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adults and 679 pupil-teachers. Of the adult teachers at the end of 1906, 1,314 were men and 1,887 women ; of the pupil-teachers, 153 were male and 518 female. The number of adult male teachers was 12 more, and of adult female teachers 52 more than in December, 1905. The number of male pupil-teachers increased by 2 ; but the number of female pupil-teachers decreased by 10. Taking the schools at which there was only one teacher (Grades 0-3 for 1905, and 0-4 for 1906), the average number of children per teacher was 20 for 1906, as compared with 21 for 1905. For all the schools above those grades at which there were more than one teacher, the average was 37 for 1906, as compared with 36 for 1905. Including all the schools, the average number of children to one teacher (including pupil-teachers) was 31-5 for 1906, the same as for 1905. The average number, reckoning two pupil-teachers as one adult, was 34-5 in 1906, as compared with 34-6 in 1905.

TABLE E1.—-School Staff, December, 1906.

The ratio of male to female teachers (adults) for 1906 was 100 to 144. In 1905 the number of female teachers increased by 38 and the number of males by 30; the corresponding numbers for 1906 were 52 and 12 respectively. The discrepancy in the latter is largely accounted for in the small schools with one teacher only. The figures given in the table show that for 1905 there was an increase of 11 females, but a decrease of 2 males ; for 1906 there was an increase of 34 females and 2 males. The proportion of male pupil-teachers to female pupil-teachers, which rose from the ratio of 1 to 4-22 in 1902, fell to 1 to 3-76 in 1903, to 1 to 3-51 in 1904, to 1 to 3-50 in 1905, and to Ito 3-39 in 1906. In other words, the number of male pupilteachers has remained fairly constant (143 in 1902, as compared with 153 in 1906), while that of female pupil-teachers has decreased from 604 in 1902 to 518 in 1906. The total of all salaries and allowances at the rates paid at the end of the year was £487,344. This includes the salaries and lodging-allowances of pupil-teachers, as well as all salaries and house-allowances paid to adult teachers ; the average rate per teacher, including pupil-teachers, was, therefore, £125 17s. 3d. A fairer idea could probably be gained by excluding pupil-teachers, and by deducting all allowances in the case of adult teachers : it is then found that the average net salary of an adult male teacher was, in December, 1906, £184 13s. Id., as compared with £174 14s. 9d. in 1905 ; average salary per woman teacher, £107 2s. Id., as against £96 6s. lid. ; average salary for all adults, £139 2s. 2d., as against £128 17s. sd. per teacher. In addition to the teachers shown in Table El, several Boards employed re-lieving-teachers, whose numbers and rates of salary are given 1 in the Appendix. Table E2 gives the numbers of certificated teachers in public schools, exclusive of those engaged in secondary schools or as special assistants in district high schools.

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Education Districts. *r5 •o ■9 ° 3fl 3 O Hz o Heads of School. Sole Assistant Total Number of Teachers. Teachers. Adult Teachers. M. F. i M. F. M. j F. Total. Pupilteachers. <3 O j°2 2 ! tn CD a, ' Sfl fl "S S o ijpll ' -t 3 — !3a St h=t3 3 : r°< rH I" "' N U 9 ' £, .2 "? ® fl d.»g -go -5 d£d r\" . £~r% ,«_• 73 _ S 3 i SPh d M. F. M. F. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury .. South Canterbury .. Otago Southlana 424! 77 185 151 102 68 108 30 32 203| 76' 227164! : i39i 22 70 63 46 10 27 : 83 27 ; 92 45 3 5 9 6 3 t t 3 2 154 19 48 28 12 9 16 128 31 58 54 41 49 60 20 23 88 36 97 68 59 6 20 43 20 1 5 1 1 38 8 47 13 242 34 105 133 70 14 45 16 7 152 43 171 64 352 47 138 134 78 20 48 9 10 151 46 176 105 373! 70 172 193 114! 63; 108 38 30 241 80 269 136 725 117 310 327 192 83 156 47 40 392 126 445 241 38 3 12 13 7 1 "2 127 21 43 75 45 6 25 5 3 80 14 41 33 165 24 55 88 52 7 25 7 3 110 20 68 47 890 141 365 415 244 90 181 54 43 502 146 5131 288! 28,519 4,367 11,104 14,356 7,803 1,730 4,838 1,385 917 16,822 4,565 17,088 8,464 320 31-0 30-4 34-6 32-0 19-2 26-7 25-6 21-3 33-5 31-3 33-3 29-4 1 1 1 4 4 30 11 37 47 30 6 27 14 Totals for 1906.. Totals for 1905.. 1,847, 1,806 637 636 38 35 415 413 753 720 262 253 1096 1080 1,314[ 1,302: [l,887 :l,835 3,201 3,137 153 151 518 528 671 679 3,872 3,816 |121,958 120,265 31-5 31-5 Difference ~ « 1 3 2 33 9 16 12 52 64 2 -10 -8 56 1,693 *Exi ilusive of secondary departme: its of district high scho< ils.