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sion, and the substitution therefor of evidence otherwise furnished of the satisfactory completion of a training college course as prescribed by the regulations. A revision of the Training College Regulations made at the beginning of the current year* makes provision for the grant of training college certificates on the principle stated, and sets out in a more definite form the essential requirements of the course. Provision is also made for some increase to the staff, for the addition of a second " model school " of one or other of a variety of types with a view to improve the students' opportunities of observation and teaching, and for the admission on special terms of a certain number of graduate students who are prepared during one year of attendance to devote their whole attention to subjects of professional study and practice. The following table shows the number of male and female students in training in each of the four Training Colleges : — IQOQ — HtHl Men. Women. Total. Men. Women. Total. Auckland ... ... ... 20 25 45 41 59 100 Wellington ... ... ... 21 70 91 26 70 96 Christchurch ... ... ... 19 70 89 20 66 86 Dunedin ... .. ... 24 70 94 32 66 98 Totals ... ... 84 235 319 119 261 380 The following is ;\ summary of Table E : Number of Students in Attendance in 1910 who qualified by Examination fora Certificate of Kirst-year students- — Class B. Class C. Class D. Division A .. .. .. .... i>! 95 Division B .. .. .. .. 2 5 2 Second-year students— Division A .. .. .. .. 8 II 37 Division B .. .. .. .... 20 16 10 87 15(1 The amounts paid to Education Boards in 1909 and 1910 lor the training of teachers were as follows :— I. Training colleges,— 1909, 1910. Salaries of staffs (half charged to public-school £ £ £ t salaries) ... ... 6,283 6,533 Students'allowances ... ... ... 13,210 17,667 University fees of students ... ... 2,776 2,589 Libraries ... 92 43 Apparatus ... ... ... ... 40 124 Buildings 5,691 4,896 28,092 31,852 11. Other training, — Grants for special instruction in handwork, including agriculture, of teachers other than training-college students ... ... 2,340 1,735 Railway fares of teachers and instructors ... 5,020 2,778 —— 7,360 4,513 Totals ... ... ... fc;35,452 €36,365 Finances of Education Boards. (E.-2.- Tables Fl to Pll, pages 33 to 40, and Appendix A, pages XXX to LVJ Table F contains an abstract of the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of Education Boards for the year 1910. These are shown in detail in Tables Fl and F2, and Appendix A of E2 contains the annual reports of the several Boards, with their statements of receipts and expenditure in full detail. * mil.