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number of places and the number of teachers. The number of teachers at the end of the year was 1,976. Of this number, 1,591 were certificated teachers, nine were to have certificates on obtaining from the Inspectors the marks required by the regulations, and twenty on completing the required term of qualifying service; so that 1,620 had become qualified so far as examination could qualify them. It follows that there were 356 who were not so qualified; of whom, 151 had obtained "partial pass," 140 had not offered themselves for examination, and 65 had been examined and had failed. The state of the case is shown in Table M. By the application to the 356 unqualified teachers of the results of the January examination at Avhich many of them presented themselves, 63 of them are transferred to the qualified class, and there remain 293, as follows : 115 have "partial pass," 112 have never been examined, 66 have been examined and have failed. The number of certificated teachers not engaged in the work of public instruction at the end of the year was about 800, and there were besides about 60 engaged as Inspectors, or in high schools, or in Native schools, or as normal-school students, or as pupil-teachers.

TABLE M. —Teachers Certificated and Uncertificated, 31st December, 1889. (Numbers in brackets represent licensed teachers included in other numbers.)

Accounts ok Education Boabds. The accounts of the several Education Boards accompany their reports in the Appendix, and a summary of the accounts is given in Tables No. 4 and No. 5 (Appendix, pp. 4 and 5). Table Nis an abstract of them. TABLE N.—Abstbact of Receipts and Expenditure of Boards. Dr. & a. d. Or. & s. d. To Balances, Ist January, 188'J .. 47,715 1 2 By Boards'administration •.. .. 9,683 19 8 Government grants— Inspection and examination .. 10,197 14 1 Maintenance .. .. .. 320,341 3 8 Teachers'salaries and allowances, and Buildings .. .. .. *11,578 18 8 training .. .. .. 293,908 4 0 Reserves revenues .. .. .. 31,646 0 8 Incidental expenses of schools '.. 27,535 13 5 Local receipts— Scholarships .. .. .. 0,655 18 7 Fees, donations, &c. .. .. 1,978 10 10 ; Interest .. .. .. .. 25 7 9 For buildings .. .. .. 233 13 5 ; Buildings, sites, plans, &c. .. .. "41,123 1111 Interest .. .. .. .. 258 18 10 : Refunds and sundries .. .. 106 15 10 Refunds, deposits, &c. .. .. 010 8 5 Balances .. .. .. .. 31,125 9 6 £420,362 15 8 j £420,8652 15 3 * A sum of Ji'J,Boll6s. (id., expended in rebuilding Blenheim School (after a fire), is here included, though it did not pass through the accounts of the Board. The total of the first four lines of the expenditure column is £341,325 11s. Bd., which is very little in excess of the corresponding amount (£340,7-12 Bs. 4d.) for 1888, and is rather less than £3 14s. for each unit of the average attendance on which the capitation of ,£3 15s. was paid. The balances in hand amounted to about £32,850 at the end of the year, and there were other money assets to the value of about £600, in addition to the grant of £25,000 for buildings, which was distributed during the first three months of

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Education Districts. Q s o 9 " 00 ool ill |*8 I ft J= S o; o pj 111 i go i 13 [2] 9 [2] 7 10 [2] 11 [2] 22 27 [i] ; 5[1] 15 8[1] 4 9 o 440 48 110 136 88 48 123 33 37 333 86 358 130 I Auckland .. 1 Taranaki .. : Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westlanci North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago .. .. I Southland .. j 379* 31 84 lilt : 64 ■ 22 88 i 14 21 289 j 71 i 339 103 ! 1 i 1 a 8 9 i 86 [5] 4 10 [1] 9 11 [5] 3 16 10 2 4 8 [2] 6 [2] 2 [2] 17 3 1 7[1] 4 10 [1] Also 1 P.T. holds a certificate. Also 3 P.T.s hold certificates. Also 2 P.T.s hold certificates. 5 5 21 [1] 10 [8] 14 [3] Also 8 P.T.s hold certificates. Total for 1889 ! 1,591 Total for 1888 1,496 i 0 11 20 34 151 137 65 85 140 161 1,976 ; 1,924 * Including 4 teachers on leave. I Including 2 teachers oi leave.