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1882. NEW ZEALAND.

Presented to hoth Souses of the General Assembly by Command of Sis Excellency.

Offi.ce of the Department of Education, Sib,— Wellington, 3rd June, 1882. I have the honour, in accordance with the provisions of " The Education Act, 1877," to submit to your Excellency the following report upon the progress and condition of public education in New Zealand during the year ending the 31st day of December, 1881. I have, &c, Thomas Dick. His Excellency the Hon. Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, G.C.M.G-., &c, Governor of New Zealand.

EEPOET. " The Education Act, 1877," prescribes to the Minister of Education the duty of reporting " upon the progress and condition of public education in New Zealand during the year." It has been found convenient to prepare separate parliamentary papers relating to certain departments of public education which do not come under the operation of the Act, and to give here only a brief summary of their work, devoting the greater part of this report to the state of the "public schools " established for the purpose of primary education, and to the accounts of the School Commissioners, who manage the reserves appropriated to the partial maintenance of primary and secondary schools. The separate papers contain reports on Native schools (E.-2), industrial schools and orphanages (E.-3), and the institution for deaf-mutes (E.-4), to all of which (except some of the industrial schools and orphanages) the Education Department sustains a relation similar to that which the Education Boards sustain to the primary schools; on the annual examination for teachers' certificates (E.-1a) ; on secondary schools (E.-8), several of which are required by law to make annual reports to the Minister; and on the University of New Zealand (E.-5), the University of Otago (E.-6), and Canterbury College (E.-7). The Boards' reports, and those of the School Commissioners, are contained in the Appendix, and the reports of the Boards' Inspectors in a separate paper (E.-1b). School Attendance. The annual increase in the number of children attending the public schools was much smaller in 1881 than in any other year since the Education Act now i—E. 1.

EDUCATION. fifth: annual repobt op the minister of education. [In Continuation of E.-l, 1881.]

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