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Marist Brothers' Boys' School (Day). —This school has been established in Apia for fifty yens. It is a primary school, admitting boys of any denomination, and preparing them for the New Zealand Proficiency Examination and the commercial houses of Apia. The Grade II Schools (which are partly Administration and partly mission) are dealt with separately below. In the following table, relating to purely mission schools, the attendance figures for the more elementary schools are approximate.

Table showing Number of European and Native Teachers in respective Schools.

In the mission schools children attend from the age of three years (village schools) to the age of thirty years (colleges). Numbers of pupils in Administration and Grade II schools are included in the above mission figures owing to pupils also attending mission schools for religious instruction. Grade II Schools. The Administration is responsible for the training, supervision, and payment of teachers, whilst schoolhouses and sites are arranged for by the respective missions. As these schools have been established to meet the needs of village life, the curriculum is arranged accordingly, instruction being in the vernacular ; a limited amount of English is taught. There are now thirty-nine of these schools, having total roll numbers at 31st March, 1933, of 2,982. The teaching staff (Samoans) numbers fifty-eight, of whom twenty-nine have passed the New Zealand Proficiency Examination, and this proportion will increase as time goes on. Administration Schools. The change which was made at the commencement of 1932 in the system of schools has operated satisfactorily, and the trained Native teachers in the senior school at Avele have done good work. In the training school and the intermediate school at Malifa likewise the Native staff has carried on successfully. The Vaipouli School, Savai'i, has functioned without change. In the Ifi In School (for Europeans) there has been a slight increase in roll numbers, and good school work has been achieved. Particulars of average attendances and teaching staffs are given in the following table :—

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Totals. Pastors' and Catechists' Colleges, Colleges, Special Special —;• —j Schools, Villages. Boys', Girls', Day Schools, Day Schools, 3 Grade I. Eesident. Besident. Boys'. Girls'. g Attendances. Missions. m I Boys. Girls. Total. f |g f |J§ | || | || | Boys. Girls. a . 5 s 31-38 s Sβ ; -us s a J K < fc ] ■< K^lfe^l!? London Mission .. ; 175 4,370 3,278 7,648 2 190 1 150 178 4,560 3,428 Roman Catholic .. 71 1,200 1,351 2,551 2 j 120 9 320 1 400 3 l 425 86 1,720 2,096 Methodist . . j 80 890 1,453 2,343 3 ! 100 1 60 2 60 .. j .. 86 1,050 1,513 Latter Day Saints . . 20 320 235 j 555 1 j 55 1 64 1 47 1 38 24 422 337 Seventh Day Ad- . . 1 j 39 I 12 2 39 12 346 6,780 6,317 13,097 9 j 504 13 606 4 507 4 463 376 7.791 7.386 _ I

Pastors' and Catechiste' Colleges, Colleges, Special Special Schools, Boys," Girls,' Day Schools, Bay Schools, Totals. Villages. Resident. Eesident. Bovs'. Girls'. Grade I. Missions. H o= H 1 02 H m H m W « H x j j London Mission .. .. 1 175 1 7 1 8 3 190 Honian Catholic .. .... 71 2 4 10 16 6 I .. 3 2\ 91 Methodist .. .. .... 80 1 2 1 3 13 .. .. 3 88 Latter Day Saints .. ..126 3 4 3 4 1 1 1.. 9 35 Seventh Day Adventist .... .. 1 1 1 1 .. .. .. .. 2 2 I 38 406 , !

*** <b». «* 31st March, 1932 .. . . 216 460 54 70 800 30th June, 1932 .. .. 214 480 60 70 824 30th September, 1932 .. 215 520 58 75 . 868 31st December, 1932.. .. 227 495 58 73 853 31st March, 1933 .. .. 229 536 80 86 931 Teachers —European.... 7 . . 1 1 9 Samoan ...... 14 2 3 19