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ance to roll-number appears in Otago (85·1 per cent.), and the lowest (72·3 per cent.) in Taranaki.

TABLE B.—School Attendance for 1892.

The number of children on the school-rolls at the end of 1892 was 122,620, and this number includes 1,433 Maori (and half-caste Maori) children. The number of such children in attendance at public schools is greater than it was in 1891, and the number of public schools having such children in attendance has also increased. The following table—which takes no notice of the children (2,133 in number) attending Native schools—shows the distribution of Maori children in the several education districts : —

As usual, the number of boys attending the public schools exceeds the number of girls, the proportion —51-7 to 48 - 3 —being almost invariable. There is no noteworthy change in the proportion of children of any particular age to those of another age, except that there seems to be a slight tendency to increase in the proportion (now about 14 per cent.) remaining at school after reaching the age of thirteen years. The proportion above the age of ten years (46 - 9) is the same for 1892 as for 1891. Assuming that the average age of the children between five and six is five years and a half, and so on, it appears that the average age of all the children is nine years and ten months,

Education Districts. Pupils at Beginning of Year. Admitted during the Year. Roll-N tmbers. Left during the Year. belonging at End of Year. Average Daily Attend: .nee. Oji" hi is h S*3 O.-. 3 O O ■f o fl'S 3 © o 51 o &>*&£?* 1892. 1801. Fourth Quarter. Boys. Girls. Total. Whole Year, Auckland Taranaki 21,377 2,778 7,483 10,173 5,926 1,836 5,501 1,618 1,625 20,013 4,825 20,904 8,220 10,298 1,329 4,103 5,856 3,347 814 1,807 629 417 8,092 1,763 7,499 3,236 8,204 959 3,292 4,189 2,750 581 1,420 481 428 6,875 1,478 5,735 2,457 23,471 3,148 8,294 11,840 6,523 2,069 5,888 1,766 1,614 21,230 5,110 22,668 8,999 9,713 1,231 3,322 5,069 2,830 896 2,825 722 682 9,283 2,176 10,347 3,948 9,127 1,120 3,043 4,659 2,561 795 2,237 741 684 8,451 2,070 9,354 3,531 18,840 2,351 6,365 9,728 5,391 1,691 4,562 1,463 1,366 17,734 4,246 19,701 7,479 18,990 2,286 6,104 9,467 5,294 1,604 4,552 1,458 1,378 17,269 4,119 19,324 7,225 99,070 97,058 80-3 72-3 72-9 80-9 80-8 77-6 77-3 80-5 83-4 81-3 80-1 85-1 80-5 80-7 72-4 74-7 80-1 79-2 76-2 78-7 76-6 81-7 81-8 800 83-3 78-7 Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland ,. Totals for 1892 Totals for 1891 112,279 110,665 49,190 48,209 38,849 39,411 122,620 119,523 52,544 50,209 148,373 46,055 100,917 96,264 80-6 80-3 80-3 Increase in year Decrease in year 1,614 921 562 3,097 2,335 2,318 4,653 2,012 0-3

Half-castes living as Maoris. Half-castes 1: among European iving No. of Schools in which there were Native Children. ire Mao: -is. Total. LS. Education Districts. Boys. Girls. Total. I Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. I I Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay.. Marlborough .. Nelson 94 13 47 65 91 63 4 10 37 40 157 17 57 102 131 14 2 12 6 5 8 I 22 2 1 i 13 2 ! 8 5 10 '.. "l 215 8 12 24 36 12 226 6 15 28 37 8 441 14 27 52 73 20 323 23 71 95 132 12 9 297 10 26 67 82 8 4 620 33 97 162 214 20 13 94 10 22 20 28 4 5 8 4 12 1 Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 7 3 4 8 10 9 0 7 17 12 10 15 7 1 1 3 10 3 13 8 33 51 12 8 29 52 3 25 16 62 103 10 16 12 48 51 10 21 15 39 52 20 37 27 87 103 5 9 6 10 16 ' Totals for 1892 Totals for 1891 340 320 190 197 530 517 47 35 20 I 67 25 60 ' I -5 7 415 362 421 411 836 773 802 717 631 633 1,433 1,350 229 218 Difference 20 7 — I 13 12 i 53 10 63 i 85 -2 i 11 83