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Particular attention is given to the instruction of students at the training ' colleges. At almost all the teachers' training classes the majority of the men were camped in tents, the Department possessing a complete equipment for this purpose, while the women found suitable lodgings in all cases where they came from a distance. In addition to providing transit expenses teachers were maintained free in camp, or were paid a maintenance allowance up to £1 per week. The inspection of the instruction in physical exercises as it is being carried out in the schools has been proceeded with as far as possible and as opportunity offered in the intervals between the dates fixed for the training classes. Now, however, that the classes have been completed the services of the instructors, of whom there are seven men and four women, are available for the systematic inspection of all schools ; and, where "required to do so, the instructors will also assist the teachers by giving object-lessons and advice for the proper conduct of physical training. • It is regretted that the death of the first Director of Physical Education," the late Mr. Eoyd Garlick, who died on the 20th February, 1915, has to be recorded. A man with high ideals of 'training, he was animated with an earnest desire to place physical education Jbn a sound and scientific footing. At a later date steps will be taken to fill the vacancy by the appointment of an officer under whom the work of the medical inspection of schools and of physical education will be carried out under a common direction In the meantime satisfactory arrangements have been made for the carrying-on of the system. The expenditure on physical education for the year ended the 31st March, 1915, was as follows : Salaries of Director and staff, £2,771 ; training classes, including for teachers, £3,706 ; equipment for training classes, £224; travelling allowances and expenses, £1,800; sundries, including advertising, books, office-cleaning, freight, &c, £330: total, £8,831. The receipts from sales of Junior Cadet equipment from schools where the cadet corps have been disbanded amounted to £590. Staffs op Public Schools. The number of teachers in the public schools, exclusive of those employed in the secondary departments of district high schools, in December, 1913, and December, 1914, respectively, was as follows : —

Table E.—Number of Teachers employed in Primary Departments of Public Schools.

Men. Women. Total. Men. Women. Total. M.en. i women. xoiai. men. women. aol„i. Men. 1,603 142 1913. Women. 2,659 I 474 Total. 4,262 616| 1914. Men. Women. 1,628 2,820 139 470 Total. Adult teachers .. .'.," 1,603 2,659 4,262 1,628 2,820 4,448 Pupil-teachers .. .. 142 474 616| 139 470 609* 4,448 609* Total .. ...| 1,745 3,133 4,878 1,767 3,290 5,057 1,745 3,133 4,878 Number of Adult Teachers (included above). her of Adult Teachers [included al Head teachers .. .. 767 104 871 771 113 884 Sole teachers .. .. 486 812 1,298 483 829 1,312$ Assistants .. .. .. 350 1,743 2,093 374 1,878 2,252 Total .. .. 1,603 2,659 4,262 1,628 2,820 4,448 * Exclusive of 45 male and 278 female probationers. 767 104 486 812 350 1,743 871 1,298 2,093 f Exolusive of 41 male and 224 femalo probationers. J The number of sole teachers does not agree with the number of sole-teacher schools because of the fact that there are a number of half-time schools groups of which are in charge of a, sole teaoher, and also a number of side sohools the teaohers of which are not regarded as sole teachers.