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In December, 1902, regulations were published offering to the governing bodies of secondary schools on certain conditions as to age and other qualifications grants at the rate of £(S a head for pupils admitted without payment of fees for tuition, provided that one free place was already given for each £50 of the net income from endowments. Fifteen out of the twenty-five secondary schools have so far accepted the conditions, and up to May of the present year (1903) 588 pupils were thus receiving free secondary education in these schools; •out of this number grants were being paid for 400, the remainder being those admitted at the rate of one for each £50 of such net income.

TABLE Y1.—Number of Pupils receiving Secondary Education at District High Schools at 31st December, 1902.

At the end of 1902 there were 1,426 pupils in the district high schools who, having passed Standard VI., were receiving free instruction in secondary subjects. The number of such schools, which during 1901 had increased from thirteen to twenty-one, rose to thirty-eight at the end of 1902. Scholarships. Table Z shows the number of Education Board scholarships held in December, 1902, with their tenure and annual value. The total expenditure of the Boards under this head amounted to £8,395 11s. 5d.; the total paid to the Boards for scholarship purposes by the Department was £8,197 9s. 7d.

TABLE Z.—Scholarships.

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Number of Pupils. 13 •So Passed Standard VI. Others 11 Tot..l Number of Amount paid by Government to Education Boards during the Year. Education District. Total. Pupil 1901 Is, Capitation. G ™ n * s in Total. M. P. Total. M. F. I Total. Auckland Taranaki .. Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bav Marlborough Nelson •Grey Westland North Canterbury .. Soutli Canterbury .. Otago Southland j 7 88 1 22 I 7 169 1 31 1 25 3 65 1 22 1 I 13 1 I 12 3 I 71 9 j 172 3 ! 55 82 10 158 49 24 59 20 21 18 53 143 44 681 281 170 32 327 ! 80 49 124 42 34 30 124 315 99 1 38 1 13 2 51 170 I 59 34 J 32 378 i 168 80 49 ' 26 124 i 33 42 22 34 j 22 30 19 124 70 315 196 99 15 £ a. d. 306 10 0 127 10 0 1,133 0 0 115 13 4 158 10 0 320 0 0 186 5 0 131 0 0 113 10 0 502 5 4 1,177 0 0 111 0 0 £ s. d. 82 10 0 30 0 0 147 10 0 17 10 0 80 0 0 r>2 10 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 82 10 0i •240 0 0 45 0 0 £ s. a. 389 0 0 157 10 0 1,280 10 0 133 3 4 188 10 0 372 10 0 216 5 0 161 0 0 143 10 0 584 15 4 1,417 0 0 156 0 0 ■ ■ Totals for the colony Totals for 1901 38 i 745 21 : 324 1.426 605 39 44 14 13 53 57 1,479 662 662 4,382 3 8 1,261 0 0 817 10 0 300 0 0 5,199 13 8 1,561 0 0

Education Districts. ! Number held in Dec, 1902. Boys. r> • /, Boards' rivls r erj oa Expenditure TeSure on Scholarships 1 enure. in im Annual Value, &c. Auckland Taranaki 83 14 59 9 24 5 Years 3 2 £ s. d. 1,747 4 0 278 13 10 4 at £30; 21 at £25; 24 at £20; 34 at £15. 4 at £35; 2 ac £14; 6 at £10; 1 at £4 13s. 4d.; 1 at £3 6s. 8d. 13 at £40; 1 at £32 10s. ; 1 at £32 ; 1 at £15 ; 2 at £5. 12 at £35 ; 27 at £15. 8 at £30 4s. ; 2 at £16 4s. ; 15 at £10 4s. 3 at £35 ; 9 at £10. 7 at £50 10s.; 1 at £25 ; 1 at £10. £25. I at £23 ; 2 at £17 10s.; 4 at £8. 19 at £40; 17 at £20. II at £22 10s. ; 1 at £8 ; 2 at £6 ; 17 at £2 10*>. Wanganui 18 11 7 Varies 635 18 3 Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson .. Grey .. Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury 39 25 12 9 4 7 36 31 20 1.1 3 5 3 3 18 18 19 14 9 4 1 4 18 18 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 929 3 6 499 7 1 163 0 0 371 17 6 100 0 0 101 11 0 1,183 11 7 335 9 8 Otago 54 30 18] M Jun. 2 Sen. 3 2 for 3 21 for 2 I 1,383 7 2 I 666 7 10 13 at £40 ; 4 at £35 ; 1 at £24 ; 2 at £22 ; 17 ac £20 ; 17 at £15. 13 at £35 ; 1 at £20; 1 at £18; 8 at £15. Southland 23 15 Totals, 1902.. Totals, 1901.. 355 358 206 201 149 157 8,395 11 5 8,331 10 5