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1884. NEW ZEALAND

EDUCATION. SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION. [In Continuation of E.-1, 1883.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

CONTENTS. REPORT. Page Page School Attendance i Scholarships XIV Age of Scholars.. IV Normal Schools xv Subjects of Instruction iv Education Reserves xvi Number of Public Schools v University Reserves xvn Number of Teachers vi Native Schools .. xvn Finances of Boards vi Deaf-and-Dumb Institution xix School Buildings ix Industrial and Orphan Schools xx School Committees x Higher Education xxvi Inspection of Schools ~ xi Public Libraries . xxvm Westland Education District xm APPENDIX. Statistics — Statements of Accounts of Boards — continued. Income of Boards (Table No. 1) 1 Otago 85 Expenditure of Boards (Table No. 2) 2 Southland 89 Management of Boards, Cost of (Table No. 3) 3 Ages of Scholars (Table No. 4) 4 Normal School Reports— Standards, Scholars classified according to Auckland 89 (Table No. 5) 5 Wellington 90 Officers of Boards and Training Colleges (Table Canterbury 92 No. 6) 6 Otago .. 92 Education Department, Expenditure under (Table No. 7) .. 7 Drawing-Master's Report, Otago 86 Schools, Expenditure on each, and Names and Salaries of Teachers (Table No. 9) 9 Reports and Accounts of School Commissioners — Schools, Area of each, Number of Residences Auckland 93 and Attendance (Table No. 10) 45 Taranaki 95 Hawke's Bay 96 Reports of Boards— Wellington 97 Auckland 59 Marlborough 98 Taranaki . 64 Nelson 99 Wanganui 65 Canterbury 100 Hawke's Bay 70 Westland 102 Wellington 72 Otago 103 Marlborough . 75 Nelson . 76 School Fund Accounts 105 North Canterbury 77 South Canterbury 80 Secondary School Accounts. 106-7 Otago 83 J Southland 86 „ Regulations— Statements of Accounts of Boards— Audit of School Committees' Accounts 108 Auckland 64 Class-Books tor Public Schools 108 Taranaki 65 V^ 0 - tß . lo v in Ina Wanganui .. 69 District High School Fees 108 Hawke's Bay 72 Wellington 74 Circulars — Marlborough 75 Audit of Committees' Accounts 108 Nelson 76 Ditto 109 North Canterbury 79 School Buildings Expenditure 109 South Canterbury 81 Westland Education District .. 109 Westland 82 | Ditto 110

1884. NEW ZEALAND

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

Office of the Department of Education, SlB — , Wellington, 28th May, 1884. 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, 1883. I have, &c, His Excellency Sir William F Drummond Jervois, G C.M.G-., &c, Governor of New Zealand.

EEPOET. The Education Department was organized m the beginning of the year 1878 mainly for the administration of " The Education Act, 1877," but it is now also charged with the management of certain other educational institutions that do not come under the operation of the Act. The mam object of this report is to furnish full information concerning the "public schools" established and maintained under the Education Act, and the administration, under the Education Beserves Act, of the reserves appropriated by the General Assembly for the partial maintenance of the primary and the secondary schools. A brief summary is also given of the work of other educational institutions, fuller information respecting them being supplied in separate parliamentary papers. These 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 and School Committees conjointly bear to the primary schools, on the University of New Zealand (E.-5), the University of Otago (E.-6), the Canterbury College (E.-7), and the Auckland University College (E.-8); on secondary schools (E.-9), nearly all of which are required by law to make annual reports to the Minister of Education • and on the distribution of the vote of £6,000 for public libraries (E.-10). The reports of the Education Boards, and the reports by the School Commissioners of their administration of the education reserves, are contained m the Appendix to this report. The Inspector-General's report on the annual examination for teachers' certificates, and the reports of the Boards' Inspectors of Schools are printed m separate papers (E.-1a and E.-1b respectively) School Attendance. A list of all the schools in operation during the past year, with an abstract of the enrolments and the average daily attendance at each, is appended (Appendix, pages 45-58, Table No. 10) The following table contains the most important particulars of the attendance for the year in each Board district •—

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TABLE A1.—School Attendance.

The following table contains a summary of the total number of enrolments, the average daily attendance, and the increase, in each year since 1877:—

TABLE A2.—School Attendance and Yearly Increase for Six Years.

The returns show a larger increase in the school attendance for 1883 than was the case in the two previous years. This larger attendance may be attributed not only to the natural increase of population, but also to the enlarged schoolroom accommodation, and to the absence of epidemics to the extent that prevailed in a number of localities during the years 1881 and 1882. A comparison of Table Al with the corresponding table in the report for 1882 shows considerable difference in the proportional increase of attendance for 1883 in the several Board districts. The average attendance had only increased in Marlborough from 1,049 to 1,059, and in Westland from 2,313 to 2,319; while there was an increase m Taranaki from 1,332 to 1,446, in Wanganui from 3,613 to 3,967, and in Hawke's Bay from 2,447 to 2,755. In the three largest districts the increase was as follows Auckland, from 12,223 to 13,079 , North Canterbury, from 12,186 to 12,753, and Otago, from 16,163 to 16,659 or 856, 567, and 496 respectively The number of pupils on the school roll at the end of the quarter may be regarded as fairly representing the actual number belonging to the school for the quarter, although its accuracy depends very much upon the care with which redundant or useless names are removed as soon as possible from the roll. The numbers returned as belonging to all the Board schools in the colony for each of the four quarters of 1883, give an average for the four quarters of 91,011. The average attendance (69,843) was therefore at the rate of 76-7 per cent, of the average number (91,011) belonging to the schools during the year, being a very

Education Distbicts. Number of Scholars belonging at Beginning of Year. Number admitted during the Year. On Schoi )l-rolls. Number who left during the Year. Number belonging at End oJ Year. Strict Average. Avo: ■age Daily Attendance. Working Average, fl 0) O O SSfMh ■"! a ®A f | Poi irth Qua] :ter. Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Whole Year. Males. Females. Total. Luckland 'aranaki Vanganui Vellington lawke's Bay farlborough Telson Torth Canterbury iouth Canterbury Vestland )tago louthland 14,118 1 741 4,640 5,767 3,028 1,331 3,579 15,363 3,644 2 798 18,216 5 191 10,019 1,246 2,894 4,139 2 120 577 2,390 9,532 1 797 960 9,592 2,588 7,017 927 2,088 3,066 1 451 422 1,419 7 098 1,521 718 7,263 1,804 17,120 2,060 5,446 6,840 3,697 1,486 4,550 17 797 3,920 3,040 20,545 5,975 12,716 1,306 4,045 5,240 2,840 1,080 3 301 13,181 2,956 2,192 16,881 4,359 12,491 1 317 3,837 5 058 2,623 990 3 103 12,238 2,827 2,263 16,407 4,219 0,941 749 2,181 2,878 1,608 611 1,774 7 128 1,589 1,130 8,905 2,396 6,407 709 1 974 2,406 1,332 530 1,650 6,334 1,450 1 159 8,165 2,142 13,348 1,458 4,155 5,344 2 940 1,141 3,424 13,462 3,045 2,289 17,070 4,538 13,079 1 446 3 967 5,204 2,755 1,059 3 247 12,753 2,955 2 319 16,659 4,400 77'6 70-4 75-2 76-8 77-2 73-7 73-0 73-0 75-0 76-9 81-3 75-7 Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 79,416 76,309 47,854 47,053 34,794 36,183 92,476 87 179 70,077 66,426 67,373 63,709 37 890 35,909 34,324 32,379 72,214 68,288 69,843 66,145 76-7 76-4 Increase in year 3,107 801 -1,389 5,297 3,651 3,664 1 981 1 945 3,926 3,698 0-3 Totals for 1877 55,688 41 773 40,837 Increase in 6 years 36 788 30,441 29,006 Average yearly increase 0,131 5,074 4,834

School Attendance. Yei urly Increase on Number belonging at Beginning of Year. Average L ttendance, Number belonging at Beginning ot Year. Averago Attendant Year. Number belonging at End of Year. Strict Average. Working Average. Number belonging at End of Year. Strict Average. Working uVerage. Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 50,849 59,707 68,124 74,359 76,309 79,416 55,688 65,040 75,566 82,401 83,560 87 179 92,476 49,435 57 301 62,946 63,009 66,426 70,077 45,521 53,067 60,625 61 822 63,709 67 373 41 773 50,639 58,738 64,407 64,744 68,288 72,214 40,837 47,996 54,724 62,234 63 735 66,145 69,843 8,858 8,417 6,235 1,950 3,107 9,352 10,526 6,835 1,159 3,619 5,297 7,866 5,645 63 3 417 3,651 7,546 7,558 1,197 1,887 3,664 8,866 8,099 5,669 337 3,544 3,926 7,159 6,728 7,510 1,501 2,410 3,698

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slight increase on the percentage for 1882, which was 76-4. There has been scarcely any change m the proportions between the average attendance and the roll-numbers for the last five years, which were as follows 76-7 per cent, m 1883 76-4 per cent, in 1882 and m 1881, 76-6 per cent, in 1880, and 76_ per cent, in 1879 The last column of Table Al gives the corresponding proportions in each of the Board districts. These vary horn 73 per cent, in Nelson and North Canterbury to 81 3 m Otago. The following are the percentages for the principal town in each of the Board districts Auckland, 82-05 , New Plymouth, 70-67 , Wanganui, 77 13 , Wellington, 78-62 , Napier, 78-66 , Blenheim, 74-15 ; Nelson, 75-95, Christchurch, 73-45, Timaru, 77-74, Hokitika, 77-30, Greymouth, 75-25 , Dunedin, 86-77 , and Invercargill, 77 70 average for the whole of these towns, 78-94. . . , ~ i The uniform attendance registers and summaries which the department supplies to all the schools, the method of calculating the attendance prescribed by the regulations, and the quarterly returns required under them for each school, greatly facilitate the collection of information of a uniform character respecting school attendance throughout the colony. As the grants made to Boards out of the annual appropriation by the General Assembly are paid almost wholly upon the average daily attendance in the several Board districts, it is of the utmost consequence that the school registers and the returns should be thoroughly trustworthy In regard to this matter the department is entirely dependent on the carefulness and good faith of the teachers, except m so far as the Boards direct the Inspectors to scrutinize the attendance registers, and the Chairmen ot School Committees follow the practice of comparing the returns with the registers before attaching their signatures as enjoined by the regulations. The average daily attendance is ascertained by dividing the total number_ ot morning and afternoon attendances by the total number of times (morning and afternoon reckoned separately) that the school has been at work during the period for which the computation is made. In order, however, that the capitation allowance may not be unduly affected by bad weather, epidemics, or any unusual occurrence, a second computation is made, throwing out ot account the mornings and afternoons on which the attendance has been less than one-half of the children then belonging to the school. The result of this second computation is named "the working average," and upon it the payments to Boards are calculated. Both the " strict average " and the " working average must be shown in the quarterly returns to the Boards and to the department and both are given m the foregoing summaries (Tables Al and A 2) and m table No 10 of the Appendix, the difference between them being 2,470 for the entire year, and 2,137 for the fourth quarter It is the working average that is meant in other parts of this report where the average daily attendance is mentioned. The payments to Boards are necessarily regulated by the average daily attendance, but, under the system of registration now m force, it is the number recorded as really belonging to the school at any time, and not the bare number in average daily attendance for the same period, that may be fairly claimed as representing the number of children deriving benefit from the schools. lHe attendance of scholars may be somewhat irregular from a variety of causes often beyond their control, and yet they no doubt profit to a greater or less degree by their attendance, broken though it may be. The aggregate number of scholars returned as belonging to the public schools for the year 1883 (z.e the mean of the roll-numbers for the four quarters) was 91,011, and this number may fairly be claimed as representing the children actually deriving benefit m the course of the year from attendance at the public schools. This number has been made use of m calculating the last line of Table F3. . . The following table shows the number of children of pure Maori and of mixed races returned by the Boards as attending the public schools at the close of 1883 These attendances are of course included in the column m Table Al headed « Number belonging at End of Year " It is to be regretted that a larger number of pure Maori children do not take advantage of the public schools m the vicinity of their dwellings. The returns show, however, an increase from 149 to Aid m the number of pure Maoris attending the ordinary public schools, and an increase in the number of children of mixed race from 404 to 548 , making an increase of 208 in the number of both classes of children:—

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TABLE A3.—Maoris and Children of Mixed Race attending Public Schools at the End of 1883.

Ages op Scholaes. Table No. 5 of the Appendix shows the ages of the scholars of both sexes who belonged to the schools of the different Board districts during the quarter ending 31st December, 1883. The following is a summary of the ages of the scholars in the whole of the schools :— TABLE B.—Ages of Scholars at the End of the Yeae. I ■ ~~ ■ Ages - B °y s - GWs. Total. Percentage for Pour Tears. -,-,. , , 1883. 1882. 1881. 1880 Five and under seven years 10,791 9,735 20 526 2°-20 22-64 22-73 22-33 Seven and under ten years . 17,814 16,202 34.016 iiG-78 35-56 35-41 35-99 Ten and under thirteen years. 13,750 13,060 26,810 29-00 30-09 30-39 30-25 Thirteen and under fifteen years . 4,629 4,685 9,314 10-07 9-82 9-60 9-66 Over fifteen years 720 1,090 1,810 1-95 1-89 1-87 1-77 Totals for 1883 . 47,704 44,772 92,476 100-00 ' 100-00 10000 Totals for 1882 45,082 42,097 87,179 100-00 Increase 2,622 2,675 5,297 The last four columns of the table show that the proportion of scholars at the different ages remains much the same from year to year As compared with 1882, there was an increase last year in the proportion of those between seven and ten years, and a corresponding decrease in the number between ten and thirteen years. Subjects op Instruction The following table shows the number of scholars m the several Board districts that were learning at the close of the year the subjects of instruction prescribed by section 84 of the Act :— TABLE C—Subjects of Instruction. ._„„„. || I J I ijl I s fi I ii I li ii i« _i. JL JL 'JlJLl |s s a i P Jl SSffi. ■ 'Sj'S'S'S 'SI'S "d 'ffi'S'S'fS "S'ffi InCrea3e [ 5,297, 5.298J 5,494 5,411| 1,547J 3.619J 1,090| 1,020| 4,273 5,170| 5,079 2,028 323

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

The last four columns of the table show that the proportion of scholars at the different ages remains much the same from year to year As compared with 1882, there was an increase last year in the proportion of those between seven and ten years, and a corresponding decrease in the number between ten and thirteen years. Subjects op Instruction The following table shows the number of scholars m the several Board districts that were learning at the close of the year the subjects of instruction prescribed by section 84 of the Act:—

TABLE C.—Subjects of Instruction.

'ure [aoris. Of Mixed Race. Total. Education Distbicts. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. 1 Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury Westland Otago Southland G2 1 17 5 41 1 1 1 7 1 i 29 5 5 1!) 1 4 2 7 91 1 22 10 00 2 5 3 14 1 4 133 7 22 12 39 7 119 7 11 3 27 7 252 14 33 15 66 14 195 8 39 17 80 8 1 22 8 6 45 17 148 7 16 8 46 8 4 23 10 3 30 12 343 15 55 25 126 16 5 45 18 9 75 29 21 1 5 41 17 21 3 3 30 12 42 4 8 71 29 Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 141 107 72 42 213 149 305 207 243 197 548 404 446 314 315 239 761 553 ".

Ages. Boys. j I Girls. Total. Percentage for Four Years. ?ive and under seven years Seven and under ten years Pen and under thirteen years. ihirteen and under fifteen years )ver fifteen years 10,791 17,814 13,750 4,629 720 9,735 16,202 13,060 4,685 1,090 20,526 34.016 26,810 9,314 1,810 1883. 22-20 yo-78 29-00 10-07 1-95 1882. 22-64 35-56 30-09 9-82 1-89 1881. 22-73 35-41 30-39 9-60 1-87 1880. 22-33 35-99 30-25 9-66 1-77 Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 47,704 45,082 44,772 42,097 92,476 87,179 100-00 100-00 10000 100-00 Increase 5,297 2,622 2,675

Education Disteicts. (8 so 'i 111 I III ISO O ■a a . si © il 3 a % a i H3 I s o > a> ■S3 © o A _ i i j Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury Westland Otago Southland 17,120 17,120 2,060, 2,060 5,446 5,446 6,840! 6,840 3,697 3,697 1,486 1,486 4,550 4,550 17,797 17 797 3,920, 8,920| 3,040 3,040! 20,545 20,545 5,975, 5,975! 92,476 92,476' 87,179 87,178! i !_ 5,297| 5.298J ) 17,120 ) 2,060 i 5,424 ) 6,808 ' 3,697 i 1,486 I 4,357 117,445 I 3,857 I 3,040 20,545 j 5,837 j 91,676 86,182 i 17,120 1,992 5,326 6,447 3,697 1,433 4,195 17,302 3,787 3,040 20,545 5,707 9,587 11,754 880 1,152 2,409, 3,183 2,962: 3,825 1,342 ! 1,898 639J 831 2,104' 2,587 6,554 ! 8,924 1,679 2,259 1,198 1,620 8,487 11,253 2,349 3,153 40,190 52,439' 38,643 | 48,820:' 1,547| 8,619| 6,029 634 2,2951 2,888 1,233 513 2,003 5,796 1,653 1,049 8,298 2,135 ) 4,917 I 480 > 850 ! 1,276 ! 392 i 362 ! 1,369 > 2,574 : 970 I 229 i 5,126 i 1,096 ' 14,355 ) 1,723 ) 2,823 » 4,392 ! 1,220 ! 892 I 694 : 13,063 i 2,731 ' 555 10,088 2,460 54,996 50,723 4,273J 14,860 1,592 4,075 5,311 2,625 1,079 2,113 14,935 3,532 1,984 14,805 4,149 > 13,989 ! 1,490 i 3,013 4,478 ' 2,653 1 591 i 995 12,961 3,110 1,416 15,778 3,945 64,419 59,340 6,639 769 1,503 2,498 1,228 395 1,236 6,969 1,624 1,030 6,683 1,701 3,596 131 244 127 54 66 70 1,055 103 16 400 92 Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 90,591 85,180 34,526 j 33,436 19,641 18,621 I 1,020 71,060 65,890 32,275 30,247 2,028 5,954 5,631 Increase [ I 5,494 i I j 5,170 5,079 5,411 I 1,090| 323

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In Auckland, Hawke's Bay, Westland, and Otago every child on the roll is returned as receiving instruction m reading, writing, and arithmetic, and all those in Taranaki and Marlborough are returned as learning reading and writing. Of the total number enrolled, there are 800 who were not instructed in writing, and 1,885 not learning arithmetic , m 1881 the corresponding numbers were 3,065 and 5,038. The number of girls on the books was 44,772 of these, 32,275 were taught needlework. Numbeb of Public Schools. A return of the schools in the several Board districts, with a statement of the expenditure on each for the year, and of the names, status, and rates of emolument of the teachers employed in them during the last quarter of 1883, is given in the Appendix, Table 9, pages 9-44. The number of schools reported as being in operation at the close of the year was 943, being an increase of 32 during the twelve months. There was an increase of 42 m the previous year The following table furnishes information on various particulars relating to the schools of the different Board districts : —

TABLE D.—Number of Schools open at the End of 1883. (In this enumeration every two half-time schools are reckoned as one school.)

The increase m the number of schools has scarcely kept pace with the average attendance. At the close of 1883 the average number of scholars for each school was 766, a year previously it was 75. All the half-time schools, with the exception of three, are maintained m the Auckland District. It is enacted by the 88th section of the Education Act that "in outlying districts, or parts of the country where, from the scattered state of the population, it is not practicable to establish a public school, the Board may appoint itinerant teachers, under regulations to be provided for that purpose. ' The Board may also, on the recommendation of the Inspector, m such outlying districts which it would be premature or inconvenient to constitute school districts, assist schools started by private enterprise, m books, school apparatus, or money, as the Board shall think expedient." The returns show that the maintenance of half-time and aided or subsidized schools is regarded with growing disfavour, although it might be thought that by their means the wants of very sparsely settled localities might be met to some extent. The employment of itinerating teachers was tried by the Auckland Board a year or two ago, but the experiment does not seem to have proved successful. Although so small a number of the schools are subsidized or half-time, yet the number of schools with an average attendance of less than 20 has increased from 120 to 141, an increase of 21 out of a total increase of schools for the year of only 32. Only six small schools have been closed. This shows that schools formerly aided or subsidized have not been all closed, but have become ordinary public schools, and that the Boards have not ceased m their efforts to provide schools for the families in the newly-settled and remoter localities.

Education Distkicts. o a H 1° §| Is 1p ■Sag k! rt o fill Nil do Lber >f Sohi £4 CD . T3 co lj a* >ols ii ?8 S3 S3 . IS i whii laftei jh the Atti was — O . fCi to l=! ft 53 . 3ndan ice fo: *3 3 S 8 «5 the a a Kg 5h CQ fj p'g S| ■eg < |x °1° vim & Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury Westland Otago Southland 192 36 67 53 36 29 82 143 39 35 159 72 ! 13,348 i 1,458 4,155 5,344 2,940 1,141 3,424 13,462 3,045 2,289 17,070 4,538 69-5 40-7 62-0 100-8 81-7 36-4 41-8 94-1 78-1 65-4 107-3 63-0 7 3 7 4 5 5 13 5 2 3 1 24 6 q K O 3 8 9 7 4 6 8 3 22 9 5 2 1 8 19 2 76 15 27 14 8 6 26 50 18 12 61 37 22 8 K 6 5 5 18 19 5 2 17 14 10 3 2 4 2 3 2 11 1 2 14 2 15 1 7 4 8 1 4 14 3 2 11 5 8 6 5 1 1 6 1 25 8 4 5 12 9 I 1 1 2 10 2 2 14 2 3 1 2 9 1 r> i 1 1 2 17 7 7 1 2 3 3 Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 943 911 72,214 68,288 76-6 75-0 55 46 86 74 96 97 350 362 126 110 56 63 75 67 52 52 28 21 19 19 28 23 48 65 6 14

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Numbeb of Teachees Table No. 9, Appendix, pages 9-44, contains a nominal roll of the teachers employed at the end of the year in the schools of the several Board districts, with their positions in the schools, and their rates of emolument. The following is a classification of the teachers m each of the districts :—

TABLE E.—Number of Teachers.

The increase (148) in the number of teachers has kept about equal pace with that of the attendance, the average number of scholars to each teacher being 31 5, as against 31-9 a year previously. As usual, the largest increase (72) in any class is in that of the female pupil-teachers, which is about equal to the increase m all the other classes of teachers. There is again an actual fallmg-off in the number of male pupil-teachers employed. Of the whole number employed in the schools at the end of the year, there were 1,064 male teachers and 1,227 of the other sex, two years previously the numbers were 1,019 and 1,068, and five years ago (m 1878) they were 825 and 786 respectively In five years the number of teachers of sewing has increased from 80 to 122. The duties of the sewmg-teachers or work-mistresses are m almost every case limited to the giving of lessons to girls in needlework and other industrial branches during a portion of the school time. They are employed almost solely in the smaller schools, where the attendance does not warrant the employment for the whole of the school hours of a fully-qualified mistress or assistant mistress in addition to the master The proportion of certificated teachers employed m the public schools is yearly increasing Income and Expenditure op the Boards. In addition to the statutory grant of .£3 15s. for every child m average daily attendance at the public schools, the General Assembly last session voted money for the following purposes :— 1. For supplementary grants to Boards, at the rate of ss. for each child in average daily attendance 2. For grants to Boards, at the rate of Is. 6d. for each child in average daily attendance, for the support of scholarships established by them under the provisions of the Education Act. These are the only payments from the consolidated revenue that the Boards can make applicable to scholarships. 3. For the distribution amongst Boards of the sum of £4,000 by way of subsidy, with a view to aid and encourage them to make sufficient provision for the efficient inspection of the public schools. 4. For grants to Boards for the training of teachers. The amount voted was £8,000. 5. For special grants to Boards for school buildings.

Number of Teachers, exclusive of Teachers of Si during the Last Quarter of 1883. swing, em] iloyed 8. 9. 10. Education Disteicts. Males. Females. Average Attendance for Last Quarter ol 1883. Average Number of Pupils to each Teacher. Teachers of Sewing not included in preceding columns. 1. Teachers. 2. Assistants. 3. PupilTeachers. 4. Teachers. 5. Assistants. G. PupilTeachers. 7. Totals. Auckland Taranaki Wangarrui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborougli Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury Westland Otago Southland *162 19 53 38 26 20 41 130 35 27 144 68 24 18 1 9 6 12 36 18 14 15 10 6 38 89 4 9 82 16 98 10 18 29 16 6 41 33 14 18 32 4 152 13 26 63 28 8 490 61 126 169 95 42 126 446 95 81 433 127 13,348 1,458 4,155 5,344 2,940 1,141 3,424 13,462 3,045 2,289 17,070 4,538 27-3 24-0 33-0 31-6 31-0 25-1 27-2 30-2 32-0 28-2 39-4 35-7 40 6 18 3 2 6 19 8 5 45 6 45 4 10 46 8 130 30 12 84 25 6 1 38 12 14 11 Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 763 737 142 130 159 169 337 327 319 281 571 499 2,291 2,143 72,214 68,288 31-5 31-9 122 111 Increase or decrease 26 12 -10 10 88 72 148 3,926 - 0-4 11 * Including 5 visiting teachers.

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The capitation grants are paid to the Boards monthly, in strict accordance with the ascertained average daily attendance of the preceding three months, as shown by the summary statements of the quarterly attendance furnished by the Boards in terms of the Order in Council of the 28th May, 1878. In the Appendix a general statement of the income and expenditure of each Board for the year follows its report. Tables Nos. 1 and 2 contain summaries of the accounts of the different Boards. Table No. 9 (pp. 9-44) shows the expenditure for the year in each school district for teachers' salaries and allowances, for other ordinary current charges, and for buildings, sites, furniture, apparatus, &c. A summary of the Boards' income and expenditure for the past year, and for each of the six preceding years, is contained in Tables El and F2, which show accounts for the period of seven years during which the schools have been maintained by grants from the colonial revenue : — TABLE El.—Summaby op Boabds' Income. Principal Heads. Year 1877. Year 1878. Year 1879. Year 1880. Year 1881. Year 1882. Year 1883. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. a. Balance Ist Jan., 1877.. 32,490 7 6 Parliamentary grants,— Maintenance .. 157,392 15 10 216,666 4 0 217,876 2 0 241,555 14 0 233,587 0 9 250,853 10 9 266,967 12 11 Buildings .. .. 46,812 7 6 101,257 211 150,581 4 7 104,436 16 8 64,318 0 0 45,265 10 9 83,322 10 9 Education reserves .. 16,604 4 3 8,862 3 9 21,330 7 1 19,749 0 4 23,533 6 7 21,258 13 4 24,714 18 9 Local receipts,— School fees, &c. .. "41,955 11 4 3,005 0 6 1,799 5 9 924 8 6 1,415 8 5 2,354 13 6 1,22113 6 Porbuildings .. 1,190 7 1 1,284 14 3 1,231 7 9 1,965 12 3 599 1 2 1,41110 0 2,155 1 2 Interest .. .. .. .. 3,048 17 2 1,739 5 0 380 0 0 439 3 5 858 4 0 Ordinary income.. 296,445 13 6 331,075 5 5 395,867 4 4 370,370 16 9 323,832 16 11321,583 1 9 379,240 1 1 Deposits, refunds, &c. .. 2,798 10 11 6,361 1 4 2,708 13 10 2,893 9 5 2,269 811 5,425 11 9 2,886 13 5 Total receipts .. 299,244 4 5 337,436 6 9 398,575 18 2 373,264 6 2 326,102 510 327,008 13 6 382,126 14 6 Add—Public libraries .. .. .. +6,179 2 1 4,945 8 0 453 10 9 258 13 5 230 10 9 Secondary schools} .. 9,025 7 5 .. ■ .. Balances, Ist Jan. .. .. 23,323 0 9 58,173 311 42,437 1 6 32,419 10 9 37,400 15 9 11,532 15 4 Totals .. .. 308,269 1110 360,759 7 6 462,928 4 2 420,646 15 8358,975 7 4364,668 2 8393,890 0 7 * Including sums raised by School Committees and expended on education without going through the Boards' books, as follows: New Plymouth, £750 Is.; Hawke's Bay, £814 4s. 5d.; Otago, £20,828 3s. 2d. t Including balances excluded from summaries of former years. J The Auckland College and Grammar School and the Otago High School were under the charge of the Education Boards during the year 1877. TABLE P2. —Summaby op Boabds' Expenditube. Principal Heads. Year 1877. Year 1878. Year 1879. Year 1880. Year 1881. Year 1882. Year 1883. £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. Management by Boards 10,484 14 10 10,225 12 2 11,109 810 10,037 17 6 8,109 6 91 8,458 16 10 9,662 12 9 Inspection and examination .. .. 5,606 19 7 6,142 14 5 7,735 4 0 8,273 13 9 8,387 15 4 9,115 16 7 9,866 11 8 Maintenance of schools* 173,726 9 7 192,736 19 7 221,053 4 0 247,121 3 5 243,257 3 6 258,683 3 0 272,484 9 3 School buildings .. 80,35116 9 89,255 3 7 172,867 14 3 117,410 110 58,254 12 6 71,852 4 9 86,748 13 0 Ordinary expenditure 270,170 0 9 298,360 9 9 412,765 11 1 382,842 16 6318,008 18 1348,110 1 2370,762 6 8 Eefunds and advances .. 3,610 8 4 4,225 13 10 1,65111 0 726 7 0 2,01115 10 5,001 4 9 2,077 9 9 Total expenditure .. 273,780 9 1 302,586 3 7 414,417 2 1 383,569 3 6 320,020 13 11353,111 5 11380,839 16 5 Add—Public libraries .. .. .. 6,074 0 7 4,658 1 5 1,553 17 8 24 1 5 42 12 6 Secondary .schools .. 11,166 2 0 .. .. Balances, 31st Dec. + .. 23,323 0 9 58,173 311 42,437 1 6 32,419 10 9 37,400 15 9 11,532 15 4 13,007 11 8 Totals .. .. 308,269 11 10 360,759 7 6 462,928 4 2 420,646 15 8 358,975 7 4 1 364,668 2 8 393,890 0 7 1 I . * Maintenance includes teachers' salaries and allowances, grants to Committees and schools, scholarships, training, fire insurance, &c. + Deducting overdrafts. Table No. 3 of the Appendix has been compiled from the Boards' returns with the view of showing the amounts expended by the several Boards on management and on school inspection, including the examination of pupil-teachers. In this table the moneys expended by the Boards on management are classified as follows : Office staff, exclusive of Inspectors, £5,646 14s. sd. ; allowances to members of Boards, £883 7s. 9d.; office rent, furniture, repairs, &c, £397 75.; fuel, light, and cleaning, £230 ss. 5d.; law expenses, £276 6s. 4d.; printing, £851 lis. 9d.; advertising, £676 3s. 3d. ; stationery, £399 6s. 9d.; sundries, including stamps, £301 10s. Id. : total, £9,662 12s. 9d. The amounts expended on allowances to members of Boards are not all in proportion to the extent of the several Board districts. For example, the amount paid under this head by the Auckland Board

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was £7 55., while for the comparatively small districts of Westland and Wanganui the payments were £237 9s. 6d. and £160 Bs. 3d. respectively Hawke's Bay and Marlborough are the only districts in which no payment is made to the members of the Board. The aggregate of the payments to members has increased from £649 14s. 7d. to £883 7s. 9d., or to the extent of £233 13s. 2d. beyond that of 1882. The following table shows the average cost for the year of each scholar in average daily attendance in the several Board districts, for Board's management, for school inspection (including examination of pupil-teachers), for the current maintenance of the schools, and for school buildings respectively The gross amount of expenditure under these four heads is given in the first four lines of Table F2. The corresponding figures for each Board are contained in the Appendix, Table No. 2, columns 2, 3, 4, and 5 :—

TABLE F3.—Expenditure per Scholar by Boards.

The table shows an increase m the cost of the Boards' management and inspection to the extent of 3|d. per scholar, and a decrease of 2d. per head on account of maintenance. The actual increase in the current expenditure was therefore at the rate of l£d. The receipt by the Boards for a full year of the special capitation grant of ss. has probably led to the increase in the expenditure on management and inspection. The increase per scholar on account of school buildings is owing to the larger amount voted by the General Assembly for that object. As the expenses of the four training institutions are included in the Maintenance Account, the average cost per scholar in the Districts of Auckland, Wellington, North Canterbury, and Otago appears somewhat higher than it would otherwise have done. In considering the average current expenditure for each scholar in the several Board districts, it has to be kept in mind that the Board funds are made up not only from the capitation grant of £3 155., but also from the votes of the General Assembly for scholarships, inspection subsidy, the special capitation grant of 55., and from local receipts. The income of the Boards from local

* In Tables F3 and H, and in Tables Nos. 2 and 3 of the Appendix, two lines of figures are given for Westland. Line No. 1 represents the moneys actually passed and paid by the Board within the year, and line No. 2 the total amounts passed for the payment of which cheques on the bank were drawn. But owing to the Board's want of funds, and the stoppage of its credit at the bank, cheques of the aggregate amount of £4,767 2s. lid. proved valueless. The difference between the two lines in each of the four tables mentioned is the amount represented by the Board's valueless cheques on December 31,1883. See notes prefixed to the Westland returns, pages 35 and 82 of the Appendix.

Education Disteicts. 'o m O CO OJ3 IS s <D - cp ocB Cβ l-f Si ,Q O » P o . oflg 0c co as ri γ-i h d Cost per Scholar for the Year 1883, calculated Attendance. Current Expenditure. >n the Aven tge Daily Total Current Expenditure and Buildings Boards' --. . Manage- Inspection, ment. tenanoe. Totals. School Buildings. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury Westland, No. 1* 1 Westland, No. 2 J Otago Southland 192 36 67 53 36 29 82 143 39 490 61 126 169 95 42 126 446 95 13,079 1,446 3,967 5,204 2,755 1,059 3,247 12,753 2,955 s. a. 2 6J 4 0J 4 6} 2 9| 2 7| 3 4| 3 0 2 3 3 10 j 8 7 1 10 5J 1 9£ 2 74 s. a. 3 01 4 1* 2 9§ 2 9J 4 111 3 8£ 3 21 2 2 3 4J 3 ll| 4 llj 2 54 2 5 £ s. a. 3 17 Of 3 9 10| 3 15 8 4 3 84 3 12 8| 3 19 1 4 0 7f ■ 4 1 llf 3 12 8f 3 3 6J 3 11 Of 3 19 6f 3 13 11 £ s. d. 4 2 7£ 3 18 0 4 3 0J 4 9 3J 4 0 31 4 6 2 4 6 10 4 6 4| 3 19 ll| 3 3 6} 4 6 5| 4 3 9J 3 18 114 £ s. a. 17 6 13 3 16 5 1 4 0J 1 12 4 2 2 If 0 14 4 16 2 2 4 3J 0 10 8f 1 19 6| 0 19 6| 1 6 44 £ s. a. 5 10 11 5 13 5 9 5J 5 13 3| 5 12 7J 6 8 3J 5 12 4 12 6f 6 4 3 4 6 9J 6 6 OJ 5 3 41 5 5 4 35 81 2,319 159 72 433 127 16,659 4,400 Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 943 911 2,291 2,143 69,843 66,145 2 9J 2 6f 2 9| 2 9 3 18 0£ 3 18 2J 4 3 7| 4 3 6J 1 4 10 1 1 8| 5 8 5} 5 5 3 Increase 82 148 3,698 0 2J 0 Of -0 0 2 0 0 1J 0 3 1J 0 3 2J Totals for 1883 eal-\ culated on mean of roll-numbers at L ends of four quarters—91,011 ' j Similar totals for 1882 2 1J 2 2 2 19 10J 3 4 2 0 19 0| 4 3 2f 1 11J 2 1J 2 19 8J 3 3 9J 0 16 7 4 0 4J

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receipts last year was £1,221 13s. 6d. for current expenditure, and £2,155 ls._2d. for school buildings. In the estimate of the cost of each child's education, shown in Table F3, no account is taken of the expenses of the Education Department (Head Office). These, however, did not much exceed £2,000 for the year, and a very large proportion of that amount is fairly chargeable to Native schools, industrial schools, and other work of the department outside public-school The salaries and allowances of teachers, at the rates paid during the last quarter of 1883, are shown in the last column but one of Table No. 9, Appendix,. pages 0-44. The total amount is £239,241 13s. 3d. This sum, divided among 2,413 teachers, including 122 sewing-mistresses, gives them an average salary of about £99, the same as in the previous year Excluding some rent allowances,, which do not seem to have been included in one or two of the Boards' returns, the distribution of salary and allowances is as stated in Table G It should be understood that, of the 1,303 receiving less than £100 a year, there are 730 pupil-teachers and 122 teachers of sewing

TABLE G.—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.)

School Buildings. During the year 1883 the Boards received the unpaid balance of the parliamentary vote for public school buildings for 1882-83, which amounted to £79,520. The amount actually distributed was £80,000, but the sum of £480 had been paid to the Westland Board in 1882. In addition to this sum, the following payments were made by the Government during the year. For recrea-tion-grounds, Auckland £2,310, and Otago £600, to replace buildings destroyed by fire, Auckland £150, Nelson £100, and Southland £236, contribution towards the cost of Taumutu School, North Canterbury, in consideration of the Native population to be benefited by the school, £406 10s. 9d. The total special payments to Boards for the year thus amounted to £83,322 10s. 9d., as given in Table El The total amount of expenditure on school buildings for the same period was £86,748 135., as shown in Table H. The excess of expenditure over the amount of the special buildings grants was £3,426 2s. 3d., which was no doubt met partly by local receipts for building purposes and partly from the ordinary Board funds or balances in hand. None of the money voted for school buildings by the General Assembly for 1883-84 was distributed till after the close of the school year, and it is therefore not shown in the Boards' accounts. The Boards' general statements of accounts appended to their annual reports, printed in the Appendix, supply information concerning the grants received specially for school buildings, and the amounts expended by them during the year A summary of these accounts is contained m Tables Nos. 1 and 2of the Appendix. The following table, compiled from the Boards' statements of expenditure, shows, under different heads, the amounts expended on school buildings in the several Board districts: —

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Under £100. £100 and under £200. £200 and under £800. £300 and under £400. and upwards (maximum £495). Total of Teachers. Totsl Amount of Salaries paid In Last Quarter of 1883. Education Districts. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury Westland Otago Southland 334 40 59 84 60 23 77 294 65 44 177 47 157 21 50 63 26 17 44 149 35 27 192 80 33 15 21 7 2 4 30 6 8 60 9 5 1 7 2 1 1 1 530 en 126 175 96 43 126 484 107 81 447 138 £ s. d. 45,405 0 0 4,483 11 0 13,908 2 6 18,120 0 0 9,383 10 10 8,823 12 0 10,652 9 0 43,875 4 0 9,236 8 5 8,208 8 f> 56,611 0 0 15,534 12 0 1 8 1 2 10 2 3 8 Totals for 1883 1,304 8G1 195 39 14 2,413 239,241 13 3

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TABLE H.—Buildings Expenditure.

Nearly all the Boards continue to represent the amounts placed at their disposal for school buildings as quite inadequate to their several requirements. School Committees. The Education Act requires that the accounts of the School Committees shall be audited annually as prescribed by regulations under the Act, and that a copy of such accounts shall be forwarded to the Board of the district after they have been audited, together with tL. auditor's report thereon. Formerly the appointment of auditors was vestedm the School Committees themselves; but by amended regulations, dated September 18th, 1883, each Board is now required to appoint an auditor, or auditors, to audit the accounts of the School Committees within the district for which the Board is constituted. The change has proved a satisfactory one, and there is reason to believe it has led to considerable improvement m the keeping of the school fund accounts. In most cases the Boards have appointed their Secretary, or other officer, to perform the duties of auditor The Boards of Auckland and North Canterbury were able to secure the services of the Provincial District Auditors It would no doubt be acceptable to the Boards themselves if an arrangement could be made whereby the services of the Provincial District or other Government Auditor might be made available in every district for the auditing of the School Committees' accounts. Abstracts of these accounts have been received from all the Boards except that of Westland , a summary of them is contained m the Appendix, pages 106-7 Several of the Boards, m their annual reports, bear testimony to the satisfactory manner in which the School Committees have performed the duties devolving upon them. It is reported by the Taranaki Board that "the Committee for the Town of New Plymouth have taken great interest m their work during the past year," that " the country Committees are gradually takmg more interest in their work ," and that " the new regulations for auditing Schoof Committees' accounts will be found an improvement." The Hawke's Bay Board " again desires to express its. appreciation of the work done by the majority of the School Committees In most of the districts the compulsory clause is nominally in force, and there is generally a visiting Committee appointed in each district to see to the wants of teachers and pupils. There is a growing pride among them in regard to the neatness and satisfactory state of the residences, school-houses, and grounds, and comparatively large sums are annually collected by them for the improvement of the school buildings and supplying gymnastic apparatus for the physical training of the pupils. During the past year, Napier, Meanee, and

Education Disteiots. o 3 off Si CD || 6 IE g>5 ■ 03 o g . £*© o \7a Expe: iditure in 18S3 upon School Furniture and Appliances not included in the preceding. New Buildings. Improvements, Enlargements, Eepairs, &o. Purchase of Sites. Plans, Supervision, and other Expenses. Total. Auckland ;192 Taranald j 36 Wanganui j 67 Wellington ! 53 Hawke's Bay j 36 Mafrlborough ! 29 Nelson 82 North Canterbury |143 South Canterbury j 39 Westland No. 1 35 Otago . .. 159 Southland 72 106 21 52 30 24 15 133 32 18 156 67 33 4 5 5 6 8 10 4 £ s. a. 9,539 18 2 1,001 4 7' 1 471 13 3, 2 036 10 Oj 2,559 10 0 1,226 19 6 1,550 12 1 C,726 14 9 4,805 4 6 675 4 2! 12,331 3 9 4,405 5 8 £ s. d. 3,813 11 0 140 11 10 3,319 15 11 2,554 10 11 876 0 11 724 6 7 497 3 10 7 713 19 1 349 0 7 29G 13 5 1 927 16 10. 1,004 10 0 £ s. a. 1,735 16 9 70 10 6 7 9 9 408 16 4 587 11 10 182 5 0 144 13 3 997 16 7 562 4 £ 47 14 S 362 9 1J 84 18 ( £ s. a. 2,043 13 3 376 6 8 35 17 6 ! 1,019 10 0 197 0 0 £ b. a. 855 7 4 100 0 0 403 5 3 229 11 5 236 1 1 98 4 9 £ s. d. 17,988 G 6 1 688 13 7 5,238 1 8 G 248 18 8 4,456 3 2 2,231 15 10 2,323 19 2 16,685 4 5 6 547 G 2 1 242 19 3 16,293 14 7 5,803 10 0 131 10 0 239 12 0 1 492 11 2 1,007 2 0 338 5 2 223 7 6 714 5 10 218 15 10 2 5 1 957 18 3 90 0 0 Totals for 1883 ,943 Totals for 1882 '911 Increase 32 Decrease i •Westland, No. 2 i Do. ercessof No.2 687 1636 83 92 48,330 0 5 23,218 0 11 35 581 9 2 22,866 8 11 12,748 11 3 351 12 0 5,192 7 4 4,957 5 5 5,583 18 10 5 129 13 2 4,424 6 2i 3,317 8 1 ,'86,748 13 0 71 852 4 9 51 9 235 1 11 454 5 8 i 1 106 18 1 I 14,896 8 3 2 422 19 61 1 676 4 lit 1 747 15 4j 1,379 11 6 119 1 6 71 7 4l 416 2 6 192 15 0 4,634 8 5 3,391 9 2 *See note to Table F3, and notes prefixed to Westland returns, Appendix, pp. 35 and 82.

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Tarawera stand pre-eminent, in this respect." The Wellington Board "takes the opportunity of recording its appreciation of the value of the services rerdered by the various School Committees. To their interest and zeal for the welfare of their respective schools the improved attendance and tone are largely due. The Committee of the Mount Cook schools, m conjunction with a Committee of the Board, have established a night-school for boys over- school age. The attendance during the. winter averaged about a hundred. The school was well equipped with teachers. A course of science lectures was delivered by Dr _ Hutchinson gratuitously, and, so far as could be judged without inspection, good work was done The fee for the winter term was 2s. 6d." The Otago Board reports as follows " The recent Order in Council, altering the mode of auditing accounts of School Committees, and empowering Boards to appoint an auditor, is, the Board believes, a step in the right direction. The Board appointed its Chief Clerk auditor for the district, and arranged that the School Committees should forward their books, accounts, &c, to the Board's office. It is pleasing to report that the Committees, with one or two exceptions, willingly fell in with the new order of things, and rendered the auditor every assistance m carrying out his work. The report of the auditor is, on the whole, satisfactory, and shows that a large majority of the School Committees are expending the moneys placed at their disposal m an economical and useful manner " Inspection of Schools. The reports furnished by the Inspectors of Schools to the Boards to which they are responsible are printed in a separate paper (E 1b), and are well worthy of attentive perusal. They contain very decided evidence that the quality of the instruction given in the schools is steadily improving, and that there is a corresponding advance in the extent and thoroughness of the pupils' attainments. At the same time the reports contain some frank criticisms of defects that have not yet been removed, and of inefficiency in some cases that requires to be very firmly dealt with. The impression derived from a careful study of the statements made by the Inspectors is that the real progress achieved is considerably greater than that which is indicated by a comparison of the tabulated returns with those of former years. The following is the summary of the statistical results of the standard examinations held during 1883 : —

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

It will be seen that rather more Jian one-half of all the scholars—so-2 per cent, being the exact proportion—were presented for examination m the various standards, and that 37-4 per cent, of all the scholars passed. This proportion of passes to attendance has not yet been exceeded the proportion two years before was equal to it, but there is reason to believe that m some districts the examina r

Passed Standards Education Districts. Boll (Dec, 1883). Presented. Passed. I. II. III. IV V. VI. Total. All 92,476 j 5O2 p.o. of rollnumber 74-4 p.c. of number presented [ll-2 \) Per cent, of Eoll-Numboi 9'8 7-3 4-9 2-7 I Jx. 1-3 37-4 Auckland Taranald Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury Wostland. Otago Southland 17 120 2,060 5,446 6,840 3 697 1 486 4,55.0 17 797 3,920 3 040 20,545 5,975 8,327 909 2,836 3,696 2,085 796 2,320 7,920 2,041 1,463 10 933 3,113 5,449 609 2,514 2,774 1 598 717 1,941 6,470 1,494 1 264 7 909 1 827 Per c< 73-6 5S-6 89-3 89-0 79-6 85-7 9o-2 95-0 90-7 95-4 92-0 82-5 int. of Number presented in oa 68'0 53-8 , 60-4 61-7 I 73-4 70-5 J CO-9 74-0 i 90-0 84-9 I 85-6 93'8 83-0 60-0 ! 66-0 63-0 79-1 73-1 72-6 64-3 91-8 90-0 I 90-5 83-3 88-6 85-7 i 71-3 71-0 84-0 74-0 ,' 69-0 76-0 79-9 61-0 I 55-0 63-6 87-7 80-6 j 84-2 85-7 77-0 60-0 ' 62-0 58-0 67-4 44-7 I 32'4 41-5 iaoh Staj I 63-5 i 72-7 97-9 86-0 89-5 92-1 75-9 77-0 80-9 70-0 82-0 45-2 .ndard. 65-4 67-0 88'6 75-0 76-6 90-0 83'6 82-0 73-2 86-4 72-0 58-7 Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 92,476 87,179 46,439 42 388 ! 34,566 30 639 I 86-5 86*3 78-2 64-8 I 64-7 j 66-7 76-1 63-6 ■ 61-5 61-2 ! 78-2 76-1 79-4 72-1 74-4 72-3

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tion was at that time more leniently conducted than it is at present. The proportion of passes in the higher standards steadily increases. Eor the Sixth Standard the proportions in four successive years, including the year now under review, have been 6, 8, 10, and 13 m a thousand. For the Fifth Standard the numbers have been 15, 22, 23, and 27 in a thousand; and for the Fourth Standard 35, 45, 46, and 49 The fact that only one-half of the children were presented for examination in standards may be partly accounted for by reference to Table B, which affords reason for believing that about 40 per cent, of them are below B*7 years, the average age of passing the First Standard in 1883. It is also to be borne m mind that there are always some backward children not ready to be presented, and that some that are well prepared are kept away from the examination by illness and other causes that may be regarded as accidental. There does not, however, appear to be any good reason for not expecting a reduction in the average age of passing the First Standard. The number of children under seven years of age amounts to 22-2 per cent, of the whole number attending, and even if theiraverage age is put down at several months over six years it seems that the schools take two years at least to prepare a child for the First Standard. Is it unfair to assume that this is an indication of some neglect with regard to the instruction of. the youngest pupils ? The average age of passing each standard in each district is skown in the following table : —

TABLE K. —Average Age of Pupils at Standard Examinations.

Table L is a summary of the numbers on the rolls of classes preparing for the several standards at the end of the year Further details under this head are given in Table 5, in the Appendix (p. 5): —

TABLE L.—Classification according to Standards in the Last Quarter of 1883.

Education Dibteicts. .verago Ages (in Yoars) for Standan jan of A{ ;ca. Auckland Taranakl Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay frlarlborough Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury WesHand Otago SotithlRiad I. 9-2 8-1 8-6 9-1 8-0 8-5 9-6 8-2 8-4 9-8 II. 10-0 9-1 9-3 10-2 9-1 9'5 10-0 9-5 9-9 10-2 III. 12-0 11-2 11-8 11-2 10-8 10-4 11-7 11-0 11-2 11-5 IV 12-8 12-0 12-2 12-4 12-1 12-3 12-6 11-6 12-1 12-6 V. 14-0 12-7 13-2 13-2 13-1 13-3 13-6 12-6 12-7 13-3 VI. 15-0 13-5 14-5 14-2 14'4 14-1 14-2 13-0 13-3 14-1 1883. 12-2 11-1 11-6 11-7 11-2 11-3 11-9 11-0 11-3 11-5 1882. 12-4 11-5 11-4 11-6 11-2 11-3 11-9 11-2 11-0 11-9 1861 11-4 11-6 11-8 11-4 11-1 11-8 11-2 12-0 11-7 Mean o£ the ten returns Bange (difference between highest and lowest) 8-7 1-6 9-7 1-1 11-2 I-β 12-3 1-2 13-2 1-4 14-0 2-0 U-β 1-2 11-5 1-4 1882— Mean of the ton returns Bango (difference between highest and lowest) . 8-6 9-9 11-0 12-3 13-3 14-2 11-5 1-0 1-4 1-8 1-6 1-5 1-5 1-4

Standards. Boys. Girls. Totals. Percentage, ?oo young foe line next following . 'repairing for Standard I. II. . III. „ IV . V „ VI. 'assed Standard VI. 13,540 9,208 7,631 7 467 5,128 2,929 1,305 498 12,003 8,458 7,358 7 138 4,995 2,919 1,382 519 25,513 17 686 14,989 14,605 10,121 5,848 2,687 1,017 1883. 27-62 19-10 16-21 15-80 10-94 6-32 2-91 1-10 1882. 27-32 19-15 16-12 15-95 11-72 6-21 2-64 0-89 1881. 25-45 20-32 16-83 17-14 11-44 5-73 2-38 0-71 Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 Totals for 1881 47 704 45,082 /.; 4: i. 4-4,772 42,097 10,103 L 92,476 87,179 83,587 100-00 100-00 100-00

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Westland Education Disteict By "The Westland Education District Subdivision Act, 1883," it was provided that the Board of the Education District of Westland should be dissolved, and that on and after the Ist January, 1884, the district should be divided into two education districts, —the one comprising the County of Grey and the Borough of Greymouth, the other comprising the County of Westland and the Boroughs of Hokitika, Euinara, and Boss. In consequence of there having been no election of members of the Education Boards of the contemplated new districts of Grey and Westland as required by the Act of 1883, and the Board constituted by the Act of 1877 having ceased to act, there has been, since the Ist January, 1884, no duly-constituted authority for the management of the public schools of the district in question, and it became indispensable, in the interest of the district, that the Government should undertake the maiatenance of the schools until the General Assembly should make legal provision for the administration of educational affairs. A circular letter, of which a copy is appended,* was issued on the 16th January, 1884, to the several School Committees concerned, intimating that the Government had resolved to pay the teachers' salaries and any other current expenditure that might be found absolutely necessary, until the General Assembly should have removed existing difficulties ; and that officers of the Government at Greymouth and Hokitika respectively would be appointed forthwith to distribute the necessary payments on account of the public schools. The services of the Board's Secretary and Inspector of Schools were retained, and an officer of the department was despatched to the district to make all needful arrangements for carrying on the schools. When the circular of the 16th January was written it was in the very natural belief that the Board had been keeping its ordinary current expenditure within its current income, but an investigation of its accounts revealed the fact that the scale of ordinary current expenditure at the close of 1883 exceeded the rate of the Board's legitimate income by a very considerable amount. As the Government had no funds at its disposal to enable it to expend more upon the schools of the district than the amount voted by the General Assembly for that purpose, it became absolutely necessary to equalize the income and expenditure. After very full consideration it was decided by the Government that no reduction should be made in the ordinary salaries of the teachers and pupil-teachers, and that the indispensably necessary reductions should be effected by paying only one-half of the sums that the Board had undertaken to pay on account of School Committees' grants and teachers' and pupil teachers' bonuses. A circular to this effect was sent to the several School Committees on the 12th February, 1884. f It was also ascertained that, although the capitation allowances for November, 1883, had been paid as usual to the credit of the Board's account at its bank, yet the teachers' salaries and other liabilities for that month were unpaid when the Board ceased to hold office. The payments due to the teachers and others for December were made directly to them by the department out of the capitation allowance for that month. But as there are no funds available to meet the November payments for salaries, &c, they still remain unpaid. When its accounts for the year 1883 were made up it was ascertained that the Board had involved itself in liabilities very far in excess of its income, and that before leaving office it had caused cheques to be drawn by way of payment of its liabilities to the amount of £4,767 2s. lid. beyond the means at its disposal, while at the same time there was owing to the bank a sum of £805 3s. 7d. for interest and overdraft. The indebtedness of the late Education Board when it left office thus amounted to £5,572 6s. 6d. The Board's assets at the same date may be set down as follows Share of special vote for school, buildings for 1883-84, £1,824; and estimated value of school-books and school appliances in stock, £1,816 total, £3,640. The latter sum can scarcely be regarded as available for general purposes, because any money arising from the

* Appendix, page 109. f Appendix, page 110.

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rf the' sfc SftZgTitt W Se c i'W* S 6 StoCk - The decision of the General AsXhly WeS " 3nd D ' Stnct is "aiting the as fow'i SMe ° f the B ° a d ac — b f « WB3 may be Bnmi nari Z ed Dr. Balance on the 31st December, 1882 „ f Qr7 *: d ; Moneys actually paid by Board on account of the year's exnensa, 1 n 9Q7 }- a Cheques drawn and issued, but not cashed £?94 P 9 q 10 ' 297 1 ' 4 Cheques drawn, but not issued 4,073 0 2 Interest due to Union Bank 4 7 67 2 H 0 Total _ __g__g The Board's indebtedness on the 31st December, 1883, was as follow:_ Unpaid cheques, as above s - &• Interest due to Union Bank 4,767 2 11 Debit balance at Union Bank 27 8 0 777 15 7 Total indebtedness! .. J^~^ SCHOLAESHIPS. msmmm

* See also Appendix, Table 9, page 35. specifications of contracts." " The amount of tho Ztl f 71 , I ™ been done in accordance with exception to an expenditure of £158~od incur K AuditOT takos Of this amount, the SUm of £144 17, IOd. 7 '^.^^^nt^enoies.'expenses to Hokitika is also ob ie cted°to. This was -CnX occasfon of * *■ , • *" tmVel1^

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TABLE M.—Scholarships.

Thirty-nine of the 144 holders of scholarships are girls. Free tuition is given to the holders of Board scholarships by the authorities of the Auckland College and Grammar School, the Auckland Girls' High School Nelson College, and the Otago High Schools. The Auckland institutions also admit without fee those competitors who, failing to obtain scholarships, acquit themselves so well as to receive " Certificates of Proficiency " from the examiners Such certificates are held by 15 boys and 3 girls, who avail themselves of the privilege. Wellington College, from funds placed at its disposal for the purpose, grants four scholarships, tenable from the age of twelve or more to the age of sixteen, to boys from the public schools. The Otago High Schools also grant free education to all candidates for senior scholarships who make over 50 per cent, of the attainable marks. In addition to the 10 who gained scholarships last year, 11 competitors made over 50 per cent, of the marks, and were thus entitled to free education at the High Schools for three years. No scholarships were instituted by the Taranaki Board until the present year. The departmental regulations respecting scholarships are of a very general character, each Board being left to make its own rules, subject to the approval of the Minister The Board's regulations must set forth—(l) Whether the scholarships are open to all children of the prescribed age, or are to be competed for by pupils attending public schools only, (2) any other conditions of candidature (for example, as to age), (3) the annual value of each scholarship, the term fowhich it is to be held, and the conditions of tenure (as to good conduct diligence &c), (4) the subjects of examination, and (5) the minimum proportion of marks m each subject, and of total marks, which will be necessary to qualify for a scholarship. » Noemal Schools oe Teaming Colleges. The annual reports of the Principals of the training colleges at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin are given m the Appendix, pages 89-93. The more important particulars are contained in the following table :—

TABLE N.—Normal Schools.

Open to Education Disteicts. Numbei hold in Dec, 1883. Annual Value. Period of Tenure. Expended on Scholarships in 1883. Pupils of Board Schools. All Comers. Remarks. Auckland .■ 2-2 £ s. d. 30 0 0 Years. 2 to 4 £ s. d. 1,025 12 7 27 With free tuition at Auckland College and Grammar School, or the Girls' High School. Three at £40. No scholarships instituted. Five at £20; three at £25 two at £30 (one girl). Two at £10; four at £15; three at £20; five at £30. One at £40; one at £20. Free tuition at Nelson College. Three at £40; one at £14 10s. three at £2. Taranaki Wanganui 2G0 14 0 10 10 1 Wellington 14 13 1 2 399 5 10 Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson 2 2 7 2 2 7 40 0 0 2 2 98 2 3 86 6 0 204 2 6 North Canterbury South Canterbury 19 10 10 19 40 0 0 2 1 and 'i 8G4 18 5 224 16 8 Westland Otago 4 41 4 41 40 0 0 2 2 3 180 0 0 1,201 7 6 Nine at £18; one at £43 (four boys and six girls). Two at £o0 ; two at £40. £20 if holder resides at home. Junior tenable for two years, senior for three years, with free tuition at the High School. Same as in Otago. Southland 8 8 40 0 0 266 12 3 2 and 3 144 60 84 4,87. IS 0

Auckland. Wellington. Ohristchurch. Dunedin. The Four Schools. )ate of opening 1881. 1880. 1877. 1876. Students in 1883— Remaining from 1882 Admitted in 1883 Left during 1883 On the books, December, 1883 M. F. Total. 1 8 17 20 6 14 20 2 12 14 7 19 26 M. F. Total. 2 32 34 2 10 12 2 24 20 2 18 20 M. F. Total. 14 27 41 8 21 29 8 19 27 14 29 43 M. F. Total. 16 36 52 19 19 38 8 22 80 27 33 60 M. F. Total. 35 112 147 85 64 99 ,20 77 97 50 99 149

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TABLE N.—Normal Schools— continued.

Education Eesbbveb. The Appendix, pages 93-104, contains the reports of the School Commissioners of the several provincial districts, and the general statements of their accounts for the year. The following is a summary of the accounts:—

TABLE O.—Summary of School Commissioners' Accounts.

Auckland. Wellington. Christohurch. Dunedin. The Four Schools. Left during11883— Teaching in public schools Teaching in other schools Left tho service Occupation not known . On sick lcavo M. F. Total. 2 12 14 M. P. Total. 2 11 13 M. F. Total. 7 17 24 2 2 M. F. Total. 8 13 21 2 2 6 6 M. P. Total. 19 53 72 ..4 4 6 6 1 12 13 2 2 '. 12 12* 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 12 14 2 24 26 8 19 27 8 22 80 20 77 97 Left at any time — Teaching in public schools Teaching in other schools Loft the serviee Occupation not known On sick leave Deceased 2 12 14 2 2 6 19 25 2 2 2 19 21* 29 67 96 4 4 4 28 32 2 17 19 1 1 78 88 166 4 5 9 14 28 37 5 16 3 4 7 12 3 115 186 301 4 9 13 20 53 T3 9 37 46 3 5 8 13 4 1 1 2 14 16 10 39 49 35 117 152 105 123 228 152 293 445 Expenditure in 1883 — Salaries A llowances to students Incidental exponses Training classes £ s. d. 824 3 4 1,099 19 8 49 9 1 100 0 0 £ s. d. 1,018 16 0 711 4 11 53 13 6 £ s. a. 1,433 10 0 724 18 10 34 6 5 221 14 0 & s. d. 1,102 11 1 1,204 4 5 £ 8. a. 4,379 0 5 3,740 7 10 137 9 0 321 14 0 Totals 2,073 12 1 1,783 14 5 2,414 9 3 2,306 15 6 8,578 11 3 Government grants in 1883 2,000 0 0 1,358 17 3 2,000 0 0 2,000 0 0 7,353 17 3

Income for the Year 1883. Provincial Distbicts. Balance on 1st January, 1883. Beceipts i Primary Keserves. Beceipts during Year. duri ■ing Year. Secondary Beserves. Total Income. Arrears of Bent due on 31st December, 1883. Liabilities or Engagements on 31st December, 1883. Auckland Taranaki Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Canterbury Westland Otago { £ a. d. 793 11 4 270 5 1 501 18 8 1,201 14 2 206 18 6 908 5 8 282 11 5 t £ s. a. 1,235 6 6 647 19 0 592 17 8 1,299 4 1 143 12 6 602 1 3 11 336 9 5 43 13 0 15,321 6 6 £ s. d. 515 17 11 323 7 11 24 3 0 238 2 2 9 7 0 211 6 9 99 14 6 218 19 0 675 0 1 £ s. d. 2,544 15 9 1,241 12 0 1 118 19 4 2,739 0 5 359 18 0 1 721 13 8 11 718 15 4 262 12 0 15,996 6 7 £ s. a. 1,102 7 7 988 14 11 153 6 3 232 19 9 156 0 0 259 0 8 1,183 7 8 86 0 0 1,844 18 3 £ s. a. 33 13 4 238 7 11 250 0 0 668 2 0 180 13 11 45 0 0 t Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 4,165 4 10 4,577 1 9 33,538 8 3 24,773 19 10 5, 2, 116 13 10 i08 19 7 3' 3: ,703 13 1 ,860 1 2 6,015 15 1 5,112 8 2 1,415 17 2 1,730 19 4 Ispe: tditure for t] 'ear 1883. Pbovincial DlSTBICTS. Office Expenses and Salaries. Expenses of Leasing: Auctioneers, Advertising, &c. Expended on Besorves, Surveys, Fencing, &c. Crov. Gra: and ] Expei •n its jaw ises. Paid to Boards fo: Primary Educatior Paid for Secondary Education. Sundries. Balances on 31st December, 1883. Total. Auckland Taranaki ■Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Canterbury Westland Otago £ s. d. 102 3 0 102 7 4 62 11 1 84 7 5 31 5 0 56 2 8 547 6 0 64 14 11 688 15 0 £ s. a. 26 19 10 20 5 6 10 5 6 11 14 0 £ s. a. 52 8 9 19 6 2 39 0 2 15 11 3 £ s. a. 21 12 2 13 17 7 110 4 4 0 3 8 0 3 14 10 £ s. d. 1,127 18 6 540 0 0 600 0 0 925 0 0i 189 5 6| 521 14 7 10,800 0 0 £ s. a. 465 2 4 285 0 0 ll.OOO 0 0 11 19 0 I 950 0 0 200 8 8 £ b. a. 25 16 8 37 6 3 £ s. a. 722 14 6 260 15 5 406 1 7 685 1 6 123 4 6 180 13 11 166 8 10 16T 3 5 3,505 2 2 & s. a. 2,544 15 9 1,241 12 0 1,118 19 4 2,T39 0 5 359 18 0 1,721 13 8 11,718 15 4 962 12 0 15,996 6 7 3 14 6 0 17 0 12 10 6| 457 1 10! 6 0 0 18 3 2 1 252 15 0 118 19 0| 84 4 0 9 280 3 11 609 5 8 Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 1,739 12 5 1 683 19 9 543 8 8! 414 7 2, ' 251 5 4! 1 208 10 2 132 1 7 121 7 10 23 984 2 6 ! 21,421 14 10 ! 3,521 15 8. 1,584 12 1 1,334 1 1 108 15 6, 6,197 5 10 5,316 13 10! '37,703 IS 1 J31,860 1 2 privato stude ihts, who attended at their own expense, for the sake of the instruction received, and not with a view *o be»ome * These were all teachers. t Owing to the f< for the yoar are sho , i 01 the receipts >rm in which ra in the sun i lor Qtago pr; the Westland accounts aro shown they cannot easily be summarized. Only the actual receipts ana expenditure, Wfc M.wa 3 tolanasola. TbisamountIβreinvoetea.

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The receipts from the primary education reserves show a considerable increase over former years, owing mainly to the renewal of a number of leases, under which increased rents are paid. The total receipts were £37,703 13s. Id., of which the sum of £23,984 2s. 6d. was paid over to Education Boards during the year There is not a corresponding increase m the Commissioners' revenue from the secondary education reserves, because in Canterbury the whole of this class of reserves is now vested m High School Boards, and nearly all the Otago secondary education reserves have been similarly disposed of. The proceeds of the reserves applicable to secondary education in Cook and Wairoa Counties are being funded by the Auckland Commissioners for the benefit of any public secondary school that may be established at Grisborne. There is now a sum of £94 Is. 10d., at deposit in the savings-bank, available for this purpose. The Nelson Commissioners had similarly accumulated the proceeds of their secondary education reserves, and were able last year to pay the sum of £950 towards the Nelson Girls' High School. The Wellington Commissioners represent the desirableness of securing reserves for school sites in private townships, and recommend that steps be taken to render compulsory the making of such reserves when private townships are surveyed. The Canterbury Commissioners have arranged with the Crown Lands Department for the subdivision into small farms of two large reserves of agricultural land, the leases of which will expire shortly At the request of the Otago Commissioners, the Lands Department, under the provisions conferred by " The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882," has sold 7,238 acres of agricultural land for cash, at an average price of £2 6s. 6d. per acre, 14,538 acres on deferred payment, at an average of 6s. 3d. per acre per annum, and 11,825 acres on perpetual lease, at a rental averaging about 2s. sd. per acre per annum. The lands so disposed of were primary education reserves. As the greater part of the land was not disposed of until the end of December, 1883, the total proceeds were not handed over to the Commissioners till after the close of the year, and therefore do not appear m the accounts for 1883. After deduction of the necessary cost of survey, advertising, roads, &c, the sum of £3,505 2s. 2d. was received within the year from land sales, and is at present in the Bank of New Zealand on fixed deposit, bearing interest at 6 per cent. Fuller particulars concerning these land sales are given in the Commissioners' Beport, Appendix, pp. 103-4. Univeesity Eeseeves. The proceeds of the lands reserved under " The University Endowment Act, 1868," for the purposes of the higher education now amount to £677 18s. Bd., made up as follows Auckland reserves, £75, Taranaki, £32 17s. 4d., Canterbury, £521 Is. 4d., and Westland, £49 The money is at present held by the Treasury, for appropriation as may be determined hereafter by the General Assembly Bull information concerning the locality, area, yearly rental, &c, of the University and also of the secondary-education reserves is given in Beturns E.-10 and E.-11, prepared by order of the House of Bepresentatives, and printed in the Appendix to the Journals of the House, 1883. It is desirable that an Act of the General Assembly should be passed conferring larger discretionary powers as regards the leasing of the University reserves, and regulating the distribution of the annual proceeds. Native Schools. In December, 1882, there were 63 Native village schools m operation; at the close of last year the number had increased to 66. Besides these village schools, which are wholly under the control of the department, there were six boarding-schools last year at which Maori children were educated. they are connected with religious denominations, and are in receipt of capitation grants from the Government on account of the children placed in them by authority of of the Minister The Native children in these boarding-schools are statedly examined by the Inspector of Native Schools. During the past year new buildings of a suitable character have been erected in several localities, and numerous improvements and repairs have been made in

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existing school buildings. During the year the sum of £5,056 3s. 6d. was expended on buildings, sites, fencing, and school furniture. Negotiations are in progress having for their object the obtaining of sites in several Native districts, including the " King-country," where schools have been asked for and are considered necessary The number of scholars on the books of the village schools in December, 1883, was 1,923, or 101 fewer than at the close of the preceding year The average attendance for the last quarter of 1883 was 1,542, or 32 less than in the corresponding quarter of 1882. The decrease in the attendance cannot be attributed to diminished interest in the schools on the part of the Native population, but rather to the prevalence of serious fever epidemics in some localities where there had been comparatively large attendances, and to a failure of the crops in other places, which necessitated the removal of the families elsewhere for a time. About 78 Maori children were maintained wholly or partly at the expense of the Government in the boarding-schools already mentioned the number of such boarders at the end of the year was 76. The principles which regulate the admission of children to these schools were stated m the report for 1880. The following table contains a summary of the race of the children who were attending the village schools at the close of 1883. The same particulars regarding each of the schools are contained m Table No. 5, page 21 of the Organizing Inspector's Beport:—

TABLE P.—Race of the Children attending the Native Village Schools.

In comparison with the corresponding period m 1882, the proportion of Maori scholars and those between Maori and half-caste had fallen from 74-16 to 71-81 per cent, during last year, the proportion of half-castes remained the same, and the percentage of European scholars and those between Europeans and halfcaste had risen from 15-56 to 17-89 Table A3, page iv of this report, shows the number of Maoris and children of mixed race that attended the public schools at the end of 1883. The number of teachers employed m the village schools in December, 1883, was as follows : — Schoolmasters 55 Schoolmistresses 7 Female assistants •• 1° Sewing mistresses • • 36 Total .. 116 The cost of the education of Native children and those of mixed race (exclusive of those that attended the public schools as shown at page iv ) was, for the year 1883, as follows :— 33 s. d. Village school salaries and allowances 9, 450 18 3 Boarding-schools, apprenticeship, and higher education 2,368 11 11 Inspection (including travelling) 720 17 5 Office salaries and clerical work (departmental) 31 10 0 School requisites and contingencies 1,199 5 3 Buildings, furniture, fencing, &c. 5,056 3 6 Total £18,827 6 4 Of the above amount, £549 were paid from Native reserves funds in the South Island, leaving a net expenditure by Government of £18,278 6s. 4d. The able and interesting report of the Organizing Inspector, and very full statistical information concerning the Native schools, are printed in a separate parliamentary paper (E.-2, 1884)

Percentage. Boys. Girls. Total. 1883. 1882. Maori, and between Maori and half-caste Half-caste Between half-caste and European, and European 785 99 168 596 99 176 1,381 198 344 71-81 10-30 17-89 74-16 10-28 15-56 Totals 1,052 871 1,923 100-00 100-00

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The valuable services of the gentlemen who have acted as District Superintendents of the Native schools have again to be acknowledged. The Organizing Inspector m his report refers to the success that has attended the efforts that have been made by the Education Department, in conjunction with the Crown Lands Department and the Auckland Domain Board, to introduce the cultivation of the mulberry and other trees m the Native districts where they are likely to succeed. Mulberry-plants were supplied last year to a number of the Native school teachers, who have m most cases taken satisfactory interest in them, the result being that young mulberry-trees are flourishing at nearly every Native school to which they were sent. The Organizing Inspector has had interviews with Mr Eederh and with Mr Bercy Smith, Chairman of the Auckland Domain Board, and has received from them much valuable and encouraging information, which he will diffuse to the utmost possible extent among the Native school teachers, the Native chiefs, and others in the course of his travels throughout the northern parts of the colony A communication has been recently received from the Crown Lands Department to the effect that the Auckland Domain Board will be able to supply shortly about 300 olive-plants and 200 arrowroot plants for distribution among the Native schools • the Organizing Inspector has been instructed to take all necessary measures for the disposal of the plants m such manner as is likely to secure the most satisfactory results. In the words of the Organizing Inspector, "The expense of this sort of thing is comparatively trifling, and it seems that this is the very best way of gradually introducing useful plants into Native districts. It may be that in time many industries may thus be brought under the notice of the Maoris, and that they will take to some of them. It would be a good plan to introduce a new plant each year Berhaps the black-wattle of Australia would be a suitable tree to take next. This is of rapid growth. It might be planted very easily. The bark fetches a good price, and. the gathering of it would not involve much trouble. All these circumstances point to the black-wattle as a tree that should be introduced with a view to its being planted on the waste Maori lands." The influence of a Native school teacher and his wife over the members of the Native community amongst whom they live is, m the nature of the case, of a more powerful character than that exerted by an ordinary public school teacher over the members of a European community While all of them are performing with more or less fidelity and success their ordinary duties as school teachers, many of them may be regarded as missionaries of civilization to those amongst whom they labour, and are, by their personal example and their suitable counsels, exercising much influence for good not only over their youthful scholars, but also over the elder members of the Native community Deaf-and-Dumb Institution. The institution at Sumner for the education and training of deaf-mutes has now been m successful operation for upwards of four years. A year ago there were 31 pupils. Since then one girl died, another girl was removed for family reasons, and. two youths left after having attained a fair degree of proficiency Five fresh pupils (three boys and two girls) were received during the year, making the number of inmates at present 32. Sixteen of these are boys and sixteen are girls. The following are the provincial districts from which the pupils have been sent Auckland, 7 , Taranaki, 1, Hawke's Bay, 1 , Wellington, 1, Canterbury, 10 , and Otago, 11 The thirty-second pupil is a deaf-mute girl who has been sent from Adelaide, South Australia. During the past year the Director has had the aid of an assistant master and a mistress. The method of instruction is that which is known as " the articulation method," by which deaf-mutes are trained to the use of the organs of speech, and learn both to speak, m the ordinary sense of the word, and to understand (from the motion of the lips) the speech of others. The use of finger-signs, or other means employed as substitutes for speech, is strictly excluded. The course of instruction includes reading and writing m the first instance, followed by English composition, arithmetic, geography, history, drawing, elementary science, &c. The girls are also instructed in sewing, knitting, and other useful domestic accomplishments.

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There are in connection with the institution three separate residences and a detached schoolroom, at convenient distances from one another. There are also a large garden, playgrounds, and other useful adjuncts. These detached residences are in many respects well adapted to the purposes of such an institution. They afford better facilities for satisfactory separation, according to age and sex, than one large building would do During the day the pupils are assembled for meals and for school instruction under the eye of the Director and his two assistants. After school lessons and meals are over for the day, the pupils separate and retire for the night to their different residences. One of these is under the supervision of Mr and Mrs. Van Asch , the second is occupied by girls, under the care of the lady assistant, and the elder boys, m charge of the assistant master and a trustworthy matron, are accommodated m the third residence. The institution is visited as occasion requires by the medical officer, Dr Brins, of Christchurch, who takes much interest m the work of the school, it is also visited from time to time by the Minister of Education and officers of the department. The ability and zeal of the Director are deserving of high commendation, and the results of his labours invariably call forth expressions of surprise and gratification from those who visit the institution. A separate parliamentary paper (E.-4, 1884) contains reports from the Director, the medical attendant, and an officer of the department who visited the school in December. Table No. 7 of the Appendix contains a statement of the expenditure on the institution for the financial year 1883-84. The following is an abstract of the statement: — £ s. d. Salaries—Director and two assistants 845 0 0 Bents and repairs .. .. 315 16 10 Travelling expenses, medical attendance, furniture, and schoolroom requisites, &c. .. 212 4 8 Maintenance of pupils 1,197 3 8 2,570 5 2 Less payments by parents 457 3 4 Total £2,113 1 10 The charge made by the Government for the board and education of each child is £40 a year, but m many instances pupils are admitted free, or at reduced rates, so that no child m the colony capable of receiving benefit from the course of instruction may be excluded. Industeial Schools and Oephanages. The industrial schools and orphanages maintained wholly or partly by the Government from parliamentary votes are The Auckland Industrial School, comprising the Howe Street Home for girls, and the Kohimarama institution for boys; the Canterbury Industrial School at Burnham, the Otago Industrial School at Caversham , the Thames Industrial School and Orphanage , the St. Mary's Industrial School and Orphanage, Auckland, the St. Mary's Industrial School and Orphanage, Nelson , the St. Stephen's Orphanage, Barnell, Auckland , the St. Joseph's Brovidence Orphanage, Wellington, the Motueka Orphanage, Nelson, and the Lyttelton Orphanage, Canterbury Bull particulars respecting the constitution, management, and maintenance of each of these institutions are furnished m last year's reports.* The children maintained in the industrial schools and orphanages may be divided into two classes (1) Children committed to proclaimed industrial schools under the provisions of " The Industrial Schools Act, 1882 ," and (2) orphan and destitute children who are not so committed. The latter class comprises children admitted on the order of a Government relieving officer, and for whose maintenance a capitation payment is made by Government, and children admitted by the local managers at their own instance, and m respect of whom payment from the public revenue is not always made.

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The following table contains information respecting the children that belonged to the industrial schools and orphanages during the year 1883. The same information concerning each of the institutions is given in a separate parliamentary paper (E.-3, 1884) :—

TABLE Q. —Summary of Admissions, Withdrawals, etc., for Year 1883.

Table Q shows that 1,056 committed children belonged to the industrial schools at the beginning of the year, and 1,319 at its close. The number of fresh commitments to the schools during the year was 320, but, as 52 children had been discharged and 5 had died m that period, the actual increase for the year was 263. Notwithstanding this very large increase in the number of children belonging to the industrial schools, the number m residence had decreased from 822 to 800. This is owing to the large number that have been placed out at service or with friends, and to the successful operation of the scheme for boarding out the younger children with foster-parents. The following are the numbers of non-resident children at the beginning and at the close of 1883 : — Jan. 1, 1883. Doc. 31, 1883. Increase. At service 77 104 27 With friends 151 198 47 Boarded with foster-parents 209 209 Absent without leave 6 12 6 Totals 234 523 289 Under the repealed Act the children were released from the control of the school on the expiry of their several terms of committal, by the Act of 1882 all are committed for detention m the school till they attain the age of fifteen

jmmitti id. NO! i-committod. Totals. Boys. Girls. I I Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girla. Total, . , 1. In the schools, 31st December, 1882 2. At service, 31st December, 1882 3. With friends, 31st December, 1882 4. Absent without-leave, 31st December, 1882 487 52 79 6 335 I 25 72 I 822 77 I 151 6 90 123 213 577 52 79 6 458 25 72 1,035 77 151 6 5. Total belonging to schools, 31st December, 1882 6. New admissions during 1883 624 197 432 j 123 I 1,066 \ 320 90 21 123 16 213 37 714 218 555 139 1,269 357 7 Number to' be accounted for, 31st December, 1883 8. Number discharged or died during 1883 821 26 I 555 31 I . 1,376 57 111 19 139 25 250 44 932 45 694 56 1,626 101 9 Total belonging to the schools, 31st December, 1883 Increase in 1883 795 524 1,319 92 114 206 887 638 1,525 171 92 263 2 -9 _rj 83 256 173 Particulars of new admissions — 10. Destitute 11. Vagrant 12. Ecsiding in brothel or disreputable place 13. Uncontrollable 14. Guilty of punishable offence 15. Governor's order in lieu of imprisonment 77 46 20 17 35 2 71 24 17 8 1 2 148 70 37 25 36 4 21 16 37 98 46 20 17 35 2 87 24 17 8 1 2 185 70 37 25 36 4 Totals as in line No. 6 197 320 j i 21 16 37 218 139 357 123 Particulars of discharges and deaths — 16. Discharged by warrant 17 Discharged on reaching age of twenty-one 18. Died 24 27 1 3 51 1 5 17 23 40 41 50 1 5 91 1 9 2 2 2 4 4 Totals as in line No. 8 26 31 57 19 25 44 56 101 45 Particulars of children belonging to the schools, 31st December, 1883 — 19. In the schools 20. At service 21. With friends 22. Boarded out with foster-parents 23. Absent without leave 512 65 113 94 11 288 39 85 111 1 800 104 198 205 12 91 111 202 603 65 113 95 11 399 39 85 114 1 1,002 104 198 209 12 1 3 4 Totals as in line No. 9 795 524 1 319 92 J J 114 887 638 1 525 206 ! ! Changes of status during year 1883— 24. Eeturned from service 25. Eeturned from friends 26. Sent to service 27 Placed with friends 28. Boarded out with foster-parents 29. Absconded 5 5 21 42 94 7 3 16 21 111 1 5 8 37 63 205 8 5 5 21 42 95 7 3 16 21 114 1 5 8 37 63 209 8

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years but they continue under the legal guardianship of the manager till the age ot twenty-one years is reached, unless previously discharged by warrant of trie Governor This provision is of great advantage to those who need protection from their own depraved and worthless parents. Nearly all those over fifteen years who are still under the legal guardianship of the several managers are in service or with friends, a few are on the staff in some of the institutions. As the industrial schools are the only homes that a number of these young people can properly go to when not m service, a few are almost at all times in the institutions, m some cases between the leaving of one situation and the entering on another, and m some instances owing to sickness or incapacity for service I he number over fifteen years that belonged to the schools at the end of 1883 was 133. lhey may be classified as follows : — T ■ Males. Females. Total. In service .. 31 17 43 With friends 23 11 34 On the school staffs 1 7 ft Waiting for situations, incapacitated through sickness, &c. 14 20 34 Missing 8 1 9 Total 77 56 ~~ There is an increase of 47 m the number of children placed out 111 charge of relatives or friends. In many instances the parents or friends of committed children make earnest application to have them restored to their custody After careful inquiry it is often found necessary, for the sake of the children, to refuse such applications, but not unfrequently they are granted for what are deemed sufficient reasons. In such cases the children are licensed as prescribed by the Act, but they remain under the guardianship of the manager of the school, and can be recalled at any time, if necessary, by order of the Minister The parents or others to whom the children are thus intrusted, knowing this, are put upon their good behaviour, and are usually exceedingly careful to avoid such a course of conduct as would lead to the forfeiture of the custody of the children It thus happens that the committal of a child to an industrial school sometimes proves beneficial to the parents as well as to the child. The particulars given m lines 10-15 of Table Q, and the following classification of tne parents of the 320 children committed during the year, supply information of an interesting and suggestive character bearing upon the causes of committal:—

TABLE R.—Committed Children classified according to Parents' Circumstances and Character.

The fathers only of 96 children, and the mothers only of 13, are described as deserters, and 5 are reported as having been abandoned by both parents. The fathers only of 69 children, and the mothers only of 89, are stated to be of good character or poor, and 15 have both parents well reported of, 25 have fathers only, and 72 have mothers only, of bad character, and 22 have both parents of evil repute. The fathers only of 52 children, and the mothers only of 44, were dead, and 7 had lost both parents by death. The fathers only of 18 children, and the mothers only of 25, were unknown to the authorities, and m the case of one child only was there no information about either parent. The information given m Table S respecting the parentage of the 37 children admitted to orphanages is of a different character.

Mothers described ai Children of Sick, Lunatic, Disabled, &o. Of Good Character (or poor). Not known or not stated. Total. Dead. Of Bad Character. Deserters. Fathers described as— Dead Sick, lunatic, disabled, &c. Of good character (or poor) Not known or not described Of bad character Deserters 7 3 20 1 13 7 3 1 11 4 2 6 38 4 15 2 2 48 19 1 6 16 is 6 ■2,2 35 2 4 5 2 5 59 10 84 19 47 101 Total 51 27 104 26 94 18 320

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TABLE S.—Parentage of Non-committed Children admitted to Orphanages in 1883.

The fathers only of 11 children and the mothers only of 4 were dead, and 13 had lost both parents, showing that, out of the 37 children placed m orphanages, 28 had been deprived of one or both parents ; 4 children had one or both parents sick or in a lunatic asylum , 2 had been deserted by both parents , 2 had a father and 1 had a mother of bad character The following is a summary of the ages of the children maintained by Government that were resident at all the schools on the 31st December, 1883 :—■

TABLE T.—Ages of the Children.

At the beginning of the year 25-51 per cent, of all the resident committed children were under seven years, at the close of the year the percentage of children under that age was only 12-37 This large decrease in the number of very young resident children is owing to the large number (205) that had been boarded out with foster-parents, almost all of whom are under seven years of age. About 915 of the resident children were receiving day-school instruction at the end of the year, the numbers being as follows Auckland Industrial School (Howe Street and Kohimarama), 129 , Burnham, 210 , Caversham, 236 , St. Mary's, Auckland, 44, St. Mary's, Nelson, 132, St. Stephen's, Parnell, 18; St. Joseph's Providence, Wellington, 22; Motueka, 24, Lyttelton Orphanage, 82. Those at the Thames School, 18 m number, are included in the returns of " public " school attendance. The amount of payments made by parents on account of the maintenance of their children is larger for 1883 than for 1882. The amounts for the two years were as follows :— £ s. a. Total for 1883 1 335 ig 7 Total for 1882 l' ; 130 13 4 Increase £205 3 3 The Industrial Schools Act provides that the earnings of the children when at service shall be placed in the Post-Office Savings-Bank, after defraying the cost of clothing and other necessaries. The repayment of these moneys, with accumulated interest, is contingent on good conduct. The boys usually receive theirs on reaching manhood and showing that the money will be satisfactorily expended by them. The girls' money is usually paid to them on their marriage with the approval of the manager * The following is a summary of the wages account for the Government Industrial Schools for 1883 :—

. * Last year two brothers received £91 Is. Bd. and £29 17s. lOd. respectively, or £130 between them. They were committed in 1872 for seven years, their father being dead and their mother a drunkard. In addition to the amount in the bank, they had accumulated other moneys and a good stock of cattle. The stock of the elder brother began in 1874 with three heifers, two of which were presents from his mistress, and a third from a friend of his employer who had become interested in the boy. The brothers have jointly taken a farm of two hundred acres in a well-settled district, and, being good practical workmen and of highly respectable character, there is every reason to expect that their undertaking will prove a successful one. Two young women, who had conducted themselves with great propriety for a number of years, recently received their money from the savings-bank on being married. in one case the amount received was £13 145., in the other about £5.

Mother! described Children of Sick, i Of Good Lunatic, [ Character Disabled, &c. | (or poor). Total. Dead. Not known or not stated. Of Bafl Character. Deserters. 'athers described as— Dead Sick, lunatic, disabled, &o. Of good character (or poor) Not known or not described Of bad character Deserters • 13 2 1 1 2 1 9 2 1 1 24: 2 3 2 2 4 1 2 Total 17 12 37

Under 1 Year. 1 and under 2. 2 and under 3. 3 and : 4 and under under 4. 5. 5 and under 7. 7 and under 10. 10 and 13 and under under 13. 15. Over 15 Total. Years. Committed children * 7 9 i 15 64 262 269 135 65 37 35 800 Non-committed children 1 i 1 4 1 2 j 4 24 62 6 202 Total 8 11 19 88 324 334 172 41 1,002

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Amount in bank at close of year — £ s. d. £ S. d. Former inmates 1,469 19 J Present inmates 7 H 9 ° n , 2,181 o 9 Amount withdrawn in 1883 161 8 3 Amount due by employers at close of year J-oU id w Section 53 of "The Industrial Schools Act, 1882," requires that "the Governor, or any Judge or Kesident Magistrate, shall, when ordering any child to be sent to a school, state to what religious persuasion, creed, or denomination such child m his opinion belongs, and shall order and direct that such child shall be brought up and educated in that persuasion, creed, or denomination. lhe following is a summary of the religious denominations of the children admitted to the industrial schools and orphanages in 1883 : —

TABLE U.— Religious Denominations of Children committed or admitted in 1883.

As soon as possible after the Industrial Schools Act came into operation arrangements were made for placing out the younger children with respectable foster-parents, instead of retaining them m the schools as formerly A Lady Official Correspondent and Lady Visitors were appointed m connection with each of the three Government industrial schools at Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin respectively It is the duty of the Official Correspondent to select suitable homes for the children, and, m conjunction with the manager of the school to forward to the Minister a proposal and a statement of particulars m each case. The statement must supply satisfactory information on the following points (1) Concerning the child—its name, age, religion, degree of education, state of health, date and circumstances of admission to the school, (2) concerning the proposed foster-parent—-name, age, residence and amount of accommodation whether married, single, or widow, number and ages of children m family, and other particulars as to the household, church to which family belongs school that the child will attend, occupation and circumstances of head _of family, amount of payment to be made to foster-parent, and name of local visitor On being satisfied as to all the particulars set forth in the proposal, the Minister, by warrant under his hand, authorizes the boarding-out of the child as recommended A code of rules relating to the treatment of the children must be signed by the foster-parents. A suitable amount of clothing is supplied from the school when a child is first boarded out, and as the articles so supplied are worn out the foster-parent is under obligation to replace them with others, so that the child shall always have its own clothing to the full extent of the original supply Every child of sufficient age and strength must attend a school, and also the same place of worship as the family in which it is placed. Arrangements have been made whereby medical aid can be obtained m cases of sickness or accident. ' Every foster-child is visited at its home at least once a month by the Lady Visitor of the locality m which it resides A report of each visit is sent by the local visitor to the Official Correspondent, who, after perusal, forwards it to the manager of the school to which the child belongs, for his information and remarks. It is then sent by the manager to the department, where it is perused and filed This monthly report supplies information as to the date of the visit, the healtli and cleanliness of the child, the state of its clothing, and its attendance at school too-ether with the remarks and recommendations of the visitor By means of' these monthly visits and reports security is taken that any failure of duty on the part of the foster-parent, and anything amiss as regards the child, shall be ascertained and rectified without loss of time. With a view, however, to afford still greater security for the proper treatment of all the children, an arrangement has been made whereby all their homes shall be visited by an

Committed. Non-committed. Total. Denomination. Church of England Roman Catholic Presbyterian Wesleyan. Protestant.. Primitive Methodist Free Methodist Baptist Lutheran Hebrew 140 107 40 19 i 1 1 8 2 1 -J.-1 5 5 3 2 162 112 45 22 3 1 1 8 2 1 Total 320 37 357

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officer of the department, to whom reference is made m a subsequent paragraph. Up to the present time the reports both of the local visitors and the visiting officer have been, on the whole, of a very satisfactory and encouraging nature, and already seem to prove beyond a doubt that it is much better to bring up the children as members of respectable families than to crowd them together in large institutions, however well-conducted these may be * There is reason to believe that m not a few instances a strong bond of mutual attachment is being formed between foster-parent and foster-child to an extent that may render their separation at any future time somewhat difficult of accomplishment. It is due to the Official Correspondents and the Lady Visitors to acknowledge the great value of their services, which m the case of the latter are gratuitously At the outset only children under seven years of age were boarded with tester-parents, but older children are now similarly disposed of when it can be done with advantage. The rates of payment to foster-parents for board, lodging clothing, &c, are as follows :— ° °' Under seven years of age Bs . week _ Seven and under eight years . 7s . £ er week Eight and under nine years 6s . £ er Nine and under ten years ss . £ er week Uver ten years, as may be agreed upon. i i T \ A P robabl y owin g to their Proving somewhat more useful at home that the eider children of eight, nine, and ten years or upwards are in a number of instances taken for a less rate of payment than younger ones. The following is a summary of information respecting the children boarded out on the 31st March 1884 •—

TABLE V.—Information concerning Foster-children.

■ . i "2A_ This return, compared with line No. 22 of Table Q, shows that during the three months following December 31, 1883, there has been an increase of 41 m the number placed with foster-parents. The aggregate present cost per week for the board of these 250 children is £98 155., the average weekly cost per head being 7s. 10-615 d. The three public industrial schools at Auckland, Burnham, and Caversham are wholly maintained by the Government out of a vote administered by the Minister of Education. The other institutions are inspected by, and make returns to, the Education Department, but they are under local management of various kinds, and the money contributed by the Government towards their maintenance is paid out of the charitable-aid vote, which is in charge of the Colonial Secretary The cost of all the public and some of the private institutions is reduced by the contributions paid m a number of instances by the parents and guardians of inmates. The following is a summary of the cost of the two classes of institutions for the financial years 1883-84 and 1882-83 :— 1883-84. 1882-83. Increase. Three Government schools 13,848 16 11 10,443 8 2 3 405 8 9 Other schools .. 6,870 8 8 6,424 18 5 445 10 3 Total £20,719 5 7 £16,868 6 7 is~Bso 19 0 Fuller information concerning the industrial schools and orphanages is contained in a separate parliamentary paper (E.-3, 1884) It is due to the Commissioner and the members of the police force both at head-quarters and throughout the colony to acknowledge the assistance rendered by them m various ways m connection with the administration of the Industrial Schools Act. With the sanction of the Hon. the Defence Minister

, __ — ' * Extracts from the visitors' reports are contained in a separate parliamentary paper, E.-3~1884~~

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Number of Children. Schools. Official Correspondents. Local Visitors. In the City and Suburbs. In Country Localities. Total. Auckland Burnham Caversham 1 1 1 10 14 17 87 40 95 9 ■10 3!) 46 80 124 Total. » 41 172 78 250

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the officer in charge of every police station is appointed a person to take all necessary proceedings in the Courts of law to recover maintenance money from the parents of committed children. When applications are made by parents or friends for the custody of children, the members of the police force m almost every case supply reliable information concerning the character of the applicants, and advise the department or the managers of the schools as to the propriety or otherwise of granting the application. When a child (not a foster-child) is placed out at service or with friends, the officer in charge of the police district in which the child is to reside is notified of the fact, with a view to his maintaining a friendly watch over such child. Thus almost all the children belonging to the industrial schools who are not in residence or boarded with foster-parents are under (not surveillance in the ordinary sense, but) the kindly and watchful eye of one or other of the members of the police force, and any circumstances of an unsatisfactory nature regarding the conduct of the children or their treatment by their employers or friends are reported as soon as possible to the master of the schools to which they severally belong. There is consequently a large amount of correspondence between the members of the two departments, as well as numerous demands upon the services of the members of the police force, who have ever shown the utmost willingness to render all the assistance in their power. The clerks of Besident Magistrates' Courts have been appointed receivers of maintenance money owing by parents, and it is due to many of them to acknowledge the services they are rendering. With a view to secure more concerted action between the department, the managers of the industrial schools, the clerks of Besident Magistrates' Courts, and the officers in charge of police districts, in regard to the administration of the Industrial Schools Act, and more particularly the recovery of maintenance money, an experienced officer, of approved character and ability, has been detached from the ordinary work of the Police Department, and his services placed wholly at the disposal of the Education Department. It is the duty of this officer to visit the several centres of population and other localities, to communicate personally with the managers of the schools, the clerks of Besident Magistrates' Courts, and the members of the police force, and to co-operate with them in tracing the parents of committed children, in obtaining maintenance orders against such parents whenever necessary, and in enforcing compliance with the orders when made. The result has already been not only that a larger amount of maintenance money has been recovered than formerly, but that a number of defaulting parents, finding they can no longer escape payment, are showing anxiety to obtain the release of their children from the schools. It is possible that the vigorous measures now adopted for following them up may deter parents from seeking to throw the burden of their children's maintenance upon the State to the extent that has hitherto prevailed. The visiting officer is proving himself of much service in other ways. He has undertaken the visitation of the homes of the children boarded with foster-parents. His visits are of the nature of " surprise visits," and, along with those of the local lady visitors, they are well calculated to insure the obtaining of reliable information as to the ordinary condition and treatment of the foster-children. In the course of his official rounds, he is also able to collect a variety of useful information upon matters of practical importance in connection with the administration of the Industrial Schools Act, the communication of which to the department, to the managers of the schools, or to the officers of the police force, as occasion may require, often proves of much value. Institutions foe Supebior Education. The annual reports of the governing bodies of the University of New Zealand, the University of Otago, the Canterbury College, and the Auckland University College, with correspondence, statements of accounts, &c, are printed in separate parliamentary papers (E.-5, E.-6, E.-7, and E.-8). A separate parliamentary paper (E.-9) contains the reports and general statements of accounts furnished by the governing bodies of secondary schools for the year 1883. Certain of these secondary schools are required by law to submit annual reports and statements of accounts to the Government; others, though under no obligation to do so, have also furnished reports. The schools that have supplied information are • The Auckland College and Grammar School; Auckland

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Girls' High School; Thames Boys' and Girls' High School, Whangarei High School New Plymouth High School, Wanganui High School; Wanganui Endowed (Collegiate and Industrial) School, Nelson Boys' College, Nelson Girls' College Christchurch Boys' High School, Christchurch Girls' High School; Kangiora High School, Akaroa High School, Ashburton High School, Timaru High School; Waitaki High School (Oamaru), Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools (Dunedin), and Southland Boys' and Girls' High Schools (Invercargill). All these schools were in operation at the close of the year, except the High Schools of Whangarei, Wanganui, Napier Girls', and Akaroa. The Whangarei school was closed in consequence of the resignation of the master, but it has since been reopened, the governors of Wanganui school have not yet taken steps for the opening of their school, and the Napier Girls' High School and the Akaroa High School were not opened till the beginning of the present year Acts of the General Assembly were passed during the session of 1883, creating high schools for Waimate, Greymouth, and Hokitika respectively. The governing bodies of these schools have been constituted as provided for by the The following table shows the number of teachers and scholars, with the rates of fees and salaries, in the several secondary schools from whose governing bodies reports have been received: —

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

The following is a summary of the accounts of receipts and expenditure for 1883 furnished by the governing bodies. An abstract of each Board's accounts is contained on pages 106-7 of the Appendix to this report:—

* Exclusive of visiting teachers paid by fees. ■_ Three of these teach also at the Girls' School.

Staff. Atter for Lai or Qi of: :dance stTerm larter L883. ;es foi Quai ■ Las' :ter c t Tern >f 1883. or Annual El utes ol Fees. Annual Salaries at Bate for Last Quarter or Term of 1883.* Schools. !! ■a I P M I O o 3 CO r-i O in i o H For Ordinary Day-school Course. For Board, exclusive of Day-school Tuition. £ s. d. f10 10 0 (990 10 10 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. Fob Boys only. Auckland Grammar School 232 4 168 74 249 45 0 0 3,785 0 0 12 1 249 Parnell Church of England Grammar School New Plymouth High School 3 2 61 60 I 11 40 10 61 515 0 0 Wanganui Endowed School Wellington College Napier High School Nelson College Christchurch Boys' High) School ) 2 5 8 3 5 3 1 4 59 84 179 63 102 53 1 81 179 58 95 10 3 4 4 41 38 149 47 45 18 35 27 12 47 1 59 84 179 63 102 43 I I 63 19 4'1 4 0 0 J 12- 0 0 1 9 0 0 f 13 4 0 t 10 12 0 8 8 0 12 10 0 ( 12 12 0 \990 f 9 9 0 8 17 6 8 0 0 42 0 0 50 0 0 35 0 0 50 0 0 509 0 0 1,070 0 0 2,070 0 0 1,575 0 0 6 7 133 25 94 22 3 3 109 17 20 4 1 1 133 25 . 42 0 0 40 0 0 2,325 0 0 575 0 0 Ashburton High School Otago Boys' High School 2 0 fll :i 275 263 2 149 120 4 275 3,875 0 0 Totals 58 17 1 230 44 803 367 16 1,230 218! 1 137 , Foe Gibls only. Auckland Girls' High School Wellington Girls' High ~> School j Christchurch Girls' High) School i 14 6 11 225 93 199 83 7 4 117 46 79 36 22 1 225 93 8 8 0 113 4 0 t 10 12 0 12 12 0 9 9 0 12 12 0 8 8 0 (10 0 0 (800 10 0 0 (800 } 1 } } 50 0 0 2,247 0 0 1,000 0 0 4 80 74 1 53 26 80 950 0 0 Nelson College (Girls) 4 118 103 6 59 50 118 26 725 0 0 Otago Girls' High School 8 187 172 8 112 67 187 1,600 0 0 6 Southland Girls' High ~) School i 3 45 41 1 23 19 45 625 0 0 Totals .. 39 SI ij 672 27 748 2(i 748 410 277 2H Fob Boys and Gibls. i Thames High School Timaru High School 3 7 (h. 27 to. 32 16. 48 \g. 40 16. 21 t<?. 6 26 ! 31 I 45 I 36 20 i 5 2 2 1 4 18 24 30 14 17 6 37 18 I 27 32 48 40 21 6 J 8 8 0 flO 10 0 (880 1,900 0 0 Bangiora High School 1 } 300 0 0 Totals - 11 a f 96 1 78 1,326 826 ) 91 ) 72 3 6 65 42 28 26 76 78 Grand totals | G °^ 5 1,228 3 744 47 33 868 452 395 303 Iβ 32 1,326 826

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Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Cr. Balances on Ist January, 1883 .. 5,096 16 10 Liabilities on Ist January, 1883 4,283 6 8 Voted by the General Assembly 3,894 6 0 Board office management and expenses. 1,837 1 1 Education endowment reserves sold .. 18,605 7 9 Teachers' salaries 29,372 6 1 Bents of endowment re- Boarding-school accounts 3,421 10 2 serves . £13,570 19 0 Examination fees and expenses 576 0 1 Interest on proceeds of Scholarships and prizes 574 4 10 endowments 4,083 9 9 Printing, stationery, and advertising 1,263 8 11 From Education Reserves Buildings, furniture, rent, insurance, Commissioners 2,121 0 4 rates, &o. 20,514 12 2 ; 19,775 9 1 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. 753 9 8 School fees 18,601 3 0 Interest. .. 2,48111 4 Boarding-school fees 4,572 0 6 Sundries not classified 3,609 10 5 Books, &c, sold, and refunds. 160 7 10 Proceeds of reserves sales invested 6,035 9 3 Sundries not classified . 1,851 7 8 Cr. Balances on 81st December, 1883 4,722 8 6 Interest on current accounts 57 3 8 Dr. Balances on 31st December, 1883 . 6,830 16 10 £79,444 19 2 £79,444 19 2 Expenditure, excluding balances and reReceipts, excluding balances £67,517 5 6 serves moneys investe £64,403 14 9 Public Libraries Subsidy The sum of .£6,000 voted for public libraries has been distributed m accordance with the resolution of the General Assembly Immediately after the prorogation of the General Assembly last year, a public notice was issued, intimating the principles upon which the distribution of the vote would be made, and inviting applications from the managers of public libraries. A separate paper (E.-10) contains a copy of the public notification, and a list, arranged according to the education districts, of all the libraries that participated m the grant, with their several incomes and the amounts paid to them respectively The only income recognized as entitling to subsidy was that derived, from subscriptions and voluntary contributions for ordinary current expenditure , receipts from endowments and Borough or County Councils, rents of buildings, and moneys obtained for building purposes being excluded from the calculations. In accordance with the decision of the General Assembly, the maximum amount of subsidy given to any institution was ,£5O. The following is a summary of the distribution of the vote in the different education districts :—

TABLE X.—Distribution of the Public Libraries Subsidies according to Education Districts.

The whole of the vote of £6,000 was apportioned m the first instance, but, after a majority of the payments had been made, it was ascertained that part of the amount returned as " donations" by a certain library was actually a receipt for rent, and therefore inadmissible for the purposes of the distribution. The deduction made in this case represents the difference between the vote and the amount shown as having been distributed.*

* If the vote had been distributed in strict proportion to the incomes of the several libraries, the eleven followingnamed institutions, instead of receiving only £50 each, would have been entitled to the sums placed after their names respectively : Christchurch Public Library, £150 Us. 4d., Auckland Free Library, £148 ss. 10d.; Oamaru Athenajum, £105 12s. 10d., Timaru Mechanics' Institute, £75 13s. 2d. Wanganui Public Library, £75 Us. Id.; Masterton Institute, £56 16s. 10d.; Nelson Institute, £55 19s. 9d., Cromwell AthenEEum, £52 9s. Id. , Turanganui Public Library, £52 ss. 2d. Christchurch Young Men's Christian Association Library, £52 , and Thames Public Library, £51 6s. sd. The additional amount (£326 Us. 6d.) that these eleven institutions would have received but for the limitation of the maximum subsidy to £50 had the effect of slightly increasing the sums that the smaller libraries would otherwise have received. The Waipawa Public Library would have been entitled to £48 6s. 6d. only, but its share of the £326 lls. 6d. raised its subsidy to £50. The increase of the amount in the case of a library showing an income of £5 was about 125.; of £10, about 145.; of £20, about 18s.; of £30, about £1 25., of £40, about £1 65.; and of £50, about £1 10s. In consequence of the limitation of the maximum grant to £50, the Committee of the Wellington Athenasum have closed their free reading-room, and have not applied for a share of the subsidy.

Education District. Number of Libraries. Income. Amount of Subsidy. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury Westland Otago Southland 38 6 11 16 28 5 25 71 10 16 56 21 s s. a. 2,052 3 9 52 17 6 555 2 11 465 7 0 847 2 5 190 12 2 463 10 7 1,818 8 8 408 5 7 650 9 7 1,548 0 8 498 0 6 £ s. a. 1,354 8 1 69 19 1 250 1 9 288 1 6 526 15 0 108 16 3 365 18 11 1,123 18 8 196 14 1 362 4 1 948 15 9 378 12 0 Totals 356 9,550 1 4 5,980 5 2

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Table No. 1. Income of the several Education Boards for the Year 1883. (Compiled from the General Statements of Income and Expenditure attached to the Boards' Reports.)

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From Government From Local Sources. Education Districts. Balances on 1st January, 1883. From Yotes for Maintenance,! Inspection, Training, and Scholarships. From Special Votes for School buildings and Playgrounds. District High Schools: Training and other Fees. Donations, Subscriptions, and Advances. Sale of Old Sites and Building3; Eents, &c. From Education Reserves. Interest. Sundry Eefunds, Deposits, &e. Public Libraries. Contributions by Committees. Overdrafts on 31st December, 1883. Total. Total from Government. Total from Local Sources. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ 8. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ S. d. £ ». d. Auckland 2,385 15 0 53,732 18 10 17,951 19 0 71,684 17 10 180 12 0 520 0 0 12 0 0 712 12 0, 1,176 12 7 3,535 6 2 79,495 3 5 Taranaki 960 15 2 5,527 13 7 1,666 15 0 7,194 8 7 61 10 0 61 10 0, 369 16 8 4 3 3 55 1 1 8,645 14 9 Wanganui 1,443 1 8 15,774 11 11 4,376 19 0 20,151 10 11 79 0 0 79 0 0 476 1 91 210 7 2 800 0 0 2,790 13 6! 25,950 15 0 Wellington 1,084 4 11 21,510 8 8 6,412 12 0 27,923 0 8; 2 0 0 - ! 2 0 0 383 17 9 120 3 0 58 18 61 29,572 4 10 Hawke's Bay ... 67 11 5 10,288 0 Hi 3,453 5 0 13,741 5 11 7 0 0 ... 7 0 0 976 2 8 I I 1,617 18 6 16,409 18 6 Marlborougli 547 18 4 4,343 11 5 1,353 9 0 5,697 0 5 130 0 0 130 0 0 175 16 0J 244 19 31 6,795 14 0 Nelson 1,517 15 3 13,099 13 9 3,790 0 0 16,889 13 9j 6 5 0| j 15 0 0 21 5 0 383 6 4 521 15 2 19,333 15 6 North Canterbury 11,260 7 5 45,072 9 1 15,508 10 9 60,580 19 10 6 0 0j 6 0 0 8,741 10 11 361 5 4 649 3 3 81,599 6 9 South Canterbury 1,075 0 4 10,128 15 1 3,567 15 6 13,696 10 7 10 10 0 1,495 15 10i 1,506 5 10 2,171 19 2 7 2 0 18,456 17 11 Westland ... 8,819 9 0 2,437 1 0, 11,256 10 0 2 9 0 2 9 0 127 18 1 . 621 0 1 777 15 7 12,785 12 9 Otago 11 16 I 1 62,768 5 9 17,605 17 OJ 80,374 2 9 416 6 6 I 422 16 4 839 2 10 7,655 12 3 - 282 8 3 18 2 0 230 10 9 89,411 14 11 Southland 15,901 14 11 5,198 7 6 21,100 2 5 i ... 9 10 O^ 9 10 0 2,076 4 7 94 6 10 1,044 8 9 24,324 12 7 Totals for 1883 I i| 535 5 0 y 698 8 0 20,354 5 7 266,967 12 11 83,322 10 9 350,290 3 8 686 8 6 2,155 1 i 3,376 14 8 i 3,766 3 6 24,714 18 9 858 4 0 2,886 13 5 230 10 9 10,070 0 3 412,781 11 1 Totals for 1882 39,101 19 1, 250,853 10 9 45,265 10 9 296,119 1 61 678 2 0| 2,389 13 21,258 13 4 439 3 5 5,425 11 9 258 13 5 8,821 10 3i 375,190 16 3 I

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Table No. 2. Expenditure of the several Boards for the Year 1883. (Compiled from the General Statements of Income and Expenditure attached to the Boards' Reports.)

1. 2. s. 4. snance of Scht 5. :hool Buildings 6. 8. 9. Boards. Inspection of Maint< )ols. Distributed among Public Libraries from Special Vote, and Committees' Contributions for Books. Bdaoation Districts. Balances or liabilities, 1st January, 1883. Office, Staff, Members' Allowances, Printing, Advertising, Stationery, Law Costs, and other Office Expenditure. Schools, Examination of Pupilteachers. Salaries and Expenses. Teachers' Salaries and Allowances, Training of Teachers. Committees and Schools for Educational Purposes. Interest. New Buildings, Enlargements, Repairs, Furniture, Sites, Fencing. Professional Services. Sundry Payments not classified, including Refunds, Advances, &c. Credit Balances 31st December, 1383. Totals. Scholarships. Insurance of SchoolBuildings . Total for Maintenance. Plans and Supervision, Conveyances, Total for School Buildings. £ s. d. £ s. d. I £ 8. d. £ s. d. £ 8. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. ! £ s. d.| £ s. d. Auckland 2,930 18 8 I 1,652 8 4 1,979 13 101 46,151 19 6' 3,109 12 3 1,025 12 7 105 0 4 50,392 4 8 17,132 19 2 855 7 4 17,988 6 6 212 17 2 4,551 11 7 79,495 3 7 Taranaki 292 3 6 I 300 0 0 4,491 1 0 580 0 0 5,071 1 0 1,588 13 7 100 0 0 1,688 13 7 1,080 19 6 8,615 14 9 Wanganui 1,908 11 3 907 6 3 554 3 7 13,530 17 5 1,218 3 6 260 14 0 15,009 14 11 4,834 16 5 403 5 3 5,238 1 8 2,332 17 4 25,950 15 0 Wellington 723 1 2 726 1 9 19,481 11 2 1,900 11 3 399 5 10 21,781 8 3 6,019 7 3 229 11 5 6,248 18 8 92 15 0 29,572 4 10 Hawke's Bay ... 597 5 4 365 16 4 682 5 0 8,920 10 3 990 10 4 98 2 3 24 15 0 10,033 17 10 4,220 2 1 236 1 1 4,456 3 2 274 10 10 16,409 18 6 Marlborough 180 6 9 195 15 0 3,668 15 1 432 15 4 86 6 0 ... 4,187 16 5 2,133 11 1 98 4 9 2,231 15 10 6,795 14 0 Nelson 487 18 7 515 0 0 11,107 19 7 1,782 12 0 204 2 6 13,094 14 li 2,323 19 2 2,323 19 2 724. 0 9 2,188 2 111 19,333 15 6 North Canterbury 1,439 18 11 1,374 0 11 45,315 4 10 6,090 15 9 864 18 5 52,270 19 0 15,678 2 5 1,007 2 0 16,685 4 5 582 13 3 9,246 10 3 81,599 6 9 South Canterbury 566 6 5 499 15 0 9,460 1 0 1,059 7 2 224 16 8 10,744 4 10 6,209 1 ol 338 5 2 6,547 6 2 5 0 0 94 5 6 18,456 17 11 "Westland No. 1* 2,487 15 5 997 0 2 455 0 0 6,414 6 io 686 9 11 180 0 0 85 4 11 7,366 1 8 1,019 11 9 223 7 6 1,242 19 3 236 16 3 12,785 12 9 Otago 1,473 15 1 ; 2,052 8 6 59,457 8 5 5,550 5 4 1,261 7 6 66,269 1 3 15,579 8 9 714 5 10 16,293 14 7 14 1 6 3,308 14 0 89,411 14 11 Southland 896 19 7 578 11 3 J 532 8 1 14,988 15 2 1,007 17 11 268 12 3 16,263 5 4 5,584 14 2 218 15 10 5,803 10 0 223 7 4 28 11 0 24,324 12 7 412,781 11 1 Totals for 1883 8,821 10 3 9,662 12 9 9,866 11 8 242,988 10 3 24,409 0 9 4,871 18 0 ■ 215 0 3 272,484 9 3 82,324 6 10 4,424 6 2 86,748 13 0 2,077 9 9 42 12 6 23,077 11 11 Totals for 1882 1,701 3 4 8,458 16 10 9,115 16 7 231,422 15 11 22,190 12 1 4,685 6 5 384 8 7 258,683 3 0 68,534 16 8 3,317 8 1 71,852 4 9 5,001 4 9 24 1 51 120,354 5 7 375,190 16 3 "Westland No. 2 2,487 15 5 1,222 8 4 I 575 0 0 7,198 19 11 806 13 0 ISO 0 0| 8,184 12 ll| 4,218 5 11 416 2 6 4,634 8 5 I 474 18 7 17,580 3 ! „ fExcess of No. 2 225 8 2 120 0 0 784 13 ll 220 3 1 818 11 3 3,198 14 2 188 15 0 3,391 9 3 238 2 4 t4,794 10 i: * See notes on pages 35 and 82, infra. '£4,794 10s. lid.) of this line must be added £777 las. 7d., due to Union Bank, making a total liabilit; of £5,572 6a. 6d., as shown by Auditor's report. t To the total

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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 1883. (Compiled from the Detailed Statements of Expenditure forwarded by Boards.)

Management by Boards. Inspection of Schools and Examination of Pupil-teachers. Education Districts. Staff. Allowances to Members of Boards. Office Rent, Furniture, Repairs, &c. Total of Management, Inspection, and Examination. Secretary.Treasurer, Clerks, Messengers, Clerical Assistance, &c. Fuel.Light, an ; Cleaning. Law Expenses. Printing. Advertising. Stationery. Sundries, including Stamps. Totals as in Column 2, Table No. 2. Salaries of Inspectors. Inspectors' Travelling Expenses, &e. Pupilteachers' Examinations. Totals as in Column 3, Table No. 2. Auckland Taranaki £ s. d. 1,081 2 10 157 2 6 £ s. d. 7 5 o: 80 10 0 £ s. d. 170 5 5 4 11 0 £ s. d. 31 14 10 £ 3. d.| 5 17 Oj 8 9 0] £ s. d. £ s. d. 145 0 6 94 11 6 3 7 6 33 5 3 58 1 0 67 4 10 £ s. d. 69 11 2 4 9 5 £ s. d. 47 0 1 0 8 10 s. d. 1,652 8 4 292 3 6 £ s. d. 1,533 6 8 300 0 0 £ 3. d. 430 18 6 £ s. d. 15 8 8 £ s. d. 1,979 13 10 300 0 0 £ s. d. 3,632 2 2 592 3 6 Wanganui 382 15 10 160 8 3 34 11 8 11 14 0 9 13 2 35 4 6 147 13 0 907 6 3 400 0 0 100 0 0 54 3 7 554 3 7 1,461 9 10 Wellington 324 0 0' 30 7 3 0 11 6 4 12 6 130 13 8 63 12 6113 7 0 60 9 3 723 1 2 500 0 0 217 15 0 8 6 9 726 1 9 1,449 2 11 Hawke'a Bay 250 0 0 63 18 10 35 15 0 11 10 0 365 16 4 500 0 0 150 0 0 32 5 0 682 5 0 1,048 1 4 Xelson ... 262 0 0 70 19 0 14 16 0 56 7 6 66 2 3 15 13 10 2 0 0 487 18 7 500 0 0 15 0 0 515 0 0 1,002 18 7 Marlborough 112 10 0 0 8 6 21 14 3 34 16 7 10 17 5 180 6 9 125 0 0 67 12 0 3 3 0 195 15 0 376 1 9 North Canterbury 1,160 12 4 22 13 0 8 14 0 43 4 9 21 0 0i 118 18 11 28 2 7 36 8 1 11 18 6 1,439 18 11 950 0 0 284 2 9 139 18 2 1,374 0 11 2,813 19 10 South Canterbury 315 7 9 73 18 6 34 0 9 8 1 o| ; 61 17 7 12 4 a 52 2 4 566 6 5 375 0 0 101 16 2 22 18 10 499 15 0 1,066 1 5 WeatlandNo. 1* ... 364 11 6 237 9 6 34 6 0 26 13 6 77 16 6 111 5 6 57 8 0 11 11 0 75 18 8 997 0 2 333 6 8 121 13 4 13 5 0 455 0 0 1,452 0 2 Otago 940 0 0 165 S 0 67 1 6 56 8 1 111 13 2 56 0 6 77 3 10 1,473 15 1 1,450 0 0 589 3 6 2,052 8 6 3,526 3 7 Southland 296 11 8 34 9 3 76 17 5 22 7 0 38 4 6, 77 5 3 14 5 2 16 11 0 576 11 3 390 13 4 130 0 0 11 14 9 432 8 1 1,008 19 4 Totals for 1883 ... 5,646 14 5 883 7 9 397 7 0 230 5 5 276 6 4 851 11 9! J676 3 3; 399 6 9 301 10 1 9,662 12 9 7,357 6 8 2,208 1 3 301 3 9 9,866 11 8 19,429 4 5 Totals for 1882 ... 5,328 18 11 649 14 7 280 6 10 238 2 3 47 2 6, |772 18 2 '625 6 2 378 2 9 138 4 8 8,458 16 10 6,570 10 8 2,107 4 2 437 1 9 9,114 16 7 17,573 13 5 1,797 8 4 Westland So. 2* ... 385 0 6 237 9 6 34 6 0 42 18 6 ; 228 8 8 111 5 6 77 4 0 11 11 0 M 4 8 1,222 8 4 441 13 4 133 6 8 575 0 0 ,, Excess of ISo. 2 .. 20 9 0 16 5 0, 1150 12 2 19 16 0 18 6 0 225 8 2 108 6 8 11 13 4 120 0 0 345 8 2 ... * See notes on pages 35 and 82, infra.

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Table No. 4. Ages of the Scholars on the Books in the several Districts, for the Last Quarter of 1883.

5 and under 7 Years. 7 and under 10 Tears. 10 and under 13 Tears. 13 and under 15 Tears. Over 15 Tears. To! ;als of all Ages. Education Districts. Males, j Females. | Total. Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total. i 1,850 1,644 3,494 3,320 2,946 6,266 2,590 2,474 5,064 869 1,009 1,878 156 262 418 8,785 8,335 17,120 Auckland Taranaki ... 254 228 482 403 350 753 313 289 602 79 113 192 4 27 31 1,053 1,007 2,060 Wanganui 698 544 1,242 1,038 979 2,017 ! 782 732 1,514 283 278 561 46 66' 112 2,847 2,599 5,446 "Wellington 869 741 1,610 1,312 1,209 2,521 1,050 913 1,963 325 309 634 36 76 112 3,592 3,248 6,840 Hawke's Bay 488 433 921 773 685 1,458 555 431 986 152 146 298 10 24 34 1,978 1,719 3,697 Marlborcragh 190 179 369 276 236 512 203 197 400 78 94 172 15 18 33 762 724 1,486 Nelson 540 543 1,083 I 788 781 1,569 678 623 1,301 286 230 516 23 58 81 2,315 2,235 4,550 North Canterbury ... 2,175 2,067 4,242 3,539 3,106 6,645 2,614 2,460 5,074 797 778 1,575 ! 119 142 261 9,244 8,553 17,797 South Canterbury ... 512 443 955 745 735 1,480 568 515 1,083 168 166 334 20 48 68 2,013 1,907 3,920 Westland 331 318 649 541 535 1,076 437 523 960 138 175 313 21 21 42 1,468 1,572 3,040 Otago I 2,243 2,023 4,266 3,929 3,574 7,503 3,051 3,060 6,111 1,129 1,073 I 2,202 202 261 463 10,554 9,991 20,545 Southland 641 572 1,213 1,150 1,066 2,216 909 843 1,752 325 314 639 68 87 155 I 3,093 2,882 5,975 J i I j Totals for 1883 10,791 9,735 20,526 17,814 16,202 34,016 13,750 13,060 2G,810 4,629 4,685 9,314 720 1,090 1,810 47,704 I 44,772 92,476 Totals for 1882 110,537 9,199 j 19,736 16,115 14,887 31,002 13,544 12,685 26,229 ' 4,210 4,355 8,565 676 971 1,647 '45,082 42,097 87,179

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Table No. 5. Classification according to Standards in the several Districts, for the Last Quarter of 1883.

K.lfS Number classified according to Standards. PI. Total Number classified. Preparing for Standard Bdncation Districts. Column next following. Standard VI. I. 11. III. IT. V. VI. "8-2 1 M. F. Total. M. J F. Total. F. Total. F. Total. M. F. Total. M. F. Total. 31. F. Total.! M. V. Total.] 51. F. Tota Auckland Taranaki Wangamii 17,120 2,060 5,446 8,785 1,053 2,847 8,335 17,120 1,007 2,060 2,599 5,466 2,416: 104 618 2,032 82 493 4,448 186 1,111 2,121 373 592| 1,886 4,007 326 699 525 1,117 1,532 203 484J 1,588 189 N 3,120 1,424 392 212 938 456 1,023 583 615 286 224 95 I ! 1,386 197 415 2,810 409 871 761 813 88 126 345 343 1,574 362 214 45 688 207 393 68 202 755 113 409 140 23 99 213 16 121 353 39 220 29 5 46 46 24 3 53 8 92 Wellington 6,840 3,592 3,248i 6,840 I 1,047 931 1,978 5381 525 1,063 519 504i 521 1,104 419 356 775 273 245 ! ' 518| J 127 115 242 86 51 137 Hawke's Bay 3,697 1,978 1,719 3,697 475 435 9io! 513 413 926 315 300 250 536 1 192 163 355j 136 I 109 245 47 35 82 14 14 28 Marlborougli 1,486 762 724 1,486 214 218 432 170 159 329 118! : 106 81 176 82 87 169 54 50 104 23 19 42 6 10 Nelson 4,550 2,315 2,235 4,550 566 503 1,069 346 386 732 361 345 706! 380 313 693 319 321 640 200 204 404 108 101 209 35 62 97 North Canterbury 17,797 9,244 8,553 17,797 3,168 2,745 5,913 1,606 1,484 3,090 1,496 1,398 2,894, 1,492 1,458 2,950J ! 927 865 1,792 403 432 835 133 146 279 H 25 44 South Canterbury 3,920 2,013 1,907 3,920 503 448 951 336| 3361 672 363 305 668J 286 307 593 260 254 514 160 139 299! 77 81 158 H 37 65 Westland 3,040 1,468 1,572 3,040 415 398 813 299 266 565 193 263 456! 205 226 431 172 197 369 101 129 230 69 75 144 14 18 32 Otago 20,545 10,554 9,991 20,545 3,181 2,891 6,072 1,640 1,588 3,228 1,507 1,422 2,929 1,537 1,491 3,028 1,228 1,147 2,375 837 809 1,646 416 414 830 208 229 437 Southland 5,975 3,093 2,8821 5,975 I 833j 827 1,660 674 564| 1,238 540J 484| 1,024 511 493 1,004 I 333 323 656 151 139 290! 43 46 89 81 6 14 Totals for 1883 ! .! I 92,476 47,704 44,772 92,476 13,540 12,003 25,543 9,208 8,458 17,666 7,631 7,358 14,989 7,467! 7,138 14,605 5,126 4,995 10,121 2,929 10,214 2,694 2,919 5,848 1,305 1,382 2,687 498 519 1017 Totals for 1882 87,179 45,0821 42,097 89,179 12,63ll 11,188! 23,819 8,858J 7,834 ! 16,692 7,151 6,902; 14,053 7,081 6,821 13,902! 5,108 5,106 2,724 5,418J 11,158 1,141 2,299 401 381 782

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Table No. 6. Return of Salaries of Officers of Education Boards and Training Colleges, not included in Table No. 9, as at 31st December, 1883.

Officers. Salaries. Kemarka. LU0KLAND :— Secretary and Treasurer Clerk and Accountant Clerk Junior Clerk Cadet Clerk Messenger Auditor of School Fund accounts Inspector of Schools Assistant Inspector... £ s. d. 500 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 70 0 0 50 0 0 600 0 0 400 0 0 400 0 0 300 0 0 250 0 0 600 0 0 120 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 Also £40 for Girls' High School. Also Provincial District Auditor. >• Also allowance of £1 a day when travelling. Also actual travelling expenses, and 2J per cent, commission for cost of plans, specifications, and supervision. ,, .. Architect . Principal of Training College Assistant 3 , ,, Clerical Assistant ... Teacher of Drawing Conductor of Teachers' Class at Thames Corresponding with country teachers, &c. During temporary vacancy of drawing-mastership. :— Secretary and Treasurer Inspector of Schools Architect . 150 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 (Vahganui : — Secretary and Treasurer Clerk (Cadet) Inspector of Schools Truant Inspector ... 325 0 0 65 0 O 400 0 0 200 0 0 Also £100 for travelling expenses. Appointed for six months. Veilington : — Secretary and Treasurer Inspector ... Messenger Architect... Normal School: — Principal Mistress Drawing-teacher... French Teacher .. Music Teacher Lecturer on Chemistry and Physics... Custodian ... .. ' ... Iawke's Bay:— Secretary and Inspector Clerk „ (Cadet) if AKLEOBOTOH : — Secretary .. Inspector Messenger Architect... Kelson : — Secretary Inspector Messenger ifOETII GaNTEEBTTBY !— Secretary and Treasurer First Clerk Second Clerk Messenger Inspector .. 300 0 0 500 0 0 24 0 0 500 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 18 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 50 0 0 Also Auditor of School Committees' accounts. Also 3s. per day for forage, and £1 per day allowance when travelling. 2§ per cent, on contracts, and actual travelling expenses when out of town. Also £150 travelling allowance. 100 0 0 125 0 0 12 10 0 Also travelling expenses actually incurred. 5 per cent, on plans and supervision of buildings, &c. 250 0 0 500 0 0 12 0 0 Also travelling expenses actually incurred. 570 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 90 0 0 475 0 0 475 0 0 262 10 0 350 0 0 f Also £45 each forage allowance, and actual travelling i expenses. Also actual travelling expenses. 12s. a day, and actual travelling expenses. Drill Instructor Architect ... Clerk of Works Training School: — Principal First Tutor Second Tutor Kindergarten Mistress iotrTii Canterbury : — Secretary and Treasurer Inspector... Architect .. Vestiand : — Secretary .. Inspector... 570 0 0 431 10 0 332 0 0 100 0 0 Including all travelling expenses. 2J per cent., and actual travelling expenses. 250 0 0 475 0 0 306 0 0 400 0 0 Also £140 for travelling expenses.

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Return of Salaries of Officers— continued.

Table No. 7. 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, 1884.

Officers. Salaries. I Remarks. )TAGO : — Secretary ... Clerk £ a d. 500 0 0 250 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 550 0 0 450 0 0 450 0 0 " (Cadet) Inspector ... ~\ Also travelling allowance of £1 5s. a day when on > duty beyond reach of Duncdin, and £1 5s. a week J forage allowance when engaged in office or around Dunedin. ,, Architect ... Clerk of Works Drawing-master Assistant-teaclier Pupil-teacher Normal Master „ Mistress „ Tutor lotTTHXAND : — Secretary Inspector Inspector of Works 350 0 0 240 0 0 416 0 0 75 0 0 40 0 0 570 & 0 208 0 0 360 0 0 • Also actual travelling expenses. 279 19 7 390 13 4 Also £130 travelling expenses. According to work done.

Head Office (Vote No. 40). £ s. d. 650 0 0 343 19 2 1,169 6 0 121 10 6 17 1 10 £ e. d. Secretary Inspector-General (on leave on half-pay) Clerks and clerical assistance Travelling expenses Contingencies 2,301 17 6 Public Schools (not including special grants for buildings, shown below) — (Vote Wo. 41). Grants to Education Boards— Capitation allowance, at £3 15s. per average attendance. £360,544 5 7 Less revenue from reserves .. ... ... 23,693 10 6 Special capitation allowance, at 5s. Capitation allowance, at Is. 6d., for scholarships Subsidies for inspection Subsidies for training of teachers Grants for purchase and improvement of recreation-grounds Grants for rebuilding schools destroyed by fire Miscellaneous Expenditure — Educational Museum Subsidies towards expenses of teachers attending Educational Institute Preparation of illustrations for school books Examination of teachers (part expenses only) 236,850 15 1 17,175 2 1 4,728 9 5 3,975 0 0 7,738 13 7 1,075 0 0 336 0 0 10 0 0 29 17 1 107 0 0 84 16 2 Less fees received from teachers for examination 272,110 13 5 458 7 0 Native Schools (not including buildings, shown below) —(Vote No. 42). Salaries of Inspector and District Officer Salaries and allowances of teachers ... ... ... ... ... Boarding-school charges and apprenticing Books, school requisites, sewing material, &c. £446 1 0 Less recoveries ... ... ... .. 234 15 11 271,652 6 5 525 0 0 8,902 18 6 2,173 17 9 Travelling (including removals of teachers) .. ... ... G-eneral contingencies ... .. .. ■ ■ £570 15 4 Less recoveries .. .. .. 48 6 10 211 5 1 667 1 8 522 8 6 Total (£525 5s. charged to Native Reserves Funds) 13,002 11 6 Industrial Schools (not including buildings, shown below) —(Vote No. 43). Auckland (Howe Street and Kohimarama) — Salaries , ... ... ... ... £637 1 7 Greneral maintenance ... .. ... 2,014 12 11 Boarding out^Board of children ... .. ... 107 12 0 Salary of official correspondent ... ... 29 0 0 £2,788 6 6 Less recoveries—From parents £294 15 1 „ Sundries 22 17 4 317 12 5 JB urnHtun — ————— Salaries ... .. ... ... £896 7 1 General maintenance ... ... ... 4,198 14 1 2,470 14 1 Carried forward ... ... £5,095 1 2 £2,470 14 1

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Statement of Expend iture and Recoveries — continued.

Industrial Schools — continued. £ s. d. Brought forward ... 5,095 1 2 £ e. d. 2,470 14 1 £ g. d. Boarding out — Board of children ... .. •• 900 15 3 Salary of official correspondent .. ... 55 6 8 Sundries .. ... ■• •■• 4 17 0 £6,056 0 1 Less recoveries—From parents £430 14 9 Farm, &c. Ill 7 0 542 1 9 Caversham — Salaries ... ... ••• £1.265 11 4 General maintenance ... ••• ••• 3,152 7 10 Boarding out — Board of children ... .. ... 1,161 0 4 Salary of official correspondent ... ••• 43 0 0 Sundries ... ... ••• ••• " A la a 5,513 18 4 £5,645 19 3 Less recoveries from parents ... ... 315 18 8 General contingencies — Salary of collector ... ... ... £77 7 0 Travelling expenses of collector ••• .. 54 1 0 5,330 0 7 131 8 0 13,446 1 0 Industrial and Oephan Schools maintained voioely oe paetly by GeANTS PEOM VOTE JOE CHAEITABLE AlD. St. Mary's Orphanage and Industrial School, Auckland .. £849 1 8 Less recoveries ... .. •■• ••• 33 2 0 St. Stephen's Orphan Home, Auckland Thames Orphanage and Training School .. £45110 8 Less recoveries .. ■ • • 44 19 5 815 19 8 172 1 8 406 11 3 375 9 0 St. Joseph's Providence Orphanage, Wellington St. Mary's Orphanage and Industrial School, Nelson £2,294 13 0 Less recoveries ... • • • • • ■ ■ 45 4 0 2,249 9 0 571 14 7 Motueka Orphanage Lyttelton Orphanage ... .. ■• •• £2,450 6 2 Less recoveries .. ■ • • • ■ • 171 2 8 2,279 3 6 Deaf-and-dumb Institution (Vote No. 44). 6,870 8 8 Director Assistants (including board) Rent, rates, and repairs .. ... ■■• •■■ Furniture and household requisites School requisites Travelling .. Medical attendance and medicine Advertising Board of pupils 600 0 0 245 o 0 315 16 10 91 16 3 2 12 6 90 3 11 21 0 0 6 12 0 1,197 3 8 Less recoveries ... 2,570 5 2 457 3 4 2,113 1 10 School Buildings (Vote No. 111). Public schools, grants to Education Boards Native schools Industrial schools Wellington College 44,237 0 0 4,394 6 3 402 15 11 800 0 0 49,834 2 2 Higheb Education (Vote No. 45). Auckland Girls' High School Thames High School Whangarei High School New Plymouth High School Wellington College Wellington Girls'High School Nelson Girls' High School Christchureh Girls' High School ... Timaru High School School of Mines, Otago 1,000 0 0 250 0 0 69 6 0 200 0 0 500 0 0 500 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 500 0 0 4,119 6 0 Miscellaneous Seevices (Vote No. 46). Subsidies to public libraries Bepayment of rent overpaid in respect of Education Reserve No. 301b, Otago 6,019 9 7 338 6 8 6,357 16 3 Auckland University College 4,000 0 0 University of New Zealand o ... - -_^_ 3,000 0 0

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Table No. 9. List of the Public Schools in the several Education Districts, with the Expenditure for the Year 1883, and the Names, Status, and Emoluments of the Teachers as in December, 1883.

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'ote 1. —In the column for consecuti :ote 2.—In the column headed " Poe lie Teacher; "F,"one female toach Pupil-teacher; "FP," Female Pup: Lve number of school two half-time schools associated are reckoned as one school, iition in the School," "EM" means Head Master; " M," ono master only in school; "H P," Head ter only in school; "AM," Assistant Male Teacher; "AF," Assistant Female Teacher; "MP," il-teacher; and " S," Sowing Teacher. 'Mill bill; AUCKLAND. ■S3 C 'fj Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. g<2 £5 a> I! i §& Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Teachers' Names, "t* including all Teachers •S^ and Pupil-teacliers g o on the Stuff at the End § -g of the Year. ■Sβ I , o -Annual Salary and Allowance at the Itate paid during the Last Quarter of the Year. 11 Teachers , Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. Furniture, and Apparatus. 1 Mongonui— Kaitaia 1 S, s. d. 124 3 4 £ s. d. 6 0 0 £ s. d. 5 9 0 Ephraim Shannon. Mrs. Shannon J B. E. Taylor, B.A. Mrs. Taylor James Paton Mrs. Thomson Arthur C. Ballance Christina Wyles Jane Nield K. W Rowson, B.A. Frederick Booth Marianne Cummings M S M S M S HI FP F M HM FP & s. d. 110 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 80 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 30 0 0 110 0 0 120 0 0 140 0 0 40 0 0 21 2 Oruru " 2 104 17 2 6 10 0 7 16 6 31 3 Victoria Valloy 3 94 0 0 6 0 0 8 0 0 15 4 Mangonui 4 134 11 8 8 0 0 6 10 0 39 5 6 7 Totara Kaeo Whangaroa North 5 6 7 96 13 i. 112 8 4 161 18 8 6 0 0 6 0 0 9 10 0 19 9 0 13 6 2-1 27 4<J 8 9 Hokianga— Hokianga Kohukohu 8 9 130 0 0 145 16 8 8 0 0 8 0 0 201 2 6 325 5 6 Alexander Anderson Leonard Allen Frances E. Hartley M M S 130 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 84 85 Bay of Islands— Okaihau 141 13 4 6 0 0 46 14 11 John P. Eestell . Mrs. Eestell Mrs.'E. Hickton James Armstrong Florence Taylor Sarah A. Donaldson Evelyn Hastings Mrs. Hastings Jessie McLeod Ellen Gibbs Sarah Gibbs Mrs. Mary Crossley M S F HM AF FP M S F H F AF 120 0 0 10 0 0 75 0 0 190 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 120 0 0 10 0 0 64 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 29 10 10 11 12 Waimate Kawakawa 11 12 75 0 0 310 16 8 6 0 0 17 10 0 9 8 6 22 91 18 Pakaru :i3 132 10 0 7 10 0 28 To Wharau b Eussell 14 15 62 6 8 129 3 4 6 0 0 14 29 Orongo ° Wahapu Hobson— Arapohuo ( 16 95 0 0 12 0 0 3 16 6 F 80 0 0 (9 \10 15 17 131 13 4 7 10 0 Francis C. Leggett. Mrs. Leggett Joseph J Potter M S 120 0 0 10 0 0 27 ]6 Whakahara Tokatoka Aratapu 1 18 138 6 8 12 0 0 0 13 0 M 130 0 0 f 12 113 82 17 19 247 10 0 10 5 0 309 0 0 John Stallworthy Eleanor Chadwick.. Francis E.'Stowart John Lindley Mrs. Lindley Elizabeth Seaborn. John Murray Bessie Escotfc HM FP M P HM S AF HM AF 180 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 140 0 0 10 0 0 30 0 0 140 0 0 60 0 0 18 To Kopuru £0 172 1 8 10 10 0 8 12 2 45 19 Dargaville 21 173 6 8 9 10 0 6 13 0 45 20 21 Matakohe Omaru d Paparoa 1 J 22 101 13 4 12 0 0 0 12 0 Hugh McLood M 120 0 0 J 13 1 9 44 23 186 13 4 10 10 0 12 5 3 Thomas W. Wilson Elizabeth Davis William M. Flower Mrs. Jane Gloyn Mrs. Mary Stono Arabella Ryan HM AF M S F F 140 0 0 50 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 120 0 0 56 0 0 22 Maungaturoto 24 140 0 0 8 0 0 16 6 0 31 23 24 Kaiwaka Mangawai Whangarei—■ Kamo 25 2G 119 3 4 62 13 4 6 0 0 6 0 0 7 16 10 0 11 6 23 14 25 27 394 0 4 30 10 0 16 6 6 Rev. R. Coates, B.A. Ellen A. Swain Patilina Holman Elizabeth J Meldrum George Calvert Annie Calvert I Edmund C. Purdie Lookhart D. Easton Mary A. Braithwaite Edith Mair Blanche Bedlington Jessie Davis (Robert CWhitham (Mrs. Macdonald Frederick W. Kysh Mary McLeod HM AF AF AF HM FP 200 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 130 0 0 30 0 0 106 Kauriholiore 158 3 4 8 0 0 24 4 0 26 23 35 Hikurangi e Otonga Whangarei .. } 29 127 6 8 (4 15 0 |6 0 0 30 0 0 24 16 5 5 0 2 36 0 6 130 0 0 (16 119 102 27 28 80 367 7 0 HM AF FP FP FP M S M S 200 0 0 80 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 29 Parua Bay No. 1 Parua Bay No. 2 Whangarei Heads l 145 0 0 12 0 0 85 15 0 23 11 21 31 30 32 120 16 8 6 0 0 10 0 3 ilosed during March quarter. Aided. Closei d Beopenod I during Sept< .Bt April. smber quarter, e Opened 17tl « Aided. Closed di April. tring lecember quao Kir.

Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c.— continued. AUCKLAND— continued.

-D H So •J) O S3 3" Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [Bj) in which situate-. 8 tSto If Maintenance. Expenditure for tlio Tear. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and -Apparatus. Teaolicrs' Namem, "^ including all Teachers "~ ir p ) and Pupil-teachers Ej o on tho Staff at the End •S^ Annual Salary snd Allowance at the Kate paid during the Last Quarter of the Year. H ITeachers' Other Salaries anil Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. Whangarei— continued. Mauiigatapere ) Otaika j Euatangata East j Buatangata West ) Mangapai No. 1 Mangapai No. 2 J Maungakaramea £ s. d. £ S3. d. £ b. a. & s. d. 31 33 101 13 4 12 0 0 8 0 6 William Munro M 100 0 0 fia 115 17 11 1 10 (11 44 32 34 129 3 4 12 0 0 15 13 6 (A. McNaughton .. I Mrs. Gutforth M S 120 0 0 10 0 0 33 35 112 18 4 12 0 0 3 12 8 Alfred J MoCraoken M 110 0 0 34 36 179 3 4 10 10 0 5 0 0 William J Oormell. Isabella Wilson HM FP 150 0 0 30 0 0 35 Waikiekie East } Waikiekio West j Euakaka ) Waipu Cave j Waipu Cove 37 150 0 0 12 0 0 154 16 0 James Willis M 100 0 0 f 10 1 10 ( 7 i 11 31 36 37 38 88 106 13 4 I I 6 0 0 G 0 0 8 0 0 \ i Richard Fleet M 100 0 0 39 40 41 Waipu North Elver Waipu Central 39 40 41 42 132 10 0 146 13 4 160 0 0 198 0 8 6 10 0 8 0 0 10 10 0 4 5 0 9 2 8 27 11 6 106 14 0 Thomas Isemonger.. Annie McGregor W. Eyall Fosbroke Mary McMillan Henry Matthewe Jessie McLennan . John Fisher Mrs. Fisher Amelia Fisher Robert Kinross J Nelson Marsdon. M S M S HM FP H M AF F M M 130 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 30 0 0 150 0 0 60 0 0 72 0 0 110 0 0 110 0 0 37 31 42 43 44 Waipu Upper Bodney— Tβ Pahi Albertland North a Te Arai Komokoriki No. 1 -' ) Komokoriki No. 2 b J Pakiri Port Albert 43 44 45 71 13 4 89 12 0 110 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 0 10 0 0 10 8 0 53 18 26 20 u 9 37 46 64 13 4 6 0 0 8 0 0 54 12 9 John Marmont Edward M. Gravatt B. Martin Gubb Susan Becroft Mrs. L. Eushbrook. John Price G-radwell Mrs. Stott T. D'A. Hamilton Mrs. Hamilton William McKee M 72 0 0 45 46 47 48 49 0 0 189 3 4 M M S F M S M S M 36 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 56 0 0 120 0 0 10 0 0 140 0 0 10 0 0 140 0 0 47 48 Wellsford .. Wharehine 49 50 53 13 4 129 3 4 COO 6 0 0 15 9 6 14 26 '49 60 51 62 Tauhoa ] Hoteo North } Omaha (Little) Matakana Upper ) Big Omaha J" Matakana Lower ) Mullet Point J" Mahurangi Heads Warkworth .. 51 52 175 15 6 148 6 8 1 6 0 0 6 0 0 9 10 0 0 9 6 326 9 0 21 7 0 15 26 42 f 18 \ 11 I 14 I 31 19 53 53 120 16 8 12 0 0 Lawrence Gilshenan M 120 0 0 58 54 55 56 147 10 0 12 10 0 3 8 6 James B. Waygood M 140 0 0 54 76 13 4 190 0 0 51 15 0 10 10 0 0 9 6 18 12 3 Peter Greenhill Alexander Campbell Annie Southgato , Mrs. E. Cutler Francis 0. Crookes . Nellie Horsley George A. Worsley Martin Krippner Mrs. Krippner May Bapson Mrs. Emily Faithfull George Nield M HM FP S M S M HM AF F F M 76 0 0 150 0 0 30 0 0 10 0 0 120 0 0 10 0 0 84 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 130 0 0 76 0 0 55 Dome Valley 57 146 10 6 6 10 0 35 16 6 34 56 r>7 Kaipara Plats Puhoi 58 59 31 3 4 198 15 2 6 0 0 10 10 0 3 2 0 21 54 58 59 Wainui Waiwera Great Barrier e Waitemata — Kaukapakapa 60 61 62 78 6 8 130 0 0 70 16 8 15 0 0 8 0 0 36 16 8 7 10 6 17 29 19 60 63 184 3 4 9 0 0 6 4 6 Georgo W Murray Edith Marks I Daniel D. Metge Elizabeth Tristram Elizabeth Quinn Barbara C. Anderson HM FP HM AF FP F 130 0 0 50 0 0 170 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 110 0 0 35 61 Helensville 64 232 18 4 1G 5 0 479 9 1 74 Woodhill Kumou ) Hob3onville j Wade Pukeatua 80 10 8 6 0 0 2 6 9 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 129 13 6 90 0 0 78 6 8 12 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 0 20 6 9 0 14 0 14 13 2 Jack H. Broughton Annie Eapson Edward M. Clinton Mrs. Clinton Margaret Henry Joseph Glenny Augusta Hammond Mrs. Eleanor Dent. T. Hardwioke Smith Elizabeth Martin Janet T. Ferguson Harriett Burgess Annie E. Hooker Charlotte E. Mann. Alfred J Litten Mrs. Litten M F M S F HM FP P HM AF AF FP FP FP M S 130 0 0 90 0 0 72 0 0 10 0 0 64 0 0 150 0 0 30 0 0 120 0 0 250 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 21 I 18 1 16 19 18 65 66 Lucas Creek Northcote 69 70 56 16 8 178 10 6 6 0 0 10 10 0 3 10 0 0 15 0 16 56 67 68 Lake Devonport 71 72 127 3 4 529 6 9 6 0 0 35 0 0 8 12 0 171 19 10 28 223 Henderson's Mill 136 13 4 7 13 4 63 73 7 10 0 81 70 Titirangi* . ) Muddy Creek J 74 80 10 0 6 0 0 6 10 T. S. Armstrong M 76 0 0 19 a Glosod during Mi irch quartor. a Aided. Uosod during c Itinerant; aii rune,quarter. led; closed during March quarter.

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c.—continued. AUCKLAND— continued.

Schools, and the Counties or Borougha (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. o> el if J* Maintenance. Buildings, Sites, Teachers' Other Furniture, Salaries and Ordinary iminm+m Allowances. Expenditure. -*PP>".atus. Maintenance, Expenditure for the Year. a) Teachers' Names, "" including all Teftchers -S^ and I J upil-tenchers fl p on the Staff at the End § ■§ of the Year. 'So CO p Annual Salary end Allowance at the Bate paid during the Last Quarter of the Year. C3 rrf 0 71 72 Waitemata— continued. Waikomiti Avondale 75 76 £ s. a. 48 15 0 297 12 4 £ e. d. 6 0 0 16 5 0 £ s. d. 286 15 6 5 17 6 Frank P. Burton .. John Lvon Scott Charles T. Edwards Jessie French Kate Duncan M KM MP AF FP £ s. d. 80 0 0 180 0 0 50" 0 0 70 0 0 30 0 0 14 88 73 Onehunga [B] — Onehunga Boys' \ Onehunga Girls'' J / 391 0 2 I 375 16 8 30 0 0 ) j 51 0 6 A. Grant, M.A. Evan Richards Henrietta Slater Mrs. Jane Grant Rosanna Bowen Annie C. Jackson Katlierine Thode HM AM AF II F AF FP FP 210 0 0 120 0 0 80 0 0 210 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 127 77 30 0 0 139 74 Parnell [B] Parnell 78 809 18 9 80 0 0 418 1 11 Peter Leonard William H. Arnold Eliza J Holder Annie Henry Constance Robertson Mary S. Slator Amelia B. Speight Susan B. Mclntyre Mary Walker Amy L. Moore Amy S. Carniichael HM AM AF AF FP FP FP FP AF FP FP 295 0 0 120 0 0 80 0 0 70 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 80 0 0 358 Auckland [B] Wellesley Street 75 79 1,979 16 1 170 4 4 209 12 3 Henry Worthington James C. Dickinson Arthur Mabbett James Collier, B.A. George A.. Davidson Elizabeth L. Dunning Annie G-. Jorram Leonora Killoyle .. Maud Nicholson Patience Young Jane Smart Elizabeth Patterson Charlotte Hougham Rosina Thompson Clara J. Pearson Clara Edmiston Mary M. Martin Harriett Smith Jessio Wcston Sarah J Purdie Norah Mulvaney Edith Shortt Katherino McKay Louisa McElwain . Elizabeth Byrne Minnie Slator Jane MoLeod Harriett Cossoy HM A M A M AM MP AF AF AF AF AF FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP AF FP FP FP FP JFP FP FP 453 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 130 0 0 120 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 70 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 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 0 887 637 Beresford Street 80 1,588 15 8 115 O 0 511 7 7 E. M. C. Harrison ... Edwin T. Hart John L, Field Henry J Carson Frances Longmore Mary G. Taylor Mary C. Howard .. Jane Flett Sinclair Mary A. Lumsden .. Elizabeth McKorras Margaret Henry .. Sarah J. Moginie Kate Calvert Emily Smith Asenath L. Morrin. Julia Bartle Annie Thomson Florence Greatbateh Rachel Fraser Mary E. Edwards Alice Brown. HM AM AM AM AF AF AF AF AF AF AF AF FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP 384 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 110 0 0 90 0 0 80 0 0 70 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 50 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

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Table No. 9. —List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c. — continued. AUCKLAND — continued.

VI II h S3 ■ Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [Bj) in which situate. Expenditure for the Year. 'A a : Teachers' Names, || Maintenance. Building, "u^iST jt it i rnc a e n s a 4S£. «-*■ Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. a> Annual ! bo^ 3 Salary and g≤ '"■o at the Bate | & °M ' paid during | S r jH the Last i •a'g g Quarter of "a ~ [ the Year. Auckland [B] — contd. Nelson Street 81 £ s. d. 791 0 9 £ s. d. 60 0 0 £ s. d. 57 18 6 Joseph Brabazon George Thwaites Julian Brook Annie Harkis Helen A. Hossack Jessie J Whyte Ada K. Warner Maria Edwards Amy L. Gilbert Lilly P Grice Marianne Wann Margaret Coghill Sarah E. Harris Benjamin Bailey . Eobert G. Dyer Charles W Dowden Annie Barton Mrs. Jane Simpson Mrs. M. Caldwell . Margaret J Allely Jessio Edmiston H. W Thompson Isabella Coleman Marion Dunning Catherine Smith Ellen E. Bennett Mary S. Gilmer Margaret A. Clarke Bertha Greatbatch. Charlotte Walmutt. Flora Molnnis George Hoaley, B.A. Eiehard T. Talbot .. Edgar Partington Amy E. Bottrill Mary E. Hopper Millicent E. Fisher Florence Nicholson Alice E. Hobbs Helen McGregor Martha Smith Maria Kilfoylo HI AM AM AF AP AF AP PP PP PP HP PP PP HM AM MP AP AP AP AP AP AP AP AP PP AP PP FP PP PP PP HM AM MP AP AP PP AP PP PP FP PP £ s. d. 275 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 30 o 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 170 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 387 0 0 220 0 0 40 0 0 130 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 283 0 0 160 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 70 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 307 High Street 82 270 0 0 82 0 0 0 19 0 73 Ponsonby 1,492 9 8 90 0 0 84 19 2 647 70 8a 77 Graf ton Koad 84 893 13 4 80 0 0 37 2 6 322 Newton East.. W.H.V Bmdon,B.A. Francis Warren A. De Lisle Hammond, B.A. T.M.Humphreys, B.A Thomas Newoombe Henry Murray John McKenzie Mrs. Jano Skeen Jessie McGlashan E. Hungerford Elizabeth Stewart Charlotte Hopper Lydia Wright Caroline Jervis May E. M. Bell Hessie Craig Mabel Eoskruge Sarah B. Arey Mary Courtayne Jane Wallis Margaret Whitelaw Mary Honan Agnes G. Steel Isabella Baird EvaP Cato Agnes A. Wrigley Lydia M. Hill HM AM AM 396 0 0 180 0 0 100 0 0 676 78 85 1,609 10 10 90 0 0 81 1 3 AM AM AM MP AP AP AP AP AF AP PP AF AF AP FP PP PP PP FP PP FP PP |PP FP 60 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 130 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 70 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 Newton West 86 581 0 8 40 0 0 670 16 0 Herbert Mason Joseph Calvert Sarah J Fisher Maria Walker Emma Fielder Euphemia Simpson Mary L. Phillips HM AM AP PP PP FP PP 240 0 0 140 0 0 70 0 0 60 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 210

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c.— continued. AUCKLAND— continued.

O in & o II Schools, and the Counties or Borouphn (the latter marked [I".]) in which, situate. \ii 8 v Maintenance. Expenditure for the Tear. Buildings. Sites, Furniture, and .Apparatus. Teachers Names, including all Teachers and 1'upil-teachers on the Stall at the End of the Tear. 2 Annual &> Salary end 2 £ Allowance > g at the Kate "3 9 paid during to™ the Last -S'S Quarter of ! u 'a the Year. Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. 79 Eden— Mount Albert £ s. a. 365 15 1 £ s. d. 30 0 0 £ s. d. 18 10 0 ) A. French, M.A. Mary Lovatt Margaret J Fellowe Ida Golebrook 5 Alfred Hosking Emily A. B. Wallis Lucy E. Anderson Alice L. Gilbert Emma Coad Emily J Spence I Charles A. Bruford Kate Vialoux Kate Colebrook Mary S. Taite Janet Ballantine Annie E. Udy Frances J. Davis ! Mrs. Mary S. Harden Emma De Carteret Elfrida Barnes Emily Frances Eobb > Eev. George Brown Mrs. Louisa James Sophia Larritt Eleanor Bridson Thomas L. May Isabella Kells Janet McG-ee Emma Fletcher Jemima Bobb HM AF FP FP HM AF FP FP FP AF HM AF AF FP FP FP FP HF AF FP FP HM AF FP F HM AF FP HF FP £ s. a. 200 0 0 98 80 0 0 50 O 0 30 0 0 210 0 0 146 70 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 230 O 0 192 100 0 0 70 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 200 0 0 124 80 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 190 0 0 69 60 0 0 40 0 0 130 0 0 23 180 0 0 84 50 0 0 30 0 0 140 0 0 43 40 0 0 80 Mount Eden 8 489 11 8 30 0 0 1 243 12 5 81 Mount Hobson Boys' 89 485 10 0 32 10 499 1 2 Mount Hobson Girls* SO 333 0 6 27 10 0 54 0 2 82 Ellerslie 254 13 4 13 15 0 265 19 6 91 83 84 Tamaki West Pamnure 9: 127 10 0 260 0 0 6 0 0 16 5 0 0 19 0 6 15 0 85 Mount Eoskill 176 13 4 1Q 10 0 7 16 0 '.!■. Manukau— Manukau Heads " Howiok 95 9G 21 13 4 183 6 8 10 10 0 50 0 0 528 12 1 Vacant Thomas Broun Helen G. Broun William Mclntosh . Thomas Halliwell William H. Worsely Isabella Boberts Isabella Elkin Tom B. Blandford Janet Wyllie Sarah Hall Kate Bowden Laura Bell Leslie G. Marshall Ada Pascoe Euphemia Macky James B. Carter Mrs. Carter Minnie Crago Kenneth Campbell. Esther M. Gill Jessie Wallace Charles B. Davis Mrs. Davis James Muir Mrs. Muir Charles A. Bobertson Ella Steadman Thomas Day Charles Cooper Annie Rugg Oliver Stanton Horatio N. Le Gallais Jane 0. Spence John Hutton George B. Beid Mrs. Beid.. Charles Gribble J Elon Bond I Augustus N. Scott Uichard Crowe Frederick J. Ohlson Mrs. Toomey Frederick Forde tfrs. Forde lenry B. Wilson FP HM FP M HM MP FP S HM FP FP FP FP HM AF FP HM AF F HM FP FP M S M S HM AF MP HM FP M HM AF M M S M HM MP HM MP S HM AF M 36 0 0 150 0 0 52 40 0 0 80 0 0 17 160 0 0 66 50 0 0 30 0 0 10 0 0 210 0 0 143 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 160 0 0 61 60 0 0 30 0 0 130 0 0 31 40 0 0 100 0 0 28 140 0 0 76 60 0 0 40 0 0 120 0 0 23 10 0 0 130 0 0 36 10 0 0 190 0 0 87 60 0 0 30 0 0 140 0 0 42 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 170 0 0 72 80 0 0 110 0 0 20 120 0 0 24 10 0 0 110 0 0 19 140 0 0 43 40 0 0 140 0 0 47 60 0 0 10 0 0 180 0 0 89 80 0 0 80 0 0 86 87 88 Waiheke Island Pakuranga .. 97 81 13 4 233 18 9 6 0 0 16 5 0 60 19 6 89 Otahuhu «JC 398 2 11 30 0 0 321 14 8 CO Mangere . 213 6 8 15 0 0 319 13 1 100 91 Woodside 101 157 3 4 7 10 0 200 8 3 92 93 Flat Bush Otara 102' 103 100 0 0 266 13 4 8 0 0 16 5 0 8 13 0 370 18 6 94 Turanga Creek 104 129 3 4 6 0 0 7 7 0 93 Papakura Valley 105 167 7 10 9 0 0 2 16 0 9G Papakura 106 281 4 4 16 5 0 32 14 10 Drury 107 188 12 4 10 10 0 10 1 3 97 98 Ardmoro Wairoa South 108 109 100 0 0 249 3 4 6 0 0 16 5 0 10 0 0 12 13 6 Ness Valley Hunua 110 111 90 16 8 130 0 0 6 0 0 17 10 0 3 16 0 44 15 3 99 .00 .01 Maraetai Ararimu Old ) Ararimu New b J Maketu 112 113 110 0 0 163 6 8 6 0 0 9 10 0 523 0 0 .02 114 200 13 11 10 10 0 16 9 3 .03 Bombay 115 265 16 4 18 15 0 72 7 6 .04 Paparata c 11C 16 8 5 1 15 0 293 8 9 a a Aided; closed since Mai Xβ quarter. l> Opened in November,. o Opened in Decembi irqui irter,

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c. —continued. AUCKLAND— continued.

u-i O . . -W O.VJ H •-S 1-3 a> o Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [BJ) in which situate. it Maintei Expo; iditure for the Year. lanoo. Buildings, Suites, Toachers' Names, iuc3iulrnK all Teachers and i'upil-toiicliers on the Staff at the Eud of the Yeara ■ a fflW P Annual £p m Salary and fn |£ Allowance i> s at the Kate <$ paid during the Last ffi Quarter of i b'M the Year. |H Teachers' Salaries ixntl Allowances. Other Fur a n ia ,re ' Ordinary Amniotim Expenditure. .05 .06 .07 Manukau — continued. Awhitu Pollock 3 Waiuku 117 118 119 £ s. d. 67 18 4 60 13 11 258 6 8 £ s. d. 6 0 0 3 10 0 16 5 0 £,. s. d. 5 0 0 259 1 6 9 2 9 Anthony Maetier Horatio A. Hawkos George W Bradshaw Mrs. Bradshaw Mary H. Currio M M HM AF FP & s. d. 60 0 0 120 0 0 170 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 15 26 70 Brookside . ) Kariaotahi j Kohekohe 120 136 13 4 f 6 0 0 \600 6 0 0 I 159 2 9 ) Alfred Goldsbury .. M 140 0 0 f 18 1 30 24 Maioro Waipipi Waitangi . ) MaukuWest b J Puni Patumahoe .. 121 122 123 129 13 4 120 0 0 184 1 10 6 0 0 10 10 0 J 6 0 0 { 1 15 0 8 0 0 10 10 0 7 2 9 153 8 0 T. W H. Coulter Mrs. Coulter Matilda Taylor Tom R. Rochford M S F M 110 0 0 10 0 0 120 0 0 140 0 0 26 45 28 124 116 13 4 J 400 10 7 Adelaide Bisohoff F 130 0 0 .08 125 126 119 6 8 167 10 8 2 7 3 18 6 Kenneth McDonald James Hogwood Charlotte C. Finlay Charles M. Carter Ella Burton Margaret Clow Mrs. Cecilia Sharp Minaie Collins Neil H. Kennedy Mark Bowles B. Cronin Emma Bevell John F Mackinlay Mrs. Mackinlay William C. Castleton Annie Shannon Harriett Longdill James Mellsop M HM FP HM AF FP HF FP HM MP IIM AF M S HM FP F M 130 0 0 140 0 0 80 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 130 0 0 50 0 0 140 0 0 40 0 0 150 0 0 80 0 0 120 0 0 10 0 0 140 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 110 0 0 32 41 .09 Pukekohe West 127 343 15 4 25 0 0 28 15 2 107 Pukekohe East 181 13 4 9 10 0 5 7 6 39 .10 128 11 Harrisvillo .. 129 135 10 6 10 10 0 2 17 3 41 Tuakau 130 232 10 0 13 15 0 2 15 10 59 .12 Pokeno Hill .. 131 129 0 10 7 10 0 5 0 0 24 .13 Pokeno Valley 132 167 0 4 8 0 0 24 9 11 1 16 9 41 Queen's Eedoubt Maungatawhiri Valley Coromandel— Coromandel 133 134 86 14 8 110 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 0 26 21 .14 135 288 15 0 21 5 0 2 16 9 Herbert Woodham. Elizabeth Gibbs Mary A. Barry Joseph B. Rocklifi Lydia De Carteret Lewis W Edwards. HM AF FP HM AF M 150 0 0 80 0 0 30 0 0 170 0 0 80 0 0 140 0 0 55 Driving Creek 244 3 4 16 5 0 22 10 0 72 .15 136 .10 Mercury Bay 137 125 16 8 10 4 0 350 8 6 5 Thames [B]— Tararu 449 6 8 30 0 0 I 45 7 9 Andrew Colhoun William John May. Sarah Gott Minnie Lamb Rosabel Wolf! Denis O'Donoghue.. Arthur Home John S. Burns Sarah M. Marsh Rosa Haverfield Elizabeth Hill ' Margaret Wolff Margaret Alcers James La Trobe Joseph E. Whitaker Agnes Hamilton M. A. H. McDonald Horatio Phillips Albert Gerring Francis E. Lowe Cordelia Crowther Mrs. Phillips Mary J H. Harris Elizabeth Keary Nora O'Donoghue Annie Davies Emma Skudder Margaret Ashman Frances Haselden Mary Murrish Mrs. F Macky Margarita Trimnell Kate Truseott Elizabeth Akcrs Charlotte Murrish Eliza Davies Eleanor Airey Kate P CleaiVe 210 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 120 0 0 30 0 0 70 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 80 0 0 30 0 0 200 0 0 30 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 387 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 260 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0. 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 145 119 .17 18 Waiokaraka . Waiotahi Creek Kauaeranga Boys' 138 139 140 141 65C 8 7 359 4 6 992 10 2 60 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 37 18 6 45 13 0 95 3 0 HM MP AF FP FP HM AM MP AF FP P"P FPl FP HM MP AF AP HM AM MP AF AF FP FP FP FP FP FP HF AF AF FP FP FP FP AF FP FP 231 108 383 Kauaeranga Girls' 142 651 10 1 60 0 0 4 0 0 262 :coi >ened 1st June. i> Opened in Dccei iber quarter.

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c.— continued. AUCKLAND— continued.

o . ■s'5 §i 6 M Schools, and the Count ies or Boroughs (the latter marked [Bj) in. wiiicU situate. See o B-S % H sl O % Expenditure for the Tear. Teachers' Names, Maintenance. BuM™ B s, E gSe. »™ Maintenance. Expenditure for the Tear. © Annual £? £ 5 Salary nnd 11 p . Allowance > & 'pO at the Bate "Ifi, o a paid during tc^ go the Last •g'S o Quarter of %'3 Hh the Year. 120 Thames [B] — contd. Parawai 143 £ s. a. 345 0 0 & s. a. 25 0 0 £ S. d. 27 10 0 ) W H. P. Maradon Mrs. Marsdon Mrs. H. Osboldstone Kate A. Fletcher Thomas Fulljames. HI FP AF FP M £ s. d 200 0 60 0 60 0 50 0 72 0 107 121 122 123 124 Thames Orphanage ThamesHastings Tairua Turua Hikutaia Puriri ) j 144 145 140 84 6 8 145 16 8 146 13 4 8 0 0 8 0 0 (6 0 0 (6 0 0 9 10 0 Thomas W Scott . ! John W Channon M M 130 0 130 0 18 31 34 [13 113 43 118 147 119 3 4 1 George B. Horgan M 120 0 126 127 125 Paeroa Owharoa Mackaytown Waitekauri Te Aroha West Te Aroha Gold Field 1 148 149 150 151 152 153 159 11 8 209 3 4 ( 80 0 4 \ 126 0 0 28 8 0 118 6 8 252 7 0 16 10 0 6 0 0 19 13 0 6 0 0 9 0 0 85 15 0 284 5 9 415 5 6 8 13 9 0 11 6 13 10 0 13 13 0 1,217 13 10 I F W Sanderson Francis Murphy Mrs. Nieholls i John Ritchie i Anna S. Horgan i James Christie i W Do R. Turner i William H. Hawkins i Norman Matheson. William H. Newton Emma Ashman William T. Murray Luther Hames HM MP S HM AF M M M HM MP FP M M 150 0 40 0 10 0 150 0 00 0 100 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 180 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 80 0 0 130 0 0 50 15 13 18 23 80 128 Waiorongomai a Ohineroa b Baglan— Raglan 154 155 89 1 10 86 13 4 5 10 0 20 18 0 43 16 0 56 6 0 51 36 129 156 122 10 0 6 0 0 255 15 2 George F S. Horsey Mrs. Horsey Catherine Spence {Arthur R. Miller .. ] Mrs. Miller Charles K. Oornforth Mrs,' Cornforth M S F M S M S 110 0 0 10 0 0 80 0 0 150 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 5 0 0 22 130 131 132 133 Waitetuna Ruapuke Te Mata Harapepe" ) I 157 86 13 4 6 0 0 0 11 6 18 11 25 17 158 170 7 0 12 0 0 25 17 6 159 149 5 8 6 0 0 9 7 6 134 Waikato— Mercer 135 16 8 8 0 0 William Hutchinson Mrs. Hutchinson James B. Murray . Jane Kinnaird (F S. M. Hankin .. I Flora Munro Alice Blackmail H. Neville Boss Margaret McLarnon Mary C. Tregear Mary A. Stanton Robert Maclaurin .. Mrs. Maclaurin Ralph D. Stewart .. J K. Wright, LL.B. Howard J S. Ellis . Frank Higginson Martha Alford Linda Young Rebecca Young Percy E. Stevens . J V Bindon, M.A... Nannie Cussen Elizabeth Biggs Leonora Salmon John M, Murray Jeannio Morice Mrs. Murray . Susan N Murray .. Emily Krippner Elizabeth Murray M S M S M S F HM FP F F M S HM AM AM MP AF AF FP HM AM AF FP FP HM AF AF FP FP FP 120 0 0 10 0 0 130 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 80 0 0 150 0 0 40 0 0 120 0 0 110 0 0 120 0 0 10 0 0 270 0 0 150 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 120 0 0 80 0 0 40 0 0 210 0 0 200 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 230 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 28 160 135 136 137 Eangiriri Wairanga Miranda a Kaiawai a Ohinewai b Huntly ] 161 130 0 0 (6 0 0 '(6 0 0 3 7 3 286 10 0 14 16 15 9 20 50 162 86 1 8 7 0 0 1 17 6 138 163 164 51 6 8 233 2 8 4 15 0 10 10 0 27 15 4 5 9 9 139 140 141 Taupiri Kirikiriroa Hautapu 165 1C6 167 119 3 4 110 0 0 133 6 8 6 o o; 6 0 0 7 10 0 0 6 3 0 12 3 12 3 8 23 20 26 142 Cambridge . High School 168 516 16 1 79 10 6 30 0 0 612 8 11 167 143 Hamilton [B] — Hamilton East High School 169 344 2 10 83 G 8 25 0 0 50 9 3 131 Hamilton West 497 12 6 30 0 0 248 1 3 144 170 177 Waipa— Ngaruawahia 145 171 246 2 5 13 15 0 12 0 0 James Chappell Elizabeth Davis Mary E. Hould John T. Giflney Mrs. Giffney Charles A. Walter Mrs. Walter Isabella Goblo HM FP FP M S M S F 160 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 120 0 0 10 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 44 0 0 65 146 Pukete 172 130 0 0 6 0 0i 1 13 0 26 147 Whatawhata 173 126 15 9 6 0 0 20 148 149 150 Ngahinepouri To Rore" Alexandra 174 43 13 4 6 0 0 6 0 0 10 10 0 15 0 11 17 65 175 204 3 4 90 9 9 Edward Millington. Elizabeth Fielder Ada M. Tristram HM FP FP 160 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 » Opened 18th July. Opened 1st April. o Hi e Half-time wit] ilf-time with T< i Harapepe. Bore. <• Reopened 12th [arch.

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-. o 2 * w <D _ 53 a! Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [Bj) in which situate. ° Expenditure for the &A > w Maintenance. .. . g-g —-—, jy jg Teachers' Other a & Salaries and Ordinary r3 M Allowances. Expenditure. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. 3ar. Teachers' Names, ____;__.„ including all Teachers BU Pupil-teacher* Eurnit_re 0n the Sta£E at the Eud and 16 ' of the Year. Apparatus. . Annual 5 Salary and p) . Allowance "l*a at the Bate o § paid during S « the Last o Quarter of Pi the Year. © «t 0 boC? . _ .51 .52 .53 .54 .55 Waipa— continued. Paterangi Ohaupo Te Rahu Pukerimu Cambridge West Rangiaohia .. Te Awamutu.. Mangapiko Kihikihi .. 176 . 177 . 178 179 . 180 181 182 . 183 184 176 177 178 179 180 £ s. d. 167 10 0 177 18 4 133 15 0 99 3 4 201 13 4 145 16 8 215 16 8 103 6 8 198 6 8 £ s. d. £ s. d. 10 0 0 Mrs. Ellen Trobe . Kate Macky 10 10 0 7 14 0 Bernard Bedford Harriett M. Judd 7 10 0 9 15 Arthur Shortt Mrs. Shortt 6 0 0 7 8 0 Mrs. Mary Bruce 10 10 0 Henry R. Hyatt Aimee Bright 8 0 0 16 0 0 Alfred S. Webber Mrs. Webber 16 5 0 33 6 11 Alfred Benge Mary Lewis Annie Devin 6 0 0 Robert Ormsby 10 10 0 4 0 0 W H. Nicholson Mrs. Nicholson £ s. d. HF 130 0 0 FP 40 0 0 HM 140 0 0 FP 50 0 0 M 120 0 0 S 10 0 0 F 80 0 0 HM 140 0 0 AF 60 0 0 M 130 0 0 S 10 0 0 HM 100 0 0 FP 30 0 0 FP 30 0 0 M 100 0 0 HM 140 0 0 AF 40 0 0 36 44 24 15 47 38 63 20 49 .56 181 57 182 58 .59 183 184 162 .60 .61 Piako — Waitoa Waihou Tauranga— Katikati No. 1 Katikati No. 3 Katikati No. 2 Tauranga Te Puke" Greerton Whakatane— Opotiki | 185 . 186 .. 187 188 189 190 191 . 192 185 186 187 188 189 131 10 0 67 14 8 41 13 4 192 10 0 396 6 4 32 16 6 67 13 4 335 2 11 12 0 0 63 18 3 William Green 6 0 0 . 0. W. E. _ Wright 6 0 0 0 5 9 Martha D. Johnston 10 10 0 19 0 0 Mrs. Maria Gallaher Eleanor Wilson 25 0 0 69 0 3 George Maberly Joseph Black Elizabeth Latimer Margaret Kelly 2 10 0 465 11 10 Walter Sullivan 6 0 0 7 2 0 Eliza J Allely 22 10 0 541 3 0 Thomas E. Wyatt Kathorine Leech Alexandrina Tinling M 130 0 0 M 24 0 0 F 100 0 0 HF 140 0 0 PP 40 0 0 HM 200 0 0 AM 100 0 0 FP 40 0 0 FP 40 0 0 M 120 0 0 P 60 0 0 HM 210 0 0 AF 90 0 0 AF 50 0 0 j 24 1 13 6 22 42 104 25 15 127 .63 190 191 .64 192 Expenditure ■e on Schools Not Opened in 1883. Kawau Maunu Whareora Tamahere Maungatete 4 13 4 313 4 6 16 8 2 10 0 173 10 0 34 6 0 2 10 0 Visiting Teachers. Singing, Auckland Singing, Thames Singing, Waikato Drill, Auckland Drill, Thames . Drawing, Auckland 275 10 11 156 18 0 300 0 0 240 7 4 106 12 8 218 15 5 Thomas Cranwell John Grigg Thomas A. Bell Owen Mahon William J Barlow Vacant 310 0 0 150 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 120 0 0 225 0 0 Ex xpendilure Not Classified. Furniture Plans and supervision .. 4 14,078 7 5| 90 14 3 855 7 4 |3,089 19 417 988 6 6 45405 0 0 ] 13122 44,078 7 5|3,089 19 4 45405 0 0 13122 TARAN. _i. 1 Taranaki — Okato Tataraimaka. Oakura 1 2 3 97 11 8 73 19 8 143 18 0 I 21 15 7 I 29 4 9 '] 42 15 0 30 16 0 9 10 6 Edward Evans Lorenz Henderson William Richards Rowena Fitzherbert Joseph Holditch Albert Henry Evans M M M FP M M 76 4 0 75 0 0 134 4 0 10 0 0 59 4 0 111 16 0 25 _ 41 2 Koru Omata _ 5 44 14 0 108 4 0 17 35 Opened 1st September.

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o o m i| Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. o, 3 Expenditure tor the Tear. y &£\ —~ ■ Teachers' Names, >* Maintenance. Buildings, taoluding all Teachers w o o- + and rupil-teachera gf : PnrriitVi'rA on the Ptiitf at t,bo End 11 Teachers' Other ±nrmturo, of the Year. d & Salaries and Ordinary . an \ 5« Allowance*. Expenditure. A PP a ™*us. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. o> Annual i 5 Falary ana u$ pi . Allowance t* "I'o I at the Rate < 3, ■■ SjH paid during %& £« the Last -%t o * Quarter of f-%3 - the Year. g H ' New Plymouth [B] West" West Infant £ s. d. 98 13 0 152 16 8 & ■s. d. & s. d. 5 13 0 10 8 0 Abolished. Catherine Hogarth Annis E. Hamerton Mary Brooking Mary Scott Fannie Smith. Lydia B. Shaw Mary St. George Eliza Jane Swanston George O'Connell Mary McLaughlan. Robert George Surrey Martha H. Lissaman Maude Barnes Beatrice Clifi £ s. d. 132 0 0 40 0 0 137 0 0 40 0 0 22 0 0 157 0 0 55 0 0 15 0 0 172 0 0 40 0 0 15 0 0 127 0 0 22 0 0 15 0 0 6 HF AF HF AF FP HF AF FP HM AF MP HF FP FP 83 Courtenay Street 7 199 0 0 87 Kawau 245 6 8 104 East 6 216 0 0 208 11 0 7 5 0 74 East Infant . 10 177 10 0 93 Taranaki— Fitzroy 127 10 0 Ellen Frances Ellis Emily Corbett William Oollis Clara Goodman Janet E. Ainslie Mary Jane Ellis E. McLauchlan Vacant William I. Grayling Claudia H. Grayling Mary Jane Stock Rose McGonnell William 1C. Collins. Thomas B. Bennett Julia E. Sampson Josephine Colesby Minnie Joll John G. Ambridge . Louisa Cleary Bessie Jonas James Hall Kate Hall Ada M. Eoby Jane Andrews Richard Morgan Emily Stockman Frederick Furze John Armstrong Hill Annie E. Drake Alice Pearn Robert Stevens Louisa C. Dymond.. Bessie Dymond Marianne Surrey R. A. Nicholson Earl' Harriet Ada Earl . William Johnson Rose Johnson Ferdinand Tegner Edith C. Goodman. Ada Tatton HF FP M F F F F F M FP F F M M AF HF AF M AF FP M AF HF FP M AF M M HF FP M HF FP F M FP M FP M AF F 117 0 0 22 0 0 112 4 0 58 0 0 61 12 0 78 12 0 55 12 0 44 0 0 124 4 0 18 12 0 55 12 0 58 0 0 61 12 0 156 0 0 45 0 0 121 4 0 40 0 0 158 12 0 45 0 0 22 0 0 130 4 0 27 0 0, 103 .4 0 16 1 i 147 8 0 45 0 0 74 7 0 107 0 0 107 8 0 19 10 8 87 8 0 88 4 0 22 0 0 61 16 0 125 12- 0 20 0 0 105 16 0 10 0 0 147 0 0 45 0 0 83 8 0 57 11 24 18 0 4 5 Frankloy Road Mangorei Lower Mangorei Upper Kent Road Lower Kent Road Upper Albert Road c Egmont Village 12 18 14 15 16 17 18 117 6 8 59 4 0 49 16 8 83 14 0 58 18 0 28 18 0 134 3 0 6 13 6 2 11 10 7 5 4 15 6 0 3 9 10 6 1 18 6 10 3 0 10 3 0 77 12 5 6 7 0 10 3 0 30 16 16 33 15 9 41 Smart Road Egmont Road Upland Road Bell Block .. 19 20 21 22 40 18 0 55 17 0 61 6 0 201 6 0 I 43 13 10 ( 7 5 0 14 14 17 57 Waitara West 23 160 6 0 [ 34 16 1 i 51 Waitara East 24 191 18 0 54 Manutahi 25 151 6 0 1 23 6 5 ( 13 15 0 46 Huirangi 26 115 8 8 35 9 Tikorangi 27 181 3 0 18 12 6 6 16 0 56 10 11 Urenui Wortley Road Inglewood Girls' 28 29 30 64 2 10 130 4 0 133 4 6 3 13 1 \ 10 17 10 17 81 48 Inglewood Boys' Norfolk Road 31 32 121 10 0 93 10 0 - 71 6 9 20 31 Waipuku Midhirst 33 34 64 16 0 132 7 0 J , 15 5 I ( 151 10 7 15 35 12 Stratford 35 79 3 0 27 3 6 33 18 Opunake 30 187 1 0 30 8 2 24 18 0 45 14 Pukearuhe Unclassified . Central school in course of building Balance of purchasemoney of site for West Infant School Architect 37 85 10 0 3 5 5 9 16 6 119 17 3 861 8 0 35 129 7 5 100 0 0 4,468 1 0 544 14 0 1,688 13 7 4,483 11 0 1,454 WANGANUI. Hawera— 1 Okaiawa 3 2 Manaia 3 Ngaire 1 2 3 29 11 8 307 18 9 175 0 0 27 11 1 13 17 9 278 12 3 George H. Maunder M 135 0 0 30 5 1 George Wilks . H M 228 0 0 100 Jane Wilks AF 84 0 0 64 19 6 George Everiss .. M 170 0 0 34 » Closed at end oi March, and sold. b Beinovod, to form part of central school now being established, a For three months. c Closed,

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6 o Si II If Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. is 1 Maintenance. Expenditure for tlie Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, ~ including all Teochers and Pupil-teachers G o on the Stall at the End -J -Jj of the Year 'S u> o i » Annual Salary «nd 2 Allowance ! > '£ at the Rate "1 S paid during &o°^ the Last ' ■S'S Quarter of "S3 the Year. Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. 4 Hawera — continued. Normanby 4 £ s. d. 233 8 2 £ s. d. 23 5 0 £ s. d. 108 3 10 John Harre Alice McKay Alexander Mair Julia Horneman Ann Hobbs Ambler Woodhead E. W. Tompkins Agnes McLeod Mary Davis M FP HM AF FP MP MP FP F £ s. d. 192 0 0 47 5 0 275 5 0 110 5 0 37 16 0 47 5 0 47 5 0 23 12 6 38 5 0 74 5 Hawera [B] . 5 555 7 10 46 13 8 39 10 0 188 47 16 3 10 0 Whakamara . 3 18 0 8 7 8 'J 10 Patea— Manutahi Woodville Kakaramea Patea District High [B] 7 8 9 10 105 0 0 85 17 6 148 15 0 583 12 3 10 6 9 6 12 0 13 3 0 44 10 7 24 3 2 3 3 0 34 2 1 592 7 3 Taliesin Thomas Robert Willis Robert T. Brown A. W. Williamson Harry Coventry Annie Gowland Martha Usher May Black Annie Teresa Verdon Jessie Watt Thomas Ellis Kate Williams Ellen Jordan Margaret McLean , Isabella McDonald S. J. Warmington M M M HM AM AF FP FP F F HM AF FP FP FP F 105 0 0 72 5 0 145 0 0 269 10 0 140 0 0 84 0 0 28 7 0 28 7 0 102 0 0 102 0 0 218 15 0 84 0 0 58 16 0 47 5 0 28 7 0 102 0 0 24 20 37 160 11 12 13 Whenuakura. Kohi Waverley 11 12 13 80 0 10 97 8 11 430 2 7 8 5 0 9 13 0 38 1 2 23 4 5 26 12 6 92 12 3 34 26 143 Waitotara 109 11 3 10 4 9 8 5 10 27 14 14 15 1G 17 Wanganui— Maxwell Brunswick . ... Goat Valley Southern Grove 1, Upokongaro .. Aramoho IS 10 17 18 19 20 107 10 0 165 0 0 120 17 6 4 5 0 135 0 0 313 6 11 12 3 9 11 3 6 10 11 9 19 13 6 21 17 6 16 1 0 H. L. Twisleton James McEwen J M. Boechey Mary Blair John M. kelson. C. H. W Locke Florence Crawford Frederick Parkes M M M F M HM AF M 110 0 0 165 0 0 135 0 0 17 0 0 135 0 0 248 5 0 84 0 0 120 10 0 33 26 28 4 27 109 18 ,19 If" 0 6 31 4 10 11 7 6 22 0 3 80 Mosstown Wanganui [B]-— Wanganui Boys' District High 21 116 12 6 16 10 6 73 8 3 45 21 22 1,140 12 6 183 18 9 287 13 3 Robert J. Finn Simon L. Brown Frederick J Stewart David Straehan David Low H. A. Parkinson Sarah F E. Blyth Harriet Stedman Mary Hoev Elizabeth McNeil Frances Worgan Gertrude Worgan Emma Laird Jemima N Hoey Sarah Patterson Agnes McDonald Lizzie Verdon i . Edith Manley Marion Field Ellen Callum HM AM AM AM MP MP HF AF AF AF FP FP FP HF AF AF FP FP FP FP 400 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 68 5 0 68 5 0 250 0 0 110 5 0 84 0 0 84 0 0 28 5 0 28 5 0 23 12 6 150 0 0 84 0 0 84 0 0 58 16 0 47 5 0 23 12 6 23 12 6 190 Wanganui Girls' District High 636 9 3 327 2 0 237 28 Wanganui Infants' 24 490 4 4 25 0 0 37 C 6 SO4 22 28 24 25 26 27 28 29 Wanganui—■ Okoia Mars Hill Kaitoki Matarawa Denlair Riverton 1, Wangaehu Warrengate c . Rangitikei— Turakina 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 162 10 7 122 19 2 73 6 3 126 15 0 102 0 0 97 18 2 135 0 0 70 5 5 15 0 0 9 11 0 6 18 0 10 6 0 10 0 9 9 8 9 11 10 3 5 16 3 36 19 0 13 16 6 14 15 8 28 10 0 18 10 0 17 19 6 19 Id 9 234 2 2 J C. Hill William Sercombe . Thomas R. Saywell H. Von Blaramberg Kate Verdon William Martin J Slipper George Grant M M M M F M M M 175 10 0 93 10 0 76 10 0 135 0 0 102 0 0 102 0 0 135 0 0 110 0 0 36 20 19 26 21 22 26 30 30 33 238 15 0 24 15 8 26 3 8 Frederick Parkes Sarah Brady Annie McDougall John J Pilkington. Mary Macdonald Denis Quinlan Christopher Prideaux James McDonald HM AF F M FP M M M 177 0 0 52 10 0 51 0 0 201 10 0 37 10 0 145 0 0 68 0 0 68 15 0 72 HI 32 Glen Nevis Upper Tutaenui 34 35 48 1 10 234 6 0 4 8 o; 23 4 4| 2 13 0 72 18 6 11 66 83 34 85 Porewa Turakina Valley Western Rangitikei 36 37 38 141 5 0 75 2 10 64 16 3 11 18 6 6 4 0) 5 18 0 14 5 0 14 3 3 10 7 6 33 15 16 oFo: tta :e months. b For eleve: months. e For ei| ;ht monti

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Table No. 9. —List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c.— continued. WANGANU I— continued.

O o I if Ii 3" Schools, and the Counties or Borouehs (the latter marked [B]) in. which situate. Expenditure for the -d > w Maintenance. || j $ '£ Teachers' Other J h g< Salaries and Ordinary !§ ■ Allowances. Expenditure. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Tear. jar. g Teachers' Names, ** »§*« fi ana o Apparatus. Annual Fabry imd A! 'owa.nee at the Elite paid during the Last Quarter of the Tear. p P 30 Kangitikei— continued. £ s. d. Marton [B] .. .. 39 364 11 7 H!) £ a. d. 364 11 7 £ s. a. 35 1 10 £ s. d. 53 16 6 27 18 10 15 3 0 29 2 4 34 14 1 72 8 6 15 14 2 : £ s. d. 53 16 6 T. W. Postans Belinda Billing Edward Hunt James D. Innes R. Egbert Dowling Johan J. McDonald George H. Espiner. Andrew Thompson. Sarah Phillips Mary Campion Nelly Thomson Naomi H. Billett . Kate Fraser HI AF MP ■ M M F M HM AF FP FP F, F £ s. d. : 223 15 0 145 106 10 0 ' 37 16 0 105 0 0 27 110 0 0 37 112 10 0 34 105 0 0 30 : 249 0 0 145 102 15 0 58 16 0 37 16 0 102 0 0 29 38 5 0 ,9 145 37 38 39 40 41 Mount View . 40 108 15 0 Crofton 41 126 7 5 Greatford . 42 109 13 9 South Makirikiri 43 91 12 9 Bull's . . 44 465 14 6 40 41 42 43 41 108 15 0 126 7 5 109 13 9 91 12 9 465 14 6 10 11 9 13 0 9 11 8 0 10 3 9 36 1 3 27 18 10 15 3 0 29 2 4 34 14 1 72 8 6 27 37 34 30 145 42 Parewanui" ..45 89 18 1 Sandridge .. 46 45 3 1 Manawatu — Haloombe 47 409 9 9 45 46 89 18 1 45 3 1 11 14 0 15 14 2 29 .9 43 47 409 9 9 31 2 6 164 11 7 51 14 4 . 233 6 1 52 3 4 270 3 0 32 2 8 . 79 3 3 . 28 18 6 45 7 5 229 4 6 51 2 5 13 17 6 , 263 12 11 67 8 0 10 16 0 62 0 7 102 11 8 0 11 6 73 10 8 8 14 9 33 1 8 164 11 7 David H. Guthrie Maria Schofield Sarah C. Gray Arthur J. S. Seaton Joseph Guylee Eichard C. Dowling D. H. Jenkins Jessie Redman Hannah Roache Mary Goodisson A. W Ruho Alfred Gower Arthur England Ann Sanson Charles Bowater Herbert Sanson Harry Walker Ann Astbury Jacob Honore Arthur M. Smith Francis E. Watson Frank Hedley Smith Isabella Blair Frances Lily Mackin Emma Relf Hannah Dillon Henry Astbury Samuel Strachan .. George H. Harper . Thomas A. Flood Lucy Randolph Alexander Matheson A. Bias W. S. Stewart Sarah Leach Ellen Howan George Laurenson . George Nye Clement W Lee E. H. Rogers HM AF FP M M HM AM AF FP FP M M HM AF M M M F M M HM AM AF AF FP FP MP M 1.1 M FP M F HM AF FP M P M M MP : 208 5 0 95 106 10 0 58 16 0 155 10 0 41 156 0 0 54 : 260 0 0 208 : 165 0 0 84 0 0 58 16 0 58 16 0 105 0 0 140 0 0 33 : 212 10 0 86 84 0 0 110 0 0 34 105 0 0 34 89 5 0 21 121 12 6 37 126 0 0 48 105 0 0 : 307 15 0 294 : 140 0 0 84 0 0 84 0 0 58 16 0 47 5 0 ■ 47 5 0 47 5 0 105 0 0 24 176 10 0 65 28 7 0 105 0 0 30 46 15 0 11 ' 239 0 0 143 106 10 0 47 5 0 ' 37 16 0 80 15 0 19 166 0 0 51 • 47 5 0 95 44 45 46 Bunnythorpe. 48 155 10 0 Makino Eoad 49 150 15 0 Feilding [B] . 50 582 16 2 48 49 50 155 10 0 150 15 0 582 16 2 15 18 6 17 15 3 48 4 11 51 14 4 233 6 1 52 3 4 41 54 208 47 48 49 Stanway" 51 17 10 0 Ashurst ..52 140 0 0 Sanson .. ..53 294 0 0 51 52 53 17 10 0 140 0 0 294 0 0 270 3 0 32 2 8 79 3 3 11 17 0 26 0 0 50 61 52 63 54 65 66 Campbelltown . 54 108 15 0 Awahuri . . 55 109 11 8 Manchester 0 . .. 56 35 6 6 Taonui .. ..57 118 10 6 Stoney Creek 58 127 8 4 Beaconsneldi ..59 8 15 0 Palmerston [B] 60 784 14 6 54 55 86 57 58 59 (i0 108 15 0 109 11 8 35 6 6 118 10 6 127 8 4 8 15 0 784 14 6 12 6 9 10 19 6 2 2 0 14 14 9 17 3 3 28 18 6 45 7 5 229 4 6 51 2 5 13 17 6 263 12 11 67 8 0 08 0 0 Carnarvon .. ..61 114 11 3 Karere .. 62 204 0 6 57 58 62 9 12 3 20 13 7 59 60 Jackeytown" 63 96 0 10 Oroua Bridge . 64 44 10 0 Foxton . .65 429 3 1 63 64 65 11 17 0 35 15 6 81 02 Moutoa .. ..66 74 7 6 Otaki .. 67 210 15 2 68 67 7 4 0| 18 0 7 I EXj wnditure Nc )£ Classified. School sites School furniture ... Plans and supervision l_ , , Eβ, 530 17 5 35 17 6 7 9 9 403 5 3 5,238 1 8 j . 13,908 2 6J4.075 1,218 3 6 HAWKE'S BAY 1 2 3 i Cook— Ormond Patutahi Waerangahika Matawhero 1 : 182 6 8 90 3 4 101 4 5 276 8 7 21 10 0 8 15 0 12 5 0 33 8 3 25 0 0 3 16 0 Henry Higgins \ M Helen Murphy .. jFP Fanny Bilham Sarah Agnes Keenan i F William H. Harris, j M Sophie Harris ;AF Mary A. Baty iFP Emily E. Baty JFP 169 0 0 20 0 0 94 0 0 102 0 0 201 17 0 88 16 0 32 0 0 26 0 0 49 22 ■26 119 t> For eleven mi intha. b Fpr fr 'o months. c For five ionths.. iJ Fpr PBS month.

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c.—continued. HAWKE'S BAY— continued.

© o 6" . Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. 4-1 O • '■§1 s| Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and I'upil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Tear. o Annual 5 Salary and a ■ Allowance '2 "3 at the Bate .2 ja paid during £ r 9 the Last Z Quarter of Ph the Year. {I P Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. Furniture, and .Apparatus. 5 Cook — continued. Gisborne [B] £ s. d. 935 16 10 £ s. d. 87 11 0 £ s. a. 1,124 12 0 Thomas Morgan John Henry Bull .. Mary Mclntosh Sarah Dawson Itachael Forbes Eva Oatridge James Haughey Mary Hall Frederick T. Faram Elizabeth L. Hallett HM AM AF AF FP FP HP FP M P F £ s. d. 336 15 4 250 0 0 145 0 0 130 0 0 41 0 0 41 0 0 43 0 0 26 0 0 20 0 0 144 0 0 342 6 .7 Frazertown .. Wairoa — Wairoa c> 7 116 7 10 250 16 1 15 0 0 33 6 6 313 0 0 69 11 8 Louisa Gosnell George Gosnell Emily Taylor Valentine Hatton F M P FP F 189 1 0 42 0 0 26 0 0 77 0 0 35 85 6 9 10 Mohaka Hawke's Bay— Tarawera Petane Puketapu Napier [B] — Port Ahuriri 8 9 10 11 58 10 0 101 13 4 117 18 4 101 6 8 8 0 0 6 12 6 10 12 6 9 17 6 43 18 0 Martha Smith Augustus Hamilton Fanny Oliver F M F 105 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 18 14 20 20 11 12 343 2 4 44 7 6 304 18 6 John Alfred Smith. Mary Murray Mary Palmer Abigail Murray A. B. Thomson William Murray Harriett Gilroy Emily Robottom . Frederick Wake Florence Eeed Jane Monteith Caroline Davis Oscar Alpers Charles Laws Louisa Burden Mirmio Spriggs Thomas Lindsay . John Williamson Prisoilla Burtton M FP FP FP HM AM HF AF AM AF AF FP MP MP FP FP MP MP FP 220 1 0 41 0 0 41 0 0 41 0 0 472 13 2 335 0 0 195 0 0 165 17 0 172 12 0 80 13 0 80 13 0 41 0 0 53 0 0 53 0 0 26 0 0 26 0 0 30 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 115 Napier 1 696 6 8 150 0 0 199 9 11 12 13 563 IS Hawke's Bay— Meanee 14 187 15 10 26 0 0 229 15 0 John Naylor Catherine C. Naylor James Smith Marie Alexander Alice Smith Alice Baldwin William Kirkpatrick Frederick Gush Jenny G. Ward Annie McGlashan . Isaac Jefiares William O. McLeod Hannah J. Percy Fanny Wood, Maggie Newton Edward Bissell Bobert B. Ryder Mary Cooper M AF M AF FP FP 167 0 0 50 0 0 228 13 4 92 4 0 34 0 0 34 0 0 10 0 0 209 10 0 92 4 0 38 0 0 40 0 0 218 1 0 96 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 190 9 0 53 0 0 35 0 0 65 14 Taradale • 15 355 10 1 46 10 0 278 18 6 136 15 Clive ■ 1(3 339 1 10 46 18 9 10 4 0 M AF FP MP M AF FP FP M MP FP 136 16 Hastings . 17 343 9 4 48 0 3 19 18 8 155 17 Havelock 18 272 13 4 33 7 6 51 0 0 77 18 19 20 Waipawa— Tamumu Patangata Kaikora 19 20 21 12 0 0 125 6 8 238 18 3 10 10 0 36 17 0 233 0 0 64 9 11 Closed. John Percy F. J. Popplewell C. J. Popplewoll Victorine Flood Ellen Soley Jamea M. Fraser H. M. C. Hameling Amy Witheron Arrow Helen J. Grant Jane Doar Ada Teychenne Laura Smith J W F. Howlett Charles Morton John Stewart John Poole Emma Poole Margaret Palmer .. 104 0 0 189 4 0 85 8 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 212 10 0 87 4 0 34 0 0 20 0 0 166 10 0 41 0 0 60 0 0 M M AF PP 22 102 21 Waipawa 22 323 7 4 43 1 3 107 15 0 M AP FP FP F FP F 111 Hampden 189 16 8 20 8 6 2 2 0 22 23 54 23 Te Ongaonga. Blackburn Makaretu Ashley-Clinton Takapau Waipukurau ] 24 69 0 0 7 5 0 5 7 6 10 7 6 11 15 0 18 12 6 25 6 4 5 0 0 5 0 0 35 10 0 15 25 138 18 4 M 144 0 0 40 24 25 28 26 27 28 125 6 8 162 11 8 211 14 2 M M M S FP 125 0 0 144 0 0 174 0 0 12 0 0 26 0 0 25 35 59 54 1 9

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_ . £3 a-a 11 J* Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. ; "i Ill > ji _ 2 if ________ Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and 1'upil-teachers on the Stall at the End of the Year. o Annual bey . Salary and B. pa . Allo-wance > 5 "1"° at the Bate oS paid during teSf iS the Last -fif Z Quarter of '§_ hh the Year. t>.^Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. Waipawa— continued. Wallingford Porongahau . Ormondville . £ s. A. 41 7 6 84 17 6 261 4 10 £ s. d. 6 12 6 7 15 0 33 16 6 £ s. d. £ s. d. 44 0 0 77 0 0 176 2 0 81 16 0 186 11 0 82 0 0 30 0 0 164 10 0 20 0 0 137 0 0 64 0 0 188 16 0 83 0 0 _5 0 0 52 0 0 27 28 29 30 31 Norsewood Makatok 29 30 31 32 33 297 14 7 188 5 0 39 14 6 20 12 0 15 0 0 45 0 0 185 0 0 Now closed John S. Ballantine. Charles Rogers W Jane Rosie F W Thompson M. E. A. Bedingfield D. S. Bedingfield Marie Evers Annie Friberg Rev. E. Robertshaw William Deadman. William G. Crawford Annie Frame Agnes Crawford Joseph H. Warboys M M AF M AF MP F FP M M M AF FP MP 11 16 84 85 42 32 33 34 Danevirke Heretaunga Woodville 34 35 36 110 0 0 40 9 2 261 14 8 11 15 0 4 12 6 33 19 6 6 10 0 33 5 90 5o' 0 0 150 0 0 35 Kumeroa 37 Apparatus, architect's fees, and advertising Ex tenditure Ni >t Classified. 823 12 3 | 8,753 4 6 990 10 4 4,456 3 2 9,383 10 10 ,2,821 WELLINGTON 1 Wairarapa East— ToNui 1 113 4 7 14 1 3 21 3 6 Thomas L. Ward Mary Ward Closed. John A. N Ma'grath Not opened. Henry Bunting James Badland Emma Harris M S 100 0 0 5 0 0 2: 2 3 4 5 Bideford Taueru Wangaehu Gladstone Waihenga 2 3 4 5 0 170 0 0 106 17 6 165 0 0 9 7 6 _"l 3 17 3 9 21 12 0 223 13 0 28 14 0 117 10 6 M M M S 170 0 0 150 0 0 160 0 0 5 0 0 1' 31 3; 26 7 Wairarapa West— Eketahuna Mauriceville 7 8 120 0 0 177 10 0 15 12 6 20 2 6 3 16 6 Richard Williams Laurence Johnstone Agnes Gundersen . Elizabeth Sait Frederick Gover Lois Feist Adolphus Feist William T. Grundy William Waite' John Kay William F Ford .. Laura Keeling E. Reimonschneider Elizabeth Marshall Isabella Munro Mary Jane Baillie . Olive Mason John Berry John Henry Brann.. Elizabeth M. Palmer Clara Francis Hester Hansen Edward Samuell Walter N Dempsey Eliza Jones Mary Robins Arthur Moore Elizabeth Rutter .. E. L. Stuart-Forbes Nellie Barnard James Leete Mary Leete Thomas Porritt Hugh P Ward Charlotte F Scale Mary Yorke Agnes Haigh TomWakelm,B.A. Isabella Campbell Matilda Fugle M M S F M FP M P HM A M A M A M AP AP PP PP PP PP M M AP PP F HM AM AP AP MP AP PP F M S HM A M AF FP FP M S F 120 0 0 170 0 0 30 0 0 120 0 0 200 0 0 30 0 0 16 0 0 345 0 0 230 0 0 120 0 0 160 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 16 0 0 100 0 0 210 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 112 10 0 290 0 0 160 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 30 0 0 110 0 0 20 0 0 120 0 0 140 0 0 5 0 0 270 0 0 160 0 0 120 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 170 0 0 5 0 0 100 0 0 5: 8 9 Opaki Fern Ridge 9 10 118 15 0 250 6 8 17 3 9 24 7 6 30 6 6 342 1 0 2' 6: Masterton [B] 1,192 3 4 99 12 0 22 0 6 381 10 11 Waingawa Clareville U 12 12 13 100 0 0 335 0 0 6 5 0 32 10 0 11 8( 169 4 4 13 14 Park Vale Carterton 14 15 112 10 0 676 5 10 14 1 3 53 2 6 183 0 0 60 10 3 20 181 Waihakeke Matarawa 15 10 16 1.7 112 14 9 142 10 0 14 1 3 14 1 3 270 9 1 15 18 0 21 23 17 Greytown [B] .18 631 13 4 48 2 6 46 1 6 163 Kaitara 171 9 2 14 1 3 18 19 2i 19 Tauherenikau 20 100 0 0 6 5 0 0 12 6 i;

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"o . £..g gj-'g Schools, and the S Counties or Boroughs (the Litter marked []}]) g § in which situate. II og op if 5 s Maintenance. Expenditure for tlie Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. 0 A Teachers* Names, "^ including all Teachers and l J upil-teachers g o on the Staff at the End §'& of the Year. "S™ o m Annual Salary and Allowance at the Bate paid during the Last Quarter of the Year. P -A a Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. Wairarapa West— contd. 20 Featherston £ s. d. 540 0 0 £ s. a. 41 5 0 £ s. cl. 340 11 3 £ s. a. 250 0 0 160 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 170 0 0 140 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 230 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 230 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 250 0 0 160 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 210 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 140 0 0 100 0 0 142 10 0 190 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 210 0 0 50 0 0 127 10 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 170 0 0 150 0 0 230 0 0 30 0 0 20 0 0 120 0 0 21 H. E. Tuckey, B.A. Henry McParlane Laura Medley Esther Craig Henry C. Amner .. William Singer , Louis C. Vincent Eliza H. Evans Henry C. Messiter M. Trimble Jeremiah Hurley Henrietta Boulcott Annie Milne Kobert Johnston Nita Johnston Laura Welch Charles A. Bichards John M. Mathews .. Annie Bichards Alice Frethey Clara Stevens Fannie Wilkinson . Charles B. Joplin . Gertrude Stevens Annie E. Tonks Charles F Gulliver Dorothea Hamilton Georgina E. Chatwin Charles J. Hansard Annie Boulton Edmund Jupp Susanna Jupp James Home Annie Duncan Alice Finnis Francis Bennett Kathleen Bastin David Barry Clara Storey Alice Hobhs James E. Prendeville Emma Gooder Henry H. Dyer Maude B. Dyer Annie J. Lockett Ada B. Warren Not yet opened. HM A M AF FP M M M F M M M AF AF M FP FP HM A M FP FP FP F M FP FP M F F M FP M S M FP F M AF M AF FP M F M FP FP F 119 Cross Greek .. 21 Kaiwaiwai 22 Kaitoke 23 Mungaroa Whiteman's Wallace Upper Hutt .. 21 22 23 '22 23 24 25 26 27 28 12 10 0 170 0 0 91 19 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 91 13 4 372 15 7 15 12 6 46 5 0 17 3 9 9 7 6 12 10 0 33 2 6 124 15 4 22 16 0 476 18 8 4 12 6 3 0 0 13 0 0 124 18 0 24 34 18 20 86 24 Taita 24 29 315 0 0 27 10 0 17 11 1 68 25 Hutt 25 80 535 10 0 45 0 0 148 19 0 142 20 27 26 Wainuiomata 27 Petone ,» 81 ;>2 100 0 0 282 18 4 9 7 6 26 5 0 48 12 0 928 4 0 17 66 28 29 30 81 28 Korokoro 29 Horokiwi 30 Judgeford 81 Pahautanui 33 34 35 36 136 13 4 107 10 0 142 10 0 209 13 4 9 7 6 6 5 0 24 13 9 20 12 6 36 6 0 213 0 0 316 18 6 17 13 33 43 23 32 82 Porirua 37 120 0 0 9 7 6 27 8 0 83 Tawa Mat 88 38 260 0 0 20 12 6 17 14 0 56 34 85 Si Ohariu 35 Johnsonville 39 40 127 10 0 258 15 3 17 3 9 26 5 0 47 1 0 259 19 8 28 60 86 86 Kaiwara 41 329 0 0 29 7 6 81 87 Makara 38 Wadestown . 39 Karori 87 88 89 42 43 44 170 0 0 140 12 6 288 0 0 17 8 9 17 3 9 28 2 6 42 12 1 13 8 6 30 31 79 Vogeltown Kilbirnie Wellington [BJ— 40 Thorndon 45 46 40 0 0 270 16 0 495 18 6 370 0 0 230 0 0 140 0 0 110 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 25 0 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 150 0 0 45 0 0 45 0 0 25 0 0 360 0 0 230 0 0 120 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 360 0 0 230 0 0 140 0 0 120 0 0 120 0 0 110 0 0 50 0 0 45 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 16 312 40 Thorndon Infanta' 41 Terrace . 41 47 48 49 1,138 3 4 275 0 0 865 0 0 83 0 90 0 0 63 15 0 18 3 0 8 0 185 14 6 William Mowbray William H. Lewis S. Forsythe, M.A. Jessie McGowan Annie Davies Sarah Dimant Mabel Huett Phcebe Myers Matilda Bannister Lydia M. Devereux Josephine Bassett Henrietta Lawson Emma Davies John Young Bobert Morton Mary Young Mary Ellen Young. Olivia Payne Caroline Letham Phoabe Watson Clement Watson William P Colo Frederick W Connell James C. Ward Mary Grady Annie Whitehouse Amy Davis Mary Page Elizabeth Page Caroline M. Brown. Mary Bowie Ellen Beck Elizabeth Rebinson HM AM AM AF AF AF FP FP FP F FP FP FP HM AM AF FP FP FP FP HM A M A M A M AF AF FP FP FP FP FP FP FP U9 255 42 Te Aro 448 243 15 0 116 8 4 42 50 1,334 10 0

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t,x Bents Paid.—Kaitoke, £40; Thorndon Infants', JJflO; Masterton, ,£ll 10s.; Te Aro, £.150; Te Aro Infants', £W- Thorndon (Jtmrnhv Street), £3; Thorndon (Sydney Street), :67105.; Courtenay Place, £30; Judgeford, £1 10s. v koi, xnorncion (Murpny

MARLBOROUGH.

*o . c o & 1c S3 II Schools, nnd the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked .[JBJ) ia which siiuato. \il 0) 9 'So Si a ft -Mainte: Expei iditure for the Tear. - 1 Teachers' Names, lance. Buildiiira including- all Touchers site, ai "' I upu-teaoliera rtf . Furniture, on the Stalf nt tho End oX'avy A -d of the Yea, Expenditure. 4PP<u*<a*. i _ i s&.. o -Annual 1 fcr, ■5 I Salary and S H n . J Allowance Sg \ at the Kate <& 5 g i paid during t^ S« the Last %% % Quarter of |3 " the Year. . Toacliers' Salaries and Allowances. Wellington [B]— contd. Te Aro Infants' 51 546 4 7 118 15 0 15 9 7 1,117 11 8 74 7 6 156 8 3 828 15 0 67 10 0 11 4 9 702 6 8 98 2 6 63 10 7 92 10 0 39 7 6 34 4 2 1,035 18 78 2 6 22 ,3 3 7 10 0 60 3 8 £ s. d 546 4 7 £ s. d. 118 15 0 £ s. d 15 9 7 William H. Holmes Paulina Watson .. A Annie Bowie . I Dora Stanford .. £ Clara Pinny . E Henrietta McGregor P Charles J. Hardy .. H George Maomorran A Edward Beck .. A George S. Evans A Maggie Craig A James Melntyre M William Toomath M William H. Pownall M Francis Mason . 11 Lewis Dakin M Maude Eyder .. F Katherine H. Tarn. H Elizabeth Helyer A Harriet McGowan . A Emma D. Maunder A Louisa Pinny A Mary Cook . F Ellen Wallace . F Kate Wallis F Annie Rothenberg . F Catherine A. Francis H Sarah Wilkinson A Elizabeth McGowan A Clara Francis F Mary A. Bacon F Frances Redwood . F Jane Wallace F Fanny E. Booth F Lucy J Leighton F Fanny Garratt F Mary E. Page . F Catherine Francis . F Annie E. Robertson ] Georgina Balcombe F Ellen Smith . F Evan R. Lillington H John K. Manning A Richmond Dunn .. A Mary A. Jordan A Alice Bright A Jessie Cherrett A Emma Barnard . F Catherine Tait .. F [sabella Campbell . F M AF FP FP FP FP HM A M A M A M AF MP MP M P M P MP FP H F AF AF AF AF FP FP FP FP H F AF AF FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP F FP FP HM AM A M AF AF AF FP FP FP M 350 0 i AF 100 0 i i?P 25 0 i FP 20 0 I PP 20 0 I FP 20 0 I IM 360 0 ( iU 230 0 ( V M 140 0 ( Sl M 150 0 ( AF 100 0 ( tf P 40 0 ( -IP 40 0 ( il P 30 0 ( /IP 30 0 ( -IP 30 0 ( FP 25 0 ( I F 247 10 ( IF 112 10 ( i.F 110 0 ( iF 110 0 ( VF 110 0 ( ?P 50 0 ( ?P 50 0 C ?P 40 0 ( ?P 20 0 C IF 240 0 C i.F 150 0 C i-F 100 0 C ?P 25 0 C J'P 25 0 C ?P 20 0 C ?P 25 0 C FP 25 0 C rp 25 o c PP 20 0 0 rp 12 o o ?P 12 0 0 F 120 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 [M 360 0 0 M 230 0 0 M 120 0 0 lF 110 0 0 lF 80 0 0 lF 80 0 0 fP 50 0 0 'P 25 0 0 "P 25 0 0 £ s. d. 350 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 360 0 0 230 0 0 140 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 25 0 0 247 10 0 112 10 0 110 0 0 110 0 0 110 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 240 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 12 0 0 12 0 0 120 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 360 0 0 230 0 0 120 0 0 110 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 215 Mount Cook Boys' 1,117 11 8 156 8 3 43 r>2 74 7 6 331 Mount Cook Girls' 53 828 15 0 67 10 0 11 4 9 290 Mount Cook Infants' 54 702 G 8 98 2 6 63 10 7 396 Courtenay Place 55 92 10 0 39 7 6 34 4 2 95 Newtown 1,035 1 8 78 2 6 22 ,3 3 325 66 Sydney Street Normal School Science Instructor, Dr. Cahill School requisites, &o. Expenditure Not Classified. Ex'j >enditure Ni 123 2 61 22 12 1 17,896 17 0 1,900 11 3 6,248 18 8 123 2 6; 18120 0 0 5,082

Blenheim [B]— Boys' Upper Boys' Lower 1 2 1 John P Lucas .... Arthur Bumham Charles Bary .. . Elizabeth J Harding Maude Lucas Laura Treadwell Mary Bary Edith Stratford Mary Wrigley Millie Hosking IHM Jam [a m HF AF AF FP FP FP FP 264 0 0 162 0 0 100 0 0 162 0 0 66 0 0 100 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 24 0 0 16 0 0 41 89 Girls' 3 91 Infants' 4 I 918 17 1 92 12 3 102 5 6 154

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& Not open during third quarter. b Closed the whole year. c Closed at end of March quarter. 4 Two assistants left just before the end of the year, their places being temporarily filled by others.

O . . -u 0 o tafi a _ £3 go 1 0 £ ° C JJ Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [Bj) in which situate. °_ y A A '.. . a _ 6" Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Eurniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. o v Annual •$ . Salary and g. a - Allowance > & '2o at the Bate ■< a o 8 paid during t£f £j | the Last •§'§ % m Quarter of "H. _ the Year. gt* Teachers' Salaries and Allowances, j Other Ordinary Expenditure. Picton [B]— Senior 5 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Hiram W. Harris Marion Robertson .. Alice Jones Jane Harris Jacob H. Reynolds. Marion Massie Mary J Matthews William Tissiman Mary Tosswill John Squire Charles Peake Mrs. Peake Ann Collins Francis Sevorne John Irwin Hart Sydney A. Hughes. Charles A. Ogilvie Gladys Prichard .. Stephen Carrick Mary Morrin Elizabeth Flower Matheson J Smith Arthur B. Clare Henry Leigh Severne James B. Marshall. A. P Houghton P H. F Bakewell.. Robert Spears £ s. d. HM 200 0 0 60 AP 110 0 0 HP 85 0 0 52 PP 16 0 0 M 190 0 0 86 AP 80 0 0 FP 16 0 0 M 190 0 0 67 AF 80 0 0 M 130 0 0 29 M 170 0 0 48 AF 61 12 0 F 80 0 0 10 M 120 0 0 20 M 120 0 0 17 M 12 0 0 3 M 160 0 0 60 FP 32 0 0 M 140 0 0 36 FP 24 0 0 F 75 0 0 25 M 120 0 0 15 M 120 0 0 36 M 120 0 0 18 M 120 0 0 25 M 57 0 0 13 M 21 0 0 7 M 57 0 0 4 5 6 7 8 9 Junior Marlborough— Havelock Renwick Spring Creek.. Tua Marina Marlborough Town Kaituna Canvas Town. Upper Pelorus Grove Town 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 L 418 5 0 287 16 8 263 0 0 130 0 0 231 12 0 80 0 0 114 13 4 120 0 0 11 5 0 196 0 0 39 16 8 40 0 4 27 4 6 14 17 8 24 3 2 8 11 3 10 6 3 9 10 0 1 17 6 30 3 4 335 9 10 869 10 6 9 9 0 257 5 0 5 0 0 15 3 0 HM AP H P PP M AP FP M AF M M AF F M M M M FP M FP P M M M M M M M 10 11 15 0 11 Waitohi 16 16 162 0 0 23 11 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Wairau Valley Kekerangu Fairhall Havelock Suburban Okaramio Onamalutu Starborough . Deep Creek" .. Sounds— Kaiuma Kenepuru Hopai b Anakiwa Port Underwood c Te Awaite 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 17 18 19 20 21 23 23 24 54 15 0 120 0 0 120 0 0 120 0 0 110 0 0 22 10 0 13 6 0 9 2 6 9 0 0 13 11 3 11 5 0 9 17 6 3 15 0 2 4 4 155 14 0 218 8 6 25 4 0 116 0 6 20 25 26 27 28 29 30 58 10 0 58 10 0 6 0 0 20 5 0 19 10 0 6 0 0 9 15 0 9 15 0 10 0 4 7 6 3 5 0 21 2 6 10 0 0 Annie Alexander A. D. Vannini Harriot Boauchamp F 48 0 0 16 M 54 0 0 18 F M F 30 0 0 "lO F 16 18 'lO 21 22 23 40 0 0 H. C. Amner M . 0 0 9 M "9 Maps, globes, &c, not chargeable to particular school Ex] penditure Nc ot Classified. | 60 11 0 I •■ I 3,668 15 l| 432 15 4 3,823 12 0 i 11,046 2,231 15 10 NELS' )N. Nelson [B]— Town Boys' .. Bridge Street Boys', 1st and 2nd division Bridge Street Boys', 3rd division Brook Street . Hardy Street Girls' 1 2 8 4 5 300 0 0 288 7 8 170 0 0 100 0 0 479 8 4 332 7 10 95 15 0 11 14 0 C. J H. Chepmell Frederick Worley Temporary teacher Sophia Snart Vacant" 1 Vacant a Ellen Cother Rosa C. Scott Mary Anne Dement Lucy H. Kitching Elizabeth Leach Isabella Sheppard James Lee Hodgson James Veysey Annie C. Frank Mary Kitching James Barton Sadd Georgina Sunley Fanny Marris Mary C. Gaseoigne. M HM A M HF AP AF F H F AF AF AF AF HM A M AF AF HM AF AF F 800 0 0 150 0 0 80 0 0 110 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 84 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 250 0 0 125 0 0 60 0 0 30 0 0 250 0 0 60 0 0 24 0 0 175 0 0 38 68 108 46 210 Haven Road Boys' 458 10 0 22 10 0 14Hampden Street 357 14 4 10! Toitoi Valley Girls', 1st division Toitoi Valley Girls', 2nd division 175 0 0 105 0 0 4! 8 9 160 6 8 Ellen Sunley Minnie Cooke Marion Hood H F AP AF 100 0 0 48 0 0 18 0 0 .

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1-1 o o liSj lo t> o 6 m Schools, and the Counties or Uorous^hs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. II Maintenance. Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. Expenditure for the Tear. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including- all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year ii Annual Salary and Allowance at the Bate paid during the Last Quarter of the Year. II a. a Nelson [B] — continued. Toitoi Valley Girls', 3rd division Toitoi Valley Junior Port. £ s. a. 60 0 0 £ s. a. £ a. d. £ S. d. 60 0 0 39 10 Kate Newton F 11 1.2 43 10 0 84 0 0 Mary Bright Helen Theak F F 42 0 0 84 0 0 42 33 Waimea— Maitai* Beckmann's ° Burnside a Clifton Terrace Hillside Happy Valley Stoke 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 15 0 0 26 5 0 26 5 0 72 0 0 72 0 0 72 0 0 191 6 8 Robert W Gibba Vacant Herbert B. Brown Elizabeth S. Stanley Alice Waatney F. B. Anderson A. McM. Kavanagh Minnie Bout Eaward Oowles Louisa Saywell Grace Croucher Sarah Spencer Edith E. O'Loughlen Annie E. Wray Froderick V Knapp Annie Bryant Atarah Cole Sophia S. Stothard. Amelia Newth J W Humphreys Eleanor Knapp Ellen Hill Walter Ladley Kate Bird. Bessie Gibbs Annie Hoult John Moore Edward Edridge Selina Tunnicliff Harry Ladley Eliza Holland Sarah A. Huskisson Frederick B. Peart. Evan Forsyth Hester M. Stanley . Ada Annette Cole Harriet E. Parkes Laura Sheppard Robert E. Satchells Herbert Langford John Boby William Cook Annie Cook Henry George Hill. George Deck Alice May Deck Frederick Bisley Henry Boyes Janet Dewar Elizabeth Alexander Bobert Sutclifie B. J Bakewell Eliza Thorne Charles James Deck Gordon Ponsonby Emily Guy Frances E. Guy Mary E. Drummond John Drummond M M F F F HI AF EM AF AF H F AF F M H F AF H F AF HI AF AF HM AF AF F M HM AF HM AF F M M F F F F M M M HM AF M HM AF HM A M H F AF M M F M HM AF H F AF M 15 0 0 26 5 0 26 5 0 72 0 0 72 0 0 72 0 0 150 0 0 60 0 0 150 0 0 18 0 0 18 0 0 130 0 0 60 0 0 72 0 0 112 0 0 105 0 0 24 0 0 120 0 0 18 0 0 130 0 0 60 0 0 18 0 0 150 0 0 60 0 0 18 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 120 0 0 18 0 0 130 0 0 60 0 0 18 15 0 84 0 0 84 0 0 112 0 0 60 15 0 48 15 0 37 10 0 70 5 0 112 0 0 120 0 0 140 0 0 60 0 0 120 0 0 150 0 0 48 0 0 170 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 120 0 0 100 0 0 52 10 0 100 0 0 140 0 0 60 0 0 96 0 0 18 0 0 71 5 0 4 7 7 22 17 15 67 40 15 2 31 14 1 3 4 Bichmond Boys' 20 187 0 0 59 18 2 3 10 0 53 Bichmond Girls' 21 190 0 0 42 16 5 57 5 Ranzau Hope River Terrace 22 2;; 24 100 0 0 101 0 0 125 0 0 27 34 42 6 80 10 10 Brightwater 25 143 10 0 16 0 0 48 Spring Grove 26 199 0 0 61 Lower Wakefield Boys' and Junior 27 206 0 0 55 13 6 69 Lower Wakefield Girls' Eighty-Eight Valley Upper Wakefield 28 29 30 100 0 0 100 0 0 140 3 4 17 17 2 25 12 6 266 0 0 116 10 0 27 21 40 8 9 10 Foxhill 31 185 0 0 25 14 4 46 11 12 13 Tophouse Line a Motupiko Stanley Brook Tadmor Sherry a Baton a Woodstock 11 Pokororo a Waimea West Appleby Sarau 32 33 34 35 36 87 88 89 40 41 42 4 13 9 84 0 0 91 12 6 112 0 0 58 2 6 49 13 9 9 7 6 44 1 3 101 0 0 120 0 0 200 0 0 19 14 9 14 15 3 21 18 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 21 11 9 21 4 0 49 17 1 22 14 7 11 15 0 5 0 0 5 25 17 34 17 13 10 19 37 30 50 16 8 9 41 7 6 14 15 16 10 0 0 30 0 0 Neudorf Lower Moutere 43 44 120 0 0 185 16 8 26 19 4 6 0 0 34 47 17 18 Motueka Boys' 45 193 10 0 48 12 8 45 Motueka Girls' 46 104 0 8 IS 0 0 13 6 3 61 19 20 Ngatimote Dovedale Churchill" Pangatotara Riwaka 47 48 49 50 61 120 0 0 108 6 8 40 5 9 100 0 0 206 10 0 21 13 8 18 12 8 3 0 0 18 16 2 54 0 6 29 25 14 23 54 21 22 Brooklyn 52 94 0 0 40 Marahau a 53 67 10 0 3 0 0 19 Collingwood— Takaka Lower 94 0 0 19 14 1 Mary Haldane Alice Page Juliana Clissold A. Lowther Coveney Walter Petterson Emma Moulder Jane C. Windle Eliza A. J Manson Jane Winter 84 0 0 12 0 0 72 0 0 84 0 0 18 0 0 43 23 24 25 Long Plain Takaka East. 54 55 56 66 10 0 100 10 0 16 18 11 24 16 2 9 7 0 33 1 3 H F AF F H F A M F F HF AF 21 48 Upper Takaka a Waingaro " Motupipi 57 58 59 59' 1 3 111 16 8 3 0 0 3 0 0 24 6 9 63 15 0 84 0 0 24 0 0 17 38 26 *Aidi )d.

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o . . -. o 2 a> m £3 © o w A _"© 8™ Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. £_ 0J © f. _ [_•_ _ S n ft o & Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Teachers' Names, _il<__ including all Teachers Buildings, and eupii.teaoheja FurnSure on the Staa at the End and of the Year. Apparatus. © Annual sp £ Salary and u$ a . Allowance . g '£ o at the Rate <* o 2 paid during wf S « the Last •S'g o Quarter of u a Ph the Year, i i£ En l P Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. 27 28 29 30 Collingwood— continued. .Uingwood" Rockville Ferntown Pakawau Westport [B]— Westport Boys' 00 61 02 03 £ s. d. 125 0 0 80 10 0 63 0 0 79 6 8 £ s. d. 20 9 7 16 10 6 14 12 11 17 14 9 £ s. d. 18 10 0 20 0 0 Vacant 6 Mary Bradley Henry Porteous James Mackintosh. M F M M £ s. d. 84 0 0 84 0 0 84 0 0 84 0 0 23 16 21 18 31 Westport Girls' 04 398 18 6 245 10 0 103 1 8 96 10 0 Arthur Brown William H. Bryant Katharine Gillespie Annie Palla Mary Virtue HM AM AF HF AF 225 12 0 125 12 0 30 12 0 150 12 0 84 12 0 106 71 05 32 Buller— Dennis ton Fairdown" Waimangaroa 66 07 08 164 2 4 58 6 6 144 0 8 27 4 9 3 0 0 27 11 8 438 14 4 15 0 0 12 0 0 1 11 0 8 11 0 24 15 0 Martin Sheard Jane Emanuel Wilhelm H. Deneker John Bierne Nellie Falla Sarah Freeman Vacant Daniel Hogan Annie MeRae George Laing Mary C. Blumer Jeanetta Suisted Helen O'Connor E. Murphy M F HM A M F F 140 0 0 60 4 0 140 12 0 20 12 0 56 9 0 37 14 0 41 16 37 33 34 Rochfort Terrace" Ngakawau" Karamea Promised Land" Addison's Plat 69 70 71. 72 73 51 15 3 49 17 9 112 19 0 31 19 6 187 17 4 3 0 0 3 0 0 18 18 7 3 0 0 32 12 6 15 10 18 35 36 Charleston Boys' 74 226 3 0 81 5 7 HM AF HM AF HF AF F 175 0 0 30 0 0 160 12 0 60 12 0 144 12 0 60 12 0 100 12 0 49 46 Charleston Girls' 75 205 4 0 58 37 Brighton Inangahua— Fern Plat Hampden 0 Lyell Capleston 76 77 78 79 80 100 12 0 93 15 0 21 11 3 153 18 8 160 18 0 19 16 3 80 0 0 148 0 0 133 6 6 4 0 0 383 12 6 Alfred Peart Eliza Clissold P G. Rotton Andrew Russell Vacant Robert Thornton Louisa A. Moller .. Hannah Prentice Temporary Assistant Robert E. Green Catharine Anderson Mary A. Sunderland M F M HM 100 0 0 7 16 38 39 26 2 8 32 1 10 140 12 0 150 12 0 34 55 40 Reefton Black's Point 81 459 13 11 265 18 10 64 0 9 31 11 3 I . HM AF AF AF HM AF AF 250 12 0 84 12 0 30 12 0 20 12 0 175 12 0 72 12 0 20 12 0 183 73 41 82 Nelson School Committee, subsidy for night school Proposed aided school, Motupiko Upper Appliances not chargeable to particular schools Ex'j tenditure Nc >t Classified. 20 0 01 " 3 0 0 88 9 6 82 111,076 6 1 1,709 7 0: 2,323 19 2 10,652 9 0 3,324 IRTH CAN[ 'ERBURY. 1 Kaikoura — Kaikoura Suburban 1 170 4 9 31 7 1 25 18 3 Robert Haswell Mary Haswell Henry H. Knowles. Eliza M. A. Sandford Jane G. McLauchlan M F M F FP 139 11 0 66 8 0 158 17 0 87 10 0 24 0 0 48 2 Kaikoura Town 2 275 17 11 42 1 5 38 0 6 76 Amuri— Waiau Rotherham " Ashley— Hurunui Mason's Flat 3 4 116 0 8 20 18 4 9 9 8 509 5 8 522 4 3 Donald Davidson Thomas G. Compton M M 151 12 0 90 0 0 20 4 5 5 0 139 0 7 140 14 6 16 6 8 22 6 4 19 18 4 Henry Cox Thomas Brownlee Elizabeth Brownlee Thomas Brownlee James B. Chisholm. Jane McLean Samuel P Gurney M M S M M S M 158 0 0 130 17 0 12 0 0 90 0 0 146 0 0 12 0 0 122 4 0 13 37 Manuka Town" Waikari 7 8 22 10 0 154 12 6 _>"4 0 64 15 1 18 6 7 Broomfield 9 143 0 7 28 6 lOj 7 12 0 31 • Aided. b Master left durii ig lasl quarter. c Aided. Open during last quarter, but subsidy, £17, lot paid until Feb., 1884.

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IS s.j 2a ° Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. ■H ° Expenditure for the Year. £% :■-— > m JMaintenance. Buildings, Sites, II Teachers' Other F ™ t a ure ' B g| Salaries and Ordinary Armarntiia gB Allowances. Expenditure. Appaiatus. JMaintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, o.-j Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. a> Annual 5 Salary and pi . Allowance '2 'o »t the Elite o 2 paid during B 3 the Last g Quarter of o-i the Year. h II Ashley— continued. Amberley 10 £ s. d. 365 16 6 £ b. A. 55 3 4 & s. d. 181 11 5 Eev. W McGregor Margaret McGregor Harold Purchas Jane McNaught Annie Dalziel Charles D. Husband Elizabeth B. Cowan William Hale Alice B. May Georgina Roberts M F IP FP FP M F M F FP £ s. d. 240 10 0 112 10 0 30 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 133 15 0 68 0 0 194 4 0 87 1J 0 16 0 0 140 Balcaim 202 7 6 24 0 4 6 14 6 9 11 39 10 Leithfield 12 286 19 10 35 2 3 29 10 1 76 11 12 Sefton (new school) Mount Grey Downs 13 14 274 19 3 42 8 6 126 10 0 0 14 3 Joseph Thompson Eliza Willis Maria Douds William De Troy Mary Wells William Brock Eliza Ewing Ada Hodgson Thomas G. Smith Margaret Whiteside Emily Hayman Hugh D. Densham. Ellen E. Mathias Egbert Mayo Margaretta Field James B. Harbidge Bose E. Harbidge John McGillivray Edith Luers Mary M. Reston Henry Wilson Fanny Holder Emily Aldridge Eliza Blackmore William Stout John McLeod Sophia Dohrmann Richard Meredith Martha Douds Robert Frizzell Mary Meredith Clara C. Perkins Richard J Twose .. Selina Norton James R. Connor Betsy Webster Ruth M. Connor . James B. Mayne Sarah Bunker Margaret Chapman James D. Harper Grace E. H. Harper Edward J Jennings Elizabeth Jennings Henry E. Goodeve .. Ann Kitchingman . Sarah Kitchingman Lilla Hunnibell Jane Barlow Henry 0. Wilson Thomas Keir F J Cumberworth J B. Cumberworth William D. Bean Elizabeth Ross George Wilmot Jane Wilmot Avis Todd.. Elizabeth Dawson.. Jessie Stewart T. E. Tomlinson .. Charles H. Morriss Louisa Hicks Edwin Mossman .. Lucy E. Thompson Rebecca Norton M F FP M F M F FP M F FP M S M F M F IP FP F M F FP FP MP M F M F MP FP F M F M FP S M F FP M S M S HM HF AF FP FP MP MP M F MP FP M F FP FP F M MP S M F FP 196 7 0 88 17 0 16 0 0 129 5 0 66 7 0 153 7 0 79 3 0 32 0 0 201 7 0 93 10 0 16 0 0 122 i 0 17 0 0 151 14 0 79 9 0 214 2 0 102 2 0 50 0 0 16 0 0 75 13 0 253 17 0 114 13 0 40 0 0 24 0 0 20 0 0 165 5 0 77 12 0 230 18 0 107 10 0 40 0 0 16 0 0 86 0 0 170 5 0 73 15 0 139 18 0 16 0 0 12 0 0 196 5 0 84 15 0 40 0 0 136 4 0 12 0 0 128 0 0 12 0 0 274 10 0 144 12 0 96 15 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 214 12 0 102 2 0 30 0 0 16 0 0 207 10 0 102 2 0 32 0 0 16 0 0 86 0 0 138 0 0 20 0 0 12 0 0 206 10 0 97 16 0 32 0 0 13 Loburn North 15 191 18 7 24 4 0 67 15 10 32 14 Loburn 16 247 5 4 30 10 2 16 13 1 54 15 Ashley 17 289 11 1 42 10 8 60 11 6 16 Saltwater Creek 18 145 17 0 37 3 3 3: 17 View Hill 19 226 11 6 33 3 3 326 17 1 6' 18 Oxford West (main) 20 376 17 3 61 7 8 1 8 10 101 19 Oxford West (side) Oxford East .. 21 22 75 13 0 449 13 11 64 5 2 29 7 2 3. 151 Oarleton 239 0 10 28 16 9 63 1 11 20 23 5: 21 Oust (main) 24 376 16 10 57 14 i 360 18 1 10 , Oust (side) Eyreton West 25 26 86 0 0 224 5 4 29 17 11 73 14 0 26 53 22 23 Stoke •_ 27 160 4 9 21 4 7 8 7 3 33 24 Femside 28 317 14 4 39 14 11 25 Mandeville Plains 170 9 6 22 14 2 341 4 11 35 29 26 Eyreton 30 140 0 0 19 9 9 42 12 5 30 27 Rangiora [B] 31 606 8 11 87 5 11 5 18 3 206 Soutlibrook . 28 32 339 13 5 48 7 1 22 12 7 109 29 Flaxton (main) 33 352 10 4 59 11 6 17 14 3 120 Flaxton (side) Waikuku 34 35 84 9 9 165 0 0 18*13 7 6 0 0 20 25 30 Woodend 337 17 3 43 11 3 264 8 1 31 36 100

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o . 6 2 ' a; w §•3 C O §-§ Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in whick situate. is m a J 8 Maiutenance. Buildings, Sites, Teachers' Other Furniture, Salaries and Ordinary , a , Allowances. Expenditure. -Apparatus. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Teachers' Names, includiug all Teachers and Pupil-teachera on the Staff at the End of the Year. I e ® Annual t>0.; 3 ! (Wary and uS Allowance > g 'o at the Rate s °ia paid during tc G h% the Last f'g g Quarter of %'S ™ the Year. i≤ H 32 Kaiapoi— Kai&poi [B] .. £ s. a. 959 9 8 £ b. a. 141 4 3 £ s. d. 150 9 9 £ b. d 321 17 0 142 18 0 156 14 0 113 3 0 66 7 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 20 0 0 128 0 0 12 0 0 121 12 0 12 0 0 Kaiapoi Island North . 37 Robert J Alexander Henry Kitchingman Mary E. Jenkins Mary Hiatt Emily Johnson Frederick W Young Elizabeth Unwin Sara Hiatt Hesther Veysey Horace Neeve John Matthews Emma Matthews Alfred J Gilman. Emma Gilman HI AM HP AF AJ MP FP FP FP M P M S M S 349 33 38 140 0 0 17 2 0 20 0 0 21 34 Kaiapoi Island 39 133 12 0 18 16 0 27 15 10 24 Akaroa— Lyttelton [B] 1,455 11 0 205 14 4 254 19 0 543 35 40 James Daws John Ross Sophia Haughton Florence Ookford Thomas L. P Pole. R. F Kennedy William Taylor Elizabeth Norris Mary Maule Emily Maoey Annie M. Jenkins Christopher Aschman John Hutchinson Mary E. Olliver HM AM H P AF A M AF MP FP FP FP FP MP MP FP FP FP M S 392 16 0 273 5 0 175 10 0 132 2 0 117 12 0 85 2 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 128 0 0 12 0 0 35 Governor's Bay 41 140 0 0 17 4 9 Edwin F Barnett Sarah McMain 20 37 Charteris Bay ) Gebbie's Pass Road j Gebbie's Valley 42 144 11 4 22 17 3 I 16 26 38 3 12 5 Charles F Bowley M 151 5 0 43 151 6 10 20 3 2 George Quartermain Sarah Quartermain Julia Alldridge Ella S. Cooke Albert Proudlock Elizabeth Proudlock Samuel McCullough Minnie McGregor . Eliza M. Goodwin PresseyE. Granger. Leonora Granger «. Henry Jaggar Hephzibah Jaggar Henry Bussell Charlotte McKay Kate Bussell William N Taylor. Isabella Bennett Henry A. Easther Emily E. Easther Joseph Hutt Mary Hutt Rev. A. Scholes Caroline S. Staples.. Rosny M. Spurr Louisa Spurr Alexander Roulston Ernest J Watkins Annie Roulston Thomas H. Giles Mary Jones Alfred Nicholls Harriet Morgan Benjamin Penlington John W McGregor M S F F M F M S F M S M S M FP S M S M F M F M F M S M MP S M S M F MP MP 146 10 0 12 0 0 61 12 0 36 0 0 142 15 0 73 14 0 128 0 0 12 0 0 86 0 0 114 6 0 12 0 0 128 0 0 12 0 0 143 0 0 40 0 0 12 0 0 124 1 0 12 0 0 127 1 0 68 0 0 140 1 0 72 9 0 123 8 0 74 17 0 133 0 0 12 0 0 141 17 0 50 0 0 12 0 0 151 12 0 12 0 0 213 11 0 99 19 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 39 Port Levy Little Port Cooper 4 Little Eiver 44 45 46 93 0 8 9 0 0 214 1 9 16 12 6 288' 3 5 10 9 53 40 28* 9 8 41 Pigeon Bay (main) 47 129 13 8 26 17 11 87 15 5 23 Pigeon Bay (side) Barry's Bay 48 49 86 0 0 124 2 10 19 8 9 89' 2 9 27 33 42 43 French Farm 50 107 7 7 16 12 8 37 14 8 20 U Wainui 51 183 11 10 18 19 0 13 18 5 27 45 Little Akaloa 123 7 0 20 0 7 34 52 4G Duvauchelle , Bay 53 164 3 6 22 4 10 33 12 0 39 47 Okain's Bay .. 54 209 18 3 23 7 8 10 2 0 41 48 Le Bon's Bay 55 198 3 9 22 1 6 15 12 6 33 49 Robinson's Bay 56 145 0 0 17 10 7 4 7 0 20 50 German Bay (main) . 57 192 18 11 32 14 7 462 9 4 36 German Bay (side) 58 163 12 0 50 0 0 23 Akaroa [B] .. 59 381 1 10 46 3 11 105 Selwyn— Kowai Bush Kowai Pass 28 16 8 370 6 1 5 0 0 47 7 0 0 17 0 3 12 6 60 CI Eugene 0. Buckley James B. Borthwick Margaret W Ryan. James CKllanders Julia O'Shaughnessy M M F MP FP 100 0 0 212 1 0 94 19 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 29 105 » Aided,

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Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [BJ) in which situate. II I o .Maintenance. Expenditure lor the Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teaoliers on the Staff at the End of the Year. I ii O A nnual Salary mid .Allowance at 1:he Hate paid during the Last Quarter oi the Year. u II I Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. 53 Selwyn— continued. Bussell's Plat 62 £ s. d. 147 15 6 £ S. d. 24 4 5 £ s. d. 69 5 1 Samuel F. Mayhew Ellen Craighoad Elizabeth Wallace James Victor Jane Eastwood Sarah Pearson Edith J Jaggar Richard P Pole . Charles H. A. T. Opie Louisa Opie Samuel Garleton Prances Bartrum Alfred C. Augur Annie Wilson John J. Mahood £ s. d. 140 15 0 24 0 0 12 0 0 179 10 0 85 12 0 16 0 0 81 14 0 153 8 0 146 11 0 80 4 0 146 11 0 76 4 0 194 10 0 12 0 0 136 17 0 61 17 0 174 5 0 70 18 0 131 7 0 65 13 0 121 12 0 12 0 0 138 5 0 74 12 0 128 0 0 12 0 0 136 6 0 64 10 0 169 1 0 74 3 0 185 14 0 88 19 0 24 0 0 141 9 0 72 18 0 45 55 56 57 58 59 CO 01 54 Malvern (main) Malvem (side) South Malvern Glentunnel Hororata Darfield Kimberley Grecndale Kirwee 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 281 10 4 70 17 6 149 3 6 225 16 0 231 13 7 152 2 1 180 6 11 236 15 1 194 13 4 70 4 0 26 18 2 31 14 11 33 15 0 23 12 8 22 17 2 28 2 5 23 18 8 58 16 1 440 2 7 284 0 8 386 10 5 8 0 10 10 0 353 0 1 William Taylor Leonora Phillips William W. Taylor Alice Roe . Frederick N. Foster Emma Poster Peter Cheyne Hesther H. Cheyne John Murdoch M. J Young-Smith Martin Bourke Marion K. Gibson Harry Peat Cecilia E. Ross Lewis G. Wright Elizabeth Wright Annie Humm George Silvester Jane Silvester M PP S M P PP P M M P M P M S M P M F M P M S M P M S M P M P M F PP M P 82 19 33 59 59 21 36 46 46 G2 Courtenay 72 137 17 4 18 0 0 11 12 0 23 63 Halkett 73 208 11 3 24 16 3 39 19 1 46 64 Aylesbury 74 140 0 0 18 0 0 4 4 7 23 Go West Melton 75 184 2 8 25 14 6 347 5 6 43 66 Yaldhurst 70 240 7 9 25 19 9 47 10 7 45 G7 Templeton 77 284 5 0 37 11 7 16 2 3 78 68 Weedon 78 205 5 3 25 5 9 117 17 9 51 69 70 Burnham a Broadfield 79 80 140 0 0 4 16 8 18 0 3 172 15 2 15 1 4 William McClure Mary A. McClure Thomas Mulligan Georgina Somerset. Edward Morgan Annie Finney Thomas May Annie Hookham Susan Pee Frederick Alley Eliza Friar Kate A. Baker G. W Williamson Jessie T. Coneys Jane Durey Elizabeth Watson George Culverhouse Catherine Tully W H. Comerford Christina Prebble Helen V Williams. William A. Banks Mary Veysey Eleanor Harrison Cecilia Callaghan Thomas A. Gates C. K. Henderson John W Smith Kate Durant George Crockett Anne Caddell James Speight Susan Barrett Johann Voss Mary C. Champion. William E. Poster Prances Foster William Cuthbert Mary M. Stephens. William Sinclair Ina Dewsbury M S M P M P M HF AP MP PP FP M F PP PP M P M HP AP M P PP FP M P M P FP M F M P MP PP M P M F MP PP 128 0 0 12 0 0 130 14 0 70 9 0 172 6 0 75 7 0 252 0 0 137 3 0 96 15 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 24 0 0 225 15 0 107 10 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 169 2 0 65 5 0 172 19 0 119 9 0 48 10 0 226 18 0 116 10 0 32 0 0 16 0 0 201 4 0 120 10 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 170 7 0 77 0 0 190 9 0 96 11 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 171 13 0 81 18 0 234 18 0 107 10 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 24 71 Harewooa Road 81 201 15 9 24 9 1 9 10 45 72 North Road 82 234 1 1 29 8 7 257 5 0 57 73 Papanui 83 585 0 6 86 7 2 4 0 0 170 Riooarton 356 6 4 122 74 84 53 11 10 Fendalton 238 13 8 35 19 4 45 75 85 35 7 6 7G Prebbleton 86 344 12 3 47 8 7 118 6 11 98 77 Lincoln 87 384 13 7 55 5 2 4 4 3 134 78 Springs ton 88 316 18 8 48 6 5 223 0 4 118 Greenpark 242 2 9 32 0 4 4 2 1 61 79 89 SO Tai Tapu 90 365 2 4 45 19 3 6 13 11 97 Halswell 251 19 0 33 10 5 3 6 6 63 81 91 82 Sproydon 92 325 4 3 56 1 10 78 1 4 131 » New s< shool.

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h % ■'■•'-% o 5 So Schools, and the Countios or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. ° r* Expenditure for the is > Maintenance. If § § Teachers' Other a g< Salaries and Ordinary f3 a Allowances. Expenditure. JVIaintenance. Expenditure for the Tear. Buildings, Sites, Teachers* Names, including all Teachers and l J upil-teachers on the Staff at the End oi: the Year. a> Annual *p •$ I Salary and g i£ d . Allowance t> g 'o at the Kate 5, o 2 paid, during £p^ 33 ' he J^ st f I| S Quarter ot j< ,3 * the Year. £h Furniture, and Apparatus. 83 Christchurch [B] — Christchurch West (main) Christchurch West (side) Normal School 93 95 94 £ s. d. 2,279 3 1 283 0 9 2,273 19 3 & s. d. 337 18 5 394 19 9 £ s. d. 1,281 6 0 417 0 8 Thomas S. Foster Charles Chilton Emily S. Poster Janet E. Currie Thomas W Ambrose Bethia Jack Eliza Callender George Petrie Eose Seager Annie M. Low Frances Durey Alice Pickering Frances Taylor Susan Currie Jessie Menzies Ernest H. Clark John H. Malcolm Albert W Andrew Edith Stanton Emily Mclnman Agnes Tindel Harriet Starkiss David Jack Eose Morland Frances Hepworth. Laura M. Allison Amy Taylor William A. Kennedy Elizabeth Beck Edwin Eayner James Grant Charles E. Bossence Charles D. Hardie Julia W Barlow . Eliza Kitchingman Ada E. Foster Mary T>. Bain Mary S. Alexander. Emily Bennetts Jane E. Ashwin Thomas M. M. Laing Mary E. Banks Grace Lawrence J M. H. Meadows Ada W Clarkson Emily Chaplin John G. L. Scott Emile XJ Just Ada Gresham Emma B. Eowley Walter Tipler Annie W Spence George Gilling Annie Barker Annie McCormack Alice M. Wilcox Annie M. Ansley Annie M. Craddock Annie Keand Edith Guise Emily Guise Charles E. Craddock Victoria Evans Mary Sutherland Annie Judge Julia Gilling Kate Hamilton ,. Francis Evans Hugh Thomson George Schneider Alice Button Jessie W Spence . Hilda Johnston Ada Mackett Jane Eoberts Mary L. Spence Mary S. Shirtcliffe Eliza Carey .. HM AM HF AF AM AF AF AM AF FP FP FP FP FP FP MP M P MP FP FP FP FP MP FP FP HF AF MP FP HM AM HF AM AM AM AF AF AF AF AF FP FP MP FP FP FP FP FP HM AM HF AF AM AF AM AF AF AF FP FP FP FP FP MP FP FP FP FP FP MP MP MP FP FP FP HF AF FP FP FP £, s. d. 431 10 0 326 10 0 263 17 0 152 12 0 150 18 0 150 7 0 107 10 0 91 7 0 75 5 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 140 17 0 76 12 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 424 0 0 258 15 0 272 10 0 262 10 0 166 10 0 146 0 0 158 15 0 165 5 0 117 15 0 96 15 0 96 15 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 30 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 433 0 0 302 0 0 268 17 0 152 12 0 211 2 0 145 7 0 130 0 0 86 16 0 84 5 0 51 1 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 30 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 136 4 0 97 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 24 0 0 872 14! 772 84 Gloucester Street 9G 2,266 2 1 427 16 1 418 1 7 847 338 13 6 184 South Town Belt 97

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o ,:) 1;3 Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. 0 •g Expenditure for the Year. [z: Ji Teachers' Names, |f Maintenance. Buildings, ™ I^cST ™- Ont,, oi^YeS OEad Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. o Annual to 5 Salary ana g.8 a ■ Allowance t* ta '£ 'o at the Bate "S 2 o S paid during W*f SS the Last •J'g g Quartered Is 3 Ph the Year. £H 85 Selwyn— Phillipstown Sydenham [B] 98 99 £ s. d. 242 14 2 1,964 2 5 344 10 9 £ s. d. £ s. d. 176 0 8 Edith S. Dunnage Eleanor G. Gross Catherine Shannon Fanny Guise Clara Ayers John Baldwin Archibald Binnie Jessie Bowmaker Mary Hall John J Elliott Mary Taylor Martha Dynes Jane E. Watts Abel Webber Alexander C. Blake Margaret Smith Annie O'Callahan Thomas MoGallan Francis Rowley Elizabeth Forrester Mary Maginness Ellen Ewing Florence Dawber .. Marion Johnston Catherine Martin Alice M. Shailer Ada Murray Elizabeth Taylor Agnes Malcolm Ada Baldwin F FP PP FP FP HM AM HF AF AM AF AF AF AM MP FP FP MP MP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP £ s. d. 163 15 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 385 0 0 307 10 0 241 17 0 152 12 0 158 12 0 122 17 0 107 10 0 80 8 0 71 10 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 140 863 80 St. Albans [B] St. Albans (main) 100 806 10 3 173 9 3 505 13 5 Richard P Soundy Miriam A. Roberts Mary A. Campbell Martha Weir Kate Baldwin Janet Reeve Ellen Smith George H. Pope Benjamin Bull Aimee J Hunte Sarah Fee Caroline Hirst Isabella Crummy M HF AF AF FP FP FP MP MP FP F FP FP 279 14 0 143 4 0 102 2 0 86 0 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 16 0 0 96 15 0 24 0 0 16 0 0 275 St. Albans (side) 101 134 15 0 75 87 Selwyn— Bichmond 102 656 15 7 101 15 10 149 1 8 Charles S. Howard. Sibella E. Ross Eliza Woodford Joseph Thomas Sarah E. Chapman Minnie MoBratney. Charles W Garrard Maud Budden Mary E. Flesher Peter Murray Elizabeth Wray John J Patterson William C. Armitage Margaret Pitcaithly Mary A. D. Calvert Annie E. MoHarg Janet Dick Robina Duncan Alice Harper Oscar Johnson Charles Merton Alice Buxton Thomas Ritchie Georgina Thomson. Mary Duncan Fanny Dick John S. Kennedy Charles C. McCarthy Elizabeth Gardiner Dennis R. Flavell Rev. L. L. Brown Charlotte E. Kay Donald Stewart Barbara Stewart HM HF AF AM FP FP MP FP FP M F HM AM HF AF FP FP FP FP MP M F M F FP FP M P M F MP M S M S 295 4 0 147 13 0 102 2 0 104 0 0 32 0 0 24 0 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 138 5 0 70 17 0 302 15 0 156 13 0 107 10 0 81 14 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 30 0 0 172 9 0 96 11 0 232 6 0 102 2 0 40 0 0 24 0 0 20 0 0 171 6 0 91 7 0 50 0 0 128 0 0 12 0 0 169 0 0 12 0 0 265 New Brighton 46 88 103 188 18 9 27 16 4 171 19 6 89 Heatheote Lower 104 820 11 8 126 18 6 376 1 10 260 Bromley 97 90 105 259 11 6 44 9 3 27 9 8 91 Opawa 106 419 8 3 59 16 11 80 4 8 124 Heatheote Valley 305 14 6 42 11 7 3 17 6 85 92 107 Sumner 137 17 6 36 2 4 38 12 1 26 93 108 94 Selwyn 109 157 18 1 18 1 5 21 17 0 27

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ii $% fl O Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. 4 Maintenance. Expenditure for the Tear. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. j J o Annual Salnry *nd A \ jowanco at the Bate paid during the Last Quarter of tl;o Year. 6 II fl Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. 95 96 <J7 98 99 Selwyn— continued. Dunsandel Brookside Killinchy Irwell Leeston (main) Leeston (side) 110 111 112 113 114 £ s. d. 306 17 11 286 5 7 236 18 6 140 9 6 472 15 11 100 18 0 £ s. d. 36 13 11 38 3 10 38 1 10 19 13 5 69 4 2 £ s. d. 2 15 5 14 8 218 9 9 13 12 0 John Simpson Mary B. Simpson Annie Sawle John Youngson Florence Blake Elizabeth McKay John Mclntyre Martha Crothers Sarah McKee William D. McClure Agnes McClure William B. Mackay Matilda Thomas John C. Woodward Lancelot Watson Maud M. S. Blee Elizabeth Oalvert Annie Smith George Bishop Alice Henderson Henrietta Seager Mary Waby Louisa Bishop Eva Henderson William G. Bishop. William H. Gorton Isabella O. Campbell John C. Allan Joseph Watson Margaret S. Crawford M F FP M F FP M F FP M S M F IP MP FP F FP M H F AF FP FP FP MP M F M M F & s. d. 188 3 0 86 13 0 40 0 0 191 5 0 88 16 0 16 0 0 171 3 0 82 14 0 16 0 0 128 13 0 12 0 0 264 7 0 107 10 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 24 0 0 86 0 0 16 0 0 276 2 0 128 0 0 97 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 138 5 0 75 17 0 128 0 0 128 13 0 66 7 0 74 79 75 31 132 48 115 100 Southbridge 116 558 10 9 81 14 5 31 2 11 219 Lakeside (main) 46 101 117 197 6 0 31 14 1 864 4 8 Lakeside (side) Bakaia (Little) 118 119 198 4 0 37 17 11 7 11 3 31 102 Ashburton —■ Mount Somers 133 12 0 16 15 9 John B. Williams Jessio Patton John T Allsop Margaret Muirhead Elizabeth Allsop Albert Bellemin Jane F Bellemin Michael W Stack Bobert B. Holmes James Murray Jane McKay William Dixon Margaret Young Kate Doherty Bosina Bruce David Todd Jane Todd John H. Newlyn Bobert McCandless Mary Lowe Gideon Scott Margaret Scott Hector Dempsey Amy J Harband M S M FP S M F M M M F M F FP FP M S M M S M S HM HF A M AF FP FP FP MP FP FP FP M M S M F M M S M F MP M S M F 121 12 0 12 0 0 142 10 0 16 0 0 12 0 0 128 C 0 68 10 0 128 0 0 150 10 0 133 2 0 62 12 0 218 4 0 112 10 0 40 0 0 16 0 0 155 10 0 12 0 0 157 12 0 128 0 0 12 0 0 122 16 0 12 0 0 350 17 0 175 2 0 112 10 0 110 18 0 40 0 0 32 0 0 24 0 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 0 112 13 0 112 13 0 12 0 0 148 10 0 75 9 0 142 13 0 128 13 0 12 0 0 193 14 0 87 10 0 20 0 0 128 0 0 12 0 0 137 12 0 74 3 0 16 103 104 Alford Forest 120 121 138 19 10 21 4 6 297 18 10 37 Springburn 204 10 3 24 9 6 458 0 5 41 105 122 106 107 108 Barr Hill Lauriston Methven 123 124 125 121 10 10 144 10 8 207 19 6 16 13 0 22 3 9 24 2 1 2 17 9 410 7 7 377 11 11 13 19 38 109 Bakaia South 126 372 12 0 51 9 8 49 3 10 117 Chertsey 167 10 0 17 16 2 3 13 2 37 16 11 22 110 127 111 112 Pendarves Kyle 128 129 158 6 0 140 0 0 16 8 11 17 17 7 18 21 113 Ashburton Forks 130 136 3 6 21 17 2 13 5 32 114 Ashburton [B] 131 894 11 1 133 18 6 37 19 9 385 115 116 117 Newland Seafield Wakanui (main) 132 133 134 112 13 0 126 13 0 219 7 8 16 8 11 16 17 10 41 13 9 8 12 3 42 2 7 11 12 10 Annie Tulley Constance Andrews Emma Bean Henry Priston Helen Barratt Isabella Williamson Edith Empson Bobert H. Beck Edward J Dickinson Marion K. Dickinson Arthur Cookson Edith M. Williamson Henry R. Wilkinson Walter J King Elizabeth King William G. Wallace Annie J Wake David T. Todd F T. W Batson Julia Fountaine Benjamin Low Sabina Low 14 19 48 118 Wakanui (side) Elgin 135 136 138 6 10 179 6 3 23 3 11 11 11 3 24 31 119 Tinwald 137 285 8 10 42 18 6 35 10 0 76 Winslow 45 9 8 16 19 8 860 19 8 20 12Q 138 139 208 11 0 28 6 4 45 121 Willowby

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o . 6 © © _ £ i. © o Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. °1 __ 01. If _ -J _ C. Expenditure for the Year. Maintenance. Buildings, Kites, Furniture, and .Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-ten.chers on the Staff at the End of the Year. © Annual t® $ Salary and g£ a ■ Allowance . £j '£ o at the Kate < g, o 2 paid during &c~f 1. ae Last || o Quarter of %A Pm the Year. £H Teachers' Salaries and Allowances. Other Ordinary Expenditure. 22 . Ashburton— continued. Plemington .. Longbeach (main) £ s. d. 140 169 13 3 141 225 18 9 140 £ s. d. 27 13 1 35 14 1 j- '■ £ s. A. 21 3 7 19 6 11 328 12 8 371 1 1 H. Cape-Williamson Jessie 1 . chney H. Cape-Williamson Dominick Browne Maud M. Dawkins William H. Wake Mary Harding Andrew Malcolm Charlotte Malcolm . E. P. Welchman £ s. d. M i 143 15 0 FP 16 0 0 S 12 0 0 M 162 1 0 F 68 17 0 M 128 0 0 S 12 0 0 M 128 0 0 S 12 0 0 M 112 13 0 50 41 29 Longbeach (side) 142 140 9 6 18 13 8 .24. Hinds 143 168 3 11 26 .25 Lismore 144 142 19 0 16 4 0 1 13 Ex >enditure Nc ot Classified. Supervision not included in the above 42,240 19 10 574 17 6 16,685 4 5 43875 4 0 |6,090 15 9 12793 S< lUTH CANTERBURY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Geraldine— Scotsburn Mackenzie— Burke's Pass" Geraldine— Pairlie Creek. Albury Opihi b Mount Gay" Rangitata Island Orari North b Orari South 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 124 17 11 28 5 1 132 8 9 162 8 9 81 1 8 53 11 0 102 1 0 22 3 9 4 12 6 18 0 0 14 0 0 9 7 6 7 0 0 14 11 8 16 7 21 0 0 0 2 6 3 0 0 29 2 0 13 10 9 14 0 0 5 0 Alexander G. Allan. C. C. E. Parker F R. Gillingham John Maddison M F M M 117 15 0 44 4 6 139 15 0 139 15 0 31 11 33 27 12 15 26 R. W Champney Charles G. Roskruge M M 60 9 4 117 15 0 176 11 5 7 15 3 19 8 6 Frederick J Eraser Mrs. Praser J McLeod Joseph Greaves 0, Murray George Westropp Thomas Hughes Isabella Hamilton Pinlay Bethune Albert Erskine Fanny Freeman Susan A. Buck Charles John Cooke Marion Meredith Mrs. Cooke George Manning Louisa Manning Mrs. Manning John Lake Cooke Mrs. Cooke John T Campbell G. Anderson A. M.N Dryburgh. Andrew Dunnett Alberta Young F W Smith-Ansted Mary Burton Mrs. Cain. John Wood Helen M. Ladbrooke John Laurie Meager Bertha Brown Mary Russell Fanny Brown Isabella Morton Gertrude Rowe James Thompson Amy Emma Haskell M. A. Sutherland Helen C. Strong G. B. McAlpine M S MP M AP M HM AF AM MP PP F M FP S M PP S M S M MP S M AP M PP S HM AF AM FP FP FP FP PP HM AP FP FP M 150 10 0 12 0 0 25 0 0 163 16 0 74 15 0 139 15 0 241 10 0 107 10 0 80 12 6 45 0 0 20 0 0 8012 6 150 10 0 40 0 0 12 0 0 150 10 10 30 0 0 12 0 0 139 15 0 12 0 0 141 15 0 12 10 0 12 0 0 159 2 0 64 10 0 118 5 0 40 0 0 12 0 0 257 5 0 129 0 0 86 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 210 0 0 96 15 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 139 15 0 55 10 Woodbury 10 215 15 3 24 0 0 50 17 8 74 11 12 Orari Bridge Geraldine 11 12 143 15 4 494 4 9 15 2 8 45 2 6 8 2 0 19 7 0 30 172 13 14 Gape's Valley" Kakahu 13 14 87 13 0 204 0 0 12 0 0 22 0 0 26 17 10 12 6 20 55 15 Pleasant Valley 15 195 7 6 21 10 0 71 0 10 53 Geraldine Plat 175 13 9 18 10 0 36 16 16 17 WaitohiPlat. 17 172 16 2 21 6 8 4 13 6 43 18 Winchester 18 202 18 0 22 10 0 3 10 0 63 19 Milford 19 189 15 11 20 17 6 25 12 6 33 Temuka 716 1 7 68 10 11 2,740 16 5 249 20 20 Pleasant Point 128 21 21 393 13 9 36 10 0 19 13 0 Sutherland's 42 8 9 5 4 0 356 15 9 26 _ 22 " Aidei bTei iporarily closei

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"8 . 5ao Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. £? '43 0 §1 o Maintenance. Expenditure for the Tear. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Stall at the End of the Year. ® Annual 5 Salary and a . Allowance 'a "3 at tile Eate o 2 paid during £o the Last g M Quarter o£ c< the Year. CD Si ft Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. 23 Geraldine— continued. Washdyke 2.3 £ s. d 177 0 9 £ s. d. 19 10 0 £ s. d John Watson Alice Balfour Mrs. Watson Henry John McClure Alexander Mclntosh Annie Wilkinson John Ogilvie Thomas A. Walker Elizabeth M. Bowley Agnes Donn M FP S M HM AF MP HM AF FP £ s. a 139 15 0 20 0 0 12 0 0 60 9 4 159 2 0 64 10 0 45 0 0 159 2 0 53 15 0 30 0 0 36 24 25 Claremont a Wai-iti 24 26 60 2 3 256 7 9 9 17 6 27 1 9 3 5 0 4 6 0 15 62 20 Waimataitai 2(i 282 17 11 25 9 9 608 1 2 62 Timaru [B]— Timaru (main) 1,974 13 5 178 7 6 161 17 9 James Scott P B. Ligertwood . Mary G. Grahame N. L. F. Miiller Lizzie Kippenberger Mina Kissel William Stirling Elizabeth H. Allan. Agnes Pearson Andrew Guthbert Alice Knight Marion E. Fisher Louisa Cameron Eliza Hooper Jane G. Bowley Mary McGowan Emma Webb Annie Peters Annie L. Nelson Jane Mcllroy Margaret C. Mahan Harriet Griffin 359 2 0 210 0 0 210 0 0 168 0 0 150 10 0 129 0 0 118 5 0 107 10 0 86 0 0 80 12 6 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 20 0 0 107 10 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 737 27 ■j.1 HIV AS HF AM AF AF AM AF AF AM FP FP FP FP FP FP FP FP HF FP FP FP 112 Timaru (side) as 246 17 6 33 0 0 30 14 7 Geraldine— Seaview 144 8 9 401 4 6 William Wollstein Mrs. Wollstein Alfred King Harloek James Stewart Helen Jefooate Mrs. Stewart 139 15 0 12 0 0 116 8 0 145 2 6 30 0 0 12 0 0 34 28 29 30 Kingsdown a .. Pareora 29 30 31 93 18 8 187 0 7 19 0 0 13 5 0 18 10 0 19 9 6 43 14 6 M S M M FP S 29 40 Waimate— St. Andrews 144 8 9 15 0 0 16 14 0 David Bone Mrs. Bone. Jane C. Fergusson Archibald Mahan Mrs. Mahan .. Alfred McClure George Greenfield E. Bannermann G. Mitford-Taylor . Mrs. Strong W Ward George B. Barclay John Marshall Mary A. Grant Sarah C. Bruce Sarah Ellen Dash Elizabeth Bruce [sabella Millar Caroline Hunt Annie Finn Andrew Dawson A. Maclintock .. 139 15 0 12 0 0 60 9 4 139 15 0 12 0 0 76 11 10 88 13 9 118 5 0 118 5 0* 12 0 0 285 12 0 139 15 0 112 17 6 96 15 0 75 5 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 88 13 0 118 5 0 30 31 32 M S P M S M M M M S HM AM AM AF AF FP FP FP FP FP M M 32 33 Upper Otaio" Otaio 33 34 58 4 9 138 5 5 7 12 6i 14 0 0 15 0 0 15 30 84 35 36 37 Makikihi" Hunter a Hook Waituna Creek 35 36 37 38 67 17 9 82 17 8 112 1 3 132 2 11 8 17 6 12 2 61 15 0 0 18 4 2 20 9 1 3 12 0 19 22 30 34 14 14 0 38 Waimate [B] 39 •993 19 11 70 17 11; 1,769 7 0 384 Waihao" Bedcliff Waihao Forks 1, Silverstream 6 Belfield" Kakahu Bush b 22 27 19 ,0 40 41 97 1 7 114 4 6 12 13 6: 14 15 0 2 4 8; 2 16 0 26 1 6 0 9 9 110 19 3 0 2 7 2 12 1 0 7 6 Totals . 9,460 1 5 985 15 1 6,547 6 2 9,2.36 8 5 2,932 dded. i> Not opened.

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c.— continued. WESTLAND.

'otb.—The amounts in colum: ) are two lines of figures for oa< iiyment by the Board. The dil is 4, ih so] iferor 5, 6, and 9 are supplied by the Secretary of iool: the upper line shows the amounts acti ce between the two sets of figures represents the late Board of Westla aally paid; tho lower line the amounts still unpaid, uu. give: [n columns 4, i i the amounts i, and 6 passed ihere 'or pi i> o S3 5 M Scliools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [Bj) in which situate. «H o • il a a 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. ■si °& £ o o Annual Salary and Allowance at the Bate paid during the Last Quarter of the Tear. U P Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. ■~s i 2 3 4 5 Grey— Kynnersley Totara Plat Orwell Creek. Ahaura Hatters' 4 5 1 2 3 £ s. a. (120 15 2 1134 10 2 (104 8 9 lllG 18 9 ( 95 12 6 (104 12 6 (45 5 5 153 12 1 (151 18 0 (167 10 1 (68 17 7 (84 4 2 108 0 7 131 9 7 308 5 9 ' 338 19 1 £ s. d. 22 8 4 29 9 10 8 15 0 8 15 0 815 0 8 15 0 8 15 0 33 19 8 15 12 i 1712 4 9 15 0 10 6 0 8 15 0 10 5 0 24 16 4 29 12 4 £ s. a. 5 10 3 60 11 9 10 6 10 19 14 10 10 14 10 394 12 6 75 16 6 290 13 6 5 6 10 5 6 10 15 15 9 107 3 1 8 17 0 16 8 0 44 11 0 329 5 6 Charles Hicks F M. Campbell Charles Heslin Bawin Porter John H. Rolton Ada Porter Duncan Corbett M M M M M AF M £ s. d. 150 0 0 150 0 0 108 0 0 100 0 0 158 5 0 60 0 0 100 0 0 30 26 27 15 41 6 Red Jack's 6 18 7 No Town 7 Edward A. Scott M 150 0 0 30 8 Brunnerton . 8 James Malcolm Eliza North William Malcolm Elizabeth Scott John A. Bromley HM AP MP PP M 237 0 0 95 0 0 36 0 0 20 0 0 151 10 0 130 Maori Gully (132 2 0 (144 14 8 (160 14 8 '(178 4 8 (72 2 6 180 9 2 (223 17 2 (244 14 3 (782 15 4 (927 2 6 11 5 0j 11 17 6 12 3 lO! 14 3 10! 13 18 0 19 2 0 13 19 1 15 18 0 120 10 2 148 8 4 44 18 6 127 6 0 45 16 11 190 17 9 9 8 9 266 12 9 7 16 3 24 7 3 17 6 2 457 17 10 82 9 9 10 Dunganville 10 Thomas F O'Day Mrs. O'Day F H. Robertson M jAF M 150 0 0 60 0 0 100 0 0 42 11 Marsden 11 17 12 Cobden 12 James Malcolm M 170 5 0 57 18 Greymouth [B] Paroa 13 Vacant Robert L. Clements Alexander Malcolm Catherine Brown Elizabeth Batchelor Fanny Kemple Elizabeth Robinson Marion Taylor Mary Pelling Henry D. Thomas Catherine Gilroy William A. Patrick HM AM AM AF AP FP PP PP PP M AP M 319 0 6 212 0 0 140 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 33 0 0 33 0 0 33 0 0 162 15 0 60 0 0 100 0 0 357 14 14 (188 13 i (202 4 1 (73 12 6 181 19 2 (77 5 10 |85 12 6 (492 5 2 1538 14 10 11 1 9 25 15 7 8 15 0 8 15 0 8 15 0 8 15 0 39 3 9 58 19 9 22 14 5 53 8 2 47 15 Westbrook 15 15*10 6 21 Greenstone .. 16 11 2 0 Charles J Patrick M 100 0 0 21 Kurrmra [B] 17 James Woodward F Tyrer Sophia Williams Florence Galland William Voysey Helen Rogers Mary Porster Agnes Pascoe HM A M AP AP MP PP PP P 266 15 6 160 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 36 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 54 0 0 229 Westland— Rangiriri» (15 15 0 129 5 0 [244 14 1 1268 13 11 Goldsborough 18 19 10 2 2 10 2 2 21 4 9 27 4 3 466 12 0 714 12 6 James Mulhearn Nancy Martin Henry Smith HM AP MP 201 18 0 80 0 0 20 0 0 82 16 Callaghan's a . 20 (2 10 0 |2 10 0 23 6 0 31 16 0 17 Stafford 21 (308'19 8 1339 2 10 8 0 0 48 16 0 T. Burns . Susan Hogg Andrew Stevenson .. William Marsh Arthur Everiss Margaret Oliver James Kirk Ezra Brook Dixon Robert T. Elcoate Annie Batten Jane Andrews Elizabeth Jones Eva Ecclesfield Arthur Reynolds . Laura Howe Esther Ward Mrs. Cameron HM AP MP MP HM AP MP HM AM AP AP AP PP MP PP PP F 230 18 0 90 0 0 36 0 0 25 0 0 150 0 0 60 0 0 30 0 0 319 7 C 200 0 0 135 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 33 0 0 36 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 45 0 0 119 Arahura Road yy (157 13 5 (172 13 5 17 15 6 17 15 6 43 15 6 122 18 6 51 IS Hokitika [B]. (778 19 11 1848 12 3 80 12 7 94 3 1 63 3 9 402 0 2 349 J 9 23 South Spit .. 24 (56 12 1 160 7 1 8 15 0 8 15 0 12 0 8 19 0 10 a Close id,

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Table No. 9. —List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c. — continued. WESTLAND— continued.

6 o .3 <y c a o 6™ Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [Bj) in which situate. °. rl Expenditure for the _i © © > w Maintenance. i. © © § Teachers' Other a ft Salaries and Ordinary q M Allowances. Expenditure. Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, __-. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. © © Annual ty £ Salary and g.2 d - Allowance . 5 '£ o at the Kate < # o§ paid during %> 1. *»*"*, -is o Quarter of g a "h the Year. j>EH Furniture, and Apparatus. £0 Westland— continued. Kanieri 25 £ s. d. (293 4 8 1318 11 6 £ s. d. 23 6 8 27 2 8 £ s. d. 0 18 0 Charles J Sale Mrs. Sale Henry Williams William C. Kelsoy Sale liams , Kelsc HI AI Ml ey M HM AF MP M £ s. d. M 208 2 0 91 P 80 0 0 P 30 0 0 [ 156 0 0 38 91 21 Bluespur 26 (132 5 11 1145 5 11 (85 14 2 (94 0 10 Jill 6 8 1130 10 0 (43 10 0 160 3 4 (79 16 8 188 3 4 (516 17 7 (565 14 0 8 15 6 8 15 6 16 15 0 20 15 0 12 9 11 17 5 11 8 15 0 8 15 0 11 19 0 11 19 0 35 12 9 47 0 1 10 14 0 10 14 0 5 15 0 5 15 0 22 10 0 23 15 0 178 19 6 178 19 6 38 Upper Crossing 27 Richard W Gill ' Gill M M 1 100 0 0 23 23 22 Woodstock .. 28 Jane Staines Jane Millner Mary Harris es er is F AI F F AF F 150 0 0 68 P 80 0 0 100 0 0 15 68 15 23 Lower Kokatahi 29 Upper Kokatahi 30 Lorenzo Tindall ndall M M [ 100 0 0 24 24 24 Ross [B] 31 5 0 0 8 13 0 298 10 11 William Winchester William D. Mackay Ada Mackay William Andrews Leopold De Bakker Gertrude Hirter Winifred Jones Coralie De Bakker 'inches . Macl idrews eBakl lirter ones Bakk( ister HI kay A B AI ■s Ml :ker M1 FI JFI :er j F HM AM AP MP IMP !fp PP F M 277 17 0 208 _ 160 0 0 F 80 0 0 P 36 0 0 P 25 0 0 P 20 0 0 P 15 0 0 150 0 0 38 208 Donoghue's (64 13 4 177 3 4 (45 5 5 (50 2 11 (70 0 5 184 15 0 (106 16 8 1130 18 9 (36 10 0 144 7 6 J29 16 3 129 16 3 (39 7 6 (45 0 0 2 0 0 71 18 7 8 8 0 107 17 0 38 25 Waitangi Okarito Gillespie's 32 33 34 35 12 8 0; 15 14 8. 8 15 0 8 15 0 8 15 0 8 15 0 10 10 6 10 10 6 5 12 6i 8 15 0 11 5 6 14 8 0 15 11 0 6 0 0 12 10 0 Mary Ann Murphy James O. Wilson Jessie Ralfe Murpl Vilson hy | F i ' M F F M F 58 10 0 13 : 100 0 0 25 1 | 150- 0 0 31 13 25 31 2G 27 Arawata 36 Margaret McFarlane IcFarl :lane F F 49 10 0 11 11 Arawata Flat 37 Vacant F F 40 10 0 Lake Brunner" 38 i i Sundries not charged to particular schools Ex )enditure _"< 8,134 3 6 2,336 T ot Classified. : ! ] 92 6 6 (188 15 6 Amount actually paid Amount passed for payment j 6,414 6 10 . | 7,198 19 11 686 9 111 1 722 19 3 861 7 6! 4,588 8 11 Balance unpaid 784 13 1 174 17 7 2,865 9 8 OTA' 0. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Waitaki — Kurow b Otiake Livingston Duntroon Awamoko Papakaio Pukeuri Oamaru [B] Oamaru District High 1 2 3 4 5 (5 7 110 10 0 124 0 0 149 0 0 169 0 0 147 15 0 186 15 0 355 10 0 3 15 0 11 5 0 16 15 0 16 15 0 16 15 0 24 0 0 41 0 0 485 0 0 26 3 5 73 19 0 5 0 0 M. A. Matheson Abraham M. Barnett David Sinclair James Rix C. F Sohmedes William Darley W H. Kneen Margaret Watson Robert Peattie M. M. Sangster William P Brunton M. McK. Crawford. Mary King Alicia M. Thompson Margaret Scott Jane Browlie James Lindsay Selina Amy Spedding Frank J Forbes Mary Nicol Jane Goulding Emma Jane Evans. Mary Islip James Borthwick . Robert Thompson P M M M M M M F HM HF AM AF AF FP FP FP HM HF AM AF AF FP PP MP MP 70 0 0 124 0 0 152 0 0 172 0 0 152 0 0 196 0 0 243 0 0 115 0 0 410 0 0 154 0 0 230 0 0 115 0 0 95 0 0 30 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 332 0 0 139 0 0 194 0 0 105 0 0 115 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 15 18 34 36 36 52 109 8 8 1,063 13 2 75 0 0 38 0 5 295 Oamaru North 361 9 1,094 19 2 88 0 0 504 3 0 Jlosed. Subsidized.

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c.—continued. OTAG O— continued.

o . 11 a I Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. "3 • II Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and I'upil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. o Annual 5 Salary and ri . Allowance 'o at the Rate o paid during ■SS the last o Quarter of P-. the Year. Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Atirmntiii Allowances. Expenditure. apparatus. Oamaru [B] — continued. Oamaru South 10 £ s. d. 1,047 17 6 £ s. d. 90 0 0 £ s. d. 442 8 3 John Harkness Eice Jane Laird Cooke William McDonald Bertha Bicknell Thomas Henry Gill Eva B. Cunninghamo Margaret B. Hastie Thomas McNaught Elizabeth Symons HM HF AM AF AM FP FP M P FP £ s. d. 326 0 0 129 0 0 194 0 0 115 0 0 124 0 0 40 0 0 35 0 0 55 0 0 35 0 0 38; Waitaki— Ngapara Teaneraki Waiareka 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Totara" Kakanui Malieno Otepopo 11 12 13 M 15 16 17 142 1G 8 1C8 10 0 312 10 0 82 18 4 341 10 0 266 9 7 407 15 0 20 5 0 20 5 0 41 0 0 7 10 0 41 0 0 32 15 0 44 0 0 7 15 0 537 16 G 292 5 0 A. P Drummond Francis Golding William F Johnson Minnie Tregoning David Pearson J G. M. MacLymont K. MacLymont David Cossgrove Edith Attwood G. W G. Mac'donald Margaret Me William Oscar Flamank Arthur W Tindall John Watt Margaret Watt William H. Walker Wynter Blathwayt Mary Mills M M M F M M F M F M F MP M M F M M F 157 0 0 177 0 0 209 0 0 105 0 0 153 0 0 217 0 0 125 0 0 195 0 0 105 0 0 234 0 0 119 0 0 45 0 0 172 0 0 239 0 0 125 0 0 158 0 0 209 0 0 105 0 0 4< 4! 9! 2' 8! 7! IK Waianakarua ° Harnpden 95 1 8 3G3 0 0 11 0 0 41 0 0 492 9 5 15 0 0 16 17 18 j<) 41 9! 18 19 Moeraki Pukeiviti 20 21 159 6 4 312 10 0 15 0 0 41 0 0 3: 9: 20 Waiheino — P&lmerston [B] 22 766 1 8 69 15 0 William Porteous Priscilla Lowry Charles G. Smeaton Janet Fleming Donald Ross James Grant Bosetta King John Black Grant Abel Warburton John Wright John Mills Eobert M. Beattie Margaret Trotter HM F A M FP MP MP FP M M M M M F 298 0 0 124 0 0 158 0 0 40 0 0 55 0 0 55 0 0 25 0 0 148 0 0 143 0 0 124 0 0 152 0 0 134 0 0 19,2 0 0 23: 21 22 23 24 25 2G Inch Valley .. Dunback Waihemo Macrae's Moonlight Goodwood 23 •21 25 26 27 28 162 13 0 133 10 0 134 15 0 134 0 5 124 0 0 188 5 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 Oi 20 5 0 15 0 0 22 0 0 3: 2' 2: 3! 2( 4i 3 3 0 Waikouaiti — Flag Swamp ., 244 0 0 30 0 0 James E. Pollok Mary Stuart Samuel Moore Harriet Darton William Maule James Valentine Mary Fell. Philip Bremner William Millar Christina Kirby Franklin Hollow Mrs. MoClintock Eichard H. Ferguson Sarah Cross Alexander M. Eoss Hugh A. Stewart Lawrence B. Wood Mary Sinclair Walter Turpin James Eennie Edgar de Vils Ivens Sara Moore Amelia Bott Margaret Harland Alice Monson Jane Duncan Mary Strachan Joseph Southwick Mrs. Southwick , George Foster Jane Dunlop Hooper Hannah Murray M F HM F AM M P FP M M F M S M F M M HM HF AM AM AM AF FP FP FP FP FP M S M F FP 174 0 0 70 0 0 274 0 0 134 0 0 134 0 0 60 0 0 25 0 0 162 0 0 184 0 0 70 0 0 162 0 0 20 0 0 211 0 0 115 0 0 157 0 0 143 0 0 434 0 0 173 0 0 282 0 0 230 0 0 133 0 0 105 0 0 40 0 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 187 0 0 20 0 0 231 0 0 105 0 0 35 0 0 27 29 r>( 28 Waikouaiti [B] 30 048 3 8 62 0 0 22 15 6 20' 29 30 Merton Seaclifi 31 32 176 3 4 258 14 0 22 0 0 32 15 0 4 0 0 4< 61 31 Evansdale 33 179 0 0 26 0 0 11 0 0 i<, 32 Blueskin 34 343 5 0 42 0 0 101 33 34 35 Purakanui Lower Harbour Port Chalmers [B] 35 36 37 159 10 0 154 5 0 1,492 19 G 22 0 0 15 0 0 103 5 0 4 0 0 64 12 0 4! 2( 47^ 36 Mount Cargill 38 202 16 8 22 0 0 43 37 Sawyer's Bay 39 372 5 0 44 0 0 13 8 11 104 a Open sevei months.

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c .—continued. OTAGO— continued.

CH o . 6 "o \A "}' |l ? 3 CO! Schools, a.nd the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) iu which situate. il t> m §S I! Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, aud Apparatus. A Teachers' Names, "£ including 0,11 Teachers and Pupil-teachers £ o on the Staff at the End § .g of the Tear. IB <B o Annual Salary find Allowance at tba Kate during the Last Quarter of the Year. I Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. 38 39 40 Waikouaiti — continued. St. Leonards Eavensbourne [B] North-East Valley [B] (40 41 42 £ s. d. 200 15 0 621 10 0 788 18 4 £ s. d. 22 0 0 58 0 0 73 5 0 £ S. d. 66 13 7 816 8 6 148 19 0 Thomas Johnston Mrs. Johnston James Aitken Eliza Derham Mary A. Gibson Edward Finder John Henderson John Macfarlane Agnes Short Robert Fergus Frances Hawkes Emma Hayes Jane Bethune Emma Godso Eobert S. Gardner Christina Gardner M S M HF AF MP MP HM HF A M AF FP FP FP M S £ s. a. 172 0 0 20 0 0 242 0 0 129 0 0 95 0 0 60 0 0 45 0 0 313 0 0 134 0 0 182 0 0 105 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 25 0 0 187 0 0 20 0 0 38 169 278 Pine Hill 43 207 0 0 22 0 0 43 41 Dunedin City [B] — William Street 1,456 2 7 125 14 10 John Brown Park . Annie Anderson Walter Hislop James W Smith Verona Campbell Leonard A. Line Margaret Adams Selina Jane Dale Alfred Burn Isabella Davies Margaret McGrogan James Hislop Jessie Lowe Abraham Barrett Isabella E. Hay John H. Chapman . Peter McGregor Christina Miller Eobert Cowan Mary Montgomery George D. Braik Andrew Campbell Henry P. Kelk James M. Beattie Dora S. Lawrence Isabella Sutherland Helen Bolt Isabella Macarthur M. W Anderson John L. Ferguson Mary Grace Nichols James Mahoney James Hendry Lillias A. Fowler .. Catherine Haig A. Sutherland Margaret MoDougall William Thomson James Fleming James Garrow Mary McMillan ., Jane Campbell Jane Mackie. Christina Eobertson Alexander Stewart Christina White David White George Balsille Mary Eoberts James Fitzgerald Ellen Adams Margaret T. Dutch Grace T. Thomson Eobert Church Alexander J Stewart Agnes Eodger Annie Alexander William Burnside . Alexander Eiaoli ,. 389 0 0 153 0 0 257 0 0 195 0 0 100 0 0 114 0 0 35 0 0 35 0 0 55 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 425 0 0 163 0 0 261 0 0 234 0 0 119 0 0 153 0 0 110 0 0 114 0 0 60 0 0 55 0 0 45 0 0 30 0 0 80 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 410 0 0 183 0 0 261 0 0 244 0 0 115 0 0 120 0 0 124 0 0 40 0 0 60 0 0 55 0 0 55 0 0 35 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 25 0 0 407 0 0 163 0 0 291 0 0 224 0 0 125 0 0 163 0 0 95 0 0 35 0 0 35 0 0 45 0 0 45 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 A i>, i14 76 16 11 HM HF AM AM AF AM FP FP MP FP FP MP FP HM HF AM AM AF AM AF AM MP MP MP FP FP FP FP FP HM HF AM AM AF AF AM FP M P M P MP FP FP FP FP HM HF AM AM AF AM AF FP FP MP MP FP FP MP MP 533 Arthur Street 45 1,818 13 2 142 14 10 75 19 1 704 Albany Street 46 1,826 0 2 139 U 9 36 14 6 617 Union Street 47 1,745 4 0 144 4 10 359 10 3 608

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c. — continued. OTAGO— continued.

H Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. •H O r-3 if Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Teachers' Names, including , all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Stair at the End of the Year. o Annual 6p 5 Salary and E $ a . Allowance > 1 "■o at the Rate *)« o 2 paid d uring &p £| the last ■at g ffl Quarlerof 9h the Year. Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. Furniture, and Apparatus. Dunedin City [B] — contd. George Street Stafford Street Normal 48 4!) 50 £ s. d. 1,707 5 10 95 0 0 2,158 6 6 £ s. d. 142 2 9 28 5 0 232 4 2 £ s. d. 352 10 1 47 8 0 49 2 2 David A. McNicoll. Jane Spratt George H. Smith Alexander McLean Vacant William Fitzgerald Isabella Fraser Lillie Thompson Emma Lacey Alfred Matthews Isabella Hitchcock Peter Anderson Agnes G. Donald Annabella Broome .. Isabella Dow A. Montgomery Emma Stevens Thomas C. Farnie Marjory Huie Samuel P Seymour Charles R. Smith Jane Dow Hamilton Scott John S. Tennent John E. Gunn Elizabeth Bolton John Fitzgerald Moses South Mary McCarthy Edwin Thomas Earl 0. Livingstone HM HF AM AM AF AM AF FP FP MP FP MP FP FP F HM HF AM AF AM AM AF MP MP MP FP MP MP FP HM FP £ s. d. 395 0 0 158 0 0 261 0 0 204 0 0 115 0 0 144 0 0 95 0 0 40 0 0 35 0 0 55 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 95 0 0 500 0 0 183 0 0 271 0 0 144 0 0 167 0 0 143 0 0 95 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 55 0 0 40 0 0 55 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 260 0 0 30 0 0 598 44 674 Model School Peninsula — Anderson's Bay George Hume Isabella Begg Alexander Pirie W Ogilvie Duthie Mary Robertson William Stewart John Henry Wilson James Barton Jane Mitchell William P Marris John Reid Jessie Brunton Annie P. Neish M F M M S M P M M F M M F F 217 0 0 105 0 0 178 0 0 184 0 0 20 0 0 60 0 0 143 0 0 190 0 0 70 0 0 143 0 0 217 0 0 115 0 0 85 0 0 48 51 323 10 0 41 0 0 83 44 45 North-East Harbour Highclifl 52 53 191 0 0 262 0 0 20 5 0 30 0 0 33 08 51 7 0 46 47 Broad Bay Portobello 54 55 138 5 0 260 0 0 15 0 0 30 0 0 9 6 10 10 0 0 28 58 48 49 Hooper's Inlet Sandymount . 56 r>7 166 15 0 300 0 0 15 0 0 38 5 0 21 4 0 40 0 0 29 84 50 Taiaroa Heads" Taieri — Waikari 58 68 11 8 7 10 0 19 51 52 53 Kaikorai [B] Caversham [B] — Caversham 50 GO 01 1,441 14 4 309 10 0 931 1 8 122 0 0 41 0 0 80 5 0 42 12 0 William A. Paterson Thyrza Davies David McLauchlan Isabella Turnbull Alexander Stott Jessie Russell Jessie Ross Eliza Sheriff Mary Russell Bodney Moir William Milne Elizabeth L. Donald Owen J Hodge Margaret McLoskey Mary MoEwen John 0. Browne E. M. Harrison John A. McPhee Mary Hegarty Clara Calder Elizabeth Faulks John Rutherford Sophia A. Ferens M F HM HF AM AF FP FP FP FP HM HF AM AF AF AM FP MP FP FP FP MP F 195 0 0 105 0 0 325 0 0 154 0 0 211 0 0 120 0 0 40 0 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 392 0 0 153 0 0 267 0 0 119 0 0 110 0 0 114 0 0 35 0 0 55 0 0 30 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 40 0 0 95 0 0 524 85 319 Benovelent Taieri — Kensington [B] C2 95 0 0 31 54 68 790 13 4 75 0 0 HM HF AM AF MP FP FP 296 0 0 124 0 0 182 0 0 95 0 0 45 0 G 30 0 0 25 0 0 287 William J Moore Jessie D. Kinvig Walter Eudey Caroline Little Oliver Growden Margaret Gow Henrietta Hilgendorf " Subsii lized.

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Table No. 9. —List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff &c .— continued. OTAG O— continued.

O O <v o §■§ CM Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. i *o^ it +3 o i| J* Maintenance. Expenditure tor the Tear. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and Pupil-teachers on the Staff at the End of the Year. d> Annual %>£ ■S Salary and S| fl . Allowance t> a ■""3 at the Elite <0 o j§ paid during £° the Last jjlj o Quarter of u'^ the Year. t Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. Taieri— continued. Forbury [B] £ s. d. 1,354 3 5 £ s. d. 105 0 0 £ s. d. 800 0 6 George Reid Elizabeth Ken- Hay . Richard G. Whetter Helen Alexander John A. Johnson Jane Sim James Hardy W,illiam Carsewell Jessie Maxwell Isabella Hutton Eliza Jack HI HF AM AP AM AP MP MP FP FP FP £ s. d. 355 0 0 164 0 0 228 0 0 125 0 0 134 0 0 105 0 0 55 0 0 55 0 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 401 55 64 Macandrow Road [B] a 251 56 05 276 15 8 34 0 0 2,798 13 11 William Bennett Agnes Forsyth John R. Don Mary F Simpson Elizabeth Reid HM HF AM AF FP 280 0 0 134 0 0 172 0 0 95 0 0 25 0 0 Momington [Bj 1 129 13 6 412 14 2 57 60 96 0 0 Alexander Kyle Janet Mclntosh James Jeffery Janet W Paterson George L. Stewart James Jack Ethel R. Smith Agnes Rankin William J Strong Isabella MoLeod HM HF AM AF AM MP FP FP MP FP 341 0 0 139 0 0 214 0 0 115 0 0 114 0 0 60 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 45 0 0 25 0 0 385 Green Island 244 58 59 60 01 62 63 Walton Saddle Hill Brighton Kuri Bush Otokia 68 69 70 71 72 67 664 13 0 340 5 0 163 5 0 148 15 0 95 10 0 293 0 0 42 0 0 22 0 0 15 0 0 11 5 0 30 0 0 08 0 0 1 902 19 10 43 11 2 28 15 0 382 16 6 William Duncan Ellen Jane Home .. Henry L. Darton John Mathieson Catherine Faulds Isabella Mason John Blair Jessie Mills Joseph Stewart James Warburton Mary A. Garry John Menzies Catherine F Menzies Leonard Cockayne Elizabeth Mackay James Waddell Annie Gray Shand Margaret Purvis Donald MacLeod Mary Algie Elizabeth L. Shand George B. Anderson Jane L. Couper Jane Anderson Charles C. Hubbard HM P AM MP FP FP M F M M F M F M F M F FP M F FP M F FP M 305 0 0 134 0 0 138 0 0 55 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 201 0 0 115 0 0 162 0 0 143 0 0 85 0 0 224 0 0 70 0 0 198 0 0 80 0 0 238 0 0 119 0 0 25 0 0 240 0 0 119 0 0 25 0 0 251 0 0 125 0 0 35 0 0 124 0 0 101 38 26 21 63 67 64 Greytown 73 302 15 6 32 15 0 65 East Taieri .. 74 379 1 6 45 0 0 130 66 Mosgiel . 75 379 1 6 45 0 0 12 10 0 136 North Taieri 70 407 5 0 42 0 0 103 07 Mullocky Gully Tahora b Strath-Taieri. Whare Flat Outram 124 0 0 7 4 2 17 68 69 70 71 72 77 78 79 80 81 114 0 0 140 0 0 499 5 6 •• 15 0 0 48 10 0 435 10 0 Andrew Purves John Whyte David Murray Jessie 0. Brown Ritchings Grant John Chisholm Thomas C. Fraser Mary Mclntosh Henry Henderson William Ferguson M M M F M P MP M F M M 124 4 0 158 0 0 259 0 0 129 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 214 0 0 70 0 0 177 0 0 107 0 0 15 32 156 West Taieri . 280 0 0 30 0 0 65 73 82 20 10 0 74 75 Maungatua Lake Waipori 83 04 170 15 0 159 15 0 22 0 0} 22 0 0 14 0 0 43 40 7G Bruce— Taieri Ferry 85 269 0 0 26 0 0 Charles H. Morgan Harriett Morgan Robert Bell John L. Bonnin Jane Watson George W Carrington James Dunbar Emilia Menzies Thomas Finlay M S MP M F M M F M 192 0 0 20 0 0 55 0 0 205 0 0 115 0 0 167 0 0 215 0 0 105 0 0 153 0 0 47 Waihola 86 314 15 0 38 5 0 79 77 78 79 Taieri Beach. Waihola Gorge 87 88 164 10 0 310 7 3 22 0 0 38 5 0 9 10 0 43 80 80 Circle Hill .. 89 153 0 0 15 0 Oi 16 0 0 28 i> Open six months. 1) Not opened.

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c.-continued. OTAG O— continued.

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itExpenditure for the Year. o Annual to^ 3 Salary and E| a . Allowance t> 'g'o at the Rate & o 2 paid during ■Sjg I the Last $% o Quarter of b# the Year. £h t> Schools, and the Counties or Borougha (the lattfir marked [B]) in which situate. o 9 ,'p' JJ Maintenance. Buildings, Teachers' Other Furniture, k £a! i:.;?.s ;:;ul Ordinary n, ' ' + Q » l Allowances. Ezpenditure. | A l'l ia!a ™ B - Maintenance. Teachers' Names, including all Teaohers and I'upil-tonohers on tbo Stall at tlio End of tho Year. 81 Bruce— continued.Tokomairiro [B] — Tokomairiro Bistrro High 90 £ s. d. 1 389 10 6 £ s. d. 80 0 0 & B. d. 72 5 0 James Reid Mary McLaren Cornelius Mahoney William MoElrea Henrietta J Bett Fanny Matheson James Parlane Sarah Albert Walter Graham Grace Ferguson George Menzies Catherine Buick Ellen Laing Jessie Grant John Beattie John A. Gray. Alexander McDuff Jane White James Gunning Closs Alice Irwin John White Margaret McQueen John Nicholson Helen Galloway John E. Hawse Charles Nicholson Annie R. Hope Maria E. Thompson Alexander Drain Elizabeth McGown James McNeur Anstiss Dottin Silk. Alexander Grigor Mary Kinlooh Allan Jonathan Golding Editli Brewer Margaret Campbell William Renton John Porteous Robert Huie Henry Mitchell HI HF AM AM AF AF MP FP M P FP M F F . F M M M F ! M S M F HM F AM MP FP F M S M F HM F AM FP FP M M M M £ s. d 412 0 0 149 0 0 253 0 0 207 0 0 95 0 0 105 0 0 60 0 0 35 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 215 0 0 105 0 0 70 0 0 143 0 0 143 0 0 153 0 0 148 0 0 85 0 0 107 0 0 20 0 0 124 0 0 70 0 0 270 0 0 124 0 0 124 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 85 0 0 162 0 0 20 0 0 209 0 0 105 0 0 268 0 0 124 0 0 124 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 153 0 0 177 0 0 152 0 0 172 0 0 347 Fairfax 80 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 Akatore a Glenledi Southbridgo Glenore Manuka Croek Adam's Mat Lovell's Mat 9 9 93 94 95 96 97 98 287 11 8 90 18 4 138 5 0 287 16 8 148 5 0 140 0 0 114 5 0 182 8 10 32 15 0 7 10 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 18 10 0 7 10 0 22 0 0 16 0 0 13 0 0 8 10 0 14 26 28 26 33 23 42 30 11 1 90 91 92 Stony Creek Hillend" Kaitangata 99 100 101 128 15 0 82 10 0 587 5 0 15 0 0 3 15 0 00 0 0 8 4 0 20 7 0 21 18 197 Wangaloa Tuapoka Mouth Clutha— Stirling 78 10 0 220 0 3 3 15 0 22 0 0 13 0 0 19 39 93 94 102 103 95 104 298 0 0 41 0 0 96 96 Balclutha [B] 105 555 19 9 56 0 0 181 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 Te Houka Waitepeka Waropa Kaihiku i Waiwera Township 1, Waiwera Puerua Port Molyneux 100 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 149 5 0 174 10 0 144 10 0 156 7 2 15 0 0 22 0 0 22 0 0 22 0 0 27 40 38 38 450 3 0 157 0 0 165 15 0 224 7 4 22 0 0 22 0 0 22 0 0 Windsor G. Fraser James Arthur Eix William Waddell Annie Geggie George Ii. Querini James Robertson Mary A. Ferguson Alexander Nicol John Campbell Christina Darling Thomas C. Harrison Mrs. Harrison Charles Young Archibald F Joseph John Sayle Dalby ■ M M M S M M F M M F M S M M M ■ 152 0 0 167 0 0 207 0 0 20 0 0 124 0 0 184 0 0 70 0 0 124 0 0 217 0 0 115 0 0 196 0 0 20 0 0 172 0 0 143 0 0 143 0 0 37 39 44 105 106 Ahuriri Owakc 114 115 124 0 0 252 0 0 IS 0 0 30 0 0 24 60 107 108 Tahatika Clinton 116 117 125 19 6 311 19 8 15 0 0 38 5 0 25 11 6 22 85 109 Wairuna 118 211 15 0 24 0 0 14 1 6 52 110 111 112 Waipahi Waikoikoi ' .. Glenkenicli Tuapeka— Tapanui [B] 119 120 121 152 0 0 309 0 7 143 0 0 22 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 17 8 0 39 27 25 6 0 0 113 122 528 18 4 52 0 0 James Kerr Menzies Selina M. Bennett David S. Mason Mary Jane Hay Charles Eoseveare Maria Anderson James Milne James Ure Murray John H. Patrick William Macandrew Jane Kelly Mary Ann Wall Jemima Crozier Andrew Anderson Helen Anderson Robert Blair Langley Pope Elizabeth Morrison HM F A M FP M F M M M M F FP FP M F M M F 237 0 0 119 0 0 124 0 0 40 0 0 134 0 0 85 0 0 162 0 0 153 0 0 143 0 0 245 0 0 109 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 215 0 0 125 0 0 124 0 0 197 0 0 105 0 0 159 .14 .15 .16 17 .18 .19 Swift Creek Crookston Kelso Heriot Mount Stuart Waitahuna 123 124 125 12G 127 128 144 15 0 90 13 2 157 5 0 149 10 0 144 5 0 410 6 8 15 0 0 7 10 0 20 5 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 46 15 0 20 23 38 27 29 135 4 0 0 13 13 0 37 13 2 Waitahuna Gully 340 10 0 41 0 0 21 12 6 78 .20 129 .21 .22 Clark's Mat Wethers tones 130 131 124 0 0 302 0 0 15 0 0 41 0 0 61 15 0 21 83 »Sul tsiclizocl. t> Not opened. n T71 -t

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c.— continued OTAGO— continued.

C4—I ii q> o S3 5* Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. Ljl If Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. o Annual Teachers' Names, 5 JllSS^ including all Teachers S~ i thTliate and Pupil-teachers 8 8 ~m2^?™ on the Staff at the End |« Thl Last of the Year. %& gS£& the Year. If 1 Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. 12c Tuapeka— continued. Lawrence [BJ IS: £ s. d. 1,068 15 10 £ s. d.i 68 0 0 18 7 9 27 3 6 271 15 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 £ s. d. 18 7 9 John Stenhouse t Jane B. Powler William C. Allnutt Bessie Bushell . Jane Robertson Lillian E. Powler John A. McNickle Agnes McLean Robert Neill Jessie Pope Georgina Blair A. G. Thomson Mary Ann Morgan Charies 1C. Kerr Mary Lean C. W G. Selby Annie Darton George Adams Richard J Barrett. James T. Bryant Elizabeth Bryant James Guthrie Agnes J Ballantyne William A. Reilly Prances Oudaille Arthur A. Smith .. HM HP AM AP PP PP MP PP M HP AP MP FP M F M P M M M S M P i M F MP £ s. d. 410 0 0 159 0 0 228 0 0 95 0 0 35 0 0 30 0 0 45 0 0 25 0 0 248 0 0 134 0 0 95 0 0 45 0 0 25 0 0 190 0 0 70 0 0 180 0 0 70 0 0 168 0 0 124 0 0 167 0 0 20 0 0 180 0 0 70 0 0 238 0 0 109 0 0 40 0 0 261 Bluespur 124 133 543 15 0 56 0 0 181 Waipori 223 18 9 28 0 0 125 134 27 3 6 56 126 Evans Plat 135 244 0 0 30 0 0 271 15 0 57 127 128 129 Tuapeka West Tuapeka Plat Beaumont 136 137 138 168 0 0 134 18 8 182 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 22 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 30 23 44 130 Moa Plat 13S 252 0 0 30 0 0 56 131 i Roxburgh [B] 140 382 14 10 45 0 0 127 132 133 134 Coal Creek" Vincent — Bald Hill Plat Alexandra [B] 141 142 143 123 8 4 305 0 0 " 11 5 0 32 15 0 425 0 0 13 - 0 0 40 10 0 30 0 0 398 5 0 11 0 0 0 8 6 8 16 6 George Sydney Pope F Scott Aldred Sarah E. Bowden Joseph E. Stevens Dora S. Stevens William Davidson Christina Seott Ellen Fleming George B. Clark Susanna Grahams Ann P Jones Robina Todd William S. Saunders John Robertson Mungo Allison Henry Bishop John Menzies 144 0 0 204 0 0 70 0 0 227 0 0 125 0 0 227 0 0 125 0 0 30 0 0 198 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 85 0 0 124 0 0 124' 0 0 144 0 0 106 0 0 172 0 0 135 136 137 Clyde Cromwell [B] Bartnockbum 144 145 146 353 0 0 375 7 7 253 18 8 41 0 0 41 0 0 30 0 0 "M M F M F M P FP M S PP P M M M M M 22 64 88 83 67 138 139 140 141 142 143 Kawarau Bendigo Nevis Hawea Black's Matakanui Maniototo— St. Bathans Cambrian Blackstone Gimmerbum.. l'j\vcburn b 1 Kyoburn b ) Naseby [B] 147 148 149 150 151 152 100 1 5 118 5 0 95 6 8 144 0 0 160 10 0 168 0 0 11 5 0 15 0 0i 3 15 0 15 0 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 20 24 17 22 53 46 144 145 146 147 148J 149 150 153 154 155 156 124 0 0 163 5 0 J 94 11 2 104 0 0 15 0 0 22 0 0 3 15 0 11 5 0 4 10 0 410 10 0 James Pairlie Morris Agnes McNaughton Jane Wilson William W. Fallows M P F M 124 0 0 172 0 0 85 0 0 124 0 0 20 38 19 19 fl7 111 153 157 138 1 4 Reginald H. Draper M 124 0 0 158 498 15 0 52 0 0 130 0 0 15 0 0 206 15 0 15 0 0 William H. Worsop Annie Clark Jessie Cairns Annie Bohning William McLaren Mary Plamank William Ridland Ebenezer Piper Elizabeth Annett M HF AP PP M F M M S 244 0 0 129 0 0 95 0 0 30 0 0 143 0 0 124 0 0 148 0 0 186 0 0 20 0 0 151 152 153 154 Kyebum Diggings Hamilton's . Patearoa Hyde 159 160 161 162 153 0 0 124 0 0 148 0 0 193 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 24 0 0 29 23 34 52 Salary of Drill Instructor School Buildings— Supervision of erection Preparing plans, &c. Not chargeable to any particular school School appliances Exj lenditure No >£ Classified. 18 5 0 364 5 10 350 0 0 193 3 11 268 7 5 56,401 0 9 5,550 5 4 16,293 14 7 56,611 0 0 16428 >N( )t opened. i> H-di'-t.me.

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c. — continued. SOUTHLAND.

6 2 0> f/3 a> o ( Schools, and the Counties or Boroughs (the latter marked [B]) in which situate. lit a> o II §1 Maintenance. Expenditure for the Year. Buildings, Sites, Furniture, and Apparatus. a> Annual Teachers' Names, ~ a^ including all Teachers .9 J .ttheEato and I'upil-teachors g 8 „„,-,?l,rinl on the Staff at the End -S-g P th» S of the Year. |£ Quarter of the Year. o> ■S3 Teachers' Other Salaries and Ordinary Allowances. Expenditure. G 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 2 3 4 5 Southland— Lumsden Dipton Fernhills Limehills Winton [B] North Forest Hill Elderslie South Forest Hill Ryal Bush Hcddon Bush "Wrey's Bush Wairio Waianiwa 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 2 3 4 5 £ s. d. 205 18 0 145 18 0 34 8 11 181 7 7 321 0 11 204 1 8 209 6 8 97 10 5 210 10 0 135 1 8 125 13 4 147 7 8 250 15 0 £ s. d. 13 1 8 12 5 0 2 15 0 13 8 1 319 4 4 12 4 3 8 10 7 7 10 0 11 4 4 13 0 7 10 10 8 11 19 0 15 13 6 £ s. d. 10 0 0 18 6 373 18 0 72 17 7 11 10 0 23 4 0 14 6 0 2 5 0 209 12 6 27 2 0 168 19 0 Walter W. Madden Lottie Legge William Christie .. Christina Wrcytt Atherton Fuller Clara Shand James Eohson Nellie Christie Isabella Sutherland Thomas Horan Robert Nesbitt Kenneth Sutherland Duncan McNeil Thomas McKenzie Herbert A. Wild Arthur J Millard Samuel R. Girle Neil Sutherland Thomas Warnock William A. Rowe Jane M. Tait A. E. Featherstone Jessie S. Morton George H. Macan Eric K. J McKay Alice G. Lucas Thomas Jolly Mary A. Jolly Andrew McDonald. Jane Fairweather George Hardie Margaret O'Rourke Mary Hardie M S M F M FP M F FP M M P M MP M M M P M M M M S FP F M M F M S M F M F FP £ s. a. 159 0 0 35 0 0 138 0 0 130 0 0 159 2 0 25 0 0 215 10 0 110 0 0 25 0 0 157 0 0 40 0 0 149 0 0 55 0 0 103 0 0 143 0 0 55 0 0 132 0 0 136 0 0 145 0 0 173 16 0 20 0 0 45 0 0 124 0 0 150 0 0 173 16 0 102 10 0 143 0 0 20 0 0 245 0 0 100 0 0 207 10 0 110 0 0 45 0 0 10 37 33 51 121 47 39 21 33 27 31 34 66 14 15 W Spar Bush Wallacetown Waikiwi 14 15 16 10 6 8 146 15 0 280 4 2 12 4 4 15 16 1 386 7 6 6 0 0 4 7 6 45 66 17 West Plain 17 171 4 3 12 6 10 5 0 0 45 18 Gladstone [B] 18 366 17 11 19 12 5 101 19 North Invercargill [B] 19 374 5 9 21 19 2 125 20 Invercargill [B] — Central School 20 1,3G8 14 10 159 18 0 540 17 8 William G. Mehafiey M. A. Smith Thomas B. Bennett Alexander Lindsay W S. Bain Annie Thomson Frederick Joyce Caroline McLeod Joanna Mclvor Margaret Hamilton Isabella Dryburgh Annie Jaggers James Orr Jane G. Smith John Smyth Agnes McNeilage Grace Bryden Edmund Webber Catharine McKenzie James Hain William Sebo Fanny Bethune Lucy Joyce Margaret Giimour Ellen Cumming Ellen Birss Eliza Gumming' Margaret Bamsay M F AM AM AF AF MP FP FP FP FP FP M F AM FP FP M F ! A Mj AM AF AF FP FP FP FP FP 336 4 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 183 0 0 107 10 0 102 10 0 55 0 0 45 0 0 30 0 0 45 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 291 0 0 120 0 0 130 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 :J27 0 0 150 0 0 240 0 0 180 0 0 105 0 0 1C0 0 0 40 0 0 SO 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 521 North School 185 2] 595 14 1 South School 22 1 108 '.) 0 450 Southland — Otatara Bush Clifton 21 55 21 22 23 24 25 Campbelltown [B] Atliol Waikaia 23 24 25 2G 27 120 12 6 284 6 0 241 17 3 121 5 0 223 12 3 10 0 0 18 13 9 14 2 5 10 9 3 13 12 6 75 0 0 16 10 6 John Kelly James Murdoch Sarah A. Murdoch Thomas Merrie Andrew Young Mary A. McDonald Edith M. Townsend Mary Service A. F. Elwell M. 0. Elwell Richard O'Farrell George Gazzard J McLachlan, B.A. John W McLeod Joseph Kilburn John Bennett M M S M P M S FP F M S M M M M M M 103 0 0 1G5 10 0 20 0 0 45 0 0 175 8 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 130 0 0 179 18 0 45 0 0 150 0 0 146 0 0 152 0 0 130 0 0 138 0 0 131 0 0 63 25 53 20 27 28 29 80 Q1 Knapdale Pukerau Otama Waikaia Cro} clon , Otaria 28 29 30 31 32 33 147 1 0 131 18 4 61 1C 8 54 3 4 11 10 0 134 11 0 11 15 6 11 8 6 3 3 9; 6 0 0 45 41 47 25 435 15 0 410 0 0 415 0 0 5 0 0 10' 6 7 26

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Table No. 9.—List of the Public Schools, the Expenditure, Staff, &c.— continued. SOUTHLAND— continued.

-g ° >3 I Expenditure for the Tear. a I Schools, and the ~ Q Counties or Boroughs >' a Maintenance. Buildings, ■§3 (the latter marked [B]) Sites, || in which situate. || Teftc , lera , gther Furnihu-e, §1 S & Salaries aud Ordinary , ™ tn , 6 S " Allowances. Expenditure. it CD « 11 3 s J\I:i,iui",ciianco. Expenditure for the Tear. Buildings, frites, Furn Hiiro, and .Apparatus. Teachers' Names, including all Teachers and l J upil-teachers on the Staff at the End oi: tho Year. © A nnual Teachers' Name,, | Alliance including all Teachers .9 J a tt h TSte on the Skill'at the End ig-g 1 X,' r ™.i s of the Yea,. |£ P« the Year. o Annual &p 5 Salary and g 2 pi . Allowance > s 'o at the Eate & o9 paid during S,J the Last I'S g Quarter of "2 3 Ph the Tear. £ H Teachers' Other Salaries and Ori.!inn.ry Allowances. Expenditure. Southland — continued. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 32 Chatton ..34 140 16 8 8 11 0 5 5 0 83 Pinnacle 35 130 3 4 12 0 6 34 Eiversdale .. 36 134 6 8 7 15 0 4 10 0 35 Gore . .37 357 1 1 15 16 3 38 4 0 36 Mataura ,' 38 368 2 0 23 15 0 76 10 0 37 Tuturau . 39 137 13 4 10 12 oi 35 0 0 38 Wyndham . 40 192 18 6 17 7 5 34 10 0 39 Edendale .. .. 41 226 9 7 13 16 1 40 Mimihau ... ..42 107 0 0 23 13 7 12 0 0 41 South Wyndham .. 43 121 14 2 10 6 3 6 13 6 42 Pine Bush .. .. 44 86 3 4 10 0 0 43 Fortrose 45 147 13 4 12 2 11 282 12 0 44 Hedgehope 46 64 19 4 12 10 0 4 3 6 45 Grove Bush .. 47 152 11 8 11 10 5 29 3 11 46 Eoslin Bush .. 48 107 8 4 10 3 1 35 10 0 47 Myross Bush . 49 151 8 4 11 18 10 15 0 0 48 Woodlands . 50 215 12 7 14 0 9 12 0 0 49 Long Bush 51 223 15 11 13 7 4 50 0 0 50 Oteramika .. 52 73 4 1 7 10 0 51 One-Tree Point 53 144 3 4 11 11 2 35 4 0 32 33 34 35 no 37 38 39 34 35 36 37 38 39 4.0 41 £ s. d. 8 11 0 12 0 6 7 15 0 15 16 3 23 15 0 10 12 oi 17 7 5 13 16 1 23 13 7 10 6 3 10 0 0 12 2 11 12 10 0 11 10 5 10 3 1 11 18 10 14 0 9 £ s. d. 5 5 0 4 10 0 38 4 0 76 10 0 35 0 0 34 10 0 12 0 0 6 13 6 John Officer Henry Collins John S. Andrews John Neill Margaret Buchanan Flora Eoss John Anderson Mary Milne Margaret Williams W J Williams Hugh Kelly Janet IVlcLeod Jessie Forsyth Thomas Monteath Martha Blackley Eobert Stevenson J 0. McLure Esau Fisher Thomas Carsowcll David Wassell Thomas Steven Dugald Cameron Sarah Cameron P W Culligan J von Tunzelmann M. von Tunzelmann Jessie Carnahan Robert Stewart Agnes Carnahan Ellen Todd Colin Stevens George F. Booth £ s. d. M 141 0 0 36 M 152 0 0 50 M 132 0 0 27 M 213 0 0 136 F 115 0 0 FP 30 0 0 M 226 0 0 153 F 112 10 0 FP 25 0 0 M 136 0 0 31 M 159 16 0 50 S 20 0 0 FP 25 0 0 M 170 12 0 01 S 20 0 0 M P 40 0 0 M 103 0 0 21 M 106 0 0 22 M 123 0 0 21 M 137 0 0 44 M 56 0 0 14 M 15G 0 0 41 F 137 0 0 27 M 142 0 0 44 M 163 18 0 63 S- 20 0 0 FP 30 0 0 M 155 0 0 50 S 20 0 0 FP 30 0 0 M 68 0 0 17 M 145 0 0 38 M M M M F PP M F FP M M S PP M S M P M M M M M M F M M SFP M S FP M M £ s. d. 141 0 0 152 0 0 132 0 0 213 0 0 115 0 0 30 0 0 226 0 0 112 10 0 25 0 0 136 0 0 159 16 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 170 12 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 103 0 0 106 0 0 123 0 0 137 0 0 56 0 0 15G 0 0 137 0 0 142 0 0 163 18 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 155 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 68 0 0 145 0 0 36 50 27 136 153 31 5G 61 21 22 21 44 14 41 27 44 63 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 282 12 0 4 3 0 29 3 11 35 10 0 15 0 0 12 0 0 49 SI 13 7 4 50 0 0 50 50 51 52 53 7 10 0 11 11 2 35 4 0 17 38 Wallace— 52 Orepuki . 54 220 6 5 15 15 3 22 3 G 53 Eiverton [B] .55 705 4 9 39 4 3 130 0 0 54 Limestone Plains . 50 166 18 11 10 0 55 Gummie's Bush 57 142 1 8 11 7 6 12 0 0 56 Otautau . 58 120 5 8 12 4 2 57 Thornbury . 59 90 1 8 G 0 6 551 19 0 58 Groper's Bush . 60 147 15 0 10 13 C 59 Flint's Bush .. CI 145 13 4 11 3 0 52 53 54 55 15 15 3 39 4 3 22 3 G 130 0 0 Henry P Young Ellen M. Young Elizabeth Escott J 0. Adams, B.A. Martha E. Ingram Charles A. Strack Catherine Fullarton Edwin J Tall Emily Robinson John Macrae John Gray Thomas Kernahan John Williamson John M. Dark John McLeod M 173 10 0 70 S 20 0 0 FP 25 0 0 M 258 12 0 234 F 115 0 0 AM 145 0 0 FP 45 0 0 MP 45 0 0 FP 30 0 0 M 157 0 0 42 M 146 0 0 41 M 152 0 0 47 M 159 0 0 44 M 131 0 0 26 M 141 0 0 31 M S FP M F AM FP MP FP M M M M M M 173 10 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 258 12 0 115 0 0 145 0 0 45 0 0 45 0 0 30 0 0 157 0 0 146 0 0 152 0 0 159 0 0 131 0 0 141 0 0 70 234 42 41 47 44 26 31 54 55 56 57 58 59 56 57 58 59 GO CI Lake— 60 Pembroke .. . 62 129 11 10 11 9 9 61 Cardrona . ..63 131 15 0 10 5 7 10 0 0 G2 Macetown . 64 133 8 4 10 10 1 20 0 0 03 Upper Shotover 65 123 16 8 10 9 8 64 Lower Shotover 66 148 0 8 8 18 1 65 Miller's Flat 67 109 11 8 10 0 6 06 Moke Creek . 68 72 11 3 10 0 0 30 0 0 07 Arrowtown . 69 283 12 2 17 5 5 G8 Queenstown 70 335 6 5 19 10 0 12 4 0 G9 Garston . 71 88 0 51 10 0 0 397 15 0 60 61 G2 63 64 65 66 67 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 G. G. H. Bennett George Hassing Joseph Needham William W Brown Daniel MoPherson. David C. Stock William McMonage John F Sutherland M. F Sutherland John Mehaffey B. E. Mehaffey Amy Scully E. Dalrymplo M 133 0 0 28 M 132 0 0 27 M 133 0 0 28 M 133 0 0 28 M 146 0 0 41 M 106 0 0 22 M 80 0 0 15 M 185 0 0 84 F 100 0 0 M 189 0 0 91 F 100 0 0 FP 30 0 0 M 106 0 0 22 M M M M M M M M F M F FP M 133 0 0 132 0 0 133 0 0 133 0 0 146 0 0 106 0 0 80 0 0 185 0 0 100 0 0 189 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 106 0 0 28 27 28 28 41 22 15 84 68 70 91 G9 71 22 Stewart Island— 70 Haifmoon Bay 72 141 19 2 10 6 3 70 William Peterson M 154 10 0 27 154 10 0 27 Expenditure Not Classified. Inspection, plans, &o. 218 15 10 Appliances .. . . 84 18 6 Purchase of Clapham site .. 90 0 0 Petty repairs ... 10 0 9 14,988 15 2 996 17 2| 5,814 10 9 15,534 12 0 4,4.28

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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 1883.

__:=K_^__l b ___.._____S_£5^ total average of the four quarters. AUCKLAND. Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. •t rn jv a . hu 5 _ a ij a u "; ■ZS xi 3 ri $ rt 3h -xz xt a.;j rc. -£ ■ 111 ? _ n <s a Q o § 3 § c 13 .a l- . , O «_ a * | a" 12-S 0 U - g gen ...!"_. ■ School Roll. ix.* 0 b & c. S ~ tj cl o ° a . . 5 „■ °. v. -a . §>£ I?. £1 t^g nt 12 a .i I** . ° Kga B-g Eg 1 a ui -o a 3 =- .S a £-a *-< .-.--.■ School Roll. Strict Average. Average Attendance. Fourth Quarter. Whole year. Boys. Girls. Total. Working Average. .4 -_ H _ V 2 « 5 g £> Kaitaia Oruru Victoria Valley Mangonui Totara Kaeo Whangaroa North Hokianga Kohukohu Okaihau Waimate Kawakawa Pakaru Te Wharau ( Russell J Orongo 1 Wahapu Arapohue j Whakahara 1 Tokatoka Aratapu Te Kopuru Dargaville j Matakohe ( Omaru Paparoa. Maungaturoto Kaiwaka Mangawai Kamo ( Kaurihohore 1 Hikurangi Otonga .. Whangarei f Parua Bay No. 1 1 Parua Bay No. 2 Whangarei Heads J Maungatapere 1 Otaika ( Ruatangata Bast 1 Ruatangata West ( Mangapai No. 1 | Mangapai No. 2 Maungakaramea ( Waikiekio East . 1 Waikiekie West Ruakaka Waipu Cave Waipu Cove Waipu North River Waipu Central Waipu Upper Te Pahi Albortlancl North Te Arai j Komokoriki No. 1 1 Komokoriki No. 2 Pakiri Port Albert Wellsford Wharohine Tauhoa Hoteo North Omaha (Little) J Matakana Upper .. 1 Big Omaha (280) 1 330 455 1 640 1 480 600 1 (600) 1 840 600 1 384 (300) 1 1,100 1 263 480 1 600 (306) (144) 1 384 1 455 375 1 1 100 840 1 840 600 216 1 9G7 1 680 1 600 455 1 1,680 1 800 (336) 455 1 1 600 448 300 1 432 455 280 455 455 455 (456) 1 840 J X 242 (384) 192 600 1 640 1 800 1 756 (1,350) (320) 455 (180) (150) .300 1 600 600 456 1 456 600 1 504 480 480 1 1 1 1 1 "l 1 1 1 'l 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 (280) 330 455 640 480 600 (600) 840 600 384 (300) 1,100 263 480 600 (306) (144) 384 455 375 1 100 840 840 600 216 9G7 6S0 600 455 1,680 800 (336) 455 1 600 448 300 432 455 280 455 455 455 (456) 840 375 242 (384) 192 600 640 800 756 (1,350) (320) 455 (180) (150) .300 600 600 456 456 600 504 480 480 29 9 12 26 37 5 32 23 7 6 24 32 22 4 50 34 4 7 31 34 27 19 42 36 44 21 59 37 9 5 41 37 5 1 41 31 12 5 38 29 10 7 32 92 77 02 107 37 19 11 45 19 5 5 19 32 29 15 46 9 2 11 10 3 1 12 42 26 24 44 7 16 7 16 15 7 4 18 90 49 36 103 51 29 25 55 48 46 27 67 17 14 7 24 11 2 9 64 11 6 69 38 17 17 38 20 17 11 26 18 6 3 21 143 82 56 169 49 12 23 38 18 5 13 23 14 10 27 144 73 81 136 32 7 14 25 13 2 4 11 30 8 10 28 12 G 4 14 12 14 2 24 16 0 2 20 11 2 13 14 3 5 12 i 6 8 5 9 56 6 7 55 18 10 6 22 15 1 3 13 | 10 2 8 4 9 4 2 11 30 6 1 35 33 23 11 45 39 12 20 31 59 25 16 68 ) 22 9 5 26 35 3 32 ' 22 2 24 ) 6 3 9 11 1 12 14 7 7 i 49 21 10 60 i 15 11 5 21 32 11 4 39 17 7 4 20 i 22 16 2 36 42 14 7 49 I 23 13 7 29 I 14 1 1 14 19 29 13 39 25 25 53 32 36 29 18 79 28 16 38 12 32 10 10 76 39 51 15 9 42 29 12 13 120 27 14 20 100 19 11 17 13 18 16 11 11 9 42 19 13 4 9 30 26 28 49 18 25 21 7 10 7 37 14 25 14 24 36 20 11 20-5 29 13-75 31-5 21-25 25-25 47-5 33 35-25 25-25 18-75 83-75 25-25 16 29-25 9-33 10 31-75 11 11 76 38-5 44 13-5 8-66 41-25 27-75 16 13-25 106-5 32-25 15-33 18 104-25 23 10-75 18-5 12 13-5 15-5 10-5 11-25 10 41 13 I 12 6-75 9-75 30 31 31-75 47-25 17-75 25-33 20-25 5-75 9-5 10 33-5 12-25 24 14-5 25 38-25 15-75 11-25 9 15 5 27 17 14 27 18 1.9 16 11 37 17 8 15 4 19 4 5 45 24 30 8 3 27 19 9 8 71 16 6 10 03 11 4 10 3 8 8 6 9 7 20 9 5 2 5 20 13 19 23 10 10 10 4 6 4 19 5 14 7 13 17 13 5 10 15 11 14 8 13 26 15 17 16 9 45 18 9 24 8 15 7 7 34 20 22 9 6 19 12 8 7 50 17 9 10 38 9 7 9 10 11 8 0 3 23 10 8 2 5 13 15 11 23 9 15 12 3 5 3 20 10 13 8 14 25 9 6 19 30 16 41 25 27 53 33 36 32 20 82 35 17 39 12 34 11 12 79 44 52 17 9 46 31 17 15 ' 121 33 15 20 101 20 11 19 13 19 16 12 12 9 43 19 13 4 10 33 28 30 51 19 25 22 7 11 7 39 15 27 15 27 42 22 11 21'5 30-66 16-25 34-25 22-75 27-25 47-75 34-25 35-75 29 22-5 88 29-25 16-33 31-5 9-33 10 34-5 14-25 14-25 78 42-75 44-75 15-5 9 44-75 31-5 20-75 15-25 112-25 37-75 15-66 19-5 108-5 25 11-25 21 12-25 15-25 16-25 11-25 12 10-5 46-5 14-25 12-5 7-5 10-75 82 34-5 32-75 50 18-5 25-66 21 6 10-5 10-25 36-5 14 25-75 15-75 27 41-75 17-75 11-5 1 } > 1 1 1 1 "l 7 10 5 4 4 2 7 7 1 1

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Table No. 10.—List of the Public Schools, Attendance, &c.— continued. AUCKLAND—continued.

Schools, All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. ■s i t p «« i:s! -sis u f -g £ x .:. 2 ■iS" E ° 2 o a ■£ a u ■o'BSJ a bo <5.S to c a h Z 'S 5 h S School Roll. go" Strict Average. Average Attendaiice. Working Average. is fc 5 Fourth Quarter. Whole Boys. Girls. Year. Total. i I Matakana Lower \ Mullet Point ( Mahurangi Heads Warkworth Dome Valley Kaipara Flats Puhoi Wainui Waiwera. Great Barrier Kaukapakapa ( Helensville 1 Woodhill j Kumeu \ [Hobsonville Wade Pukeatua Lucas Creek Nortlioote Lake Devonport Henderson's Mill f Titirangi { Muddy Greek Waikomiti Avondale f Onelrunga Boys' { Onehunga Girls' Parnell / Wellesley Street J Beresford Street 1 Nelson Street ( High Street Ponsonby Grafton Road J Newton East I Newton West Mount Albert Mount Eden f Mount Hobson Boys' { Mount Hobson Girls' Ellerslie . Tarnaki West Parimure Mount Ropkill Manukau Heads Howick Waiheke Island Pakuranga Otahuhu Marigere Woodside Flat Bush Otara Turanga Creek Papakura Valley [Papakura I Drury Ardmore fWairoa South (Ness Valley Hunua Maractai f Ararmiu Old "(Ararmiu New Maketu Bombay Paparata Awhitu Pollock .. Waiuku Brocksido KariaotaLi Kobekolic Maioro Waipipi .Waitangi 1 1 1 1 1 1 480 330 448 1,084 6C0 483 648 455 450 840 1 200 600 (540) (540) 455 455 600 880 840 2,530 600 540 (140) 455 1 260 19 85 21 67 35 15 59 23 35 48 76 16 16 16 22 15 16 63 15 241 41 9 6 7 3 21 21 10 11 7 5 19 17 73 22 15 15 12 16 14 47 41 187 15 5 10 8 68 113 120 311 556 521 583 143 433 327 6:9 255 91 150 234 111 68 24 51 29 1 45 10 19 76 14 23 15 30 9 2 42 15 17 26 2 7 6 18 45 26 18 29 7 35 EG 11 17 11 5 17 19 9 6 3 13 12 7 9 2 10 43 17 3 8 9 8 7 27 19 104 10 16 36 21 75 44 25 63 21 38 19 55 106 21 28 23 25 23 23 83 37 324 46 14 8 20 133 190 202 482 1,010 725 399 108 731 431 774 286 132 202 292 179 99 39 102 64 13 29 16 46 34 18 48 15 29 19 43 75 15 16 15 19 16 19 54 25 231 26 12 7 13 91 128 145 371 838 586 305 71 601 323 616 215 95 137 206 127 69 24 76 40 15 30-75 16 46 33-25 15-75 43-5 15-75 28-25 19 36-5 69 16-25 14 14-5 18-5 14-5 16-25 53-25 26-25 214-75 28-25 11-66 7 14 86 125-5 133-5 349-25 850-5 618-25 300-5 72 622-25 309-75 637 206 99-5 149 189-5 117 68-75 22 81-75 42-25 8 46 18 65-25 139-5 57-75 30-25 29-75 74-75 20 33-25 81-5 39 19-5 69-25 19-66 24-5 19-75 42-75 43 47-25 75-5 23 11-25 23-66 69-75 16 2G-75 23-25 24' 38 19-25 6 17 8 26 20 8 32 7 14 11 26 42 11 9 9 12 9 9 33 14 126 16 5 5 8 51 127 8 13 11 26 18 11 24 10 16 8 17 36 5 13 8 8 10 11 26 13 112 14 8 2 7 49 5 149 168 430 268 155 33 287 151 293 98 38 73 87 75 33 10 36 25 14 30 19 52 38 19 50 17 30 19 43 78 16 22 17 20 19 20 59 27 238 30 13 7 15 100 132 149 374 868 604 308 73 614 335 627 220 101 146 212 183 72 26 78 44 16-25 31-75 19-25 52-25 36-75 16-5 54 17 29-75 193 38-5 71-75 17-75 16-75 15-75 18-75 18-25 17-25 57 27-75 219-75 30-25 13-33 7 16 89-5 128-5 136-75 353-75 874-5 632-5 305 73-75 635-75 317-25 646-5 208 103-5 155 194-5 121-25 70-75 24-25 84-5 44-75 9 50 20-25 67-75 140-25 58-25 34-75 32-25 77-25 23-5 36-5 84-5 41-25 21-75 73-5 20-33 26 20-25 43-75 44 49-75 86-5 24 14-75 24-33 74-25 17-75 27-5 24-5 25-5 39-75 22 1 1 l 1 } 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3,680 I 7 040 10,510 6,776 3,336 (1,840) 5,866 4,746 6,336 3,350 2,100 3,150 2,500 2,070 1,200 700 1,840 600 375 680 600 1,150 1,926 1 150 550 600 (1,220) J 600 i 600 1 875 000 300 1,100 ! (384) (600) 455 (448) 840 840 1 260 455 400 455 1,340 400 080 847 400 881 400 19 83 145 165 368 919 613 272 86 622 304 613 209 124 168 169 118 6G 30 95 54 11 49 28 97 183 64 50 43 94 29 53 85 50 30 85 23 86 24 46 2 7 18 68 83 197 465 409 456 121 324 200 458 178 83 116 111 50 35 15 44 19 12 16 12 29 86 10 24 14 £6 7 12 30 8 17 18 4 10 9 27 206 438 336 153 40 327 184 334 122 63 73 125 58 J 39 16 42 19 1 78 26 87 173 68 49 44 98 81 43 97 57 30 93 21 33 21 37 45 79 105 27 19 26 102 29 31 35 32 51 29 46 17 67 145 59 35 28 76 20 28 71 89 19 67 19 24 19 39 43 50 76 23 11 21 71 18 28 25 25 35 18 23 9 38 81 34 18 16 37 12 17 42 19 13 35 9 16 10 21 20 21 37 16 8 ! Ill 12 19 15 J 11 18 8 27 10 31 64 25 18 I 15 42 12 15 80 22 9 37 11 10 9 18 24 30 48 8 6 11 37 8 10 12 16 18 13 50 19 69 145 59 36 31 79 24 32 72 41 22 72 20 26 19 39 44 51 85 24 i 14 22 78 20 29 27 I 27 36 21 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 68 113 15 20 2 11 9 35 1 11 2 3 12 21 23 1 1 101 19 25 26 30 46 31 1

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Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. •Sjsc Sμ.a «■ 6 fc g 1 ™ = Is »»■_ School Roll. Strict Average. Average Attendance. Working Average. Fourth Quarter. Whole I Year. i-s. Girls, i Total. Boys. (Mauku West i Puni (Patumahoe Pukekoho West . Pukekohe East (Harrisvillo ITuakau , Pokeno Hill ( Pokeno Valley ■I Queen's Eedoubt (Maungatawhiri Valley Coromandel Driving Creek Mercury Bay Tararu fWaiokaraka jWaiotahi Creek (Kauaeranga Boys' {Kauaeranga Girls' Parawai Thames Orphanage Hastings. Tairua Turua I Hikutaia (Puriri. /Paeroa Owharoa. Mackayfcown [ Waitekauri Te Aroha West /Te Aroha Goldfield (Waiorongomai Ohineroa Raglan Waitetuna Kuapuko Te Mata Harapepe Mercer Eangiriri Wairanga Miranda.. Kaiawai Ohinewai ' Huntly Taupiri Kirikiriroa Hautapu Cambridge Hamilton Bast Hamilton West Ngaruawahia Pukote Whatawhata Ngahinepouri Te Eore Alexandra Paterangi Ohaupo Te Eahu Pukerimu Cambridge West Eangiaohia Te Awamutu Mangapiko Kihikihi j Waitoa \ Waihou I Katikati No. 1 J, Katikati No. 2 (Katikati No. 3 ( Tauranga t Te Puke Greerton Opotiki 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 600 600 800 1,400 840 600 800 600 600 (600) 600 1,296 1,301 770 3,105 4,400 1,872 3 105 3,520 1,200 (650) 600 (560) (325) 600 770 1,200 (420) (264) 480 600 1,575 (240) (460) 455 485 600 480 600 760 (280) 455 (150) 142) (340) 600 600 455 600 2,065 2,185 1,950 870 456 680 600 600 868 840 720 600 600 600 600 840 455 680 458 (680) 455 600 600 1,024 600 456 980 43 65 166 46 51 76 28 44 27 23 88 |71 35 159 285 99 399 258 133 24 39 41 13 16 45 74 21 13 22 26 79 26 22 11 28 22 31 21 16 9 11 82 25 38 85 24 37 30 16 20 22 5 76 73 15 90 172 139 236 245 81 7 17 22 10 3 21 34 10 6 13 11 98 95 60 6 9 6 7 6 36 11 4 15 9 23 47 13 17 6 101 92 69 28 5 10 2 7 39 13 31 12 8 28 7 38 3 17 17 7 1 17 11 95 64 5 84 19 26 97 13 18 18 12 4 13 5 84 36 53 180 104 188 121 64 11 10 19 13 5 18 40 10 5 7 8 68 20 15 4 3 6 8 11 23 14 1 4 12 32 49 77 154 57 70 88 32 60 36 23 80 108 50 196 277 134 447 382 150 20 46 44 10 14 48 68 21 14 28 29 109 75 45 28 28 11 27 17 44 18 19 20 8 23 63 36 24 30 224 185 212 90 25 30 12 22 81 46 68 33 26 68 46 75 22 62 35 14 5 27 49 155 49 18 163 24 80 47 108 37 47 49 18 38 24 20 55 79 42 150 206 98 371 272 114 18 28 33 10 12 39 44 17 12 21 20 86 41 30 13 14 8 16 13 26 12 18 15 7 19 49 29 17 22 150 126 166 56 15 18 8 14 51 32 32 24 17 45 34 66 14 44 26 11 5 21 36 113 30 13 128 I 24 ) 29-75 ' 42-25 I 104-75 ' 37-5 ' 43-5 i 52-75 i 21-5 i 39-5 : 25-75 i 20 57 70-5 14-5 133-5 226-5 110-5 373 254-25 111-25 19-5 29-25 33-5 12-5 12 39-5 46-75 13-75 12 19-75 23-25 76-25 41-5 34-331 13 13-75 10-5 22-75 15 28-25 14 16-25 13-5 8-75 18-33 49 23-75 20 24-5 158-75 112-25 169-75 59-25 19-5 18-25 9-25 14 53-75 32-75 37 23-75 16-5 44-75 37 63-5 16-5 49-75 22-75 11-75 5-25 20 37-5 103-25 27 15 114-5 13 19 19 60 25 25 29 6 21 11 13 34 42 34 86 119 48 212 88 66 12 15 22 4 7 27 25 7 6 15 11 42 27 17 16 5 5 13 7 16 6 11 9 3 10 24 14 7 16 86 63 84 30 7 10 5 8 28 15 24 12 7 27 20 36 6 23 15 7 ! 4 I 9 21 65 17 6 69 11 15 SO 57 18 27 28 15 21 14 7 24 41 9 68 92 54 166 187 51 6 14 13 6 14 21 11 r i 7 10 51 22 17 7 13 4 6 8 12 7 7 7 4 10 27 16 11 10 73 70 95 29 12 10 4 8 32 20 19 14 11 24 17 30 10 23 12 5 1 14 21 63 16 8 62 24 34 49 117 43 52 57 21 42 25 20 58 83 43 154 211 102 378 275 117 18 29 85 11 13 41 46 18 13 22 21 93 49 34 23 18 9 19 15 28 13 18 16 7 20 51 30 18 26 159 133 179 59 19 20 9 16 60 35 43 20 18 51 37 66 16 46 27 12 5 23 42 118 33 14 131 24 34-5 45-5 114 41-5 47-25 59 24 42-25 26-5 20-75 59-5 74 18-25 137 230-25 113-75 377-75 257-25 114-5 19-5 30-25 35-5 12-75 13 41-75 50 16 13-5 20-75 26-5 80-25 50 37 23 17-25 11-5 24-75 16-75 30-25 15 16-5 14-25 9-25 19-66 50-75 25-5 20-75 27 163-25 117-75 178-5 62-25 24-5 21 10-25 15-5 59-5 34-75 43-5 25 17-75 47-5 39 63-75 17-75 52-25 24 12-75 5-25 21-75 44 106-75 29 16 118-75 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 52 32 21 33 201 130 192 88 31 30 14 20 67 48 49 38 24 61 46 59 27 69 21 14 6 15 64 119 36 9 14 9 78 37 49 26 11 10 4 5 25 15 12 17 I 6 ! " 22 8 24 3 7 2 5 26 59 15 7 38 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 20 120 Totals 106 14,118 10,019 7,017 17 120 2,716 12662-04 124915 6,941 6,407 13348 13,259-29 13,07873

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Table No. 10.—List of the Public Schools, Attendance, &c.-continued. TARANAKI.

Average Attendance. . It; _ 3h . <"-. "_ y. _ . .3 I cj.S v "" J, a % 3 a a a xr ao o a a o o co o i. _. .. . O IS I _ Kw In School Roll. Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. c°.B .5 - S 2= . i. g t a. «U !?! f* g So Za; g.8 a to -a a a Z.S « z-° "w-a . a a % .IS"* Bg> _"" xh Strict Average. St ° a Fourth Quarter. Working Averagi Whole Year. Boys. Girls. Total. f Okato (Tataraimaka 1 Oakura Koru Omata .West" West Infant Oourtenay Street Kawau * Easts East Infant Fitzroy . rankley Road .. f Mangorei Lower .. (Mangorei Upper .. I Kent Road Lower Kent Road Upper Albert Road ° Egmont Village I Smart Road Egmont Road Upland Road Bell Block j Waitara West 1 Waitara East (Manutahi 1 Huirangi Tikorangi Urenui 1 Wortley Road Inglewood Girls' Inglewood Boys' Norfolk Road Waipuku (Midhirst 1 Stratford Opunake Pukearuhe 1 1 1 1 1 1 294 294 882 395 495 (1,320) 1,980 674 (674) 600 (600) 484 280 280 294 395 294 441 280 395 395 781 700 672 692 574 900 280 395 679 588 520 520 441 697 1,560 (288) 36 27 51 22 50 52 110 81 108 45 83 49 48 13 20 30 22 12 49 13 17 17 59 59 62 60 49 75 18 38 53 51 52 22 39 51 63 35 18 15 12 3 37 15 103 59 74 118 82 49 20 8 3 25 8 7 15 6 16 9 39 52 68 37 28 21 7 19 83 33 22 16 42 37 34 6 17 7 13 3 22 67 108 23 41 71 32 20 18 2 2 18 12 19 10 3 13 3 24 46 45 34 17 15 1 6 56 42 21 14 19 40 20 8 37 35 50 22 65 110 117 141 92 133 78 50 19 21 37 18 54 16 20 23 74 65 85 63 60 81 24 51 80 42 53 24 62 48 77 33 23 17 37 16 31 72 79 102 62 82 55 23 13 18 25 12 31 13 15 18 47 46 46 38 31 44 18 30 50 25 28 12 30 33 52 32 20-5 18-75 37-5 15-75 29-75 36 76-75 78 99 62-5 82-75 49-25 25-5 15-25 16-5 28-25 14-5 10-66 33 13-5 13-75 17-25 48-25 46-5 48-25 36-25 32 46-5 17 26-75 50-75 22-25 24-25 14 28-5 27-75 48-25 33-75 20 15 24 7 17 38 47 67 46 29 20 9 9 16 7 24 8 6 14 29 25 34 22 20 23 9 16 14 27 19 10 15 15 32 1G 6 10 17 9 22 40 81 59 43 28 11 6 9 12 6 17 5 9 4 26 26 19 24 15 29 9 19 38 26 25 41 16 39 78 81 106 67 89 57 31 15 18 28 13 41 13 15 18 55 51 53 46 85 52 18 35 52 27 36 14 ! 38 ) 34 63 5 32 26 24-5 42 16-25 36 39 83-25 79-75 100-75 65 86-25 50-5 32-5 16 16-75 32 15-75 11-33 40-5 13-75 15 17-75 55-25 50-25 52 44 34-25 52 17 32-25 53-25 23-25 33-75 16-5 34-25 33 52-25 33-75 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 17 4 23 19 31 16 Totals 21 1,741 1,246 927 2,060 1,306 1,345-66 1,316-5 749 709 1,458 1,477-58 1,445-5 WANGA ;u i. Okaiawa Manaia Ngaire Normanby Hawera Whakamaru Manutahi Woodville Kakaramea Patea Whenuakura Kohi Waverley Waitotara Maxwell Brunswick Goat Valley Southern Grove Upokongaro Aramoho Mosstown /Wanganui Boys' J Wanganui Girls' I Wanganui Infants' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 554 2,080 1,201 1,178 2,285 (120) 459 (168) 459 2,712 459 324 1,596 468 393 414 432 96 34 88 241 13 29 22 35 243 19 23 166 25 45 31 34 36 70 43 91 148 5 22 19 31 103 25 11 86 21 6 10 15 4 17 108 39 127 131 25 29 55 151 8 18 4 17 146 4 6 60 16 4 8 16 36 141 48 124 238 10 33 37 49 200 40 28 192 30 47 33 33 4 36 139 69 265 308 24 101 37 87 188 : 6 23 19 39 144 : 37 23 143 24 33 24 23 3 24 104 46 199 228 24 95-75 35-5 78 183-25 7-75 22-75 16-5 35 155 25-5 22-5 128-75 24-25 30-75 25 23-5 3-5 24-75 105 43-5 197-25 230-5 17 52 17 49 107 2 11 12 19 78 20 14 79 17 17 15 13 2 15 59 25 199 8 51 22 39 83 5 12 10 21 68 18 10 71 8 16 11 13 2 10 45 22 25 103 39 88 190 7 23 22 40 146 38 24 150 25 38 26 26 4 25 104 47 199 229 25 97-5 36-75 79-25 187-5 8-5 23-5 18-5 35-75 159 26 23-5 139-5 25-5 31-75 25-75 25-25 4 25-75 105 46 198-75 231-75 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1,032 2 128 400 3,198 3,402 3,300 (477) 569 480 600 400 34 118 56 245 289 15 87 26 107 112 229 ( 1 1 1 1 | 274 226 347 275 270-75 144 132 276 278-5 299 Okoia Mars Hill Kaitoki Matarawa 46 29 19 29 34 8 12 14 39 10 7 10 41 27 24 33 30 16 17 26 35-25 20 16-75 23 20 9 11 17 12 9 8 13 32 18 19 30 37-5 21-25 18 25-5 part of tl le Centri tl School, iow beii ing const ructed, cC! losed 1st August. a Closed at end of March, and sol b Bemovei 1, to form

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Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. .. _ _ V . m <. *i H £_ °-§_ lis .1° _ " _ cr _n _ -a " St._ s Eo° 3 +. Z Sim 4>b° a .a o c . "5 a t. to £z •" A E S o a m Z.S M a A t) E"S>« 3 £ U Z . _ 8" ■a xl School Roll. " Si a"A"" o-a . fc u _ a S; a v a U . ►" . . « m _ a^ Eg Em . a.S Z-a Z Strict Average. .verage Attendance. Working Average. If || Fourth Quarter. l I Whole Boys. Girls. Total. 'ear. Denlair . Riverton Wangaehu Warrengate Turakina Glen Nevis Upper Tutaenui Porewa Turakina Valley Western Rangitikei Marton Mount View Crofton Greatford South Makirikiri .. Bull's Parawanui Sandridge Haloombe Bunnythorpe Makino Road Feilding Stanway Ashurst . Sanson Campbell town Awahuri . Manchester Taonui Stoney Creek Beaoonsfleld Palmerston Carnarvon Karere Jackeytown Oroua Bridge Foxton Moutoa Otaki 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 "l 1 500 408 384 608 1,200 216 419 475 361 237 2,046 648 400 857 420 2,078 708 (160) 3,430 531 1,032 2,262 600 531 1,008 800 800 493 680 806 493 3,675 476 1 122 493 (168) 2,460 354 1,032 31 15 29 91 14 72 31 21 16 149 27 33 31 25 164 35 9 137 55 57 265 9 24 16 44 24 5 24 17 6 97 10 20 17 19 69 11 4 55 31 40 115 31 25 48 32 12 39 36 22 28 221 9 24 12 9 106 14 34 15 15 15 5 22 1 16 10 7 5 56 10 7 9 6 49 10 3 63 24 21 102 25 24 30 39 93 18 80 38 14 17 190 27 46 39 38 184 36 10 129 62 76 278 81 52 120 68 54 37 48 72 28 396 35 81 37 13 183 20 66 21 21 24 34 71 11 64 29 12 12 134 22 35 31 33 137 20 9 98 39 62 209 26 40 83 36 26 21 39 51 26 313 19 66 29 12 128 15 44 20-75 23-5 25-25 29-66 69-25 10 61 29 14-5 13-75 128 23-5 33-25 29-5 27-5 135 22-5 8-5 97-25 38-25 52 194 26 30-75 78-25 28-75 26-5 20-5 37-75 47-25 26 287 19-75 62 28 11 129-75 16-5 47-5 10 11 18 20 41 8 34 21 8 8 74 14 23 16 19 77 10 1 47 24 33 101 15 23 54 20 17 14 22 27 10 164 11 31 16 6 64 6 23 14 11 8 14 31 5 31 10 4 5 62 10 13 16 14 63 13 8 55 16 30 109 11 17 34 23 15 9 17 25 16 149 10 37 13 6 68 10 24 24 22 26 34 72 13 65 31 12 13 136 24 36 32 33 140 23 9 102 40 63 210 26 40 88 43 32 23 39 52 26 313 21 68 29 12 132 16 47 23-5 24-25 26-75 29-66 71 11-5 62-5 30-25 14-75 14-5 132-5 24-5 34-25 30-5 27-75 138-25 27 8-5 102-25 39-75 53-25 196-5 26 32 82-5 35-5 30-5 22 38 48-75 26 291-25 22-75 62-75 29 11 134-5 18-25 50-25 "l 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 34 102 46 52 7 30 10 10 2 24 18 36 68 1 1 321 35 77 35 9 162 16 57 146 9 ■20 10 5 85 10 25 l 1 Totals 52 4,640 2,894 2,088 5,446 4,045 3,913-16 3,836-75 2,181 1 974 4,155 4,045-16 3,967 WKE'S BAY. Ormond Patutahi Waerangahika Matawhero Gisborne Frazertown Wairoa Mohaka .. Tarawera Petano Puketapu Port Ahuriri Napier Meanee Taradale Clive Hastings Havelock Patangata Tamumu Kaikora Waipawa Hampden Te Onga Onga Blackburn Makaretu Ashley-Clinton Takapau. Waipukurau Wallingford Porangahau Ormondville 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 400 (200) 200 1,000 5,000 400 1,000 (200) (150) 800 400 1,500 6,400 400 1,500 1,450 1,600 1,200 340 (150) 1,200 1,400 700 (150) 400 400 400 (460) 600 300 300 750 58 29 83 350 33 101 21 28 23 132 595 64 139 164 161 83 23 7 94 134 51 22 19 32 31 51 55 14 15 119 25 16 61 120 235 26 46 10 25 6 17 77 453 45 73 62 142 29 12 2 57 100 38 11 4 18 12 15 31 2 18 20 16 16 33 51 168 14 47 12 11 5 10 52 313 27 68 33 89 40 6 9 28 74 13 9 7 5 5 18 12 5 12 31 67 29 28 152 417 45 100 19 14 29 30 157 735 82 144 193 214 72 29 47 16 19 129 356 40 71 19 13 24 24 113 571 67 107 126 178 65 22 44 16-5 24-25 90-75 331-5 31-5 71-75 16 13 19-5 21 112-25 547-5 59 118-5 120 141 71-5 21-5 7 89-75 109 46-25 13-25 10-25 22-75 20-25 36-75 57-5-12 14 72-76 29 7 6 70 213 22 35 10 5 14 10 64 304 31 62 69 93 41 16 22 12 14 65 143 18 44 9 9 11 15 49 274 37 50 60 85 25 8 51 19 20 135 356 40 79 19 14 25 25 113 578 68 112 129 178 66 24 47-75 20-5 25-5 95-25 337-25 32-75 82 16-25 13-75 21-25 21-75 114 561-25 60-75 125-25 124 144-75 72-75 22-5 7-5 94-5 114-5 47-75 16-25 12 25 26-5 37-5 59 12-5 15-25 86-25-1 1 1 123 160 76 24 16 45 38 48 74 11 21 108 98 124 62 10 10 28 28 39 56 9 12 75 66 70 35 3 5 18 20 19 32 5 9 58 43 56 27 10 7 12 11 21 25 5 5 31 109 126 62 13 12 30 31 40 57 10 14 89 1 'l 1 1

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Average Attendance. Schools. ill which belong to one School District connected by bracket. . H. '_ "_ .!_ S . a .s _ V 15.8 a o "* 1 m v , $ a xj «. j 3 a i3 05 ..J 'w o a E o o a o . _ M _ am .1 _a o'e . "5 a 1A tb 0 «. > g«o z.s 2 £•§ a 3 tj XJ Z-a . a a School Roll. is j. !z x> II Z-a §>. Strict o a -3-a . a a % E" _ z' E te °< Strict Average. Fourth Quarter. YV hole i Year. Boys. Girls. Total. ' . Working Average. V . gS Norsewood Makatoku Danevirke Heretaunga Woodville 1 1 1 1,140 360 360 300 1,100 85 55 27 15 115 186 14 29 11 72 129 19 12 9 43 142 50 44 17 144 98 41 29 15 99 84 40-5 25-75 11-25 82 52 22 21 11 61 49 22 11 5 42 101 44 32 16 103 88-75 44 28 11-75 92 1 Totals 24 J3,4010» j 3,028 2,120 1,451 3 697 |_, 840 2,626 2,622-5 1,608 1,332 2,940 2,758-25 2,754-5 'ELLIN rTON. Te Nui Taueru Gladstone Waihenga Eketahuna Mauriceville Opaki Pern Ridge Masterton Waingawa Clareville Carterton Park Vale Matarawa Waihakeke Greytown Kaitara ; Tauherenikau f Featherston ( Cross Creek Kaiwaiwai Kaitoke ' Mungaroa Whiteman's Wallace Upper Hutt Taita Hutt Wainuiomata Petone ... Korokoro Horokiwi Judgeford Pahautanui Porirua Tawa Flat Ohariu Johnsonville Kaiwara Wadestown Makara . Karori Vogeltown ( Thorndon 1 Thorndon Infants' Terrace ( Te Aro . 1 Te Aro Infants' . ' Mount Cook Boys' Mount Cook Girls' J. Mount Cook Infants' Oourtenay Place . Newtown 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 252 396 480 426 450 657 480 1,192 3 992 578 1,060 2,319 420 437 240 2,090 456 339 1 958 294 437 230 360 320 320 1,368 1,317 1,819 391 1,294 (300) 396 391 1,536 323'" 1,160 675 437 1,240 510 480 1,323 615 5,632 (1,421) 2,350 (5,872) 2,560) 5,328 4,000 3,920 (1,396) 3,232 33 13 32 30 35 55 34 78 437 13 97 226 44 35 30 183 34 13 145 29 16 37 25 31 96 96 185 27 82 17 16 40 62" — _r 69 36 71 92 40 35 84 12 18 25 20 16 36 20 40 274 63 204 10 17 25 87 24 5 64 20 8 31 14 3 9 60 34 70 11 60 11 8 8 21 —18 40 12 47 45 12 22 47 24 203 209 97 346 289 259 207 500 175 259 4 8 14 9 9 27 19 19 206 57 212 19 15 15 64 18 1 48 8 9 16 7 6 8 35 31 54 14 25 6 6 12 28 18 29 11 27 34 16 10 25 1 172 196 69 285 158 155 129 439 40 223 i 41 23 43 41 42 64 35 99 505 13 103 218 35 37 40 206 40 17 161 12 28 31 44 22 32 121 99 201 24 117 22 18 36 55 -34 80 37 91 103 36 47 106 23 383 156 304 527 353 413 381 582 135 424 23 19 29 31 29 60 25 64 387 10 85 192 21 23 28 160 27 11 118 12 24 28 35 19 18 96 67 138 14 85 13 8 20 35 22 51 28 58 74 30 31 76 18 311 124 242 435 251 338 293 460 103 335 22-50 16-25 23-25 29-5 25'75 49-75 25-5 56-25 386-25 9-75 78-5 172-5 20-75 21-25 23-25 156-25 25-5 11 119 12 24-75 22-25 31-75 19-5 19 87-25 68-5 135-75 16 69-75 14-5 10-25 33 42 22-5 53 27-75 57 71-75 33-5 29-25 76-5 17 304-25 124-5 253-75 441-5 233-75 328-25 285-5 456-75 97-5 336-25 19 9 19 20 17 30 13 29 222 7 47 ■104 10 15 14 87 16 5 -72 9 14 i 16 1 20 10 11 i 57 38 i 77 10 i 37 4 i 4 12 16 10 28 5 16 30 5 41 18 3 19 44 9 5 177 63 5 160 197 5 145 5 339 3 10 14 11 13 30 14 39 165 5 40 90 12 12 16 73 13 7 49 5 10 12 15 9 11 41 31 66 8 48 ' 13 7 14 25 12 26 12 30 33 13 12 36 9 134 64 82 238 112 22 19 33 31 30 60 27 68 387 12 87 194 22 27 30 160 29 12 121 14 24 28 35 19 22 98 69 143 18 85 17 11 26 41 • ■ -22" 54 28 60 74 31 31 80 18' 311 127 242 435 257 339 293' 471 104 346 23-50 16-50 28-25 30-50 27-50 50 27-25 61-75 395-50 10-50 81 189-25 22-50 24 24-75 157-75 28-50 11'75 122-50 14 25 23'50 33-25 19-75 22-50 91 71-50 141-75 18-50 71-25 17-75 ' 12-50 33 40 23-25 * 55-75 28-75 61-25 72-75 34-25 30-50 79-25 17 304-25 127-50 257-25 441-50 240-50 329-75 285-50 470'75 99-50 347 1 " 1 " 1 1 1 352 143 276 466 222 309 303 521 5 247 55 5 190 293 224 49 156 388 6,840 5,240 5,129-25 5,057-5 2,878 2,466 5,344 5,280-75 5,203-75 Totals ... 30 5,767 4,139 3,066 RLBOR' )UGH. ( Blenheim Boys' Upper 1 864 46 Blenheim Boys'Lower J>™ "i • Blenheim Girls' . " i'_? 177 Blenheim Junior J- i01 *'' ('Picton Senior . l . ... or I'Picton Junior ... , • •• 1.818- »o • Less 1,310 square toot, which is pro 5 23 83 119 35 32 drlea in si: 7 44 34 37'25 40 .. 40 9 95 82 81 88 88 29 121 78 78-75 . 86 86 52 244 157 131 93 78 171 53 83 53 62'25 25 31 56 42 76 52 47'5 26 28 54 41-25-84-25 85-75 144-5 64-75 50-25 buildings not the property of the Boara. J: , .

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Table No. 10.—List of the Public Schools, Attendance, &c.— continued. MARLBOROUGH— continued.

Schools. AllwhichbelongtooneSchoo! District connected by bracket. 8_. is. 2g a _ ■— . rt 8 w *£ o c S ° o nj o VrU ' £ _o° _ -<-> u z. . 8 o a A tog Z*t E xi o 3 bo z.s . ■ 1. &- 'C • o _! ° ° B-S>< !_ >.-2 5a« _ to M «>- Z-g. g.s g M I- 3g j.S 1 Z-a Z School Roll. Strict Average. Lverage Attendance. . Working Averagi if XJ . IS Fourth Quarter. Whole Year, Boys. Girls. Total. Havelock _, Renwick. - Spring Creek Tua Marina Marlboroughtown. Kaituna Canvas Town Upper Pelorus Grove Town Waitohi Wairau Valley Kekerangu Fairhall .. Havelock Suburban Okaramio .... Onamalutu Kaiuma Kenepuru Anakiwa. Port Underwood Starborough Boulder Bank Deep Creek Te Awaite 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2,000 632 480 1,000 756 416 304 (200) 600 600 320 280 252 600 240 260 (200) (180) (180 160) (180) (200) 300 (320) 113 101 41 65 22 22 24 5 78 47 24 17 29 30 37 39 16 11 23 13 8 10 1 35 36 6 3 23 4 15 20 7 5 35 32 6 15 11 6 10 1 26 31 2 2 3 10 13 117 85 46 73 24 24 24 5 87 52 28 18 49 24 39 26 19 23 11 90 55 21) 53 1G 18 10 4 58 30 24 17 37 19 80 19 21 .18 10 87-75 58-5 ' 25 ' 49-5 14 18-5 15-75' 4-5 55-25 35-25 23-5 16 26-75 21 25-5 14-75 20 '18-75 9 12 7 " 5 19 9 45 35 19 33 5 8 8 3 36 18 14 7 23 7 20 11 5 11 6 47 37 12 25 11 10 11 1 25 17 11 10 18 13 11 8 14 7 4 92 72 31 58 16 18 19 4 61 35 25 17 41 20 31 19 19 18 10 91-75 67 28 53-5 14-5 18-5 17 4-5 57-75 40 24-5 16 29-25 21-75 27-5 16-25 19-50 19-25 8-75 12 7 5 19 9 22 22 11 13 'lO 4 13 ' 1 1 11 2 8 5 24 12 8 5 24 12 7 5 19 9 6 4 8 7 7 5 19 9 Totals 15 1,331 577 422 1,486 1,060 1,029 990 611 530 1,141 1,098 1,058-50 NELS( IN. ' Town Boys' 1st division Bridge Street Boys' 1st and 2nd division ! Bridge Street Boys' 3rd div. Brook Street .. ,. Hardy Street - Haven Road Hampden Street Toitoi Valley, 1st division . Toitoi Valley, 2nd division Toitoi Valley, 3rd division Toitoi Valley, Junior Port . Maitai Beckmarm's Burnside ' Clifton Terrace • Hillside Happy Valley Stoke J Richmond Boys' ( Richmond Girls' Ranzau . Hope ( River Terrace A Brightwater ( Sriring Grove ( Lower Wakefield 1 Lower Wakefield Girls' Eighty-Eight Valley Upper Wakefield Foxhill Tophouse Line Motupiko Stanley Brook Tadmor Sherry .. Baton Woodstock Pokororo Appleby Waimea West ( Sarau 1 Neudorf .. Lower Moutere ( Motueka Boys' 1 Motueka Girls' Ngatimote Dovedale 840 1,240 25 04 41 44 24 38 42 70 35 59 39 63-25 35 59 35 59 39-25 6375 900 720 2,232 2,280 1,332 880 1 440 600 504 (1,200) (160) (100) (160) 576 228 294 1 518 924 760 578 720 752 720 850 1,134 600 600 720 600 (160) 480 240 466 384 320 320 320 540 420 1 100 648 1,265 825 825 336 640 106 47 41 163 95 42 61 29 35 35 4 7 7 23 22 17 69 63 64 31 40 44 60 69 95 36 29 53 54 67 37 312 72 90 30 68 49 51 23 40 14 89 61 60 25 40 17 32 12 1 7 133 70 204 174 125 47 89 61 54 46 3 107 52 198 133 99 40 67 46 42 35 3 91-5 44-25 187 130-5 94 45-25 66-5 38 40-75 32-5 3-75 7 7 17-75 15-5 13-25 54-25 51-5 56-75 21-25 34-25 35-75 43 54-25 68-25 26-25 18-25 38-25 44 4-5 22-5 17-75 30-5 15-25 13-25 9-33 14 29 29-5 46-75 30 40-25 42-25 50-25 24-75 20'5 109 28 137 76 '25 204 24 42 68 50 44 17 2 109 53 204 137 100 42 68 50 44 36 3 94-25 47-25 195-5 135 94-25 45-75 68-5 40 42-75 33-25 3-75 7 . 7 19-75 15-75 14-25 58-25 52 57-5 23-5 34-75 38-25 47 59 72-25 27-5 20-5 41 46-25 4-5 24-25 18-5 32-25 15-25 13-25 10 16-25 31 32-75 47-75 33-5 47-25 44-25 55-25 28 2175 19 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 21 6 8 27 25 19 25 14 24 21 42 39 9 9 £0 52 5 9 7 11 3 2 14 22 7 29 17 18 22 20 20 13 15 20 7 6 12 24 15 9 5 17 27 17 26 6 7 18 29 7 24 21 19 84 64 68 47 49 51 54 94 108 39 31 55 77 5 32 28 43 19 16 14 21 42 54 64 54 71 73 82 41 35 7 17 15 12 62 49 56 28 36 36 37 64 72 30 21 36 59 4 25 19 85 15 12 9 10 36 35 52 36 37 51 58 20 19 4 13 7 6 35 50 12 21 17 12 41 56 16 22 30 2 18 9 22 10 5 4 9 20 19 31 19 25 51 3 7 8 7 33 58 16 15 21 29 25 17 30 7 15 29 2 8 11 14 5 7 6 9 16 18 21 20 27 7 20 15 13 68 50 58 28 36 38 41 66 73 30 23 37 59 4 26 20 36 15 12 10 18 36 37 52 39 52 51 58 25 21 "l 1 32 25 33 17 15 9 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 38 40 60 40 68 56 80 42 26 1 3 15 13 4 19 12 18 14 6 13 9 58 12 12 1 1

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Table No. 10.—List of the Public Schools, Attendance, &c.—continued. NELSON— continued.

Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. "tf> v t- _ A o *■' °- _ . «S 1S.2 2. . «™' i . v w _<_>;£ a rt _ O" _ri W It, » _ o _ £ ° O rt o _E_ 2 A w. O is! £ _ _i t. . ■" o c . « 3 _ -pas _ <- . rt ° . I_ 8E.S c .8 3 g u Z-g£ rt School Roll. _ rt a. s_ . g> B-c . 3 Z-B to 1° t; -a . a a £ _ xi> ga° z'" ■ Strict Average. Average Attendance. Working Averagi r/ . S3 Is _ Oi ,rth Quarter. Whole Year. I Boys. 1 Girls. Total. Churchill Pangatotara / Riwaka. ( Brooklyn Marahau Takaka Lower Long Plain Takaka East Upper Takaka Waingaro Motupipi Collingwood Rookville Ferntown Pakawau Westport Boys' Westport Girls' Denniston Fairdown Waimangaroa Rochfort Terrace Ngakawau Karamea Promised Land Addison's Plat t Charleston Boys' ■J Charleston Girls' [ Brighton Fern Flat Hampden Lyell Capleston Reefton Black's Point 1 1 1 1 (500) 330 640 340 (240) 768 396 640 320 450 540 720 320 1,000 200 1,800 900 720 (240) 620 240 360 594 (240) 1 200 1 200 720 600 280 (720) 720 720 2,040 1,440 13 36 80 44 18 29 20 48 16 45 39 27 16 29 121 85 40 14 46 14 15 24 11 11 11 11 3 45 20 25 10 5 21 10 16 35 14r 63 44 49 6 51 12' 1 5 27 5 20 22 30 18 44 16 41 160 40 6 6 14 5 13 8 9 1 12 14 10 21 14 44 17 0 4 45 3 2 29 27 4 32 33 42 10 20 11 16 68 41 18 41 77 50 21 61 32 64 10 20 54 35 33 30 29 140 112 83 16 52 23 14 13 26 41 37 21 40 18 46 10 14 30 26 20 24 17 107 75 55 16 37 19 13 12-75 21-25 47 34-5 18-5 28-5 17-25 40 10 15-75 32-5 22-75 16-25 19-66 17-5 95-5 65 43-75 16 39 15-25 12-75 19-66 16-5 52 45 57-75 18 15 1.5 36-25 59-25 161 78-75 7 16 23 18 10 25 9 29 5 9 16 20 11 15 10 108 7 13 23 19 11 19 11 20 5 5 16 8 9 9 8 14 29 46 37 21 44 20 49 10 14 32 28 20 24 18 108 75 55 16 38 19 13 13 24 51-26 35-5 18-5 31-75 18-25 41-75 10 15-75 35-5 25 17 20 19 100 70-75 43-75 16 40 15-25 12-75 19-66 17 54-75 47-75 59-75 19-5 16-5 15-66 36-5 59-25 162 79-75 "l 75 26 8 22 6 7 • • 1 29 8 16 13 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 66 74 86 30 22 67 62 75 18 24 24 56 82 256 107 51 45 62 14 15 16 38 65 187 77 24 47 7 9 8 22 37 102 43 27 63 11 7 9 16 28 86 34 51 47 63 18 16 17 38 65 188 77 51 57 164 108 Totals 33 3,579 2,390 1,419 4,550 3,301 3,138-65 3,103 1,774 1,650 3,424 3,283-32 3,247 nort: CANTERBU: Kaikoura Suburban Kaikoura Town Waiau . Rotherham (aided) Hurunui I Mason's Plat 1 Manuka Town (aided) Waikau Broomfield Amborley Balcairn Leithfield Mount Grey Downs Lobum North Loburn Ashley Saltwater Creek View Hill ( Oxford West (main) 1 Oxford West (side) Oxford East Carleton j Cust (main) 1 Cust (side) Eyreton West Stoke Pernside . Mandeville Plains Eyreton .. Rangiora Southbrook | Flaxton (main) 1 Flaxton (side) Waikuku Woodend Kaiapoi Kaiapoi Island North 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 918 1,616 672 672 630 850 (120) 600 820 1,873 800 1,200 1,080 630 1,010 1,500 880 1,200 1,545 630 2,190 600 2,238 600 540 973 1 420 672 650 4,970 1,540 1,550 990 540 1,820 4 730 620 88 102 16 a 16 41 24 46 151 46 121 97 52 71 125 51 75 161 34 212 67 136 31 74 42 107 44 38 296 116 141 24 33 120 436 19 26 45 30 20 11 14 16 26 19 59 25 26 65 14 12 37 10 17 42 19 67 25 29 17 20 19 31 9 11 102 87 50 22 15 58 137 14 45 33 18 3 4 10 18 25 24 14 47 23 20 17 38 18 6 48 9 56 25 35 8 20 22 29 10 5 98 52 32 14 9 28 88 4 69 114 28 17 23 45 16 32 40 186 57 100 139 46 66 124 43 86 155 44 223 67 130 40 74 39 109 43 44 300 151 159 32 39 150 485 29 48 81 22 15 18 32 15 21 34 136 41 62 92 30 44 81 31 68 110 35 149 48 100 31 55 31 79 32 29 222 117 106 19 27 95 384 23 45-25 75-25 20-5 15 14-75 33-25 15 18-25 32 122-5 36 68-25 78-5 28-75 46-75 74-75 30-25 59-25 99-25 33 141-5 49 97 25-75 51 31-25 73-25 30-25 27 211-5 105-75 109 16-25 25-75 89 349-5 18-25 33 44 13 8 13 16 4 11 18 80 25 33 49 20 26 49 17 34 65 22 90 26 58 17 31 12 42 19 14 117 63 60 14 15 50 211 14 19 40 9 7 5 20 11 10 17 58 17 31 49 12 22 36 14 35 50 13 63 23 46 15 26 21 38 15 16 106 55 53 7 13 46 173 9 52 84 22 15 18 36 15 21 35 138 42 64 98 32 48 85 31 69 115 35 153 49 104 32 57 33 80 34 30 223 118 113 21 28 96 384 23 53'5 79-5 20-5 15 14-75 34-5 15 19 33-25 126 38-5 71-75 87-5 32-5 51 85 31-25 62-75 108-75 33 150-5 50-5 102 26-5 53-5 32-75 76-75 33 27-5 21775 108-75 115-75 18-5 26-75 91-25 853 18-25 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1-1 1 a Openei in Decej iber <ju trter.

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Table No. 10. — List of the Public Schools, Attendance, &c.— continued. NORTH CANTERBURY— continued.

"to S3 £ § . fi d rt u <2 XT ftrj ogSl SEj. S 1=1 iU fa ...; •■-.-•i.v School Roll. Average Attendance. Schools. M which belong to one School District connected by bracket. o c 2-ag Z.S C a s s l|| 1 Si if go Strict Average. •S " t-6 Fourth Quarter. Working Averag< Whole Year. Boys. Girls. Total. Kaiapoi Island Lyttelton Governor's BayGovernor's Bay South— f Charteris Bay ( Gebbie's Pass Eoad Gebbie's Valley . Port Levy Little Port Cooper (aided) Little River .. f Pigeon Bay (main) I Pigeon Bay (side) .. . Barry's Bay French Farm Wainui Little Akaloa Duvauohelle's Bay Okain's Bay Le Bon's Bay Robinson's Bay J German Bay (main) I German Bay (side) Akaroa KowaiBush (aided) Kowai Pass Russell's Plat f Malvern (main) \ Malvern (side) South Malvern Glentunnel .. Hororata . Darfield . Kimberley Greendale Kirwee .. .. Courtenay Halkett .. Aylesbury West Melton Yaldhurst Templeton Weedon Broadrield Harewood Road North Road Papanui Riocarton Fendalton Probbleton Lincoln Springston Greenparlc Tai Tapu Halswell Spreydon (Christchurch West (main) \ Christchureh West (side) (Normal School Christchureh East— (Gloucester Street J South Town Belt (Phillipstown 1 1-1 1 380 9,840 420 33 631 30 4 263 16 7 188 15 30 706 31 25 569 18 24 546-25 17 14 299 9 11 270 11 25 569 20 24-75 654 20-5 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 1-1 600 600 480 540 1 338 540 400 520 660 600 560 540 520 600 600 540 724 2,070 540 1 348 550 1,200 (840) 1 122 1 230 1 250 902 540 990 900 540 770 600 1 120 895 1,490 940 520 650 1,140 2,540 1,571 778 1 660 1 834 1 430 1 360 1,520 1 540 2,010 11,032 1,804 12,424 23 19 35 15 a 78 17 28 29 23 34 14 30 43 46 30 40 35 111 b 125 44 116 33 C 63 83 7 6 13 9 45 18 12 23 14 7 37 26 14 16 13 20 15 94 33 50 26 72 28 74 53 21 47 13 18 30 15 26 16 34 17 53 32 22 36 36 143 70 32 40 73 47 14 27 58 55 756 126 745 6 1 6 8 30 10 8 6 10 7 8 5 7 5 12 18 13 56 2 40 30 58 22 30 46 14 11 18 26 7 12 14 13 14 14 51 19 15 22 19 121 56 30 43 46 34 8 32 43 35 598 103 541 24. 24 42 7 9 93 25 32 46 27 34 43 51 50 57 31 42 37 149 31 135 40 130 39 44 70 90 36 47 70 70 38 60 28 67 66 112 63 40 66 82 265 156 74 130 185 135 85 122 88 177 1,188 224 1,057 18 20 29 7 9 56 22 27 32 23 26 27 37 40 35 20 29 24 113 27 109 35 79 22 35 58 59 24 35 48 39 23 45 22 44 38 70 50 29 51 57 172 116 57 91 134 103 63 99 63 106 925 172 836 16 17-75 26-25 10 9 47 19-25 26 28 18-75 25-75 25-5 33-25 38-5 28-75 18-25 27-5 21 97-5 28 95-5 36-25 80 18 34 55 58- 5 22 32-25 46 36-5 21-5 36-75 22-25 38-5 40-75 63-5 4322 43 51-75 161-75 101-75 52 89-25 119 97 56 93-25 56-75 116-75 875-5 147 788 6 14 11 2 4 27 14 11 23 7 8 15 19 20 19 15 18 13 54 11 54 18 46 10 ■ 16 25 31 15 ; 20 29 20 17 i 27 i 12 26 . 21 37 32 16 28 i 26 i 85 i 65 29 i 53 77 53 36 56 37 61 500 98 414 12 7 19 5 5 32 9 17 10 16 19 16 19 20 19 6 15 14 62 16 58 22 39 14 19 34 30 9 16 24 29 8 20 11 19 22 36 19 13 23 32 89 57 29 41 58 52 29 43 27 65 425 76 422 18 21 30 7 9 59 23 28 33 23 27 31 38 40 38 21 33 27 116 27 112 40 85 24 35 59 61 24 36 53 49 25 47 23 45 43 73 51 29 51 58 174 122 58 94 135 105 65 99 64 126 925 174 836 16-5 18-75 28-5 10 9 52-75 21-25 27 29 20-25 27 30 34-25 38-75 32-5 20-5 33-5 24-75 102-5 28 103 39 86-5 20 34-25 55-75 60-5 22-5 34-75 48-75 42-25 23 42-5 23-25 43 44-5 71-25 45-25 23 44-5 55-25 177-5 111-5 54-5 96-5 128-5 104 59-75 95-25 60-75 127-75 888 152-25 798-25 c 52 78 47 35 48 25 47 63 110 50 33 52 65 243 142 72 133 158 122 79 127 73 157 1,030 201 853 1 1 1 16,720 2,990 2,312 f 8,020 I I (3,622) J 5,194 (1,440) 4,520 540 3,208 1,190 1 901 1,350 600 1,070 1,440 1,395 1 310 600 2,150 568 1,009 246 176 1 104 240 207 947 178 177 1 166 308 206 883 216 166 869 198-25 140-25 1 499 i 118 i 75 384 98 92 883 216 167 876-75 200-5 145-75 Sydenham (St. Alban's (main) I St. Alban's (side) Richmond New Brighton Heathoote Lower. Bromley .. Opawa . Heathcote Valley Sumner Selwyn Dunsandel Brooksido Killinchy . Irwcll .. (Leeston (main) { Leeston (side) .. i 913 854 615 1,152 920 839-5 487 433 920 851-75 292-5 71 275-5 43-75 266-5 98-5 138 81-75 24 24-75 69-25 74-25 73 27 128-25 44-25 l-i i i i i i i i i i i i i i 366 90 328 46 343 107 152 92 22 31 88 84 99 40 180 48 192 67 236 32 194 81 101 39 40 18 34 26 31 29 100 38 131 52 177 17 189 46 82 35 16 11 26 12 12 19 81 31 427 105 387 61 348 142 170 96 46 38 96 98 118 50 199 55 305 73 290 42 269 111 139 74 29 28 61 75 70 35 150 46 287-25 68 268-75 41-75 256 96 133-75 80-25 23-75 22-75 57-25 71-75 68 24-75| 124-75 42-5 i 155 35 i 146 i 21 142 74 78 i 34 18 15 44 34 36 i 15 84 18 153 40 145 22 130 37 65 41 11 15 25 42 36 21 66 28 308 75 291 43 272 111 143 75 29 30 69 76 72 36 150 46 » Openea in Septej iber qi larter. » Beopi >ne<3 in Sβ; >temb{ quarter. t Dpened i in Marcl i quarfci !!-,

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Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. el III 513 III ill c aj ■-" i m t> tn rt O <2 C CW-J * *?Z. !» «, si" ° O M S SE j. S £1 2.S bo c •a School Roll. 4j -8 Strict Average. Average Attendance. Working Averagi 0J "o . IS , Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Boys. I Girls. Total. Southbridge (Lakeside (main) . {Lakeside (sido) (Taumutu) Bakaia Little Mount Somors Alford Forest Springburn Barr Hill Lauriston Methven Eakaia South Ohertsey .. Pendarves Kyle Ashburton Porks Asliburton Newland. Seafield (Wakanui (main) (Wakanui (side) Elgin Tinwald . Winslow Willowby Flemington (Longbeach (main) jLongbeach (side) Hinds Lismore I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-1 1 1 1 •13 734 540 672 540 540 575 991 600 630 902 1 288 600 902 600 600 4,792 630 600 1,080 600 630 1,440 672 700 900 800 600 900 902 239 61 a 53 27 29 48 18 b 50 145 28 1C 32 45 441 21 23 59 31 55 85 111 13 25 9 5 31 11 11 30 40 59 - 15 14 10 29 304 10 12 27 6 12 51 33 25 32 43 22 15 9 52 17 21 12 16 3 8 14 18 35 16 7 9 20 222 8 8 22 7 16 43 298 57 25 41 20 44 56 21 16 72 169 27 23 33 54 523 23 27 64 30 51 93 33 55 78 62 47 30 13 227 42 22 31 16 20 15 12 13 47 129 22 21 23 28 385 14 22 49 22 38 73 23 40 54 44 32 22 8 204-25 41-25 22 29-25 15-75 26-5 31 13-5 16-25 42 112-25 19-75 16-5 19 28-25 352-5 12-25 18-5 43-5 21-25 33-25 71 21 38-5 47-25 36-75 26-25 25-25 9-75 122 22 13 11 6 21 9 8 8 25 79 10 9 17 19 224 8 11 26 11 28 45 8 20 29 20 17 14 5 105 20 9 21 11 12 6 5 G 24 51 .-12 12 8 .13 180 7 11 23 11 11 29 16 22 28 27 16 8 5 227 42 22 32 17 33 15 13 14 49 130 22 21 25 3,2 404 15 22 49 22 39 74 24 42 57 47 33 22 10 210-5 43-25 22 32 17-5 31-75 35-25 14 17-5 43-25 117-75 21 r 16-75 21-75 30-75 370-75 14-5 19 47-25 22 35-25 74-25 22 41-75 51-5 41 26-75 25-05 10-75 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 C 47 67 52 32 34 9 17 21 33 7 19 5 Totals 133 222,799 15,303 9,532 7,098 17 797 13,181 12306-75 1223775 7., 128 6,334 13,462 12,821-25 12,75275 ■•

Scotsburn Burke's Pass Fairlie Greek Albury Opilii Mount Gay Eangitata Island Orari North Orari South Woodbury Orari Bridge Geraldino Gapes Valley Kakahu Pleasant Valley Geraldine Plat Waitohi Plat Winchester Milford Temuka Pleasant Point Sutherland's Washdyke Claremont Wai-iti Waimataitai j Timaru (main) \ Timaru (side) Seaview Kingsdown Pareora .. St. Andrews Upper Otaio Otaio Makikihi.. Hunter Hook Waituna Creek Waimate Waihao Bedoliff 1 1 1 600 600 600 500 400 400 600 600 600 1 200 600 1,960 500 884 840 480 884 1,280 884 4,016 1,240 500 520 600 1,200 1 701 9,530 1 870 500 500 864 600 600 600 500 600 600 600 5,847 600 500 32 IS 48 34 20 13 30 d 57 78 34 202 34 57 70 43 62 69 51 352 164 9 2 13 14 5 8 5 I 5 4 15 13 31 1 6 36 16 46 35 27 11 35 26 29-75 11-25 33 24-5 15-66 14-25 22 14 5 16 12 14 G 20 15 28 11 36 27 30-2! 12 35 25-7! 17 14-2! 23-2; 1 1 1 1 1 1 20 29 15 24 7 10 "8 15 15 25 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 56 18 91 72 866 146 39 29 52 45 18 31 21 31 45 46 504 28 32 30 53 25 81 14 29 19 7 27 29 15 158 63 40 26 4 32 131 534 102 12 25 20 14 14 5 13 4 26 29 132 17 11 10 30 15 66 14 12 17 6 23 29 24 159 51 1 32 5 38 50 496 86 10 5 12 26 12 7 11 6 21 28 124 11 9 77 101 44 217 34 74 72 44 66 69 42 351 176 39 50 17 85 153 904 162 41 49 60 33 20 29 23 29 50 47 512 34 34 40 75 30 166 23 58 54 34 51 54 34 279 134 29 35 13 62 121 715 120 29 24 40 25 15 27 17 16 32 37 384 20 25 46-25 67-75 29 162-25 20-75 54 52-25 33-5 41-75 54-5 30-75 265-25 118 27-25 38 14-75 58-25 8.0-5 709-75 111-5 31-5 24-75 36-75 27-5 14-5 29 17-25 17-25 28 26-5 380-25 18-75 25-75 22 41 21 98 11 32 28 21 27 29 17 163 75 15 21 7 35 59 371 62 19 12 17 10 9 18 9 9 15 18 206 15 13 26 35 10 72 14 26 29 14 24 26 17 124 62 16 16 7 28 63 353 62 12 12 26 16 7 10 9 10 18 22 192 8 12 48 76 31 170 25 58 57 35 51 55 34 287 137 31 37 14 63 122 724 124 31 24 43 26 16 28 18 19 33 40 398 23 25 49-7; 69-5 29-7/ 169-5 23-2i 55-2J 54-7! 34-7i 45 57-5 33-2i 276 124 28-5 39-7; 15 62 82-2i 739-2; 115-7! 32-7J 24-7; 39-71 28-5 15-21 29-5 17-7i 20 80-2; 28-7; 396-5 21-5 26 1-1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Totals 32 48,500 3,644 1 797 1,521 3,920 2,956 2,84416 2,82675: 1,589 1,456 3,045 2,973-5 2,955 b Opened il i March quarter. oQpi >ned in September quart' :r, & Temporarily closed, o Opened in December quarter.

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Table No. 10.—List of the Public Schools, Attendance, &c. — continued. WESTLAND.

Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. a A ■£ a. *i SJ_ _ 13 _ . 13 a % xj £ a xj a a a » £-3 xi t) CS S ° O rt o . " 1 p 3 - a £ 'h z S. _ _ *§ _? a .a 5 —• „ S. a . u a ,• o w xj A a A u . £ a -a. 'A Eao Z-a. |.g agi •§ 22 Z .2 a £ -a School Roll. s!o go "S _J . A C h <_ a . cj a w z" Strict Average. Average Attendance. Working Averagt . XJ C i£q, . •* Fourth Quarter. Whole ! I Boys. Girls. | Total. Geey County. Kynnersley Totara Plat Orwell Creek Ahaura . Hatter's Terrace . Red Jack's Notown Brunnerton Maori Gully Dunganyille Marsden Cobden Greymouth , Paroa Westbrook i Greenstone 1 1 1 600 560 500. (300) 1,008 300 798 2,030 500 555 585 1,490 6,965 800 200 240 32 33 29 9 60 21 38 162 39 58 19 66 403 56 14 22 10 8 8 19 7 2 13 61 2 11 11 20 216 18 28 7 10 i 5 6 7 4 10 28 4 14 7 12 145 14 19 9 32 40 32 22 60 19 41 195 37 55 23 74 474 60 23 20 25 31 30 15 41 18 26 126 32 39 18 58 336 38 19 18 28-5 28-75| 29-25 14-25 42-25 18-5 28-5 124-25 31-75 41-75 18 56 346-25 43-25 18-25 19-75 14 19 ,11 9 21 8 18 , 64 12 22 9 25 172 21 11 10 _2 .13 .19 6 .20 .10 12 .70 20 .20 9 33 175 21 9 8 26 32 30 15 41 18 30 134 32 42 18 58 347 42 20 18 29-25 30 26-75 14-25 42-75 18-75 31 128-5 32 43 18 56 352 45 19 19-75 1 2 1 Westland County. 1 Rangiriri Goldsborough Stafford Arahura Road j Hokitika. ( South Spit Kanieri | Bluespur ( Upper Crossing Woodstock ,. (-Lower Kokatahi 1 Upper Kokatahi ( Ross 1 Donoghue's ( Waitangi 1 Okarito Gillespie's ( Arawata 1 Arawata Flat 1 1 1 1 1 4,050 200 1,566 1,609 500 6,965 120 1,612 500 (450) 500 240 240 3,400 800 200 150 210 288 288 300 16 102 122 52 407 20 123 40 35 73 16 30 261 45 14 22 33 10 16 67 6 37 22 19 166 3 28 4 2 43 2 4 76 31 59 4 25 14 9 125 8 29 2 4 16 308 18 114 130 62 448 15 122 42 33 100 18 30 249 60 14 26 35 13 a 215 17 79 116 47 329 12 80 35 18 43 14 20 182 39 12 22 32 10 222-5 11 81-5 114-5 43 342-75 12-5 83-5 36 22 56-75 13-5 21-5 199 37-75 12-5 22-5 30-75 10-5 10 110 11 50 62 .17 173 3 49 19 9 33 1 11 90 13 3 14 11 5 112 6 37 54 31 162 9 39 17 12 31 14 10 95 27 9 10 21 6 222 17 87 116 48 335 12 88 36 21 64 15 21, .- 185 40 12 24 32 11 226-5 - 13-66 84-5 . 114-75 44-75 346-5 12-5 89 36-25 24-25 63-75 14-25 22 202-5 38-5 12-5 24-25 31-25 10-75 11-5-1 1 1 1 4 88 16 7 2 4 3 1 16 1 1 Totals for Westland County Totals for Grey County 111 7 1 737 1,061 523 441 423 295 1,837 1,207 1,322 870 1,376-25 866-75 684 446 702 457 1,386 903 1,412-25 906 Totals for original District of Westland . 18 2,798 964 718 3,044 2,192 2,263 1,130 1,159 2,289 2,318'25 OTAi Kurow . Otiake . Livingstone Duntroon Awamoko Papakaio Pukeuri . fOamaru District High ■1 Oamaru North South Ngapara. Teaneraki Waiareka Totara .. Kakanui. Maheno Otepopo . Waianakarua Hampden Moeraki Pukeiviti Palmerston Inch Valley Dunback Waihemo Macrae's , .. Moonlight ' 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 1 600 600 608 600 600 648 1,200 5,796 2,724 3,960 1,140 600 1,208 608 750 1 360 1,584 608 1,188 640 1,200 3,132 600 600 600 612 600 18 23 47 44 38 50 111 327 345 408 41 44 103 18 13 13 19 21 24 49 189 199 263 19 28 41 43 20 45 25 68 56 9 75 130 9 10 8 18 4 15 14 14 20 7 17 23 138 111 209 12 12 16 8 17 14 43 9 47 5 54 105 8 3 14 13 7 21 22 46 43 52 57 137 378 433 462 48 60 128 35 107 103 128 59 110 37 126 298 36 35 24 48 25 16 18 23 29 39 36 113 299 354 359 41 45 89 22 83 70 107 40 86 30 103 237 32 27 16 36 19 15-25 17-25 31 31-75 32-75 37 100-25 296-25 355-25 368-5 36 38-25 82-75 26-33 76-75 63-25 109-75 41-66 88-75 28-5 91-25 242-5 28-25 24-25 19 33-75 20 6 12 18 21 19 19 68 159 184 181 20 22 52 13 51 43 62 14 44 18 ,60 129 16 20 11 21 10 11 6 17 9 21 21 47 141 170 180 22 23 41 10 38 30 45 28 42 13 43 109 16 ,8 6 16 9 17 18 35 30 40 40 115 300 354 361 42 45 93 23 89 73 107 42 86 31 103 238 32 28 17 37 19 16 18-25 34-75 33 34 43 104 301-25 358 374-5 37-25 39-5 89-25 27 83-5 i 67-25 111-75 42-66 89 31 91-75 242-75 29-75 25-25 21-25 34-5 21-23 104 72 146 101 33 105 273 35 28 30 43 28 »0I losedlast 1 lali-yeai

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Table No. 10.—List of the Public Schools, Attendance, &c.—continued. OTAG O— continued.

Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. ■ Cf] sg . as hi |5.s d rt u 2 til 55 JjM In aj g> "gj &_ III ill 5 !i| &s ! h I 1 w* V School Roll. Strict Average. Average Attendance. Working Average. II IS Fourth Quarter. Whole Boys. Girls. Total. Goodwood .. .. Flag Swamp .. .. Waikouaiti .. .. Merton Seaclifi Evansdale .. • Blueskin.. Purakanui Lower Harbour .. Port Chalmers .. Mount Gargill .. Sawyer's Bay St. Leonards .. Bavensbourne North-East Valley Pine Hill Dunedin, William Street . Dunedin, Arthur Street Dunedin, Albany Street • Dunedin, Union Street Dunedin, George Street Dunedin, Stafford Street Dunedin, Normal. Anderson's Bay . North-East Harbour Highcliff Broad Bay Portobello Hooper's Inlet Sandymount Taiaroa Heads Waikari .. Kaikorai.. f Oaversham I Benevolent Asylum Kensington Macandrew Road. Forbury Mornington Green Island Walton Saddle Hill Brighton. Kuri Bush ... Otokia . Greytown East Taieri Mosgiel North Taieri Mullooky Gully Strath-Taieri Whare Mat Outram West Taieri Maungatua Lake Waipori Taieri Ferry Waihola . Taieri Beach Waihola Gorge Circle Hill Tokomairiro District High Fairfax .. Akatore .. Glonledi Southbridge Glenore Manuka Creek Adam's Flat Lovell's Flat Stony Creek Hillend . Kaitangata «• • • Wangaloa Tuapeka Mouth .. Stirling . • Balolutha Xβ Houka 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 1 600 1,248 2,694 648 1,200 600 1,584 600 512 4,937 600 1,200 525 1,480 3,960 880 4,560 6,306 5,740 9,324 8,096 (650) 7,297 1,556 720 695 600 1,056 451 1,000 392 1,565 3,320 4,706 (300) 3,290 4,324 3,20G 3,420 3,496 1,095 681 (392) 432 600 1,140 1,371 1,336 1,442 (432) 600 315 1,708 1,155 924 648 600 1,400 600 1,176 600 3,784 1,248 348 600 600 600 392 600 675 345 280 2,062 525 600 1,200 1,896 330 48 82 270 53 69 50 131 50 36 491 49 131 45 202 315 50 559 657 681 701 683 60 756 105 42 66 33 59 32 86 17 88 344 616 22 316 511 445 278 112 58 28 24 74 89 165 144 121 19 20 27 155 78 58 60 53 87 48 74 36 393 71 25 30 31 29 36 24 48 29 20 213 19 50 95 199 35 13 25 71 27 54 34 32 31 19 309 21 43 29 74 251 26 260 467 418 451 468 32 529 49 9 27 10 22 7 42 7 46 190 288 13 251 427 373 208 162 88 13 14 11 21 38 58 79 31 14 7 22 53 26 19 23 18 35 10 44 5 97 59 13 12 6 6 22 7 17 2 3 74 11 14 53 83 2 4 25 68 28 46 25 43 25 16 193 23 44 16 55 212 29 205 317 329 414 362 52 509 34 10 4 7 13 5 23 3 39 121 304 1 218 72 364 143 107 76 21 8 11 21 25 54 34 25 11 2 15 30 24 16 26 8 19 10 19 5 103 25 9 7 5 2 10 3 14 4 3 48 2 13 26 50 5 57 82 273 52 77 59 120 56 39 607 47 130 58 221 354 47 614 807 770 738 789 40 77.6 120 41 89 36 68 34 105 21 95 413 600 34 349 355 520 510 333 124 50 34 24 74 102 169 189 127 22 25 34 178 80 61 57 63 103 48 99 36 387 105 29 35 32 33 48 28 51 27 20 239 28 51 122 232 32 38 66 202 35 66 46 87 38 23 471 40 102 39 176 292 35 562 738 666 650 670 30 694 87 26 66 23 50 29 78 19 80 355 538 33 295 300 438 425 261 101 41 26 20 66 74 141 150 104 17 18 26 161 61 45 41 50 83 42 83 27 332 88 17 24 29 28 39 23 43 23 17 197 24 36 108 180 29 41-5 59-5 194-25 35 65-75 49-25 96 39-25 24-5 459-5 41-5 109 38-5 177 290 40-25 555 726-75 657-75 651-25 649-75 45-75 704-25 87-25 31-5 59-75 23-5 55 29-2 76 18-5 79-5 335-25 580-5 27-75 293-25 274-5 461-5 413-25 241-5 105-5 38-75 23-25 20-5 61-75 69-25 127-25 138 99-25 17 16 27-5 150-25 61-5 39-25 38 47-5 77 40 77-75 26 347-75 77-25 14 25-25 27 26 34-75 19-25 41 22-5 16-75 190-75 19-75 39-5 95-5 176-5 26-5 20 34 94 20 31 30 47 25 16 255 21 56 17 101 156 21 265 387 360 336 360 18 309 43 16 40 16 24 16 43 11 41 195 273 14 145 162 235 219 137 51 21 17 10 39 44 68 75 53 9 • 9 12 108 38 27 25 29 32 23 42 15 171 43 6 18 17 16 18 12 15 14 6 119 12 18 65 92 18 20 34 113 16 36 17 43 16 11 232 20 46 24 76 136 15 297 351 306 314 310 20 385 45 12 26 18 26 13 38 8 40 161 2G5 19 150 138 203 206 124 50 20 9 11 27 30 73 75 51 8 9 14 53 30 19 17 22 51 20 42 13 164 46 17 8 12 12 21 11 30 9 11 78 12 19 43 88 12 40 68 207 36 67 47 90 41 27 487 41 102 41 177 292 36 S62 738 666 650 670 38 694 88 28 66 34 50 29 81 19 81 356 538 33 295 300 438 425 261 101 41 26 21 66 74 141 150 104 17 18 26 161 68 46 42 51 83 43 84 28 335 89 23 26 29 28 39 23 45 23 17 197 24 37' 108 180 30 43 61-75 204-25 36-5 66-25 49-75 99-25 44-5 28 476 43 109-75 40-75 179-25 291-25 41-25 556-25 728 658-75 651-25 650-5 50-5 704-5 89-25 32-75 61-25 28 55-25 29-5 78-25 18-75 84-5 336 580-5 28 293-75 275-5 461-75 414-75 245-75 105-75 41 24 21-5 62 70 130-5 138-25 101-25 17-25 16-5 28-25 151 64 40-75 39-5 49-5 77 41-5 78-25 27 349-25 78 18 26-5 27-5 26 34-75 20-5 42 23 17-25 190-75 19-75 40 95-75 176-75 27'5 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

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Schools. AU which belong to one School District connected by bracket. * . l» A o +- aX-c ®- *i m Hi iu.s Za ° "" <n rt S |" . . _5 _- P.-j w ~ J ;Z. <A V. o a s <- C rt o u iZ • ° * . £ *" g o 2 I.e. a"! O f. . "_ c _ ■°'Sh2 g « o 2 to _J School Roll. to a j. li g-a. a ~< xj Z---a _ g „ _ "S a > 1) . s> B-5 Z-3 to go . a £ 11. g to a a z'~ Strict .verage. .verage Attendance. Working Average. . XJ 11 g « A xj Fourth Quarter. Whole — ' Year. Boys. Girls. Total. Waitepekft Warepa Kaihiku Waiwera. Puorua Port Molyne _ . Ahuriri Owako Tahatika Clinton Wairuna.. Waipahi Waikoikoi Glenkonich Tapanui Swift Creek Crookston Kelso Heriot Mount Stuart Waitahuna Waitahuna Gully Clarke's Flat Wetherstones Lawrence Bluespur Waipori Evan's Plat Tuapeka West Tuapeka Plat Boaumont Moa Flat Roxburgh Bald Hill Flat Aloxandra Clyde Cromwell Bannockburn Kawarau Bendigo Nevis Hawea Black's Matakanui St. Bathans Cambrian Blacks tone Gimmorburn Fweburn Kyeburn Naseby Kyeburn Diggings Hamilton Patcaroa Hyde 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 1 680 600 960 600 782 504 600 1,200 330 1 140 600 600 600 600 1 700 600 600 600 600 600 1 700 1 200 600 1,120 4,010 2,037 905 1,200 000 405 600 900 1,107 600 1 170 1,250 1,250 960 300 580 504 600 840 000 540 432 364 600 504 210 2,058 540 (391) 600 600 48 44 56 55 44 53 27 75 25 101 53 41 32 34 201 40 22 40 39 29 157 97 26 99 271 225 71 64 36 34 45 71 159 23 84 100 107 72 23 32 21 28 41 61 24 52 23 29 23 14 191 38 24 35 54 17 29 9 9 19 15 5 52 8 59 19 11 15 15 64 8 11 38 12 9 29 9 15 18 110 84 22 13 12 8 17 19 38 16 35 41 43 28 7 21 3 9 41 35 7 8 10 15 5 4 55 17 5 7 21 11 22 22 38 12 11 3 33 5 31 12 9 9 16 58 18 6 17 9 3 48 23 IS 25 77 96 12 14 4 11 7 16 29 8 31 32 34 12 6 24 8 7 17 21 2 14 9 8 4 4 34 11 54 51 4.3 46 51 57 29 94' 28 129 60 43 38 33 207 30 27 61 42 35 143 83 26 92 304 213 81 03 44 31 55 74 168 31 88 109 116 88 24 29 16 30 65 75 29 46 24 36 24 14 212 44 29 37 52 43 44 34 35 41 48 23 72 22 96 45 40 30 27 172 24 22 37 25 31 126 70 22 78 208 187 62 55 31 26 48 56 120 25 70 96 101 71 23 28 14 21 52 48 20 39 21 20 16 11 165 20 22 31 49 87 38-5 37-25! 35-5 ; 39 45 22-25! 61-75! 21-75 82 44-5 38-5 26-5 25 167-25 21-5 20-5 38 24-5 28 130-5 75-5 21-25 82-25 253 179-5 56-5 55 29-5 23 44 58 119-5 20-5 [66-5 90 89 66-5 20 25-25 15-25 19-25 46-25 46-25 19-5 37 19-25 16-75 13-5 10-75 157-75 20 22-75 32 42 20 22 19 19 19 31 11 41 10 54 26 20 16 18 82 13 9 22 15 15 63 38 8 48 138 90 29 31 10 13 26 31 69 10 36 48 54 45 12 11 8 12 22 27 10 21 12 12 9 6 93 12 14 15 26 25 22 16 19 23 17 12 35 12 42 22 21 15 9 90 11 13 17 11 16 63 33 15 32 130 98 33 24 22 13 22 25 54 15 34 48 48 27 11 17 6 10 31 23 10 19 9 10 9 5 67 17 9 16 23 45 40-25 44 39-75 35 38-25 38 38-75 42 40 48 46-25 23 22-75 76 64 22 21-75 96 85-25 48 47-25 41 38-75 31 27 27 26-75 172 107-5 24 23 22 20-5 39 89 26 27-25 31 28-5 126 130-5 71 76 23 22-25 80 82-75 208 253 188 179-75 62 59 55 55-25 32 30-75 26 24-75 48 44 56 59-5 123 121 25 21-75 70 65-5 96 90-25 102 89-25 72 67-75 23 20 28 25-75 14 15-75 221 20-75 53 47-75 50 49-25 20 20-25 40 38-25 21 19'75 22 20 18 15-5 11 11 165 157-75 29 28-5 28 23-25 31 32-25 49 44-75 1 1 1 1 1 5 23 Totals 156 | | 18,216 9 592 17,283 I 20,545 16,88l!i6560-_|8,905 |16406-25| 8,165 17,070 16,814-16 16,659 .OUTHLAND. Lumsden Dipton Fernhills Limohills Winton North Forest Hill Elderslie. South Forest Hill Ryal Bush Heddon Bush Wrey's Bush Wairio Waianiwa Spar Bush Wallacetown Waikiwi I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 600 600 400 600 2,114 600 600 400 600 400 400 400 700 400 400 1,200 60 53 55 147 56 49 26 57 37 39 56 82 42 19 46 29 44 12 6 11 23 24 7 49 25 30 18 47 26 18 18 34 11 8 10 22 13 5 29 20 76 54 46 66 157 57 47 27 58 48 41 76 87 30 44 98 54 31 38 49 128 41 39 21 37 24 22 34 67 25 43 64 50-75 34-25 35 41-25 113-5 41-25 38 21 31-25 23 26-75 33-5 69 : 5 25 43 67-75 32 14 18 31 02 24 19 13 21 11 18 22 37 12 22 38 23 22 20 20 66 20 21 9 19 17 9 19 32 14 21 31 55 36 38 51 128 44 40 22 40 28 27 41 69 26 43 69 52 40 35-25 50-75 114-25 44'5 39-25 22-25 35-25 29 29 44 70-25 26 43-5 71'25 48 82 22 31

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Table No. 10.—List of the Public Schools, Attendance, &c.— continued. SOUTHLAND— continued.

Schools. All which belong to one School District connected by bracket. 5 ~ v. it 2 S .5 is! .c, "6 B c 2 Is! grtO S 60 to a t* 3 C s a v c -a at School Roll. c> I ° Strict Average. Average Attendai Workinj ice. Averat l = IS Fourth Quai tcr. Whole Year. Boys. Girls. Total. West Plain Waihopai North Invereargill Invercargill— (Central i North (South Otatara Bush Clifton Campbell town Athol Waikaia . Otama Waikaka. Croydon Knapdalo Otaria Pinnacle Chatton Rivcrsdale Goro Mataura Tuturau Wyndham Edondale Mimihau South Wyndham Pine Bush Fortrose . Hedgehopo Grove Bush Boslyn Bush Myross Buah Woodlands Long Bush Oteramika One-Treo Point Pukerau Orepuki Riverton Thornbury Otautau Gummic's Bush Groper's Bush Flint's Bush Pembroke Cardrona Mace town Upper Shotover Millar's Flat Lower Shotover Arrowtown Queenstown Moko Creek Garston Limestone Plains Halfmoon Bay 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 1 600 1,200 1,200 5 742 2,500 4,800 400 600 1 200 400 800 600 400 400 400 600 600 C00 600 1,840 2,000 460 800 640 400 400 (400) 600 400 600 525 600 1,200 700 375 600 400 1,000 3,000 800 800 400 400 600 600 560 400 300 725 600 1,080 2,211 240 400 432 460 55 107 140 606 1S9 470 30 66 77 23 84 55 51 38 51 42 33 166 173 38 63 64 27 30 21 50 27 49 33 55 04 73 2G 45 51 81 315 20 95 65 305 148 310 9 55 34 12 21 8 30 34 29 22 24 16 23 47 29 27 34 25 18 17 12 27 4 23 14 13 41 31 6 39 17 37 78 60 31 18 12 1C 15 11 10 17 8 23 41 39 2 11 30 13 11 62 51 264 113 227 12 42 25 8 13 27 20 14 12 12 20 18 17 16 22 12 13 8 16 4 12 10 13 18 26 4 16 11 28 95 64 140 154 647 224 553 27 79 86 27 92 63 30 34 53 40 61 46 44 187 184 48 81 07 33 34 25 67 27 60 37 55 87 78 28 68 57 90 298 60 75 52 32 45 43 35 29 34 30 56 129 118 15 30 74 31 45 100 112 510 177 422 19 51 59 24 55 54 20 32 34 21 43 35 30 117 125 29 62 56 20 29 20 41 16 40 29 39 68 47 15 37 46 71 241 47 41 41 25 37 31 27 22 24 17 39 82 93 15 23 46 20 43-25 95-75 120-25 504 180-5 446-25 21 54-25 63 24-5 48-5 46 25 32 30-75 18-75 38-25 35 27-75 121-75 137-25 28-5 58 59-5 19-75 25-25 19-75 41 13-75 37 22 40-25 54-5 50-5 16 35-75 40 72-25 250-25 43 45-5 37 26-75 35-75 28-75 25-75 25-25 25-25 17 30-75 82-25 92-5 15 20 37-5 27-75 23 55 54 261 107 237 11 30 35 11 33 25 13 18 18 15 19 22 18 67 71 16 35 29 11 18 12 26 11 21 16 20 37 26 10 25 24 37 140 24 24 21 12 19 13 14 15 14 11 21 44 61 4 12 25 12 22 48 62 253 73 190 11 24 26 15 29 30 13 14 18 12 29 15 14 59 50 15 27 27 15 11 9 18 9 24 13 22 31 24 8 18 22 35 107 23 26 21 15 19 19 14 9 12 7 20 46 33 11 12 23 14 45 103 110 514 180 427 22 54 61 26 62 61 26 32 36 27 48 37 32 120 127 31 62 50 26 29 21 44 20 45 29 42 68 50 18 43 46 72 247 47 50 42 27 38 32 28 24 20 18 41 90 94 15 24 48 26 43-5 96-75 120 500 182-5 454-75 23-25 56-75 64 26 28-5 54 25-5 32 38-75 27-25 44-5 36-25 30 125-75 138-25 30-5 58-5 60 23 25-75 20-5 42-25 10-5 40 26-5 44-5 61-75 52 18 40 40-75 73 253-75 32 50-25 39-25 28-5 36 32-5 26-75 27-5 27-75 20-5 38-5 86-5 93-75 15 20-75 41-25 27-75 03 45 37 43 47 81 33 29 38 44 123 124 15 25 48 25 19 11 17 14 19 7 1-1 12 10 11 35 45 2 6 4 7 Totals 07 5,191 2,588 1,804 5,975 4,359 4,316-25 4,218-25 2,390 2,142 4,538 4,470 4,400-5

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REPORTS OF EDUCATION BOARDS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1883.

[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 appended to the report of the Minister With a view to uniformity of classification the order of details has been in some instances changed in the statements of accounts.]

AUCKLAND. Auckland, 28th March, 1884. In conformity to section 102 of the Act, the Board forwards the following report of its proceedings during the year ended 31st December, 1883 : — Board.—Several changes have taken place in the constitution of the Board. At the annual election in March there were four candidates. Mr Goldie and Mr. Luke were re-elected, and Mr. Donald Hugh McKenzie was elected to succeed Mr. Prime, who retired from office. In April Mr. Moat, being about to visit England, resigned his membership, after a service of five years. Mr. Laishley was elected to succeed him as Chairman, and Mr William Francis Buckland was elected, without opposition, to fill the vacant seat on the Board. In June Mr Dargaville resigned his seat, and the vacancy was filled in August by the election of Mr Theophilus Cooper. In November Mr Laishley resigned his office as Chairman and member, in consequence of his projected absence from the colony Mr Hobbs was appointed Chairman until the next annual election. For the vacant seat three candidates were nominated Mr James William Carr was elected in January, 1884. Fortyfive meetings of the Board were held during the year, with an average attendance of six members. In April the Board decided to hold its meetings weekly, instead of fortnightly as before. The Chairman was appointed to exercise the functions previously exercised by an Executive Committee. Provision was made for the payment of travelling expenses in the case of members residing at a distance from Auckland. Standing orders were framed for the transaction of business, which has very largely increased during the year Public Schools.—The number of schools in operation during the whole or any part of the year was 219, or reckoning two half-time schools as one school, 192. The number of school districts was increased from 166 to 175. New schools were opened at Te Puke (Tauranga), Ohinewai (Huntly), Ohineroa (Grant and Foster's settlement) Waiorongomai (Te Aroha), Paparata, Hikurangi (half-time with Otonga), West Mauku (half-time with Waitangi), Ararimu New (halftime with Ararimu Old) The schools at Cambridge and Hamilton East were converted into district high schools at Ist July. The schools at Maungatete, Whareora, Kawau, Manukau Heads, and Orongo (half-time) were closed, and the schools previously closed at Omaru (Matakohe), Pollock, and Miranda were reopened. The following half-time schools wore placed under separate teachers : Titirangi and Waikomiti, Dome Valley and Kaipara Flats, Katikati Nos. 1 and 3, and Waitekauri. The Board has endeavoured as far as possible to avoid multiplying small schools. There are however, fifty-three schools having an average attendance of less than 25 scholars, and seventy-six schools whose average is between 25 and 50. The necessity for the maintenance of small schools in this district cannot be denied. The distance between one settlement and another is so great as to oblige the Board to continue these schools. In some cases the assistance is limited to a capitation grant of £4 a year on the average attendance, and, when two schools can be joined together half-time, there is a sufficient income from the grant for the maintenance of a teacher. But it is often necessary to exceed the limit. This is the chief difficulty with which the Board has to contend. It is not possible to supply every want, but the Board cannot willingly withhold the means of education from those who are laying the foundations of settlement in a new country The following table (compiled from the published report for 1882) shows the relative position of the three largest districts of the colony in regard to the maintenance of small schools: —■

Further reference will be made to these figures in connection with the subject of " Finance."

Number of Schools. (1882.) Percentage of Schools having an Averago under 25. Percentage of Schools having an Averago under 50. Auckland Otago North Canterbury 189 159 134 29-1 per cent. 18-9 14-1 69-3 per cent. 57-2 55-2

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Teachers.—The staff of teachers at the end of the year numbered 529, as compared with 488 at the end of 1882. Their classification is as follows:—

The Board has continued the employment of probationers, who learn to take part in the work of teaching, and receive special instruction at the classes held in connection with the Training College. The number of uncertificated teachers employed at the end of the year was eighty-six. Of this number, fifty-three were head-teachers. The Board gives a preference of employment to those who hold a certificate but it is clearly impossible to supply every small school with a certificated teacher Pupil-Teachers.—The number of pupil-teachers has increased from 136 to 170. The supply of male pupil-teachers is very limited, and the Board is considering how it may be increased. There is an adequate supply of female pupil-teachers, but some difficulty has been experienced in providing pupil-teachers for country schools. The Sixth Standard is the qualification for employment. In each case the Board requires from the candidate certificates of physical health and general fitness for the work of teaching , and candidates are required to go through a term of three months' probation in order that their capacity may be tested before they are formally indentured as pupilteachers. The following table shows the result of the annual examination of pupil-teachers held in June, 1883 :—

The examination for third-year pupil-teachers was optional. Those first-year pupil-teachers who had passed the entrance examination between December, 1882, and June, 1883, were not again examined on this occasion. Attendances. —The number of schools, scholars on the roll, and average attendance for the December quarters of 1882 and 1883, are thus compared :—

The attendance during the year was 77 per cent, of the roll-number. There was no epidemic or exceptionally bad-weather to occasion a falling-off in the attendance. In town schools the average is fully 80 per cent., but in country schools it is sometimes less than 60 per cent, of the roll-number Ages.—There were 418 scholars over school age, besides the number attending evening schools. The admission of children under five years of age is prohibited, but there is reason to believe that scholars have been entered under age contrary to rule. The Board has lately instructed headteachers, in case of doubt, to require from parents a written certificate of age. Inspection and Standards.—The report of the Inspector of Schools contains the usual return of the results of the annual examinations in standards. The Board has endeavoured to provide, as far as possible, that each school shall be inspected at least once a year (in addition to the annual standard examination), and that the inspection and examination in standards shall not be conducted consecutively by the same Inspector in the same portion of the district. In order to do this, it was necessary to appoint a third Assistant Inspector

Male. Female. Total. Head-toachers Assistant teachers Pupil-teachers Sewing-teachers Visiting teachers 156 24 18 36 98 152 40 192 122 170 40 5 5 Totals ! 203 326 529

Grade. Exami: ted. Pass* id. Failed. fast-year pupil-teachers iecond-year pupil-teachers.. Mrd-year pupil-teachers Jandidates for employment M. 9 4 F 57 97 3 18 Total. 66 31 3 18 M. 7 3 F 39 25 3 10 Total. 4.6 28 3 10 M. 2 1 F Total. 18 20 2 3 8 "*8 Totals... 13 105 118 LO 77 87 28 31

Number of Schools. Ave :age Atteni lance. •ecember quarter, 1883 'ecember quarter, 1882 217 209 Male. 8,785 8 304 Female. 8,335 7,797 Total. 17,120 16,101 Male. 6,941 6,595 Female. 6 407 6,046 Total. 13,348 12,641 Increase for 1883 481 538 1,019 346 361 707

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Subjects op Instruction. —The visiting teachers of singing, drawing, drill, and gymnastics have been employed as usual, and their visits have been extended to country schools. Special attention has been given to the subject of physical training and gymnastic exercises. All pupils are required to attend the classes for such training, but provision is made for the exemption of any pupil to whom the exercises would be injurious. More time has been given to the study of the laws of health. The Board issued a circular calling the attention of parents to the hurtful effect of tight lacing and high-heeled boots in the dress worn by girls, which had been found to hinder the exercises intended to promote the proper development of the body * Singing is taught on the Tonic Sol-fa method. The results have been fairly satisfactory Drawing is taught, as far as possible, from models. Accounts and Finance.—The accounts of income and expenditure have been duly audited, and are appended to this report. The gross income during the year was £73,574 2s. 5d., made up as follows: —The income derived from the statutory capitation grant was £47,231 3s. lOd., and for special capitation grant, £3,180 12s. 6d. £1,076 12s. 7d. was yielded from primary education reserves, and £100 was granted for secondary reserves. The district high schools fees (six months) amounted to £180 12s. The income for buildings was £18,483 19s. This includes the building grant for the preceding financial year (£15,641 195.), which was not paid over to the Board until March, 1883. It also includes a sum of £520 locally contributed towards cost of buildings, and a sum of £2,310 specially granted by Government for playgrounds. The other items of income were the special grants for scholarships (£843 19s. lid.), training (£1,977 2s. 7d.), and inspection (£500). The expenditure on office staff and departmental contingencies was about the same as before,! but the cost of inspection was increased through the employment of an additional Inspector The grants to Committees for incidental expenses of schools amounted to £3,089 19s. 4d. The expenditure on scholarships was £1,025 12s. 7d., but the income actually received during the year from the capitation grant of Is. 6d. was only £843 19s. lid., the remainder of the grant (£2Bl 7s. 9d.) having been paid since December, 1883. The cost Of "training institutions" includes the training college and teachers' classes at Auckland, the training classes at the Thames, and the training by correspondence with country teachers. It was almost entirely covered by the special grant of £2,000. The only other special item of expenditure was a charge of £105 os. 4d. for interest on bank overdraft occasioned by the delay in the allocation and payment of the building grant for the current financial year In addition to the statutory capitation grant of £3 155., the Board received £3,180 12s. 6d. from an extra grant of ss. a head specially voted by the Assembly for contingencies. The total grant of £4 a head was expended thus: — £ s. d. Teachers' salaries .. 3 9 5a head Grants to Committees .. 0 4 11 ~ Inspector and examination ... ... 0 3 1 ~ Cost of Board's administration .. ...0 2 7,, £4 0 0 But for this extra capitation grant of ss. the Board would be unable to meet the ordinary expenditure on account of maintenance. There are no funds in reserve. The fact that, out of 192 schools, 129 are small or "non-paying" schools, will account for this. The first school on the list (Kaitaia) had an average attendance of 21-5, yielding an income of £86 from capitation grant, while the cost of its maintenance for the year was upwards of £130. Similarly, in the case of

* Circular. —The Education Board of the District of Auckland feel that they ought to awaken the attention of parents of girls who attend the High School and other schools to the hurtful effect of the dross worn by many of the pupils, which dress hinders the exercises practised to bring about the due development of the body. Thus, on the Bth August last, the Drill Instructor reported that some of tho High Sohool girls " were so tightly laced, and the sleeves of their dresses so tight, that it was impossible for them to perform the required exercises with any degree of ease." This in itself may seem a small matter, but it betokens deeply injurious effects. Dr. Richardson, in his book on the Diseases of Modern Life, says: " The worst mechanioal errors in clothing are those which affect tho ohest and body. Tho tight band round the waist and the tightly-laced corset still play too important a part, and interfere with tho free and healthy movements of young girls and women. The effeot of the pressure is equally injurious to the organs of digestion, respiration, and circulation." Dr. Richardson goes on to point out that tho same objection applies to tho belt sometimes worn by boys and men as to the tight band and corset: "It impedes the free motion of the abdominal organs. It tends to bring on hernia." He shows the danger of tight garters causing varicose veins, and then goes on to say: "By the boots and shoes made for women and children with high-pointed heels a more tlian local injury is inflicted. Each time the body comes down with its full weight upon the, raised heel it receives a slight shock or vibration, which extends through the vertebral column, and, being often repeated, injures the column and its nervous mochanism." Thus the spinal cord is affected. " Tho spinal cord, in direot eommunioation with, or rather proceeding from the brain, is the primo agent of movement, sensation, and all that goes to mako up physical being: injury to it is destruction to the whole system." It will be seen that the risk inourred is fearful. To look at the question from another point of view Mr. G. P Watts, Royal Academy, in an article in the January number of the Nineteenth Century, says, " It may be safe to assert that good taste is violated when natural conditions are entirely lost sight of-" and, again, "Bad taste, even if proved by incontestable principles, may be regretted and combated, but, if not degrading and harmful, may be submitted to with a sigh; hut when vital consequenoes are involved tho question is removed to a higher court, and reticence becomes cowardly. Tender mothers would be horrified could they but realize how much and in how many ways they are destroying the happiness of their daughters in obedience to a stupid conventionality and a degradod taste." An evil like the ono hore dealt with is best met with by the force of authority. The Board feel that no words of theirs can add weight to the words they have quoted. They recommend what is now submitted to the earnest attention of parents and guardians.—R. Laishley, Jun., Chairman. Auckland, 14th September, ISB3. t Tho details of expenditure are. as follows: —Office staff, salaries, £1,07-1 15s. 4d.; clerical assistance, £6 7s. 6d.; office rent and rates, £155 6s. sd. ; furniture and repairs, £14 19s. , fuel, light, and cleaning, £31 14s. 10s. ; printing, £145 os. 6d.; stationery, £69 lis. 2d. advertising, £94 lis. 6d.; legal expenses, £5 175.; membors' travelling expensos, £7 55., stamp duty, £23 25.; talegrams, £1 195.; froight and carriage, £5 15s. 3d,; insurance, £1 155,; miscellaneous, £14 Bs. lOd.: 'total, £1,652 Bs. 2d. (Total for 1882, £1,641 18s. Bd.)

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Whatawhata School, the cost of maintenance exceeded the income for the year by nearly £50. The income of Boards being thus derived from a capitation grant based on the average attendance, it follows that a district having a large number of small schools and a small aggregate attendance is placed at a great disadvantage compared with a district reversely situated. For example, in the year 1882 Auckland had 189 schools, Otago 159, but the aggregate average attendance in the Otago District was very nearly four thousand more than that in Auckland. In other words Auckland haofto maintain thirty more schools than Otago out of an income less by £15,000 than that of Otago. It appears to the Board that some remedy should be applied to remove this inequality, and that for every small school which the Board can show to be a necessary one there should be a minimum grant sufficient to pay the cost of maintenance. Every school adds to the general expense of administration and inspection, no matter whether it has twenty scholars or a hundred. The expenditure on school buildings during the year amounted to £17,988 6s. 6d. At the end of 1882 the Board had incurred liabilities to the extent of £5,000, in anticipation of the grant of £15,000 odd subsequently allotted. This grant, paid over in March, 1883, was expended in the erection of buildings long ago promised and urgently required. In consequence of tho delay in the allocation of the grant for the financial year ending March, 1884, an overdraft, not exceeding £6,000, was obtained from the bank to enable the Board to proceed with the erection of other necessary buildings during the summer months. At the 31st December, 1883, the overdraft was £3,535 6s. 2d., and the Board had incurred further liabilities under contract to the amount of nearly £9,000, in anticipation of the grant for the current financial year ending in March, 1884. On the 17th January following, the Board received notice that the grant would be only £9,682, being nearly £6,000 less than the previous year's grant. It thereupon became necessary to delay all new buildings for which contracts had not been let, and to place before the Government a statement of the Board's financial position in regard to buildings, and of the many urgent requirements still unfulfilled. A new overdraft will also be necessary to enable the Board to carry on until the next annual grant is received. Buildings.—Twenty-four schools and twelve teachers' dwellings were erected or contracted for during the year Eight schools and four dwellings were enlarged and improved. Grants were also voted for a large number of minor improvements to buildings. The buildings are constructed of the best timber, but are otherwise plainly and cheaply designed. School doors are made to open outwards, so as to facilitate egress in case of panic. In building dwellings it is sometimes found necessary to provide an additional room for the accommodation of an assistant teacher The dwellings are mostly five-roomed, some six-roomed. Caretakers' houses are a luxury unknown to Auckland. There is the greatest difficulty in providing residences for teachers. The Board cannot cease to urge this matter upon the Government. Every school should have its teacher's dwelling attached. At present only half the number of schools are provided with dwellings ~ and, as the Board cannot afford to pay rent allowances, many teachers suffer a pecuniary disadvantage. The school also suffers. Changes of teachers are the more frequent in country districts, because of the want of such inducement to remain , and it is hardly possible to employ married teachers where there is no dwelling. From the last yearly published report, it appears that Auckland was most unfavourably placed in regard to dwellings, having ninety schools as yet unprovided, while Otago and North Canterbury had dwellings for all their schools except (in each case) twelve. Again, as regards the schools for which there were no proper buildings, Auckland had thirty-six, Otago ten North Canterbury three. A special grant alone will remove this inequality The Board regrets that, in spite of the protests renewed from year to year, and corroborated by official statistics, the Government still continue to treat all the districts alike in distributing the Building Fund upon the basis of population, and giving large grants to districts already liberally supplied with buildings. Owing to the reduction in the vote for last year, the Board has had to postpone all new buildings. The most pressing and immediate requirements comprise twenty-one schools and twenty-eight teachers' dwellings, and tho cost of these buildings is estimated at £21,041. There is, therefore, an absolute need of more liberal provision for buildings during the coming year Playgrounds.—-Grants were received during the year for the purchase of playgrounds at Mount Eden, Newton West, and Otahuhu, and for the improvement of playgrounds at the Wellesley Street and Bcresford Street Schools, in the City of Auckland, amounting in all to £2,310. The grant (£500) appropriated to Wellesley Street has not been expended, as the City Council is not yet ready to begin the work of filling in the ground set apart for the purpose. The purchase of playground at the Ponsonby School, for which a sum of £1,000 was granted two years ago, has not yet been completed. Training College.—The operations of the Training College are fully described in the report of the Principal. The number of students increased from twenty to thirty An allowance for maintenance wa3 made to each student. Some of the male students were sent for a time as substitutes to country schools. Tho work of training is not limited to the students of the College. Classes are regularly held for the instruction of uncertificated head-teachers, assistants, probationers, and pupil-teachers. These classes are conducted by the Principal, and by the visiting teachers of singing, drawing, and gymnastics. The attendance at these classes is compulsory, under penalty of a fineThut exemption is granted in case of ill-health, or upon production of a certificate that the teacher is fully qualified to teach the subjects, or (in the case of singing) is physically unable to learn. Besides the training classes, the Principal instructs the uncertificated country teachers by means of correspondence. At the Thames separate classes are conducted under tho same rules by the headmaster of the largest school.

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_ District High Schools.—The schools at Cambridge and at Hamilton East wore converted into district high schools, upon a promise given from the residents of each district to send a sufficient number .of pupils to make the school self-supporting. The fee was fixed at £8 8s a year lwenty-three pupils attended at Cambridge, and twenty-two at Hamilton. As the schools were only six months in operation it is premature to report on them. The Board is pledged to continue them so long only as they are self-supporting. At present the number of pupils is too small to provide the necessary income, but the expenses have been met by means of a grant of £100 voted by the Commissioners of Eeserves for Secondary Education. _ Scholarships.—Thirty scholarships were held during the year Of these, two became vacant by resignation, one expired before the end of the year, and twelve others expired at the 31st December Sixteen new scholarships have since been awarded, making a total of thirty-one now current Ihe term has been extended from two to three years, and the time of examination has been changed from December to August, so as to suit the " school year "of tho secondary schools. The quarterly reports on the holders of scholarships have been (almost without exception) most satisfactory The Board has adhered to the opinion expressed in last year's report, and founded upon a legal interpretation of the 51st section of the Education Act, that pupils of any age lawfully attending a public school are eligible to compete for scholarships. ° L The Governors of the Auckland College and Grammar School recommended thirteen years as the limit of age at which holders of scholarships should bo admitted to their school and the question was fully and freely discussed by the two Boards. It seemed to the Board 'while recognizing the willingness of the Governors to admit boys from the primary schools at any age, that the Government should, at the first convenient opportunity, secure to the Board by legislation the right to claim free tuition at the Grammar School for all winners of scholarships from the primary schools and that there should be no limitation of age. It should be added that notwithstanding the conflict of opinion on the question of age, the Governors have continued to give tree tuition to all scholars sent up from the primary schools, and also to boys obtaining certificates of proficiency at the scholarship examinations. b School Committees.—ln April the Board passed the following resolution « That, inasmuch as the principle of local self-government should, as far as practicable, prevail, School Committees in respect of the affairs of their respective districts should bo fully taken into the confidence of the lioard, and have their requests and advice in all cases acceded to and followed, unless there be clearly very exceptional reason to the contrary, and that, in view of this, whenever a question of the suspension, or dismissal of a teacher arises, not only should the School Committee affected be previously consulted, as required by the 45th section of the Act, but have all the data, m possession of the Board scrupulously submitted to them, in order to guide them in forming a sound opinion on the subject under consideration." The Board also resolved that Committees should be as fully consulted regarding the removal of teachers. It has thus been the aim of the Board to allow tho utmost freedom to Committees in the exercise of their functions, and to give the fullest weight to their opinions and recommendations on school matters. At the same time the -board has not yielded the powers and responsibilities conserved to it by the 45th and 74th sections of the Act There has been, as a rule, the utmost co-operation bestowed by Committees Where a difference has existed, it has generally arisen from the fact that the Board has to provide for the wants and to consult the interests of two hundred schools throughout the whole education district, while the Committee's care is for the school of its particular school district. _ The scale of allowances to School Committees for incidental expenses was revised and increased during the year The grants for the year amounted to £3,089 19s. 4d„ being equivalent to a sum of 4s. lid. per head_ on the average attendance. This amount does not include grants voted to G™ l *^ B f » fencing and other improvements to school property, which are charged against Budding Fund and which amounted during the year to £1,166 2s. 2d. , nor does it include the cost of school furniture, which is almost wholly defrayed by the Board. Under the new regulations for the audit of school-fund accounts, the Board, with the consent of Government, appointed the Provincial District Auditor to audit the accounts of all School Committees. A copy of the Auditor's report is appended; also a summary of the receipts and expenditure. The total income from all sources was £5,275 17s Bd., and the total expenditure was £4,265 13s. 3d., leaving a balance of £1,010 4s. sd. unexpended at the end of the year b oaianco oi The mode of electing School Committees is unsatisfactory The imperfect definition of the term householder "is apt to lead to disputes. The system of cumulative voting is obiectionable inasmuch as it may be used to prevent the election of a fairly representative Committee In the f,X ta 6 0t b T -r end " d '" f W ° U db ° deSiraWe t0 ™*y these defects, and also to make fuller and more explicit provision for the constitution of new school districts, and for filling un vacancies on a Committee. " illu o U P The Hon. the Minister of Education. Eichard Hobbs, Chairman.

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General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1883. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ 8. d. To Balance on December 31st, 1882— By Balance of account on 31st December, Buildin" Account 400 0 0 ISB2—Buildings Account 2,930 18 8 General Account 1,085 15 0 Office staff, salaries 1,074 15 4 Beceipts for buildings— Clerical assistance _ b I b Government grants 15,641 19 0 Departmental contingencies 571 5 b Subscriptions and donations 520 0 0 Inspectors'salaries 1,538 6 8 Deposit forfeited 12 0 0 Inspectors' travelling expenses 430 18 b Government grants for playgrounds 2,310 0 0 Examination of pupil-teachers 15 8 8 Government statutory capitation (£3155.) 47,231 310 Teachers' salaries and allowances (inSpecial capitation (55.) .. 3,180 12 6 eluding rent, bonus, &c.) 44,078 7 5 Scholarship grant (Is. 6d.) 813 19 11 Incidental expenses oi schools 3,089 19 4 Inspection subsidy 500 0 0 Incidental expenses, district high Grant for training of teachers 1,977 2 7 schools (stationery) 5 12 5 Payments by School Commissioners for Incidental expenses, school libraries 14 0 b primary education .. 1,076 12 7 Training of teachers 2,073 12 1 Payments by School Commissioners for Scholarships— secondary education . 100 0 0 Paid to scholars 906 16 5 Foes for district high schools 180 12 0 Examination expenses *18 16. 2 School buildings— Now buildings 9,539 18 2 Improvements of buildings 3,813 11 0 Furniture and appliances 1,735 16 9 Sites 833 13 3 Sites, spocial playgrounds 1,210 0 0 Plans, supervision, and fees. 855 7 4 Bank interest 105 0 4 Credit balance of account on 31st December, 1883— Balance of account on 31st December, playgrounds Account 1,500 0 0 1883—Buildings Account .. 3,535 6 2 General Account 3,00 l 11 7 £79,195 T~7 £79,495 3 7 Eichard Hobbs, Chairman. Vincent E. Rice, Secretary I hereby certify that I have examined the books and vouchers of the Education Board of tho District of Auckland for the year ended 31st December, 1883, and that I find the same to be correct, and the expenditure according to law.—L. A. Durrieu, Auditor 26th February, 1884.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1883. A. Exclusive of Building Fund. Assets. £ b. d. Liabilities. £ 6. Cash in bank on this account, 31st Decern- Due to teachers 3,797 1 1 bor 1883 . 3,051 11 7 Duo for rents 26 0 0 Duo from vote for scholarships 281 7 9 Due for school libraries 26 0 0 Duo from vote for training teachers 22 17 5 Due for printing ™ • J Tj a i anco 620 4 9 Duo for advertising 45 0 0 Duo for scholarship examination 17 13 0 Due for stationery, &o. . 19 4 4 Duo for grants to Committees 9 15 0 £3,976 1 G £3,976 1 6 B. Building Fund only £ s. d. £ s. d. Cash in bank on this account, 31st Decern- Balance of account, Ist December, 1883 3,535 6 2 bor, 1883, unexpended grant for play- Balance of amounts duo or to fall due grounds i. 500 ° ° under contracts 7,989 4 2 Due from Government grant for 1883-84 9,682 0 0 Due on account of grants authorized for Ba i anc „ 2,589 14 4 improvements 597 4 0 " Due on account of grant for playground, Ponsonby 1,000 0 0 Due on account of grant for playground, Wellesley Street 500 0 0 Unpaid accounts 150 0 0 £13,771 14 4 £13,771 14 4 Eichard Hobbs, Chairman. Vincent E. Eice, Secretary

TARANAKI. gm _ New Plymouth, 27th March, 1884. In accordance with section 102 of "The Education Act, 1877 " the Taranaki Education Board forwards a report of its proceedings for the year ending the 31st December, 1883. Board Meetings.—The Board has held twenty-four ordinary meetings and one special meeting during the year . . Schools.—There are thirty-six schools at work. The increase on the roll is very slight, being only thirty-nine, and on the average attendance none. Applications have been made for building schools at Eahotu and the Tarika Road, but the Board cannot build them out of the present grant.

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Tin. w f BuiLDiNGs.-Several schools have been enlarged, and others require enlargement. The Waitara East School is being enlarged. A new school is being built at Lepperton, in the room of the, old block house previously used. A new school at the extreme west of New Plymouth is m progress to accommodate the children now taught in a hired building; one is also required at the extreme east, to accommodate the children now taught in a small chapel which is ZZ SI 4 . A central school is being built and nearly completed to accommodate the East and West Boys' Schools. It is expected that this arrangement will improve and increase the teaching power, and also reduce the cost. The East School has been used as part of S iP g „ 116l 16 B ° ar f <. ont ? m P lates at present to use the East Infants' School, which is an when needed - School sites have been p urchased for CoMMiTTEES.-The No 3 Committee for the Town of New Plymouth have taken great interest m their work during the past year The country Committees are gradually taking more interest in £r r The .* hol , e ° f * he C™ l^ 66B ha 7eo thiS ar a K> Hed for their capitation allowance.. Ihe No. 3 Committee have very liberally voted £70 towards the completion of the Central School The new regulations for auditing School Committees' accounts will be found an improvement wwf TfW^ 6 w? Staff C rfi Stß °ji WSnty mal ? and fort y-° n e female head and assistant teachers of these, only twenty-nine hold certificates or a license to teach. Arrangements have been made for the training of pupil-teachers, and the regulations have been approved by the Minister of _aucation. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. Elisha Veale, Chairman.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1883. To Balances on 31st DecfmSW- *** By Office staff, salaries*?**- j 0 o" % Building Account .. 38 3 1 Clerical assistance .. ' 72 6 General Account . 822 12 1 Departmental contingencies . 135 l o Land Account . 100 0 0 Inspector's salary 8 300 0 0 , fififi lfi n teachers-salaried and allowance 4,468 1 0 government grant 1,666 15 0 Incidental expenses of schools 580 0 0 Proceeds of sale of West School 33 0 0 Training of teachers ' Grant from Education Fund 650 0 0 Grant for school buildings ' 650 0 0 Government statutory capitation (£3155.) 4,967 6 1 Advance to High School Fund " 150 0 0 Special capitation (55.) .. 360 7 6 School buildings- '" Inspection subsidy 200 0 0 New buildings . 1001 4 7 Payments by School Commissioners for Improvement of buildings " 140 11 10 BjffiSSfflT" .: :: 1? 16 0 8 0 S? to and • • S Grassteed 66 •• ' ' ni2 2 Sites purchased with Land Fund .IM 8 8 Store Iccount' ' - r« ? ? P lsm3 . supervision, and fees .. 100 00 . biore Account 55 1 1 Other expensesLand Account- Store Account . 54 17 8 ' Interest on deposit 4 3 3 Deposit on account of contract 7 19 6 Credit balance on 31st December, 1883— On Building Account 846 8 3 On General Account 234 11 3 Elisha Veale, Chairman. ■p • -, -, . , L „ „ Wm. Northcroft, Secretary litxammed and found correct.—C. Rennele, Auditor

Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1883. A. Exclusive of Building Fund. Cash in bank on this account, 31st December, ' ' Due to teachers inf a \ tS f B3 tth. a v i m j 234 11 3 Due to Committees . ' 85 16 3 Due from High School Fund 325 0 0 Due for advertising, &c. 1 18 n Due from store . .. .. 51 2 2 Duo for rent of schools 20 4 0 £ g IQ I3 5 £217'0~3" B. Building Fund only. Cash in bank on this account, 31st December, ' ' Amounts due and to fall duo under contracts 950 17 xti ° 6 •■ • ■ 846 8 3 Due for legal expenses .. ~ 312 8 £846 8 3 £954 10~2

WANGANUI. ~ T ~. .. Wanganui, 26th February, 1884. In pursuance of the provisions of " The Education Act, 1877," I have the honour to submit tne annual report of the Board's proceedings for the year ending 31st December, 1883 lhe Board meets on the last Tuesday in every month, and, besides its ordinary meetings on ' those days, it has held two special meetings. ' s "

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Board.—The members who retired in December, 1882, were Mr G. M. Snelson, Mr. John Notman, and the Eev J Eoss. Mr Snelson and the Eev Mr Eoss were re-elected, and Mr G. Carson was returned a member of the Board in place of Mr Notman, who did not seek re-election. An extraordinary vacancy was occasioned in the month of January by the resignation of Mr. Donald Coutts, of Patea, and this was filled by the election of Mr Samuel Taplin, of the same place. Schools.—The number of schools in operation at the close of the year was sixty-seven. Of these, four are aided schools in outlying districts, where the attendance is too small to justify any further outlay The Board makes an allowance to these aided schools of £4 ss. per scholar on the average attendance, being ss. per head more than it receives from Government on their account. The Board felt justified in extending this benefit to persons not within a reasonable distance of an existing school, because it is necessary to avoid a multiplication of non-paying small schools which might cripple its resources. Of the total number of schools, twenty-seven have only an average of twenty-five or under fifty pupils. Teachers.—At the close of the year the Board had in its employ 126 teachers, including pupilteachers. Of these, 53 are male head-teachers, 14 are female head-teachers, 6 are male assistant teachers, 18 are female assistant teachers, 9 are male pupil-teachers, and 26 female pupil-teachers. The following are uncertificated 20 male head-teachers, 3 male assistant teachers, 10 female teachers, and 12 female assistant teachers; but the majority presented themselves at the teachers' examination last month. The Board also permits the employment of young persons who have passed the Fifth Standard, as cadets. They are under the same regulations as the pupil-teachers, except that they are only allowed to. teach half the time, and do not receive any salary During the year the Board made a rule that teachers' wives cannot in future be appointed assistants in schools in charge of their husbands. It also passed a resolution requiring all uncertificated teachers in the Board's employ to present themselves at the annual examination, and the effect was apparent from the large number who competed for certificates last month. In last year's report the Board referred to what it thought should be the moral status of a teacher Following up the subject, it has this year passed the following resolution "That, before any person shall be appointed teacher in any school under this Board, he or she shall be required to obtain satisfactory testimonials as to his or her sobriety; and that, when any applicant shall previously have been in the employment of any other Board in New Zealand, the Secretary shall in writing or by telegraph inquire from such other Board what were the circumstances which led to the discontinuance of such employment, and that no appointment be made until such information shall be laid before the Board." It having been ascertained that some teachers had not been as punctual in their attendance as is desirable, the Board issued a circular to the Committees, directing that " teachers must be in their places during the whole of school hours," and the Board trusts it may not again have occasion to refer to this matter. The Board has also placed a minute on the book to the effect that it is undesirable that more than one son or daughter of a teacher should be employed in the school under his or her charge. Attendances.—The attendance of scholars shows a steady increase. In 1882 the roll-number for the whole year, taken from line 7 of the quarterly returns, which represents the actual number belonging to the schools, was 4,844-75, and the working average of the four quarters was 3,672-75, In 1883 the roll-number for the year was 5,273 - 75, whilst the working average for the four quarters was 4,045-16. From these figures it is ascertained that in 1882 the proportion of average attendance to the roll-numbers was 75-8 per cent., whilst in 1883 it rose to 76-73 per cent. The increase in the working average is 372-41, or 10-14 per cent. When it is considered that there has been a large exodus of population from some of the principal centres in this education district, such as Patea and Halconibe, the above results must be looked upon as very satisfactory. New Districts and School Buildings.—During the year new school districts have been formed at Stanway (North Halcombe), at Upper Taonui, Kimbolton Eoad, and Otakeho. New schools have been built at Beaconsfield, Warrengate, Manchester,.Okaiawa, and Stanway.. Anew residence has been erected at Makino Road, and a custodian's residence in the Town of Wanganui. The latter is for the use of the custodian, who has charge of all the town schools and grounds, and who is in the employ of the Wanganui Committee. It is built on a site adjoining the Boys' District High School. A considerable addition has been made to the Patea District High School, and a new room added to the Girls' District High School, Wanganui, whilst repairs and additions of various kinds have been effected throughout the district as far as funds would admit. The Board also accepted contracts for painting the whole of the school buildings in the district, a work which was very much needed, and one which will tend to their preservation. This fact will in a measure account for the outlay on maintenance appearing so disproportionate to that for new buildings. Much remains yet to be done. There is urgent need of improvements and more space at Waverley, Feilding, Hawera, &c, and the Board has received applications for other pressing works too numerous to detail. It is also called upon to build new schools in the districts just formed. It must not, however, be supposed that the Board will undertake the erection of these buildings without making very careful inquiry into the merits of the several cases. The want of school ground accommodation is still felt at Palmerston North and Bull's. As regards the former place, the Board has applied to the Wellington School Commissioners for a reserve to be set aside for the purpose. In connection with the preservation and care of the school buildings, grounds and fences, &c, it will be seen that the Board has used every means in its power to attain this very desirable end, by expending a large sum in painting and other works. It also issued a copy of the circular received from the department bearing upon this subject, with a memorandum attached inviting the cooperation of Committees in the matter. 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their work is begun and ended in the class-room. In other words, they teach, no doubt, well, but neglect to train their pupils to habits of order and neatness. The charge for plans and supervision is higher than usual, in consequence of a complete set of plans of the several schools having been drawn at the time the painting contract was accepted but these will last for all time, and will always be useful as a reference. Architects. —During the year Mr. J R. Wright, the Board's Architect, resigned and left the colony, and the Board thereupon appointed Messrs. Atkins and Clere to the position. The Board believes that these gentlemen will prove themselves quite equal to the task, as they have already introduced some very desirable improvements, without increasing the cost of the buildings. District High Schools. —The Board has on several previous occasions referred to these schools, and has expressed doubt as to their success, It now begs to express its conviction that as institutions for imparting secondary education they are a complete failure, and are not made use of by the public for that purpose. The Boys' District High School of Wanganui has been completely reorganized under the present Headmaster, and, for order, discipline, and general instruction, is second to none in the district. The end, however, for which it was established has never been attained, whilst the cost of teaching per scholar is enormous as compared with that of other schools in this district. It is presumed that the object of district high schools is to place within reach of all the means of acquiring the rudiments of a classical education, to the end that any latent talent which might otherwise remain undeveloped should be brought to light. It is manifest, however, by the terms upon which these schools were allowed to be established, and from the conditions laid down by Government at the time they were sanctioned, that they were never intended to trench upon the primary system. The Board therefore does not consider itself justified in spending an undue proportion of its income, whether derived from bequests, reserves, or otherwise, in an unprofitable attempt to foster an institution working upon a useless basis, whilst so many pressing needs are every day brought under its notice from other parts of the district. It will be seen that the Board has offered very substantial annual rewards for scholarships, which are open to all comers, and it considers that ample means are thus placed at the disposal of those who aspire to, and are capable of receiving, an education beyond that which is provided for in the six standards. The attendance of pupils learning the upper subjects in the town schools during the year has been as follows :— Boys. Girls. First quarter . . .18 11 Second quarter . .18 14 Third quarter .. . 16 . 12 Fourth quarter 13 . 12 The charge for teaching the extra subjects is 10s. per quarter for the first two subjects, and ss. per quarter for each additional subject, and it is not thought that this small charge would militate against the attendance. A comparison of the bare annual cost of teaching at seven of the Board's principal schools is shown as follows :— £ s. d. Boys' District High School, Wanganui .. 5 14 7J per scholar Patea District High School 3 13 4f Waverley State School 3 1 5| „ Feilding State School 2 19 2 Hawera State School .. 2 19 1 „ Girls' District High School, Wanganui 2 14 10J ~ Palmerston State School 2 13 11 ~ These calculations are based upon the average attendance for the whole year, and the salaries and allowances paid to the teachers. The figures speak for themselves. The income and expenditure of the Boys' School can, however be shown in another form, as follows:— Income from all Sources. £ s. d. Government statutory capitation on 199 attendances, at £4 796 0 0 Interest from the Rees Bequest (all absorbed by this school) 200 0 0 Fees for higher education . 40 5 0 Proportion of income received from School Commissioners for secondary education . 29 17 0 Total income ... . £1,066 2 0 Total expenditure on this school for salaries for the year £1,140 12 6 .—leaving a net loss of £74 10s. 6d. to be made up, irrespective of the grant from the General Account towards the Committee's School Fund. It is usual for a school of this class to contribute towards the general expenses of the Board, for the purpose of assisting the smaller and weaker country schools, &c. Of course the Wanganui Girls' and Infants' Schools do so, but that cannot be advanced as an argument for uselessly expending a large sum of money on a kindred institution. The actual difference in the annual cost of working the Wanganui Boys' District High School and a school with a similar average attendance, say Feilding, is £651 18s. 4d. The average attendance of boys learning the extra subjects during the year has been sixteen, and the extra cost of teaching them over and above primary education is £23 13s. 3d. per scholar Practically speaking, however, the school has reduced itself to a primary one, for there are now but seven boys left who learn the

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extra subjects, at a cost of £54 Is. 9d. each per annum to the Board. As regards an institution at which the holders of scholarships may take advantage of them, in the event of discontinuing secondary education at the Boys' School, the Board has the matter under consideration. The Girls' District High School, under Miss Blyth, still maintains its high character and position, The extra subjects taught in this school are French and singing. From a pecuniary point of view, the Board does not think it would be advisable to interfere in any way with this institution, as it will be seen that the cost of teaching is the lowest but one of the schools referred to, and, if the fees received were deducted, it would be the lowest of all. The Patea District High School has not been a success at any time, although it has been efficiently officered, but the cost of its maintenance has not encroached upon the Board's funds. The numbers who attended during the year for secondary education were as follows Boys. Girls. First quarter 4 0 Second quarter ... 5 . 0 Third quarter .. .. 7 1 Fourth quarter .... 7 0 The numbers now learning extra subjects are four boys only Scholarships.—These were competed for in August last. The examiners were the Board's Inspector, and Messrs. Kenneth Wilson and A. McGregor, of Wellington, whose reports will be found in the appendix,* with the marks assigned to each candidate An examination of the upper departments of the Wanganui and Patea District High Schools was also held by these gentlemen. Their report is not favourable, i Inspection.—During the year the Board deemed it necessary to change its Inspector, and has appointed Mr W H. Vereker Bindon, of Auckland, to the position. That gentleman has, however, since been taken ill, and, although he is now recovering, he has not as yet been able to assume the duties of the office. (Since arrived, and entered upon duty) In consequence of this change, there is not any Inspector's report attached hereto, but the Board trusts that the returns which are to be found in the appendix referring to the inspection will supply the information required by the department. Truant Inspector.—The Board appointed a Truant Inspector for six months (upon a salary of £100) to visit the whole of the education district, and, finding that his efforts have met with a fair amount of success, they reappointed him for another six months, on the expiration of the former term By comparing the attendances at the different schools during the year 1883 with that of 1882, the Board is able to perceive that there has. generally been a steady increase, except where outside and unavoidable influences have interfered. Considering the large exodus which has taken place from parts of this district, it might have been supposed that the attendance would at least be stationary, except as regards the opening of new schools. In order, however, more clearly to show the results, a table is appended showing the increase and decrease, as the case may be, with remarks attached. The Board issued a circular to the Committees, suggesting that they should enter the Truant Inspector's name on their minutes as clerk, and thus place him in a position to prosecute, under the 73rd clause of the Act. This would relieve the Committees from the onus, although the instructions to take proceedings must still necessarily emanate from them. In some few cases the Committees availed themselves of the suggestion, but in no instance whatever is the Board aware of any proceedings having been instituted. Audit op Committees' Accounts.—ln compliance with instructions from the department, the Board advertised for tenders to audit all the Committees' accounts, and ultimately accepted the lowest, that of Mr Wagstaff, for £40. It has been found that several of the Committees did not keep any books' of accounts, whilst others have been kept in such an erroneous manner as to render them useless. No doubt the same difficulties in auditing will not occur again; and the Committees, knowing that their books will be annually inspected, will be prepared to present them in more correct form. The whole of the accounts have been summarized. Pupil-Teachers.—The usual pupil-teachers' examination was held in June. The Board has decided that pupils wishing to enter as cadets must first pass the Fifth Standard, and it is desirable that they should serve for a year or two as such before they enter as pupil-teachers. No change has been made in the regulations previously passed and sanctioned with reference to pupil-teachers. Scale oe Staff and Salaries.—The Board's scale of staff and salaries has generally worked satisfactorily. One circumstance has, however, arisen which required attention, viz., the period during which salary should be paid to a teacher whilst sick, and the following rule was ultimately passed "That not more than one month's salary in all during any year shall be allowed to teachers during sickness which renders them incapable of attending to their duties, such sickness to be proved by medical or other certificate satisfactorily to the Board. Any deficiency in the school staff caused by the absence of a teacher through illness to be made good at the discretion and convenience of the Board." Respecting school penny banks, classes for teachers, and evening classes, there are not any established under this Board. Teachers avail themselves generally of the Saturday classes established in Wanganui by private enterprise. The Board guarantees renewed employment to any young teachers from this district who may attend the Wellington Training College, and who pass for an E certificate. Bequest of the late Dr. Eees. —The term of five years, for which period sums amounting to £2,100 had been lent on mortgage, having expired, the Board has re-lent £800 of the amount at 1\ per cent, and £500 at 8 per cent, for a similar term, leaving a further sum of £800 on hand awaiting investment. It has been previously explained that this is a trust vested in the Board under the will of the late Dr Eees for education of European children in the Town of Wanganui, and the interest has always been devoted towards paying the salary of the Headmaster of the

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Wanganui District High School. The money is lent on the mortgage of freehold lands situate in the colony, and an ample margin is always required to meet any depreciation in value. Finance.—The.general statement of receipts and expenditure, together with the accompanying details, give a full account of the Board's operations during the year It will be recollected that the last statement showed that the Board had been enabled to transfer the sum of £434 16s. 3d. from the General to the Building Account, with a view of meeting some of the more urgent works. The Building Account now shows an overdraft of £2,790 13s. 6d. and liabilities amounting to £65 18s. Bd., making a total indebtedness in this account of £2,856 12s. 2d. The greater portion of this is, however, balanced by the Government grant (since allocated) of £2,736, leaving a liability of £120 12s. 2d. The General Account shows a credit balance of £1,532 45., with liabilities for one quarter's school fund amounting to £318 65., leaving a net balance of £1,243 18s. There is also shown in this account a balance of £800 13s. 4d. which belongs to the Capital Account of the Rees Bequest, and is now awaiting investment. The departmental expenses are heavier than usual, owing to two or three causes. First, the Truant Inspector's salary is charged against them, and, secondly, the charge for advertising is swelled by the cost of advertising for an Inspector and teachers, and also in advertising the boundaries of the school districts. The printing, too, is a heavy item in consequence of new rules having been published. In other respects every possible economy has been observed. The Board has paid over to the School Committees during the year the sum of £1,218 3s. 6d. for school fund, &c, as shown in returns. Considering the many nonpaying schools which it maintains, the Board believes that the accounts display a very satisfactory state of things. It has hitherto exercised every care in the administration of its affairs, and will continue to do so in the future. The Board cannot, however, conclude this report without bringing under your notice the fact that the grant for buildings, which has lately been allocated, is utterly inadequate for the requirements of the district, and it would urgently impress upon you the necessity of bringing under the notice of Government the need which exists for making further and speedy provision in this direction. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. W H. Watt, Chairman.

General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1883. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balances on December 31st, 1882— By Balance of account on December 31st, Bees Bequest Account 013 4 1882—Buildings ... 1,908 11 3 General Account .. 1,442 8 4 Office staff, salaries . 382 15 10 Government grant for buildings .. 4,376 19 0 Departmental contingencies 503 10 10 Statutory capitation (£3155.).. 14,654 9 2 Inspector's salary 400 0 0 Special capitation (55.) 497 15 0 Inspector's travelling expenses 100 0 0 Scholarships grant (Is. 6d.) ~ 260 14 0 Examination of pupil-teachers 54 3 7 Scholarships (see assets last year) 61 13 9 Teachers' salaries and allowances (inJnspection subsidy 300 0 0 eluding rent, bonus, &c.) 18,530 17 5 Payments by School Commissioners for Incidental expenses of schools .. 1,218 3 6 Primary Education 386 5 7 Scholarships— Payments by School Commissioners for Paid to holders . 235 0 0 Secondary Education 89 16 2 Examination expenses .. 25 14 0 Fees for district high schools 79 0 0 School buildings— Bees Bequest, Capital Account* .. 800 0 0 New buildings .. 1,471 13 3 Bees Bequest, Interest Account 210 7 2 Improvements of buildings. 3,319 15 11 Furniture and appliances 7 9 9 Sites 35 17 6 Plans, supervision, and fees. 403 5 3 Painting and repairs of offices 20 19 7 Credit balance on 31st December, 1883 — Dr. Balance of Building Account, 31st Bees Bequest, Capital Account 800 13 4 December, 1883 . 2,790 13 6 On General Account 1,532 4 0 £25,950 15 0 £25,950 15 0 * Mortgage paid oil: awaiting investment. ™™ I — l ™ M '" „— m W H. Watt, Chairman. A. A. Browne, Secretary Examined and passed.—R. Macaeister, Provincial District Auditor

Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1883. A. Exclusive of Building Fund. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash in bank on this account, 31st Decern- Balance on this account ber, 1883 . 1,532 4 0 Due to Committees' School Fund for DecemDue from Bees Bequest, Interest Account 30 0 0 ber, 1883 318 6 0 Balance ~ 1,243 18 0 £1,562 4 0 £1,562 4 0 B. Building Fund only £ b. d. £ s. d. Cash in bank, 31st December, 1883 Balance, 31st December, 1883 . 2,790 13 6 Due from Government . .. 2,736 0 0 Balance of amounts due or to fall due under Balance , 120 12 2 contracts . .. 23 0 0 Due on account of grants to Committees 13 0 0 Due on account of furniture 10 11 0 Due on account of sites .. 19 7 8 £2,856 12 2 • £2,856 12 2 A. A. Browne, Secretary

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HAWKE'S BAY. Sir, — , Napier, 31st January, 1884. The Board of the Education District of Hawke's Bay has the honour to present the following report of its proceedings for the year ended the 31st December, 1883. During the year twelve ordinary and one special meeting were held for the transaction of business, and the following are the attendances made by each member constituting the Board: Mr J D. Ormond (Chairman), 12; Captain Russell, 9, Eev D. Sidey, 12; Mr Duncan Guy (seven months), 6, Mr Eechab Harding, 11, Mr Samuel Locke, 7, Mr Frederick Sutton, M.H.E., 8, Mr William White, 9, Mr. J N Williams, 10. The three members who retired in March last by effluxion of time, viz., Mr Ormond, Captain Russell, and Mr. Locke, were re-elected without opposition. In the month of April an extraordinary vacancy occurred by the retirement of Mr G, E. Lee as a member of the Board, and Mr Duncan Guy was elected in his stead. School Districts. —The number of school districts remains the same as last year, no new districts having been constituted, although before the close of the year several applications were received asking for the formation of new districts. The number of schools, however, shows an increase of one, as the schools of Tarawera and Waerenga-a-hika were reopened in January, and the Tamumu subsidized school was closed at the end of the June quarter School Attendance.—The number of schools in operation at the close of the school year was thirty-six, in which accommodation is provided for 3,461 children. Six of the buildings occupied for school purposes do not belong to the Board, so that the actual accommodation provided in Board schools is sufficient only for the attendance of 3,330 children. The attendance returns for the last quarter of the year give an average weekly roll-number in the schools of the district of 3,728 children, and an average attendance of 2,940. Compared with the year 1882, the one just closed shows an increase of 9 per cent, in the number attending school, and of 12J per cent, in the average attendance. It will thus appear that the average attendance has increased in greater proportion than the number attending school. Out of every hundred children on the school rolls during the year, seventy-seven of them were in daily attendance each time the schools were opened. In 1882 there were only seventy-four children out of every hundred in daily attendance. This shows that there has been an improvement of 3 per cent, in the regularity of children at school, but even now the regularity is far below that of the Otago schools, where last year the average attendance was 82 per cent, of the number of pupils on the roll. It is interesting to notice that, since the Board was first established in 1878, the number of children attending the schools, including the then denominational schools, has risen from 1,520 in March, 1878, to 3,728, or 145 per cent., in December, 1883; and the average attendance has increased from 1,259 to 2,940, or nearly 134 per cent. Teachers.—The teaching staff employed in the Board schools consist of thirty-nine certificated and licensed teachers, sixteen uncertificated, and forty pupil-teachers. In all the larger schools certificated teachers are engaged, and as vacancies occur in the smaller schools it is anticipated that there will be very little difficulty in staffing them with certificated teachers selected from among the ex-pupil-teachers, whose term of service as pupil-teachers has expired, and who are to be found each year presenting themselves for certificates at the Government examination in January. Maintenance.—The total cost of maintenance for the year, including the bonuses to teachers on the results of the standard examination and the payments to School Committees, which latter amounted to nearly 10 per cent, of the Board's income, was £10,791 16s. 2d., or at the rate of £2 18s. 4Jd. per head on the average roll-number for the year, and of £3TBs. 4d. per head reckoned on the average attendance. In nearly one-half of the schools under the Board the cost of maintenance exceeds the amount derived by the Board from the Government on account of the average attendance at the schools. The payment to teachers of "bonuses on results" is made in lieu of " certificate money," the Board preferring to pay a bonus to all teachers, —both principal and junior teachers, —whether certificated or not, who do the best work and obtain a certain percentage of passes in the annual standard examination of the schools. Inspector's Eeport.—The Inspector's report upon the work of the schools shows that an unusual increase has taken place, not only in the number of presentations for the standard examinations, but likewise in the number of children who succeeded in passing the standard requirements. The number presented for examination exceeded those presented in 1882 by IL4 per cent., and the number of actual passes exceeded those of 1882 by more than 12 per cent. The average age of the children who passed the standards was—Standard 1., 9 years 2 months, Standard 11., 10 years 3 months, Standard 111., 11 years 3 months , Standard IV., 12 years 5 months , Standard V., 13 years 3 months , Standard VI., 14 years 2 months. These averages are higher in Standards 1., 11., 111., and IV than the mean returns of the ages of pupils in the other education districts of the colony , but in Standards V and VI. the pupils in Hawke's Bay pass the examination at as early an age as the average for New Zealand. It would thus appear that, after all, the early presentation and passing of pupils in the lower standards is of little or no permanent gain, seeing that before the Sixth Standard is reached the more precocious children in the earlier standards are thrown back, and are overtaken by their slower but better-grounded companions from the lower standards. Sewing Eesults. —Great progress continues to be made in sewing by the girls attending the district schools. The annual examination of the sewing specimens done during the year took place on the Bth November, in the old Provincial Council Chamber, Napier, when 681 specimens were separately marked by the nine lady examiners who voluntarily give so much valuable time and attention to the management of this examination. School Libbaries. —Last year the Board pointed out that efforts were being made by a number of teachers and Committees to establish school libraries. 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Meanee, 150 ; Napier, 80, Norsewood, 50 , Ormondville, 200, Patangata, 211, Patutahi, 200 ; Porangahau, 482, Taradale (books on their way from England) Takapau, 219; Wairoa, 250. The Board hopes that the time is not far distant when each school in the district will have a library established for the use of the pupils, and when every School Committee will deem it as an essential part of every well-equipped school. Scholarship Examination.—The usual examinations of pupil-teachers and candidates for scholarships took place in the month of July Ten pupil-teachers of the fourth year, eight of the third, ten of the second, nine of the first, together with eight candidates for pupil-teachers and thirteen candidates for scholarships, presented themselves for examination. On the result of the scholarship examination, the Board awarded scholarships to John Williamson, Mary Grubb, and Eobert Renouf, all of them from the Napier District School, but Williamson resigned his scholarship, and has since been appointed a pupil-teacher Mary Grubb and Robert Eenouf will attend the Napier high schools during the terms of their scholarships. In connection with the training of the pupil-teachers, the Board desires to express its gratification at the concession made by the department whereby a certain number of the pupilteachers, on the completion of their term of service in the Board schools, are now able, by means of scholarships, to enter themselves as students at one of the colleges established for the training and preparation of teachers. The ex-pupil-teachers to whom scholarships have been granted are— Annie Corbyn and Kate Harrison, from the Napier School, and Mary Morgan and Jane Brown, from the Gisborne School. Eecently the. Board also granted scholarships to Oscar Alpers, of the Napier District School, and Eobert Eyder, of the Havelock School, and they will proceed to the Wellington or. Christchurch Training College at the opening of the session in April of the present year School Buildings.—During the year the building operations of the Board have been far too limited, considering the urgency of the requirements. It is to be regreted that the funds annually placed at the Board's disposal for building purposes are so inadequate that works of most pressing urgency cannot be undertaken; also that what funds are allocated are only placed at the disposal of the Board near the end of the financial year. A year ago it was pointed out that there were 5,395 children of school age in the district, and, further, that the accommodation then was insufficient for the requirements of the children attending school. Since that report was made the attendance in the Board schools has increased more than 9 per cent., and the Board, to meet some of the most pressing cases, has been compelled to incur liabilities to the extent of nearly £1,800 in anticipation of the building grant for the current year. The works undertaken and completed before the close of the school year include the erection of an infants' school at Gisborne, a school-house at Frasertown, additions to the school-houses at Port Ahuriri, Taradale, and Meanee, a teacher's residence at Makatoku, and improvements to the school-house at Patangata and the residence at Woodville. Most of the larger schools in the district are full, and at Matawhero, near Gisborne, the school is crowded to suffocation, the attendance being more than sufficient for double the present accommodation. A special report from the Inspector points out that the children attending the school are suffering from giddiness and sickness, brought on by the vitiated school atmosphere. At Woodville,- Hastings, and Clive, also, the accommodation is not nearly sufficient for the requirements of those districts. Applications have been received for the erection of school-houses at Mangatua, near Woodville, and Te Arai, in the Poverty Bay district, and school-houses are badly wanted at Waerenga-a-hika, Patutahi, Ongaonga, Takapau, and Mohaka. Twelve residences are also required for the accommodation and convenience of teachers. Since 1878, that is, during the past six years, the grants received by the Board for building purposes have amounted to £29,647 55., and the following are the principal ways in which the money has been expended : —(1.) Twenty-nine school-houses have been erected, affording accommodation for 3,200 pupils. (2.) Twelve school sites have been purchased. (3.) Nineteen residences have been built and improved. (4.) All the schools in the district have been supplied with modern appliances and apparatus. (5.) The school sites have been fenced and made suitable as playgrounds for the children. From this it will be seen that the Board has had to provide accommodation for nearly the whole school population of the district. At the lowest estimate £10,000, in addition to the amount of the liabilities already incurred, will be required to place this district on a sound educational footing as far as school buildings are concerned. School Committees.—The Board again desires to express its appreciation of the work done by the majority of the School Committees. In most of the districts the compulsory clause is nominally in force, and there is generally a Visiting Committee appointed in each district to see to the wants of teachers and pupils. There is a growing pride among them in regard to the neatness and satisfactory state of the residences, school-houses, and grounds, and comparatively large sums of money are annually collected by them for the improvement of the school-buildings and supplying gymnastic apparatus for the physical training of the pupils. During the past year Napier, Meanee, and Tarawera stand pre-eminent in this respect. New Eegulations.—During the year new regulations have been passed relating to the teaching staff to be employed in all schools with an average attendance varying between 30 and 600, anil a new scale of salaries for the payment of assistant teachers has been approved, both of which are appended. Income and Expenditure.—The income received by the Board as capitation allowance and inspection subsidy was £10,970 2s. 10d., which, added to £82 6s. 9d.,the balance on December 31st, 1882, gives a total income for the School Fund of £11,052 9s. 7d. The expenditure during the same period for salaries, bonuses, and payments to School Committees amounted to £10,791 16s. 2d., leaving a balance to the credit of the School Fund of £260 13s. sd. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. J. D. Ormond, Chairman.

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General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1883. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. To Balance on 31st December, 1882— By Balance of account on 31st December, General Account 67 11 5 1882 .. 597 5 4 Government grants for buildings 3,453 5 0 Office staff, salaries .. 250 0 0 Other receipts for buildings— Departmental contingencies 115 16 4 Purchase of apparatus 7 0 0 Inspector's salary . 500 0 0 Government statutory capitation 9,010 8 2 Inspector's travelling expenses 150 0 0 Special capitation (55.) -. 643 12 0 Examination of pupil-teachers 32 5 0 Scholarship grant (Is. 6d.) 126 15 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances (inInspection subsidy . 300 0 0 eluding rent, bonus, &c.) 8,753 4 6 Grant for training of teachers 167 5 9 Incidental expenses of schools 990 10 4 Payments by School Commissioners for Insurance of school buildings 3 15 0 primary education 976 2 8 Training of teachers 167 5 9 Grant towards salary Tarawera teacher 40 0 0 Scholarships— Dr. Balance of account on 31st Decern- Paid to scholars . 85 0 0 ber, 1883 —Building Fund Account 7 18 6 Examination expenses 13 2 3 School buildings— New buildings .. 2,559 10 0 Improvements of buildings 876 0 11 Furniture and appliances . 587 11 2 Sites .. .. 197 0 0 Plans, supervision, fees, and advertisements .. . 236 1 1 Interest . 21 0 0 Credit balance of account on 31st December, 1883— General account . 274 10 10 £16,409 18 6 £16,409 18 6 J. D. Ormond, Chairman. H. Hill, Secretary Examined and passed.—R. Macalister, Provincial District Auditor

Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1883. A. Exclusive of Building Fund. Assets. £ 8. d. Liabilities. £ s. d, Cash in bank on this account, 31st Decern- Balance of Scholarships Account, 31st Dehor, 1883 .. .. .. 274 10 10 cember, 1883 . . .. 10 0 0 Due from General Government on account Due to education reserve . .. 175 0 0 scholarship . .. 15 0 0 £289 10 10 £185 0 0 B. Building Fund only. £ s. d. Balance of account, 31st December, 1883 1,617 18 6 Balance of amounts due or to fall due Nil. under contracts . .. 149 2 0 £1,767 0 6 H. Hill, Secretary.

WELLINGTON. Sir, — Wellington, 31st December, 1883. The Board of Education of the Wellington District has the honour to submit herewith its annual report, in accordance with section 102 of the Education Act, 1877 Board.—At the beginning of the year 1883 the following gentlemen were members of the Board • Mr. J E. Blair (Chairman), Mr Henry Bunny, Mr. W C. Buchanan, M.H.E., Mr. William Hutchison, M.H.R., Mr. Thomas Mason, M.H.R., Mr. George Beetham, M.H.R., the Rev James Paterson, Dr. Newman, and the Hon. G. R. Johnson. In accordance with the provision provided in section 15 of the Education Act, Messrs. J. E. Blair, George Beetham, and Dr. Newman retired. Five candidates were nominated by the School Committees : the voting resulted in the re-election of the retiring members. The Board meets on the last Wednesday of each month, with special meetings when necessary. Weekly meetings are held of one or other of the various Committees. At the regular meetings the average attendance for the year has been 76. Leave of absence was granted to Mr. George Beetham in August, and to the Hon. G. R. Johnson in October, those gentlemen being about to visit Europe. Staff.—No increase has taken place during the year in the office staff, which consists of a Secretary and Inspector, by whom the business of the Board is both economically and efficiently conducted. Schools.-—The number of schools open at the beginning of the year was fifty : to this number three were completed and added during the year. The new schools opened were Cross Creek, Vogeltown, and a rented building in Courtenay Place. New buildings have been erected at Parkvale, Kaitoke, Petone, Waikaheke, Vogeltown, Kilbirnie, Wangaehu, and a new residence at Pahautanui. Additional accommodation has been provided at Waihenga, Fernridge, Hutt, and Judgeford. Some eight or nine schools for new districts are urgently required. How the Board is

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to meet the difficulty with its limited funds is a question which, with the wants of other Lbards, will have to be faced. The remedies so far suggested are of a restrictive character, either limiting the age or the standards, neither cf which would affect the case of districts m which no school places are provided. Nor can the Board see how local rating is going to lighten the burden ot education, if the burden is to be borne , and how country districts would fare under such a system is only too clear At the present, time there is considerable dissatisfaction in country districts at the Board's inability to provide school accommodation, although a considerable sum earned by the city schools is transferred for the better support of the country schools. , The following table shows the amounts of the building grants from 1878 to Wbo, with the principal heads under which the money was expended : —

j i i : ! i —. ■ —! — In 1878 a new school was built at Opaki teachers' residences at Tawa Flat, Clareyille, and Waihenga, repairs and enlargements were carried out at the Terrace, Mount Cook Girls , and Masterton schools , additional sites were purchased in Sydney Street, Tawa Flat, Carterton, Upper Hutt, and Waihenga. ~ , , -m i.- -v j In 1879 new schools were built at Thorndon, Newtown, Mungaroa, Parkvale, liketanuna, ana Judgeford , additions were made to Featherston sites were purchased for Thorndon School. In 1880 new schools wore built at Featherston (to replace the old one burned down) and Willis Street, To Aro additions were made to To Aro Infants' School and Tait a School. _ In 1881 new schools were built at Karori and Wadestown, new residence at Karori, additions were made to Carterton, Greytown, Hutt, Mount Cook Girls', Newtown, and Terrace schools. In 1882 now schools were built at Masterton, Taueru, Whiteman's Valley, Wallace, Mungaroa; and teacher's residence at Opaki. . . In 1883 now schools were built at Parkvale, Kaitoke, Petone, Waikaheke, Vogeltown, Xi brrme, and Wangaehu. A new residence has been built at Pahautanui. A site was acquired at Kilbirme. A sito and building was purchased at Cross's Creek, and a site at Johnsonville-. Additions have been made to Fernridge, Hutt, and Judgeford schools. The residences at Featherston, Clareville, and Upper Hutt have been added to. Improvements have been effected at Carterton, Greytown, Featherston , and the sanitary arrangements of the Thorndon, Terrace, Willis Street, and Mount Cook Boys', Girls' and Infants' Schools, have been placed on the most approved basis. Residences.—Thirty-one of the Board's schools have residences, and twenty-five schools have none. Of those twenty-five schools, twelve at least urgently require to be provided with residences before adequate results for tho expenditure can be hoped for their want is the main cause of an almost incessant change. Teachers.—There were in tho Board's service at the end of tne year 38 male head-teachers, 15 female head-teachers, 18 assistant male teachers, 29 female assistant teachers, 6 male pup u " teachers, and 63 female pupil-teachers. In the accompanying return the names, status, school where employed, and salaries of all the teachers in the Board's employment are fully set forth. Attendance.—The attendance continues to steadily increase. At the beginning of the year the number on the rolls was 5,767, at the end of the year 6,840. The average attendance at the beginning of the year was 5,232, and. at the end of the year 5,344. The regularity of attendance, though still not quite satisfactory shows an advance on previous years, and there is reason for hoping that the educational value of continuous attendance is gradually being better appreciated by parents. Results.— The Board is satisfied that, on the whole, sound and groat results are in process of realization. Much of the criticism to which the system is subjected is quite independent of facts , small allowance is made for the comparatively short period the system has been in operation, and less for the influence which the large influx of comparatively ill-taught children introduced by the public works policy has had on the results produced by our school system. It is significant that the percentage of adults who can read is higher in New Zealand than in any other of the colonies, and the same may be said of tho children of school age. Scholarships.—A competitive examination for nine scholarships, tenable for two years, was held on the same days in the Normal School, Wellington, and the Greytown Public School. Fifty candidates submitted their names, and forty sat for examination. The papers were set and the examination was conducted by the Rev W H. West, 8.A., LL.B., and A. McGregor, Esq., M.A. The scholarships were won by Ewen McColl, £30 Edward Beaglehole, £20; Cecil Palmer, £30 , Robert Drummond, £30 , Francis B. Meacham, £20 , Walter Bethune, £20 , Fred. Evans, £20 , Annie Ranwell, £20 Percy Gardner, £20. For fuller information the examiners' report is appended.' 1 - Committees.—The Board takes this opportunity of recording its appreciation of the value of the services rendered to the cause of education by tho various School Committees. To their interest and zeal for the welfare of their respective schools the improved attendance and tone

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Year. Grant from Government. New Buildings. Enlargements, Improvements, andBepairs. School Furniture, and Appliances. Purchase of Sites. Plans and Supervision. Total. 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 £ s. 8,000 0 11,800 0 13,200 0 4,750 0 2,182 0 6,412 12 a. 0 0 0 0 0 0 £ s. d. 1,601 17 4 6,6.32 0 6 8,234 5 7 2,501 6 9; 1,843 13 0 2,036 10 0 ■s, s. a. 3,673 7 11 1,591 8 10 812 9 (V 2,828 3 5 1,107 5 0 2,554 10 11 £ s. a. 812 10 2 '598 2 11 ■726 14 7 418 5 3 '408 16 4: £ s. a. 617 2 0 4,600 0 0 £ s. d. 234 2 6 221 1 3 415 3 9 374 8 0 180 0 9 '229 11 5 £ s. d. 6,126 9 9 13,857 0 9 10,060 1 9 6,431 5 9 3,749 4 0 6,248 18 8 200 0 0 1,019 10 0;

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are largely due The Committee of the Mount Cook schools, m conjunction with a Committee of the Board has established a night school for boys over school age- the attendance during the winter averaged about a hundred. The school was well equipped with teachers. A course of science lectures was delivered by Dr Hutchinson (gratuitously), and, so far as could be judged without inspection, good work was done. The fee for the winter term was 2s 6d _ The conversion of the Masterton School into a district high school will, it is anticipated, prove a -reat boon to the Wairarapa. The necessity for an institution where the higher branches of education are taught, and where inducement can be held out for pupils to continue their education beyond the limits of tho standards, and at the same time at a reasonable cost, has long been felt in the Wairarapa. The absence in the past of such a school m the district has deterred many promising candidates from competing for the scholarships offered by the Board, the expenses of a course of study at tho Wellington College or Girls High School being farm excess of the prizes offered. The Board anticipate great success to attend this step, and feel sanguine that the additional expense will be covered by the fees from pupils to a very large extent, n °NoßMAL y School —The report of the Principal of the school, forwarded herewith, deals fully with the progress of the institution during the past year An increase of one student cannot be considered very encouraging, and the result of the large expenditure cannot be deemed satisfactory The question of the reorganization of the Normal School, with a view to pacing the whole institution training and practising, under tho responsibility of one person, has been before the Board on several occasions, but the limited funds at its disposal has deterred any positive action from being taken However, the Board hopes that during the next year it will be able to bring about such a change as will insure a more steady and regular increase of students for training the Board is well satisfied with the perseverance and energy displayed by the Normal master and his assistants, and recognizes that they have one and all worked conscientiously during the year. School Inspection.—The report of Mr Lee on the work of the schools examined during the year, forwarded herewith, shows that, with very few exceptions, steady progress is being made, and the teaching of the staff continues good. Returns —The various returns required for the purposes of the annual report 01 the department for the present year, as set forth in Circular No. 83/8, are herewith attached. I have, esc, The Hon. the Minister of Education. J X- Blair, Chairman.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Tear ending 31st December, 1883. Receipts. £ s. d. . Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance on 31st December, 1882- By Office staff salaries « » Building Account 22 12 5 Departmental contingencies 399 1 2 General Account 1,06112 6 Inspector s salary 500 0 0 Government grants for buildings . 6,412 12 0 Inspector's travelling expenses 217 15 0 Other receipts for buildings- Examination of pupil-teachers .. 8 69 Scientific apparatus 20 0 Teachers' salanes and allowances (mGovernment statutory capitation (£3 eluding rent, bonus, &c 17,896 17 0 15s ) 18 529 811 Incidental expenses of schools 1,541 1 3 Special capitation (55.) 1,164 13 4 Bents of school buildings .. 359 10 0 Scholarship grant (Is. 6d.) 3414 11 Training of teachers . 1,584 112 Inspection subsidy . 300 0 0 ScholarshipsGrant for training of teachers 1,172 1 6 Paid to scholars -09 3 4 Payments by School Commissioners for Examination expenses 90 2 0 primary education 383 17 9 School buildings- ._.. _ Deposits 120 3 0 New buildings 2,036 10 0 Balance of account on 31st December, Improvements of buildings 2,554 10 11 -, gog Furniture and appliances 408 lo 4 General Account . 274 12 3 Sites . . 1,019 10 0 Building Account 215 13 9 Plans, supervision, and fees 229 11 ~ Deposits . • • J* lo v £29,572 4~70 £29,572 £10 J R. Blair, Chairman. Arthur Dorset, Secretary Examined and passed.—E. Macalister, Provincial District Auditor

Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1883. A. Exclusive of Building Fund. Assets £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Due from Government- Balance of account, 31st December, 1833 274 12 3 Normal School 418 18 8 Duo to Oomimttoca 459 j. 4 Scholarships 132 10 n Balance . 132 4 0 ; £733 13 7 i £733 13 7 B, Building Fund only £ s. cl, £ s. d. Cash in bank on this account, 31st Decern- Balance of amounts due or to fall duo under ber ,- 215 13 9 contracts . 1,130 18 0 Balance " '■ r " 1 7•' Deposits on contracts 41 3 0 £U77~T~C £1,177 1 6

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MARLBOROUGH. Sip.,— Blenheim, 7th May, 1884. I have the honour to forward you the report of the Education Board of the District of Marlborough for the year ending the 31st December, 1883. A copy of the Inspector's report is sent with this it shows that the schools in this district aro for tho most part in a very efficient and satisfactory state. The Board.—ln the early part of the year the Board lost the services of two of its members • —the Hon. E. T Conolly and A. G. Fell, Esq.—whose places were filled respectively by W E. Dive, Esq., and J M. Hutcheson, Esq. No further change has been made, a3 the three retiring members W E Dive, Esq., E. Paul, Esq., and W Sinclair, Esq. —were re-elected. The Board has held twelve meetings, with an average attendance of seven members. Schools.—There were twenty-six schools open, fifteen of which were fully supported by the Board, and the remainder aided by a grant of £3 10s. per head of average attendance, as reported last year One aided school has been closed and four new ones opened, and one school formerly aided has been raised to tho position of a school wholly supported by the Board. Attendance.—At the end of 1882 the numbers on the roll and the working average for the year were, respectively 1,414 and 1,063 r 5, at the end of 1883 they stood at 1,453 and 1,098. With four additional schools, albeit small ones, the above rate of increase does not compare favourably with that of the previous year, the reason, however, is to be found in the unusual prevalence of sickness amongst the children, especially during the earlier part of the year This was of so persistent a character as seriously to affect the working average of most, and was severely felt in our largest schools. As the sickness passed away the working.average rose to 1,141. Teachers.—Tho teaching staff consisted of—males, 20, assistants, 2, females, 6, assistants, 6 , pupil-teachers (female) 8 total, 42 , being an increase of 4on the previous year Scholarships.—Tho successful competitor for the scholarship at the Nelson College this year was Edward Watson. Buildings.—The completion of the Picton schoolhouse and the building of a new schoolhouse at Havelock—works very necessary, and referred to in last year's report—almost exhausted the Government grant for building purposes, leaving a quite insufficient amount to meet other necessary repairs and improvements, but as these last had to be done the Board was compelled to use all the money which stood to credit of Maintenance Account at the beginning of the year, and even that was insufficient, as the balance-shoot shows. Expenditube.—On the Building Account, £1,483 9s. was received, and as much as £2,231 15s. lOd. was spent, leaving a deficit of £748 6s. lOd. To Maintenance Account at the beginning of the year there was a credit balance of £547 18s. 4d., and during the year £4,519 7s. sd. was received, making a total of £5,067 ss. 4d. The expenditure on this account was £4,563 18s. 2d. The cost of maintenance, therefore, exceeded the income by the small sum of £44 10s. 9d. , but the great expense which had to bo incurred on Building Account has not only absorbed the sum which stood to credit at the beginning of the year but has left a debtor balance at its end of £244,195. 3d. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. A. P Seymour, Chairman.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1883. Receipts. s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance on 31st December, 18S2 547 18 4 By Office staff, salaries 112 10 0 Government grants for buildings 1,353 9 0 Departmental contingencies 07 16 9 Balance sale of school site, Picton 130 0 0 Inspector's salary 125 0 0 p Government statutory capitation (£3155.) 3,730 4 3 Inspector's travelling expenses 67 12 0 Special capitation (55.) 259 12 1 Examination of pupil-teachers 3 8 0 Scholarship grant (Is. 6d.) 78 15 1 Teachers' salaries and allowances (inInspection subsidy 275 0 0 eluding rent, bonus, &c.) 3,068 15 1 Payments by School Commissioners for Incidental expenses of schools 432 15 4 primary education .. 163 17 0 Scholarships— Payments by School Commissioners for Paid to scholars 80 0 0 secondary education 11 19 0 Examination expenses 6 6 0 Balance of account on 31st December, School buildings— 1883 .. 244 19 3 New buildings 1,226 19 6 Improvements of buildings 724 6 7 Furniture and appliances 182 5 0 Plans, supervision, and fees 98 4 9 £6,795 14 0 £6,795 14 0 John T Robinson, Secretary Examined and found correct. —E. Macalister, Provincial District Auditor. Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1883. A. Exclusive of Building Fund. Assets. £ s. d. i Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash in bank on this account, 31st December, I Due to teachers . 3 6 8 1833 32 14 11 | Due to Committees 210 10 7 Duo from Government scholarships, 31st Do- to scholarships 20 0 0 comber, 1883 . 21 7 11 Due from Government scholarships, 30th September, 1883 19 13 4 £73 16 2 £233 17 3 B. Building Fund only £ s. d. £ s. d. Due. from Government .. 846 0 0 By Balance of account on 31st December, 1883 . 792 17 7 £846 0 0 £792 17 7

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NELSON Nelson, 6th March, 1884. I have tho honour to lay before you a report of the proceedings of the Education Board of the District of Nelson for the year 1883. , . Meetings op the Board.—The Board has held twelve ordinary and two special meetings durin<*~the year, the average number of members present at each meeting being seven Members oe the BoW-After the election of throe new members m March, the Board was consSed as follows J W Barnicoat, Esq (Chairman), Messrs Shephard Tarrant, Clayden Wastney Campbell, Dencker, the Rev J C. Andrew, and the Rev J Beckenham. The death of Mr Campbell who had held a seat, first at the Central Board of Education, and subsequently at he Education Board, without intermission, for twenty-seven years, caused a vacancy which was filled up in Auo-ust by the election of the Bishop of Nelson. ~,..„ ™ t n P Number of Schools.-Eighty-two schools have been at work withm the year Three of these were closed during the December quarter, leaving seventy-nine actually at work at the end oi he year Attendance of Scholars.—The number of scholars on the roll at the close of 1883 was 4,500, the working average being 3,424. This return, which gives an increase of 408 to die roll-number, and of 202 to tho working average, as compared with last year, shows a larger rate of increase than has taken place for many years previously . Teaching Staff. -128 teachers of all grades were m the service of the Board at the end of 1883 Of these, 47 were male and 81 female teachers. They were subdivided into 1 8 head-teachers, "tiiS™ of this class of young teachers have proved so generally acceptable, both on the score of economy and of efficiency, that their number has doubled since last year, hroe-fourths of them being employed in country districts The difficulty of preparing Probationers systematically for the teachers' examination, which was the weak part of the scheme, has been met, to a certain extent, by a series of examinations conducted by the Inspector, who prepares half-yearly sets of examination papers, drawn up on the lines of the papers set to candidates for the E certificate. The probationers answer, under the supervision of their respective headteachers, the papers sent, which are then corrected by tho Inspector and returned to the probationers Several of the assistants also take part in these examinations It is hoped that the definite course of study exacted from all the students who enter their names for examination will, at the end of two years, enable most of them to approach the E examination of teachers with a reasonable expectation of success. This system has the additional merit of cheapness, the Board being put to no further expense than that of printing the examination papers Aided Schools —Twelve of these schools are now at work, although from time to time, when tho increased attendance of scholars appeared to warrant the change new school districts have been constituted in neighbourhoods which had begun with aided schools, which have always been regarded by the Board as tentative and provisional institutions. The forms now ofiered by the Board to aided schools aro more advantageous than they have hitherto been, the full capitation allowance of £4 £ given on account of each scholar in daily attendance. The quota contributed by the Board towards the erection of school buildings has also been increased from one-third to one-hall of the cost a maximum of expenditure being, however, fixed in every case. Household Schools.—lf the experience of the three household schools that have been at work during the year may be taken as a fair specimen of what may bo expected from this class of school, little can be said in their favour In one instance only did the scholars present themselves for examination at the appointed time and place, although ample notice, was given. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. J W Barnicoat, Chairman.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December 1883. " Receipts £ b. d. I Expenditure. £ s. d., T ° B SrS el "* 1882 - 32 16 2 * £ 18° ? . 1,«4 19 1 Inspector's salary and travelling exXTc^tf^uudS- 88 3, ° 90 ° IWSSS^--Jow»»l«W^ 200 0 0 Sionof steamer at Karamea 15 0 0 Compensation on account of lire at Teachers salaries and allowances (m-Eighty-eight Valley School 100 0 0 eluding rent, bonus, &c.) 11,076 6 1 From Telegraph Department 15 0 0 Incidental expensesGovernment statutory capitation (£3 g I,*» 7 0 Special capitation (55.) .. '™ 0 0 Training of teachers 3113 6 T| 183 5 0 .. "3 lS°O ' J Payments by School Commissioners for Now buildings ! > ! . primary education .. 883 6 4 Improvements of buddings. 49/ 310 E X ch P ange refunded . »J 0 Enrnituro and apphances 144 13 lofundfroTSmK Account .. I.OM *U 0 Loan to Building Account 200 0 0 Kefund from Building Account , Ecumd to Maintenance Account 1,000 0 0 Subsidy to schools library 10 0 0 Purchase of school material 720 13 11 Bank interest 3 6 10 Gicdit balance of accomit on 31st December, 1888 — Building Account 716 19 0 General Account 1,471 3 11 £20,533 15 6 J W Barnicoat, Chairman. Stead Ellis, Secretary The above accounts examined and found oorrect.-H. E. Curtis, Provincial District Auditor 3rd March, 1884.

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Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1883. A. Exclusive of Building Fund. Assets £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash in bank on this account, 31st Decern- Due to teachers 820 1 bor 1883 1,471 3 11 Due to officers of Board M ij> « Due from members of Board of School Com- Due on account of scholarships oi Ob missioners 6 5 0 Due for rent of school * « U Due from Government for scholarships 51 5J3 Credit balance to next year U £1,528 _13_ 11 B: Building Fund only £ s. cl. £ s - °- Cash in bank on this account, 31st Decern- ' Due by votes to Committees 672 1 2 W IRfiR "10 19 0 Balance of purchase-money for site of Balance " • • 407 2 2 Haven Boad School, and interest 452 0 0 £1,124 1 2 £1.12* 1 2

NOBTH CANTEEBUEY glB _ Christchurch, 31st March, 1884. In accordance with the provisions of the Education Act tho Education Board of the District of North Canterbury has the honour to present the following report ot its proceedings lor the year ended the 31st December, 1883. ,'„,-,,, ,„» , r m -, The Board —The members who retired by rotation on the 31st March, 1883, were Mr iancrod, Mr Webb, and Mr Cunningham, of whom Mr Tancred did not offer himself for re-election. At the election hold on the Ist March, Mr Cunningham, Mr Webb, and Mr Edward James Lee were returned. At a meeting held on the sth April, Mr John Inglis was re-elected Chairman An extraordinary vacancy occurred in the month of December through the lamented death of Mr li J Lee in whom the Board has lost an esteemed colleague, whoso services, had his life been prolonged' would have been of high value to the cause of education. The Board held twenty-four meetings during the year twenty-throe ordinary and one special. The average attendance ot members was 625. . „ , New Districts and Buildings.—Four new districts were formed during the year—at Uurnliam, Sefton, Summerhill, and Waiau. Of those, Burnham and Waiau are entirely new. What is now tho District of Sefton was formerly included in the districts of Mount Grey Downs, Saltwater Creek, and Ashley , and Summerhill is formed by a division of the District oi Oust; Nov? school buildings were erected at Darfield, Lauriston, South Malvern, Winslow, and Taumutu (the last-named being a second school in the Lakeside District, half the cost of which was defrayed by Government m consideration of its being partly intended for tho benefit of the Maoris residing on tho Native reserves in that locality) " schoolrooms at Waiau and Eotherham (the latter being at present an aided school), and at Mandeville Plains masters' houses at Summerhill, German .Bay (side), Hinds, Kirwee, Listaore, and Methven and considerable additions or improvements ma<le at Afford I orest, Amberley Phillipstown, Christchurch West, Cust, Heathcote Lower Hororata, Killmchy, New Brighton, North Eoad, Prebbleton, Springburn, Springston, View Hill, West Melton, Woodend and improvements to the grounds, &c, at Lyttelton, St. Alban's, and the normal school. Ihe total expenditure in school buildings was £16,685 4s. sd. A detailed return, showing trie amount spent in e*ach school district, is' given in Table No. 7 Maintenance op Schools.—The total expenditure during the year 1883 lor the maintenance of schools, including -teachers' salaries and allowances, and all incidental expenses amounted to £48 331 15s. 7d., and the expenditure upon salaries and allowances only to £42,240 19s. KM. Ihe average attendance for the year was 12,753. The cost per head for maintenance, including all expenses was at the rate of £3 15s. 9*d. per head of the average attendance, and t >f instruction only at the rate of £3 6s. 2fd. Tho following table shows the amount expended under the heads of salaries and incidentals for each year from 1878, inclusive :— Salaries. Incidental. '.'• £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1878 31,919 0 0 6,276 6 9 38,195 b 9 1879 34,417 14 6 5,856 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 1882 39,418 13 11 5,901 18 1 45,320 12 0 1883 42,240 19 10 6,090 15 9 48,331 15 7 Attendance.—At the end of 1883 there wore 123 school districts in North Canterbury and 143 schools, including the practising department of the normal school. Four of these—viz. Kowai Bush, Little Port Cooper, Manuka Town, and Eotherham—wore aided but, at the date of this report Kowai Bush has been restored to its position as a district school, the attendance having increased beyond the minimum required by the Board's regulations. Full particulars as to the ages of the children, and numbers receiving instruction in each standard and in each subject, will be found in the appended return, No. 2.* ~.,', ~ ~ -, The following table shows the number of schools, and the number oi children on the rolls and in averago attendance, for each year since est; ilished by fcb ion Act of 1877 came into operation :—

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Teachees.—Eeturn No. 7* gives a list of the teachers in the Board's service at the close of 1883, with the salaries and allowances payable to them, and the positions they hold in their respective schools. The total number was 446, besides 38 teachers of sewing. Of these, 130 were head-masters; 89, mistresses, 52 (19 males and 33 females) assistant teachers and 175 (45 .males and 130 females), pupil-teachers. The regulations respecting pupil-teachers have undergone revision during the year, and many changes made in the programme of instruction and examination. The principal alterations are the substitution of a selection from English literature for the grammar formerly required, and the addition of Latin and modern history as optional subjects. The amended regulations are published in the appendix. Inspection.—A joint report by the two Inspectors, Mr W L. Edge and the Rev J Gumming, is appended.-)- In one respect it shows a decided improvement on the report of last year as the general percentage of success in the examinations has risen from 74 to 82. This improvement is noticeable in all the standards above the Second, particularly in the Fifth. In the other standards there is no material difference. The following table gives the number of children presented and passed, the average age, the percentage of passes, and the number of schools in which children were presented in each standard: —

Normal School.—The lady engaged in England as head-mistress of the practising school, who had just arrived at tho date of the Board's last report, resigned in December on account of her marriage Her loss is to be much regretted, as she had proved herself a very capable and excellent teacher. The Board, having failed to obtain suitable applications for the post within the colony has resolved on sending to England for her successor Towards the end of the year, after a careful inquiry into the organization and working of the practising school, the Board determined on a partial remodelling of the system, involving a small addition to the staff and some important alterations in the relations subsisting between the principal teachers. The changes thus made take effect from tho beginning of the current year and it is hoped will act beneficially m increasing the efficiency of the school. The arrangements introduced in 1880 for enabling pupil-teachers who have completed their term of service to enter as students in tho normal school continues m very successful operation, the majority of pupil-teachers gladly taking advantage of the opportunity thus afforded them of passing a year in study and technical training before entering on the active practice of their profession. The number of students at the end of tho year was 43—14 males and 29 females. The following are particulars respecting the number of students who entered or left the normal school during the year, and their present occupation: — Students in 1883- Males - Females. Total. Remaining from 1882 14 27 41 Admitted in 1883 8 21 29 Left during 1883 8 19 27 On the bo-oks, December, 1883 14 29 43 Left during 1883— Teaching in public schools 1\ 17 ..24 Teaching in other schools 0 2 2 Occupation not known 1 0 .. 1 8 19 27

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Quarter ended District Schools. Aided Schools. Total of Schools. On Boll. Average Attendance. Percentages. ecemberSl 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 106 116 121 128 133 139 4 2 1 2 4 110 120 123 129 135 143 13,647 15 230 16 437 16 051 16,907 17,797 10 076 11 381 12,233 11 760 12 747 13,462 73-83 74-72 74-42 73-26 75-39 75-64

Number presented. Number passed. I Average Ago. Percentage. No. of Schools at which Pupils were presented. Standard I. Standard IT. Standard III. Standard IV Standard V Standard VI. 2,033 2,136 i.03a 1,119 409 146 1,931 ■ 308 1, 776 382 -113 Yrs. mos. 9 6 10 0 11 7 12 6 13 6 14 2 95 84 i\ 69 76 i 133 131 ■ 82 38 Total 7 920 6,470 82

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Drawing.—ln pursuance of an arrangement made with the Governors of Canterbury College towards the end of 1882, weekly drawing-classes have been held in the School of Art for the instruction of the normal school students, and of teachers and pupil-teachers in the Board's service. The ' students attend on Friday from 2to 4 p.m. ; the teachers on Saturday morning, from 11 to 1 The average attendance of teachers during the year was 125. The course of instruction includes freehand drawing, practical geometry linear perspective, model drawing, and black-board drawing. Examinations are held at the end of the year, and the Board has suggested to Government that the certificates given by the School of Art might be accepted as equivalent, in the subject of drawing, to the requirements of the teachers' examination. The Board desires again to commend this suggestion to their attention. Scholarships.—Examinations were held as usual early in the month of June. The number of candidates examined was 43 : viz., in Class A, 14 (under eleven years of age), 8 boys and 6 girls in Class B, 11 (under twelve years of age) 6 boys and 5 girls in Class C, 12 (under thirteen years of age),loboys and 2 girls in Class D, 4 (under fourteen years of age all boys, in Class E, 2 (under fifteen years of age) 1 boy and 1 girl. The successful candidates were In Class A, William H. Dawson, Alfred Burgess, and Bertha Speight, in Class B, Frederick Gibson and Florence Sheard ,in Class C, Elizabeth Stevenson and John Clarkson; in Class D, Mathew Butterfield and Eichard P Clarkson in Class E, Thomas S. Weston. By order of the Board. Tho lion, the Minister of Education. J V Colborne-Veel, Secretary

General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December 1883. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance on 31st December, 1882— By Office staff, salaries ' 1,108 4 5 Building Account 2,619 15 5 Clerical assistance 52 7 11 General Account . 8,640 12 0 Departmental contingencies 273 6 7 Government grants for buildings 15,102 0 0 Inspectors' salaries 950 0 0 Other receipts for buildings— Inspectors' travelling expenses and Half cost of school at Taumutu 406 10 9 forage allowances . 284 2 9 Deposits on contracts 649 3 3 Examination of pupil-teachers 139 18 2 Government statutory capitation (£3 Teachers' salaries and allowances (in!ss.) . 38,497 8 4 eluding rent, bonus, &c.) 42,240 19 10 Special capitation (55.) . 3,143 10 0 Incidental expenses of schools 6,090 15 9 Scholarship grant (Is. 6d.) 93110 9 Training of teachers . 2,414 9 3 Inspection subsidy 500 0 0 ScholarshipsGrant for training of teachers 2,000 0 0 Paid to scholars 750 0 0 Payments by School Commissioners for Examination expenses 114 18 5 primary education 8,741 10 11 School buildingsOther receipts— New buildings 6,726 14 9 Pent of school site at Mandeville Improvements of buildings 7,713 19 1 Plains 5 0 0 Furniture and appliances 997 16 7 Bent of school site at German Bay 10 0 Sites 239 12 0 Interest 361 5 4 Plans, supervision, and fees . 1,007 2 0 Other expenses— Befund of deposits on contracts 582 13 3 Drill instruction 358 7 9 School of Art 301 8 0 Credit balance of account on 31st December, 1883— Building Account 1,509 11 9 General Account 7 736 18 6 6 9 £81*599 6 9 John Inglis, Chairman. J V Colborne-Veel, Secretary I have audited this account, and have compared the items with the vouchers, and find it correct. The balance, inclusive of the fixed "deposit, is accurately stated.—J Olliviee, Provincial District Auditor 11th February, 1884.

Statement op Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1883. A. Exclusive of Building Fund. Assets. £ b. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash in bank on this account, 31st Decern- Due to teachers 17 19 5 ber. 1883 7,736 18 6 Due to General Government 3,869 3 3 Due from scholarships grant 191 18 5 Duo to scholarships outstanding 50 0 0 Balance 170 0 10 Due to fund for Board's scholarships, training scholarships, ex-pupil-teachers' allowances .. . 4,000 0 0 Due to public libraries 6 13 9 Duo to printing, advertising, &c. 43 2 4 Dae to incidental expenses unpaid 117 19 0 £8,104 17 9 £Bao4 _ iy~9 B. Building Fund only £ b. d. £ s. d. Cash in bank on this account, 31st Decern- Balance of amounts due or to fall duo ber, 1883 1,509 11 9 under contracts 1,977 8 10 Balance 1,453 q q Deposits on contracts , 66 10 0 Due on account of sundry repairs and improvements to be expended by School Committees .. * 918 13 7 £2,962 12 5 £2,962 12

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SOUTH CANTEEBUET Timaru, March, 1884. Sl *'~ I ha»e the toot,, to ..toil tho general report of tl.o Etlueat.cn Board of the District of tt 3SSSSS .„ March, Mo. £f d»„cl W^.H Slack, who did not stand lor re-election Mi John laibot »g» een consisted of ordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of M^^ M el vffi e Gray, William vs. Edward Wakefield EichardLA •^^'^^ J \^^^ i Ta j b £ 0 n the Jukes Steward, M.H.E., Eobson B. Walcot, Dr. Charles J *°? L. mM had been elected members being 7 1 Sutherland's, and new school districts have been tWrSt. of So" I,E«4SSeed of removing the buildings as at one thee intended pltprfs iXSag, Sh* were carried on by the local Committees under the ■RnTrl'q Schools Bea;ulations. , , ~ Lteneance -The of scholars shows a slight increase the average for he yea^ and being an increase on the previous year of sts teachers and one sevnng™S.n», ,St S o r The prin^ itS^£rnhh,,ay for somedose. leachers »» BOrne „, c „«, „ d £0 ,„„ .„ the people to C^e'thi^ much of each year s vote is exPetuled . f "^« »• 3; G * e / nm ent, t l, at the Board must, for old wooden buildings, erected by the Cattabtrylonticini v it more iahyfo meet the exigencies °' "CL*. annual balance -sheet, drily The Building Account shows receipts £4,913 lis. 4d., and an expenoituie oi - , Maintenanoe tating a temporary, draft ori ££ -ht h^^SwSflW^ 3 frfm which'tL sum of S 14s. 9d. must be deducted on account of ££. S dishursements under the head of salaries and incidentals. , d a state ment of the receipts and expenditure of the olt."" ESmiStM,- aouut a smn »f .200 has been reived and is available as a part refund to the Maintenance Account.

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Scholarships.—The annual scholarship examination was held, having commenced on Tuesday, the 4th March,, and terminated on the Thursday following. The gentlemen who gratuitously undertook the examination were —the Eev George Barclay, Mr Melville Gray, Mr. H. W. Hammond, and the Yen. Archdeacon Harper Thirty-seven candidates presented themselves, as follows: 13 in Class A, 18 in Class B, sin Class C, lin Class D. These numbers bear very favourable comparison with those of former years in A and B, but there is still very little competition in the higher classes. The result of the examination, with the reports of the several examiners, is appended to this report ;* the information thereby communicated being always held of great interest by teachers and pupils, as well as by the public at large. During the past year, in accordance with the Act, and with the sanction of the Minister of Education, two primary schools—one at Waimate and one at Temuka—have been constituted district high schools. A syllabus of secondary instruction has been drawn up by the Board, and so drafted as to meet the requirements of matriculation in connection with the University of New Zealand, and it will be the care of the Board from time to time to see that these district high schools are furnished with efficient teachers, qualified to carry out the syllabus and to secure the confidence of the Board, the Committees, and the public. We are persuaded, with other bodies similar to our own throughout the country, that the extension of the district-high-school system would be a great boon to the public, diffusing much more widely the benefits of higher education, and diminishing the expense involved in sending children long distances to, and compelling them to board out at the ordinary high schools. In the great majority of our larger schools there is a large amount of unutilized talent, the teachers being well qualified to impart secondary education ; and it is a pity this waste should go on where no arrangement has been made in virtue of which both the abilities of the teachers and the capacities of the pupils might be drawn upon and brought into exercise. At present, in the two district high schools already referred to, some thirty students, all above the Fourth Standard, are attending the higher classes. Staff.—The duties of Secretary and Inspector have been divided, Mr H. W Hammond, hitherto filling both offices, electing to retain the office of Inspector at a salary of £400 per annum, with £75 travelling allowances. A Secretary has been appointed at a salary of £250 per annum, this officer having entered upon his duties in the month of October last. Inspection and Examination. — The report of the temporary Inspector (Mr John Gurr), appended hereto, gives full particulars of the work of inspection as well as of the general efficiency of the schools in the district. A more than usually inclement season, added to the wide-spread prevalence of whooping-cough, has tended to lessen results as well as figures. The serious illness, for a considerable period, of Mr. Hammond, retarded the commencement of the inspection, and ultimately necessitated the temporary employment of the gentleman above named, m order, by the end of the year, to have the work properly accomplished. The annual pupil-teachers examination was held in June last. . The Hon. the Minister of Education. Geo. Barclay, Chairman.

General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1883. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance on 31st December, 1882— By Office staff .salaries 311 « b General Account 1,075 0 4 Clerical assistance _ 319 S Government grant for buildings 3,567 15 6 Departmental contingencies . 200 18 8 Other receipts for buildings— Inspector's salary 615 0 o Temuka, &c. . 51 6 8 Inspector's travelling expenses x « J Ditto 447 10 0 Examination of pupil-teachers 22 18 10 Wairnate 15 0 0 Teachers'salaries, rent, bonus, &c. 9,460 1 0 Ditto 87 10 6 Incidental expenses of schools y»o lo 1 •nit-tn 83 6 6 Scholarships— Dto . SO 2 6 Baid to scholars .. 202 10 0 Ditto 292 19 8 Examination expenses AA b ti Refund Duval '.' .. 18 0 0 School buildingsSutherland's . 300 0 0 New buildings 4,805 4 b Government statutory capitation (£3155.) 9,216 3 5 Improvements of buildings .. 349 0 7 Special capitation (55.) 428 16 8 Furniture and appliances 562 4 9 Scholarships grant (Is. 6d.) 183 15 0 Sites . .. 492 11 3 Inspection subsidy 300 0 0 Plans and supervision 338 5 2 Bent of master's house, Timaru 150 0 0 Other expensesPayments by School Commissioners for Balance loan to depot 16 ia i primary education 2,17119 2 Sir William Box's prize • o 0 0 Sir William Box's prize . 50 0 Credit balance of account on 31st DecemBeos from district high schools 10 10 0 ber, 1883— Outstanding cheque written off . 22 0 General Account ■» o o £18,456 17 11 £18,456-17 11 Geo. Barclay, Chairman. J H. Bamfield, Secretary. I have audited this account, and have examined the items with the vouchers placed before me, and, in so far as they are concerned, find the same correct. The accounts of the School Committees, being audited by direction of the Secretary to the Minister of Education by some person or persons appointed by the Board, have not been brought before me, and I am therefore unable to certify to their accuracy I must again protest against the system adopted of appointing auditors to examine accounts which, being exclusively of a public character should alone be submitted to the Public Auditor. The amounts are issued under imprest by the Board, and it is absurd to relegate their audit to officers of the Board, primarily responsible to the Public Auditor.—J. Ollivier, Provincial District Auditor. 29th February, 1884.

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Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1883. A. Exclusive of Building Fund. -Assets. £ g. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash in bank, 31st December, 1833 94 5 6 Cr. on this account, 31st December, 1883 2,181 3 2 Due from Building Fund 1,633 14 10 Due from depot 449 7 10 Due from General Government on November , attendances .. 3 15 0 £2,181 3J3 £2,181 3 2 B. Building Fund only £ s. d. £ s d Due from Waimate (bills) 89 16 0 Balance, 31st December, 1883 1,633 14 10 Ditto . 92 1 5 Due (or promised), Kakahu 50 0 0 Ditto . 54 0 0 Due to architects .. 54 6 4 Eefund from Temuka 20 0 0 Befund— Building grant, Government . 2,230 0 0 Waimataitai 500 0 0 Dr. on this account, 31st December, 1883 521 0 3 Sutherland's . .. 300 0 0 Promised— Belfield . .. .. 250 0 0 Repairs 128 0 0 .Furniture .. 52 19 0 Planting, &c. , . 37 17 6 £3,006 17 8 £3,006J.7 _8

WESTLAND. [There is no Education Board report for Westland for the year 1883. The first of the two following general statements of income and expenditure shows the amount of money actually paid by the Board within the year 1883, the second statement represents the amount of expenditure passed by the Boftrd for the payment of which cheques were authorized to be drawn. The latter amount (£17,580 3s. Bd.) is made up as follows :— £ s. d, Dr Balance on 31st December, 1882 .. 2,487 15 5 Moneys actually paid by Board .. ~ 10,297 17 4 Cheques issued by Board, but not cashed .. .. 694 2 9 Cheques drawn by Board, but not issued .. 4,073 0 2 Interest due to Union Bank . . 27 8 0 Total .. ~ £17,580 3 8 The Board's liabilities on December 31st, 1883, are shown as follows :— £ s. d. Unpaid cheques 4,767 2 11 Interest due to Union Bank ~ 27 8 0 Debit balance at Union Bank . .. 777 15 7 Total liabilities £5,572 6 6 The auditor's report shows that since the 31st December, 1883, the Union Bank lias cashed cheques of the value of £46 2s. Bd., thus increasing the bank's claim to £851 6s. 3d., and reducing to an equal extent the amount of unpaid cheques. Tho capitation grants from the Treasury are for eleven months only With very few exceptions the salaries of the teachers and officers for the month of November are still unpaid.!

General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1883, Showing Moneys actually paid. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s d To Government grant for build- By Balance of account on 31st Deoemings . £2,917 1 0 ber, 1882 . a 487 15 5 Advance deducted 480 0 0 < Office staff, salaries 'yi7 17 6 2,437 1 0 Clerical assistance . 45 14 q Government capitations, at Departmental contingencies .. 632 8 8 £3 15s. and ss. £8,429 13 5 Inspector's salary 333 q 8 Advance deducted 60 0 0 Inspector's travelling allowance 121 13 4 8,369 13 5 Teachers' salaries and allowances (10 Scholarship grant at Is. 6d. from October, months) 6 414 6 10 1882, to 30th September, 1883 174 15 7 Incidental expenses of school. , V>B6 911 Inspection subsidy (11 months) 275 0 0 Scholarships—Paid to scholars ~ ISO 0 0 Payments by School Commissioners for School buildings— primary education . 127 18 1 New buildings . .. 675 4 2 Other receipts— Bepairs and alterations .. . 296 13 5 School books 414 0 6 Plans and supervision . .. 223 7 6 Bcfunds ... .206 19 7 Furniture 47 14 2 Rent .. . .290 Union Bank, interest to 31st Aug., 1883 85 411 Balanoe .. 777 15 7 School books, requisites, &c. .. 236 16 3 £12,785 12 9 £12,785 12 9

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General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1883, Showing Total Amount passed for Payment by the Board, of which the Sum of £4,767 2s. lid. is represented by Unpaid Cheques m a , Lt ß t ce ?s a - £ s - d - Expenditure. £ s. d. To Government grant for build- By Balance of account on Slst December, . , mg3 , :82 » 917 1 ° 1882 2 487 15 5 Advance deducted . 480 0 0 Office staff, salaries (11 months) 837 17 6 , 2,437 1 0 Clerical assistance 47 3 0 Government capitations, at Departmental contingencies . 837 710 £3 15s. and ss. . £8,429 13 5 Inspector's salary (11 months) 441 13 4 Advance deducted 60 0 0 Inspector's travelling expenses 133 6 8 0 , . , . , „ ~ 8 > 369 13 5 Teachers' salaries and allowances (includRcholarships grant, at Is. 6d . 174 15 7 ing rent, bonus, &o. (11 months) 7,198 19 11 Inspection subsidy (11 months) 275 0 0 Incidental expenses of schools.. 806 13 0 i ayments by School Commissioners for Scholarships—Paid to scholars 180 0 0 primary education .. 127 18 1 School buildingsSchool books.. .. 414 0 6 New buildings .. . 2 422 19 6 :? ce™ nds '• 206 19 7 Improvements of buildings 8676 4 1 i: , . 29 0 Furniture and appliances .. .. 119 1 6 Balance of account on Slst December, Plans, supervision, and fees 416 2 6 1883 •■ • • 5,572 6 6 Union Bank of Australia, interest 112 12 11 School books, &c. . 362 5 8 £17,580 3 8 £17,580 3 8 E. T. Eobinson. I hereby certify that I have examined the above account, and have compared the same with bank pass-book, ledger, and vouchers, and find the same to be correct, with the exception of some items under the heading of "Departmental contingencies," amounting to £158 17s. ]0d (concerning which I will make a special report), and to the best of my knowledge and belief to be according to law.—W A. Spence, Auditor. Greymouth, 4th March, 1884.

OTAGO. SlB '~ . . ,. ,. 1nn . r Dunedin, 31st March, 1884. . As required by section 102 of "The Education Act, 1877," the Education Board of the District ot Otago has the honour to present the following report of its proceedings for the year 1883 Ihe boAKD—At the beginning of the year the following members constituted the Board: James -Pulton, Henry Clark, Thomas Fergus, John Shand, William Elder, Alexander C Be™ Michael Iraer, Keith Eamsay, and James Green. Messrs. Fulton, Clark, and Fergus retired Tri terms of section 15 of the Education Act. Five candidates were nominated by the School Committees for the vacancies, and the voting resulted in the re-election of Messrs. Clark and Fergus and the election of Mr. John McKenzie in the room of Mr. Fulton, who did not offer himself for reelection. At the first meeting of the Board in April, Professor Shand was re-elected Chairman There were held during the year fourteen meetings of the Board, twelve meetings of the Finance Committee, and twelve meetings of the Appointments Committee Numbee op Schools -The last report of the Board showed that there were in operation on d i fo D f* r V 18 ', 159 scho ? ls - Dmm S the I ear n ew schools were opened at Macandrew Boad (South Dunedin), Totara, and Waianakarua. The schools at Eweburn and Lower Kyeburn had to be reduced to the half-time system, owing to the falling-off in the attendance at the former school, and the school at Ida Valley had to be closed, owing to the falling-off in the attendance and the apparent indifference of the settlers to the education of their children The Shag Vallev School was also closed at the end of 1882, as the improved state of the roads in the district, and the bridging of the river, enabled the children who attended it conveniently to reach the Palmerston School. There were_ consequently 159 schools in operation in this district at the end of December. The now school districts of Maerewhenua, Tahora (Hindon), Waiwera Township Coal Creek Flat and Lowburn were proclaimed and when the year closed school buildings were in course of erection m all but the first. The City of Dunedin, which hitherto formed one school district, was divided into five districts—an alteration which the Board hopes will ultimately be of advantage to the schools of trie city Tbaohbbb.— There were employed at the close of the year 446 teachers, being an increase of four as compared with the preceding year this £ r °ict L -^. TTBNI)ANCE " —The fo^lowin S is an abstract of the attendance at the public schools of

Tear. I I o d S ■:• O H ■H o 6 'A Numbi attorn Com er at Pupi iled at all: •se of the ■) Is who in the (Tear. Daii Average ly Attenda >r the lea: ,noe r. attl L-ttendanc LO Close o Tear. the Dunedin. All other Schools. Totals. Dunedin. All other Schools. Totals. Dimedin. All otlior Schools. Totals, 1850-57 L866 L876-77 .. L8S2 .883 5 51 165 159 159 7 71 329 442 446 1,193 3,094 6,450 6,722 2 754 15,250 20,548 21,086 S 947 18,350 26,998 27,808 115 888 2,087 3,853 4,000 121 l,C80 9,H3 12 341 12,814 236 2,568 11,210 16,194 16,814 934 2,378 4,426 4,534 2 136 11,159 16,239 16,011 3,070 13,537 19,665 20,545

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The increase in the averago attendance for the year was 620, and m the number uhat attended at ail during the year 810. The increase indicated by these figures, although slightly in advance ot that of the previous year, is still under what, under favourable conditions, might have been expected The prevalence of sickness in the district during a large part of the year no doubt seriously reduced the attendance. . , -„, , ~ , „„„ Finance —Appended hereto is a certified copy of the income and expenditure for the past year. A statement of the amounts contributed by the Board to each school for teachers' salaries (including bonuses on classification and bonuses for instructing pupil-teachers), and for allowances to Committees in aid of School Fund, and of the amount paid for the erection and improvement of school buildings is given. Tho sum paid by the Board for teachers' salaries, &c, was £56,401 0s 9d. Early in the year, the Board decided to employ, when practicable, female head-teachers in schools having an average attendance of less than thirty-five pupils, at salaries considerably under those paid to male teachers. It has been found, however, after nearly a year s trial, that Jie alteration does not work well in all cases, as schools of the class referred to are often situated m remote districts, which offer few attractions and comforts to young women. School Committee Accounts.—An abstract of the income and expenditure of the accounts of the several Committees is appended.* It will be seen that the Board contributed £5,511 13s. 5d while the Committees raised locally the sum of £1,445 os. sd. The recent Order in Council altering the mode of auditing the accounts of School Committees, and empowering Boards to appoint an auditor, is a step in the right direction. The Board appointed its_ chief clerk as auditor for the district and arranged that the School Committees should forward their books, accounts, &c, to the Board's office It is pleasing to report that the Committees, with one or two exceptions, willingly fell in with the new order of things, and rendered the auditor every assistance m carrying out his work The report of the auditor is, on the whole, satisfactory, and shows that a large majority ot the Committees in this district are expending the moneys placed at their disposal m an economical and useful manner. The total balance to the credit of the Committees was £1,622 7s. Id., being £90 6s 6d under that of last year It is necessary to explain, however, that a great many Committees had not paid the accounts owing by them when their books wore made up for the year, and that a considerable part of this balance would have to be paid away early m January Pupil-teachers' Eegulations.—Early in the year the regulations respecting the employment, education, and examination of pupil-teachers were reconsidered, and changes were made which have the effect of somewhat lightening the course of study, and of more nearly equalizing the remuneration of male and female pupil-teachers. _ Inspection.—During the year one or more visits of inspection were made to 14b schools, eight others were found closed when the Inspector was in the district, and five wore not visited. The 159 schools that have been in operation during the year were all examined in accordance with the regulations of the Education Department. A few of the schools were examined twice—once at the beginning of the year, and again at the end. The results of the examinations held during the year are summarized in the following tables : —

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Table II : showing the Percentage gained in the several Subjects of Examination for the Years 1882 and 1883. Subject. 5§rt&. SubieCt wSTlSe. Beading 84 83 Grammar 73 72 Spelling 86 86 Geography 82 77 Writing 91 93 History 80 73 Arithmetic 68 67 Table III. showing the Percentage of Passes in Subjects gained by each Standard, and the Average Percentage of Passes in Subjects gained by all the Standards, for the Years 1882 and 1883. Percentage. Percentage. 1882. 1883. 1882. 1883. Standard I. 92 89 Standard IV 75 78 Standard II. 81 81 Standard V 80 76 Standard III. 78 76 Standard VI. .. 89 87 Average percentage, 1882, 81, 1883, 80. * Not reprinted here.

Number present. Number passed. Number absent. Percentage of Passes. Number of Schools. Standard I. Standard II. Standard III. Standard IV Standard V Standard VI. 2,407 2,653 2,453 1,858 1,074 488 2,226 2,034 1,471 1,149 627 402 70 104 95 71 33 14 92 77 60 62 58 82 150 158 157 151 130 79 Totals ... 7,909 387 72 10,933

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The foregoing tables show a slight decline in the examination results as compared with those of last year ° The percentage of passes in standards is 72, as against 73, and the percentage of passes in subjects, 80, as against 81. The decline has been chiefly in Standards 1., 111., and V., while in Standard IV there has been a noticeable advance. There was no change in the standard of proficiency required by the Inspectors. Normal School.—Tho report of the Sector of the Normal School is appended. Ihe attendance of students during the year was 73, 35 being senior students and 38 junior There has been a considerable increase in the number of male students in the junior class. At the beginning of the year the staff of the institution was strengthened by the appointment of a tutor, a master of the model school, and a teacher of singing. It is hoped that, with this addition to its staff, the school will be able to furnish a regular supply of young teachers of sound education, familiar with approved methods of teaching, and trained to organize and manage either a separate class or a school of several classes. The total cost for the year was, Salaries . 1.102 li 1 Allowances to students . 1,204 4 5 £2,306 15 6 Scholarships.—During the year sixteen scholarships—ten senior and six junior—were offered for competition. The examination was held in December. Thirty-seven candidates entered for the senior, and fifty-three for the junior In addition to the scholarships given by the Board, the Board of Governors of the Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools grant free education for three years at the Dunedin High School to all the candidates for senior scholarships who make over 50 per cent, of the attainable marks. In addition to the candidates who wore successful in attaining scholarships, eleven competitors made over 50 per cent, of the marks, and were thus entitled to free education at the hi<di schools for three years. The Board was pleased to notice that three holders of the Board's scholarships, who were attending the Dunedin high schools—namely, Annie Forbes, F B. Allen, and John Montgomery—were successful competitors at the examination in December last for junior scholarships in the University of New Zealand. Drawing Master's Department.—The report of the headmaster of the Drawing Department is appended. Early in the year the Board determined to reduce the expenditure in this department, and accordingly dispensed with the services of the two male assistants. The staff now comprises the drawing-master, a female assistant, and a male pupil-teacher. Teachers, pupil-teachers, and Normal School students continue to receive instruction in drawing, free of charge as heretofore, but the teaching of drawing by the master and his staff in the city and suburban schools is discontinued. The total expenditure on the department amounted to £749 12s. 2d. for the year, and the receipts from fees to £303 6s. 6d. The Hon. the Minister of Education. P G. Pryde, Secretary

General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1883. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance, General Account 11 16 1 By Office staff, salaries 940 0 0 Government grants for buildings 17,005 17 0 Departmental contingencies' 533 15 1 Government grant (special for playgrounds) 600 0 0 Inspectors'salaries 1,450 0 0 Statutory capitation (£3 155.) 54,919 17 2 Inspectors' travelling expenses 589 3 6 'Special capitation (55.) . 4,135 13 9 Examination of pupil-teachers 13 5 0 Scholarship grant (Is. 6d.) 1,212 14 10 Teachers' salaries and allowances (mInspection subsidy 500 0 0 eluding rent, bonus, &c.) 56,401 0 9 Grant for training of teachers 2,000 0 0 Incidental expenses of schools 5,550 5 4 Payments by School Commissioners for Training of teachers 2,306 15 6 primary education 7,183 19 2 Scholarships—Paid to scholars 1,261 7 6 Payments by School Commissioners for School buildings— secondary education .. 471 13 1 New buildings 12,331 3 9 Bees for district high schools .. 113 0 0 Improvements of buildings 1,927 16 10 Other receipts Furniture and appliances ' 362 9 11 Drawing Department—Bees 303 6 6 Sites 957 18 3 Sale school sites 298 1 4 Plans and supervision 714 5 10 Sale buildings • • 99 10 0 Other expenses— Bent school site 25 5 0 Drawing-Master's department 749 12 2 Libraries 230 10 9 , Libraries 14 1 6 Deposits forfeited 18 2 0 Credit balance of account on Slst DeInterest 282 8 3 ber, 1883Building Account 600 0 0 General Account .. 2,708 14 0 £89,411 14 11 I £89,411 14 11 P G. Pryde, Secretary and Treasurer, Otago Education Board. I have compared the above abstract with the Treasurer's books and vouchers, and I certify it to be correct. —H. Livingston, Auditor.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1883. A. Exclusive of Building Fund. Assets. £ s. d' Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash in bank on this account, 31st Decern- Balance . 3,039 17 0 ber, 1883 . 2,717 10 4 Due from scholarships . . . 322 6 8 £3,039 17 0 £3,039 17 0

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Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1883— continued. B. Building Fund only £ s. d. £ s d Cash in bank on this account, 31st Decern- Due on extension of George Street site 750 0 6 ber, 1883 591 3 8 Due on uncompleted contracts 1,430 10 0 Balance . 1,589 6 4 £2.180 10 0 £2,180 10 0 P G. Pryde, Secretary

Drawing Master's Department. Sir, — I have the honour to submit my annual report for 1883 on the School of Art. The total number that received instruction in the school during the year was 289. This total included 58 teachers and pupil-teachers, 77 students in training, 57 students who attended the afternoon class, and 155 students who attended the evening classes. The class for teachers and pupil-teachers was open as usual on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5.45 to 6.45, that for students every day except Friday, from 11 to 12, the afternoon class, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 1.30 to 4, and the evening classes, every evening from 7 to 9, except Friday, which was devoted to sketching from the living model. Classes were also held in the Boys' and Girls' High Schools on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, four hours' instruction being given per week in each. During the first half of the session drawing was taught in all the town, suburban, and district high schools; but owing to a resolution of the Board, requiring the withdrawal of instruction from these and the dismissal of my assistants, our time has been wholly devoted to the classes held in the School of Art and the Boys' and Girls' High Schools. At the annual examination for teachers' certificates, 49 passed in freehand drawing, 38 in practical geometry, 47 in model drawing, and 3 in perspective. An exhibition of the works executed by the students during the session was open three days, and was largely attended. The work as a whole was above the average, and the drawings and paintings more numerous than on any previous occasion. Some individual achievement was shown, such, for instance, as Miss Scott's Nest and Fruit, Miss Harlock's Eggs and Jug, Miss Macdonald's Village Belle (especially good in colour), and the excellent modelling by Mr. Boldini. The number of drawings and paintings exhibited was as follows Freehand outline, 65 , mechanical drawings, 90 ; architectural drawings, 86, chalk drawings from the flat, 140, chalk drawings from the round, 102 ' paintings m monochrome from the fiat, 8 , from the round, 104, paintings in water-colours, 96 , in oil-colours, 20 , paintings from nature, 12. I have, &c, _, _ n _, David C. Hutton, The Secretary, Otago Education Board. Art Master.

SOUTHLAND. Sir — Invercargill, 31st March, 1884. In compliance with the provisions of clause 102 of "The Education Act, 1877," I have the honour to submit the following report of the Southland Education Board, for the year ending the 31st December, 1883. J b The Board.—At the beginning of the year the Board consisted of the following gentlemen, viz. Mr Thomas M. Macdonald (Chairman), Messrs. Lumsden, Morison, Mackintosh, McLeod,' Feldwick, Baldey, McArdell, and Denniston. The three retiring members were Messrs. Macdonald' Mackintosh, and Denniston. At the annual election held in March, Mr Denniston, one of the retiring members, did not seek re-election, and Mr John Turnbull was elected along with Messrs. Macdonald and Mackintosh, the other two retiring members for the year In May anextraordinary vacancy was caused by the resignation of Mr McArdell, and Mr D. L. Matheson, of Invercargill, was elected to fill the vacancy During the year the Board held fourteen meetings, and the Executive Committee twenty-seven. The following are the attendances at the meetings of the Board made by each member Mr Macdonald, 14, Mr Lumsden, 14, Mr McLeod, 14, Mr Baldey, 13 , Mr Morison, 113, Mr Feldwick, absent on leave during the Parliamentary session, 10, Mr Turnbull (nine months), 8, Mr. Matheson (seven months), 7, and Mr. Mackintosh, 5' the average attendance being seven. At the meetings of the Executive Committee, consisting of six members, the following attendances were made Mr. Macdonald, 26, Mr. Lumsden, 26, Mr. Baldey, 21, Mr. McLeod, 16, Mr Turnbull, 15, and Mr. Feldwick, 13 average, 4-3. At the meeting in the beginning of April Mr. Macdonald was unanimously re-elected Chairman of the Board. Attendance.—The attendance at the schools was considerably affected, in not a few localities, by the prevalence of whooping-cough and other diseases incidental to childhood, and by the long continuance of wet weather towards the end of the year, which rendered many of the roads and tracks quite impassable, and flooded the rivers and creeks, so that children where there were no bridges were entirely prevented from attending school. Number op Pupils.—The total number of pupils at the beginning and at the end of the year respectively was 5,191 and 5,937, being an increase of 746. The working average for the last quarter of 1882 and 1883 respectively was 4,284 and 4,538, being an increase of 254. Full particulars regarding the attendance at each school in the district for the year are supplied by Eeturn No. 1, appended hereto.*

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• T^ c ,P r0 ? res ? £ regards attendan ce for the last quarter of 1880, 1881, 1882, and 1883 is shown in the following table : tnon Eollt Strict Average. Working AverageJS? - •• 4,891 3,656 3,765 }f a l 5,033 3,616 3,776 }®® 5,488 4,174 4,284 1883 • 5,975 4,359 4,538 It will be seen that, deducting the numbers in the first line from those in the last, the increase lor the four years of pupils on the roll is 1,084, the strict average 703, and the working average 773 bcHOOLs and Teachers.—The following has been the average attendance :— Number attending. SoT,° f Number attending. Number of rT ■, -, ► oonoois. o Schools. Under 15 0 75 and under 100 . 2 15 and under 20 3 100 „ „ 150 5 f K " » 25 7 150 „ „ 300 2 25 » » 50 37 300 „ „ 500 1 5° >i ». 75 14 500 and upwards .. 1 There were in all seventy-two schools. Included in this number are three small schools whose teachers salaries are made up by the local School Committee to the minimum of the Board schools Ihere were no hall-time schools, or schools permanently closed at the end of the year Ihe following teachers were employed :— tr -, . , Males. Females. Total. Head-teachers 68 16 84 Assistant teachers 6 4 10 Pupil-teachers 8 25 33 82 45 127 ?QQo d t?. bheS ? there were the close of the year eleven teachers of sewing. As compared with 1882 there is an increase of five head-teachers, of five pupil-teachers, and of four teachers of DC VVlllfcj. The following is the classification of the teachers : Tv/r i v -i . , Certificated. Not certificated. Total. Male head-teachers .. go 37 c 7 Male assistant teachers 2 4 f Female head-teachers .. 8 8 16 Female assistant teachers 3 1 4 43 50 93 Less than one-half of the teachers at the end of the year were certificated, the ratio bein- 46-2 to 538 per cent. As a number of teachers have intimated their intention of presenting themselves at the annual examination m January next, this undesirable state of matters will, no doubt be remedied to a certain extent. ' Subjects op Instruction.-lii 1883 as compared with 1882 there was an increase of 3 087 in the number 01 pupils learning reading, writing, arithmetic, object-lessons, vocal music, and needlework, and a decrease of 1,097 in the number of those learning grammar, geography, history science drawing and domestic economy This decrease can only be accounted for on the supposition that the tochers restrict the instruction in these subjects to the higher standards of the school only, and that m 1882 instruction was imparted in these branches to pupils occupying lower forms than was the case in 1883. "tv^s Increase oe the Capitation Grant.—The notification of an increase of ss. per pupil in average attendance came most opportunely for the financial position of the Board, who, without it would probably have been obliged to discontinue the payment of bonuses and rent allowances to teachers. The increased grant, however, has enabled the Board not only to meet these allowances, but to raise the salaries of teachers and the Board's staff to the current rate which obtained before the reductions were made. The Board has thus carried out the intention of the Government m dealing with the increase of grant, so as to benefit those for whom it was primarily made. Ihe Board has also increased the salaries of teachers of schools with an average attendance ot from twenty to twenty-five. The miserable pittance formerly paid to these teachers, and the precarious subsidies paid or promised to be paid by School Committees, hardly enabled them to procure the bare necessaries of life. They are now placed in a more independent position. iNew bcHOOLs and Buildings.—New schools and residences have been built at Thornbury Fernhills, Spar Bush Otama Waikaka, Croyden, and Garston (formerly Fairlight). A new school has been built a Clifton, and large additions have been made to the Central and South Schools Invercargill, and to those at Waianiwa, Gore, Winton, Mataura, Long Bush, Fortrose, Orepuki' and Kiyerton School buildings are in the course of erection at East Forest Hill, and will be opened immediately after the harvest holidays. New school districts have been defined and publicly notified at Nightcaps Otara, Sedan Valley, South Hill End, Slopedown, and Kennington, w2 a number of other applications for new schools are under the consideration of the Board ™„ ™ t f re f lsre . c l ul f ed m dealing with applications from small non-paying schools in sparsely peopled districts Applications for the establishment of new schools in deferred-payment settlements all oyer the district are very numerous and pressing, and should the Board resolve to grant a school it is only adding a dead-weight to its finances, for which the small number of large schools can supply inadequate counterpoise. Should the Board decline the grant, the result will be that B cores of children will be left to live without the means of education. Besides, no two localities

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are in exactly the same position, so that all applications must be dealt with according to their merhs Most, of the new schools have been erected at 'f^»^f al »^^ and in consequence it has been found impossible to introduce the system of half-time schools, which has been found to work satisfactorily in some of the other education districts. Owing to the delay on the part of the Government in allocating the grant for the buildings the Board was obliged to make arrangements with its bankers for an overdraft to meet the labilities incurred in completing buildings already sanctioned, and to clear off existing liabilities the end of the year the Board resolved to defer the consideration of all applications 01 grants for buildings until it was informed as to the amount of grant to be allocated to this district, and as to the thne when it would be realized. It is to be regretted that the Government cannot see its way to make the allocation at an earlier period of the financial year, so that Boards may be in a position to keep their expenditure within the limits of the grant. Scholarships.—The annual examination for scholarships was held on the 17th December last and following days. For the senior class there were eight, and for the juinoi: twenty competitors. The successful candidates for the senior class were Lewis Sangster, South Public School, Invercargill and John G. Fullarton and Bessie Dickenson, Biverton District High School, and toi the junior eLs; John A. Erskine and Charles E. Borne both of the South Publ and Alexander M. Burns, of the Eiverton District High School The scholarsh ?th senioand junior, are tenable for two years, and in cases where the holders can reside at their own houses while attending an authorized school, their value is £20 a year, but in all o her cases they ar, of the value of £40 a year. It may be stated that the special subjects prescribed for 1883 were EiigiishShakespeare's King John (Nelson's Eoyal School Series), and Latin-Csesar s De Bello Galhco, Book 111. Pupil-teachers.—The annual examination of pupil-teachers was held on the 17th of December last and following days, when a considerable number passed the ordeal m a very creditable manner The regulations for pupil-teachers have been amended during the year, chiefly m the direction of the mode°of instructing those employed in the Invercargill schools. The tion referred to " The pupil-teachers shall attend together at one central school in Inveicargill lor one hour every afternoon in the week, and shall be instructed in the following subjects by the headteachers, who shall arrange the work amongst themselves at the beginning of the year by mutual agreement, and report the arrangement to the Board, and, m default of such agreement, shall do the work in such order as shall be fixed by the Board (1) English, including reading, recitation, SDellino- and writing, (2) arithmetic, (3) grammar and composition, (4) geography, (5) history, (o) eCn o t'ar;sc7ence, D (7) l geometry, (B)'algebra, (9) Latin, (10) French, (11) music (12) ,rawing The head-teacher of each school in the City of Invercargill shall be remunerated at the iate of £1 per annum per pupil-teacher for every one of the above-named subjects m which he gives instruction thTpuijl-tecicner is successful in that subject at the annual examination, and otherwise he shall only receive half that amount." ' Income and Expenditure.—A full statement of the details of the Board's income and expenditure for the year is appended. The following is a statement of the income and expenditure of School Committees, as made up from the abstracts received by the Board :— Income. Expenditube. £ s. d. * -Balances 38s 6 ' 8 ' Cleaning schools and fuel . ■ 820 15 2 Irom the Education Board 977 18 8 Kcpairs to buildings, fences, &c. . 210 13 6 From donations, subscriptions, &o. 566 10 10 Books maps, and fumiure 174 17 9 Pm-m other sources . 87 12 2 Towards teachers'salaries 15J o A Iromotner sources . Committees' expenses, stationery, &c. 100 8 1 Sundries .. 17« f j> Balances *'_____ £2,015_8_j £2 - 015 8 4 There is considerable improvement in the abstracts of Committees' accounts for last year This is no doub due to the new arrangements for auditing these accounts rendering the items therein set Iwn much more easy to classify and summarize. There is still a serious defect in these ab B trXfoTms-ar P re S cribed by the department. No provision is made for a statement of the assesand'liabilities of each Committee at the end of the year without which the exact financial nosition of each Committee cannot be ascertained. To show the great necessity for such a stateSent one Compile, at the beginning of 1883, handed over a correct balance-sheet to the new Cdmmittee showing a small credit balance. After a few weeks a number of accounts amounting to upwards of £12 were sent in, of the existence of which the CommitteeJiad never been informed and and unkindly feeling were engendered. All the old Committee had been required to hand over to the new Committee a statement of the assets ,and liabilities along with that of the income and expenditure. The state of matters as regards compulsory attendance, saving-banks, and life insurance, is almost the same as at the date of last year's report. 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General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1883. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Government grants for buildings . 4,962 7 6 By Balance on 31st December, 1882 . 896 19 7 Other receipts for buildings— Office staff, salaries .. . 293 0 0 Wrey's Bush residence 236 0 0 Clerical assistance . 3 11 8 Government statutory capitation 15,271 15 5 Departmental contingencies . 279 19 7 Scholarship grant (Is. Od.) . 329 19 6 Inspector's salary . . . 390 13 4 Inspection subsidy .. 300 0 0 Inspector's travelling expenses . 130 0 0 Payments by School Commissioners for Examination of pupil-teachers j 11 14 9 primary education . 2,076 4 7 Teachers' salaries and allowances (inOther receipts eluding rent, bonuses, &c.) . 14,988 15 2 Deposits on contracts . . 61 15 0 Incidental expenses of schools 996 17 2 Deposits forfeited 24 15 0 Petty repairs 11 0 9 Teachers' expenses . 6 4 4 Scholarships— Member's refund 1 12 6 Paid to scholars .. i 230 0 0 Rents reserves .. 910 0 Examination expenses .. .. 6b 12 d Balance of account on 31st Decern- School buildings— ber 1883 . .. ■■ 1.044 8 9 New buildings . . 4,405 5 8 Improvements of buildings.. . 1,004 10 0 Furniture and appliances . 84 18 6 Sites . 90 0 0 Plans, supervision, and fees . 218 15 10 Other expenses — Libraries, refund .. .. 11 12 3 Books bought .. 16 18 9 Deposits, refund . . .. 35 13 0 Deposits to Account No. 2.. .. 181 10 0 Teachers' expenses . . 6 4 4 £24,324 12 7 £24,324 12 7 Thos. M. Macdonald, Chairman. John G. Smith, Secretary I have compared this abstract with the Treasurer's books and vouchers, and I certify it to be correct. —H. Livingston, Auditor

Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1883. A. Exclusive of Building Fund. Assets £ s d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash in bank on Slst December,-1883 , 629 5 9 Due to • • •• $ £ Due to scholarships 55 0 0 Net balance _ .. 191 4 9 £629 5 9 £ 629 5 9 B. Building Fund only. £ s. d. By Balance of account on 31st December, ' 1683 . -• • 1-673 14 6 $j|_ Balance of amount due or to fall due under contracts 1,024 1 9 £2,697 16 3

NOEMAL SCHOOL EBPOETS. AUCKLAND. „ _ Training College, March, 1884. I have the honour to submit, for the information of the Board, the report on the Training College for the year ending December, 1883. At the beginning of the year the number of students was 7 males and 22 females, total 29; while at the end it was 7 males and 19 females, total 26. Nine students presented for the ma riculat on examination held in December, and seven were successful, while one, Mr. James French, attended the lectures of the Auckland University College, and obtained a first class in Latin and a third class in chemistry. Ten students presented for the D certificate, and sixteen for the E certificate ; but the results of these examinations are not yet known. The attention and work of the students throughout the year has been most satisfactory, and in some cases I have found it necessary to use my influence to prevent over-study m the evening. Students and other teachers who present for certificate examinations virtually lose their Christmas holidayseach year, inasmuch as they have the dread of an examination at the end of January alwaYs y hanging y over them. lam informed that some normal schools in New Zealand continue thir/work until the end of January, and have the vacation in February I think, however it would be wi ser to hold the examinations during the week immediately preceding Christmas, after which those who have been examined would enjoy their holidays, and then begin refreshed the business of the new year.

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The various head-teachers under whom the past students of the college are now engaged have reported most favourably on their zeal and teaching capabilities. This I consider satisfactory, for, although the work of a normal school should include the attainment of certain branches of a higher education, its first duty is to fit its students for the profession of teaching, and to enable them to understand the principles which lie at the root of their practice, and thus render their work a labour of love. The Saturday classes have been numerously attended during the year, the total average attendance of the last term being 195. The staff engaged at these classes, in addition to the Principal, included Mr. Trevithick, drawing master , Mr Oranwell, singing master , Captain Mahon, drill instructor , and Mr Gifford, assistant in the training college. To these gentlemen I here tender my sincere thanks for their hearty support in all the classes. Those who attend the Saturday classes are either pupil-teachers, uncertificated teachers, or certificated teachers. As our supply of teachers is drawn chiefly from pupil-teachers, who are more likely to become useful in their profession than those who begin later in life, it is to the pupil-teachers that the most time is given. They receive instruction on two afternoons in each week, besides on Saturday mornings, thus getting six hours' tuition weekly As all have passed the Sixth Standard or an equivalent before they are employed, this should be sufficient for their needs. The small proportion of male pupil-teachers suggests the idea that there must be something which prevents a larger number of boys who have passed the Sixth Standard becoming teachers. The cause, whatever it may be, is worthy of the Board's attention. The classes held for the uncertificated and certificated teachers have been attended by town and country teachers. At all classes the attention is good, but I fear that even yet some teachers consider regular attendance and good attention all that is necessary to obtain a certificate. These two elements are necessary, but there is still another essential element of success—regular private study A short time devoted regularly to the subjects required will effect a greater amount of good than will spasmodic spurts of energy followed by long periods of repose. The certificated teachers attend the classes on school management, singing, drawing, and drill. Several have qualified themselves to teach singing and drawing in the schools, and have therefore obtained exemption from these classes. It should be the aim of every teacher to become qualified to teach all the subjects included in the programme of instruction. c'!:": : The correspondence with those uncertificated teachers in the country schools who cannot attend the Saturday classes has been continued throughout the year, the number in correspondence being about seventy The work is very heavy, but, in many instances, yields good fruit. Thus the active business of the college in all its branches of students' classes, Saturday classes, and correspondence extended during the year to more than 300 teachers. The Auckland University College opened during the year, but owing to the late period at which lectures began, and to the fact that they were delivered in the evening, the students were unable to avail themselves of its advantages. I hope that during the present session many will attend and profit by the lectures. The attendance of teachers at University College classes will form a strong link between higher education and the primary system, and every fair means should be used to strengthen this link, and thus form a bond of sympathy between the various branches of education. An attempt has been made to establish in our schools the kindergarten system. While I yield to no one in my opinion of that system for teaching the young, and while I admit the ability of the teacher engaged in the work, I am persuaded that it can never become part of a national system, because of its expense. What is wanted for our youngest scholars is a system which will embody the principles of kindergarten without incurring the expense necessary to fully carry out that system. The attempt has been made elsewhere, and has been abandoned after a trial of two years, I cannot close this report without testifying to the great advantage which is gained in possessing a uniform system of drill in the schools. All the teachers learn the same system, and thus discipline, without which no good school can exist, is largely aided by the uniformity of drill. I have, &c., The Chairman, Education Board. A, McArthur, M.A., L.L.8., Principal.

WELLINGTON Sir,— Normal School, March, 1884. I have the honour to submit my fourth annual report on the work of the Normal School. Though much that I hoped to see accomplished remains undone at the close of the year, the retrospect furnishes some solid grounds of congratulation, and the outlook is encouraging. As the private classes were discontinued in January, we have been able this year to devote our whole attention to our proper work—the training of professional students. Number op Students. —The number of these, compared with those of 1882, stands thus : Males. Females. Total. 1882 .. , ..... 2 16 18 . 1883 ... 2 17 19 But this does not represent the number benefited by the institution. Thirty students have been in attendance, of whom ten have left in the course of the year for school work, and one has been obliged, through failure of eyesight, to take prolonged rest. [She has however since resumed her studies.] Classification op Students. —Of the nineteen students on the roll (December, 1883), fifteen are maintained by Education Boards, and four bear the expenses of their own training. Seven of the nineteen come from other districts, viz., four from Hawke's Bay, two from Nelson, and one from Taranaki. Of the total number, thirteen are ex-pupil-teachers • nine of these were in the service of the Wellington Board, although only five of them completed their apprenticeship.

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Character op Students.—l have encouraging reports of the past students. Some have won the commendation of critics not the most friendly, and I think all are trying to the best of their ability to do us credit. It is gratifying to note their attachment to the school and their lively interest in all its doings. The present students are thoroughly worthy, and some are teachers of unusual promise. The prizes given by the Board have proved a healthy encouragement to them in their work. Tests op Work. —The certificate ordeal (January, 1883) was passed through satisfactorily, The Inspector subjected the students to a searching two days' viva voce examination in August, and openly expressed his pleasure at the result. The October test examination revealed weak points in individuals, which we afterwards did our best to strengthen , but the bulk of the work was well done, and we look forward hopefully to the results of the examination in January, 1884. Staff.—The staff has been materially strengthened since my last report, by the engagement of Dr Cahill as science lecturer, and of M. Merlet as French master In other respects the teachers are the same, and their work has been characterized by the same earnestness and self-denial as heretofore. To Mr Parker my thanks are especially due, for kind assistance in the Saturday lectures, and for the very successful musical arrangements of the midwinter festival. Griffin is leaving us- shortly I lose in her a most diligent, pains-taking coadjutor. Her resignation will afford a favourable opportunity for reconsidering the working arrangements of the school. Course of Study.—The course of study remains substantially unaltered. It differs little in its general outline from the curriculum in other training colleges, except that we have so far done no university work, and that we devote more time to the study of the science and art of teaching than it receives elsewhere. And it is our wisdom to do this it is the true work of the school; and, while I would not underrate high attainments in a teacher, I deem it of paramount importance_that he should thoroughly understand his business, and strictly professional study must not be sacrificed to general culture. I hope, however, to teach Latin in the coming year. Some of the students have already a fair knowledge of it, and it may assist them to obtain the "D" classification, while it will enable others to pass the matriculation examination of the New Zealand University before leaving the school. If they can do this without detriment to more important work it will stimulate them to continued study, and check the mischievous tendency to throw books aside and regard education as finished when the coveted "D" is obtained. Although at present there are no university classes in Wellington, much can be done by private study, and we may hope not to remain always in the background in respect of higher education. lam also desirous of seeing the practical study of some branch of natural science taken up by the students. Lectures are good in their way, but it is the knowledge of science gained at first hand by one's own experiment which is the most valuable. The theoretical teaching requires to be thus supplemented. A taste for such study formed at school can easily be gratified in after-life, and it is well our pupils should be encouraged thus to diligently cultivate special talent. Practising School. —The practising-school arrangements are still unsatisfactory I have to thank the Board for doing its utmost during the past year to remedy this very defective part of our machinery. We have, however, still to lament it, and can only live in hopes of improvement. It must be patent to every one that the theoretical and practical departments should not be, as at present, under divided control. Were not the relations of the most cordial description between the heads of the two schools, a deadlock might result at any moment. Their interests are not and cannot be identical. The frequent changes of teachers, necessary in the interests of the students, must be a hindrance to the effective working of a district school, and only the most absolute efficiency of the permanent staff, and a general uniformity of style, can prevent the pupils suffering from such frequent changes of handling. Under ordinary circumstances—with a miscellaneous staff of unequal powers and attainments—the head-teacher finds it expedient to allot to each one the work experience has shown him or her most capable of performing, or, if changes are made, they are made once a year This is not good for the teachers, but it promotes the progress of the pupils. And the school exists for them; their interests are paramount. In such a school a student cannot get varied practice, or a wide range of experience. The present practising school is, moreover, unsuitably planned for the work. Students cannot receive that constant supervision the weaker ones need, they have little opportunity of studying the plans of others, and none at all of seeing or superintending the work of the school as a whole. They can only acquire a certain limited knowledge of class management, and none of the varied forms of school organization. Again, a practising school needs a specially selected staff of thoroughly good all-round teachers, sympathizing heartily with the students, models for their imitation, and useful assistants in training them. An ordinary district school will seldom be found to satisfy this condition. What we require is a specially planned school, in which at all times the interests of the students shall be the primary consideration—a school which shall be an objective illustration of true principles and sound methods—a school in which students may receive thorough training in all parts of their practical work as teachers and organizers. Such a school I would ask the Board to keep steadily m view in all future modifications of our working plans. Saturday Lectures.—A course of Saturday lectures on the science of education was given to acting teachers and pupil-teachers during the year, and excited a considerable amount of outside interest The attendance was regular, and the result of the experiment encouraging. I would recommend that this should form a regular part of our work. Short courses of lectures on particular points of teaching and school management might be given at intervals, the co-operation of specialists being secured when practicable. Such lectures would not only do a certain direct amount of good, but indirectly would serve to show who were the earnest students of their profession, the more teachable of the teachers, and those most likely to do work worth the doing. Vacations.—l desire to thank the Board for recognizing the special character of the school, and sanctioning a rearrangement of the vacations. It has made the work of the year much less harassing for all concerned.

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Library and Museum. —The library was well used during the year, and more particularly during the continuance of the Saturday lectures. The museum has received a few useful additions, but it is still only in embryo, and would require a considerable expenditure to make it fully serve its purpose. It is nevertheless a valuable adjunct to the Normal School. Anniversary of the School.—The third anniversary of the school in September last was a red-letter day in our annals, marked by an .official visit of His Excellency the Governor, attended by the Hon. the Minister of Education. His Excellency kindly addressed the students, and expressed great gratification with what he had seen and heard of the school's work. In the evening a reunion of past and present students was held for the first time. I hope to arrange for at least one such gathering annually as I am sure it will do much to maintain that esprit de corps we should desire to see characteristic of our students. Thanking the Board and yourself personally, Sir, for many little encouragements in the course of the year, I have, &c, The Chairman, Education Board. Charles C. Howard.

NOETH CANTEEBUEY. Sir, — Christchurch, 4th February, 1884. I have the honour to submit my report on the Normal School for the year ended the 31st December, 1883. At the beginning of the year the number attending the classes of the training department was 14 males and 27 females, total 41, and at its close 14 males and 29 females, total 43. Of this number, four presented themselves for the B.A. degree, one for the senior University scholarship, one for the C certificate, and the remainder, with two exceptions, sat for the two lower certificates in January of the present year. From information lately received, I find that all those who sat at the University examinations have been successful, and that two of the late students, Mr Joseph P Grossman and his sister Miss Janette Grossman, have passed the examination for the M.A. degree, the former taking first-class honours, and the latter second-class. Such success should stimulate others to earnest study The attendance of the students has generally been, very good, and their punctuality and attention to study highly satisfactory A few have not made very great progress in their studies, but nearly all have exerted themselves to do their duty I have to thank the teachers of the practising department generally for the ready assistance they gave in supervising the students while they were engaged in teaching. But more especially are my thanks due to the late head-mistress, Mrs. Moore, who was always ready to assist me with the work in which I thought her aid was required. I fear that it will not be an easy matter to obtain the services of such an able head-mistress as Mrs. Moore proved herself to be. Having been trained in one of the best training colleges for mistresses in England, and having acted for years as tutor in the training department of another, she was intimately acquainted with the necessities of such institutions, and she was ever willing to act up to any instructions she received. The girls under her charge were well taught, and the tone of the school was everything to be desired. I trust that the Board may obtain as her successor one as well fitted to occupy the position as she was. The model school continues to prove a valuable auxiliary in training the students. If we had another school attached to the training department in which a master, a mistress, and one or two pupil-teachers were employed, those young persons who enter for training would have every opportunity to make themselves acquainted with the practical management of schools. Although I fear that circumstances will not allow such an addition, yet I hope to see the day when the normal schools of the colony will have such schools attached to them. I am convinced that such an arrangement would return to the country greater benefits than the present large schools that are attached to them can possibly afford. Model schools of the character indicated would present every opportunity for training the students in class teaching and management, and at the same time afford ample practice for the students to become practically acquainted with school management, and the best means to secure discipline. During the year greater attention has been paid to gymnastics throughout the whole school than was formerly the case, and I have to thank the Board for their courtesy in granting the use of the gymnasium to those teachers who were able to direct their pupils in gymnastic exercises, and also to thank Mr Walker, the drill instructor, for bis valuable assistance generally Messrs. Watkins and Newton continue to perform their duties to my entire satisfaction. In addition to his usual work, Mr Newton ably and willingly assisted me in taking part of Mr. Watkins's work during the period that that gentleman was laid aside through severe illness. I have, &c, The Chairman, Education Board. W Malcolm, Principal,

' OTAGO. Sir, —- I have the honour to submit my report of the Normal School for session 1883. The attendance of students during the session was as follows :—Seniors Males, 8 , females, 27 : total, 35. Juniors: Males, 24, females, 14 total, 38. Tho junior attendance shows a decided increase in the proportion of male candidates for the profession of teaching, and it is worthy of note that of the thirty-eight juniors nearly one-half had been pupil-teachers. An impression prevails that pupil-teachers who have completed their term of apprenticeship but have failed to pass their final examination are entitled to entrance on the recommendation of an Inspector It would be well for those concerned to notice that the Inspector's recommendation may be made in favour of

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pupil-teachers who have passed their final examination, and teachers who have been more than a year in charge of a public school (Eegulations 11., 2); all others must pass the entrance examination held about a month after the results of the pupil-teachers' examination are published. A number of both seniors and juniors had obtained a partial success in the Class E examination, and they, along with a few juniors who at once gave evidence of good working power, were classed with the candidates for Class D. In some cases this proved unsatisfactory, and for the future a class will be formed for completion of E certificate, and students will be advanced from it only on giving evidence of ability to take up the D subjects. In order to qualify for the Board's £60 exhibitions at the University of Otago in conjunction with the Normal School, a number of ex-pupil-teachers formed a class for the special study of several matriculation subjects, and were joined by others to whom the exhibitions are not open. Excellent work was done by this class, and it is probable that several of its members will apply to the Board for permission to continue their studies at the University after completing the ordinary normalschool course. Should the Board grant their request I have no doubt but they will make good use of the opportunity Miss Tracey, to whom the privilege was last granted, took high places in her classes, secured the Scott Scholarship, and at the recent University entrance examination succeeded in taking a junior scholarship. Mr Wilkinson as tutor, and Mr Earle as master, of the model school, entered on duty at the beginning of the session. To Mr Wilkinson were assigned Latin, mathematics, and science, and valuable assistance was given by him in the superintendence of the practice in teaching, especially teaching of elementary science. Mr. Earle was placed in charge of two of the model rooms described in previous reports. One room had an average attendance of forty boys and girls, and was organized as an ordinary small country school such as the male students may be required to take charge of on completing their training. The other had an average attendance of thirty, and was organized as an infant room in a country school with a master and mistress. For the last five months of the session the latter was placed under the superintendence of the Matron, Mr. Earle remaining in charge of the former The students in turn spend at least a week in these rooms, giving special attention to the organization and management. During the week they are expected to keep up their home preparation for class work, and they arrange with their classmates for exchange of notes of work done in class during the week's absence. Mr. Braik immediately on appointment began his course of instruction in music according to the Tonic Sol-Fa method. Arrangements have been made for examinations for certificates of the Tonic Sol-Fa College, London. The first was held towards the end of the session, and eight students were successful in taking the elementary certificate. Candidates for appointment presenting these certificates will naturally be expected by School Committees to teach music in the schools to which they are appointed, and arrangements have been made for practice in teaching music under Mr Braik's direction. Since the withdrawal of the School of Art staff from the public schools, the drawing in the practising department has been taught chiefly by students elected by Mr Hutton. One of the weekly drawing hours is spent by these in teaching, the other in being taught. The majority of the students will thus be prepared to teach both music and drawing in the schools to which they are appointed. With tho exceptions above noted, the practice in teaching has been conducted much in the same lines as formerly The session closed with an attendance of 60—27 males and 33 females. I have, &c, The Secretary, Education Board. W S. Fitzgerald, Eector

EEPOETS OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONEES. AUCKLAND. Sir,— Auckland, 27th March, 1884. I have the honour, in reply to your circular of the 20th December last, to state that the administration of education reserves in this provincial district during the year 1883 calls for no special remark. The reserves lot were but few, comprising 10 acres 2 roods 2 perches of town and suburban land, and 126 acres of rural land, which were leased for twenty-one years at an aggregate rental of £16 7s. per annum. The Commissioners' title to reserves mentioned in the Schedule to the Education Eeserves Amendment Act of 1882 has been duly registered, so that there is no longer any difficulty in dealing with these lands or in recovering rent due upon them. There are, however, many blocks and sections of land on the East Coast, in Cook and Wairoa Counties, temporarily reserved for primaryeducation purposes, which would let readily were the reservation completed, and the land thereby vested in the Commissioners. I have the honour to draw your attention to the remark, in my report for 1882, that there seems to be unnecessary delay in completing the reservation of these lands. The statement of accounts for 1883, duly certified by the auditor, is enclosed herewith. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. Joseph May, Chairman,

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General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1883.

Joseph May, Chairman. H. N Garland, Secretary. 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 31st December, 1883, and that I find them to be correct.—L. A. Durrieu, Auditor 29th February, 1884.

* Includes a sum of £94 Is. lOd. lying at deposit in the savings-bank, whioh will be applicable to any secondary school established under the Act in the Gisborne district,

'ecevp is. Primary Education Reserves. Seconaary Education Reserves. Total. 'o Credit balances on 1st January, 1883 .. Arrears of rents for previous years Eents for current year Lease deposits. . Interest £ 324 896 15 s. 3 3 0 a. 4 2 0 £. s. 85 10 420 1 6 0 4 6 a. 7 2 0 2 £ s. a. 793 11 4 409 13 11 1,316 4 4 21 0 0 4 6 2 Total receipts . 1,235 6 6 515 17 11 2,544 15 9 Expenditure. By Salaries and allowances to officers Printing, stationery, &c. Expenses of leasing— Auctioneer's commission Advertising, &c. Expenditure on reserves — Bates Crown grants Legal expenses Lease deposits refunded Payments to Auckland Education Board Payments to Hawke's Bay Education Board Payments towards secondary education — Cambridge High School. Hamilton High School Auckland College and Grammar School Thames High School Auckland Girls' High School Whangarei High School Credit balance of account on 31st December, 1883 £ s. a. 71 0 0 2 3 0 & s. a. 29 0 0 £ s. a. 100 0 0 2 3 0 3 3 3 9 12 10 6 6 6 7 17 3 9 9 9 17 10 1 16 9 40 0 8 16 5 6 20 0 0 1,076 12 7 51 5 11 0 10 9 10 10 7 5 6 8 5 16 8 1 17 6 50 11 3 21 12 2 25 16 8 1,076 12 7 51 5 11 50 0 0 50 0 0 60 17 0 60 17 2 60 17 0 182 11 2 465 2 4 * 722 14 6 Total expenditure 1,291 10 6 530 10 9 2,544 15 9 Assets £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. d. 722 14 6 Balance of cash on 31st December, 1883. Arrears due on 31st December, 1883 — Arrears of the year 1881 Arrears of the year 1882 Arrears of the year 1883 2 10 0 167 3 10 796 4 8 14 10 0 181 19 1 2 10 0 181 13 10 978 3 9 Total assets 965 18 6 196 9 1 1,885 2 1 Liabilities. £ s. d. 33 10 0 £ 0 s. a. 3 4 £ s. a. 33 13 4 Lease cbposits Total liabilities 33 10 0 0 3 4 33 13 4

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TAEANAKI. SlE >"~ T ~ . , New Plymouth, 29th March, 1884. In compliance with Circular No. 83/10, dated 20th December, 1883, I have the honour to report that the operations of the Board have, from various causes, been limited chiefly to transfers and the granting of fresh leases where the leases have expired. The Commissioners have held twelve ordinary and three special meetings during the year The transfers during the year have been more than usual. In the case of new leases of town and suburban sections, the rents have increased considerably: at the Hua Village from £4 to £8 per annum, at Te Henui from £5 10s. to £5 ss. first ten years, next eleven years £10 10s per annum , one town section, with a small cottage, from £1 per annum to £8 per annum, with a fortytwo years lease. All reserves are let by public tender The Sections Nos. 40 and 42, Patea, which had been divided into building allotments and let by auction, have not proved hitherto as successful as was anticipated, and the Commissioners have been compelled to cancel some of the leases, and others have failed to occupy mi +T 1 have, &c, Ihe Hon. the Minister of Education. T King, Chairman.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1883.

'eceipts. Primary Education Beserves. Secondary Education Eeserves. Total. To Credit balances on 1st January, 1883 Balance of Land Fund . Arrears of rents for previous years Eents for current year Transfer-fees Land Fund— Interest on deposit Balances of account on 31st December, 1883 ... £ s. d. 34 10 1 276 10 10 367 8 2 4 0 0 £ s. 18 10 217 5 166 19 146 5 a. 0 0 3 3 £ a. a. 53 0 1 217 5 0 443 10 1 ) 517 13 5 7 7 7 10 3 5 2 5 5 10 3 5 12 10 0 Total receipts 689 16 8 564 5 4 1,254 2 0 ExpendiP, we. By Balances on 1st January, 1883 Salaries and allowances to officers . Printing, stationery, &c. Expenses of leasing— Advertising, &c. Expenditure on reserves— Fencing, &c. Bates Legal expenses Payments to Taranaki Education Board Payments to Wanganui Education Board Payments towards secondary education— Taranaki High School Wanganui Education Board Credit balance of Land Fund Credit balances of account, 31st December, 1883 £ s. 7 7 68 5 2 3 d. 7 3 1 £ s. a. 5 2 5 31 2 6 0 16 6 £ s. 12 10 99 7 2 19 d. 0 9 7 11 8 4 8 17 2 20 5 6 15 5 2 16 10 3 369 16 170 3 4 2 2 8 4 l""4 8 3 14 5 } 19 6 13 17 2 7 } 540 0 0 • f« 195 3 10 89 16 2 227 8 5 0 19 3 285 0 0 32* 7 9 227 8 33 7 5 0 Total expenditure 689 16 8 564 5 4 1,254 2 0 Assets Balance of cash on 31st December, 1883 Balance of Land Fund Arrears due on 31st December, 1883— Arrears of the year 1880 Arrears of the year 1881 Arrears of the year 1882 Arrears of the year 1883 Certificates of exchange of town sections £ s. a. 20 17 0 £ s. 227 8 d. 5 I £ s. a, 243 5 5 26 12 0 21 3 9 90 10 6 473 9 2 7 7 7 20 17 3 17 89 9 200 5 5 2 0 9 0 9 5 47 9 0 25 1 6 179 19 6 673 14 11 12 10 0 Total assets 640 0 0 547 0 4 1,187 0 4

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T. King, Chairman. W Northcroft, Secretary off.—C. Eennell, Auditor.

HAWKE'S BAY . ~ Napier, sth April, 1884. Sl^^'S^wSS?^. 1882 '" towards the establishment and mam tenance of the said school. . . _• ~ , .0 77 Amendment Act, 1882," for dealing as suss/ St* ,»>.-™.»* _*

General Statement of the Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1883.

'!('( 'Mies. Primary Education Beserves. Secondary Education Beserves. Total. advertisements jegal expenses jand account £ 3. 4 13 5 17 a. o o £ 0 227 9 8 d. 6 5 4 13 6 6 227 8 a. o 6 5 Total liabilities 10 10 0 227 17 11 238 7 11

'eceip )s. Primary Education Eeserves. Secondary Education Eeserves. Total. To Credit balances on 1st January, 1883 Arrears of rents for previous years Eents for current year Compensation for land taken for railway purposes Interest on fixed deposits Bates recovered from lessee £ s. d. 184 17 11 38 12 0 909 4 7 350 0 0 £ s. d. 1,016 16 3 27 11 0 164 16 2 £ s. d. 1,201 14 2 66 3 0 1,074 0 9 350 0 0 45 15 0 17 6 l" 7 6 45 15 0 Total receipts 1,484 2 0 1,254 18 5 2,739 0 r> Expenditure. By Salaries and allowances to officers Printing, stationery, &c. Expenses of leasing— Auctioneers' commission Advertising, &c. Expenditure on reservesExpenditure on fencing, &c. Payments to Hawke's Bay Education Board Payments towards secondary educationNapier High School _ •• Bents refunded to Governors, Napier High School Credit balances of account on 31st December, Wbd £ s. d. 63 14 6 7 18 5 £ s. 11 5 1 9 d. 6 0 £ s. d. 75 0 0 9 7 5 0 17 9 10 6 0 0 3 0 7 3 0 110 10 13 0 12 1 3 925 0 0 3 10 0 15 11 3 925 0 0 0 11 9 463 12 4 1,000 0 36 14 201 9 0 6 2 1,000 0 0 37 6 3 665 1 6 Total expenditure 1,484 2 0 1,254 18 5 2,739 0 5

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Horace Baker, Chairman. W Parker, Jun., Secretary. Examined and passed.—E. Macaeister, Provincial District Auditor.

WELLINGTON Sir, — Wellington, 31st January, 1884. In reply to your Circular Memorandum No. 83/10, dated the 20th December, 1883, in which you request the School Commissioners for the Wellington Provincial District to report, for the information of the Government and the General Assembly, as to their administration of "The Education Eeserves Act, 1877," for the year ended the 31st December, 1883> I have the honour to inform you that, at a meeting of the Commissioners held on the 24th instant, I was directed to state that the Commissioners have observed, from time to time, the laying-off of private, townships in the centres of what may be in the immediate future populous districts, without any provision whatever for school sites; and the Commissioners wish to take this opportunity of suggesting to the Government the desirableness of securing reserves for school sites in private townships, and that steps should be taken to render it compulsory that, on the laying-out of such townships, sites for schools should be reserved. Beyond this the Commissioners have nothing to report, and they have made no alteration in their regulations. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. W H. Warren, Secretary.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1883.

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ssets. Primary Education Beserves. Secondary Education Beserves. Total. Balance of cash on 31st December, 1883 Arrears due on 31st December, 1883— Arrears of the year 1882 Arrears of the year 1883 £ s. d. 463 12 4 £ s. a. 201 9 2 s s. a. 665 1 6 4 13 9 160 8 9 3 0 0 64 17 3 7 13 9 225 6 0 Total assets 628 14 10 269 6 5 898 1 3 Liabilitii is. Bates on reserves Auctioneer's commission Advertising Legal expenses Awaiting appropriation in purchase of land Accruing to secondary education £ s. a. 12 15 10 110 1 15 0 110 450 0 0 £ s. 8 17 a. 0 £ s, a. 21 12 10 110 1 15 0 110 450 0 0 192 12 2 192 12 2 Total liabilities... 466 12 10 201 9 2 668 2 0

'eceipt. Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Reserves. Total. 'o Credit balances on 1st January, 1883 Arrears of rents for previous years Eents for current year .. Exchange on remittances Balances of account on 31st December, 1883 £ 8. 455 10 77 17 514 11 0 1 0 7 a. 5 9 8 0 3 £ s. 46 8 24' 1 0 2 a. 3 0 0 £ s. 501 18 77 17 538 12 0 3 0 7 a. 8 9 8 0 3 Total receipts 1,048 8 1 70 11 3 1,118 19 4

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J G. Holdsworth, Chairman. W H. Warren, Secretary Examined and, with alterations, passed.—E. Macalister, Provincial District Auditor.

MARLBOROUGH. General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1883.

ixperu liture. Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Beserves. Total. iy Salaries and allowances to officers Printing, stationery, &c. ,, Expenses of leasing— Land-transfer fees . Expenditure on reserves— Surveying Fencing, &c. Bates .. .. ... Legal expenses Payments to Wellington Education Board Payments to Wanganui Education Board Bent of office for 1882 Credit balances of account, 31st December, 1883 £ s. d. 48 6 8 2 9 4 £ s. 1 13 0 1 d. 4 9 £ s. d. 50 0 0 2 11 1 3 3 1 7 2 5 10 5 6 5 0 0 24 17 3 9 2 11 110 383 17 9 216 2 3 9 13 4 344 14 6 5 0 0 24 17 3 9 2 11 110 383 17 9 216 2 3 10 0 0 406 1 7 6 6 61 7 8 1 Total expenditure 1,048 8 1 70 11 3 1,118 19 i Assets, ialance of cash on 31st December, 1883 jrrears due on 31st December, 1883— Arrears of the year 1882 Arrears of the year 1883 <. £ s. 344 14 d. 6 £ 61 s. 7 d. 1 £ s. d. 406 1 7 35 10 116 16 0 3 35 10 0 116 16 3 Total assets i 497 0 9 61 7 1 558 7 10 Liabilitii is. 'encing secondary reserves Jnder "The Babbit Nuisance Act, 1882 " £ s. d. £ 200 50 s. 0 0 d. 0 0 £ 200 50 s. d. 0 0 0 0 Total liabilities . 250 0 0 250 0 0

Beceipts. Primary Eaucation Eeserves. Seconaary Eaucation Reserves. Total. 'o Credit balances on 1st January, 1883 Arrears of rents for previous years Eents for current year s s. a. 193 2 6 72 17 6 70 15 0 & s. a. 13 16 0 9 7 0 £ s. a. 206 18 6 82 4 6 70 15 0 Total receipts 336 15 0 23 3 0 359 18 0

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Liabilities. —Nil. John T Eobinson, Secretary Examined and passed. —E. Macalister, Provincial District Auditor. n r-irm—rnr'ir 'urn wiiimiimhmiiiwi

NELSON Sir,— Nelson, 12th February, 1884. I have the honour to forward the statement of the School Commissioners' accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1883. The only matter requiring special notice is that, in accordance with the extract from the minutes and the resolutions referred to in the report for the year 1882, the Commissioners have, during the past year, made a grant to the Governors of the College of the sum of £800 towards the building fund of the new high school for girls, and a further sum of £150 towards the education fund of the same institution. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. Alfred Greenfield, Chairman.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1883.

ixpem litun Primary Education Keserves. Secondary Education Beserves. Total. iy Salaries and allowances to officers Legal expenses Payments to Marlborough Education Board Payments to North Canterbury Education Board Payments towards secondary education— Marlborough Education Board Credit balances of account on 31st December, 1883 £ s. a. 29 5 0 4 4 0 163 17 0 25 8 6 £ s. a. 2 0 0 £ s. a. 31 5 0 4 4 0 163 17 0 25 8 6 114 0 6 11 19 0 9 4 0 11 19 0 123 4 6 Total expenditure 336 15 0 23 3 0 359 18 0 Assets. Arrears due on 31st December, 1883— Arrears of the year 1880 Arrears of the year 1881 Arrears of the year 1882 Arrears of the year 1883 £ s. a. 16 10 0 18 10 0 63 0 0 47 0 0 £ b. a. 5 10 0 5 10 0 £ s, a. 16 10 0 18 10 0 68 10 0 52 10 0 Total assets 145 0 0 11 0 0 156 0 0

'■ecevpts. Primary Education Beserves. Secondary Education Beserves. Total. 'o Credit balances on 1st January, 1833 Arrears of rents for previous years Bents for current year Interest on deposits, after deducting bank discount, £1 18s. 6d. £ s. a. 67 7 8 88 3 0 511 8 3 £ s. 840 18 20 10 159 16 a. 0 0 9 & s. d. 908 5 8 108 13 0 671 5 0 2 10 0 31 0 0 33 10 0 Total receipts .. 669 8 11 1,052 i 9 1,721 13 8

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Alfred Greenfield, Chairman, ■ni • i i , „ H. C. Daniell, Secretary Examined and found correct.-H. E. Curtis, Provincial District Auditor 15th January, 1884.

CANTEBBTJBY '~ m, tt , ~, . Christchurch, 6th January, 1884. me total area ot the primary estate under lease on the 31st of December, 1883 is 43 9831 acres, producing an annual rental of £11,462 12s. 4d. There are 1,207 acres of the primary estate unlet, but it consists of very poor soil, and, when tenders were invited for leasing same no offers were received. 8 ' °neis By "The Waimate High School Act, 1883," the small remaining portion of the secondary estate passed from the control of the School Commissioners, so that now they have only primary reserves to deal with: as will be seen from the statement of accounts attached, all revenue in the hands of the School Commissioners applicable to secondary education has been distributed on, fl a a alf " ye f% S P^ le in advance on the Ist of May, 1883, has been collected in full The fixed deposit of £100, which matured on the 21st of December, 1883, has been re-deposited for one year at 6 per cent as it is deemed inexpedient at present to purchase land, for which purnose only is this sum available. The interest when received will be credited to the primary estate as During the year 1884 the leases of six reserves fall in, viz., two on the Ist of May and four on the Ist of November, containing m all an area of 3,359 acres, and upon these being relet it h probable there will be an increase to the rental of about £1,400 per annum. Two of these which fall in on the Ist oi November, are amongst the largest and most valuable of the reserves held by

Expenditure. Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Beserves. Total. By Salaries and allowances to officers Allowances to Commissioners Printing, stationery, &c. Expenses of leasing— Advertising, &c. Expenditure on reserves— Fencing, &c. Legal expenses Payments to Nelson Education Board Payments to Westland Education Board Payments to North Canterbury Education Board Payments towards secondary education— Nelson Girls' College Credit balances of account on 31st December, 1883 £ s. d. 16 13 4 20 0 0 0 15 4 £ 8 10 0 s. a. 6 8 0 0 7 4 £ a. d. 25 0 0 30 0 0 12 8 2 9 10 1 4 8 3 14 6 12 8 383 6 4 127 18 1 10 10 2 6 2 0 0 5 4 6 0 0 3 8 0 } 521 14 7 106 13 2 950 74 0 0 0 9 950 0 0 180 13 11 Total expenditure 669 8 11 1,052 4 9 1,721 13 8 Assets. Balance of cash on 31st December, 1883 Arrears due on 31st December, 1883— Arrears of the year 1881 Arrears of the year 1882 Arrears of the year 1883 £ s. d. 106 13 2 £ s. 74 0 d. 9 £ s. d. 180 13 11 10 0 3 10 0 48 11 9 2 7 22 17 6 6 10 0 5 17 6 71 9 3 Total assets 159 14 11 99 5 9 259 0 8 Liabilities. Salary Secretary, December quarter Allowances to Commissioners Accruing to Boards Accruing to secondary education Incidental To be appropriated to purchase of land £ s. d. 4 3 4 33 6 8 35 16 4 & s. 2 1 16 13 a. 8 4 £ s. a. G~ 5 0 50 " 0 0 35 16 4 52 13 7 5 19 0 30 0 0 3 6 10 30 0 0 52 13 2 12 7 2 Total liabilities. 74 0 9 180 13 11 106 13 2

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the School Commissioners, and have hitherto been let at a very low rental (partly owing to their being swamp land, which, when they were originally taken, required much outlay to make them in any way available). Upon the expiry of the present leases they will be subdivided and relet in portions, and when let in this way one will produce about four times its present rental, and the other six times. The annual income from the primary-education estate, when the School Commissioners took it over in 1878, was £5,148 3s. 2d. The present annual income is £11,462 12s. 4d. This increase is due principally to new lettings, and partly to some few of the leases having run into the second seven years' period, when an increased rent became payable. The lessees of reserves are to all practical purposes carrying out faithfully the conditions of their leases, and the very most is being made of the estate , and it is doubtful whether if it were a private property any more, if as much, could be made of it, as the system of tender produces very high rents. In many cases, where lessees were anxious to secure a reserve adjoining their own property, they have tendered excessive rents, considerably more than can be made out of the land. As the leases of reserves fall in they will, where deemed expedient, be subdivided and let in portions. H. E. Webb, Chairman, The Hon. the Minister of Education.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1883.

'eceipts. Primary Education Eeserves. Secondary Education Beserves. Total. To Balance brought down from 31st December, 1882 Arrears due 1st November, 1882, from last account Moneys payable within the year 1883 and collected— £ s. a. 154 5 5 1,051 17 3 £ s. 128 6 a. 0 £ s. 282 11 1,051 17 a. 5 3 On account of half-year's rent, payable in advance on the 1st May, 1883 Same payable 1st November, 1883 Other receipts — Bank of New Zealand—Interest on £250 placed on deposit for one year, see Statement of 31st December, 1882 5,731 3 8 4,547 18 6 90 14 6 5,821 18 4,547 18 2 6 5 10 0 9 0 0 14 10 0 Total receipts 11,490 14 10 228 0 6 11,718 15 4 Expenditure By Office expenses and management (charge :— Primary, \%, secondary, ■J^) — Salary of steward £540 0 0\ Stationery and postage 6 8 0 Deed-box 0 18 01 Law costs 3 14 10 Advertising 0 17 0/ Payments to Education Boards— North Canterbury South Canterbury Payments on account of secondary education— Ashburton High School. Eangiora High School Akaroa High School Temuka District High School Balance in Bank of New Zealand, 31st Dec, 1883— At credit of current account On fixed deposit S s. d. & s. a. £ s. d. 524 6 0 27 11 10 551 17 10 8,705 12 3 2,094 7 9 1 10,800 0 0 53 17 2 53 17 1 53 17 1 38 17 4 • ) ■ 200 8 8 66 8 10 100 0 0 I 166 8 10 Total expenditure 11,490 14 10 228 0 6 11,718 15 4 Assets. & 166 s. a. 8 10 £ s. a. £ 166 s. a. 8 10 iash in bank as above lents payable November 1st, 1883, proportion uncollected 1,183 7 8 1,183 7 8 Total assets 1,349 16 6 1,349 16 6

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sth January, 1884. H. E. Webb, Chairman. I certify that I have audited this account and find it to be correct, and that the balance in the Bank of New Zealand on the 31st December, 1883, was as stated.—J Ollivier, Provincial District Auditor sth January, 1884.

WESTLAND. g lß) __ Westland, 21st April, 1884. I have the honour to forward the report of the School Commissioners for 1883. The Commissioners have held three meetings during the year. The amount received for sale of sections at Kumara is still at fixed deposit in the Bank of New Zealand. The Commissioners again during the past year advertised the reserves as open for tender to rent, but very few tenders were received. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. Jas. A. Bonar, Chairman.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1883

licit lities. Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Reserves. Total. £ 45 s. 0 d. 0 £ s. d. £ 45 s. 0 d. 0 Iteward's salary, December, 1883 Total liabilities 45 0 0 45 0 0

'eceipts Primary Education Reserves. Seconaary Education Reserves. Total. £ s. a. £ s. 76 0 30 10 60 10 20 0 5 14 26 5 a. 0 0 0 0 0 0 £ s. 76 0 71 3 60 10 20 0 5 14 29 5 45 13 a. 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 'o Arrears of rents for previous years .. Eents for current year Interest on fixed deposit of £1,202 10s. Purchase of office, Kumara, by W Nicholson Court fees Purchase of sections Balance of account on 31st December, 1883 40 13 3 0 45 13 o o 3 Total receipts 89 6 3 218 19 0 308 5 3 Expenditure. By Balance on 1st January, 1883 Salaries and allowances to officers Printing, stationery &c. Expenses of leasing— Advertising, &c. Secretary, travelling expenses, &c. Bates Interest, Bank of New Zealand Credit balance of account, 31st December, 1883 £ s. a. 51 1 0 13 17 10 0 19 2 £ s. 27 15 1 18 a. 6 4 £ s. 51 1 41 13 2 17 a. 0 4 6 4 3 6 6 14 9 11 7 6 12 6 8 7 13 9 5 13 0 4 2 12 10 20 4 17 0 1 2 161 15 6 1 8 6 8 161 15 8 Total expenditure 89 6 3 218 19 0 308 5 3 Assets. Balance of cash on 31st December 1883 Arrears due on 31st December, 1883— Arrears of the year 1881 Arrears of the year 1882. Arrears of the year 1883. Balance £ s. a. £ s. 161 15 a. 8 £ s. 161 15 a. 8 5 0 6 0 6 0 268 13 o o o 5 20 0 16 0 33 0 0 0 0 25 0 22 0 39 0 268 13 0 0 0 5 Total assets 285 13 5 230 15 8 516 9 1

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Jas. A. Bonar, Chairman. E. T Eobinson, Secretary I hereby certify that I have examined the above statement, compared it with vouchers, cash book, ledger, bank pass-book, and other documents, and to the best of my belief find the same to be correct and according to law.—W A. Spence, Auditor. 16th April, 1884.

OTAGO. Sir,— Dunedin, 6th May, 1884. In pursuance of Order in Council of date 17th December, 1878, and in accordance with Circular No. 83/10, dated the 20th December, 1883, I have the honour to forward the report of the School Commissioners of the Provincial District of Otago for the year ended the 31st December, 1883. During the year the Crown Lands Department, at the request of the School Commissioners, as provided for by sections 50 to 57 of " The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882," disposed of 7,238 acres of agricultural land for cash, at an average of £2 6s. 6d. per acre, 14,538 acres on deferred payment, at an average of 6s. 3d. per acre per annum , and 11,825 acres on perpetual lease, averaging 2s. sd. per acre per annum. The greater part of this land was not sold till the latter portion of December, 1883; and the proceeds were not handed over to the Commissioners till after the close of the year. In order to assist purchasers of limited means to compete for the cash or " land of special value " sections, as well as to provide a suitable investment for the proceeds of such sales, the Commissioners arranged to advance two-thirds of the purchase-money, on security of the land, for five years, at 6 per cent, per annum, and of twenty-one cash purchasers at the first sale, after such arrangement had been made known, thirteen took advantage of the Commissioners' offer. With the exception of the sum of £3,505 2s. 2d., which has been deposited with the Bank of New Zealand, bearing interest at 6 per cent., and the amounts advanced to purchasers as above, the whole of the proceeds of land sales, after deducting expenses of selling, has been invested on freehold security at 7 and 8 per cent, interest. During the year the Commissioners leased thirty-three rural, eleven suburban, twelve town, and five pastoral reserves in various parts of the provincial district, at a total annual rent of £1,486 2s. 4d. ; of these reserves, forty-one were sections the original leases of which had expired, and they were again leased for further terms of years, the revenue now obtained showing an increase of over three times the original rents. After deducting all land suitable for settlement, the Commissioners leased four runs in the Waikaia district, the old licenses of which expire on the Ist March, 1884, at an annual rental of £890 per annum. The amount shown in the statement of revenue and expenditure as arrears on the 31st December seems a heavy item, but, in face of the universal depression, and taking into consideration the fact that a much greater number of leases are in existence than heretofore, it does not compare unfavourably with the amounts shown in previous years. The rents are payable halfyearly in advance, and a considerable number are not due till near the end of the year. Of the amount shown as in arrear on the 31st December, £493 Is. lOd. has been paid during the first three months of the present year. In the amount shown as arrears for the years 1880, 1881, and 1882, £266 13s. 6d. may be considered as irrecoverable, and will have to be written off. Annexed hereto is the statement of receipts and expenditure for the year, duly audited. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. J. P. Maitland, Chairman.

dill 'it i< IS. Primary Education Reserves. Secondary Education Reserves. Total. £ s. a. 45 13 3 225 16 10 4 3 4 10 0 0 £ s. a. £ s. d. 45 13 3 225 16 10 12 10 0 50 0 0 182 9 0 Debit balance on 31st December, 1883... Owing to Secondary Education Account Secretary's salary for three months Sundry accounts Balance 8 6 40 0 182 9 8 0 0 Total liabilities. 285 13 5 230 15 8 516 9 1

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Liabilities. —Nil. J P. Maitland, Chairman. C. Macandrew, Secretary I have examined the above statement, and compared it with the treasurer's books and vouchers, and I certify it to be correct.—H. Livingston, Auditor.

'eceip ;s. Primary Education Eeserves. Secondary Education Eeserves. Total. To Arrears of rents for previous years Eents for current year Proceeds of land sale under " Land Act, 1877, Amendment Act, 1882 " £ s. 993 16 9,435 4 a. 8 8 £ s. 224 18 450 1 a. 9 4 £ s. 1,218 15 9,885 6 a. 5 o 4,892 5 2 4,892 5 2 Total receipts 15,321 6 6 675 0 1 15,996 6 7 Expenditun & a. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. iy Balances on 1st January, 1883— Interest on overdraft Salaries and allowances to officers— £ s. d. Secretary ... ..300 0 0) Clerk .. 28 15 0Commission, Southland agent 92 10 11. Allowances to Commissioners— Southland Commissioners' travelling expenses. Printing, stationery, and incidentals Office rent, cleaning, and expenses Expenses of leasing— Auctioneer's commission Advertising, &c. Expenditure on reserves— Eeporting Destroying rabbits Legal expenses Payments to Otago Education Board. Payments to Southland Education Board Payments towards secondary education— Otago District High Schools, by Otago Education Board Southland Boys' and Girls' High Schools Amount retained by Receiver of Land Eevenue from proceeds of land sales, on account of roads and surveys, in terms of Land Act of 1882 Credit balances of account on 31st December, 1883— Fixed deposit as investment of land sold 1,282 17 5 66 2 5 f 0 2 6 421 5 11 78 10 4 67 10 11 " 121 5 4 69 18 6 387 3 4 67 1 4 51 17 8 84 4 0 7,183 19 2,096 4 2 9 J 9,280 3 11 471 13 137 12 1 7 I 609 5 8 1,252 15 0 1,252 15 0 3,505 2 2 3,505 2 2 Total expenditure 15,320 18 6 675 8 1 15,996 6 7 Assets. .rrears due on 31st December, 1883— Arrears of the year 1880 Arrears of the year 1881 Arrears of the year 1882 Arrears of the year 1883 £ s. a. 99 19 10 111 4 4 327 2 11 1,134 6 8 £ 8. 4 0 17 19 150 5 a. 0 0 6 £ s. a. 99 19 10 115 4 4 345 1 11 1,284 12 2 Total assets 1,672 13 9 172 4 6 1,844 18 3

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Receipts. Becei from Be ipts )ards. Loi Contrit sal •utions. DlSTBICTS. Cr. Balances, Jan. 1,1883. From other Sources. Cr. Balances, Dec. 31, 1883. For General Purposes. For Special Purposes. For General Purposes. Totals. For Special Purposes. Auckland Taranaki .. Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Soutiilana £ s. a 1,067 17 6 160 5 2 226 5 9 143 6 7 263 7 10 130 12 1 310 14 0 845 11 10 332 3 9 1,665 18 10 383 6 8 £ s. a 2,791 9 6 480 11 11 1,185 16 0 1,243 15 9 966 3 7 619 17 7 1,670 18 10 5,700 9 7 2,467 18 8 5,088 0 10 977 18 8 £ s. a. 1,166 2 2 19 3 168 12 8 167 15 0 492 13 5 51 6 0 2,100 19 5 £ s. a 6 17 0 3 12 0 42 10 10 23 9 4 451 15 1 48 17 8 13 4 3 233 3 10 147 14 9 244 18 6 566 10 10 £ s. a 82 5 8 188 16 11 191 6 11 100 18 11 10 19 0 13 8 0 58 17 4 125 13 6 305 11 3 £ s. a. 148 10 5 6 5 0 140 3 0 167 8 4 £ s. a. 12 15 5 0 12 1 ,10 1 2 £ s. a. 5,275 17 8 G52 15 5 1.96S 6 4 1,937 1 11 2,274 18 10 881 13 5 4,421 19 8 7,178 19 3 4,381 G 4 8,612 15 4 2,015 8 4 20 1 1 307 13 11 340 16 C 330 6 7 894 13 4 87 12 2 5 13 977 9 1 413 12 7 ta Is 5,529 10 0 23,193 0 11 ;5,539 19 7 1,782 14 1 2,443 10 4 34 9 11 39,601 2 4 1,077 17 6 ExPENDITUBE. DlSTBIOTS. Cleaning, Fuel, Eepairs, &c. Expenditure of Special Grants. Hooks, Maps, Furniture. |Paid towards! Teachers' Salazies. Committees' Expenses. ! Sundries not classified. Cr. Balances. Totals. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington. Hawke's Bay Marlborougli Nelson 2ST. Canterbury S. Canterbury Otago Soutblana £ s. a. 2,577 9 7 296 8 4 836 1 8 885 13 0 1,159 17 2 296 19 8 340 9 7 4,701 14 2 800 15 0 4,544 0 7 1,061 8 8 £ s. <1. 973 10 7 188 7 4 172 3 4 556 0 6 25 0 0 2,72G 8 3 £ s. a. 204 1 7 89 9 1 172 17 11 274 17 4. ■£ s. a. 93 17 6 16 0 0 28 15 0 84 10 5 £ s. d. 148 18 8 45 8 6 99 15 6 100 10 7 £ s. a 267 15 4 21 17 2 382 7 8 159 1 2 293 11 5 18 7 6 147 13 7 635 5 4 339 8 4 1,558 5 9 178 4 5 £ s. a. 1,010 4 S 183 12 4 260 1 8 260 6 1 265 9 9 143 3 6 407 7 5 787 9 8 373 4 cl 1,602 1 0 341 4 3 . £ s. a. i 5,275 17 8 G52 15 5 1,968 6 4 1,937 1 11 2,274 18 10 881 13 5 4,421 19 8 7,178 19 1 4,381 G 4 8,012 35 4 2,015 8 4 1,765 17 (i 363 1G 11 50 0 8 582 9 11 772 19 7 164 15 3 209 9 6 174 17 9 295 17 6 10 1 843 12 8 132 12 4 159 5 2 52 4 7 157 5 11 280 10 8 93 13 1 202 9 3 100 8 1 Totals 17,500 17 5 6,771 4 S 2,695 18 7 1,655 10 8 1,281 4 10 4,002 2 8 5,694 3 9J 30,601 2 4

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1. Balances on Jan, 1,1883. 2. Vo';od by General Asseinbly. 3. Beservos sold. _, , . Interest on! Paid by Bevenuafrora Boats Oi Moneys- I School Com- Endowments Ba3arV33. invested. mis3ioner3. (viz.,Colu'nns' i, 5, and 0). I I __ [ Fr-oni Endowments. 8. School Fees. 9. BoardingSchool Fees. 10. Books sold and Refunds. ii. Sundries unclassified. 12. 13. Interest Dr I „ on . Balances, ' SI.?- 31 ' 1833 -! 14. Totals. "" ;SCH3OL3. & s. d. £ s. d. s, s. a.i 60 17 0 £ s. d. 2,183 12 8 i £ s. d. 2 153 17 3 £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. d. 183 7 6 £ s. d. I £ s. a. £ s. a. 705 19 4 0,023 18 4 £ s. a. 705 19 4 ! Auckland College and Grammar. School Auckland Girls' High School £ s. a. 791 1 7 S s. d. S. b. d. £ 8. d. 15 f i I j 3,649 7 2 903 19 10 : 1,000 0 0 60 17 0 60 17 oi ] 1,665 15 4 ! 13 15 0 ! i I 99 i 11 4 60 17 2 1,055 8 6| 311 4 0 I 2,067 3 8 Thames Higli School 450 16 2 250 0 0 501 18 9 Whangarei High School 125 11 4 69 6 0 5 0 0 182 11 2 187 11 2 53 3 0 8 10 91 57 16 6 j 1 245 0 C \ I 9R0 13 7: 195 3 10 440 3 10 I 208 0 0 150 0 01 824 1 4 Now Plymouth High School | 27 17 6] WJ.nga.nui High School 5 435 9 3 613 17 '8 280 13 7280 13 7 780 10 0 J 5 716 2 10 856 0 11; 2 250 8 2 Wanganui Industrial School 613 17 3 414 7 41 1 1,414 7 4 660 18 01 427 14 8 2 615 15 G Napier High Schools 1,000 0 0j 2,055 7 0 142 15 6 1,039 13 101 1,039 13 10 10 12 6; 121 9 2- 3 727 2 6. Wellington College 500 0 0 2,008 5 0 Wellington Girls' High School Nelson College (Boys') 1 175 0 0 833 5 0 45 19 5 492 15 0 994 8 6 1,487 3 6 1 170 15 01 1,829 2 6 578 4 9 6,580 6 11 994 8 G| 1,463 1 9 500 0 0 150 0 0 1 376 17 31 11,058 3 0i I 3,085 0 3 Nelson College (Girls') 275 7 II 12 132 6 5: 150 0 0 : 4,094 4 4 j 1,830 2 8 Chriatchurch Boys' High School Christehurch Girls' High School Bang'ora High School I I 2,132 G 5! 1 670 11 0 15 19 10 68 13 7 286 0 6 247 9 8 I 200 0 0 733 10 2 ! 1,013 5 1 14 13 10 I 237 2 4 227 2 81 I 64 7 li 227 2 S l ': 75 19 0 I 1 179 11 6' 7 15 0 42 11 S| 770 1 4 523 11 0 Akaroa High School i 361 7 8' 425 14 9 97 16 9 Ashburton High School 444 17 7; 28 16 0 473 13 7 1 179 1 6 23 7 3 101 18 1 778 0 5 i 825 13 11 111 13 4 937 7 3 ! 745 4 0 5 0 0 222 9 10 2,902 13 6 Timaru High School 592 12 5 400 0 01 4,000 0 0 4,841 4 10 349 10 722,331 15 5 3 3 0 2,293 9 9 Waitaki High School 4 10 0 ) 330 0 10 330 0 10 ) 88 14 0 36 9 5 420 0 0 Otago High Schools I 13 7 9 12,005 1 2 J 2,481 9 4:2,420 8 8| 4,901 18 0 ) 3,250 13 6 1,684 15 0 Southland High Schools 654 17 4 t 554 0 1 148 7 1 L 700 7 2 I 8C3 4 4 J 71 17 11 1 6,880 16 10 79,444 19 2 Total 119,775 9 1 118,601 3 0 4,572 0 6 160 7 101 il,851 7 8 57 3 8 5,096 16.10 J3.894 6 0 18,605 7 9. 13,570 19 0 ;4,033 9 9 2 121 0 41 )•

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Schools. Liabilities on Jan. 1,1883. Expense oi Boards' Management, Office and Salaries. Teachers' Salaries. Board ingSchool Account. Examiners' Fees and Expenses. Scholarships and I Exhibition Prizes. Printing, Stationery, Advertising, &o. Land, Buildings, Furniture, Insurance, Eent, Bates. Cleaning, Fuel.Light, Interest. Sundries unclassified. Endowments Proceeds invested. Cr. Balances, Dec. 31,1683. Total?. ■ - I - £ s. a. 0,023 18 4 .Auckland College and Grammar Seliool Auckland Girls' Higli School £ s. d. £ s. d. 230 12 7 £ s. d. 3,549 19 1 & s. a. & s. d. 25 1 6 £ s. a.l £ s. d. 195 15 3 £ s. d. 1 761 2 21 £ s. d. 150 5 11 £ s. d. •24 3 0 S, s. d. 42 4 10 £ s. d. £ s. d. 44 14 0 2,023 0 11 150 4 7 122 18 10 332 16 1 59 11 II 960 15 8 3,649 7 2 1 Thames High School 18 9 o! 921 16 8 26 5 0i 27 6 0 143 10 8 23 13 0 10 6 9 17 2 885 9 11 2,067 8 8 IVhangarei High School 2 14 II 158 6 8 3 7 6! 62 9 10 13 14 6 261 6 2 501 18 9 New Plymouth High School Wanganui High School i 15 1 0 530 10 0 10 0 Oj 7 14 6 112 2 9 22 4 0 126 9 1 824 , 1 4 I 30 6 8| 44 10 7| 5,535 9 3 105 16 4 5 7.16 !■ r> Wanganui Industrial School I 60 14 10 1,172 10 7 18 2 6 30 9 5 690 2 3 5G 6 0 2 250 ■ 8 2 216 1 3 6 14 Napier High Schools Wellington College 211 5 0 " • 44 4 0 2,149 4 11 241 1 7 2,015 15 G 639 19 4 150 13 4 1,823 6 8 31 10 0 94 16 6 56 17 9 264 18 5 37 17 6 530 G 10 90 16 2 3 727 2 6 Wellington Girls' High School Nelson College (Boys') 40 1 0| 784 7 6 99 19 11 559 7 iol i 40 2 o! 19 4 7 465 2 ;2 2,008 5 0 762 3 0 1 741 2 0: 1,587 4 0 30 9 0 332 10 0 94 5 7 742 15 1 1 " I 552 4 0 737 14 3 6,580 6 11 Nelson College (Girls') 125 0 0 1,256 19 3 697 19 9 241 2 4 81 11 8| M 28 2 1 300 0 0 56 8 3 297 16 11 3,085 0 3 Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School BangioraS High School 80 0 0 2,813 9 10 107 2 0 131 2 9 257 13 0 587 17 3 116 19 6 4,094 4 -1 • 60 0 0 1,192 4 3 71 8 0 159 6 11 198 15 4 148 8 2 1,830 2 8 75 0 0| 613 5 61 81 15 10J 770 1 4 Akaroa High School 1 155 11 6 280 10 11 523 11 6 27 4 5 26 0 11 6 18 0 61 8 2 Ashburton High School .. 650 2 9 12 14 0 44 5 11 23 5 41 13 10 0 1 778 0 5 2,902 13 6 Timaru High School 3,414 19 6 30 10 6 2,083 0 0 50 0 0 45 8 0 85 18 8 38 13 8 26 4 0 2 2 0 28 17 8 500 0 0 11 19 0 Waitaki High School 15 0 0 300 0 0 I 84 0 0 62 17 10 27 11 3 477 7 1 53 19 8 94 5 3 244 4 4 213 17 9 4,841 4 10 Otago High Schools 170 16 9 151 11 2 6,440 18 4 1,136 6 5 98 2 3 12,112 13 5 145 0 0 1,027 12 2 1,072 13 10 22,331 15 5 Southland High Schools 50 0 0 I 1,488 15 1 10 10 0 89 0 9 32 15 3 81 18 4 15 9 4 69 12 10 284 11 5 2 293 9 9 Total .. 4,283 6 8 1,837 1 1 29,372 6 1 3,421 10 2 576 0 1 574 4 10 1,263 8 11 '20,514 12 2 I t 753 9 8i i2,481 11 4 3,609 10 5 16,035 9 3: 14,722 8 6 79,444 19 2 |

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EEGULATIONS OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVEENOE IN COUNCIL.

I. Audit of School Committees' Accounts. — Dated 18th September, 1883. [Vide New Zealand Gazette, No. 96, 20th September, 1883.] 1. The Order in Council made on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and prescribing regulations for the auditing of the accounts of School Committees is hereby repealed. ' 2. Every School Committee shall, not later than the fifteenth day of January in every year make up its accounts for the year ending the thirty-first day of December previous, and shall immediately thereafter submit the same to an auditor appointed by the Board of the education district within which the school or schools under the jurisdiction of the Committee are situated. 3. The Board of each education district shall, in the month of December in every year-, appoint an auditor or auditors to audit the accounts of the School Committees within the district'in or for which such Board is constituted, and shall in the same month notify to each School Committee the name of the auditor who is appointed to audit the accounts of such Committee for the year in which such appointment is made. 4. The auditor appointed to audit the accounts of any School Committee shall have access to all the books and accounts of the Committee and any of its officers, and shall examine the general statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Committee, and verify the same with the accounts and vouchers relating thereto, and shall either certify under his hand the same as found by him to be correct, duly vouched,.and in accordance with law, or specially report to the Education Board of the district in what respects he finds it incorrect, unvouched, or not in accordance with law

11. Glass-books for Public Schools. — Dated 18th September, 1883. [Vide New Zealand Gazette, No. 96, 20th September, 1883.] The book entitled "History for Standard III.," by D Petrie, M.A. (Wise, Caffin and Co Dunedin) may be used m any public school as if it had been described and included in the list of works set forth m the Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

111. Class-books for Public Schools.—Dated 20th November, 1883. [Vide New Zealand Gazette, No. 122, 22nd November, 1883.] The books entitled " Outlines of English History "by S. E. Gardiner (Longmans Green and Co., London) , "New Zealand Standard Class-book of Arithmetic," Eirst Standard' by E ' Lee Inspector of Schools (J Hughes, Wellington), may be used in any public school as if they had been described and included m the list of works set forth in the Order in Council dated the twentvfourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. "

IV District High School Fees.—Dated 13th May, 1884. [Vide New Zealand Gazette, No. 67 sth June, 1884.] In the District High School at Masterton the fees for higher education within the meaning of section 56 of " The Education Act, 1877," shall be—Eor one subject, twenty shillings a quarter and for each additional subject, ten shillings a quarter. b

CIECULAES. (Circular No. 83/6.) Education Department, Wellington The Secretary Education Board, ■ . 22nd September 1883 I AM directed by the Minister of Education to request the attention of your Board to the Order m Council on page 1325 of this week's Gazette, amending the regulations for auditing the accounts of School Committees, and to ask that the Board may make all necessary provision for the appointment of auditors, and for the notification thereof to the several School Committees within the month of December ' You will notice that about two weeks in January are given to School Committees in which to make up their accounts and prepare the annual abstract of the School Fund and that about an equal period is allowed to auditors to examine the accounts prior to the date of the annual meeting of householders. In order that the longest possible time may be allowed to the auditors to examine the accounts, it would be well for School Committees to have the annual abstract ready very early in January .The Board will, no doubt, call the attention of School Committees to this You will receive in m few days a supply of the forms for abstract of School Fund accounts for ihe current year, with the Ordes m Council printed thereon. These you will be good enough to distribute among the School Committees aa soon as possible, along with such directions <w X Board may deem it advitafele to give. As it is the duty of the Education Boards, as well as of the department, to see that the public moneys intrusted to School Committees are properly applied, I am to express the hone that trm amended regulations will enable Boards to procure from School Committees more compile and Satisfactory abstracts of the School Fund accounts than have hitherto been obtained in some c7f the education districts, and that Boards will press upon School Committees then- duty in reonrd to this matter. * »'""

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You will please note that the abstract of the School Fund accounts is to be forwarded in duplicate by the School Committees. One copy is to be retained by the Board for reference , the other is to be sent to this office along with the Board's annual report and returns. I am also to take this opportunity to request the attention of the Board to the paragraph which begins at the fifth line of page in. of the Minister's report for 1882, and to say that it is exceedingly desirable that the Boards should instruct their Inspectors in regard to the scrutiny of the schoolattendance registers and summaries, and insist upon all school returns being approved and signed by the Chairmen of the School Committees, as required by the regulations. It has come to the knowledge of the department that in some instances this latter requirement has not been strictly attended to. John Hislop

(Circular No. 83/7.) Education Department, Wellington, The Secretary, Education Board, . 7th November, 1883. In consequence of a number of inquiries from Education Boards concerning the amended regulations recently made by an Order in Council for the auditing of the School Committees' accounts, I am authorized by the Minister of Education to write to you as follows: — 1. There is no special fund at the disposal of the Government with which to meet the cost of auditing School Committees' accounts, and should any such expense be incurred it could only be met by payment out of the ordinary Board Fund. 2. There is no provision in the Education Act, or in the amended regulations, making it absolutely necessary that the School Committees' accounts should be audited prior to the date of. the annual meeting of householders on the fourth Monday of January Although desirable in some respects, this is obviously impossible in all cases. 3. Section 82 of the Act requires that a copy of each Committee's accounts shall be forwarded to the Board "as soon as conveniently may be after the same have been audited;" but it is obviously very desirable that, whether audited or not, a copy of the accounts, as made up for audit, should be handed over by the retiring Committee to its successor at the same time that " all. moneys in hand (if any) " are paid over, as required by section 82. It is suggested that the Board should, instruct the several School Committees to this effect. 4. The amended regulations leave it to Boards to exercise their own discretion in the. appointment of an auditor or auditors. The following suggestions are simply offered for consideration :— (1.) It may be possible for some Boards to make arrangements with the Provincial District Auditor for the auditing of the whole or some of the School Committees' accounts, not necessarily before the fourth Monday in January, but as soon as possible after the accounts have been made up. (2.) A Board might appoint one or more of its own officers (Secretary, Inspector or Inspectors, Clerk) to be auditor or auditors under Eegulation No. 3 of the Order in Council, and distribute the work amongst them, so that it might be overtaken as soon as possible after the accounts have been made up. 5. It may not now be possible for the Board to send to this office the abstracts of School Fund accounts along with its annual report and returns, but they should be forwarded as soon as possible after all the accounts have been audited, and the abstracts certified by the auditor or auditors, along with the usual summary of such abstracts. John Hislop.

(Circular No. 84/3.) Education Department, Wellington, The Secretary, Education Board, . 11th March, 1884. I am directed by the Minister of Education to request the careful attention of Education Boards to page ix. of the Minister's Sixth Annual Eeport and the circulars quoted in the margin,* and to strongly impress upon Boards the necessity which more than ever exists for their carefully refraining from anticipating the special votes of the General Assembly for school buildings, and from incurring any liabilities beyond those that can be covered by the moneys already authorized and by the ordinary Board fund. John Hislop.

Sir, — Education Department, Wellington, 16th January, 1884. I am directed by the Minister of Education to inform you as follows :— 1. In consequence of the failure of the late Education Board of Westland District to complete the election of the Education Boards of the proposed new districts of Westland and Grey, as required by " The Westland Education District Subdivision Act, 1883," it is impossible for the Government to take any further steps for the legal constitution of the proposed new Boards until the General Assembly shall have amended the said Act. 2. In order to provide for the maintenance in the meantime of the public schools in the Westland and Grey Districts, the Government have resolved to pay the teachers' salaries and any other current expenditure that may be found absolutely necessary until the General Assembly shall have removed existing difficulties. 3. An officer of the Government at Hokitika and another at Greymouth will be appointed forthwith to make the necessary payments on account of the public schools in the Districts of Westland and Grey respectively 4. As the former Education Board of the Westland District must now be regarded as defunct, the provisions of " The Education Act, 1877," for fixing the times and places for holding the annual meetings of householders on the fourth Monday of the present month for the election of School Committees cannot legally be given effect to, and consequently the existing School Committees will continue to hold office until their successors can be legally elected as provided by section 64 of " The Education Act, 1877 "

* Vide Education Beports, 1879, pp. 156, 158 1880, p. 109.

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5 The Government invite the hearty co-operation of the several existing School Committees and the teachers within the Districts of Westland and Grey in their efforts to maintain the public schools in the fullest possible state of efficiency until Education Boards for the two districts shall have been legally constituted. ! have, &c, The Chairman of the School Committee, . John Hislop.

g lE; __ Education Department, Wellington, 12th February, 1884. _ When the former circular to School Committees was written by direction of the Minister of Education, it was in the very natural belief that the late Education Board of Westland had been keeping its ordinary current expenditure within its current income. An investigation of the late Education Board's accounts, however, reveals the fact that the scale of ordinary current expenditure at the close of last year exceeded the rate of the legitimate current income by a sum of between £500 and £600 a year. " ; As the Government has no funds at its disposal to enable it to expend more upon the schools of the district than the amount voted by the General Assembly for that purpose, it becomes absolutely necessary to equalize the income and expenditure. After very full consideration the Government has come to the conclusion that an effort should be made to prevent any reduction of the ordinary salaries of the teachers and pupil-teachers, and that the most advisable is to effect the absolutely necessary reductions by paying only one-half of the sums that the late Board had undertaken to pay on account of the following objects . (1) Teachers' bonuses for instruction of pupil-teachers; (2) Teachers' bonuses for pupil-teachers' passes, (3) Pupil-teachers' bonuses for passes, and (4) School Committees' grants. _ " The Government regrets very much the necessity of making the reductions above referred to, but it seems to be the only means by which the income and the expenditure can be equalized, and a reduction of the teachers' ordinary salaries avoided. The Government believes and hopes that under the circumstances the School Committees, the parents, and others interested will use their utmost efforts to secure that the interests of the schools, the scholars, and the teachers shall sustain the least possible injury until the General Assembly has had an opportunity of deciding upon the future educational arrangements of the district. I have, &c, The Chairman of the School Committee, •. John Hislop

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EDUCATION. SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION. [In Continuation of E.-1, 1883.], Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1884 Session I, E-01

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