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account of staff salaries, an increase of more than 38 per cent, on the staff salaries paid in the previous year. An additional difficulty lies in the fact that the number of skilled tradesmen who have also been trained as teachers is very small in every branch of industry. In the larger schools some valuable work has been done in the direction of training young people in various trades with a view to their subsequent appointment as teachers. The efforts made in this direction are worthy of every encouragement, since the success of the whole system of technical instruction depends as much on the skill, knowledge, and enthusiasm of the teachers as on the industry and capacity of the students. In this connection it is hoped that regulations recently issued providing for the appointment of student teachers in technical classes in certain approved conditions will help towards the solution of a very pressing and difficult question.

Number of Students receiving Free Education under the Regulations for Free Places.

Twenty-five per cent, of the total number of students in attendance at classes held free places under the Government regulations. The total number of junior free pupils shows an increase of 247, as compared with the number for 1918, and the total number of senior free pupils shows an increase of thirty. 380 students held scholarships or free places provided locally. Included in the return of junior free pupils there is a number of young persons not otherwise qualified for a free place who have been recommended by an Inspector of Schools for free places in industrial classes. In certain districts the regulations for compulsory attendance at continuation classes were in operation during the year, the number of students in attendance being as follows :— Auckland Education District .. .. 501 students in 11 school districts. Taranaki Education District .. . . 183 ~ 4 ~ Wanganui Education District .. .. 519 „ 5 ~ Hawke's Bay Education District . . .. 121 ~ 1 ~ Canterbury Education District . . . . 48 ~ 1 ~ Totals .. .. ..1,372 „ 22 During the year 1,021 returned soldiers attended as free students at technical classes in thirty-one centres. Instruction was provided in the following subjects : Electrical, motor, and mechanical engineering ; carpentry and joinery ; and commercial subjects. The Repatriation Board, as in 1918, provided the funds for additional instructors and equipment wherever necessary. The following technical schools had a roll of more than 500, exclusive of the technical high schools carried on in connection with some of them : — a , , Number on Roll. SchooL 1918. 1919. Dunedin Technical School. . .. .. .. .. 1,147 1,377 Christchurch Technical School .. .. .. .. 1,276 1,368 Auckland Technical School .. .. .. ..1,047 1,285 Wellington Technical School .. .. .. ..1,139 1,202 Invercargill Technical School .. .. .. .. 550 630 Wanganui Technical School .. .. .. . . 578 619 Palmerston North Technical School .. .. .. 560 580 Capitation earnings for the year amounted to approximately £42,802, as against £34,917 earned in 1918. Technological examinations were conducted by the Department on behalf of the City and Guilds of London Institute at fifteen centres in the Dominion. The total number of entries was 168, a decrease on the number for the previous year, and the number of passes was seventy-seven.

1918. 1919 Males. Females. Totals. Males. Females. Totals. Junior free pupils !f rst r ar r 1 { Second year [First year Senior free pupils j Second year (.Third year 854 522 422 276 135 695 409 396 314 188 1,549 931 818 590 323 982 543 424 253 124 739 463 461 323 176 1,721 1,006 885 576 300 Totals 2,209 2,002 4,211 2,326 2,162 4,488

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