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Table D.-Expenditure on Primary Education for each Individual on the Roll of the Schools for each of the Last Five Years.

Table F.—Progress in Education: A Comparison of the Number of Pupils under Instruction in the Several Branches of Education in the Years 1903, 1908, 1913, 1915, and 1916 respectively.

National Endowment. By. the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, areas of land, not to exceed in the total 9,000,000 acres, are set apart as national endowments, and, after administration and other expenses allowed by law have been deducted, 70 per cent, of the balance is applied for the purposes of education. The sum thus applied amounted last year to £60,180, and was allocated as follows : Primary education, £38,997; secondary education, £4,694; technical instruction, £2,424; training colleges, £2,012; higher education, £8,597; Native schools, £1,496; school for the deaf, £155; Homes for Backward Children, £155; industrial schools, £1,650.

Excluding expenditure on new buildings Including expenditure on new buildings £ s. 5 16 6 3 1912. d. 5 9 1913. 1914. 1915. 1916. £ s. (I. i £ s. d. : £ s. <1. £ s. d. 5 17 2 ' 6 2 11 6 11 11 6 15 11 6 7 1 6 12 7 6 18 2 7 10 i i Table B.—Expenditure on Secondary Ed the Schools for each cation POl 3P THE LA! r each Individual on the Roll of 3T Five Years. 1912. 1913. 1914. 1915. 1916. i 1915. 1916. £ a. d. ■ £ s. d. £ s. d. Excluding reserves revenue and expenditure on new 9 3 6 10 6 10 10 18 8 buildings Including reserves revenue and expenditure on new 14 2 8 16 5 4 16 15 7 buildings £ 12 17 s. 3 9 d £ s. d. 2 12 15 0 9 17 14 4

1903. 1908. 1913. 1915. 1916. I. Primary education (including public and Native 136,546 schools, all receiving free tuition) II. Industrial and special schools 136,546 148,180 172,390 184,288 186,994 809 731 579 III. Secondary education (including secondary 5,818 sohools, secondary departments of district high schools, teohnioal high sohools, and Maori secondary schools) IV. Continuation and technical education .. 6,533§ 5,818 7,742 9,959 11,266 12,000 15,206 18,247 17,586 6,533§ 1,194 13,051 V. University education.. .. .. .. 1,194 1,711 2,371 2,088 2,027 VI. Private schools not included above (principally 15,609 primary) 15,609 18,367 19,428 22,664 22,339* Total under instruction .. .. 165,700 165,700 189,051 22,504 239,284 241,525 220,163 VII. Total under instruction higher than primary 13,545 (III, IV, and V above) Number of latter (VII) reoeiving free tuition .. 4,260t 13,545 27,536 31,601 15,136 81,613 4,260t 7,959 12,574 16,338 * Government Statistician's figures, which includes 17,360 pupils of regi registered private secondary schools. t Appi istered private primary si roximate. § Estimat chools and 1. ;ed. ,004 pupils of