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APPENDIX C.

MANUAL INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

No. 1. DETAILED TABLES. Table G1.—Some Particulars relating to Elementary Handwork and Manual Instruction in Public Schools for the Years 1911 to 1917 inclusive.

Table G2.— Elementary Handwork and Manual Instruction, 1917. (Public Schools.)

1911. i 1912. 1913. 1914, 1915. 1916. 1917. Number of publio schools.. .. .. 2,166 2,214 Number of schools taking elementary hand- 1,273 1,819 work Number of schools taking manual subjects .. 979 1,139 Number of district high schools providing 17 approved rural courses £ £ Capitation for elementary handwork .. 5,308 5,430 Capitation for manual instruction.. .. ; 11,745 15,804 Capitation for rural courses .. .. 2,890 3,047 Cost to Government of conveyance of pupils 2,940 2,203 to manual training centres Eeoeipts of Education Boards .. .. 28,634 37,123 Expenditure of Education Boards.. .. 30,385 40,521 2,255 1,382 1,227 88 £ 5,906 18,563 5,705 3,796 2,301 1,618 1,298 34 £ 6,486 18,010 0,888 4,566 2,338 2,355 2,308 1,798 1,898 2,011 1,398 j 1,445 1,508 37 38 38 £ £ £ 6,869 7,623 I 7,791 20,574 21,939 23,763 7,007 , 7,794 7,984 5,414 ' 0,335 ! 5,713 45,379 42,646 35,270 35,111 41,551 47,807 60,763 42,582 42,827 49,779 I

Elementary Woodwork. Manual Instruction. Education District. CO "3 o a o CO •M O I o o I 0 I a [3 J; 2-2 Subjects and Number of Schools i >e s S in each. a «1 §M Q . J ■« a; *2-§i g a 5 •g&ss i Is 8 §£ow I s v. a is w providing instruction a . a S.S .2 S p ■ la Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Hawke's Bay Wellington Nelson Canterbury Otago Southland :: i flll 127 171 121 172 101 379 259 170 343 112 163 99 ! 128 76 248 216 123 I 260 ! 142 144 ' 8 71 17 16 ! 81 158 [ 39 39 ! 18 139 17 17 10 216 44 i 45 28 28 23 15 219 148 139 17 166 51 48 22 73 68 18 320 37 108 10 107 11 95 i 2 98 i 20 64 18 213 32 203 32 109 6 Totals 2,011 1,503 1,229 554 534 157 1,377 163 i ! I