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1896. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: MANUAL AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by command of His Excellency.

1. BXTEACT FBOM NINETEENTH ANNUAL EBPOET OF THE MINISTEE OF EDUCATION.

Technical Insteuction. The expenditure of the Department for the encouragement of technical instruction in science and art in 1895 was .£948 19s. Bd., as follows : Technical Classes Association, Auckland and Dunedin, ,£lOO and £250 respectively; Education Boards of Wellington and Wanganui, £200 each; School of Domestic Instruction, Christchurch, £150; Milfcon District High School, £7 14s. sd. ; expenses of examination of South Kensington, ,£2O 12s. 9d.; and of City and Guilds of London, £20 12s. 6d. The following table shows the number of New Zealand candidates examined and passed in 1895 by the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, and by the City and Guilds of London Institute. The candidates were from the technical schools of Wellington and Wanganui, and the Dunedin School of Art. but among the Wellington candidates are included some students of institutions at Masterton, Pahiatua, and Westport, affiliated to the Wellington Technical School.

TABLE Y.—London Technical Examinations, 1895.

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Welli Candidates. Wellington. Wai [anui. Dunedin. Passes. Candidates, .1 Passes. Candidates. Passes. South Kensington : ArtSecond grade Third Works .. Science 216 45 33 41 142 39 15 24 54 13 10 4 38 6 7 3 209 16 147 15 27 20 City and Guilds: Papers— Ordinary grade .. Honours Plumber's work— Practical examination ) 33 / 18 2 16 12 Total 384 252 81 54 252 182