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fully-qualified schoolmistress in addition to a master. Table No. 9 of the Appendix contains a nominal return of the teachers employed in the several schools during the last quarter of 1880. The following summary shows the number of teachers employed in the several education districts during the same period. The classification has been made from the Boards' returns ; —-

TABLE B.—Number of Teachers.

The average number of scholars to each teacher over the whole of the schools at the close of the year was 32-7. The corresponding average for 1879 was 331, showing that the increase in the number of teachers and of scholars for the twelve months had been in about equal proportions. As might be expected, the more sparsely-peopled districts, in which there is of necessity a larger proportion of small schools, show lower averages than the others. As was the case in 1879, the lowest averages last year were in the Districts of Taranaki, Auckland, and Westland; and the highest were in Otago, Southland, and Wellington. The lowest average to each teacher (26*1) was in the Taranaki District; the highest (39) was in Otago. The corresponding numbers for these two districts in 1879 were 25-l and 408. This result is only what might be expected, for, as a rule, the greater the proportion of large schools in an education district, the smaller, within proper limits, is the aggregate number of teachers needed in proportion to the school attendance. In some districts a considerable number of the schools are large enough to admit of the employment in them of two or more teachers. In large schools the classes also are large, and it is evident that a given number of children equal in attainments can be more easily taught in one class than the same or even a smaller number of children of unequal attainments distributed into two, three, or more classes. The decrease in the number returned as female assistants is due to the fact that many of those formerly ranked as assistants are now classed as full teachers. There is in consequence a large increase in the number entered as teachers in column 4 of the table. The Auckland Board showed 62 pupil-teachers in its return for 1879, but in last year's return 90 "junior assistants" (4 males and 86 females), who under the former practice would have been ranked as pupil-teachers, Avere entered as "assistants." The following is the Board's explanation with reference to this change of classification: " The term ' assistant teachers' includes 90 junior assistants under nineteen years of age, all of whom have been classified upon examinations held by the Board for the purpose of testing their qualifications. The ' pupil-teacher' system, as defined by the Act and Government regulations, is^tiot in operation in this district." Since this explanation was written, however, such regulations for the employment of pupil-teachers have been adopted as

Number of Teachers, exclusive of Sewing Teachers, employed during the last Quarter of 18S0. s. Average Attendance for last Quarter of 1880. 9. 10. Sewing Teachers not included in preceding columns. Males. Females. Average Number of Pupils per Teacher. Education .Districts. 6. . Totals. PupilTeachers. 1. Teachers. 2. Assistants. 3. PupilTeachers. 4. Teachers. 5. Assistants. Auckland Daranaki 160 17 39 30 26 13 34 111 29 26 142 60 26 4 1 5 4 4 1 68 15 10 25 14 5 34 88 9 17 69 13 69 6 15 11 7 6 27 27 6 4 28 3 86 5 24 52 23 413 44 102 136 78 27 97 391 78 86 411 108 11,839 1,147 3,403 4,685 2,334 883 3,008 12,233 2,616 2,447 16,047 3,765 287 261 33-3 34-5 300 32-7 310 31-3 33-5 28-4 390 350 53 tVanganui .Velliiigton ... Hawke's Bay... Harlborougli... kelson STorth Canterbury iouth Canterbury tVestland Dtago Southland 3 14 4 2 2 21 8 4 41 5 "40 7 12 54 7 104 19 23 77 20 1 7 33 5 19 9 Totals for 1880 ... Totals for 1879 ... 687 659 130 113 139 113 373 278 209 265 433 345 1,971 1,773 64,407 58,738 32-7 [ 331 j 127 110 Increase or decrease 28 17 26 95 —56 88 198 5,669 —■4 ! 17

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