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Attendance. (E.-3—Table HI to Hfiu, pasrs 13-25.) The average daily attendance, in actual numbers and as a percentage of the average weekly roll-number, for each quarter of the years 1909 and 1910 was as lOIIOWS : Actual Attendance. Per Cent, of Roll. 1009. 1010. 1909. 1010. First quarter .. .. .. .. 3,661 3,f>59 85-0 85-5 Second quarter .. .. .. 3,647 3,720 85-1 86-7 Third quarter .. .. .. .. 3,519 3,686 85-1 85-5 Fourth quarter .. .. .. 3,566 3,669 86-0 84-7 The following are some of the figures in regard to the attendance at Native village schools for the year 1910, the corresponding figures for 1909 being inserted for purposes of comparison:— 1909 19]0 Number on rolls at end of year.. .. .. 4,121 4,280 Average weekly roll-number . . . . . . .. 4.308 4,325 Average yearly attendance, .. .. .. .. 3,680 3,714 If to the Native village schools are added the Native mission schools and Native secondary schools, the following are the figures for 1909 and 1910 respectively:— 1909. 1910. Number on rolls of Native village schools at end of year . . 4,121 4,280 „ mission schools at end of year .. 231 221 „ secondary schools at end of year 360 378 Combined rolls of Native schools .. .. .. 4,712 4,879 Combined average weekly roll-number . . .. .. 4,898 4,923 Combined average yearly attendp,nce . . . . .. 4,213 1,259 Percentage of regularity of attendance .. .. .. 86-0 86-5 Table H shows the mean average roll-number for every fifth year, from 1881 to 1896, and for each of the last eleven years. The year 1881 is practically the first year of operation of the Native schools under this Department. The table gives also the total average attendance for each year, the average attendance as a percentage of the roll, and the number of teachers employed in the Native schools.

Table H. —Schools, Attendance, and Teachers.

Table Hi, in the appendix,* gives in detail the staffs and salaries of the various schools in order of their grades. Table H2 supplies detailed information in regard to the roll-number, average attendance, and grading of the schools. As will be seen from the above table, the percentage of regularity of attendance was higher last year than it has been for at least ten years, a result which must be considered highly satisfactory when it is remembered that all the Native schools are situated in rural districts having, in most cases, a sparse and widely scattered population. In many of the village schools, notably Te Kao in the far North, the attendance is remarkably good, the regularity in fully one-third of them reaching over 90 per cent.

• See E.-3, 1911.

Year. Number of Schools at End of Year. Mean of Average Weekly Boll. Nur Average Average Attendance *W' Percentage T-her s in Charge. Year. o f Weekly EoIL Male . Female . Number of Teachers. Assistant Teachers. Sewing Mistresses. Male. i Female. 1881 .. 1880 .. 1891 . . 1890 .. 1900 .. 1901 .. 1902 .. 1903 .. 1904 .. 1905 .. 1906 .. 1907 .. 1908 . . |1909 J1910 60 tilt 00 74 84* 89* 98* 97* 95* 95 98 99 95 94 99 2,343 2,395 2,874 3,256 3,257 3,650 3,805 3,794 4,097 4,235 4,321 4,479 4,308 4,325 1,400 2,020 1,837 2,220 2,500 2,592 3,005 3,012 3,083 3,428 3,607 3,561 3,781 3,680 3,714 86-2 76-7 77-3 76-8 79-6 82-3 79-2 81-3 83-7 85-2 82-4 85-4 85-9 54 00 69t 64t 67t 70f ! 77t 76f 73| I 74f 78t 82f 76 76 78 6 9 8t lit 10t 18t J 20t 20t 21t 22t 21t 18f 19 18 21 i 2 2 2 3 3 4 26 26 61 70 69 83 j 79 85 87 94 105 104 101 106 48 30 37 16 8 15 11 13 11 15 11 3 5 5 4 • Includes two subsidized schools. t Includes ti and the average attendance are the totals of each school whole number (see table H2). to teachers jointly in charge of one school. } The mean of average weekly roll for tho year, the roll and attendance of each school being reckoned to the nearest