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Of the adult teachers at the end of 1903, 1,270 were men and 1,726 were women ; of the pupil-teachers, 147 were male and 552 female. The number of adult male teachers was 2 less, and of adult female teachers 41 more, than in December, 1902 ; and the number of male pupil-teachers was 4 more, and of females 52 less, than at that period. Most, in fact nearly all, of the pupil-teachers displaced have during the year received appointments as assistant teachers. The average number of children to one teacher for the year 1903 was 30*6.

TABLE F1.-School Staff, December, 1903.

In addition to the teachers shown in this table several Boards employed relieving-teachers whose numbers and rates of salary are given in Table 1 in the Appendix. By the end of 1903 all the Education Boards had (with a few trifling exceptions) brought the staffing of the schools in their districts into conformity with the scale of staffs in the schedule to " The Public-school Teachers' Salaries Act, 1901." The last column of Table Fl shows the number of pupils per teacher for all schools, the difference in the numbers in the several districts being chiefly due to the larger or smaller number of schools in grades 0 to 3 in proportion to those in higher grades. The following table with the comments upon it which appeared in last year's report is here reproduced, there being no later figures available except in the case of this colony : —

TABLE F2.—Comparison of Attendance, Number of Teachers, and Average Salaries of Adult Teachers in New Zealand, Australian States, and England.

Out of the total number (2,957) of adult teachers, 1,272 were men and 1,685 were women ; in other words, for every 100 men engaged in teaching in the public schools there were, at the end of 1902, 132 women so engaged. Comparison with the principal Australian States and with England shows that for every 100 adult male teachers the number of adult female teachers was in New South Wales, 66; in Victoria, 87 ; in Queensland, 108 ; in South Australia, 186 ; and in England, 293.

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Education Districts. Heads of School. Sole Teachers. Assii Teac stant ! Total Number of ihers.! Adult Teachers. 9 %r- fH9 I ° »' 35 Pupil- S° teachers. gg~£ a° ■J3S ag £Ph os M. F. ««lJo $~° rH r5 w <! M. J F. M. F. j F. M. F. Total. M. I Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 121 6 ! 24' 5. 60 8i ' 58: 5 42 6 10 1 29 6 8 2 6 .. 88 4 27 1 94 .. 45 2 612! 46 617 51 -5-5 j 141 ! 18 j 51 28 10 9 17 1 4 36 18 39 45 116 23 46 59 25 37 65 21 24 76 25 86 59 45 7 18 35 18 1 6 2 2 37 8 49 13 211' 37 89 lie: 63 14 40 13 9 160 42 166 58 307' 49 ■ 129! : i2ij 70 20' 52 11 12 161 53 182 103 333 65 143 180 94 52 111 36 33 240 68 252 119 640 114 272 301 164 72 163 47 45 401 121 434 223 37 13 13 18 "l 3 120 18 39 83 52 10 28 6 3 80 16 71 26 24,919 3,957 9,867 12,801 7,081 1,642 4,604 1,352 938 16,172 4,280 17,234 8,200 31-3 300 30-5 32-2 30-3 200 240 24-1 19-5 320 29-7 33-1 31-1 24 7 16 15 Totals for 1903 .. Totals for 1902 .. 417 393 662 647 241 262 1018 1 987. ! 1,270 >1,272 1,726 1,685 2,996 2,957 147 143; 552 ; 604 113,047 113,711 80-6 30-7 Difference 24 15 -21 31 1 I -2 41 39 -52 -664 -0-1

Country. 9 £ O 9 9 g or a e! a WB 9 a > 9 <ig < Number of Adult Teachers. Number of Pupil-teachers and Monitors. cc S! 9 flflo 2 -H O r-H w V 9 £>H °& « 9 9 9 £ a iSSrS O rlr O S"Oja a a o Ph a a . tH 01 9 CQ OCroS n!« a 9-H rQ T3 %^o< fa 55 o in # cs u r2 9 m Ph $ O •thCh ° hS 8 © a •S'OrH 2-c Sh CD » £,3 © ° 3 M m Ptha M — cd u *. a o ro a cc baS CDOrT 3 »3 M -C g<! S S ©TJ B'B > CO -ci a^ M. F. Total. M. F. Total. New Zealand Queensland New South Walei Victoria Tasmania South Australia .. Western Australia England 1,754 113,711 991 72,683 2,700 154,405 2,034 150,271 338 14,541 716 42,104 245 18,448 20,153|4,890,237 1,272 818 2,370 1,585 215 359 227 30,932 1,685 885 1,566 1,381 373 669 232 90,734 2,957 1,703 3,936 2,966 588 1,028 459 121,666 143 323 471 332 17 52 34 5,633 604 361 704 1,358 73 261 124 26,193 747 684 1,175 1,690 90 313 158 31,826 132 108 66 87 175 186 102 293 25 40 80 57 15 30 34 26 34-1 35-4 34-1 39-4 23-0 35-6 34-3 35-5 £ s. d. 133 1 0 138 6 4 143 5 9 153 12 0 80 7 8 123 5 2 145 13 i * Two pupil-teac cost of pupil-teachen salaries and allowance ■hers are here recko s and monitors, cal es and the balance l ned as t 'eckonec jquivale; on theii 3 as paic it to one average to adult adult. t To j rates of sala] rS. obtain ry, was jhe ligures in this column deducted from the total e: the. estimated tpenditure on