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1910. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: AVERAGE ATTENDANCE AT PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, CLASS-ACCOMMODATION, AND ESTIMATED COST OF CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS EXISTING, 1909.

Return to an Order uf the House o/ Representatives dated the 3rd August, 1910. Ordered, " That there be laid before this Souse a return, in tabular form, for the last educational year, showing (1) each education district; (2) the average attendance for each district ; (3) the number of wooden school buildings at the end of the year, together with the square feel of floor-space and the present oost < if construction ; (4) the number of brick and stone buildings, together with the s ( |imiv feet of floor-space and the present cost of construction being a return similar to part of a return presented with the report of the Education Committee in 1903 (see page .">, 1.— 13, 1903) ; and (5) the present cost of construction of buildings not over five years old, live to ten years old, ten to fifteen years old, fifteen to twenty years old, twenty to i wenty-five years old, twenty-five ti> thirty year.-- old, thirty to thirtylive years old, and over thirty-live years old. ' I Mr. Ar.LKN.)

School Buildings belonging to Education Boards, 1909.

Education Department, Wellington, 30th August, 1910. G. Hoghen.

1. belonging to Boards. Education District. ,§ W leu Buildings. Brick and Stone Buildings. |§ 2. 8. 4. 5. (i. 7. §T Wnmhornf Number ol Present Coat ol » wrf Number of Present Cort of s,i ,i Square Feet of Construction of i", , BouareFeetof Construotionof % Hiiillii, ,t Btoor-spaoe In euch Buildings aa R JS5??! f Floor-space in such Iiuildin<p as < SI uwl Buildings entered arc diwribcd in ' ,'fL',, Huildinw entered are desorlbeTin End of 1909. |n column 2. Columns 2 and 3. End o( 19Oil - in Column :,. Columns 5 and 6. Auckland 1 nvauaki Wangaiiui Wellington Hawke'a Bay Marlborough Nelson (hey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland iuokland arauaki tanganui Wellington [awke'a Bay [arlborough ■ elfton irey lorth Canterbury outh Canterbury Itago outhland 32,604 424 132,075 2I1.:S!>4 fj 14,436 8,912 ■4,959 74 71,843 36,289 12,062 17!l 182,563 89,313 .. 4.7i>:s* 2.9OS 15.767 141 2(19.047 99,711 r> 38,609 23,41(i 8,894 ' !>:! 134,876 t>4.414 1 8,338 o,lo:s 1,964 :ss 27,620 13,iMi4 I 7.011 4,2r><i 4,992 96 93,801 4ii,050 2 6,334 3,900 1,657 33 :!4.40li 16,803 .. 2,128* 1,327 98ti 29 24.123 12,015 1 5,870 3,572 17,575 194 152,643 76,449 7 70,697 42,818 4.7H7 7(1 61,909 26,169 !l 41,756 25,504 17.768 188 213,886 103,769 33 106,436 i>5.512 8,778 148 I2:S.74S 61,607 6 16,863 10,41* Total .. 132,773 1.707 I 1,752,440 856,877 70 323,241 197,(i4l> * Additions only.