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If the Native village schools are added to the Native secondary schools, we have the following figures for 1912 and 1913 respectively:— 1:12. 1913. Number on rolls of Native village schools .. .. 4,694 4,647 „ mission schools .. .. .. 174 116 „ boarding-schools .. .. 369 419 Combined rolls of Native schools .. .. .. .. 5,237 5,182 Combined average weekly roll number .. .. .. 5,241 . 5,362 Combined average yearly attendance .. .. 4,588 4,621 Percentage of regularity of attendance .. .. .. 87-5 862 The increase in the development of the Native village schools since the year 1881, when they were transferred to the control of this Department, is shown in the following table : —

Table Ha. —Schools, Attendance, and Teachers.

It will be seen that there has been an increase of 80 per cent, in the number of schools, and this does not take into account many schools which have been transferred to the various Boards of Education during the period covered by the table. The average attendance has risen from 1,406 to 4,142. The decrease in the percentage of average attendance is the result of the outbreak of smallpox, which, as is well known, was, in the main, confined to the Native population. Table H2 supplies detailed information in regard to the roll number and average attendance. The number of Maoris attending public schools on the 31st December, 1913, as compared with the number attending at the 31st December, 1912, was 1912 4 913 • 1913, 4,791. Details are to be found in Table H5. The total number of children of Maori or of mixed race on the rolls of primary Native schools, public schools, Native mission schools, and secondary Native schools together with such pupils as were receiving special technical training-at the end of the year 1913, is given in the following schedule :—

■> ,- Year. Number . ° f , Mean of Schools Average at End Wee ki y Boll. of Year. Average Average Attendance Attendance: as Whole Percentage Year. o f Weekly Boll. Teachers in Charge. Number of Teacl Assistant lere. 'eachera. sewingMale. Female. Jstresses. Male. Female. 1881 .. 1886 .. 1891 .. 1896 .. 1901 .. 1902 .. 1903 .. 1904 .. 1905 .. 1906 .. 1907 .. 1908 .. 1909 .. 1910 .. 1911 .. 1912 .. 1913 .. 60 69 2,343 66 2,395 74 2,874 89* 3,257 98* 3,650 97* 3,805 ! 95* 3,794 95 4,097 98 4,235 99 4,321 95 4,479 94 4,308 99 4,325 104 4,494$ 108 4,644 107 4,835 60 69 66 74 89* 98* 97* 95* 95 98 99 95 94 99 104 108 107 1,406 2,020 86-2 1,837 76-7 2,220 77-3 2,592 i 79-6 3,005 82-3 3,012 79-2 3,083 81-3 3,428 83-7 3,607 85-2 3,561 82-4 3,781 84-4 3,680 85-4 3,714 85-9 3,878$ 86-3 4,042 87 4,142 85-7 54 60 59f 64f 70f 77t 76f 73f 74f 78f 82f 76 76 78 81 86 86 6 9 8f lit 18f 20t 20f 21f 22f 21f 18f 19 18 21 22 22 21 1 4 26 26 61 69 I 83 79 85 87 94 105 104 101 106 119 122 118 48 30 37 IB 15 11 13 11 15 11 3 5 5 4 3 2 4 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 led schools. d schools. t Includes two teachers jointly in chi trge of one g ichool. 1911 flgui • Includes two subsidii ■es amended.

Actual Number. Number per 10,000 of Maori Population at Census of 1911 (49,829). I. Primary schools —• (a.) Government Native schools (b.) Mission schools .. (c.) Public schools 4,647 116 4,791 933 23 961 II. Secondary schools II. Special technical training 9,554 419 13 1,917 84 3 Totals 9,986 2,004