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Table K1.—Staff, Salaries, Attendance, and Payments at District High Schools.

The following table shows the number of Education Board scholarships held in December, 1904, with their tenure and annual value. The total expenditure of the Boards under this head amounted to £8,260 Is. 9d. The total paid to the Boards for scholarship purposes by the Department was £8,034 lis.

Table K2.—Number and Value of Education Board Scholarships.

The reports of the secondary schools (subsidised or endowed , and further details in regard to district high schools and Education Board scholarships, are given in a separate paper, E.-12. The income of these secondary schools for 1904 from school fees, not including fees for boarding, was about £28,595 ; from rents and interest, about £27,337 ; from endowment administered by the School Commissioners, about £4,711 ; and from fees and capitation paid by Government, about £9,323. The principal item of expenditure was for salaries—about £43,317. As the Mosely Commission reported, in regard to the secondary schools of the United States, that, though a marvellous amount of money is being spent on buildings and equipment, yet adequate salaries are not being paid to those who are giving the instruction, it may be of interest to make a comparison between the salaries paid in the two countries. In Indiana and iv—E. 1.

Education District. O . CO CD O a 2 a-s O co* 11 IS Numl Annual Rate of Salary. M. >er of Pi upils. Amount paid r Boa Total. Capitation. by Government to Education ,1-ds during the Year. Grants in _ . . Aid. lotal - P. Auokland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawkes' Bay Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 9 1 5 2 4 3 1 1 10 3 10 3 16 4 10 8 7 4 2 5 15 8 31 7 £ s. d. 1,594 3 4 193 360 0 0 35 1,003 10 10 157 648 17 9 55 1,130 0 0 83 635 0 0 44 338 6 8 18 360 0 0 12 1,902 0 0 299 795 15 0 84 1,730 16 4 176 535 0 0 51 192 26 84 71 100 55 17 21 237 65 181 74 £ s. d. 385*1 1,375 5 0 61*; 297 5 0 2411 1,261 0 0 126+! 583 10 0 183{l 613 11 5 99 431 12 6 35 227 0 0 33 138 10 0 536* 1,245 0 0 149 705 15 0 357 1,301 15 0 125 495 0 0 £ s. d. 240 0 0 30 0 0 172 10 0 60 0 0 90 15 3 90 0 0 30 0 0 22 10 0 262 10 0 90 0 0 277 10 0 90 0 0 £ s. a. 1,615 5 0 327 5 0 1,433 10 0 643 10 0 704 6 S 521 12 6 257 0 0 161 0 0 1,507 10 0 795 15 0 1,579 5 0 585 0 0 Totals for 1904 „ 1903 52 50 117 11,033 9 11 1,207 1,082 1,123 1,014 2.330 8,675 3 11 2,096 7,307 2 1 1,455 15 3 1,238 15 3 10,130 19 2 8,545 17 4 * Including one boy Including two girls who 'ho had lad not not pasi tassed S ;ed Standard VI Itandard VI. tli ncludinj 28 boys and four girls 'ho had not paflsi id Standard VI.

Number Period Boards' Education Districts. h ?}?j n Boys. Girls. of Expenditure Dec, J T "' on Scholarships 1904. Tenure. in 1904. i Annual Value, &c. Auokland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington 85 11 25 88 66 O 14 15 19 8 11 23 Years. 3 Varies Varies 2 £ s. d. 1,841 7 11 283 2 0 757 13 3 910 12 0 10 at £30; 22 at £25 ; 17 at £20; 36 at £15. 6 at £35; 1 at £22 10s.; 4 at £10. 14 at £40 ; 11 at £15. 8 at £35 ; 2 at £18 18s.; 1 at £17 ; 27 at £15. 2 at £40 ; 4 at £30 4s. ; 7 at £30 ; 1 at £22 10s.; 1 at £12 ; 5 at £10 4s.; 1 at £10; 4 at £8 8s.; 5 at £2 2s. 3 at £35 ; 5 at £10. 3 at £50 10s.; 3 at £40 ; 2 at £25 ; 9 at £1 5s. 1 at £26 ; 2 at £25 ; 1 at £8. 2 at £24 ; 1 at £12 ; 2 at £4. 22 at £40; 14 at £20. 9 at £22 10s.; 1 at £13 10s.; 14 at £7 10s. 5 at £40; 1 at £35 ; 5 at £30 ; 2 at £25 14 at £20; 8 at £15 ; 5 at £12 10s.; 11 at £7 10s. 15 at £35; 5 at £15. Hawke's Bay 80 14 16 2 498 1 2 Marlborough Nelson 8 17 2 10 6 7 2 2 155 0 0 377 5 0 Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago 4 5 30 24 51 1 3 17 16 33 3 2 19 8 18 Varies 2 2 2 Varies 64 10 0 69 0 0 1,236 10 6 336 19 10 1,114 8 4 Southland 20 16 4 2 615 11 9 Totals, 1904.. Totals, 1903.. 354 350 210 203 144 147 8,260 1 9 8,550 4 0