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Number of Classes in certain Subjects of Technical Instruction held in 1920 and 1921. 1920. 1921. Art and artcrafts .. .. .. .. 238 211 Mechanical and electrical engineering, theoretical and practical 239 230 Building-construction, carpentry, plumbing, and other trades 252 218 Experimental and natural science, practical mathematics, &c. 143 110 Agriculture, wool-sorting, dairy-work, &c... .. .. 103 22 Domestic subjects .. .. .. .. .. 405 389 Commercial subjects .. .. .. .. .. 346 375 Subjects of general education .. .. .. .. 353 397 Totals .. .. .. .. ..2,079 1,952 The total number of classes shows a decrease compared with that for 1920, due mainly to the exclusion of teachers' classes and a falling-off in the number of woolclassing classes. " College " classes were conducted in connection with the Auckland University School of Engineering, Canterbury College School of P]ngineering and School of Commerce, Otago University School of Domestic Science and School of Commerce, the total capitation earnings for these classes for the year being £2,945. The School of Domestic Science in Otago University was attended by seventyfive students taking either the course for the degree or that for the diploma. Eleven Government bursaries were awarded in 1921, making a total of forty-four tenable during the year. Four degree and eighteen diploma students completed their course. Payments totalling £3,069 were made in respect of the forty-four bursars, an average of nearly £70 each. Graduates from this school are now filling important positions throughout the Dominion as instructors in home-science, and their influence in this important phase of the training of our girls is already very marked.

Number of Students receiving Free Education at Technical Schools other than Technical High Schools.

Nearly 23 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 75 as compared with the number for 1920, and the total number of senior free pupils shows a decrease of 56. 495 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 .. .. 638 students in 14 school districts. Taranaki Education District .. . . 229 ~ 5 ~ Wanganui Education District .. .. 478 ~ 3 ~ Hawke's Bay Education District .. 115 ~ 1 „ Nelson Education District .. . . 1 ~ 1 „ Canterbury Education District .. .. 124 „ 1 ~ Totals .. .. ..1,585 25 During the year 644 returned soldiers attended as free students at technical classes in twenty-one centres. The Repatriation Board, as in 1920, provided the funds for additional instructors and equipment wherever necessary.

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T . ,. ., I First year Junior tree pupils a j. r r (Second year (First year Senior free pupils \ Second year I Third year Males. 757 558 449 252 118 1920. Females. Totals. 518 1,275 426 984 410 859 284 536 194- 312 1920. Males. 773 497 429 302 126 1921. Females. 572 342 360 256 178 Totals. 1,345 839 789 558 304 Totals 2,134 1,832 3,966 2,127 1,708 3,835