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TABLE A.—School Attendance and Yearly Increase from 1877 to 1888.

Attendance statistics for the year 1888 are given in the next table (B). There appears to have been a very marked improvement in regularity of attendance on the part of the pupils. In 1887 every pupil on an average attended seventy-seven times out of every hundred times that the school was open; in 1888 the average was 79 - 3, and the improvement has been general throughout the whole colony, no district presenting an exception. The average is even higher than that of 1887, although the calculation for that year was made on the basis of working average.

TABLE B.—School Attendance for 1888.

In Table C is shown the distribution of the pupils according to sex and age. The old proportion of 51-8 boys to 482 girls persists with the constancy of a law of nature. The table shows a continued tendency to a decrease in the proportion of children under seven years, and of children under ten years, and, of course, an equal increase in the proportion of children above ten years. The principal increase is in the proportion of children between ten and thirteen. A more detailed statement will be found in Table A T o. 1, Appendix (p. 1).

J Included in Table B are 1,050 Maoris, half-castes, and other children of mixed race attending publio schools,

School Attendance. r early I: crease on Tear. 43 «H M s S ■on H pi O Strict Average. Average Attendance. Working Average. mi Mo g^ SoS^ 3 "3 |aa^ ■3 a W Sat* ZgO o <D Strict average Attendance. LVerage. Workinj Average Fourth Whole Quarter. Tear. Fourth Whole Quarter. Year. { Fourth Quarter. Whole Tear. Fourth Quarter. Whole Tear. 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 50,849 59,707 68,124 74,359 76,309 79,416 84,883 90,670 95,377 99,206 103,534 55,688 65,040 75,566 82,401 83,560 87,179 92,476 97,238 102,407 106,328 110,919 112,685 49,435 57,301 02,946 63,009 66,426 70,077 74,050 80,183 83,361 87,386 £0,849 45,521 53,067 60,625 61,822 63,709 67,373 72,657 78,327 80,737 85,637 90,108 41,773 50,639 58,738 64,407 64,744 68,288 72,214 76,832 81,663 85,343 89,589 40,837 47,996 54,724 62,234 63,735 66,145 69,843 75,391 80,302 83,405 87,937 76-1* 760 76-4 76-4 76'7 77-9 78-5 78-6 79-1 79-3t 8,858 8,417 6,235 1,950 3,107 5,467 5,787 4,707 3,829 4,328 9,352 10,526 6,835 1,159 3,619 5,297 4,763 5,169 3,921 4,591 1,766 7,866 5,645 63 3,417 3,651 4,573 5,533 3,178 4,025 3,463 7,546 7,558 1,197 1,887 3,664 5,284 5,670 2,410 4,900 4,471 8,866 8,099 5,669 337 3,544 3,920 4,618 4,831 3,080 4,246 7,159 6,728 7,510 1,501 2,410 3,698 5,548 4,911 3,103 4,532 * t 187! lalculatei to 1887 on the inclusive basis of tl: this avei ie " stria •age attendance was calculated on the basis javerage." of the "worki: Lg aven ;c."

Education Districts. Eoll Numbers. IX* " I during beWng gfnning « ! ""the" 8 a ofYear ' Year. ! Ye "- Year. i Eoll Numbers. Average Daily Attendance. ®aV >"±,rl ••-* Ph a s - Jj Om m XQr4 m \ju r4 cS _ *-< CO O 1888. [1887. F'ourth Quarter. j [ Whole Boys. Girls. I Total. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 19,395 2,272 6,232 8,689 5,200 1,649 4,803 1,592 1,839 19,116 4,375 21,028 7,344 11,190 1,074 3,164 5,248 2,847 683 2,099 848 396 8,634 1,696 7,553 3,255 9,072 931 2,478 4,100 2,347 572 1,420 689 399 7,362 1,368 6,158 2,640 21,513 2,415 6,918 9,837 5,700 1,700 '5,482 1,751 1,830 20,388 4,703 22,423 7,959 9,291 954 2,818 4,051 2,458 718 2,176 668 737 8,588 1,964 10,037 3,181 8,349 893 2,457 3,684 2,169 629 2,022 690 705 7,807 1,857 9,051 2,895 17,640 1,847 5,275 7,735 4,627 1,347 4,198 1,358 1,442 16,395 3,821 19,088 6,076 17,079 1,831 5,263 7,761 4,680 1,342 4,198 1,389 1,452 15,813 3,674 18,943 6,083 80-9 73-9 75-5 78-5 79-7 77-6 76-8 76-5 77-7 77-4 77-7 83-8 76-2 77-9 70-7 73-5 75-0 75-3 74-4 74-7 72-2 74-1 75-3 74-9 83-5 74-1 Totals for 1888 Totals for 1887 103,534 99,206 48,687 50,107 39,536 38,394 112,685 110,919 47,641 43,208j 90,849 87,386 90,108 85,637 79-3 77-0 77-0 Increase in year Decrease in year 4,328 1J420 1,142 1,766 3,463 4,471 2-2