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There were fifty-seven holders of Government bursaries. Six degree and five diploma students completed their course during the year. Payments totalling £3,554 were made in respect of fifty-seven bursars, an average of over £62 for each. Number of Students receiving Free Education under the Eegulations for Free Places.

Twenty-one 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 a decrease of 468 as compared with the number for 1919, and the total number of senior free pupils shows a decrease of 54. 322 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 .. . . 586 students in 13 school districts. Taranaki Education District . . . . 270 „ 4 „ Wanganui Education District .. .. 551 ~ 5 ~ Hawke's Bay Education District .. ..149 ~ 1 ~ Canterbury Education District .. 80 ~ 1 ~ Totals .. .. ..1,636 24 During the year 943 returned soldiers attended as free students at technical classes in twenty - seven centres. Instruction was provided in the following subjects : Electrical, motor, and mechanical engineering ; plumbing ; wool-classing; sheep-shearing; art; carpentry and joinery ; and commercial subjects. The Repatriation Board, as in 1919, 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 :— Number on Roll. SohooL 1919. 1920. Christchurch Technical School. ~ .. .. ..1,368 1,598 Dunedin Technical School.. .. .. .. .. 1,377 1,302 Auckland Technical School .. .. .. ..1,285 1,236 Wellington Technical School .. .. .. .. 1.202 1,146 Palmerston North Technical School .. . . .. 580 695 Wanganui Technical School .. .. . . . . 619 677 Inveroargill Technical School .. . . .. .. 630 542 Capitation earnings for the year amounted to approximately £39,240, as against £42,802 earned in 1919. In addition to the class capitation earned, however, payments totalling £3,239, representing capitation, on account of part-time teachers and increases in salaries of full-time instructors, were made, making a grand total of £42,479. Technological examinations were conducted by the Department on behalf of the City and Guilds of London Institute at fourteen centres in the Dominion. The total number of entries was 292, an increase of 124 on the number for the previous year, and the number of passes was 185, or 63-3 per cent. A bronze medal was awarded to one candidate for electrical installation work, Grade I.

1919. 1920 Males. Females. Totals. Males. Females. Totals. ; Junior free pupils \ a s v" 1 (second year (First year Senior free pupils j Second year (Third year 982 543 424 253 124 739 1,721 463 1,006 461 885 323 576 176 300 757 558 449 252 118 518 426 410 284 194 1,275 984 859 536 312 Totals .. I 2,326 i 2,162 4,488 2,134 1,832 3,966