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irIRPORT. Contents. This report, with its appendices, gives the information which is of general public interest with regard to the administration of the Education Act, 1908, and its subsequent amendments (in 1908, 1910, 1912, and 1913), also the proposed administration under the Education Act, 1914, and the Education Reserves Act, 1908, as amended in 1910 and 1914, the expenditure of public funds appropriated by Parliament for educational purposes, and the principal statistics relating to matters which are more fully dealt with in separate papers, as follows :— E. —-2. Primary Education ; with appendices, namely,-— Appendix A, Reports of Education Boards ; Appendix B, Education Reserves ; Appendix C, Reports of Inspectors ; Appendix D, Training of Teachers ; Appendix E, List of Public Schools, Teachers, Salaries, and Allowances ; Appendix F, Medical Inspection ; Appendix G-, Physical Instruction. E.-3. Native Schools. E.-4. Special Schools and Infant-life Protection. E.-5. Manual and Technical Instruction. E.-6. Secondary Education. E.-7. Higher Education. E.-8. Annual Examinations. E.-9. Teachers' Superannuation. E.-9A, Actuarial Report on Teachers' Superannuation Fund. E.-10. Public Libraries. E.-11. Report of the Education Districts Commission. In this report summaries are made of the more important tables appearing in the separate papers above mentioned. These summaries are numbered with the letters from the alphabet from A to N, and the tables from which they were prepared will be found in the separate paper concerned, numbered Al, A 2, 81, 82, &c. Where information in any section of this report has been prepared from tables appearing in the other reports above named, a reference will be found under the heading of the section to the table concerned and the report in which it is printed.

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