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Local Examinations. —At the July examinations the total number of pupil-teachers examined was as follows:—

At the December examinations the total number of teachers and pupil-teachers examined in second grade was as follows: —

Return of Classes for the Year 1899.

WELLINGTON TECHNICAL SCHOOL. Annual Eepoet of the Diebctoe for 1899. Primary Instruction. Little more than the drawing required can be expected under the present condition of the syllabus, and therefore the progress made in the development of hand-and-eye training in relation to ordinary school life must naturally be slow. The necessity of such a course of training is, however, steadily forcing itself upon the public mind, and the teachers are gradually admitting its importance as a factor in primary education. A number of teachers have already adopted sections of hand-and-eye work with considerable success. There has been a considerable increase in claymodelling and" paper-folding, and a fair increase in cardboard-modelling. Brickwork and wirework have been commenced. In drawing much bolder work with greater freedom in the nature of adopting units as the basis of a pattern, and the consequent reduction in the use of copies, is having good effect. Blackboard-drawing by the scholars is freely encouraged in many schools. I sincerely hope that such changes will be made in the syllabus as will enable hand-and-eye training to be incorporated with the present school subjects, and thus bring our present educational system more in accordance with modern developments. First-grade Drawing Examination. In this examination the following were the results: The total number of papers issued was 7,244 ; the number worked, 6,536; and the number passed, 4,134, viz.: Freehand—2,o97, passed, 1,159; geometry —2,027, passed, 1,389; scale—l,ss3, passed, 1,005; model—Bs9, passed, 581.

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Subjects. Number examined. Passed Failed. Second Olasa. Third Glass. Passed First Class. Freehand drawing ... Model-drawing Blackboard-drawing Scale-drawing Geometrical drawing Solid geometry 21 30 30 21 30 30 2 2 2 3 3 3 6 15 10 9 14 24 8 11 18 5 10 2 5 2 4 3 I

Subjects. Passed. Number . _ examined. Failed ' First Class. Second Class. Third Class. 'reehand drawing... lodel-drawing reometrical drawing 16 15 2 7 1 1 5 10 2 2 I 2 2 1

Subjects of Instruction. Number of Classes*. Number of Students. Average Attendance. Freehand (from flat and round) and shading Drawing from nature, painting, and modelling Mechanical drawing, engineering, and machine construction ... Geometry and perspective Design and ornament ... Architecture and building construction Mathematics ... Natural and experimental' science (botany, chemistry, and physics) Woodwork and work-carving Domestic instruction English and commercial subjects 12 6 3 3 3 1 2 4 77 20 25 59 10 17 25 30 33-7 10-3 15-1 26-0 4-3 7-0 5-2 15'4 7 7 5 69 110 40 27-7 28-8 16-4