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repairs and minor works, £466 Os. 6d. ; inspection, superintendence, and travelling, £772 13s. lOd. ; grants in aid of musical instruments and games, and for girls residing in turn in teachers' families, £67 6s. lOd. ; boarding-schools and apprenticeship, £1,813 7s. lid. ; sundries, including sewing material to be accounted for, £216 19s. 4d. Contributions amounting to £216 6s. 2d. were received from Native Eeserves Funds. The following list contains the names of all schools that have been in operation at any time since the control was transferred from the Native Department to the Education Department in 1879. The names of schools that have ceased to exist as Native schools are printed in italic letters, and of schools established by the Education Department in capital letters : — Te Kao —opened 1882. Hubia —opened 1884. Awanui. Paeeoa —opened 1884. Pamapuria—transferred from Kaitaia 1884. Te Awahou. Ahipara. Ohinemutu. Pukepoto. Eotoiti. Peria. Tarawem —destroyed, 1886 ; volcanic eruption. Te Moabi—opened 1882. Te Matai—opened 1887. Te Ngaere—closed 1884, reopened 1887. Maketn. Whan gape—opened 1881. Matata. Whakarapa—opened 1883. TE TEKO—opened 1881, closed 1886; Tarawera erupLower Waihou—closed 1882, reopened 1886. tion. Upper Waihou —closed 1887 ; Hauhauism. Waiotahi —closed 1883 ; settlement deserted. Waitapu. Fort Galatea—old school reopened 1881. Rakau Para —transferred to Education Board 1882. Whakatane. Whirinaki. Waioweka—opened 1884. Waima. Omarumutu—old school reopened 1884. Omanaia—opened 1881. Torere. Pakia—closed 1880, reopened 1883. Omaio. Motukabaka—opened 1881. Te Kaha. Mangamuka—opened 1882. Raukokobe—opened 1887. Mangakahia. Whabekahika—opened 1887. Waimamaku —opened 1886. Kawakawa—closed 1880, reopened 1887. Otaua—opened 1885. Rangitukia—opened 1887. Pailiia. Tikitiki—opened 1887. Oromahoe —closed 1880 ; decay. Waiomatatini. Ohaeawai. Tupaeoa—opened 1887. Kaikohe—closed 1880, opened on new basis 1882. Akuaku. Kaketu—opened 1886. Tokomaru —closed 1884, reopened 1887. Waikare. " TJawa —transferred to Education Board 1887. Waiomio —closed 1880 ; European settlement. Wairoa (Clyde)—closed 1882 ; apathy. Taumarere—closed 1883, opened on new basis 1885. Pahowhai —old school reopened 1881, closed 1883; Te Ahuahu —opened 1885. natives few. Ngunguru. Te Obe Oee —opened 1882. Poroti—closed 1884, reopened 1886. Papawai—opened 1882. Kaihu —closed 1880 ; European settlement. D'Ueville Island —opened 1885. Tangitebobia—opened 1886. Waikawa. Taita—opened 1887. Wairau. Matakohe —closed 1884, reopened 1885. [1881. Mangamaunu. Pouto Point—transferred from Education Board Arahura —closed 1880 ; European settlement. Otamatea. Kaiapoi. ORUAWHARO—opened 1883, closed 1887 ; decay. Eapaki. Taupiri —closed 1880; insufficient attendance. Little River. Kawhia —closed 1880 ; insufficient attendance. Onuku. Karakariki —closed 1880 ; insufficient attendance. Waikouaiti. Waitetuna —opened 1881. Port Molyneux. Kopua—opened 1886. Otago Heads —transferred to Education Board 1885. Orakei —closed 1880 ; insufficient attendance. Riverton —closed 1886 ; European settlement. Kibikibi —opened 1883. Colac Bay—opened 1881. Tapapa—opened 1886. Riiapuke —closed 1885 ; decay. Te Waotu—opened 1886. The Neck. Maungatapu—opened 1881. The number of schools receiving boarders has declined since 1879 from seven to four, the three schools that have fallen out of the list being S. Mary's (Ponsonby), Meanee (Hawke's Bay), and S. Joseph's (Wellington). The thanks of the Department are due to the gentlemen who have acted as District Superintendents of Native schools, namely, Mr. H. W. Bishop, Mr. J. H. Greenway, Mr. J. S. Clendon, Mr. G. T. Wilkinson, Mr. H. W. Brabant, Mr. E. S. Bush, and Mr. J. Booth. Much of the success of the schools in their districts is due to their exertions. Mr. Pope's Native School Eeader has been translated into Maori and printed, and the edition has been presented to a society which will sell the book to the Natives and devote the proceeds to the preparation of another work to be sold in its turn, and so on. Institution foe Deaf-mutes. The number of pupils in the school at Sumner at the end of the year was forty-two, showing an increase of one for the year, four having entered and three 3—E. 1.

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