 Balance ... ... ~, ... 4,379 6 6 £13,707 6 8 £13,707 6 8

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TAEANAKI. Sic,— New Plymouth, 21st March, 1882. In compliance with the directions of the Education Act, the Taranaki Education Board forwards a report of its proceedings for the year ending the 31st December, 1881. Meetings of Boabd. —The Board has held twenty-four ordinary and two special meetings during the year. Attendance op Childeen.—The increase during the year has been 150 on the roll and 90 on the working average; the totals on the roll for 1880 being 1,559, and for 1881 1,709 ; and for the working average 1,147 for 1880 against 1,237 for 1881. The numbers on the roll and the average attendance would have been greater but for some disagreements between parents, and the misconduct of certain teachers : thus it was that the Board was compelled to close temporarily Koru, Midhirst, and Stratford Schools. - Numbee of Schools.—The Marsland Hill School, temporarily opened for the children of the unemployed, has been closed, and the children remaining admitted to the other town schools. The old East School was converted into an infant school, January, 1882, and has 70 scholars on the roll. There are at present 35 schools at work. A school has been opened at Opunake, in a hired building, and there are at present 86 children on the roll. A new school is being built to accommodate 120 children, which the Committee consider will soon want enlarging. There are 6 half-time schools in the district. New Schools and Buildings.—A new school and teacher's house have been built at Omata, and various repairs and improvements have been done to existing buildings. A contract has been entered into for building a new school at Stratford, which will bo completed by the end of March. A return forwarded to the department shows the works still needed ; and indeed they are very urgently needed. The erection of some of the teachers' houses may be postponed, and rent allowed in lieu of a residence ; but there are cases in which a teacher could not hire a house, as there are none to be let. Disteicts.—Two new districts have been formed : one by dividing No. 11, Inglewood, and taking from it Midhirst and Stratford to form No. 12 District. The other, No. 13, is the Opunake District, the boundaries of which have been already defined. Committees. —Committees have been elected for eleven districts. The Board has appointed Commissioners for those districts where no election took place. The Committees in five districts have elected to expend their capitation allowance, the remainder at present preferring the Board to administer it. Teaching Staff.—The teaching staff consists of—lB male teachers, 1 pupil-teacher; 12 female head teachers, 8 assistant teachers, 5 pupil-teachers. High School. —The High School has been reported on separately. Heney Gotett, Chairman. The Hon. the Minister of Education.

G-eneeal Statement of Receipts and Expenditttee for the Year ending 31st December, 1881. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance, Ist January, 1881— By Office and Board — Maintenance Account ... ... 790 12 5 Secretary's salary ... ... ... 150 0 0 Buildings Account ... ... 116 16 5 Clerical assistance ... ... 8 12 6 Grants from Government — Departmental contingencies ... 85 4 2 Statutory capitation (£3 155.) ... 4,161 6 7 School Inspection — Inspection subsidy ... ... 100 0 0 Inspector's salary ... ... ... 192 10 0 Specially for buildings ... ... 1,650 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances ... 3,276 6 4 Payments by School Commissioners from School Committees, &c. — education reserves ... . ... 155 17 8 For educational purposes ... ... 272 18 10 Bents of cottages ... ... ... 752 Rents of buildings ... ... 21 18 6 Store ... ... ... ... 87 16 3 School-Buildings— Now buildings ... ... ... 667 511 Enlargement, improvement, and repairs 164 2 9 School furniture and appliances (not included in preceding) ... ... 80 11 11 Purchase of sites ... ... 46 2 1 Plans, supervision, &c. ... ... 75 0 O Store ' ... ... ... ... 79 19 4 Balance, Maintenance Account ... 1,237 611 Balance, School-Building Account ... 711 15 3 £7,069 14 6 £7,069 14 6 Henry Govett, Chairman. Examined and found correct. —C. "Rennell, Auditor. "W". Noethceoft, Secretary.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1881. Assets. £ a. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash, Maintenance Account ... ~, 1,237 611 Maintenance Account— Cash, School-Building Account ... ... 711 15 3 Teachers' salaries ... ... 185 2 4 Store Account ... ... ... 19 4 11 No. 3 Committee ... ... 31 0 8 „ 6 „ ... ... 6 15 „ 9 „ ... ... 012 2 „ 11 „ ... ... 54 17 10 Unpaid accounts ... ... 6 10 0 School-Building Account— Works under contract ... ... 724 0 0 Unpaid accounts ... ... 89 1 0 £1,968 7 1 £1,097 5 5 Examined and found correct. —0. Beotell, Auditor.

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WANGANTJI. Sib,— Wanganui, 25th February, 1882. In compliance with the provisions of the Education Act, I have the honor to present the fourth annual report of the Education Board of this district, as also the several tables aud cash statements required by the Education Department. The Board now meets on the last Tuesday in each month, instead of on the Wednesday as heretofore, and it has met regularly on the appointed day. At the annual election of members, in March last, Messrs. W. H. Watt and James W. JBaker were re-elected, and Mr. George S, Bridge, of Waverley, was elected a member of the Board in lieu of Mr. McGregor. Since then there has not been any change in the constitution of the Board. Schools and Attendances. —During the year new schools have been opened at Campbelltown, in the Manawatu County, and at Woodville, in the Patea County, besides a small school at Sandridge, under the Parawanui School Committee. It will be seen that during the year 57 schools have been open. Of these, however, one (Brownlee, near Wanganui) has been closed, owing to the poor attendance. A small school, to accommodate fifty scholars, has been built at Jackeytown, near Palmerston, and this will shortly be in operation. Eeturn No. 1* gives the names, status, and emoluments of teachers at these schools. The average attendance for the four quarters, under the head of " Working Average," is 3,418, whilst last year, under the same heading, gives a return of 3,292. As the attendances shown on Eeturn No. 2f will appear somewhat uneven, and the increase for the last quarter may not equal expectations, it is necessary to explain that the attendance has been much affected by two causes : first, by the exclusion of children under five years of age, in accordance with the Government circular issued in May last; and, secondly, by the prevalence of measles in many of the districts. In connection with the former cause, the Board at once gave the necessary instructions to exclude the attendances from the Government returns, but at the same time it issued a circular stating that, with a view of permitting arrangements to be made by the local Committees with the parents, it recommends that no children be excluded from the schools. This license was taken advantage of in many cases, and satisfactory arrangements were entered into between the parents and Committees. Another phase, however, presented itself with regard to the Government order for the exclusion of the infants. It was found that the salaries of the teachers in the smaller schools, who are paid upon average attendance, would suffer, and the Board therefore addressed a circular to the Committees asking them to take steps to make up the deficiency. School Districts. —During the year new school districts have been formed at Beaconsfield, Manawatu; and at Manaia and Ngaire, Patea. At Manaia a member of the Board (Mr. Coutts), acting as commissioner, met some forty of the settlers, and arranged for a site of 4| acres upon which to build a school. Similar arrangements were made at Ngaire, whilst at Beaconsfield the settlers have purchased a site which they intend to hand over to the Board. Buildings.'—The several works undertaken by the Board last year were completed as far as the limited funds at its disposal would permit. The accommodation aiForded, however, proved to be totally inadequate to the requirements of the educational district, and, owing to the numerous demands for increased room, the Board was compelled to appeal to Government for an advance in anticipation of the grant in aid for buildings. The appeal was met by an instalment of £1,000 being placed at its disposal, and the Board was thus in a measure enabled to comply with the more urgent requirements, whilst the subsequent Government grant for buildings enabled it to proceed with the necessary additions and repairs which had hitherto been postponed, and to call for tenders for the erection of schools in the new districts. The new buildings actually completed comprise a schoolhouse and residence at Campbelltown, Manawatu ; a schoolhouse at Jackeytown, Manawatu ; and the purchase of a residence and site at Crofton. Additions have been made to the schoolhouses at Patea, Hawera, Waverley, Normanby, Awahuri, Stoney Creek, Palmerston North, Sanson, Greatford, Karere, and Taonui. Some of these additions proved to be insufficient, but were undertaken to relieve the most urgent demands before the last building grant was allocated. Since then the Board has found it necessary to authorize considerable extensions to the schools at Hawera, Palmerston North, and the Wanganui Infant School, and has accepted tenders for the erection of a school at Manaia to accommodate 200 children, and one at Ngaire, to accommodate 120. It further contemplates the erection of residences at Foxton and Otaki. Besides the above important works, general repairs throughout the district have been attended to, water-tanks have been supplied, and fences erected when required. It will be seen from the above statement that the funds at the Board's disposal have been very generally distributed through the district. This Board does not bind itself by any iron rule to erect either schools or residences in any particular locality, but will meet the wants of each district in such a manner as in its judgment is most conducive to the public weal. In adopting plans for the new buildings and extensions, the Board, in the interests of the entire district, has kept in view the necessity of confining itself to a plain and useful style of architecture, without useless and expensive ornamentation ; space, proper ventilation, light, and good building materials being the main features aimed at. In June last a severe shock of earthquake caused damage to several of the school chimneys in the district, and necessitated an outlay for repairs not previously contemplated by the Board. Eeturns Nos. 1 and 2, re buildings, give full information respecting the building operations. It will be seen that during the ensuing year new schools will be required at Woodville and Beaconsfield, and an extension of the Wanganui Girls' District High School may be necessary, as it is now often much crowded. Teachers' residences are also required at Manaia, Ngaire, Eiverton, Waitotara, Makino Eoad, and Parawanui. Messrs. Eoss and Wright have continued to act as the Board's architects during the year upon the same terms as originally reported, aud have given every satisfaction. Scholarships.—'From the special grant for this purpose, the Board established nine scholarships of three different values, all tenable for one year, viz.: A, four at £30 per annum each ;B, three at £25 per annum each ; and C, two at £20 per annum each. These were competed for in August last under the regulations approved by the Education Department, and seven were won by the following scholars: Eoberfc

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Sim, Wanganui (A), one scholarship at £30 per annum; Ernest Barns, "Wanganui (A), one at £30; E. W. Tompkins, Halcombe (B), one at £25 ; E. B. Guthrie, Wanganui (B), one at £25 ; Thomas Bamber, Wanganui (B), one at £25 ; Hugh. Mclntyre, Wanganui (C), one at £20 ; William Carson, Wanganui (C), one at £20. Two of the A scholarships therefore lapsed in consequence of the candidates failing to obtain half marks. The Board decided that, in compliance with a request from the department, the payment should commence and end with the school year 1882. Messrs. H. H. Godwin, and W. H. Barnicoat assisted the Inspector in conducting the examination, and to these gentlemen the best thanks of the Board are due for their valuable services. The prizes presented by Sir Julius Vogel were made subsidiary to the scholarships, and were awarded to Thomas Kendall and William Ballantyne, the two most deserving candidates who failed to obtain scholarships. The award was governed by the same rules which decided a claim to a scholarship. District High Schools. —There are still two district high schools in this education district— viz., at Patea and Wanganui. The number of pupils learning extra subjects in Wanganui was as follows : First quarter, 15 boys, 28 girls ; second quarter, 12 boys, 25 girls; third quarter, 12 boys, 27 girls ; fourth quarter, 14 boys, 31 girls. The Board much regrets that it is unable to make any return for the Patea School, as the late School Committee utterly failed in its duty either to collect the fees or make the necessary returns, although called upon by the Board to do so. The Board strongly deprecates such conduct, and considers the Committee has been guilty of a breach of good faith, by which it has placed the Board in an unpleasant position with reference to its pledge in regard to this school. The only remedy the Board could apply was to stop the usual capitation grant to the Committee until a fresh one could be elected; and this was done. In the month of June the Headmaster (Mr. Fearnley) of the Wanganui District High School for Boys resigned, having accepted an appointment at the Nelson College. The Board thereupon invited applications for the position, and Mr. J. P. E. Francis, M.A., of Melbourne, was appointed to the vacancy, which he appears to fill with every satisfaction. The District High School for Girls, under Miss Blyth, continues in a very efficient state, and is largely taken advantage of by all classes, the building now being barely sufficient to accommodate the pupils. In its report of 1879 the Board expressed doubt as to the working of these district high schools with advantage; it thinks that the time has now arrived when the Wanganui High School Act of 1878 may be brought into operation, and the endowments turned to account, It is probable that primary and secondary education may thus be separated with profit to the public and the Board, and with advantage both to scholars and teachers. In its capacity as Board of Governors for the High School, it will probably address you at no distant date. Tbachees' Quarterly Beturns. —The delay which has taken place quarter after quarter in rendering the summary of attendances to the department has arisen from the faulty manner in which a few of the teachers have rendered their returns. The Board lately directed the Secretary to keep a record of the teachers who forward these documents in an incorrect state, and it now intends to take further action in reference thereto; for it is manifest that teachers who cannot make the very simple calculations necessary to fill up these returns are unfit to impart instruction in arithmetic to their pupils, whilst the natural inference to be drawn from an indifferent or careless mode of filling up important Government returns is that it is typical of the work performed in the schoolroom. In connection with these documents, the rule of the Board that whenever a school has been closed a full statement setting forth the time and cause should be indorsed thereon has proved useful. The following is a summary of the indorsements for the December quarter: Twenty-six schools were closed for periods ranging from one to four half-days for holidays given by order of the Inspector after the annual examination. Nineteen schools were closed for periods ranging from one to four half-days on account of amusements. One school was closed for two half-days, and one for forty-five half-days, in consequence of the teachers having left. Four schools were closed for periods ranging from two to thirty-eight half-days on account of alterations and repairs to the buildings. One school was closed for ten and one for ninety-eight half-days on account of sickness. Twenty-eight schools were closed from one to twelve half-days on account of holidays given by the Committees. One school closed for fourteen half-days on account of leave to the teacher. Two schools were closed from two to seven half-days on account of the teacher's illness. Three schools were closed from seven to twelve half-days on account of wet weather. One school was closed three half-days for the teacher to attend Volunteer drill. One school was closed for seven half-days on account of no attendance of scholars. Three schools were not closed at all for extra holidays. These returns present many other interesting features, such as the number of subjects taught in each school, &c, and show that some teachers take a greater interest in their schools than others. Teachbes. —There are 108 teachers now in the employ of the Board, 54 being males and 54 being females. Several of these are as yet uncertificated, but the Board expects that they will present themselves at the annual examination and obtain classification. Insurance.' —The whole of the Board's buildings are insured at the rate of 6s. per cent, premium. Committees. —The Board forwarded the usual form of school fund account to all the Committees in good time, but up to date but 46 out of 57 have been received. The late Patea School Committee neither forwarded accounts nor report, thereby violating the provisions of the Act; and the Otaki Committee not only couched its report in gross language, but openly stated that it had violated the Board's rules. The report was therefore returned as being unfit to place before the Board. The Police as Truant Inspectors.—The provision made in this respect has proved a failure. The modus operandi is that constables fill up certain forms containing the names of children who are known to be habitually absent, and then hand the documents to the School Committee, leaving them to prosecute : this has been done in some instances, but it has not been effectual, and there appears to be more than one cause. In the first place, the very few constables at the disposal of the Inspector do not appear to have time for such a duty, which in itself is fatal to the arrangement; and, secondly, the constables do not place themselves in communication with the Committees and teachers, from whom they could learn the names of the absent children. But even supposing the police had rendered a full account of all children not attending school, the provision stops short where it might commence to be

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useful. The onus of prosecuting is thrown upon the Committees, and this is a duty they will not undertake. The reasons are obvious. In the outlying districts the Committees would often be prosecuting members of their own body, or neighbours with whom it is undesirable to have any difference; whilst in the larger centres, where shopkeepers and tradesmen are often Chairmen of Committees, it is only natural to suppose that they would decline to injure their business and popularity by prosecuting actual or possible customers. It is manifest therefore that, in order to make the police efficient Truant Inspectors, three things are necessary—namely, first, that constables should have the time to undertake the duty; secondly, that they should be in constant communication with the school authorities; and, thirdly, that they should undertake the disagreeable duty of prosecuting when necessary. Finance.—The appended statement of accounts, with its accompanying details, gives a full account of the Board's receipts and expenditure during the year. The utmost economy has been observed in the departmental expenses, which the Board believes will bear favourable comparison with those of any"' other Board in the colony. The balance-sheet shows a credit balance of £1,347 15s. 6d., and an asset due from Government of £3,649 on account of buildings, making a total of £4,996 15s. 6d. Against this there are liabilities amounting to £3,187 16s. 3d., leaving an excess of assets over liabilities of £1,808 19s. 3d. The whole of this sum will, however, be absorbed by urgent works required, and by an increase in the teachers' salaries which the Board purposes to make. It will be observed that, although the capitation grant of 10s. per head for School Committees was discontinued by Government, this Board has been enabled during the past year to remit them sums, amounting to £658 9s. Bd. It has, moreover, increased the grants to Committees by Is. per head per annum on the average attendance of all schools over 50, and Is. 6d. to all schools of 50 and under. Considering that the Board undertakes to defray the cost of all works of any magnitude, the allowance now made to Committees should prove sufficient, whilst the revision of the teachers' salaries will no doubt prove a boon to that portion of the Board's staff. For information respecting the state of the Board's schools generally, and the progress of education throughout the district, the Board begs to refer you to the Inspector's report. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. W. H. Watt, Chairman.

Geneeal Statement of Receipts and Expendittjee for the Year ending 31st December, 1881. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance, Ist January, 1881— By Office and Board—Maintenance Account ... ... 175 19 5 Secretary's salary ... ... 302 10 0 Buildings Account ... ... 504 12 7 Clerical assistance ... ... 13 6 0 Grants from Government —■ Allowances to members of Board ... 113 4 1 Statutory capitation (£3 155.) ... 12,465 15 6 Departmental contingencies ... 160 7 4 Scholarships (Is. 6d.) ... ~. 87 19 8 School Inspection—■ Inspection subsidy ... ... 800 0 0 Inspector's salary ... ... 370 0 0 Specially for buildings ... ... 1,600 0 0 Travelling expenses ... ... 66 13 4 Payments by School Commissioners from General examination expenses — ... 33 3 9 education reserves ... ... 509 11 5 Examination of pupil-teachers ... 36 18 0 Ifees for District High Schools ... 102 12 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances ... 10,500 911 Legacy of late Dr. Bees —■ School Committees, &c, for educational Uninvested balance on Ist January, purposes ... ... ... 658 9 8 1881 ... ... ... 0 13 4 Scholarships— Interest on invested funds ... ... 253 15 6 Paid to holders ... ... ... 74 8 4 Expenses of examinations ... ... 13 11 4 Insurance of school-buildings ... ... 61 10 6 School-Buildings— New buildings ... ... ... 628 19 8 Enlargement, improvement, and repairs 1,453 19 3 School furniture and appliances (not included in preceding) ... ... 12 0 Plan?, supervision, &c. ... ... 57 1 3 Truant Inspector ... ... ... 710 0 Balance ... ... ... ... 1,347 15 6 £15,900 19 11 £15,900 19 11 W. H. Watt, Chairman. A. A. Beowne, Secretary.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1881. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. cL To Balance, Maintenance Ac- By School Fund, December quarter ... 203 911 ccount ... ... 1,649 3 8 Legal expenses, cost of deeda ... ... 11 11 10 Less Building Account, Balance due on building contracts ... 2,872 14 6 overdrawn ... ... 301 8 2 Excess of assets over liabilities ... 1,908 19 3 1,347 15 6 Government grant for buildings undrawn 3,649 0 0 £4,996 15 6 £4,996 15 6

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HAWKE'S BAY. Sib, — Napier, 31st January, 1882. As required by clause 102 of "The Education Act, 1877," the Board of the Education District of Hawke's Bay has the honor to forward its report upon the condition and progress of education for the year ended December 31st, ISBI. The constitution of the Board has undergone a slight alteration during the year. Of the three members who retired by rotation in March, the Rev. D. Sidey and Mr. R. Harding were again returned, the third seat being filled by Mr. It. Dobson, who has consequently been a member of the Board since that time. Twelve meetings have been held during the year, and the following were the attendances made by each member: J. D. Ormond, Esq. (Chairman), 6* ; Captain Russell, 6* ; Rev. D. Sidey, 10; Robert Dobson, Esq., 8f ; Rechab Harding, Esq., 11; Samuel Locke, Esq., 3 ; George E. Lee, Esq., 2J ; Frederick Sutton, Esq., M.H.R., 6* ; Thomas Tanner, Esq., 10; James Nelson Williams, Esq., 1% : total attendance, 69. Average at each meeting, s'B. During the year two new districts were constituted, viz., Makotoku, in the Seventy-Mile Bush, and Waerengahika, in the Poverty Bay District. The boundaries of the Napier, Port Ahuriri, Taradale, Norsewood, and Ormondville School Districts have likewise been modified, in accordance with the recommendations of the several Committees. The Hawke's Bay Education District is now subdivided into 32 school districts, containing 38 separate schools, with a teaching staff of 50 head teachers and assistants, and 34 pupil-teachers. Building Operations.—The building operations of the Board have not been extensive during the year. Several schoolhouses, as Porangahau, Napier Infants', Ormondville, and the teacher's residence at Makaretu have been erected or enlarged; the schoolhouse at Kaikora, which was burnt down in the early part of the year, has been rebuilt; and tenders have been accepted for schoolhousea at Heretaunga, in the Seventy-Mile Bush, and Wainui, at the extreme south of the district. A schoolhouse has also been erected at Patutahi, in the Poverty Bay District, but the funds were provided solely by the residents, who, finding that the Board was unable to assist them, determined to provide for themselves. The sum of £1,000, which was last year placed by the Government at the disposal of the Board, was totally inadequate to meet the pressing and necessitous applications of School Committees and residents in outlying districts asking for school accommodation, school improvements, and teachers' residences, and to the £1,000 the Board was compelled to add its own savings of £2,000 from the School Fund to meet cases of urgency which could not possibly be postponed. The sum which the Board is compelled to pay annually as rent for school-buildings, and to teachers in lieu of house accommodation, amounted last year to 34 per cent, of the full grant paid by the Government, and the sum left was not sufficient to pay for the painting of the schoolhouses iv the district which the architect recommended should be undertaken. The Board would point out that ils own usefulness as an educational body is thwarted by the present unsatisfactory system of apportioning grants for building purposes. This district at the coming into operation of the Education Act was very far behind most of the other districts in its educational requirements, and it is evidently impossible to carry out the erection of school-buildings and place this district on a competitive footing with other and more favourably situated districts so long as payments arc made pro raid of the population. Besides, the Education Act implies that provision will be made by the Government for the erection of school-buildings so long as it can be shown that cases of urgency exist. That cases of urgency do exist in this district must be clear when it is staled that seven buildings now used for school purposes do not belong to the Board, and fifteen of the thirty-eight head tea.-hers have no residences provided for them. The architect estimates that the sum of £10,903 will be required to complete all tho necessary works in districts already in existence. School Attendance. —The attendance at tho schools does not show such appreciable increase as was shown in previous years. The average attendance at the Napier and Gisborne schools has greatly fallen off during the second half of the school year, arising from the prevalence of scarlatina and measles; and, as will be seen, the total average attendance for the district during the latter part of 1881 is less than during the corresponding period of 1880. It is the opinion of the Board that some concession should be made by the Government in cases where epidemics prevail in a district, as it is clear that teachers ought not to be compelled to suffer pecuniary loss from circumstances over which they cannot possibly have the least control. Had the Napier and Gisborne Committees closed their schools during the continuance of the epidemics (which they were entitled to do) the grant would have been paid by the Government on the previous quarterly attendance return, but, as the Committees decided to keep open their schools for the benefit of those who chose to attend, the School Fund suffers to the extent of nearly £300. Thus this Board has lost under the present system a sum of £300 from causes which are beyond its control. Examination" Results. —The following table gives a comparative statement of the average number on the roll and the average attendance in the schools in tho district for the past four years. It will be seen that the average attendance for the year is 2,348, or 4 3 per cent, higher than in 1880 :—

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passed into the higher standards, and that for the first time children have been presented for examination in Standard VI. The table given below is a summary of the standard results, as shown in Table B, appended to the Inspector's report: —

School Committees. —The Board is pleased to observe the increasing interest and intelligence manifested by a number of the School Committees in the matter of education. Some of the Committees, by means of subscriptions, concerts, &c, have obtained funds sufficient not only to carry out important alterations, but also to give some little assistance to their teacher. Thus Kaikora received from the Board £29 6s. 6d., and collected in their district the sum of £55 Bs. 3d.; Wallingford, £6 17s. 6d., and collected in their district £92 ; and Napier, £150, and collected £94 19s. It is gratifying to find Committees vying with one another in providing gymnastic apparatus for their schools. The Inspector in his report .draws attention to the interest which Committees are manifesting in the prosperity and success of their pupils. With few exceptions, representatives from the School Committees were present during the annual examination by the Inspector, and, as pointed out by him, those schools where interest was manifested and Visiting Committees had been appointed were far superior in discipline, tone, and general class results!. The amount collected by School Committees from private sources during the past year was nearly £420. In the year 1880 the amount was £190 9s. 6d. Compitlsoet Attendance. —The compulsory clause, though nominally in force in most districts, is not of much practical value in the enforcement of attendance. The police, whilst willing to undertake the duties of truant officers, are unable to give that attention to the matter which its importance demands. Then, districts in some cases arc so large that it is utterly impossible for them to visit the houses of absentees in each school district: besides, the statement in the latter part of section 89, which says that " the parent or guardian of every child shall send such child to school for at least one-half of the period in each year in which the school is usually open," is so indefinite that half a dozen interpretations may be easily placed upon it. The Board ventures to hope the Government will modify this clause in such manner that compulsion can be enforced at any time, either by Committees or Boards, and that all fines (which shall always be double the rate paid by the Government on the average daily attendance of each child, say Bd. per day) shall be payable to School Committees and teachers in equal proportions. Sayings-Banks.—No savings-banks have yet been established in any school under the Board. It is to be regretted that Committees and teachers have not seen the necessity of bringing the subject under the notice of their pupils. The Board is glad to recognize the simplicity of the scheme, which has been approved by the department, and to which this Board called the Minister's attention in its report for 1880 ; and, whilst doing so, expresses a hope that the growing interest in educational work now manifesting itself among School Committees will lead them to see the importance of promoting habits of thrift in their schools. The Board has observed that the scheme of saving small sums by means of penny postage-stamps has recently been brought under the notice of School Boards in England by Mr. Mundella, the head of the Education Department in that country, and already 450,000 new accounts have been opened, " principally by children of the public schools," and this leads the Board to think that, when the advantages of such a scheme are fully realized, savings-banks will be established in most of the schools in the district. School Libeaeies.—As yet, Gisborne, Petane, and Woodville are the only schools where school libraries have been established for the sole benefit of the children. Efforts are being made by several of the other Committees to provide a library, and it is anticipated that during the current year most of the Committees will endeavour to establish school libraries in their districts. Examination or Pupil-Teachees and Candidates toe Scholarships.—The annual examination of pupil-teachers was held in July. One pupil-teacher of the fourth year, seven pupil-teachers of the third year, fifteen of the second, thirteen of the first, and nine candidates for pupil-teachers presented themselves for examination. The pupil-teachers of the- third year will have completed their term of engagement under the Board in July next, and the question arises as to their future. The Inspector reports that these pupil-teachers are doing exceptionally good work, and that it would be greatly to the benefit of this district if arrangements could be made for sending them to one of the training colleges established in New Zealand. This might easily be done if a small portion of the training college grant were placed at the disposal of the Board for the purpose of providing annually two or more scholarships to enable those pupil-teachers who have completed their engagements to enter a training college. The scholarship examination was held at the same time as the pupil-teachers'. Twelve scholars in Class B, and nine in class C, entered for the examination. All the candidates wore examined in Napier, instead of, as heretofore, in different centres, the expenses of the candidates being paid by the Board. The following table* gives a list of the holders of scholarships under the Board, and other information connected with them. The results of the examination afford evidence of steady and improving work among the candidates, but it is a matter for regret that so few boys compete outside the pupils attending the Napier and.

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Gisborne District Schools. In the 0 Scholarship there were no candidates except from the Napier, District School, although the scholarship is open to all children in the district below fourteen years of age, whether attending the public or private schools. The Board has not yet succeeded in establishing a high school for boys and girls in this district, but the Trustees of the Napier Trust and High School are willing to transfer the trust to a dulyconstituted body, and it is expected that a Bill will be prepared at the next session of Parliament authorizing the establishment of a high school for boys and girls, and thus supply a great want to this, district. Several modifications have been made during the year in the payments to be made to teachers for the training of pupil-teachers, and in the regulations for scholarships. The income during the year derived from capitation grant and inspection subsidy was £9,082 3s. lid., which, added to £583 14s. 10d., the balance on 31st December, 1880, gives a total income of £9,070 18s. 9d. The expenditure during the same period for salaries, payments to School Committees, and to holders of scholarships, was £9,571 15s. 5d., leaving a balance of £99 3s. 4d. to the credit of the School Fund. A detailed statement of income and expenditure for the year, together with the assets and liabilities of the Board on the 31st December, will bo found appended, signed by order and on behalf of the Board. By order and on behalf of the Board, The Hon. the Minister of Education. . H. Hill, Secretary.

G-eneeal Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditttbe for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s d. To Balance, Ist January, 1881— By Office and Board — Maintenance Account ... ... 588 14 10 Office staff, salaries ... ... 250 0 O Building Account ... ... 2,560 1(3 1 Departmental contingencies ... ... 107 19 1. Grants from Government —■ School Inspection— Statutory capitation (£3 155.) ... 8,11.3 3 4 Inspector's salary ... ... 500 0 O Scholarships (Is. 6d.) ... ... 108 1 0 Travelling expenses ... ... 150 0 0 Inspection subsidy... ... ... 300 0 0 Examination of pupil-teachers ... 36 0 O Specially for buildings • ... ... 2,000 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances ... 7,778 12 8 Grant in aid, Te Arai School ... 50 0 0 School Committees, &c, for educational Payments by School Commissioners from purposes ... ... ... 956 16 4 education reserves ... .., 510 19 7 Scholarships—■ Insurance for Kaikora School ... ... 400 0 0 Paid to holders ... ... ... 57 10 0 Expenses of examinations ... ... 35 15 6 Insurance of school-buildings ... ... 75 1 9 School-Buildings— Kew buildings ... ... ... 2,567 14 7 Enlargement, improvement, and repairs 313 10 10 School furniture and appliances not included in preceding ... ... 198 8 5 Purchase of sites ... ... ... 200 0 0 Plans, supervision, advertising, &c. ... 370 8 3 Interest ... ... ... ... 6 0 0 Balance, Union Bank, on 31st December, 1881 ... ... ... ... 1,033 17 5 £14,637 14 10 £14,637 14 10

Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1881. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ 8. d. School Fund—Balance ... ... 126 14 11 Building Fund on 31st December, 1881 ~, 1,920 0 0 Building Fund—■ Balance ... .., ... ... 887 17 10 Due from Government ... ... 1,194 0 0 Scholarship Fund—Balance' ... ... 19 4 8 £2,227 17 5 £1,920 0 0

WELLINGTON. Sib,— Wellington, 31st March, 1882. In accordance with section 102 of the Education Act, and in compliance with Circular No. 87 of the 25th November last, 1 have the honor to transmit the annual report of the Wellington Education Board for the year ended 31st December, 1881. The Board.—At tho beginning of tho year the Board consisted of the following members : The Hon. C. J. Pharazyn, Chairman ; Gr. Beetham, Esq., J. It. Blair, Esq., 11. Bunny, Esq , W. Hutchison, Esq., Dr. Newman, C. Pharazyn, Esq., the Eev. J". Paterson, and the Yen. Archdeacon Stock. The members who retire by effluxion of time are : The Hon. C. J. Pharazyn, the Eev. J. Paterson, and the Yen. Archdeacon Stock. The Board met fourteen times during the past year, including one special and one adjourned meeting. New Distbicts. —Three new districts were this year constituted —one at Wadestown, adjoining the city; one at Waihakeke, near G-reytown; and one at Pitone, formerly in the Lower Hutt District. Public Schools.—ln Eeturn No. If will be found full information with regard to the expenditure on each school, and also the names, positions, and salaries of the teachers. During the year newschools have been erected at Masterton, Karori, and Wadestown ; and a new residence has been built at Karori. Additions have been made to the Carterton, G-rcytown, Lower Hutt, Mount Cook Girls', and Newtown Schools; and the old To Aro School (now replaced by the new school in Willis Street) has been converted into a suitable infant school. A class-room has also been added to the Terrace School. The following works were in hand, but not completed, at the close of the year: Eesidence at

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Opaki; new schools at Taueru, Whiteman's Valley, and "Wallace ; and additions to the Taita School. Attendance. —Eeturn No. 2* gives the number of children attending the schools at the beginning of the year, the numbers admitted and withdrawn, and the average attendance. During the year the number of children atiending the schools increased from 5,144 in January to 6,112 in December. The average attendance for the year shows a small decrease of 136, the numbers for 1880 and 1881 being respectively 5,012 and 4,876. Particulars as to children belonging to the public schools at the close of the year are given in Eeturn No. 4.f Eeceipts and Expenditure.—The balance-sheet gives full particulars of this year's accounts, detailed information being furnished where required. A statement of the assets and liabilities on-the 31st December is attached hereto, and a general summary of the accounts of the School Committees is also forwarded. Scholarships.—Eeturn No. 5J gives a full list of all scholarship-holders, the age of the holder, and the value and term of the scholarship. District High Schools.' —No district high schools have yet been constituted in this district. School Penny Banks.—This scheme has not been introduced in any of the schools under this Board. Compulsory Clauses.—The compulsory clauses of the Education Act have been brought into operation in the Tenui, Mauriceville, Clareville, Carterton, (Jreytown, Kaiwaiwai, Kaitoke, Hutt, Ohariu, Thorndon, and Terrace Districts. The results, on the whole, have been only moderately satisfactory. In no district are the clauses of the Act rigorously enforced. The Board are strongly of opinion that a compulsory Act should be generally in force, and so administered as to practically compel all children to make a fair attendance. The Inspector's report will show that the benefits of a free and liberal education are not, in many districts, taken advantage of to the extent the State has a right to expect. Educational Progress.—The Board is satisfied with the progress of education in this district during the year 1881. The school-buildings lately erected —especially the Willis Street (Wellington) and Masterton Schools—are well arranged, well fitted, and in every way convenient premises, without unnecessary expenditure in the architecture. The standard ressuhs compare favourably with the rest of the colony, and the teachers as a body appear actuated by the desire to do good service. In reference to only a very few schools this year the Inspector's report is unfavourable. The Hon. the Minister of Education. J. E. Blair, Chairman.

General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. To Balance, let January, 1881— By Office and Board — Maintenance Account ... ... 971 5 10 Office Btaff, salaries ... ... 270 0 0 Buildings Account ... ... 2,641 14 11 Departmental contingencies ... 254 8 1 Grants from Government — , School Inspection— Statutory capitation (£3 15a.) ... 17,792 8 0 Inspector's salary ... ... 500 0 0 Scholarships (Ib. 6d.) ... ... 265 17 4 Travelling expenses ... ... 184 5 0 Inspection subsidy ... ... 300 0 0 Examination of pupil-teachers ... 4 4 0 Training of teachers ... ... 1,214 5 7 Teachers'salaries and allowances ... 15,721 11 11 Specially for buildings ... ... 4,750 0 0 School Committees, &c.— Payments by School Commissioners from For educational purposes ... ... 1,480 17 6 education reserves ... ... 696 12 0 Rents of school-buildings ... ... 424 6 3 Rent of cottage ... .., ... 35 0 0 Scholarships — Refunds overpayments — Paid to holders ... ... ... 240 0 0 Scholarships ... ... ... 7 10 0 Expenses of examinations ... ... 32 6 10 Teachers' salaries ... ... ... 710 0 Training of teachers ... ... 1,171 15 7 Buildings ... ... ... 8 13 6 Insurance of school-buildings ... ... 3 19 0 Deposits ... ... ... 321 15 0 School-Buildings— Fees for Normal tuition ... ... 22 1 0 New buildings ... ... ... 2,50119 9 Enlargement, improvement, and repairs 2,828 3 5 School furniture and appliances (not included in preceding) ... ... 726 14 7 Plaiiß, supervision, &c. ... ... 374 8 0 Deposits on contracts ... ... 321 15 0 Interest on overdraft ... ... 1G 7 10 Education reserves ... ... ... 162 5 10 Balance ... ... .., ... 1,815 4 7 £29,034 13 2 £29,034 13 2 O. J. Pharazyn, Chairman.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1881. Maintenance. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ b. d. Balance ... .., ~, .., 1,239 7 2 Grants to Committees ... ... ... 252 10 0 Balance ... ... ... ... 986 17 2 £1,239 7 2 £1,239 7 2 Buildings. £ s. d. £ s. d. Balance in band ... ... ... 575 17 6 Worts in hand and under contract ... 2,1.99 15 0 Balance of grant ... ... ... 2,182 0 0 Deposit at interest ... ... ... 559 0 0 Grant from Masterton ~, ... 400 0 0 Balance ... ... ~. ... 1,517 2 5 £3,716 17 5 „ £3,716 17 5 * In Table No. 10, p. 48. t The reference is to statements of ages, standards, and subjects of instruction, included in the summaries given in tUe report of the Minister of Education. J Not reprinted.

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MARLBOROTJG-H. Sib,— Blenheim, 12th April, 1882. I have the honor to forward you a report from the Education Board of the District of Marlborough, required by the Education Act, for the year ending the 31st December, 1881, together with a copy of Returns 1 to 4, the balance-sheet of revenue and expenditure, a list of scholarships held during the year 1881 and the examiners' papers and report thereon, and the report on the public schools by the Inspector. Retiring Members.—The members who retired by rotation were Messrs. Oonolly, Parker, and Ward. They were re-elected. Schools. —Twenty-five schools were at work at the close of the year. The number of pupils on the rolls at the same time was 1,321, and the working average 998. At the end of the previous year the working average stood at 87375. Scholaeships.—The examination for the vacant scholarship was held in January, 1882, and it was awarded to Horace Douslin. There were seven other competitors. The names of the two Marlborough scholars are James O'Leary and Horace Douslin. Regulations affecting these scholarships were passed by the Board, and approved by the Hon. the Minister of Education, under which girls can also compete. At the late examination, however, no girl presented herself. Buildings.—Owing to the small amount of the building grant no work of importance could be undertaken during this year. The building grant is not sufficient to meet necessary requirements ;in fact, many children are kept away from school because there is not accommodation for them. The district appears to be condemned to receive less than its fair share, whether the average number of schools bo taken as the basis for apportionment or the average number of pupils in attendance. With the small sum allotted to it the Board cannot keep pace with the growing necessities of the district in this direction, and earnestly hopes that in any future apportionment of money for building purposes a fuller share may be allotted to it. Had the Board received for these purposes a proportionate amount to that granted, according to the published report for 1880, to Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, or Nelson, many very necessary works might have been completed. The requirements for the present year include two new schoolhouses and residences, which, with furniture, additions to other schools, painting, and necessary repairs, will amount to a little more than £2,000. A return in detail of what is needful has been forwarded. Expendititbe.—The balance-sheet shows that we ended the year with a credit of £618 Is. lOd.; but of this sum £174 Os. lOd. belongs to the Building Fund, leaving £414 Is. as a credit balance for the Board's ordinary expenditure, as against £560 11s. 9d. at the beginning of the year, apparently leaving a deficit on the year's operations. This is not so, however, since £117 18s. 4d. for travelling expenses, scholarships, and teachers' examination, due from the Treasury and since paid, must be reckoned to the credit side in considering the work of the year. This.amouut added to the above £444 Is. gives an actual balance of £561 19s. 4d. against £560 11s. 9d., showing that in the ordinary expenditure on the maintenance of its schools the Board has not during the past year exceeded the funds placed at its disposal for that purpose. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. A. P. Seymour, Chairman.

Geneeal Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance, Ist January, 1881— By Office and Board — Maintenance Account ... ... 560 11 9 Office stafl', salaries ... ... 112 10 0 Buildings Account ... ... 75 5 7 Departmental contingencies... ~, 59 5 1 Grants from Government— School Inspection— Statutory capitation (£3 155.) ... 3,401 11 3 Inspector's salary ... ... 125 0 0 Scholarships (Is. 6d.) ... ... 33 5 8 Travelling expenses ... ... 64 13 0 Inspection subsidy ... ... 125 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances ~, 2,841 10 0 Specially for buildings ... ... 750 0 0 School Committees, &c. — Fees for District High School ... ... 11 10 0 For educational purposes ... ... 392 19 7 Refund of legal expenses ... ... 5 11 0 High School fees refunded to Committee 11 0 0 Scholarships — Paid to holders ... ... ... 80 6 0 Expenses of examinations ... ... 6 6 0 Insurance of school-buildings ... ... 2 12 6 School-Buildings— New buildings ... ... ... 130 0 0 Enlargement, improvement, and repairs 448 2 0 School furniture and appliances (not included in preceding) ... ... 47 15 6 Plans, supervision, &c. ... ... 22 14 9 Balance on 31st December, 1881 ... 618 1 10 £4,962 15 3 £4,962 15 3

Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1881. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ B. d. Balance—- New building, school, Picton ~. ... 784 8 3 Maintenance Account... ... ... 444 1 0 Additions to Residences — Building Account ... ... ... 174 0 10 Grove Town ... ~, ... 50 0 0 Due from Government— Canvas Town ... ... ... 99 5 0 For buildings ... ... ... 1,252 0 0 Scholarships ... ... ... ... 20 1 0 Scholarships ... ... ... 53 5 4 ' Inspector's travelling expenses ~. ~, 64 13 0 £1,988 0 2 £953 14 3

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NELSON Sib,— Nelson, 2nd March, 1882. I have the honor to lay before you a report of the proceedings of the Education Board of the District of Nelson for the year 1881. Meetings op Boabd. —The Board has held twelve ordinary and three special meetings, the average number of members present at each meeting being eight. The work of the Board has also been facilitated by the monthly meetings of the Finance Committee and the Board of Examiners, which are held immediately before the regular meetings of the Board. Numbeb op Schools. —-Seventy schools were at work at the close 1881, nine of these being aided schools. Five new schools have been opened during the year. Attendance op Scholabs. —The number of scholars on the roll at the close of 1881 was 4,062, the working average being 3,179, showing an increase of 128 on the roll, and of 171 on the working average, as compared with the previous year. Teaching Stapp.—The number of teachers employed at the end of the year was 104, 40 of these being male, and 64 female, teachers. This staff, if compared with the number of scholars receiving instruction, seems disproportionately large; but as the average attendance in 46 out of the 70 schools falls short of 50, only one of the remaining 24 exceeding 150, it has been found impossible to reduce the number of teachers, although the Board is conscious that much teaching-power is wasted and much additional expense incurred from this cause. Pkobationees.—The success which has so far attended the experiment of employing a class of young persons who occupy an intermediate position between pupil-teachers and assistants has encouraged the Board to extend its operation to some of the country schools. Those only who have passed the Sixth Standard with ease, and who have attained the age of sixteen years, are admitted as probationers. In addition to the training in the art of teaching that they receive, arrangements are being made for providing them as far as possible with such special instruction ns will enable them to present themselves for the E examination at the end of their three years' course. It is found, however, as was anticipated, that, though there is an abundance of well-qualified female candidates in the City of Nelson, the supply in the country districts is very limited, so that it is not probable that the Board will ever be able to dispense entirely with the more costly services of assistant teachers. School-Buildings.—Although the building grant for 1881 has enabled the Board to erect several of those schools the necessity for which was most urgent, much remains to be done before all the arrears can be overtaken, especially in some of the country districts, where the schoolrooms are both insufficient in size and badly contrived. Thinly-peopled neighbourhoods, where lodgings of any kind are hardly to be obtained, are still very imperfectly supplied with teachers' houses, and this drawback must tell unfavourably on the number and quality of the applications for teacherships in such places. Scholabships.—The system of scholarships for boys in connection with Nelson College continues to work well. A commencement has just been made on the part of the Board to forward the higher education of girls, by offering annually for competition a scholarship of the yearly value of £50, tenable for two years, to enable the winner to obtain an education in one of the district high schools in another part of the colony. An institution, however, being about to bo established in Nelson which will do for girls what Nelson College has done for boys, the Board looks forward, by availing itself of the advantages thus offered, to the early attainment of equal success in this direction. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. J. W. Baenicoat, Chairman.

Geneeal Statement of Beceipts and Expendittiee for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance, Ist January, 1881 — By Office and Board — Maintenance Account ... ... ],925 11 9 Secretary's salary ... ~, 231 5 0 Buildings Account ... ... 498 13 1 Departmental contingencies ... ... 127 5 9 Grants from Government — School Inspection— Statutory capitation (£3 155.) ... 10,975 5 11 Salary and travelling expenses ... 462 10 0 Scholarships (Is. 6d.) ... ... 200 0 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances ... 9,237 19 6 Inspection subsidy ... ... 300 0 0 School Committees, &c, for educational Specially for buildings ... ... 3,300 0 0 purposes (including £128 ss. Bd. for Payments by School Commissioners from rents of schools and sites) • ... 1,249 3 9 education reserves ... ... 422 10 7 Scholarships— Sale of disused building ~'. ... 10 0 0 Paid to holders ... ... ... 182 10 0 Bents of disused buildings ... ... 31 2 0 Expenses of examinations ... ... 17 16 6 Refunds from bank for exchange ... 11 19 3 School-Buildings— Receipts from sale of school books, &c. ... 632 4 3 New buildings ... ... ... 1,036 5 8 Bank interest ... ... ... 60 0 0 Enlargement, improvement, repairs, echoolfurniture and appliances ... 737 7 7 Purchase of sites ... ... ... 49 10 0 Plans, supervision, &c. ... ... 38 16 9 School books and material ... ... 207 1 1 Balances— Maintenance Account ... ... 2,939 12 1 Building Account ... ... ~, 1,850 15 8 £18,367 19 4 £18,367 19 4 J. W. Baenicoat, Chairman. Stead Ellis, Secretary. The above accounts examined and found correct. —H. E. Curtis, Provincial District Auditor. 28th February, 1882.

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Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1881. Assets. £ a. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Balances— Salaries, &c, for December, 1881 ... ... 964 1111 Maintenance Account ... ... 2,939 12 1 Votes to Committees for buildings ... 3,332 8 9 Building Account ... ... ... 1,850 15 8 Due to holders of scholarships ... ... 52 10 0 Due for buildings ... ... ... 1,313 0 0 Due for rents of schools ... ... 26 16 0 Due for rents ... ... ... 8 8 0 Unpaid purchase-money of school site and Due for scholarships ... ... ~. 52 10 0 interest ... "... ... ... 453 15 0 Balance ... ... ... ... 1,334 4 1 £0,164 5_9 £6,164 5 9 Stead Ellis, Secretary.

NORTH CANTERBURY. Sib,— Christchurch, 31st March, 1882. In accordance with section 102 of the Education Act, I have the honor to submit the following report of the proceedings of the Board for the year ended 31st December, 1881. The Boabd. —The members who retired by rotation on the 31st March, 1881, were Mr. J. Inglis, the Rev. C. Eraser, and Mr. E. C. J. Stevens. Mr. Stevens did not offer himself for re-election. The voting by School Committees resulted in the return of Mr. J. Inglis, the Rev. C. Eraser, and Mr. H. "W. Peryman. Mr. G. Booth was elected to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused towards the end of the preceding year by the death of Mr. A. Duncan. At the meeting of the Board held in April, Mr. John Inglis was re-elected Chairman. The Board has continued to meet during the year on the first and third Thursdays of each month, and has held twenty-three meetings (no meeting being held in the first week of January). The average attendance of members was 6'5G. New Disteicts and Buildings.—Eight new districts were formed during the year —viz., Lismore, Pendarves, Metbven, Lauriston,. Richmond, Broomfield, Springburn, South Malvern. Of these, Lismore (Upper Hinds), and Methven and Lauriston (on the Ashburton Forks Railway), are entirely new districts ; Pendarves, near Chertsey, includes, together with country not previously contained in any school district, some parts of the Districts of Chertsey and Kyle ; Richmond, more commonly known as Bingsland, lias hitherto formed part of the District of Christchurch. East ; Broomfield comprises the northern part of the North Kowai District, the remainder being formed into a separate district under the name of Amberley; Springburn is constituted by a division of the District of Ali'ord Forest; South Malvern includes the north-western portion of the district formerly bearing that name, the rest of which is made into a separate district called Glentunnel. New schools have been opened at Hinds, Hurunui, Mason's Elat, German Bay (side), Kirwee, Christchurch "West (side), and Elemington; and new schoolrooms built at Little River and Broomfield. School-buildings nave been contracted for at Oxford West (side), Methven, Pendarves, Wakanui (side), Lismore; and considerable additions have been made lo the school accommodation at Greendale, Rakaia South, "Wakanui, and Kaikoura Town. The total expenditure on buildings (an account of which, showing the exact sum spent in each school district, is given in Return No. I.*), amounted to £11,156 2s. sd. The Board has done the utmost with the means at its disposal, but has to regret that the insufficiency of the amount granted for building purposes renders it still unable io make adequate provision either for the new schools required in the outlying and more recently settled parts of the district, for the enlargement of existing schools necessary to meet the wants of the growing population, or for masters' bouses, which want of funds has prevented the Board from supplying in any of the districts constituted since early in 1880. Maintenance of Schools. —The total expenditure for the maintenance of schools, including incidental expenses, was £42,275 oa. 5d.; and for instruction only, £36,683 4s. lid. The following table shows the expenditure on teachers' salaries, inclusive of all allowances, and on incidental expenses, for each year, from 1878 : — Salaries. Incidentals. Totals. £ c. d. £, s. A. £ s. d. 1878 31,010 0 0 ... 0,276 0 9 ... 38,195 6 9 1879 34,417 1-1 6 ... 5,850 9 8 ... 40,274 4 2 1880 38,136 17 8 ... 5,856 2 1 ... 43,992 19 9 1881 36,683 4 11 ... 5,591 15 6 ... 42,275 0 5 The average attendance for the year being 11,691, the cost of maintaining the schools, including all incidental expenses, was at the rate of £3 12s. 3fd. per head; and the cost of instruction only, at the rate of £3 2s. 9d. The decrease of expenditure during the past year is of course attributable to the 10 per cent, reduction, which the continued reduction of the capitation allowance has obliged the Board to keep in force, with some modification in details, since it first took effect on the Ist November, 1880. Attendance. —At the end of the year 1881 there were 112 school districts in the Education District of North Canterbury, and 129 separate schools, including the Practising Department of the Normal School. One of these, at Waiau, was an aided school, and 'the two schools in the District of Governor's Bay South are half-time schools, taught by the same master. The schools are classified as under!: —• The following table shows the number of schools maintained or assisted by the Board, with the number of children on the rolls and in average attendance, since the present educational system came into operation : —•

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Return No. 5* gives the ages of the children, the number in each standard, and the number receiving instruction in each of the prescribed subjects, as at 31st December, 1881; and the following table, in continuation of one presented in previous reports, shows the number of schools, and of children on the rolls and in average attendance, within so much of the Provincial District of Canterbury as is contained in the Education District of North Canterbury since the passing of the first Provincial Education Ordinance in 1863: —

It will be observed that, for the first time in the history of Canterbury, the numbers, as compared with those of the preceding year, show an actual decrease. This may be partly ascribed to the exclusion from the return of all children not above five years of age. But the main cause is the prevalence of measles, which appeared in the district during the June quarter, and for several months very materially affected the attendance. For example: the average at the Gloucester Street School for the March quarter was 941; but for the June quarter it fell to 835, and for the following quarter to 751. At "West Christchurch the average up to 31st March was 931; but for the June quarter it was 849, and for the September quarter 819. At the Normal School, during the same period, the average fell from 776 to 637; at Sydenham, from 748 to 073; and at Lyttelton, from 630 to 535. There was a considerable improvement during the December quarter, but in no case did the average rise again to the point which it had reached in the corresponding quarter of 1880. The decrease in the schools mentioned involved a loss of income to the Board of upwards of £1,000. The Board suggests that in the payment of the capitation grant some allowance should be made when the attendance has been reduced by sickness. "While its receipts are strictly regulated by the quarterly averages the Board cannot, with a diminished revenue, continue to pay teachers' salaries as though its income had undergone no reduction, and consequently the teachers will be made to suffer pecuniarily from causes over which they have no control. Teachees. —Beturn No. 1J gives a nominal return of all teachers in the Board's service at the end of the December quarter, and of the amount of salary and allowances received by each. The total number was 408, besides 33 sewing mistresses. Of 252 principal and assistant teachers, 194 were fully certificated, 5 had partly passed the certificate examination, 20 held licenses to teach, and 33 were without certificates :of these latter, 5 have since left the Board's service. They were classified as follows :—Male : Head teachers, 120; assistant teachers, 17; pupil-teachers, 45. Female : Head teachers, 80; assistant teachers, 35; pupil-teachers, 111. The number of teachers appears large in proportion to the average attendance for the quarter, but allowance must be made for the extent to which the average has been reduced by the exceptional circumstances above mentioned. The Board did not think it expedient to reduce the teaching staff of the schools in the same proportion, believing that the falling off in the attendance would be but temporary, and that the average would soon recover itself. In the latter part of the year the Board issued a revised set of regulations, which will be found in the appendix to this report, containing an amended scale of staff and salaries. The new scale differs but slightly from the one previously in force, the main distinction being that, instead of a uniform reduction of 10 per cent, on all salaries, the present scale takes rather more from the higher salaries, and thus lessens the reduction from the smaller ones.

* Included in the summaries given in the report of the Minister. $ See summary in Table 1?.

Quarter ended 31st December. District Schools. Aided Schools. Total of Schools. On Roll. Average Attendance. Percentage. 1878 1879 1880 1881 106 116 121 128 4 4 2 1 110 120 123 129 13,647 15,230 16,437 16,051 10,070 11,381 12,233 11,760 73 83 74-72 74-42 7326

Quarter ended 31et December. District Schools. Denominational Schools. Aided Schools. Total of Schools. On Roll. Average Attendance. Percentage. 1863 2 31 33 1,605 1,030 6417 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 56 73 79 80 98 100 104 114 119 126 12 t 1 2 3 3 1 68 73 79 80 99 102 107 117 120 126 5,439 7,238 9,524 10,473 12,144 12,464 13,516 15,046 16,253 15,828 3,694 4,631 6,366 6,935 8,295 9,068 9,975 11,245 12,096 11,599 6791 6398 66-84 6621 68 30 72 75 73 80 74-73 7442 73-28 Aid to denomi: lational schools cei ised after Sei itembe: 1873.

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Inspection.—Since the close of 1881, but prior to the date of this report, vacancies occurred in the office of Inspector, through the retirement of Mr. Eestell, who resigned on account of private affairs, and the lamented death of Mr. Curnow, formerly Tieadmasier of the main school, Christchurch East, whom the Board had appointed in his place. It has since been resolved to invite applications for the appointment. Mr. Edge's report for the year 1881 is appended. The following table gives the number of children who were examined, aud who passed, and the average age at which they passed in each standard :—

Noemal School. —The report of the Principal gives a full account of the working of this institution, and particularly of the modifications which it has been found desirable to introduce in the Kindergarten School. At the end of the December quarter there were 43 students in training—l 4 males and 29 females. Many of these gained their teacher's certificate at the examination in January, and have obtained or are seeking situations in schools; but the number shows no tendency to decrease, as the places of those who leave are immediately filled by fresh students. The inducements offered to pupil-teachers have had a marked effect in encouraging them to devote a year after the completion of their term of service to qualifying themselves for the higher work of their profession, by a course of study and technical training in the Normal School. Scholaeships.—The examinations for scholarships were held in June, and were conducted by Professor Cook and J. V. Colborne-Veel, Esq., M.A. The number of candidates examined was 56, viz., in Class A, 11 (under 11 years of age), 4 boys and 7 girls ; in Class B, 17 (under 12 years of age), 8 boys and 9 girls; in Class C, 20 (under 13 years of age), 15 boys and 5 girls ; in Class D, 8 (under 14 years of age), 5 boys and 3 girls. The successful candidates were : In Class A, Elizabeth Stevenson, Frederick Gibson, and Edwin N orris; in Class B, Matthew Butterfield (who resigned the scholarship he gained in 1880), Thomas Green (who resigned the divided scholarship he gained in 1880, in favour of Janet Prosser), Richard Clarkson, and Hugh Leach; in Class C, Thomas Weston, Thomas Cresswell (who resigned the scholarship he gained in 1880), Emily Burgess, and Charles Garrard ; in Class D, Joseph Turner and Robert Speight (who resigned the scholarship he gained in 1880). The scholarships now current are held as shown in the following table.* Compulsoby Clauses.—ln compliance with instructions from the Education Department, a circular letter was addressed to all School Committees in the district, inquiring whether the compulsory clauses of the Education Act had been brought into force, and whether the Committee wished the aid of the police so offered by Government in the enforcement of them. The replies received up to date show that only twenty-two Committees have resolved on enforcing these clauses, of whom seventeen have availed themselves of the proffered assistance. But, so far, no noticeable results have followed. In a few instances the exertions of an energetic Committee have produced an increased attendance; but, as a rule, Committees seem to regard their power of compulsion as one to be exercised only in very extreme cases, and the clauses, though nominally in force, remain virtually inoperative. It appears unlikely that the compulsory provisions of the Act will be of much practical value until some means are devised of bringing them into operation in a far more systematic and effective manner than is practicable at present. Penny Sayings-Banks.—There are now no penny savings-banks in this district. Two were established in 1880 in connection with the schools at Kaiapoi Island North, and Balcairn; but in both eases they proved a failure, and the Committees decided on closing them. The former was closed in July last, and the latter at the end of December. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. John Inglis, Chairman.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31sfc December, 1881. Maintenance Account. £ s. d. By Payments by School Commissioners, held £ s. d. To Cash in bank ... ... ... 9)211 911 for General Government ... ... 3,546 14 6 Scholarship Fund ... ... ... 4,000 0 0 Public libraries ... ... ... 6 13 9 Accounts payable, viz., salaries, printing, advertising, inspection, &c. ... ... 378 11 8 Balance ... ... ... ~, 1,279 10 0 £9,211 9 11 . £9,211 9 11 Buildings Account. To Cash in bank ... ... ... 5,902 18 VI By Contracts in hand ... ... ... 4,774 13 3 Balance of Government grant undrawn ... 8,969 0 0 Appropriation for works, ]but contracts not signed ... ... ... 1,074 15 4 Bef and of deposits on contracts ... 53 10 0 Balance ... ... .„ ... 8,969 0 0 £14,871 18 7 . £14,871 18 7 . • ■■■■ J. V. Colboene-Veel, Secretary.

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Geneeal Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditttbe for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. tieceipis. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance, Ist January, 1881— By Office and Board— . Maintenance Account ... ~. 10,426 6 1 Office staff, salaries ... ... 1,028 10 0 Buildings Account ... ... 5,923 17 3 Departmental contingencies ... ... 271 6 4 Grants from G-OYernment— School Inspection—■ Statutory capitation (£3 155.) ... 35,872 2 9 Salaries ... ... ... ... 900 0 0 Scholarships (Is. 6d.) ... ... 642 12 9 Travelling expenses and forage allowInspection subsidy ... ... 500 0 0 auces ... ... ... 206 15 8 Training... ... ... ... 2,000 0 0 Examination of pupil-teachers ... 124 111 Specially for buildings ... ... 11,000 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances ... 36,683 4 11 Payments by School Commissioners from School Committees, &c, for educational education reserves ... ... 7,601 16 2 purposes ... ... ~. 5,591 15 6 Training fees ... ... ... 20 0 0 Scholarships— Rent of school site, Mandeville Plains ... 5 0 0 Paid to holders ... ... ... 705 0 0 Sales of school sites ... ... ... 104 13 9 Expenses of examinations ... ... 133 1 10 Sales of old buildingß (Amberley) ... 70 0 0 Training of teachers ... ... ... 2,190 10 6 Deposits ob contracts ... ... 292 16 7 School-fiuildings— Interest ~. ... ... ... 320 oOj New buildings ... ... ... 5,245 17 1 Enlargement, improvement, and repairs .. ... ... ... 4,007 3 6 School furniture and appliances (not included in preceding) ~. ... 012 11 9 Purchase of sites ... ~. ... 251 10 0 Plans, supervision, &c. ... ... 739 0 1 Drill instruction ... ... ... 342 1 2 Eefund of deposits on contracts ... 332 6 7 Balance ... ... ... ... 15,114 8 6 £74,779 5 4 £74,779 5 4 John Inglis, Chairman. J. V. Colboeke-Veel, Secretary. I have audited this account and have compared the items with the vouchers presented to me, and find it a correct record of the receipts and expenditure of the Board. The accounts, indeed, are carefully and most satisfactorily kept, but I have no evidence before me showing the actual expenditure of more than one-fifth of the amount; the balance is expended by School Committees, and which is said to be beyond my control. I desire to remark that the absence of legal authority to compel the production of these accounts for my examination is the only reason why 1 abstain from demanding them ; and until the School Committee accounts are placed under the inspection of the public officer, viz., the Provincial District Officer, as they ought to be, and are required to be by the Act of Parliament, the public audit is valueless and a mere waste of time.—J. Olliviee, Provincial District Auditor. 16th March, 1882,

Deill Instetjctoe's Bepoet. Sib,— Christehurch, 21st March, 1882. I have the honor to submit, for the information of the Board, the following general report on military drill and physical training at the public schools in North Canterbury for the year ending 31st December, 1881. Instkuction Classes.-—During the year 1,117 squads have been present for instruction. The programme of previous years was adopted by me as best meeting the requirements of the children. Hksults.'—The result of the year's work would be fairly satisfactory but for a few schools where it is evident very little time, if any, is spent in teaching drill; and in one school possessing junior male teachers who are trained gymnasts no lesson is given to the boys in gymnastics—the fault not resting with junior teachers, who have expressed to me their willingness to undertake the work when so directed by the head of the school. As the classes in the gymnasium are intended to fit teachers for imparting gymnastic instruction, I would recommend that when teachers are competent it be compulsory for them to devote part of the drill hour to instruction in gymnastics. Classes foe Ladt Students.—These classes have been attended very regularly during the year; each lady attending has taken charge of the class, and given the usual instruction in drill and calisthenics. The gymnasium was available for these ladies during part of the lesson hour. Classes fob Ladt Teachebs.—Although the attendance has improved during the year, there is still need for further improvement. Those who are least competent to give instruction in drill and calisthenics to the girls under their care at the school are generally the most irregular in their attendance. I cannot report any attendance from the St. Albans schools for some months. I beg to repeat the remarks of last year —that these classes are specially intended to benefit the younger teachers within, easy distance of the gymnasium, and I am convinced, if it were made compulsory to attend when practicable, the result, physically, would be of lasting benefit to the teachers, and the improvement of the school girls be more general. The gymnasium was placed at the disposal of this class, a fair proportion of those present entering very heartily into the exercises. Rftv-five classes were held during the year. Classes foe Male Pupil-Tjsachees.—During the year the work has been very satisfactory both in drill and gymnastics, but the numbers attending have been very small. There are several pupilteachers in some of the large schools who have not attended six times during the year, and others who never attend. I beg respectfully to repeat my recommendation of the past year that, where practicable, the attendance at these classes for drill and gymnastics be compulsory in the case of assistants and pupil-teachers. Gymnastic Competition.—l beg respectfully to ask the Board to devote a small sum for prizes, and to grant me permission to arrange for a gymnastic competition some time during 1882. In former years these contests have given considerable impetus to the practice of gymnastics.

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Gymnastic Appabatits at Schools.—Except a few of the sets first erected the apparatus is in fair repair. Apparatus at several schools require painting to preserve the wood. Teachers should feel it to be their duty to prevent unfair use of the apparatus, and to keep the children from climbing on the parts not practicable for safe use by them. The Gymnasium.—All the apparatus in the gymnasium is in excellent repair. I have, &c, The Chairman of the Board of Education. James Q. Walker, Gymnastic and Drill Instructor to Public Schools.

SOUTH CANTERBURY. Sir,— As required by clause 102 of " The Education Act, 1877," I have the honor to submit the general report of the Education Board of the District of South Canterbury for the year ending the 31st December, 1881. Boabd. —At the beginning of the year the Board consisted of Messrs. Herbert Belfield (Chairman), Eichard A. Barker, Samuel W. Goldsmith, Melville Gray, William B. Ilowell, George P. Lovegrove, William Postlethwaite, Edward Wakefield, and the Rev. George Barclay. Iv March Messrs. Belfield and Ilowell and the Rev. G. Barclay retired by rotation and were re-elected. At the first meeting of the Board held in April Mr. Herbert Belfield was re-elected Chairman. In June Messrs. Postlethwaite and Lovegrove resigned as members of the Board, and in July Mr. William J. Steward was elected in place of Mr. Lovegrove, and Mr. William M. Slack was elected in place of Mr. Postlethwaite. In September Mr. Hovvell resigned, and Mr. Robson B. Walcot was elected in his place. During the year twelve ordinary and three special meetings of the Board were held. The average attendance at the ordinary meetings was seven and at the special meetings four. New Schools and School Districts. —Schools have been opened at Gapes Valley, Geraldine Flat, Makikihi, Orari Bridge, St. Andrew's, and Timaru (side school); and new school districts have been proclaimed at Albury, Eedcliff, Kingsdown, and Seaview. With the exception of St. Andrews and Timaru, where substantial buildings were erected, school work has been greatly retarded owing to the inability of the Board to provide buildings. Applications for new schools have also been received from Kakahußush, Waitaki North, Rangitata, Waimatiti Valley (northern suburb of Timaru), Sutherlands, Kerry Town, and Cannington, but the Board has been quite unable to meet these requests in a fairly liberal manner either as regards buildings or maintenance. At Geraldino Plat and Orari Bridge old buildings have been fitted up and the schools started ; at Makikihi and Gapes Valley schools are being conducted in hired and unsuitable buildings; and at Albury, Redcliff, Kingsdown, and Seaview the residents were compelled to wait another year, as no temporary building of any kind could be obtained. The current year's grant for buildings, £3,300, was found to be utterly inadequate. On receipt of the grant the Board found that no part of their proposals could be carried out as intended. It had been decided to build schools and masters' houses in the districts of Gapes Valley, Makikihi, Redcliff, Kingsdown, Seaview, and Albury, at a cost of from £600 to £700 each. In these cases the Board have now decided to build small schools at a cost of £200 each, leaving extensions and masters' houses to be provided for out of future grants. The Board further intended to build new schools at Waimate and Ternuka at an estimated cost of £3,000 and £2,000 respectively. All that could be done this year was to allocate a small sum in aid of buildings to be erected at some future time. Small additions will be made to the schools at Milford, Kakahu, and Waitohi Plat, but many necessary works in connection with other schools have of necessity been deferred. The current year's grant has thus been disposed of: — £ Six small schools, including furniture, apparatus, &c. ... ... 1,500 Grants in aid of buildings to be carried out at a future date at Waimate and Temuka, £500 each ... ... ... ... 1,000 Additions to schools at Milford, Waitohi Plat, and Kakahu ... ... 500 Insurance on school-buildings ... ... ... ... 175 General repairs and contingencies ... ... ... ... 125 £3,300 The residents in districts requiring now schools, fully recognizing the Board's inability to do all that is necessary, have subscribed liberally to make their small schools fairly complete. At Redcliff, Makikihi, Kingsdown, and Albury, amounts varying from £50 to £LOO have been subscribed; and at Seaview, in addition to subscribing a sum to start the school under the Board's "Aided Schools Regulations," the residents have purchased and transferred to the Board a site at a cost of £100, and have arranged to build a master's house at a cost of £330, on the understanding that it is to be taken over at valuation by the Board at a future date. Maintenance.—The heavy reductions in staff salaries and general expenditure enforced at the beginning of the year have had the effect of placing the Board's finances in a sound position. By careful management the Board is able to record a credit balance of £209 7s. 10d. on the General Maintenance Account. This represents the saving for the nine months from March to December, as at the former date, when the reductions came fully into force, the Maintenance Account was slightly overdrawn. The same relation of income to expenditure cannot, however, bo relied on, as it is influenced by every variation in the attendance. The Board, while loyally carrying out the instructions of the Government in this matter, must at the same time protest that the statutory grant is inadequate for the efficient maintenance of our schools. The exercise of the greatest care in allotting salaries still leaves many of our teachers, especially assistants, insufficiently paid, and the sum that can be placed at the disposal of Committees for incidental expenses is so small as to lead to endless difficulties and unplea-

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santness. Several Committees have tried to raise money fop incidental purposes by voluntary subscriptions or otherwise, but, while they have had little difficulty in obtaining funds for special objects, such as prizes or school treats, they have altogether failed to collect subscriptions taking the form of a periodical tax. NiJMBiiR of Schools. —The number of schools in the district at the end of the year was 35, being an increase of six compared with those in operation at the close of the previous year, but two of these —Mount Gray and North Orari —were temporarily closed. The Mount Gray School has since been opened as an aided school, but the North Orari School will probably be removed to a more convenient centre, as many of the former residents have left the district, and the population seems permanently decreased. The 33 schools in operation at the close of the year are classified as follows.* Attendance. —The attendance for a great part of the year suffered heavily from sickness. An epidemic of measles visited almost every district, and most of the schools were closed for several weeks. In a few districts typhoid fever was prevalent and further affected the attendance. The average for the first quarter was 2,710, being an increase of 94 on the average for the last quarter of the previous year, and an increase of 222 on the average for the whole of the previous year; but the average for the second quarter fell to 2,551, and for the third quarter to 2,515. The fourth quarter's attendance improved, but did not reach its normal position, the average being 2,613. The average for the year 1880 was 2,489 : that for 1881, with six additional schools in operation, was 2,597. The following table shows the attendance for the four years during which the Board has existed: —

Teaching Staff. —'i'he reduction in teachers' salaries, necessitated by the reduction in the Government grant for maintenance, has not seriously affected the applications for appointment, except in the case of assistant teachers, whose salaries have been greatly reduced. At the end of the year the teaching staff consisted of 84 teachers and 10 sewing-mistresses, as under.* Aided Schools. —The Board's Aided Schools Eegulations have been in force during the year, and 7 schools, with an average attendance of less than 25, have worked under their operation. By these regulations the Board pays to the local Committees the statutory grant of £3 15s. per head on the average attendance, together with a capitation grant of 10s. for incidental expenses. Each Committee is responsible for the payment of the teacher's salary, subscribing in the district the sum required beyond the capitation grant. The necessary furniture and apparatus, and as far as possible the buildings, are supplied by the Board. The responsibility of raising the necessary funds by voluntary subscription, and of obtaining suitable teachers, is severely felt by the Committees, and the Board very much regret that at present the capitation allowance cannot be increased. Inspection and Examination. —The schools have been regularly inspected and examined during the year by the Inspector. His report gives statistics and other valuable information on his work. The results have necessarily suffered from the very great irregularity caused by sickness, but the Board are satisfied that the schools generally are doing good work. The annual pupil-teachers' and scholarship examinations were held in January and March respectively of the current year. The reports are hereto appended, as the examinations show the results of the work for the year 1881. The following table gives particulars of the four scholarship examinations that have now been held.f Schedules, BegiiijAtions, and Reports.—-The schedules appended to this report give full details of the names, status, and emoluments of teachers, school accommodation provided, attendance of pupils, with their ages, standards, and the numbers receiving instruction in each subject prescribed by the Act. Table No. 3is an abstract of the Board's income and expanditure for the year 1881, duly audited. The amount paid in teachers' salaries was £7,977 os. 4d., and the amount paid to or on behalf of School Committees was £1,052 7s. Cd. At the end of the year the Building Account showed a credit balance of £1,640 17s. 2d., and the Maintenance Account a credit balance of £85135. 4d.; but from the latter amount must bo taken £581 15s. 6d. paid by the School Commissioners, to

* See summary in the report of the Minister. f Not reprinted.

Quarter ending 00 ja o o i o H o 6 1 o Arevi ige Attend! mee. Yearly Average. 6 ft Male. Female. Total. March 31st, 1878 Tune 30th, 1878 September 30th, 1878 December 31st, 1878 March 31st, 1879 June 30th, 1879 September 30th, 1879 December 31st, 1879 March 31st, 1880 June 30th, 1880 September 30th, 1880 December 31st, 1880 March 31st, 1881 June 30th, 1881 September 30th, 1881 December 31st, 1881 16 16 17 17 18 2L 24 29 29 29 2!) 29 34 34 35 35 56 59 60 50 58 63 70 77 79 79 78 SO 81 82 82 84 2,467 2,458 2,510 2,666 2,710 2,833 3,029 3,203 3,346 3,365 3,470 3,506 3,675 3,656 2,734 3,531 930 897 931 1,005 981 1,068 1,123 1,241 1,217 1,292 1,301 1,331 1,402 1,361 1,329 1,3(34 814 754 811 872 864 911 954 1,083 1,121 1,167 1,181 1,235 1,303 1,190 1,186 1,249 1,744 1,651 1,742 1,877 1,845 1,979 2,077 2,324 2,338 2,459 2,542 2,616 2,710 2,551 2,515 2,613 1,753 2,056 2,487 2,597

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be deducted from the January capitation grant, leaving the maintenance credit balance £269 7s. lOd. There are also appended the Board's " Regulations for the Employment of Teachers," " PupilTeachers' Regulations," " School Fund Regulations," and " Aided Schools Regulations," the report of the Inspector of Schools, and the reports of the pupil-teachers' and scholarship examinations. Audit of School Committees' Accounts.—The Provincial District Auditor, in certifying to the Board's accounts, draws attention to the abaanco of proper provision for auditing the accounts of School Committees. The Board iti their last year's report spoke of the same defect, and now desire to indorse the Auditor's remarks. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. Hehbebt Belfield, Chairman,

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditube for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance, Ist January, 1881— By Office and BoardMaintenance Account ... ... 844 17 4 Office Staff —Salaries ... ... 286 3 2 Buildings Account... ... ... 746 G 5 Clerical assistance ... ... ... 16 12 0 Grants,from Government — Departmental contingencies... ... 23S 15 7 Statutory capitation (£3 155.) ... 7,941 3 3 i School Inspection— Scholarships (Is. 6d.) ... ... 202 19 10 i Salaries ... ... ... ... 300 0 0 Inspection subsidy ... ... 300 0 0 Travelling expenses ... ... 95 3 10 For Saturday lectures ... ... 85 13 9 Examination of pupil-teachers ... 12 4 3 Specially for buildings ... ... 2,250 0 0, Teachers'salaries and allowances ... 7,961 16 1 Payments by School Commissioners from Schjol Committees, &c, for educational education reserves ... ... 1,814 19 9 purposes ... ... ~. 862 0 5 Refunds, public libraries ... ... 17 17 8 Scholarships— Sale of Waihi Bush buildings ... ... 50 0 0 Paid to holders ... ... ... 196 13 0 Rent of building ... ... ... 65 0 0 Expenses of examinations ... ... 10 4 0 Training of teachers ... ... 11 7 0 Insurance of school-buildings ... ... 175 17 11 School-Buildings— New buildings ... ... ... 449 10 6 Enlargement, improvement, and repairs 546 6 8 School furniture and appliances (not included in preceding) ... ... 131 14 6 Plans, supervision, &c., ... ... 22 19 5 Library Committees ~. ... ... 8 9 2 Balance ... ... ... ... 2,49 i 0 6 £13,818 18 0 £13,818 18 0 Hehbeet Belfield, Chairman. Henet W. Hammond, Secretary. I have examined this account, and certify that it is a correct report of the receipts and expenditure of the Board of Education for South Canterbury. I further desire to state that the audit is a solemn farce, inasmuch as the auditor has no satisfactory evidence afforded to him of the expenditure of fully 75 per cent, of the amount paid to the Board, arising from the fact that the School Committees which have the appropriation of these sums do not submit their accounts to the public auditor. I have frequently drawn the attention of the Government to this most anomalous state of things, and regret that I have still to complain of its existence.—J. Ollitieb, Provincial District Auditor. sth May, 1882.

WESTLAND. Sir, — Education Office, Greymouth, 30th March, 1882. I have the honor to submit the report of the Board for the year 1881. Boabd—At the commencement of the year the Board consisted of the following gentlemen: Messrs. E. C. Reid, E. Hamilton, B. Hirter, G. Mueller, J. Grimmond, C. Parfitt, W. H. Perkins, and E. J. Seddon; the resignation of Mr. T. S. "Weston, in the month of December, causing a seat to be vacant. At the annual election in March, Messrs. J. Petrie, W. H. Perkins, and E. J. Lord were elected to fill the vacancies caused by the retirement of Messrs. Mueller, Perkins, and Hirter, and Mr. J. E. Warner was elected to the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Weston. Mr. Seddon's seat becoming vacant owing to that gentleman's absence from three successive meetings, Mr. Duncan was elected in June to fill the vacancy. At the first meeting of the new Board, in April, Mr. Frank Hamilton was elected temporary Chairman until the meeting in July, when Mr. W. 11. Perkins was elected permanent Chairman. Including adjourned and special meetings the Board met twentythree times during the year. Removal of Offices. —After the election in March it was found that all the seats excepting three were filled by gentlemen residing at or north of Greymouth ; and that consequently the expenses of six members travelling to Hokitika every month, and remaining there generally for the greater part of two days, were likely to press very heavily upon the funds of the Board. It became, therefore, in the opinion of the majority of the Board, absolutely necessary that the Board's place of meeting should bo changed, to reduce the annual charge upon its funds for members' travelling expenses, estimated to amount to £300. The Board had also reasons for believing that considerable saving could be effected in the management of its finances, notably in connection with school-buildincs. A notice of motion was accordingly tabled at the meeting in April, and at the following meeting it was decided to remove the offices and officers to Greymouth ; and a sub-committee was empowered to make the necessary arrangements. This they did by purchasing at a low price a valuable property, containing, in addition to ample office accommodation, a large dwelling-house, part of which furnished a meeting-room for the Board, and the remainder a residence for the Secretary, thereby securing the advantage of that officer's living in close proximity to the office; also a store affording ample

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accommodation for the Board's stock of books, requisites, and school furniture, and a building let at a yearly rental of £2G. It was, perhaps, to bo expected that some amount of feeling should be evinced in the southern portion of the district in connection with the removal; and strong representations upon the subject, not always remarkable for truthfulness, have been made to the department in Wellington. Apart, however, from the reasons already advanced, and the fact that additional store accommodation, necessitating further expenditure, would have been required at Hokitika, there is no doubt that the action of the Board iv removing the offices has only been anticipatory of what must have happened in. the course of a year or two, when possibly such cheap and suitable premises would not be procurable. Seeing the community of interests existing between the various mining centres upon the West Coast, it is evident that any change made in the Education Act must include the placing of the whole of the West Coast under one Education Board ; and then it would be impossible for the whole district to be fairly represented with the offices so far south as Hokitika. School Districts —At the close of 1880 there were 18 school districts in Westland, presided over by as many Committees. Two of these —namely, Christehurch Road and Kokatahi —contained so few inhabitants, and those so widely scattered, that it appeared to the Board desirable to annex them to the larger adjacent districts of Kumara and Kanieri respectively. The latter district, however, declined to undertake the management of this additional territory. The Board therefore decided to allow the Kokatahi to remain as before, but added the Christchurch Road to the Kumara district. Another reason for the amalgamation was that the school at Rangiriri had been closed for some time without the Committee giving any intimation of the fact to the Board. At the commencement of the year 1881 four new districts came into existence—viz., Stafford and Orwell Creek, as newly-created districts, and Ahaura and Waimea (previously called Arahura), by alteration of boundaries owing to the formation of the two first-named districts. There were, therefore, during the year 20 school districts. Numerously-signed petitions from the inhabitants of Paroa, Cobden, Maori Creek, Maori Gully, and lied Jack's were received by the Board during the year, praying that those places might be constituted separate school districts under the Act, and giving reason for the proposed change which the Board considered satisfactory. They were therefore so constituted, making five additional districts to come into existence on the Ist January, 1882. Two Commissioners were appointed for Jackson's Bay district, no Committee having been elected. Teachers and Schools. —The number of schools at the end of the year was 35, a new school having been opened at Kynnersley in January. Of this number, 17 were carried on under the 88th clause, the teachers receiving from the Board the amount of £3 15s. per head paid by the Government, thereby making the cost of cleaning, fuel, repairs, &c, a further charge upon the Board's funds, amounting on the average to fully £20 per annum for each school. The number of teachers employed at the end of the year was 90 —namely, 81 male adults, 23 female adults, 15 male and 21 female pupil-teachers. The Board has adopted a suggestion made by the Inspector, and has provided for continuing to employ pupil-teachers who have served their full time as junior assistants. In pursuance of the purposes for which pupil-teachers were originally employed—viz., to supply the district with trained teachers, and to secure economy in administration—the Board had under consideration, at the end of the year, the question of reorganizing the staffs of the various schools, so as to find employment for as many junior assistants as possible; but at that period no final decision had been arrived at. The average attendance for the year 1880 was 2,387, and for the year 1881 2,326, showing a decrease of 61 for the year. The falling-off may be accounted for partly by the withdrawal from the rolls of the names of all children under five years of age, as required by the department; partly by the very general prevalence of sickness ; and partly by irregularity of attendance. The decrease in attendance was more serious in its effects upon the funds of the Board than the small difference between the two years would at first sight appear to indicate; the difference between the attendance for the quarter ending December 31st, 1880 (upon which the expenditure of the Board for 1881 was based), and the quarter ending September 30th, 1881, being 228, representing a decrease of capitation allowance at the rate of £855 per annum. Returns. —A copy of the regulations* for the employment and payment of pupil-teachers and junior assistants, adopted by the Board early in the year, is appended hereto ; also scholarship regulations.* A return is forwarded giving particulars as to scholarships held during the year. Return No. If gives the expenditure upon each school in salaries, general expenditure, and buildings, and shows the schools in operation on December 31st, with the names, and positions, and emoluments of the teachers as for the quarter ended December 31st. Return No. 5J gives the attendance, &c, for the year. Return No. 6§ gives the numbers iv standards and the numbers receiving instruction in. the various subjects at the end of the year. Return No. 7|| gives the classification of teachers and schools. Scjtool-Buildik&s.—The following contracts let in 1880 were completed during the past year: Schoolhouso, Upper Kokatahi; schoolhouso, Dunganville; schoolhouse, Kynnersley. The following contracts were let during the year: Teacher's cottage, Arahura Road; teacher's cottage, Totara Flat; repairs, Stafford school-building; painting, Greymouth school-building; painting, Hokitika schoolbuilding ; fencing, Kanieri school reserve; addition, Ross school-building; fencing, Dunganvilie school reserve; fencing, Paroa school reserve; fencing and levelling, Stafford school reserve; erection of belfry, Stafford school; erection of belfry, Goldsborough school; alterations to Kumara school-building ; addition to Cobden school-building. Purchases : Buildings, Greymouth; site for school, Orwell Creek; house at Red Jack's, for school; cottage at Ahaura, for teacher; hospital reserve and building, Ahaura, acquired without purchase. The Board also made numerous grants to Committees for furniture, repairs, and improvements, the ordinary funds placed at their disposal being only sufficient for cleaning, fuel, &c. The sub-committees appointed by the Board to inspect and report recommended the following works being undertaken, but the Board was compelled to let them stand over owing to want of funds: New school-building, Waimea; new school-building, Lower Kokatahi; now school-building, Orwell Creek; alteration and improvement of

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building, Ahaura; removal of Maori Gully school-building, the ground being undermined and insecure ; repairs to Marsdeu school-building. Pour schools are still carried on in buildings not belonging to the Board. Eetum No. 8* shows the contracts uncompleted at the end of the year, and the amounts required to complete contracts. Return No. 9* shows new buildings required, and repairs to buildings considered necessary. Reference to the table will show that twenty teachers' residences yet require to be built. Return No. 10* gives the total amount required for building, &c. For the year 1881 the cost of plans, supervisions, &c, has amounted to 4f per cent, on the expenditure. The Board would respectfully protest against the manner of the division of the building grant, as giving undue advantage to the larger districts, which are able to devote a portion of their ordinary capitation allowance to building purposes. Inspection.—The Inspector's yearly report, which accompanies this, deals fully with all matters relating to inspection, &c, and the Board would direct special attention to the portion of pages 3 and 4 concerning irregularity of attendance, and the remarks on page 5 with reference to the relation between Committees and teachers. Also to that part of the Inspector's report (pages 8 and 9) dealing with schools under the 88th clause, as showing the special difficulties in administering the Act which the Board have to contend with, and that portion (page 10) referring to pupil-teachers. Finance. —Statements of receipts and expenditure for the year, and of the assets and liabilities of the Board upon both general and building accounts, are appended. Return No. 4* shows the expenditure as divided amongst the various districts; Return No. 12* gives the receipts and expenditures of School Committees in detail; and Return No. 11* gives the total of the same. The receipts from all sources for the year amount to £15,683 12s. 10d., and the expenditure to £16,705 ss. 2d., including a debit balance of £1,113 4s. 2d. on the Ist January. The amount shown as salaries of teachers includes payments for instructing pupil-teachers and bonuses for passing pupil-teachers amounting to £401 16s. 3d., and special bonuses £15. Grants to Committees, £733 Is. 6d., includes special grants amounting to £86 14s. School Committees.—ln common with the Board, the Committees, since the discontinuance of the payment by the Government of 10s. per head of average attendance, have had to curtail their annual expenditure ; though, owing to the Board's having relieved them of all charges excepting those for fuel and cleaning, they do not suffer to such an extent as would otherwise be the case. The Board pays all charges for advertising and printing, and stationery is issued to Committees free of charge from the Board's store. It was found necessary during the year to rescind the resolution allowing Committees to charge for school requisites supplied to the scholars. The Board hope to see the Committees entertain a keener appreciation of the fact that the Board's funds may be considerably augmented by the exercise of stricter supervision in the matter of irregularity of attendance. At the request of the Board the Minister of Justice has authorized the police in the district to assist Committees in enforcing the compulsory clauses of the Act, and the Board hope to see full advantage taken of that assistance. The Board desire to draw attention to the very unsatisfactory nature of the arrangements for auditing the accounts of School Committees. The following instances will, they think, be sufficient to justify the assertion : One Committee, in the statement of School Fund Account for 1881, drew a credit and a debit balance. This statement was duly audited, and the expenditure comprises an item of £1 for auditing. Another Committee's statement, also signed by an auditor, has a mistake of £3 Is. in the balance. In another audited statement the amount received from the Board during the year was altogether left out. In another case the statement was duly signed by the Chairman of the Committee, the same person signing afterwards as auditor. With the small amounts the Committees have to disburse it would naturally be supposed that the most ordinary care would be sufficient to prevent such mistakes. Considerable inconvenience is also caused by the Committees neglecting to forward their yearly statements of school funds within the time specified in the circular. The Board is afraid that some annoyance has been caused to the department by the delay in forwarding the quarterly summaries of attendance : this delay is caused by the very unsatisfactory condition in which many returns are received from the schools. It is not unusual to find fully half the returns requiring some alteration, and these are signed by the Chairmen of Committees as being correct. It is the intention of the Board to again issue a circular to Committees and teachers, requesting that greater care may be taken in the matter. Penny Banks. —That at No Town is still the only penny bank in the district. The following is a copy of the audited accounts : — No Town Penny Bank Geneeal Account. £ s. a. £ s . a. Balance at credit of depositors on 31st Deeem- Kepayments from Ist January to 31st December, 1880 ... ... ... ... 20 2 6 ber, 1881 ... ... ... ... 18 12 4 Deposits received from Ist January to 31st Balance due to depositors on 31st December, December, 1881 ... ... ... 7 0 8 1881 ... ... ... ~, 8 10 10 £27 3 2 J327 3 2 Balance-sheet. Liahilities. £ s. d. Assets. £ s. d Balance due to depositors on 31st December, Cash in Post Office Savings-Bant, including 1881 ... ... ... ... 8 10 10 interest, on 31st December, 1881 ... 9 17 1 Surplus of funds to meet liabilities ... 1 14 7 Cask in hand by Treasurer ... 0 8 4 £10 5 5 £10 5 5 'Audited and found correct.—G-eoe&b Howe.

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Genekal. —At the meeting in January, 1881, the Board decided to allow Richardson's Temperance Lesson Book to be used in the schools in connection with the prizes offered by Sir William Fox. Mr. H. L. Robinson's seat as a School Commissioner under " The Education Reserves Act, 1879," having become vacant by effluxion of time, he was reappointed by the Board at its meeting in April. The report of the Inspector on a high school for the district, as adopted by the Board at its meeting in August, is appended hereto. The suggestions made by the Board in the reports for 1879 and 1880, for amendments in the Act, are again embodied in this report, and the Board hope that, if the Act should be amended during the approaching session, their suggestions will receive consideration. " The Board would respectfully suggest that the following amendments be made in the Act:— Clause 13. That the system of election of Boards be altered, it not working satisfactorily. Clause 30. The Board are of opinion that the Inspectors should be appointed by the' Government, and be under the direct control of the Inspector-General. They are also of opinion that they should not be resident officers, but that they should be changed from district to district at certain intervals. The Board desire to express their very strong conviction that the adoption of the foregoing recommendations with reference to Inspectors would be conducive to the best interests of education, not only in this district but throughout the colony. Clause 33. That the time for which the Chairman of the Board is elected should be specified. Clauses 35 to 38, and 74 to 78. That the powers and duties of Boards and Committees should be more strictly defined. Clause 45. That this be amended to allow of teachers being appointed by the Boards without the Committees having the power of interference. With reference to this suggestion, not only has it been found that the Committees often make an unsuitable choice, but that the Board are debarred from promoting good and deserving teachers. If when vacancies have occurred in the schools the Board had been possessed of the power of appointing some one of their other teachers, who deserved promotion, several good teachers might have been retained in the district. In several cases the Committees concerned could find no valid objection to the appointment, and thereby promotion, of the teachers recommended by the Board, but felt that, having a power conferred by the Act, they should exercise it, and therefore declined to recommend the person proposed by the Board. The Board feel that the difficulty caused by the provisions of clause 45 in the promotion of teachers is a serious evil, and one that should be remedied without delay. Clauses 60 and 61. In case of a division of a school district into two or more districts, and a dispute occurring between the old Committee and the Committee of the newly-formed district relative to the appropriation of any balance of funds in hand at the time the division took place, provision should be made for the Board having the power to finally settle the matter. Clause 66, subsection (2); and clause 67. That power should be given to the Board to appoint a Commissioner, if they see fit, after the failure of the householders to elect a Committee at the first meeting, or if no such meeting be held. Clause 71. The appointment of a clerk or treasurer should be made subject to the approval oi" the Board. Clause 88. If the Board are to continue making use of the above clause as extensively as hitherto, some alteration will be required both in clause 88 and the interpretation clause to legalize their action. In clause 88 the alteration might be made by the insertion of the following words after the word "districts" in the fifth line: "or sparsely-populated parts of the country." Clause 89. In this clause, instead of providing only that children shall attend for six months during the year, the Board would suggest that they should be compelled to attend for two school weeks in every month. Clauses 91 to 95. That other means be found for giving effect to the compulsory clauses, in place of intrusting their working to Committees. That the compulsory clauses be declared to be in operation throughout the colony without reference to School Committees." (Report, 1879.) " Further experience has fully confirmed the opinions expressed in the Board's last report as to the necessity for certain amendments in the Act of 1877. In addition to the amendments then suggested, the Board would most strongly advocate a complete change in the method of electing School Committees. It would also be an improvement if Committees were elected in March instead of January. Under the present arrangement it happens that the old Committee nominates the persons for the vacancies in the Board, and the new Committee gives the final vote or votes. It would also be an advantage in connection with the yearly "Abstracts of School Fund Account." These are unfortunately often found to be incorrect, and must be returned for correction to the new Committee, who, possibly not having been in office during the year, would not be in a position to make the necessary corrections." (Report, 1880.) Wm, Heebeet Peekins, Chairman. The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1881. BtTILDIN& AoOOfNT. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. <3. Balance, December 31st, 1881 .., ... 1,25G 7 2 i Contracts, &c. ... ... ... ... 1,217 19 6 Balance ... ... ... ... 38 7 8 £1,256 7 2 | £1,256 7 2 Examined and found correct. — W. A. Spence, Auditor.

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Gteitbeai Account. * Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Value of books, &c, in stock ... ... 2,175 0 0 Debit balance, December 31st, 1881 ... 1,02112 4 Balance ... ... ... ... 1,153 7 8 £2,175 O 0 £2,175 0 0 Examined and found correct. —W. A. Spence, Auditor.

Genebal Statement of Eeceipis and Expendittjbe for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. Receipts. £ s. d. j Expenditure. £ s. d. To Grants from Government— By Overdraft, Ist January, 1881 ... ... 1,113 4 2 Statutory capitation (£3 155.) ... 8,79111 7 Office and Board— Scholarships (Is. 6d.) ... ... 225 9 8 Office staff, salaries ... ... 306 0 0 Inspection subsidy ~. ... 300 0 0 Clerical assistance ... ... 17 5 9 Specially for buildings ... ... 5,698 0 0 I Departmental contingencies ... 495 18 3 Payments by School Commissioners from School Inspection — education reserves ... ... 60 6 4 Salaries ... ... ... ~, 360 0 0 School books, &c. ... ... ... 481 6 5 Travelling expenses ... ... 144 6 8 Eefunds ... ... ... ... 126 18 10 Teachers'salaries and allowances ... 8,028 13 2 Balance ... ... ... ... 1,021 12 4 School Committees, &c, for educational purposes ... ... ... 733 1 6 Kent of school-buildings ~, ... 79 7 0 Insurance of school-buildings ~, ... 65 14 9 Scholarships— Paid to holders ... ... ... 180 0 0 School-Buildings— New buildings ... ... ... 1,661 5 9 Enlargement, improvement, and repairs 1,850 9 9 School furniture and appliances (not included in preceding) ... ... 429 17 7 Purchase of sites, clearing, &c. ... 291 17 0 Plans, supervision, &c. ... ... 208 2 9 School books and requisites, and stationery for Committees ... ... 635 19 2 Packing, carriage, freight, &c. ... ... 76 10 1 Interest ... ... ... ... 27 12 0 £16,705 5 2 £16,705 5 2 W. H. Perkins, Chairman. E. T. Eobiusojt, Secretary. I hereby certify that I have examined the above accounts, compared them with the vouchers, cash* book, ledger, bank pass-books, and all other documents connected therewith, and I find them correct and according to law.— -W. A. Spence, Auditor. 12th April, 1882.

OTAGO. Sib,— Dunedin, 31st March, 1882. In compliance with clause 102 of " The Education Act, 1877," and with the request contained in your Circular No. 87, of 20th November, 18"81, the Education Board of the District of Otago has the honor to submit the following report of its proceedings for the year 1881. At the beginning of the year the following gentlemen composed the Board: Messrs. James Green, Michael Fraer, Keith Bamsay, James Fulton, Henry Clark, Thomas Fergus, John Shand, Alexander C. Begg, and William Elder. Messrs. Shaud, Begg, and Elder retired by rotation on 31st March, the end of the previous year. Five candidates were nominated by Committees for the vacancies, and the voting by School Committees resulted in the re-election of the three retiring members. There were held during the year thirteen meetings of the Board, twelve meetings of the Finance Committee, and twelve meetings of the Appointments Committee. At the first meeting of the Board in April Mr. James Green was re-elected Chairman. Number op Schools. —There were 154 schools in operation on the 31st December, classified as under.* School Disteicts. —The following new school districts were proclaimed: Otiake, Hooper's Inlet, Kelso, and Hawea. Buildings are now in course of erection in each of these districts, and will be ready for occupation in the course of a few weeks. Buildings have also been erected in Kurow and Mount Stuart Districts (proclaimed last year), and these schools are now in operation. There are at present under consideration several applications for the establishment of schools. Of these, some are from district* which have been long settled, and the population of which has grown so large as to necessitate the establishment of additional schools. Teachbes. —There were employed at the close of the year 451 teachers, classified as follows: Male head teachers, 141 ; male assistant teachers, 43 ; male pupil-teachers, 64 ; female head teachers, 76; female assistant teachers, 29 ; female pupil-teachers, 76 : total number of teachers, 429. Teachers of sewing, 22. This statement shows an increase for the year of 21 teachers, being 1 schoolmaster, 8 schoolmistresses, 9 male pupil-teachers, and 3 teachers of sewing. School Attendance. —The following is an abstract of the attendance at the public schools of this district, from the institution of the Otago education scheme, in the year 1856, to the present time:—

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Tor the first time since the institution of the Otago education scheme, in 1856, the average daily attendance shows a decrease as compared with the previous year. The average attendance for the first quarter was 16,235, or 639 in excess of the average for the previous year. A severe outbreak of measles and scarlet fever, amounting in some districts almost to an epidemic, reduced the average of the second quarter to 14,858. Since then the attendance gradually improved, and reached 16,078 during the last quarter of the year. Although the average attendance was practically the same as that of the previous year, twenty-one additional teachers have been employed. This increase in the staff was made during the first quarter, when the average attendance was considerably over that of the previous year. The Board did not consider it desirable to reduce the staff, as the attendance was expected to recover more quickly than proved to be the case. There is an increase of 313 in the number that attended at all. If compulsory attendance were enforced the number of children attending the public schools in this district would be very much larger than it now is. Ages or the Pupils.—The following table shows the ages of the pupils who attended the public schools in the district during the last quarter of the years 1879, 1880, and 1881: —

Inspection.—The reports of Messrs. Petrie and Taylor, the Board's Inspectors, are appended hereto. They paid visits of inspection to 144 schools, and examined according to the regulations under the Education Act. In all, 9,972 children were examined, of whom 7,714 passed the standard for which they were presented, being at the rate of 77 per cent. Six schools were not examined, as the Inspectors had no opportunity of doing so before the close of the year. The following statement shows in a tabular form the number of pupils examined in each standard, the number of those that passed, the percentage of passes, the average age at which each standard was passed, and the number of schools at which each standard was presented for the years 1880 and 1881: —

'o o -5 En o 6 o a I o & JNo. of Pupils who attended at all in the Course of the Year. Average Daily Attends for the Yea: nee Attendance at the Close of the ' Year. Year. r. a % a PS R All other Schools. 3 o a S Q All other Schools. "o H d d n All other Schools. 02 .856-57 ... .866 .876-77 ... .877 .878 .879 .880 .881 5 51 165 173 *134 *145 *152 *154 7 71 329 356 334 375 430 451 1,193 3,094 3,191 4,875 5,433 6,528 6,321 2,754 15,256 16,422 16,660 18,472 19,688 20,208 3,947 18,350 19,613 21,535 23,905 26,216 26,529 115 888 2,067 2,176 2.912 3,317 3,898 3,749 121 1,680 9,143 9,573 9,707 10,562 11,696 11,844 236 2,568 11,210 11,749 12,619 13,879 15,594 15,593 934 2,378 2,585 3,480 3,961 4,429 4,372 2,136 11,159 11,913 12,598 13,823 14,774 14,902 3,070 13,537 14,528 16,078 17,784 19,203 19,274

1879. 18i 10. .1.8. il. Boys. Girls. Total. Per cent. Boys. Girls. Total. Per cent. Boys. Girls. Total. Per cent. Under 5 years ... 5 and under 7 years 7 „ 10 „ 10 „ 13 „ 13 „ 15 „ Above 15 years... 213 1,942 3,200 2,831 870 138 222 1,774 3,049 2,547 849 149 435 3,716 6,249 5,378 1,719 287 21 21 35 30 9i 1* 194 1,993 3,474 2,992 991 177 209 1,849 3,340 2,857 913 214 403 2,842 6,814 5,849 1,904 391 2 20 35i 30| 10 2 Nil 2,068 3,574 3,113 1,035 165 Nil 1,869 3,332 2,912 991 215 Nil 3,937 6,906 6,025 2,026 380 Nil 20|35f 31| io| 2 Totals 9,194 8,590 17,784 100 9,821 9,382 19,203 100 9,955 9,319 19,274 100

1880. 1881, (tandard. Presented. Passed. Percentage. Average Age. Number of Schools presenting Pupils in the various Standards. Presented. Passed. Percentage. Average Age. Number of Schools presenting Pupils in the various Standards. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. 2,508 2,398 2,128 1,309 663 209 2,010 1,989 1,474 911 481 175 80 S3 69 66 74 84 Yrs. m. 9 1 10 6 11 8 12 9 13 8 14 5 137 137 135 122 28 29 2,476 2,468 2,350 1,546 795 337 2,056 2085 1918 1,075 533 247 83 84 73 70 67 73 Yrs. m. 9 1 10 6 11 8 12 8 13 5 14 4 142 142 142 130 103 54 Totals 9,270 7,047 7(3 9,972 7,714 77 :clui iive of louthland. Vide E.-lB, 1882.

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The number of pupils examined during the year was 702 in excess of the number examined in 1880, and 3,185 in excess of that examined in 1879. The percentage of passes in Standards 1., 11., 111., and IV. is higher than last year, while in Standards V. and VI. it is considerably less. The decline in the percentage of passes in Standards V. and VI. has been accompanied by, and is no doubt due to, an increase in the number of schools in which Fifth and Sixth Standard classes have been taught. In 1880, 28 schools had a Fifth Standard class; in 1881, 101 schools were in that position. In 1880, 29 schools had a Sixth Standard class; and in 1881 the number rose to 53. There is a slight decrease in the average age at which Standards 11, IV., V., and VI. are passed, In Standard I. the average age at which pupils are presented in this district remains very high. If the scholars attending the public schools enter school on the average at the age of six years, the progress made during the first three years of attendance cannot be considered very rapid or even satisfactory. The gross percentage of passes has risen from 76 to 77 —an increase that testifies to the continued efficiency of the schools. Finance. —Appended hereto is a certified abstract of the income and expenditure of the Board for the year 1881. The sum paid for teachers' salaries, inclusive of bonuses on classification and bonuses for teaching pupil-teachers, amounted to £53,111 4s. 7d. A table giving the names of the teachers employed, along with the income which each received, is given in Appendix A.* In the case of head teachers a free residence is provided, or where no house is provided an allowance is made for one. An abstract of the accounts of the School Committees will be found in Appendix E.f Tbaining College.—The report of the Rector of the Training College is given in Appendix Gr. $ There were 15 male and 32 female students in regular training during the year. Drawing-Masteb's Bepoet.—The report of the Headmaster of the Drawing Department is given in Appendix 11. The total expenditure of the department for the year was £719 6s. Bd., and the receipts for the same period amounted to £128 2s. Scholabsiiips.—Seventeen scholarships, nine senior and eight junior, were offered for competition at the end of the year. Thirty-five candidates competed for the senior, and fifty-one for the junior scholarships. The examiner's report, copies of the examination papers, the names of those holding scholarships, and other information, are given in Appendix. f School-Buildings.—The sum allowed by you to this district out of the current year's vote was quite inadequate to meet the increasing demands for school accommodation. The Board trusts that in future the amount granted will be more nearly adequate to the wants of this important district. The schools recently erected are neatly designed, well arranged, suitably and sufficiently furnished, and provided with ample means of ventilation. Buildings badly designed, and ill adapted for the purpose tor which they are intended, are still too numerous in this district; but as most of these have been in existence many years, and are now showing signs of decay, the Board hopes that they will soon be replaced by buildings better fitted for school purposes. The difficulty of securing sites in towns and villages is gradually increasing, and the Board would point out the necessity for making provision for procuring such sites when they can be secured. By order of the Board. The Hon. the Minister of Education. P. Gr. Pride, Secretary.

G-eneeal Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. Receipts. £ s. d. i Expenditure, £ s. A. To Grants from G-overnrnent— By Overdraft, Ist January, 1881 ... ... 1,580 11 1 Statutory capitation (£3 155.) ... 52,607 17 4 Office and Board— Scholarships (Is. 6d.) ... ... 997 3 0 Office staff, salaries ... ... 835 0 0 Inspection subsidy ... ... 500 0 0 Departmental contingencies ... 371 7 10 Training of teachers ... ... 2,000 0 O School Inspection — Specially for buildings ... ... 7,220 0 0 Salaries ... ... ... ... 925 0 0 Payments by School Commissioners from Travelling expenses ... ... 402 19 3 education reserves ... ... 9,035 10 2 Other expenses ... ... ... 48 0 0 District High School fees ... ... 117 5 0 Examination of pupil-teachers ... 15 9 0 Public library committees ... ... 453 10 9 Teachers' salaries and allowances (includSchool of Art fees ... ... ... 128 2 0 ing rent, £328 9s. 6d.) ... ... 53,439 14 1 Sale of school sites ... ... ... 363 6 8 School Committees, for educational purKent of school sites ... ... ... 25 5 0 poses (including rent, £190 165.) ... 5,359 13 8 Amount overdrawn in Bank of New Zea- Scholarships— land ... ... ... ... 679 11 0 Paid to holders ... ... ... 1,015 0 0 Expenses of examinations ... ... 60 10 0 Training of teachers ... ... ... 2,210 7 5 School-Buildings— New buildings ... ... ... 2,461 19 7 Enlargement, improvement, and repairs 2,563 3 5 School furniture and appliances (not included in preceding) ... ... 207 13 0 Purchase of sites ... ... 65 10 0 Plans, supervision, &o. ... ... 502 11 2 Public libraries ... ... ... 1,335 12 6 School of Art —Salaries and expenses ... 719 6 8 Interest on overdraft ... ... 3 2 3 £74,127 10 11 £74,127 10 11

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Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1881. Assets. £ s. d. j Liabilities. £ s. d. To Unpaid balance of building grant ... 8,511 0 0 By Overdraft in Bant of New Zealand ... 679 11 0 Amount due on account of scholarships... 274 15 0 Balance due on school-building contracts 8,016 0 0 Sundry sums owiug by public library com- Departmental contingencies ... ... 28 0 0 mittees .., ~. ... ... 305 0 0 Scholarships ... ... ... 20 0 0 Balance ... ... ... ... 347 4 0 £9,090 15 0 £9,090 15 0 P. G. Pexde, Secretary.

Dbawing-Masteb's Repoet. Sir,— Dunedin, 31st March, 1882. I have the honor to submit my annual report for 1881 on the School of Art, and the w rork done in the various schools in which drawing is taught in connection with it. The total number that received instruction in or through the agency of the school during the year 1881 was 6,311, being an increase of 369 over that of the previous year. This total includes 5,478 pupils of public schools, 86 students in training, 64 teachers and pupil-teachers, 56 students who attended the afternoon class, and 184 students who attended the evening classes. The teachers' and pupil-teachers' class was open every Tuesday and Thursday for the study of the subjects recommended by the Miuister of Education, viz., freehand and model drawing, practical geometry, and perspective. Those who had passed through the regular course were taught drawing from the cast. At the annual examination for teachers' certificates, 50 passed in freehand, 41 in model drawing, and 4 in practical geometry. Previous to the late examination of pupil-teachers I wrote to the Board asking if any provision had been made for the examination of the pupil-teachers in drawing. I received no reply ; and, as no examination took place, I may infer there is some obstacle in the way. I think it unfair to those who attend this class that their efforts should not be recognized, by including drawing as one of the regular subjects at the annual examinations, instead of as at present making them wait until they present themselves for examination for certificate E or D, when they seldom, for some reason or other, take more than two of the subjects prescribed. If the following method were adopted, the pupil-teachers would be in possession of a full certificate at the end of their term, and would have less anxiety at a time when other subjects claim their attention. At the end of their first year they could be examined in freehand drawing; at the end of their second, model drawing; at the end of their third, practical geometry; and at the end of their fourth year, perspective. The afternoon class continues in a very satisfactory condition, and the work done is about the average, notwithstanding that many of the older students left to pursue their studies from nature, and are now regular contributors to the Otago Art's Society's exhibitions. The evening classes were open four nights per week. The attendance was greater than in any previous year, the rooms being inconveniently crowded. The work done was as usual of the most useful kind connected with or relating to the students' usual trades. Several ladies now attend these classes. The Builders' Association prizes were awarded to W. J. Love for architectural drawing, and to J. Gourley for general progress. The class for sketching from the living model met one night every week, and made steady progress. The progress made by the pupils attending the public schools was most satisfactory. As no provision has yet been made for the examination of these classes, I would recommend that at the next annual examination of the public schools drawing be included as one of the ordinary subjects of examination. At the close of the session an exhibition of the works executed by the students was open for four days, and was largely attended by all classes of the citizens. I have, Ac, The Secretary, Otago Education Board. David C. Hutton, Art Master.

SOUTHLAND. Sm, — Invercargill, Ist March, 1882. In compliance with the provisions of clause 102 of " The Education Act, 1877," I have the honor to submit the following report of the Southland Education Board for the year ending 31st December, 1881. Boaed. —The following gentlemen were members of the Board at the beginning of the year : Thomas M. Macdonald, Esq. (Chairman), the Hon. Dr. Menzies, George Lumsden, Esq., Thomas Denniston, Esq., John O. McArdell, Esq., Alfred Baldey, Esq., James Mackintosh, Esq., John Morison, Esq., and James S. Shanks, Esq. The three retiring members were the Hon. Dr. Menzies, James S. Shanks, Esq., and Alfred Baldey, Esq., the last of whom was re-elected; and, in the place of the other two gentlemen, Henry Eeldwick, Esq., and Q-eorge McLeod, Esq., were returned. The three retiring members on the 31st March, 1882, are George Lumsden, Esq., John O. McArdell, Esq., and John Morison, Esq. During the year the Board held twelve meetings, at which the average attendance of members was nearly seven, and the Executive Committee held twenty-one meetings for general and special purposes. The number of the meetings of the Board which each member attended during the year was as follows: George Lumsden, 12 ; Alfred Baldey, 12 ; Thomas M. Macdonald, 10 ; Thomas Denniaton, 10; John Morison, 9; James Mackintosh, 9; John 0. McArdell, 5; George McLeod, 9; Henry Feldwick, 8. The first seven were members of the Board for the whole year, the last two for nine months only. Messsrs, Macdonald and Morison had leave of absence from the Board.

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Ntjmber of Schools.—The number of schools open during the last quarter of 1881 was 63, being three in excess of the number in operation during the corresponding quarter of 1880. The following comparative table shows the number and classification of the schools as regards attendance for the last four years:— 1378. 1879. 1880. 1881. Under 15 15 and under 20 ... ... ... 1 5 3 5 20 „ 25 ... ... ... 5 4 6 3 25 „ 50 ... ... ... 27 24 33 37 50 „ 75 ... ... ... 5 10 6 8 75 „ 100 ... ... 5 0 4 4 100 „ 150 ... ... 2 4 2 150 „ 300 ... ... ... 2 2 2 2 300 „ 500 ... ... ... 2 1 2 2 47 54 60 63 The average number of pupils for each is 60, being the same as last year. It is a significant fact that the great majority of the schools has an average attendance below 50. As shown in this table, there were last year 45 schools with an attendance below, and only 18 above 50, being in the ratio of five to two. Having so few large schools to assist the small ones will account for the salaries paid to teachers in this district being lower than the scale of some of the other districts. Number and Classification op Teachers, —The number of teachers employed during the last quarter of 1881 is classified as follows : —Male : Teachers, 61; assistants, 5 ; pupil-teachers, 7 : total, 73. Female: Teachers, 14 ; assistants, 4 ; pupil-teachers, 20 : total, 38. In addition to these, seven sewingmistresses were employed. This class of teachers, who impart instruction in sewing and other industrial work for not less than three hours in each week, is allowed to schools having an average attendance ranging from 50 to 75. The average number of pupils for each teacher, exclusive of sewing-mistresses, was 34. Ntjmbek and Classification op Certificated Teachers.—The following summary shows the classification of teachers, as regards the holding of certificates, according to the Gazette : Third rank, 82, Cl, containing 1 teacher; fourth rank, 83, C 2, Dl, containing 4 teachers ; fifth rank, 84, C 3, D 2, El, containing 5 teachers ; sixth rank, C 4, D 3, E2, containing 16 teachers; seventh rank, D 4, E3, containing 19 teachers; eight rank, D 5, E4, containing 3 teachers : total, 48. Besides these, two are holders of licenses to teach, and two of district licenses. There are in all 84 teachers and assistant teachers, of whom 48 are holders of certificates and 36 are uncertificated, being in the ratio of four to three. It is expected that after the examination of teachers to be held in January, 1882, the number of uncertificated teachers will be considerably reduced. Attendance.—The attendance of pupils at the schools was very irregular during the second and third quarters of the year, owing to the universal prevalence of measles and other epidemics during these quarters, and partially so during the fourth quarter. The extent to which the attendance was affected may be ascertained by a comparison of the number of pupils on the roll and the number in average attendance for these periods. In consequence of the reduction of the attendance, the capitation grant to the Board and the salaries paid to the teachers were proportionately reduced. It is surely unsound in principle that teachers' salaries should be reduced by circumstances over which they have no control, such as the inclemency of the weather, or the prevalence of epidemics among the pupils. It would be but fair to Boards and teachers, when it can be shown that the reduced attendance in any quarter is the result of such causes, that the grants to the former, and the salaries paid to the latter, were based on the average attendance of the previous quarter. The number of pupils at the beginning and end of the year, with the strict and average attendance for each quarter, are shown in lieturn 11., in the Appendix annexed hereto.* In the following tables, the pupils in attendance during the last quarter of the year are arranged according to ages, standards, and subjects provided by the syllabus. For the sake of" comparison, the numbers for the corresponding quarter of 1879 and 1880 are included:— Table I. —Acres. 1879. 1880. 1881. Under 5 years ... ... ... 219 202 5 and under 7 „ ... ... ... 806 928 1,119 7 „ 10 „ ... ... ... 1,473 1,645 1,716 10 „ 13 „ ... ... ... 1,272 1,423 1,532 13 „ 15 „ ... ... ... 475 570 525 Above 15 „ ... ... ... 99 123 141 Table ll.—Standards. Infants ... ... ... ... ... 764 1,065 1,018 Preparing for Standard I. ... ... ... 1,054 1,064 1,107 11. ... ... ... 676 1,018 926 111. ... ... ... 739 829 1,044 „ IV. ... ... ... 497 540 602 „ „ V. ... ... ... 239 264 233 VI. ... ... ... 93 108 96 Passed Standard VI. ... ... ... 1 5 13

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Scholarships.—-Eight scholarships have been held during the year, four of which terminated at the 31st December. The annual examination took place on the 20th December and three following days, with the result that four—viz., two from the Riverton School, one from the North School (Invercargill), and one from Campbolltown School—were the successful competitors. The Inspector's report and examination papers, as well as a table showing the names of the holders for the last year, the length of tenure, and the value of the scholarships, will be found in the Appendix.* Sib Julius Vogel's Phizes. —Two prizes, the cabinet edition of the works of Shakespeare and " The World of Wonders," were offered by Sir Julius Vogel to be competed for by the pupils attending the public schools of Southland. In order to carry out the generous intention of the donor, the Board resolved to award them to the boy and girl respectively who gained the highest number of marks at the Inspector's examination of the schools in the course of the year. The boy's prize (Shakespeare's Works) fell to Henry Lea, Riverton School, who gained 510 marks, and the girl's prize to Jane Jamieson, Central School, Invercargill, who gained 521 marks. The prizes will shortly be forwarded to the head teachers of the respective schools for presentation, with the request that this should be done in the presence of the other pupils. Teachers' Bonuses. —Iv the course of the year the subject of payment of teachers' bonuses was brought under the notice of the Board by the Southland Branch of the Otago Institute, who requested the Board to represent to the Government the expediency (1) of bonuses being paid at the same rate in all the education districts.of the colony, and (2) that they be paid directly from the Education Department. The Board, while admitting the desirability of increasing the rate of teachers' bonuses, failed to see that any benefit would accrue, either to Boards or teachers, by the adoption of this proposal, and resolved accordingly. The bonuses paid to teachers are very small, having been reduced 50 per cent. They range from £2 10s. to £20, and the total amount paid for the year was £244 14s. Id. Government Life Insurance Scheme.—By direction of the Board., a circular was issued to the teachers, directing their attention to the facilities offered by this scheme for paying their premiums by monthly deductions from their salaries. During the year eight teachers have taken advantage of these, and it is expected that the number will steadily increase. It would be a great boon were the facilities extended to the purchasing of annuities, by means of which a retiring or superannuation allowance might be provided. If the objection to this, the smallness of the teachers' salaries, be a valid one, some scheme may be devised, based on the proposal of 1880, but with certain modifications, for providing a fund for superannnuation allowances for those teachers who, having spent all their energies in the service of the Government, are no longer able, by the infirmities of age, to carry on satisfactorily the active work of instruction. Buildings.—The building operations of the Board during the past year have not been very extensive, owing to the amount of the grant being inadequate to meet the demand for the erection of school-buildings, In addition to payment of liabilities previously incurred, schoolhouses have been erected at Wrey's Bush and the West Plains, the former of which was opened in July, and the latter will be opened early next year. The erection of schoolhouses at Otama, Waikaka, and Riversdale was previously sanctioned, but was deferred from want of funds. These, along with schoolhouses at East Hokonui, Fernhills, Wairio, Eairlight, Pine Bush, and Thornbury, will be proceeded with as far as funds will permit. In localities where teachers' residences are not provided, the Board has found it a very difficult matter to secure the services of competent teachers, or, when secured, to retain them for any length of time. It has therefore been found necessary to erect residences, in order to secure and. retain the services of men of skill and experience in teaching. Residences, combining plainness of style with comfort and convenience, have already been sanctioned and are in course of erection at Pukerau, Otatara Bush, Heddon Bush, Wyndham, Edendale, and Orepuki; and others will, no doubt, be required in all those localities where new school districts have been formed, and School Committees elected. The schoolhouse at Limestone Plains, one of the oldest in the district, was found in such a dilapidated condition as to necessitate the erection of a new building. A schoolhouse capable of containing fifty pupils is now in course of erection. The accommodation afforded by the school-buildings at Edendale was found to be quite inadequate, both as regards the schoolhouse and residence. It was resolved to erect a residence on an adjoining section, and to convert the present buildings into a schoolhouse. The cutting-up of the Edendale Estate into small farms will add considerably to the population, and there is little doubt that the additional accommodation thus afforded will, in a short time, be required. The grant of last year was totally inadequate to meet the requirements of the district, and, although the grant for the current year is on a more liberal scale, the deductions from it of liabilities previously incurred will leave a balance insufficient to meet all the demands upon it. Owing to exceptional circumstances, this district requires to be dealt with in a liberal spirit by the Government. Settlements on the deferred-payment system are rising up in many directions, and large estates, hitherto supporting a scanty population, are being divided into farms and placed in the market. Centres of population will thus be formed, and schools must be provided at no distant date.

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Finance.— Board's Accounts: The statement appended hereto shows the income and expenditure of the Board for the year, the income from all sources being £19,496 4s. 2d., and the expenditure £17,932 10s. After deducting liabilities, there remains a credit balance on the Maintenance Account of £162, which, by a resolution of the Board, has been set aside to be apportioned among the several School Committees, in order to make up, to that extent, for the large reduction (50 per cent.) which the Board was reluctantly compelled to make in their , allowances. — Committees' Accounts: The following statement is a classified summary of the income and expenditure of School Committees for the year :— Income. £ s. d. From the Education Board ... ... ... ... 880 10 9 From donations, subscriptions, &c. ... ... ... 526 18 7 From other sources ... ... ... ... ... 145 6 9 From balances ... ... ... .. ... 201 10 2 £1,884 6 3 Expenditure. £ s. d. Cleaning school and fuel ... ... ... ... 651 14 10 Repairs to buildings, fences, Ac. ... ... ... 307 6 2 Books, maps, and furniture ... ... ... ... 126 17 9 Contributions towards teachers' salaries ... ... ... 230 3 11 Committees' expenses —stationery, &c. ... ... ... 109 11 10 Sundries ... ... ... ... ... 150 6 1 Balances ... ... ... ... .. 258 5 8 £1,834 6 3 Many of the Committees, especially those in the rural districts, deserve very great credit for their exertions to supplement the small allowances received from the Board, by means of soirees, concerts, and other amusements. The resources thus raised, however, are very precarious. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. John Gr. Smith, Secretary.

General Statement of Eeceipts and Expendittoe for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. Meceipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance, Ist January, 1881— By Office and BoardMaintenance Account ... ... 164 8 3 Office staff, salaries ... ... 279 0 0 Libraries Account ... ... 22 10 8 Clerical assistance ... ... ... 4 18 0 Buildings Account ... ... 1,262 1 7 Departmental contingencies... ... 226 10 3 Grants from Government — ■ School Inspection— Statutory capitation (£3 155.) ... 12,385 12 ] Salaries ... ... , ... ... 372 0 0 Scholarships (Is. 6d.) ... ... 183 9 6 Travelling expenses ... 130 0 0 Inspection subsidy ... ... 300 0 0 Examination of pupil-teachers 5 4 3 Specially for buildings ... ... 3,000 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances (inchidPayments by School Commissioners from ing rents, £228 10s. Bd.) ... ... 12,718 19 5 education reserves ... ... 1,952 8 5 Special fees ... ... ... 16 10 0 Subscriptions and donations specially School Committees, &c, for educational for buildings ... ... ... 50 0 0 purposes (includingrent,£l66s. Bd.) 896 17 5 Pees for District High Schools ... 16 10 0 ScholarshipsBooks sold ... ... ... ... 32 16 2 Paid to holders ... ... 156 13 4 Old buildings sold ... ... ... 30 0 0 Expenses of examinations ... ... 23 9 6 Rent of school glebe ... ... ... 7 0 0 Insurance of school-buildings ... ... 128 7 8 Furniture sold ... ... ... 2 0 0 School-Buildings— Contractors'deposits ... ... 87 7 6 New buildings ... ... ... 1,485 11 0 Enlargement, improvement, and repairs 936 10 2 School furniture and appliances (not included in preceding) ... ... 152 4 4 Plans, supervision, &c. ... ... 371 0 2 Books bought ... ... ... 21 4 6 Deposit returned ... ... ... 710 0 Balance ... ... ... ... 1,563 14 2 £19,496 4 2 £19,496 4 2 Thos. M. Macdonald, Chairman. John GK Smith, Secretary. I have examined the above account and compared it with the Treasurer's books and vouchers, and with the bank pass-book, and certify it to be correct. —H. Livingston, Auditor.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1881. Assets, £ s. d. Liaiilities. £ s. d. Maintenance balance ~, ... ... 422 16 9 Due Committees ... ... ~, 355 0 0 Buildings balance ... ... ... 1,023 10 11 Fuel account ... ... ... ... 312 0 Due from Government ... ... ... 2,590 0 0 Stationery ... ... ... ... 4 0 0 Advertising ... ... ... ... 38 4 9 Printing ... ... ... ... 22 0 0 Buildings, due on contracts ... ... 2,613 13 4 Balance ... ... ... ... 999 17 7 £4,036 7 8 £4,036 7 8

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AUCKLAND. Sib, — Training College, Auckland, March, 1882. I have the honor to submit the annual report of the Auckland Training College for the year 1881. My duties as principal extend beyond the college, strictly speaking, as I conduct classes for the benefit of assistant and pupil-teachers, and correspond with a large number of country teachers. That a teacher should be trained for the work is now admitted by all who give the matter any thought. The teaching profession is no longer considered an asylum for those who haye proved themselves unfit for any walk in life. One who undertakes the duty of nurturing the faculties of reasoning beings should of all others be one who has been trained to his work. The training to be obtained in a normal school must however differ from the ordinary curriculum of a grammar school. Some subjects are necessarily common to both, but the aim of the former is to produce good teachers, and hence its energies ought to be bent in that direction. With this aim in view, lectures on the theory and methods of teaching, and actual practice in the practising school, form the leading features of a normal school time-table. Of the ordinary subjects of a higher school-course such are taught as tend specially to improve the culture of the students, who are afterwards to be intrusted with the guidance of youthful minds. While every teacher should possess certain literary qualifications, it does not, therefore, follow that the higher the attainments the better the teacher. Unfortunately too often this is not the case, and it is not hard to find a reason for the seeming inconsistency. Those who are anxious to obtain high honours in examination frequently shut themselves out by the closeness of their study from their fellow-creatures, and become wholly ignorant of the feelings and sympathies of others ; thus, when they try to teach they fail ignobly, as they are deficient in all the methods of enlisting the sympathy and engaging the attention of the pupils. The training college began its work in March, and the number of students then admitted was only six. I consider the smallness of the number was owing to the fact that the true nature of the college was almost unknown, Ido not deem this altogether an evil, as it is well that the institution should become known by the character of its work, and should place itself before teachers as a necessary part of the educational system of any district desirous of taking a foremost place. During the year the number of students increased to twelve. Ten of these, one male and nine females, are still on the books of the college, and have begun their second year course. One declined to sign the security required by the Board, while the last entered the service of the Board this year as a teacher. The students take great interest in their work, and show a praiseworthy anxiety to improve themselves in the methods of teaching. Although at first very nervous on the practising days, yet now they do fairly well; and I hope to give to the district a detachment of trained teachers worthy to be the firstfruits of the college. The subjects of study are those prescribed for Class E Certificate, also the compulsory and three optional subjects prescribed for Class D Certificate. The subjects may be grouped as (1) ordinary public-schooi studies, (2) the study of method and of the art of teaching, and (3) extra subjects. The following is the plan adopted with the students in the theory and practice of teaching during the first year of training: Bi-weekly lectures are delivered to the students, who devote one day a week to the actual practice of teaching, and thus exemplify the principles taught in the lectures. In teaching, they first receive small drafts of the Second, Third, and Fourth Standards, and, as they improve in management, the drafts are gradually increased in numbers, until they are able to take charge of a whole class. Infant teaching, and the method of conducting small schools with or without assistance, form the subjects of a second year's course. The practising school possesses no trained assistant teachers, and it is therefore necessary for me to be always present with the students in their practice. As the college grows older, I trust to give to the schools a number of trained teachers, whom future students shall see at work, and to whom I shall look for reports on the work of the students in the schools. Owing to the present want of trained teachers in the practising school, the college labours under a great disadvantage, for, however zealous untrained teachers may be, they lack the system and skill to be found in the former. Those who are not trained learn chiefly by experience, but they buy in that manner sometimes at a very great price what they would easily have acquired during a course of training. I should here like to state my opinion that a large practising school is undesirable, and to give my reasons for that opinion. In a large school each class is under one teacher, who has sole charge of that class, and who has no care of any other. Thus, class-teaching is the one style of teaching seen in a large school. Most of our schools are small, and cannot afford a teacher to each class. A teacher of a small school has always to carry on more than one class at a time, and students who have seen and practised class-teaching only are at a loss how to manage in a small school. I would respectfully suggest that the Board grant facilities to the students to take an active part under my supervision in the management of some of the smaller schools near Auckland. Here, by sharing the work, they would not only benefit themselves, but be of service in showing to others the methods to be followed. Such a scheme might well be carried out during one month of the last half-year of training. The practising school is greatly in want of an infant department. While I believe that the Kindergarten system could not be fully carried out here, yet many of its principles and several of its details could be utilized by an efficient infant mistress. A good infant department should be the pride of a school, as a teacher can truly educate those who enter young and pass gradually through the various classes. Before leaving the subject of the practising school I must bear testimony to the cordial manner in which the headmaster and other teachers of that institution have always afforded opportunities to the students while in practice.

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The pupil-teachers in and around Auckland attend classes, held twice a week after school-hours, and on Saturday mornings, for the purpose of gaining instruction in the various subjects of their annual examination, but more especially in the methods of teaching. These classes are preferable to the custom of each head-teacher instructing his own pupil-teachers after his day's work, when such additional work must of necessity feel irksome. They are also a great saving of energy, and bring about a uniformity in the instruction given to pupil-teachers. Classes are also held on Saturdays for the purpose of giving to uncertificated teachers regular advice on the subjects which they require to present for examination, and instruction in music and drawing. The certificated and uncertificated teachers also attend the course of lectures given each Saturday on the theory and practice of teaching. I am glad to report an increasing interest in these lectures, but candour compels me to state that there are still some teachers who consider themselves far beyond that stage in which it is possible for them to learn anything. The meeting of teachers at these various classes on Saturday has a very important indirect value. It brings together regularly those engaged in the same work, who might otherwise never meet except at the dreaded annual examination. Teachers are thus enabled to know one another, and have the opportunity of comparing experiences. A few of the head-teachers take the trouble to come to the Saturday classes, and I here tender them my sincere thanks for the encouragement thus given to me in my work. It is a pleasure to me, and it must be a satisfaction to assistants to see their head-teachers thus showing an interest in the work of training. The uncertificated teachers employed in the country schools regularly correspond with me. I find great difficulty in persuading my correspondents that merely studying the whims of examiners, by working past examinations and numberless papers, is not the means by which to improve themselves. Some do not yet realize the fact that they must work regularly and intelligently at the various subjects placed before them if they desire to derive any lasting benefit from those subjects. I append to this report the time-table of the training college, and a statement of the attendance at the class held in connection with it. I nave, &c, A. McAethitk, M.A., LL.B., The Chairman, Board of Education, Auckland. Principal.

Appendix A. Students' Time-table.

Appendix B. Attendance at Classes held in connection with the Training College. 1. Assistants: On the roll ... ... ... ... ... ... 99 „ Average attendance ... ... ... ... ... 67 2. Pupil-teachers: On the roll ... ... ... ... ... 60 „ Average attendance ... ... ... ... 49 3. Corresponding teachers ... ... ... ... ... ... 63

WELLINGTON. Sir, — Normal School, Wellington, March, 1882. In presenting my second annual report on the work of the normal school, I have the honor to direct your attention— 1. To evidences of progress made ; 2. To difficulties which have prevented the attainment of greater success ; and 3. To measures by which the well-being of the school may be promoted in the future. 1. Evidences of progress made. —Numbers are the popular test of progress. It is gratifying, therefore, to be able to state that the number on the roll on the 31st December, 1881, was 23, as against 12 at the corresponding time last year, showing an increase of 11 students. Of the whole number now on the register, fifteen belong to the professional class, the remaining 8 are private students, paying fees for their education. We have no probationers now. The number of male students has fluctuated considerably. We had at one time 9 ; there are now (31st December) C. It is very desirable that something should be done to increase the number of male students, trained schoolmasters being as great a necessity as trained-mistresses if our New Zealand education scheme is ever to have fairplay. Of the professional students, 7 have been pupil-teachers ; 2 others have had some temporary experience; the rest are new to the work. Two students have entered from the Nelson District; the others are from Wellington or its immediate neighbourhood. Two students left at the beginning of the year from inability to stand the pecuniary strain ; two temporary students were appointed to pupil-teacher-ships under the Board ; and three others have been permitted to resign, two on the ground of changed family circumstances, and one on account of ill-health. One probationer was also permitted to withdraw, as her progress was unsatisfactory.

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The popularity of the school with those who enjoy its benefits, and are, presumably, the best judges of the extent to which it supplies their needs, is evidenced by the regularity of the attendance ; absence from any other cause than sickness being almost unknown. But the true test of the progress made in the work of such an institution is the improvement shown by the students in their professional studies ; the extent to which they have mastered the technicalities of educational work ; and the grasp they show of the true principles on which such work must be conducted. These are the standards by which its usefulness must be measured. Thus tested, I believe we shall not be found wanting. No expert can fail to recognize the difference between skilled and unskilled labour, and that difference is plainly discernible, as we contrast the present with the past, in our students. The methods of training remain as in my last report. The students spend on an average about one-fifth of their time in the practising school. The backward ones teach oftener than the more expert. They spend fully one-fourth of the school-year in practical work. Should our numbers increase, as I have reason to anticipate, during 1882, it will be necessary to increase the practising facilities. I pass on to notice — 2. Difficulties encountered.— -The delay in the issue of the authoritative regulations which only. came into force on the 18th May, when the school had been open eight months, kept the numbers down considerably in the early part of the year. Changes in the staff of visiting teachers, necessitating frequent modifications of the time-table, and consequent temporary derangements of work, have not been conducive to steady progress. The non-appointment of a science master as successor to Mr. Osier, who left in April last, has been a decided hindrance to the work of the male students. Unsuitable vacation arrangements have also made effective work unnecessarily difficult. The unsatisfactory desk accommodation has been a constant source of annoyance to students and teachers. The low rate of maintenance, allowed particularly in the case of male students, has rendered it very difficult for some to continue their studies, and some have been compelled to seek more immediately remunerative employment. But these are comparatively minor evils. Some have been remedied, others are in course of satisfactory treatment, and the rest could be remedied without much difficulty. There remain however two graver matters, which present problems less easy of practical solution, although I hope to show they are not entirely insoluble. And foremost I place the want of a practising school more like those the majority of the students will be called on to manage;—of a school in which theories propounded in the lecture-room could be subjected to the practical test, and in which the plans of school- and class-management advocated by me might be carried out in their integrity under my own supervision, where I should possess the necessary authority to insist on having things done in the way which commended itself most to my own judgment. Such a school might serve the purpose of a district school, and I should not for one moment shrink from submitting to the usual tests applied to district school work, but it. should be a practising school first, and a district school afterwards. In this connection, however, I desire to record my sincere appreciation of Mr. Mowbray's kindly co-operation with me, and of his painstaking work with the students. I have no complaint of any kind to make. We have worked in perfect harmony, but it must be evident that to any one in his position the necessities of district school work must ever be the paramount consideration, to which the needs of particular teachers must be subordinated. The existing arrangements have worked as well as could be expected, but they are inherently defective and unsound in principle. And I have to notice one other grave hindrance to our work; and this is the general apathy of teachers toward the institution. It is easily accounted for, but, in the interests of education, none the less to be regretted. And the fact remains that pupil-teachers do not realize as they ought the advantages of training, and their own need of it if they are ever to be thoroughly efficient teachers. And it is to be feared that, with a few notable exceptions, the head-teachers of our schools do not encourage their subordinates to look forward to the training-college course as the crown of their professional preparation. This is partly to be accounted for perhaps by the fact that those who are themselves untrained have never experienced the benefits of it, and being thus debarred the opportunity of accurately gauging their own deficiencies remain largely unconscions of them. And I know also that some head-teachers, warm friends of the training school, find their efforts to influence their pupil-teachers to take a course of study therein thwarted by circumstances they are powerless to control. But it cannot be too strongly impressed on pupil-teachers that the training they receive, as such, is essentially very imperfect. Here, in Wellington City, for instance, no provision is made for their regular instruction in the one thing they ought most to study, the art of teaching and schoolmanagement. It is left almost entirely out of the curriculum of their examination. Speaking generally, pupil-teachers pass through their apprenticeship without gaining any scientific knowledge of the principles of the work to which they propose to devote themselves ; and this is not to be wondered at. The head-teachers have very little time to superintend them, the buildings are often very ill adapted for the work, or for letting a number of inferior teachers profit constantly by the example of their superiors. They must necessarily be left greatly to themselves, to learn, by disappointments and bitter experience too often, what they would have learned in a quarter of the time, and far more pleasantly, in the training school. And even underthe most favourable circumstances, when working under trained teachers, who are competent to instruct them, and take an active interest in their professional studies, they see only one phase of the work, learn plans adapted to a particular class of school or to a particular standard, and acquire little power of modifying their methods to suit altered conditions of work, and are quite unable to plan the work of a school differing even slightly from their own. Any one who has had opportunities of testing their capabilities in these respects will bear out my Btatement; and it is a well-known fact that a great majority of the failures which occur year after year in the certificate examination are failures in school-management. Now, in the training school, students get thoroughly grounded in the essential principles of education, they study the work in all

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its branches and in a variety of different aspects, discuss and plan the working arrangements of schools of the most diverse character, so that, given at the outset teaching capacity, they become almost certainly skilled teachers and school-managers. Pupil-teachers now on the completion of their apprenticeship seem to remain on as assistant teachers in their own schools. I look forward hopefully to the day when here, as in England, on the expiry of their contract the pupil-teachers themselves will be expected to pass on without delay to the training school, or otherwise will find the prizes of the profession, in the majority of cases, quite out of their reach. The day must come —skilled labour must ultimately triumph over unskilled, and the welfare of the nation depends on its doing so as quickly as possible. While therefore we can sympathize with those who, to protect vested interests, strive to check the rate at which the skilled labour ia manufactured, we rejoice to know that all their efforts must ultimately be in vain. I turn now to a pleasanter subject, and offer— 3. Some suggestions for promoting the efficiency of the normal seliool. —I would strongly urge the appointment of a science-master as soon as possible. A specialist is not required —is, indeed, unsuited to our needs; but a science-teacher, it seems to me, we must provide. It is our duty to the male students we have—a duty prescribed in the official regulations for the management of training schools— and the opportunity of obtaining good scientific instruction would attract others to the school. Chemistry forms only a small portion of the elementary science examination our male students must pass before they can obtain a certificate —certainly not more than one-fourth, and sometimes even less ; so that what we require is a capable teacher of good general scientific attainment. Such a teacher has been provided for the pupil-teachers, and I recommended to the Board some months since the expediency of securing his very able services for the students. I hope some action may now be taken in this direction. As soon as the number of private students will justify the expenditure, which I hope it will do soon, I would ask the Board for further assistance, that I may be able to devote more time to the active superintendence of the students while teaching. In 1882 we shall have three distinct divisions of students, and, unless some additional help is given, my time will be almost fully occupied in teaching. I desire to make the instruction of the private students as effective as possible. This class has already increased the professional class, and in the current year I have every reason to believe it will do so to a further and valuable extent. Mrs. Griffin spends a portion of every afternoon in the practising school, teaching needlework to the girls. At these times lam left single-handed. Mrs. Griffin is really acting as sewing mistress in the Thorndon School. I cannot but think she would be more effectually employed in teaching the teachers than in actual work with the children, usually unassisted by the teachers, who take little or no active interest in the matter. As needlework and domestic economy are of such prime importance in the family, they should certainly be taught in all girls' schools, and female pupil-teachers and assistant mistresses should be required to prove their competency to teach them. I must also ask the Board to reconsider the question of holidays. Our students have to be prepared for an examination fixed by authority to be held at the end of January. It is surely evident then that their chances of success would be seriously lessened if the school were to be closed in the middle of December. This is recognized elsewhere. At Chistchurch work goes on until the examination, the summer vacation coming in February, when students and teachers are alike free to enjoy it, and to benefit physically and mentally by the change. But an enforced holiday just before the examination would be no real rest to any of them, as there would be no relief from the anxiety and the mental strain. The consequence of the arrangements made by the Board this year is that Mrs. Griffin and I must give up our holidays, and work on privately with the professional students at the risk of our health and of getting no holiday worth speaking of for another six months. This arrangement, if continued, cannot fail, to tell seriously on all of us. lam really sorry to bring this matter forward so repeatedly, but in the interests of the school I have no option; and 1 cannot but think that on calmly reviewing the position the Board will admit the soundness of the principle for which I contend, viz., that differences of work in different classes of schools necessitate corresponding differences in working arrangements. Regarding the payment of students: I would urge that male students should be paid liberally. Their labour can be brought to so ready and profitable a market in other ways that otherwise I fear we shall never get a sufficient supply of good material. And it would be economy to remunerate them liberally, as schoolmasters usually remain in the profession much longer than schoolmistresses. I can foresee considerable difficulty in the solution of the practising-school question. It would be impracticable to establish such a school as I desire in the immediate neighbourhood of any existing schools; but it has occurred to me that it might be possible to subdivide one of the town districts, and to erect a building large enough for our purposes, at a sufficient distance from any of the present schools, and yet fairly accessible by tram from the normal school. Such a school should be regarded as an integral part of the training machinery, be under the direct control of the Board and my own active supervision, and conducted throughout in entire accordance with my own views of school- and class-management. The main work of such a school, or a great part of it at anyrate, would be performed by students. I should myself spend a considerable portion of each day there, but there should be a small highly efficient staff, sufficient in number to give persistency to the working arrangements, and qualified in my absence to manage the school and direct the work of others. In the appointment of this staff I should desire to have some voice, as it would be of the utmost importance that its members should sympathize fully with my views of the work. I am disposed to think some buildings might be rented, that would serve our purpose temporarily, if it were deemed impracticable at present to build. The plans of such a building would require specially careful preparation and anxious consideration in order to adapt them perfectly to the peculiar requirements of the work. "With the view of popularizing the normal school, and making it as generally useful as may be, I would suggest the propriety of establishing Saturday classes for pupil-teachers and country teachers, who might be desirous of getting technical assistance. I should be glad to do anything in my power

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to help any such. It will be in the recollection of the Board, perhaps, that I made some proposals of this sort last May, but nothing practical resulted therefrom. And if the pupil-teachers' year could be brought into close correspondence with the academic year, so that, as in England, students might enter the normal school in a body at the commencement of the year, it would be well. Now students enter at all periods of the year, at the beginning, middle or conclusion of the course of study. Thus our difficulties are increased, and the benefits they would derive are diminished. I would further recommend the Board to issue special certificates of training to students who complete their normal school course to our satisfaction, and prizes might also be given with advantage. Lastly, I would respectfully suggest that, as the supply of locally-trained efficient teachers increases, preference should be given to them in all appointments, other qualifications being tolerably equal. Those who have at least shown an anxious desire to make themselves thoroughly efficient, often at very considerable personal sacrifice, certainly deserve recognition. And in our case I think those have the greatest claim on us who, in the face of much opposition in quarters where they might reasonably have looked for encouragement, have identified themselves, through evil report and good report, with our own normal school, and havo striven as I know they have right loyally to do it honour. I have to thank Mrs. Griffin, and also the visiting teachers, for the zeal and ability with which they have discharged their various duties. To Mrs. Griffin my thanks are especially due. No one could have worked more enthusiastically or more loyally. My report is a long one, but I thought it best to deal somewhat exhaustively with the very important matters it embraces. Commending the school to your heartiest sympathy, and my remarks to your kind consideration, I have, &c, The Chairman of the Board of Education. Chaeles C. Howabd.

CHKISTCHURCH. Sib, — Normal School, Christchurch, Ist May, 1882. I have the honour to submit my report for the year ending the 31st December, 1881. The number of students who attended this session was larger than the last. The classes opened on the 7th March with 6 male and 23 female students, making a total of 29 ; and at the close there were 14 males and 29 females, making a total of 43. The attendance was both punctual and regular, and the progress made satisfactory. As I expected, permission to attend the classes of Canterbury College has had a very good effect not only upon those who were sufficiently advanced to benefit by the lectures, and such only were permitted to attend, but those also who could not take advantage of the privilege have gained by it. The example of the earnest and therefore successful students has stimulated the rest, and all have exerted themselves to perform their duties to the- utmost of their powers. The more I consider the advisableness of connecting college and normal, school work, the more I am convinced that the closest possible relation should exist between such institutions ; and I trust that the Board of Education will continue to encourage the students to take advantage of the lectures at Canterbury College. I would even desire to see that those University students who intend to become teachers in secondary schools were granted permission to attend the lectures given here on the science and art of teaching, and to practise in the classes of the practising department. Of the forty-three students who attended during the latter part of the session, thirty-seven sat for certificates as follows : Two for Class C, eleven for Class D, and twenty-four for Class E. The two who sat for the C Certificate passed with great credit; of the eleven for Class D, seven passed wholly, and the rest partially ; and of the twenty-four who attempted the E papers, twenty passed either wholly or partially, and four failed. When it is considered how few in the colony satisfied the examiners, the result of the examination must be considered satisfactory. Among the list of University scholars for this year our students take a good position, Mr. Joseph Grossman standing first in the list of senior scholars, and Miss Janette Grossman third ; and in the list of junior scholars, Mr. Percy Kime, who only took four subjects, stands third. Such success on the part of the students named should have a powerful influence upon the others, and should encourage them to go and do likewise. During the session several of those who obtained certificates at the preceding examination have taken situations both in city and in country schools, and, so far as known to me, are giving satisfaction, favourable reports of their work having been received. On several occasions also students have been sent to take temporary charge of schools or of divisions of schools belonging to this Board and to the Education Board of South Canterbury, and without a single exception complimentary reports of their work have been sent me by the School Committees. There seems to me, however, to be a mistaken notion among many as regards the functions of a normal school in this respect. I have noticed in newspaper reports of meetings of School Committees that complaints have been made that teachers cannot at all times be obtained from this school, as if the students in training were here solely for the purpose of supplying all possible vacancies whenever such occur. Those who. thus complain should remember that students attend our classes for the purpose of qualifying themselves to take appointments in schools after going through a complete technical course, and that in giving their assistance in times of need they are running the risk of failing to pass the necessary examination at the end of the year. In Britain it is very seldom indeed that any student is allowed during his course at the training college to act as locum tenens, as it is considered that regular attendance at lectures is required ; and it is to be hoped that, in future, gentlemen will be more careful in making unreasonable charges against this young institution. Ido not consider that it is our duty to send students away to country schools to act as interim teachers, but, so far as possible, I will always endeavour to supply vacancies whenever they occur, provided that in doing so the persons sent will not suffer seriously by their absence from the classes. In the past a prominent place in the course of training has been given to class-teaching in the practising school; but school-organization has only been taught theoretically, and no practical experience has been gained. Now that tfye Board has decided upon having a small model school in

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connection with the training department, this all-important subject will receive due attention, and no student will be sent to take charge of a school until he or she has had some experience in its management. It may be mentioned that it is intended that the school shall consist of about forty boys, divided into an infant division of two classes, and an upper division preparing for Standards 1., 11., 111., and IV. It will be the duty of the master of the school to superintend the work of the student who is engaged there, and occasionally to give a model lesson in his presence; but the major part of the teaching and management will be done by the student alone, and the value of his training certificate will largely depend upon his success there. By this means it is hoped that all students will obtain a thorough knowledge of the organization of such schools as they are likely to be appointed to, and that the schools to which they may be elected will be benefited. lam convinced that, in many cases, the reason why young teachers are not more successful than they frequently arc is that they have never obtained that practical acquaintance with school organization which is so necessary to insure good results. A Saturday class for uncertificated teachers in the Board's service was taught by me for six months this session, which was fairly well attended. A few of them studied diligently, but the majority seemed to me to think that all that was required of them was to attend the class and do as little for themselves as possible during the week. Still I think that some good was done, aud I hope a similar class will be carried on this session. lam convinced of the need of them, but would strongly press upon the Board that the teachers who attend should be informed that unless satisfactory progress be made they will be deprived of the benefit. Several who attended seemed to me to be unfit for the positions they occupied, and I would recommend that those who fail year after year to obtain a certificate should not be allowed to hold their present situations. I believe that more than one of those who attended week after week would fail to pass the Eourth Standard. In my last report I recommended that the kindergarten system be not carried out so fully as it has been in the past, but that a modified system of kindergarten and ordinary infant school work should be adopted. This recommendation having been approved of at the commencement of the year, I took steps to carry it into effect, and the results have been more favourable than I anticipated. Instead of only a small number of those belonging to the infant school receiving instruction in kindergarten, the whole of this division is now so instructed at least twice a week, and in the case of the lower classes more than one lesson is given daily. Towards the end of the year I was informed that the schools of the British and Foreign Society had a plan somewhat similar to the one recommended by me. To ascertain what they where doing, I communicated with the lady-principal of the training college at Stockwell, and she kindly handed my letter, which contained several queries, to Alfred Bourne, Esq., 8.A., secretary to the society, who furnished me with answers to any queries from the ladies who were in charge of the schools in which this modified system had been introduced, and also with their annual printed report; and I was pleased to find that my opinion of the value of the blending of the two together was corroborated by their experience. The plan adopted by them was the same as that adopted here, except that more time was spent in kindergarten in the infant division of this school than in any of the numerous schools belonging to that important society which has always taken a leading part in the work of education. In all their schools no pupils over five years of age are wholly taught on Frobel's system ; but the best parts of that system are introduced into the ordinary infant school plan, greatly to the benefit of the pupils thus taught. I trust that when our experiment has had a fair trial it will be found that the change in the method of teaching the infants was a wise one, and that it may be the means of improving the infant schools throughout the district. As in the past session, several changes have taken place in the staff of the practising department. When Mr. J. B. Thornton, M.A., left, 1 felt that the school was losing the services of one of its best men. This gentleman had been connected with the school from its very beignning, and done excellent service. He was one of the ablest teachers I have met with in the colony, and the classes under his charge always reflected the image of their master. Should he succeed as well at the bar as he did in the schoolroom he will have an honourable career. I cannot close this report without referring to the zeal and ability of Messrs. Watkins and Newton, the tutors in the training department, and to the readiness with which they have given assistance in the two higher standards in the girls' school. I have, &c, ■• W. Malcolm, Principal.

DUNEDIN. SlE,— I have the honour to forward, in accordance with your instructions, the report of the training college for session 1881. In accordance with the regulations, five pupil-teachers who had completed their term of apprenticeship, and successfully passed their final examination, were admitted to the training classes without further test. Of the candidates for entrance by examination, only three succeeded in making such passes as entitled them to scholarships, and only one of these made more than the bare pass. This gave no very bright prospect of success in the work of the session, and induced us to open a class for pupils who had passed Standard VI., and desired to prepare for entrance to the students' classes. This class has been very popular, the average attendance being thirty-eight, and should furnish candidates well prepared for the next examination. The attention of other schools has been drawn to the advantages offered by the Board in connection with the training classes, and a keen competition for the scholarships of 1882 is expected. We have, in the past, supplied pupil-teachers to several of the city and suburban schools, and as we propose testing the aptitude to teach, as well as the scholarships of the members of this preparatory class, we shall be the better able, in the future, to recommend candidates for the pupilteachership. Candidates for admission to this class must either pass the Sixth Standard examination, or present a certificate that they have already passed. They must declare that they intend to be teachers, that they are physically fit for the work, and, in the case of female candidates, that they are able to sing. The attendance of students during the session was —males, 22 ; females, 32 : total, 54. A number of these were appointed to schools at different periods throughout the session. The work has been

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conducted much on the same lines as described in last report, except that Latin, taught by Mr. Montgomery, took the place of French. Our young teachers continue to avail themselves freely of the advantages offered by the University. A large proportion of the University students are teachers, and in the Dunedin and suburban schools it is the rule, with few exceptions, for the male assistants to be also students. Names of our students are to be found annually in the list of successful students of the University: several are now entitled to the certificate of Class C, and one to that of Class B. This they have accomplished while repaying the State for their training by good service rendered in the public schools. As a rule, the studentteacher does superior work —himself a learner in full sympathy with learners—he is capable of appreciating their difficulties, aud of communicating to them more or less of his own mental activity. A few of our former students, teaching in the country, having expressed a desire for assistance in their private studies, I formed a Saturday training class for their benefit. It was attended for five months by an average of forty diligent workers, and has doubtless been productive of much good. I availed myself of Mr. Farnie's kind offer to take charge of two classes in history, and Mr. Austing formed a class for music, which was attended by even a larger number of teachers. For the music class a small fee was charged. During this session we have been frequently called upon to supply temporary vacancies in the Board's schools, and almost without exception each case of service thus rendered by our students has been most courteously acknowledged by the headmaster or School Committees. I have to acknowledge the assistance I have received from the headmaster of the practising school and his staff. "Without it the work of the session could not have been accomplished, and although the assistance was gratuitous it was cordially given. I have, &c, The Secretary, Education Board of Otago. ~W. S. Fitzgerald, Rector.

REPORTS OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS. AUCKLAND. Sib, — Office of the School Commissioners, Auckland, 9th March, 1882. I have the honour to report upon the administration of education reserves in the Auckland Provincial District for the year 1881 as follows: —■ New Leases. —Eight allotments of town lands have been let at an annual rental of £259. One of these is the allotment in the City of Auckland vested in the Commissioners in exchange for land at Devonport, taken for the purposes of a public domain. The allotment, with dwelling-house thereon, was let for £140 per annum, after an expenditure of £200 in putting the house in repair. Six hundred and forty-two acres of country lands have been let at an annual rental of £41 55., and two blocks of pastoral land in the Taramarama District have been let for £30 per annum. Lands relet. —Twenty-six acres of suburban land, formerly let for £61 per annum, have been relet for £80. Mve hundred and sixteen acres near G-isborne, of which, mention was made in my last report, have been relet for £498 3s. per annum. In addition to the above, the sum of £320 has been realized from the sale of timber leases. The Commissioners desire to draw the attention of Government to the position of reserves not included in the arbitrators' award of 1878. Some of these reserves are let, but the lessees cannot register their leases owing to the title to the land not vesting in the Commissioners, while other reserves, which could be let profitably, lie idle, or are occupied by persons who pay no rent. The Commissioners have been charged with neglect in administering reserves over which they have really no control, and they therefore urge upon Government the pressing necessity for such legislation in the forthcoming session of Parliament as may place them in a position to deal with all such reserves for the benefit of the public estate. The Commissioners recommend further that the limit of twenty-one years defined by section 14 of " The Education Reserves Act, 1877," be extended, in the case of suburban ajnd country lands, to forty-two years. The suggestions as to readvertising made in my last report might also receive consideration. The statement of account shows in detail the allotment of primary reserves revenues, and the appropriation of secondary reserves revenues, made during the year. No alteration has been made in the regulations which guide the Commissioners' proceedings. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education, Joseph Mat, Chairman. Wellington.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1881. Receipts.

Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Eeserves. Total. 'o Balance on 1st January, 1881 Arrears of rents, &c, due 1st January, 1881, collected in year, 1881 Ditto, unapportioned lands Rents, &c, payable and collected within the year 1881 Ditto, unapportioned lands Miscellaneous Deposits for leases £ S. d. £ S. d. £ s. d. 187 14 9 317 14 857 5 6 6 99 16 374 18 0 6 417 10 6 55 11 10 1,232 4 0 330 11 3 13 11 0 75 0 0 Total receipts 2,312 3

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I hereby certify that I have examined the books and vouchers of the School Commissioners of the Provincial District of Auckland, for the year ended the 31st December, 1881, and that I find the same to be correct. In the sum £80 2s. 6d., " (1.) Arrears," £67 10s. represents an amount which is not recoverable; it will be written off during 1882.—L. A. Dubbieu, Auditor.—26th January, 1881.

TAEANAKI. Sib,— New Plymouth, 23rd March, 1882. Referring to Circular 88, of the 2nd December, 1881, I have the honour to report that the School Commissioners have held twelve ordinary and three special meetings during the year. At a special meeting convened on the sth August, 1881, for the purpose of holding a conference with Mr. McCowen, the Board's agent at Patea, he suggested that he should be authorized to make arrangements for the surrender of the leases of Sections 40 and 42 at Patea, divide them into building allotments, and lease them at auction for leases of forty-two years. The Board gave him the necessary authority, the result being that, instead of a rental of £22 9s. on the two sections, the improved annual rental on fifty-four building allotments is £368 16s. The Board has let fourteen town sections at New Plymouth, and ten town sections at Opunake, at an average rental of £44 12s. 10d., also 416 acres of rural land, chiefly bush, at an average rental of £54 15s. 3d. Eight acres of suburban land have been surrendered for four public cemeteries, and 3 roods have been exchanged with Natives for a fishing station. The arrears still appear large, but this arises partly from the rents falling due in December, and are not paid until January, and partly from some bad or doubtful debts, which the Commissioners have not thought it advisable to write off at present. The block adjacent to the town, of about 14 acres, alluded to in the last report as a cattle-run, hag been surrendered, and will now be let in portions as the demand arises. I have, &c, The Secretary for Education. T. King, Chairman.

!y OfficeSalaries and allowances to officers Printing, stationery, &c. Expenses of leasing— Auctioneer's commission Advertising and other expenses Expenditure on reserves — Surveying... Fencing and other expenditure Crown grants . Insurance... Legal expenses Auckland. Education Board Hawke's Bay Education Board ... Auckland College and Grammar School ... Auckland Girls' High School Thames High School ... Whangarei High School Balance £ s. d. 75 0 0 0 12 11 29 15 0 39 11 6 35 8 10 142 17 0 9 10 0 2 10 0 17 11 9 772 8 6 35 19 7 £ s. d. 25 0 0 6 12 0 9 8 9 9 18 2 57 3 0 4 12 0 10 0 6 0 9 £ s. d. 100 0 0 0 12 11 36 7 0 49 0 3 45 7 0 200 0 0 14 2 0 3 10 0 23 12 6 772 8 6 35 19 7 34 1 9 34 1 9 61 17 4 130 0 8 260 1 6 771 2 1 Total expenditure 1,161 5 1 379 16 2 2,312 3

.rrears due on 31st December, 1881— (1.) Arrears at 81st December, 1880, still unpaid (2.) Arrears of payments due within year 1881 (3.) Arrears, unapportioned lands Total arrears £ s. d. 80 2 6 333 12 6 £ s. 35 15 97 0 d. 0 0 £ s. d, 115 17 e 430 12 6 11 17 10 558 7 1'

Expenses of leasing : Advertising Deposits for leases £ 3 s. d. 7 6 £ s. 1 8 d. 6 £ s. d. 4 16 0 75 0 0 Total liabilities 79 16 0

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General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1881. Receipts.

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Examined and found correct. W. Noethceoft, Secretary. C. Rennell, Auditor. _^^^_____________

WELLINGTON. Sic, — School Commissioners' Office, Wellington, 14th April, 1882. By direction of the School Commissioners for the Wellington Provinicial District, I have the honour to report, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, as required by " The Education Reserves Act, 1877" (section 13), and requested by you in your Memorandum No. 88, of the 2nd December, 1881, that during the year ended the 31st December, 1881, there has been more inquiry for, and the Commissioners have been more successful in the letting of, reserves than in any previous year of their admistration. The Commissioners desire me to state that they would like to see an alteration in the Act ia respect of the leasing of reserves, as the present method is expensive and in a great measure inoperative. This part of their administration the Commissioners consider would be greatly facilitated if, after being once advertised in terms of section 14, the unlet reserves were allowed to remain open for selection by the first comers approved of by the Commissioners. The Commissioners have not made any alteration in their by-laws during the past year (1881). I have, &c, W. H. Waeeeit, The Secretary for Education, Wellington. Secretary and Treasurer.

Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education EeBervea. Total. 'o Balance on lsb January, 1881 Arrears of rents, &c, due 1st January, 1881, collected in year 1881... Rents, &c, payable and collected within the year 1881 Transfer fees Old building sold Certificates of exchanged sections ... Moneys payable in 1882, collected in 1881 ... £ s, d. 40 10 5 £ s. d. 3 7 3 £ a. d. 43 17 8 216 14 9 371 11 6 7 0 0 117 15 3 277 10 6 334 10 0 649 2 0 7 0 0 10 10 0 0 10 0 3 13 6 10 10 0 0 10 0 8 13 6 Total receipts 639 10 2 409 13 0 1,049 3 2

!y OfficeSalaries and allowances to officers Printing, stationery, &c. Expenses of leasing— Auctioneer's commission Advertising and other expenses ... Expenditure on reserves— Surveying Fencing and other expenditure ... Legal expenses ... Taranaki Education Board Wanganui Education Board Certificates of exchanged sections ... Balance £ s. d. 69 5 8 2 4 11 £ a. d. 29 14 0 18 4 £ s. d. 98 19 8 3 13 3 3 6 3 53 4 1 15 13 0 47 7 11 18 19 3 100 12 0 53 6 6 14 17 6 •17 19 1 155 17 8 44 2 4 7 7 7 217 18 7 99 7 0 13 8 0 12 15 5 152 13 6 28 5 6 30 14 (5 155 17 8 44 2 4 13 0 0 402 5 6 5 12 5 184 6 11 Total expenditure ... 639 10 2 409 13 0 1,049 3 2

.rrears due on 31st December, 1881— (1.) Arrears at 31st December, 1880, still unpaid (2.) Arrears of payments due within year 1881 £ 198 310 s. d. 9 11 6 9 £ s. d. 92 16 9 119 1 10 £ 291 429 s. d. 6 8 8 7 Total arrears 508 16 8 211 18 7 720 15 3

£ s. 3 11 d. 3 £ 0 s. d. 3 9 £ s. d 3 15 C Expenses of leasing i Advertising and printing Total liabilities 3 11 3 0 3 !) 3 15

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HAWKB'S BAY. Sir, — Office of the School Commissioners, Napier, 10th March, 1882. As requested by your Circular No. 88,1 have the honour to report as. follows for the year ending the 31st December last: — The general statement of accounts for the year has been made up, and a copy of the same is forwarded herewith. The only reserves leased were seven sections in the Township of Clyde. In connection with the subject of dealing with the unleased education reserves, the Commissioners hope that the Government will, during the coming session of Parliament, reintroduce the Education Reserves Act Amendment Bill of last session, and that it may become law. The Commissioners would like to see a further amendment of the law as to the term for which they may lease rural bush lands, and suggest that power be given them to lease such lands for any period not exceeding fortytwo years. Timber-cutting to a limited extent on education reserves took place during the year without the authority of the Commissioners. In one case three men were found cutting timber on a reserve at Woodville, and proceedings were taken against them in the Eesident Magistrate's Court for so doing. They were convicted of cutting with intent to steal three totara trees, for which they had to pay £4 10s., and each man was fined £2 and costs. Another case of timber-cutting on a reserve at Tautane was reported, but as it appeared the reserve had been trespassed on by mistake the timber taken was valued and paid for at the valuation, viz., £30. 13— E. 1.

Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Reserves. Total. 'o Balance on 1st January, 1881 Arrears of rents, &c, due 1st January, 1881, collected in year 1881 Rents, &c, payable and collected within the year 1881, including payments in advance for following years £ s. d. 436 16 5 £ s. d. £ s. d. 436 16 5 75 11 0 4 0 0 79 11 0 692 10 10 21 0 0 713 10 10 Total receipts 1,204 18 3 25 0 0 1,229 18

iy OfficeSalaries and allowances to officers Printing, stationery, &c. Rent of offices, two years Expenses of leasing : Advertising and other expenses Expenditure on reserves : Surveying Legal expenses ... Wellington Education Board "Wanganui Education Board ... ... ... "Wainuiora Babbit Trustees Balance £ s. d. 48 7 9 10 7 11 19 7 1 8 4 6 5 0 0 3 18 7 696 12 0 387 12 11 4 5 8 43 3 4 £ s. d. 1 12 3 0 5 3 0 12 11 0 5 6 o" 2 7 £ a. d. 50 0 0 10 13 2 20 0 0 8 10 0 5 0 0 4 12 696 12 0 387 12 11 4 5 8 43 3 4 Total expenditure ... 1,226 19 0 2 18 G 1,229 18 3

.rrears due on 31st December, 1881, of payments due within year 1881 £ s. d. 33 10 0 £ s. 2 19 a. o £ 36 8. d. 9 0 Total arrears 33 10 0 2 19 0 36 9 0

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The Commissionera made a claim during the year for £ICO as compensation for a portion of Town Section 349, Napier, taken by the Public Works Department for railway purposes; the area so taken was 1 rood ; and the amount claimed has been paid. At the close of the year £797 14s. was in hand from secondary education reserves. Out of this sum, £700 was then on fixed deposit at the Union Bank of Australia. There has been no appropriation of any of the revenues that have accured from these reserves beyond the expenses of management. An amendment of by-law No. 5 was made during the year, whereby the Chairman is to be elected at the first meeting in July in each year, or at the first ordinary meeting held thereafter. With this exception the by-laws and regulations remain unaltered since my last report. I have, &c, The Secretary for Education, Wellington. J. T. Txlee, Chairman.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1881. Receipts.

Expenditure.

Arrears.

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W. Paekeb, Secretary to Commissioners.

MAELBOEOUaH. Sib, — School Commissioners' Office, Blenheim, 25th April, 1882. I have the honour, by direction of the School Commissioners, to forward you a copy of the balance-sheet for the year 1881. I have also to inform you that instructions have been given to take legal proceedings for the recovery of rents in arrear. I have, &c, John T. Robinson, Secretary. The Secretary, Education Department, Wellington.

Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Reserves. Total. 'o Balance on 1st January, 1881* Arrears of rents, &c, due 1st January, 1881, collected in year 1881 ... Eents, &c, payable and collected within the year 1881 Other receipts ... £ s. d. 2 13 1 £ s. 123 17 d. 2 £ s. d. 126 10 3 56 0 3 690 2 11 100 0 0 17 11 260 2 22 15 0 7 0 73 11 3 950 5 6 122 15 0 Total receipts 848 16 3 424 5 9 1,273 2 0

!y OfficeSalaries and allowances to officers Printing, stationery, &c. Expenses of leasing— Auctioneer's commission Advertising and other expenses ... Expenditure on reserves — Fencing and other expenditure ... Legal expenses ... Hawke's Bay Education Board Fixed deposits ... Balance* £ s. d. 55 7 0 2 9 10 0 7 9 3 2 9 £ s. 19 13 0 17 0 2 1 2 d. 0 8 9 4 £ s. d. 75 0 0 3 7 6 0 10 6 4 5 1 7 13 1 11 0 475 0 0 4 5 0 11 0 0 11 6 3 2 2 0 475 0 0 300 0 0 401 10 8 303 16 8 300 0 97 14 oj 0 Total expenditure ... 848 16 3 424 5 9 1,273 2 0 * Xo this should be added £400, the amount of fixed del losits in irevious years.

£ 62 s. 5 d. 6 £ s. 28 16 d. 0 £ 91 s. d 1 6 Arrears due on 31st; December, 1881 — Total arrears 62 5 6 28 16 0 91 1

'rinting ... Ldvertising jegal expenses £ s. d. 0 10 6 2 2 10 5 2 4 £ s. d. £ s. a o io e 2 2 1C 5 2 4 Total liabilities 7 15 8 7 15

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Expenditure.

Arrears.

Liabilities or Engagements.

John T. Eobinson, Secretary.

NELSON. In forwarding the statement of accounts for the year 1881, the School Commissioners have nothing to state as to the issue of leases for reserves in addition to those referred to in their report for the year 1880. With respect however to the fund which has accumulated from the revenues derived from reserves for secondary education, now amounting to £657 6s. 2d., they have to report that they are in negotiation with the Governors of the Nelson College for the establishment of high school for girls. Alfbed G-beenfield, School Commissioners' Office, Nelson, 28th January, 1882. Chairman.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1881. Receipts.

* To this should be added £462 10s, 7d., amount of fixed deposits in previous years.

Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Reserves. Total. 'o Balance on 1st January, 1881 Arrears of rents, &c, due 1st January, 1881, collected in year 1881... Eents, &c, payable and collected within the year 1881 £ s. 5L 11 d. 6 £ s. 3 1 d. 9 £ s. 54 13 d. 3 43 5 38 10 0 0 2 6 4 13 9 6 45 11 43 3 9 6 Total receipts 133 6 G 10 2 0 143 8 6

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.rrears due on 31st December, 1881— (1.) Arrears at 31st December, 1880, still unpaid (2.) Arrears of payments due within year 1881 £ s. 71 17 95 7 d. 6 6 £ s. 5 10 d, 0 £ s. d 71 17 <■ 100 17 € Total arrears 167 5 0 5 10 0 172 15

Lecretary's salary for quarter ending 31st December, 1881 Total liabilities £ s. 5 15 5 15 d. 0 0 £ s. 0 10 d. 0 £ s. d. 6 5 0 0 10 0 G 5 0

Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Eeserves. Total. 'o Balance on 1st Janury, 1881* Arrears of rents, &c, due 1st January, 1881, collected in year 1881 Rents, &c, payable and collected within the year 1881 Tees on leases ... Interest on deposits £ S. 52 15 d. 1 £ s. d. 21 13 5 £ s. d. 74 8 6 48 11 431 19 9 7 9 2 6 155 17 11 10 0 23 16 9 57 14 3 587 17 6 10 0 23 16 9 Total receipts ... 533 6 5 211 10 7 744 17

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Liabilities or Engagements.

Examined and found correct. Alfred Geeenfieid, H. E. Cttbtis, Provincial District Auditor. Chairman of School Commissioners.

CANTERBURY. The total area of the primary estate under lease on the 31st December, 1881, is 43,257 i acres, and the annual rental £10,024 2s. Bd. Five reserves, containing together \fi*J2\ acres, are unlet; four of these have been advertised to be let, but no tenders were received. The land is chiefly stony plain, useful for no other than pastoral purposes. By "The Eangiora High School Act, 1881," and "The Akaroa High School Act, 1881," two-thirds in value of the reserves heretofore held by the School Commissioners for secondary education pass to those institutions. "When this transfer shall have been made in accordance with the apportionment already forwarded by the Commissioners to tho Minister of Education, there will remain in the hands of the Commissioners 1,306|- acres, all of which is let, excepting 43|, and the annual rental thereof is £179 2s. The following amounts, part of the half-year's rent payable on the Ist November, 1880. have been written off as irrecoverable. J. Gellatley, £7 15s. 7d. : The original lessee was Peter Gel'latley, who died several years ago, and the son, a single man, continued in occupation and paid the rent for a time. An action was brought to recover this £7 15s. 7d., and judgment obtained, but it was found that there were no effects. W. Saunders, £62 10s. : This reserve was transferred several years ago by the original lessee, "William Saunders, to his brothers. The rent, ss. an acre, was nearly twice as much as the land was worth. The land was not cropped in the season 1880-B}, and there were no means of recovering the rent, payable Ist November, 1880, by distress on tho premises. It seemed doubtful whether, if judgment were obtained against the debtors, effect could be given to it, and the Commissioners agreed to accept by way of compromise half the amount of the half-year's rent then payable, the possibility of recovering which was doubtful, rather than incur the cost of legal proceedings. The land has been relet at 3s. an acre. D. Sullivan, £79 2s. 6d. : The lessee became bankrupt, and the creditors' trustee declined to take up the lease. It appeared that there were practically no assets of the estate, and it was thought not worth while to incur the cost of proving for the debt against the estate. ■ The land has been relet. Half-year's rent, payable Ist May, 1881, Boyd Thomson, £9 7s. Cd : Thelessee became bankrupt, and the trustee declined to take up the lease. The land has not been relet. It is of little value, and as yet no offer for it has been obtained. John Maeshman, Christchurch, sth January, 1882, . . Chairman.

!y OfficeSalaries and allowances to officers Printing, stationery, &c. Expenses of leasing : Advertising and other expenses Legal expenses .Nelson Education Board... Westland Education Board North Canterbury Education Board Secondary education, fixed deposit Balance £ a. 20 16 2 10 9 13 7 19 422 16 00 6 4 4 d. 8 3 2 2 7 4 8 £ s. d. 10 8 4 15 1 4 0 7 110 £ s. d 31 5 C 3 15 4 13 13 £ 9 0 2 I 487 7 ri 4 19 7 165"o 0 29 15 7 165 0 c 34 15 2 Total expenditure 533 6 5 211 10 7 744 17

.rrears due on 31st December, 1881— (1.) Arrears at 31st December, 1880, still unpaid (2.) Arrears of payments due within year 1881 £ 118 s. d. 5 0 8 3 £ s. 4 0 12 12 d. 0 6 £ 20 131 s. d. 5 C 0 £ Total arrears ... 134 13 3 16 12 6 151 5

LCcruing to Education Boards iccruing to secondary education £ s. d. 4 19 7 £ s. 29 15 d. 7 £ s. d, 4 19 7 29 15 7 Total liabilities ... 4 19 7 29 15 7 31 15 I

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Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Eeserves. Total. 'o Balance brought down from 31st December, 1880 Arrears due 1st November, 1879, from last account ... Arrears due 1st May, 1880, from last account Arrears due 1st November, 1880, from last account ... Note.—Of £792 17s. 6d., appearing as an asset of tlie primary estate, £149 8s. Id., has been written off as irrecoverable. (See report.) Moneys payable within the year 1881, and collected — On account of half-year's rent payable in advance on 1st May, 1881 On account of half-year's rent payable in advance on 1st November, 1881. Moneys not payable until the year 1882— One of the tenants in remitting by cheque Ms rent, payable 1st November, 1881, remitted too much by Other receipts — The Upper Ashburton Eoad Board, for land taken under " The Public Works Act, 1876." (This sum should be, at some future time, reinvested in the purchase of land) Bank of New Zealand, interest on £400, secondary education funds, placed on deposit for twelve months. (See report, 31st December, 1880) £ s. d. 186 4 9 9 7 6 29 4 1 643 9 5 £ s. d. 439 15 4 £ s. d. 626 0 1 9 7 6 29 4 1 787 13 8 144 4 3 4,826 5 2 • 245 10 3 5,071 15 5 4,217 6 1 51 7 0 4,268 13 1 0 18 9 0 13 9 80 18 1 80 18 1 18 0 0 18 0 0 Total receipts 9,993 8 10 898 16 10 10,892 5

£ s. d. £ 8. d. £ s. d. £ s. c! B 3y Office expenses and management— Salary of Steward ... ... 545 0 0 Allowances to Commissioners ... 4 4 0 Stationery and postage ... 7 13 11 Expenses of leasing— Advertising ... ... ... 11 8 3 Law costs ... ... ... 7 17 8 Divisible —Primary 1%, secondary -is ■ Payments to Education Boards — North Canterbury ... ... 7,597 11 6 South Canterbury ... ... 1,802 8 6 547 7 8 28 16 2 576 3 1' Payments on account of secondary education— Canterbury College, for Christchuroh Girls' High School ... 300 0 0 Ashburton High School ... 300 0 0 Timaru High School ... ... 78 0 0 9,400 0 0 9,400 0 i 678 0 192 0 0 8 678 238 0 ( 1 II Balance in Bank of New Zealand, 31sfc December, 1881 46" 1 2 Total expenditure ... ... 9,993 8 10 898 16 10 10,892 5

£ s. d. £ a. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 'o Bents payable in advance, 1st May, 1881, and still unpaid ... 31 8 G Less written off as irrecoverable (see report) ... ... ... 9 7 G 22 1 0 22 1 0 Proportion not yet collected of half-year's rent payable on advance, 1st November, 1881 794 15 3 194 3 3 988 18 6 Total assets 816 1G 3 194 3 3 1,010 19 6

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Christchurch, sth January, 1882. John Maeshman, Treasurer. I certify that I have audited this account and find it to be correct, and that the balance at the credit of the School Commissioners with the Bank of New Zealand, Christchurch, on the 31st December, 1881, was as herein stated. —J. Ollitiee, Provincial District Auditor. —6th January, 1882.

WESTLAND. Sib, — Office of the School Commissioners, Hokitika, 31st March, 1882. The Commissioners have the honour to report concerning their administration during the past year. During the year the seats of the following members became vacant: The Hon. J. A. Bonar, Dr. Q-iles, and H. L. Robinson, Esq. The two first-named gentlemen were reappointed by the Governor, and the last by the Westland Education Board. The Commissioners held ten meetings during the year, four of which were special meetings. At a meeting held on the 22nd March the Commissioners decided to consent to the sale of sections held under lease in the Town of Kumara, in accordance with clause 7 of " The Kumara Education Reserve Act, 1879," provided applicants to purchase paid all rent due on or before the 18th April. On the 3rd May the Commissioners held a special meeting to meet a deputation from the leaseholders at Kumara appointed to interview the Commissioners concerning the payment of rents and the fees fixed for mining upon the reserve In consideration of the delay which had occurred in fixing a date for the sale of sections, the Commissioners decided to accept one-half of the year's rental due in all cases where the leaseholder should have expressed his willingness to purchase by the 17th May. The Commissioners also agreed to certain alterations in the scale of fees fixed for mining upon the reserve. The scale as amended was agreed to by the Warden for the district, and approved by the Governor, and is now in force. The Commissioner of Crown Lands having been empowered to sell the sections at Kumara, he appointed Thursday, the 27th October, 1881, as the day for the auction sale ; one-fourth of the purchasemoney to be paid at auction, and the remainder in one month. Ninety-seven applications were received to purchase, and the number of sections included in applications was 107; of these, 92 were purchased. The amount received by the Commissioners on account of purchase of sections up to the 31st December, is—primary, £258 10s.; secondary, £937 : total, £1,195 10s. This sum has been placed at fixed deposit in the Bank of New Zealand until the 30th June, to enable the Commissioners to ascertain particulars as to a desirable investment, as provided by " The Kumara Education Reserve Act, 1879." The Commissioners have not seen reason for altering their opinion of the Act above referred to, as expressed in the yearly report for 1880. This Act, passed as a measure of relief to the leaseholders and those desirous of taking up sections on the reserve, provides in the case of the latter that the applicant must first take out a business license; that then, having improved the ground, he can apply to the "Warden, who, if satisfied with the improvements, can recommend the Governor to grant a lease not exceeding twenty-one years. Having obtained the lease for twenty-one years, the leaseholder can apply to the Commissioner to consent to the land being put up to auction. This, as compared with the simple process adopted by the Commissioners, of letting back sections at a yearly rental of 10s., can hardly be considered an improvement. On the other hand, there is nothing to prevent the Warden from granting residence areas in any part of the reserve, from which the revenue accruing would be so small as barely to be worth the trouble of collection. Again, the Warden, in considering applications for residence areas, &c, has not consulted the Commissioners, but has preferred asking the advice of the Borough Council, a body having no pecuniary interest in securing the proper administration of the reserve. Complications are also likely to occur from the fact of a number of sections being still held under lease, information as to which the Warden can only get from the Commissioners' office. The Commissioners would recommend the amendment of the Act, to allow of the whole of the sections in the township being offered at auction, and thereby enabling the Commissioners to dispose of a property in the administration of which there is so little that is satisfactory. By order of the Commissioners. E. T. Robinson, Secretary.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1881. Receipts.

£ 42 s. 6 d. 0 £ a. 2 14 d. 0 £ 45 s. a 0 C iy Steward's salary for December Total liabilities 42 6 0 2 14 0 45 0

Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Reserves. Total. £ 8. d. 88 18 0 3 8 6 258 10 0 £ s. d. 334 19 3 £ s. d. 423 17 2 3 8 C 1,195 10 C 'o Arrears of rents, &c. Rents, &c, payable and collected within the year 1881 Sale of sections ... 937 0 0 Total receipts 350 16 G 1,271 19 3 1,622 15

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Liabilities or Engagements.

J. A. Bonab, Chairman. I hereby certify that I have examined the above statement, compared it with vouchers, cash-book, ledger, bank pass-book, and other documents connected therewith, and find them correct and according to law.—"W. A. Spence. Auditor.—lst May, 1882.

OTAGO. Sic,— Dunedin, 18th April, 1882. In pursuance of Order in Council of date 17th December, 1878, and in accordance with Circular No. 88, dated "Wellington, 2nd December, 1881,1 have the honour to forward report of the School Commissioners of the Provincial District of Otago for the year ended 31st December, 1881. During the year the Commissioners leased 31 town, 11 suburban, 10 rural, and 7 pastoral sections in different parts of the provincial district, at an annual rental of £376 13s. lOd. The Commissioners take this opportunity of again urging the Government to introduce a Bill during the coming session of Parliament, giving them power to sell education reserves where deemed advisable. During the year 1881 they have made three unsuccessful attempts to lease the reserves in Block X., "Waikaia District, and are thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of settling the land in this neighbourhood in any other manner than by selling it outright. A large proportion of the education endowment is now lying idle, and fostering the increase of rabbits, through the inability of the School Commissioners to dispose of it. The settlers in the neighbourhood of "Waikaia have been for some time past agitating in favour of having the reserves in that district opened up for settlement; and the Commissioners are assured that nearly all the available land would be taken up readily if thrown open for sale ; in fact, they have received numerous applications for it. The success attending the sale of the Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools land at "Wyndham leads the Commissioners to believe that no difficulty would be experienced in disposing of a large portion of the reserves at satisfactory prices. There are so many inducements being held out at the present time to purchasers of freehold, that people will not lease land in small or moderate-sized areas; and the Commissioners fear that, unless something is done in the manner indicated, they will be looked upon as standing in the way of settlement. The leases of a number of the education reserve runs fall due in March, 1883, and, as in the case of Run 88, which is being leased from year to year at a comparatively nominal rent, it is absolutely necessary that the mode of dealing with them should be determined

iy Debit balance, 1st January, 1881 ... OfficeSalaries and allowances to officers Printing, stationery, &c. Expenses of leasing : Advertising and other expenses Legal expenses ... Secretary's travelling expenses Kates ... Sundries Eefunds Balance £ s. d. 67 8 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. 67 8 0 33 9 3 3 16 8 14 14 11 8 17 5 6 18 8 25 5 9 8 14 11 18 0 0 62 18 5 7 13 4 29 9 10 17 14 9 13 17 4 5 13 3 17 9 11 74 19 3 1,205 14 1 96 7 8 11 10 0 44 4 9 26 12 2 20 16 0 30 19 0 26 4 10 92 19 3 1,205 14 1 Total expenditure ... 187 5 7 1,435 10 2 1,622 15 9

.rrears due on 31st December, 1881 ... Jredit balance, Bank of New Zealand, 31st December, 1881 £ 35 s. d. 0 0 £ s. d. 157 0 0 1,205 14 1 £ s. d. 192 0 C 1,205 14 1 Total arrears 35 0 0 1,362 14 1 1,397 14

£ s. 227 16 17 10 d. 4 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. 227 16 4 45 0 0 1,124 17 9 )wiug to secondary account... iundry accounts due 31st December, 1881 balance ... 27 10 1,124 17 0 9 Total liabilities 245 6 4 1,152 7 9 1,397 14

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on without delay. The Commissioners have been informed that some of the lessees of runs falling due in March have stated their intention of abandoning thorn, rather than go to the expense of clearing off the rabbits, unless they can obtain a renewal for the whole of their present holdings and for long terms. While much of the reserves in question is only fit for pastoral purposes, a great proportion consists of good agricultural land, which, if surveyed into suitable areas and judiciously offered for sale, would command good prices, thus securing the settlement of the country, a consummation which is very desirable, and which is being urgently pressed upon the Commissioners. Should these reserves remain on the hands of the Commissioners, the tax imposed under " The Babbit Nuisance Act, 1881," will have to be paid by them, and there can be little doubt it will be a heavy one. In view of such a contingency, the argument in favour of the School Commissioners having the power to dispose of the reserves by sale instead of by lease acquires an indisputable strength, inasmuch as a very large proportion of the revenue they have to administer will be absorbed in paying the rabbit-tax on the unleased reserves. As a considerable time must necessarily be lost in surveying and other arrangements prior to selling, the Commissioners venture to express a hope that the Government will further the passage of a Bill giving them the power required, and use its best endeavours to have it brought into operation as soon as possible. The Commissioners have to report that great difficulty has been experienced in collecting rents during the year. This has been caused in a great measure by the extreme depression existing among the farmers, and also through some of the rents being much too high, having been run up at auction. As stated in last year's report, a great number of rents are due about the close of the year (some as late as the 30th December), and, in consequence, appear as outstanding on the 31st. Of the arrears due on the 31st December, £489 Bs. has been paid since the commencement of the present year. Of the sum of £355 17s. 4d. shown under the head of " Arrears on 31st December, 1880, still unpaid," £57 Is. has been collected since the 31st December, and £159 10s. has been found to be totally irrecoverable, thus bringing the actual amount of arrears on that date to £134 Is. 4d. In several cases the Commissioners have resumed possession of reserves, and have again leased them in the usual manner. Annexed hereto is the balance-sheet, duly audited, showing the receipts and expenditure of the School Commissioners during the year. The Hon. the Minister for Education. J. P. Maitland, Chairman.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1881. Receipts.

Expenditure.

Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Reserves. Total. 'o Balance on 1st January, 1881 Arrears of rents, &c,> due 1st January, 1881, collected in year 1881... Bents, &c, payable and collected, within year 1881 Interest on credit balances £ s. d. 3,695 12 1 £ s. d. 555 14 8 £ s. d. 4,251 6 9 1,090 11 1 7,292 14 11 18 9 9 223 4 7 407 17 10 0 5 3 1,313 15 8 7,700 12 9 18 15 0 Total receipts 12,097 7 10 1,187 2 4 13,284 10

iy OfficeSalaries and allowances to officers, including Secretary's salary, thirteen months, £325, and commission to Southland Agent, £76 11s. 7d. ... Allowances to Commissioners Rent and expenses Ixpenses of leasing — Auctioneer's commission ... Printing, stationery, advertising and other expenses, including Secretary's travelling expenses Expenditure on reserves : Surveying Legal expenses ... Otago Education Board ... Southland Education Board Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Southland Boys' and Girls' High Schools Refund of run rents overpaid £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 401 11 7 49 11 11 95 2 6 597 2 11 51 12 G 6 18 J 0,035 10 2 2,433 2 11 82 7 7 18 0 12 12 2 9,035 10 2 2,438 2 11 896 1 6 239 8 4 26 11 10 896 1 239 8 6 4 26" 11 10 Total expenditure ... 12,097 7 10 1,187 2 4 13,284 10 2

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Arrears.

Liabilities or Engagements, nil.

J. P. Maitland, Chairman. I have examined the above statement, and compared it with the Treasurer's books and vouchers, and with the bank pass-book, and I certify it to be correct. —H. Livingston, Auditor.

CIRCULARS. (Circular No. 82/6.) Education Department, Wellington, 4th May, 1882. The Secretary to the Education Board, •, I hate the honour, by direction of the Minister of Education, to inform you that Government has decided to consider school-buildings as national buildings, which, in case of destruction by fire, should be rebuilt at Government expense. E. O. Gibbes, For the Secretary.

(Circular No. 82/7.) Education Department, Wellington, 3rd June, 18S2.

The Secretary to the Education Board, . i hate the honour, by direction of the Minister of Education, to advise you that, considering that the grants made to Education Boards for buildings are derived from a loan raised for purposes of public buildings, the Government does not approve of the practice, which some of the Boards have adopted, of paying out of sums received on account of such grants the rents of school-buildings, or allowances toteachers as rent, or premiums for fire insurance, or bank interest. E. 0. GIBBES, For the Secretary.

Authority : Q-eoe&e Didsbubt, Government Printer, Wellington.—lBB2.

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xrears due on 31st December, 1881— (1.) Arrears at 31st December, 1880, still unpaid (2.) Arrears of payments due within year 1881 Total arrears £ a. 350 12 ... 1,092 6 ... L442 18 d. 4 4 8 £ 5 165 s. d. 5 0 8 0 £ s. d. 355 17 4 1,257 14 4 170 13 0 1,613 11 fc