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Commerce, Otago University School of Domestic Science and School of Commerce, the total capitation earnings for these classes for the year being £2,720. The School of Domestic Science in Otago University was attended by sixtyfour students taking either the course for the degree or that for the diploma. Sixteen Government bursaries were awarded in 1923, making a total of thirty-two tenable during the year. Eight degree and fifteen diploma students completed their courses. Graduates from this school are now filling important positions throughout the Dominion as instructors in home science, and their influence in this important phase of the training of girls is already very marked.

Number of Students receiving Free Education at Technical Schools other than Technical High Schools.

The following technical schools had a roll of more than 500, exclusive of the technical high schools carried on in connection with some of them :— Number on Roll. 1922. 1923. Christchurch Technical School .. .. .. .. 1,670 1,751 Wellington Technical School .. .. .. .. 1,175 1,321 Dunedin Technical School .. .. .. ..1,117 1,170 Auckland Technical School .. .. . . 772 928 Palmerston North Technical School .. .. .. 810 742 Christchurch School of Art .. .. .. .. 513 654 Inveroargill Technical School .. .. .. .. 583 565 Technological examinations were conducted by the Department on behalf of the City and Guilds of London Institute at eighteen centres in the Dominion. The total number of entries was 40.1, an increase of 24 over the number for the previous year, and the number of passes was 189, or 47-1 per cent. Technical High Schools. The number of students in attendance at technical high schools in 1923 was 5,054, compared with 4,202 in the previous year. The numbers of pupils taking up the various courses provided were as follows : — . .

1922. Males. Females. Totals, 1923. Males. Females. Totals. T . j. ., I First year Tumor free pupils } s?con £ year f First year Senior free pupils-{ Second year Third year 1,009 615 454 287 172 673 . 439 317 267 172 1,682 1,054 771 554 344 1,047 712 1,759 734 426 1,160 517 399 916 373 250 623 210 190 400 Totals 2,537 1,868 4,405 2,881 1,977 4,858

Course. Boys. Number of Pupils. Increase over 1922. Girls. Total. ndustrial Commercial and general .. Domestic Agriculture Art 1 ,469 1,087 296 13 32 1,501 267 1,471 2,558 504 663 663 52 296 8 23 36 21 Totals 2,865 2,189 5,054 852