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1895. NEW ZEALAND

EDUCATION: EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION [In continuation of E.-1, 1894.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency

OOHSTTZEZTSTTS. EEPOET. Public Schools — Page Public Schools — continued. Page Attendance i Scholarships ix Attendance of Children of Native Eaoe ii Education Keserves ix Ages and Sex of Pupils iii Native Schools x Standards iii Industrial Schools xi Examination Statistics iv Deaf-mute Institution xii Subjects of Instruction v The Blind xii Number of Schools v Technical Instruction xiii Number of Teachers vi Technical Examinations xiii Salaries of Teachers vi Teachers' and Civil Service Examinations xiii Classification of Teachers vii University and Affiliated Colleges xiii Finances of Boards vii Secondary Schools xiii School-buildings Eequirements .. viii " Colonial University" Eeserves xiv APPENDIX. Statistics — Statements of Accounts of Boards —continued. Age and Sex of Scholars (Table No. 1) 1 Taranaki 62 Standards, Scholars classified according to Wanganui 04 (Table No. 2) 2 Wellington 70 Summary of Boards' Income and Expenditure Hawke's Bay 77 for Eighteen years (Table No. 3) 3 Marlborough 79 Income of Boards for 1894 (Table No. 4) 4 Nelson . 80 Expenditure of Boards for 1894 (Table No. o) 5 Grey 81 Officers of Boards (Table No. 6) 6, 7 Westland 82 Education Department, Expenditure under North Canterbury 84 (Table No. 7) 7 8 South Canterbury 86 Schools, Expenditure on each, and Names and Otago 89 Salaries of Teachers (Table No. 8) 9-59 Southland 94 Reports of Boards — Auckland 60 Art-masters' Reports— Taranaki 61 Wanganui 65 Wanganui 63 Wellington 70 Wellington 68 Otago 89 Hawke's Bay 76 Marlborough 77 Nelson 79 Reports and Accounts of School Commissioners— Grey 80 Auckland 94 Westland 81 Taranaki 95 North Canterbury 82 Wellington 96 South Canterbury 85 Hawke's Bay 98 Otago 86 Marlborough 99 Southland 90 Nelson 99 Westland . 100 Statements of Accounts of Boards— Canterbury 101 Auckland 61 Otago 103