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Results of Inspection. (E.-3-T»ble H9, page 28.) Table H9 of the appendix gives full information as to the results of the annual inspection. Staffs and Salaries. (E.-3—Table HI, page 13.) As shown in Table H, the staffs of the village schools included 78 masters, 21 mistresses in charge, 109 assistants, and 4 sewing teachers. The total amount paid in salary during the year was £23,184, the average salary of the head teachers being £171 —males £175, and females £156. The average salary of assistants was £60. Three schools are in charge of teachers who are themselves members of the Maori race, and the Inspectors speak very highly of their efficiency. Several Maori girls who have completed their course in the secondary schools are employed as junior assistants, and are on the whole doing satisfactory work. Comparison of the amount paid in salaries during the past year with that paid during the year 1906 will show an increase of £5,700. Part of this increase is due of course to the large increase in the attendance, but the greater portion of it is due to the effect of the revised scale of salaries introduced in 1907. Expenditure. (E.-3—Table HlO, paf>e 29.) The total expenditure on Native schools during the year 1910 was £33,387 Is. lid. Included in this amount is the sum of £4,305 paid from revenues from national endowments. New buildings and additions involved an expenditure of £2,844; maintenance and repairs, £1,269. Table HlO is a classified summary of expenditure. Chatham Islands. During the year 1910 there were four schools in operation in the Chatham Islands —-viz., those at Te One. Te Roto, and Matarakau, on the main island, and a school on Pitt Island. The total number of children on the rolls of these schools was 93, an increase of 1 on that of the previous year, the average attendance for the year being 81. The annual visit to the schools took place in December, and the report of the Inspector shows that the schools are doing satisfactory work. Some ten years ago the system obtaining in the Chatham Island schools was reorganized so as to place them on the same basis as the public schools in New Zealand. It is interesting to note that since the reorganization several of the ex-pupils have been very successful in the outside world. Two have almost completed the course for the teachers' D certificate ; of those who gained the Chatham Island Scholarship one is completing his university course in arts and another in medicine ; another youth, also a scholar-ship-holder, took a high place in tHe Civil Service Junior Examination, and is now in the Government service ; another is studying at Lincoln College ; while yet another holds a good position in a remote part of the Empire. This record is very encouraging to the Department, and bears direct testimony to the ability of the young people of the Islands and to the success of the present scheme. The total expenditure in the schools for the year 1910 was £868 6s. 9d., made up as follows : Salaries and allowance, £635 ; scholarships, £40 ; inspection, £17 17s. 2d. ; buildings (additions and repairs, &c), £165 18s. Id. ; other expenses, £9 11s. 6d. : total, £868 6s. 9d.

A.—Further Details of Staffs, Salaries, and Attendance.

Attendance. Attendanoe. Sohool. Names of Teachers. v ,i,,,,,. ., V _ H Allowance for of lain Conveyance of Mean of Average Mean of Weekly Good*. Attendance for | Roll Number for Four Quarters of I Four Quarters of 1910. 1910. 'e One .. "itt Island 'e Roto .. latarakau Total .. Guest, J. J. .. H.M. I Guest, Mrs. L. K. . . S. Ritchie, Miss F. .. Pt. 5 Lanauze, Miss 0. .. Pt. 2 Hutchinson, J. . . M. .. Silcock, H. S. .. M. .. Hough, Miss E. .. F. • • • ■ £ e. d. £ 205 0 0 i 25 37 43 10 10 0 55 0 0 35 0 0 90 0 0 15 12 U 108 0 0 IS 23 30 90 0 0 .. 9 9 593 10 0 j 55 81 95 I I ' 593 10 0 55 81 95 I