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time, in view of the recent abandonment of general certificate examination tests for training-college students after their admission, and the substitution therefor of 'evidence otherwise furnished of the satisfactory completion of a training-college course as prescribed by the regulations. Five students at admission held Class C ■certificates, and 114 Class D. By the end of the year one student held a Class A certificate, eleven a Class B, 121 a Class C, and 158 a Class D. As has already been remarked, the regulations were revised at the beginning of the current year, and make several important changes in the work of the training college. Provision is made for the grant of training-college certificates on the principle stated, for some increase to the staff, for the addition of a second " model school " of one or other of a variety of types with a view to improve the student's opportunities of observation and teaching, and for the admission on special terms of a certain number of graduate students who are prepared during one year of attendance to devote their whole attention to subjects of professional study and practice. The following table shows the number of male and female students in training in each of the four training colleges :— , 1910. , , 1911. , Men. Women. Total. Men. Women. Total. Auckland ... ... ... 41 59 100 37 64 101 Wellington ...'... ... 26 70 96 31 65 96 Christchurch ... ... ... 20 66 86 23 72 95 Dunedin ... . ... 32 66 98 40 57 97 Totals ... ... 119 261 380 131 258 389 The following is a summary of Table P5 : — Number of Students in Attendance in 1911 who qualified by Examination for a Certificate of First-year students— Class A. Class B. Class C. Class D. Division A ... ... ... ■ 1 4 16 106 Division B ... ... ... 3 9 Second-year students— Division A ... ... 5 90 40 Division B ... ... 2 12 3 1 11 121 158 The amounts paid to Education Boards in 1910 and 1911 for the training of teachers were as follows :— I. "Training colleges,— 1910 1911 Salaries of staffs (half charged to public-school £' £ £ £ salaries) ... ... ... ... 6,533 6,723 Students'allowances ... ... ... 17,667 18,495 University fees of students ... ... 2,589 2,903 Libraries ... ... ... 43 26 Apparatus ... ... ... ... 124 13 Buildings ... ... ... ... 4,896 900 31,852 ' 29,060 11. Other training,— Grants for special instruction in handwork, including agriculture, of teachers other than training-college students ... ... 1,735 2,115 Eailway fares of teachers and instructors ... 2,778 3,477 4,513 5,592 Totals ... ... ... £36,365 £34,652 Finances op Education Boards. (See also E.-2.—Tables Fl to Fl2.i 1. General Survey of the Finances of Education Boards. Table F is a summary of the income and expenditure, and of the assets and liabilities of the various Education Boards for the calendar year 1911. Full information for each district can be obtained on reference to Appendix A of E.-2, or to tables Fl and F2 published in the same report.