B.—l.

children that do not receive instruction in drawing is only 8,639 Officers of the Permanent Artillery are now giving instruction in military drill to the pupils of the schools at, and within a reasonable distance of, each of the four principal centres of population, and arrangements are being made for instructing the country teachers at these centres on Saturdays.

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

During the year nine failing schools have been closed, and sixty-four new schools opened, bringing up the number to 1,255. In this enumeration two schools worked as half-time schools under one teacher are reckoned as one school, if m such cases the two schools were counted as two the number of schools would be 1,272. The schools described as " subsidised " are not as numerous as they were at the end of 1890. The increase in the number of schools has been greater in proportion than the increase in the number of pupils, so that the mean average attendance of a school has declined from 806 to 76 - 7 Table J shows that the chief increase in the number of schools is to be found among the very small schools.

TABLE J. —Number of Schools, December, 1891. (In this enumeration every couple of half-time schools is reckoned as one school, except in the column for number of such schools.)

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Education Districts. ill &i) q 1 % 6 t 3 % S o SO I I 0 I S h i! do a % s P I . oil o I g o s>3 ■S>> +3 a « a di o P Oh Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 22,749 2,997 8,015 11 158 6,228 2,040 5,829 1 720 1 625 21 058 5,044 22,473 8,587 22 749 2,997' 8,015 11 158 6,228 2,040 5,829 1,697 1 625 21,058 5 044 22 473 8,587 22,749! 2 9971 8,015 11 158 6,228 2,040! 5,779! 1,697 1 625 21 058 5 044 22,473 8,528! 22 749 2,997 8,007 11 158 6,228 2,040 5,580 1,692 1 625 21,058 5,044 22 473 8,433 11 813 1,254 3,554 5,947 2,769 880 3 047 881 835 10,008! 2 196! 10,588 3,815 '14,719 1 645 4,838 7 155 3 690 1 115 j 3,709 993 1,018 113,030 2 888 13 343 4 864 9,764 1,220 3,138 5,656 2,595 782 2,867 671 746 10,035 2 124 10,277 3,690 8,007 820 2,318 4,051 1 542 532 2,304 508 472 5,252 1,317 7,430 2,397 22,050.15 796 2,836 2,094 6,707 5,532 10,924 7,527 5 732 1 4,588 1 849 1,442 4,804 3,587 1.389J 1,099 1 869 1,005 20,38914,663 4,638' 3,556' 20,51815,2451 7 679! 6,016j 110,884 82,150' 104,345 83,717' I j. 6,539-1 567J I 119,360 1 778 3,602 9,320 5,760 1,030 2,710 1,252| 1,010! 19,342 4,422 121,384 7,131 I 9 813 1,263 1 881 4,405 2,611 i 682 2,491 I 616 'I 568 9,438 1 874 8,136 2,893 4,057 63 271 204 93 87 179 43 1,797 141 9U 163 Totals for 1891 Totals for 1890 1119,523 115 456 119,500, 115,456| ,119 414: !ll5,310 119,084 114,730 57,587! 54,062 ; 173,007 69,176 53,565 49,543 37,010 32,611 4,399 : 98,10l| 94,690 J46.671 45,307 1,364 8,012 8,356 Difference -344 4,067 4,024 4 104 4,354 3,525 3,831 4,022 3,411

Education Districts. o "o o A o 0! ij 2 « ■§§ So , i 3 o 8 I g° © O CD Nui 10 iber o: u CD in TJP4 S Schools ii fortl © 3 ft do a" 1 whii ie Qui © • p'ft Is in ih tho Avei irter was— 11 I s u r& so i! rage Attem |ft S3 lance I . ll ft a o 3 8 CD rH - Wo !j T3 jo Cβ O N O a i EC ■§§ CO rH o 02 70'2 49-6 64-8 105-7 101-3 38-6 49-2 61-2 48-7 100-0 68-6 95-4 63-4 20 5 8 6 2 19 11 6 11 11 3 11 4 41 4 6 9 2 4 19 1 3 11 3 18 32 9 14 7 7 3 10 1 4 15 11 18 12 93 11 32 24 12 8 22 7 2 53 26 69 52 11 5 2 7 6 2 3 22 2 8 6 4 1 2 1 1 10 1 10 8 8 8 1 1 8 2 6 20 as 10 6 2 14 11 4 26 24 3 Auckland. Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson 266 45 91 83 48 43 93 22 28 170 59 196 111 18,680 2,233 5,894 8,773 4,864 1,660 4,572 1,356 1,365 17,075 4,045 18 706 7,041 25 8 9 9 6 5 18 4 2 26 6 28 10 11 5 5 2 2 1 8 1 1 1 Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Ofcago Southland 3 18 3 13 11 8 1 1 15 4 11 G 1 1 6 1 9 5 1 9 2 6 as 3 9 4 1C 8 as 4 10 Totals for 1891 Totals for 1890 1255 1200 96,264 96 670 76-7 80-6 117 94 127 98 143 152 411 397 156 151 84 85 76 84 75 74 38 35 28 30 34 as 17 54 as 27 126 148 9 11 Difference 55 -406 -3-9 23 14 S _^ -8 1 3 -2 -20 as -10 -22 -2 29 Q