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TABLE B.—School Attendance for 1893.

Included in the school-rolls summarised in Tables A and B are the names of 1,433 Maori and half-caste pupils, exactly equal in numbers for the two years 1892 and 1893. Their distribution with respect to districts is shown in the following table, which has no reference to the pupils—2,l34 in number—attending Native schools:—

The statistics of age and sex are given in Table C, and in. greater detail in Table No. 1 (Appendix, p. 1). The proportion of girls attending public schools remains practically unchanged. In 1893 the proportion was: Boys, 51-6 per cent.; girls, 484; and for a long series of years the; proportion has been remarkably stable. With respect to age, Table C shows that there is-a tendency towards keeping children longer at school, though the nuniber remaining at school after reaching the age of thirteen years is not large enough for any change in it to produce a very marked effect oil the percentage \of younger children. The percentage of children under ten was 5455 in 1889, and 52-8 in 1893. The average age of the pupils may be roughly estimated (from Table C) as nine years and ten months. The same result was given by the similar calculation made at the end of 1892.

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Education Districts. Admitted during the Year. Eoll-Ni LHibers. Average Daily Attendi -nee. Mi! i H o O CO q_| s_i 2 hi III! Pupils at Beginning of Year. Left during the Year. belonging at End. of Year. Fourth Quarter. I Boys. Girls. Total. I Whole Year. 1893. I 1892. oickland Yanganui Wellington lawke's Bay larlborough .. kelson J-rey Vestland Jorth Canterbury South Canterbury )tago Southland 21,799 2,973 7,613 10,857 0,213 1,926 5,420 1,643 1,614 20,239 4,096 21,382 8,530 10,780 1,381 4,089 5,908 3,282 671 1,976 504 416 7,662 1,755 6,911 3,465 8,325 996 3,107 4,511 2,713 579 1,518 467 397 6,672 688 5,731 2,715 24,254 3,358 8,595 12,254 6,782 2,018 5,878 1,680 1,633 21,229 5,163 22,562 9,280 10,134 1,286 3,399 5,079 2,810 817 2,145 689 688 9,026 2,161 9,808 3,890 9,515 1,185 3,050 4,634 2,539 725 2,111 699 682 8,276 2,073 8,936 3,509 19,649 2,471 6,449 9,713 5,349 1,542 4,256 1,388 1,370 17,302 4,234 18,744 7,405 18,866 2,415 6,452 9,416 5,393 1,566 4,512 1,406 1,364 17,305 4,115 18,688 7,117 77-2 71-5 73-2 77'0 79-2 75-7 76-6 81-3 82-4 80-7 796 81-8 76-7 80-3 72'3 72-9 80-9 80-8 77-6 77'3 80'5 83-4 81-8 80-1 85-1 80'5 Totals for 1893 Totals for 1892 114,305 112,279 48,800 49,190 38,419 38,849 124,686 122,620 51,938 52,544 47,934 48,373 99,872 100,917 98,615 99,070 78-5 80-6 80-6 Increase in year Decrease in year 2,026 390 '430 2,066 60G 439 1,045 455 2-1

ire Mao] :is. Half-castes living as Maoris. Eall-castes living among . Europeans. Total. No. of Schools in which there were Native Children, Education Districts. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Luckland A?anganui Wellington .. iawke's Bay.. klarlborough .. sTelson irey Westland •Torth Canterbury South Canterbury )tago Southland 113 10 50 42 73 70 2 15 29 39 183 12 65 71 112 18 12 14 4 32 "is 222 15 12 31 33 9 238 12 19 33 46 9 ■460 27 31 64 79 18 363 25 •1i 73 119 9 7 322 14 38 62 93 9 6 675 39 112 135 212 18 13 105 12 24 21 27 3 3 13 "8 - 2l "l "e 13 3 3 10 9 11 2 10 7 14 5 20 16 1 13 2 1 9 2 2 22 5 4 19 37 15 3 22 43 20 7 41 80 3 8 15 41 37 11 19 14 38 43 14 27 29 79 80 2 8 4 9 14 Totals for 1893 Totals for 1892 320 340 191 190 511 530 57 47 38 20 95 67 387 415 440 421 827 836 764 802 669 631 1,433 1,433 232 229 10 18 I I -20 -19 28 -28 I 19