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reading, and—although history and grammar are both required first in the class preparing for the Third Standard —about 4,500 pupils that learn grammar are not learning history. The advocates of technical instiTiction will be glad to notice that, out of 115,456 pupils on the school rolls, there are but 9,115 that do not learn" drawing.

TABLE H.—Number of Pupils instructed in each Subject.

The increase in the number of schools —from 1,128 to 1,155 —is, as might be reasonably expected, not exactly proportional to the increase of attendance; the mean average attendance for a school having risen during the year from 805 to 817. It is satisfactory to notice that the number of schools having less than 50 pupils each is less than it was a year ago, and that within that group of schools the number of very small schools (with less than 15 each) is conspicuously smaller than it was. In Table J the schools are classified according to their size.

TABLE J.—Number of Schools, December, 1889. (In this enumeration every couple of half-time schools is reckoned as one school, except in the column for number of such schools.)

The number of teachers, which is 2,894 when sewing-mistresses are not reckoned, has more than recovered from the decline of the preceding year; but in proportion to the number of pupils there is a decrease, the average number of pupils to one teacher being 32*6, whereas at the end of 1888 it

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Education Districts, i 9 a o to I M 60 •s 3, ns - : f |1; 1 Hig g So I a u o 5 Is II S «a S ■ a o ce a» S j °^ ! 1 20,707,16,073 2,424l 1,904 6,039] 5,570 10,001! 7,750 5,437j 4,249 1,608 1,439 4,715; 3,880 1,642: 1,371 1,272' 1,037 19,83415,623 4,114! 3,560 19,56915,333 6,983, 5,928 104,345 83,717 99,91281,362 4,433J 2,355 CD IS fi oh \ i i Auckland .. .. 21,684 Paranaki .. .. 2,565 Wanganui .. .. I 7,275 Wellington.. .. j 10,419 Hawke's Bay .. j 5,969 Marlborough .. j 1,854 Nelson .. .. 5,749 Grey .. ..1,748 Westland .. .. I 1,696 North Canterbury .. ! 20,709 South Canterbury .. 4,804 Otago .. .. I 22,741 Southland .. .. 8,243 21,684 2,565 7,275 10,419 5,969 1,854! 5,749! 1,748 1,696 20,709 4,804 22,741 8,243 21,684 2,565 7,275 10,419 5,969! l,846i 5,707] 1,748 1,696 20,709 4,790 22,74l! 8,161 21,684 2,565 7,170 10,369 5,969 1,736 5,565 1,748 1,696 20,709 4,748 22,741 8,030 11,734114,888 1,002! 1,410 3,232! 4,212 5,4511 6,501 2,523' 3,389 822 1,032 2,827i 3,623 842i 1,055 756 994 8,906111,912 1,988 2,674 10,52213,433] 3,457i 4,608 54,06269,176 53,720^67,970 9,322 986 2,747 5,083 2,431 710 2,750 705 636 8,741 1,953 110,074 3,405 7,778 614 1,780 2,613 1,747 444 2,096 495 451 4,133 1,074 7,330 2,056 19,177 1,417 3,863 8,791 5,316 612 3,227 1,158 985 18,855 4,061 20,826; 6,402 9,677 988 1,666 4,130 ■ 2,491 605 2,303 639 592 9,271 1,770 I 8,370 2,805 4,993 35 260 111 87 166 145 14 1,773 149 527 96 Totals for 1889 .. 115,456 Totals for 1888 .. 112,685 I 115,456 112,685 115,310 112,414] 1114,730 |111,&46 49,543 47,763 32,611 30,919 94,690 92,621 45,307 42,203 8,356 8,240 342 l,206| 1,692 2,069 3,104 116 Increase .. 2,771 2,771 , 2,896 2,784 1,780

Eduoation Districts. a Si O CO If f o 5-9 o Wo I 8 Num! EC 1! © . [3 ft I a >er 0: © aa Sch. sols ii for tl ISO i whic le Qui ■2.3 g ;h the Ave: irter was— © ■ ■gpH IT :age Attem so (-1 © ■ it gS CO a %¥> B i£ g lance K o a j3 cc o S3 I CD O A Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury.. South Canterbury.. Otago Southland 231 39 84 74 47 36 91 21 28 161 51 190 102 17,779 1,895 5,510 8,275 4,850 1,412 4,489 1,453 1,420 17,131 3,850 19,542 6,702 77'0 48-6 65-6 111-8 103-2 39-2 49-3 69-2 50-7 106-4 75-5 102-9 65-7 9 3 6 3 2 14 15 i 12 8 1 10 4 27 6 6 2 1 3 13 1 2 9 5 14 3 26 7 10 15 6 4 9 3 1 13 5 16 15 89 9 33 18 10 6 23 6 5 49 25 67 40 26 9 6 8 7 4 19 4 2 30 6 24 14 13 2 5 7 6 2 2 19 2 8 6 7 2 3 8 9 5 6 7 2 1 11 4 9 5 9 1 1 7 1 5 "3 2 1 48 as 24 2 as 1 2 as 1 18 'il 19 35 1 8 2 11 1 7 8 2 1 3 14 3 15 i n 1 15 1 7 1 8 4 as 2 1 'l6 8 5 1 11 2 1 8 as 4 Totals for 1889 Totals for 1888 1155 1128 94,308 90,849 81-7 80-5 91 102 92 87 130 123 380 383 159 147 83 69 87 88 67 66 36 34 30 29 64 as 32 60 as 30 113 129 13 16 Difference 27 3,459 1-2 -11 5 -3 12 14 -1 1 2 1 4 as 2 -16 -3