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EDUCATION —continued. Primary and Post Primary : Annual report —continued. Report of the Superintendent, &c.—continued. Libraries, E.-2, 13. Notable advances during the year, E.-2, 14. Salary improvements, E.-2, 14. Trade schools, E.-2, 10. Training for Reservists, E.-2, 13. Vocational guidance, E.-2, 13. Tables— Financial— Education Boards, E.-2, 59. Secondary, combined, and technical schools and classes, E.-2, 72. Wanganui College Board of Trustees, E.-2, 84. Intermediate schools and department— Pupils, ages of, E.-2, 33. Pupils, staff, &c. : Roll and classification, E.-2, 33. Primary education and reports (extracts) of Education Boards— Children : Destination, E.-2, 19. Education Boards : Reports, E.-2, 25. Pupils : Age and attainment of, who left school, E.-2, 18. Schools — Correspondence : Roll, &c., E.-2, 25. Private primaryAges of pupils, E.-2, 24. Registered, E.-2, 23. Public primary— Age and sex, E.-2, 16, 18. Attendance, E.-2, 15. Average age of pupils, E.-2, 18. Classification, &c. : Number, E.-2, 15. Standard classes, &c., E.-2, 17. Secondary : Lower departments, E.-2, 25. Staff, E.-2, 20. Teachers — According to grade of salary, E.-2, 21, 22. Classification, E.-2, 20, 21. Examination status, E.-2, 54. Initial status on their admission, E.-2, 53. Number, E.-2, 53. Reports (extracts) of principals of training colleges, E.-2, 55. Qualifications on admission, E.-2, 54. Training of: University subjects taken by students, E.-2, 55. Secondary and technical education— District high schools (secondary department)— Pupils— Age of, at date of admission, E.-2, 49. Ages, E.-2, 49. Average attendance : Roll, free-place holders, E.-2, 47. Subjects taken by, E.-2, 50. Years of attendance, E.-2, 49. Post primary— Education, particulars relating to, E.-2, 34. Sohools (exclusive of district high schools)— Correspondence : Roll, &c., E.-2, 43. Pupils (full-time) — According to courses of instruction, E.-2, 39. Age, E.-2, 37. Age at date of admission, E.-2, 38, 49. Average attendance, roll, free-place holders, staff, &c„ E.-2, 35, 38. Boarding away from home, E.-2, 42. Subjects taken by, E.-2, 39, 41, 50. Years of attendance, E.-2, 38. Post-primary schools and manual instruction : Pupils (part-time)— According to occupations, E.-2, 44. Ages, E.-2, 44. Attending special manual-training centres. E.-2, 46. Combined roll, day and evening classes, E.-2, 45. Free-place and other pupils according to year of attendance, E.-2, 44. Private secondary schools — Ages of pupils, E.-2, 52. Roll, &c., staff, E.-2, 51. Schools — Correspondence, Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 8. Grounds : Improvement, D.-l, 58. School of Mines, C.-2, 5, 11, 12, 75. School Savings Branch, Post Office Savings-bank, F.-l, 17. Teachers' Superannuation Fund : Annual report, E.-8. Minister's report, E.-l, 46.

FANNING ISLAND— Closing of New Zealand postal agency, F.-l, 14. I , FINANCE — Broadcasting services, F.-3, 5. Education- — Child welfare, &c., E.-4, 20. Higher, E.-l, 40; E.-7, 7, 11, 17, 22, 28, 30, 40, 43. Minister's report, E.-l, 12, 13, 48. Primary and post-primary, E.-2, 59. Teachers' Superannuation Fund, E.-8. Minister's report, E.-l, 46. Government Superannuation Funds— Railways, D.-5. Teachers, E.-8. Iron and steel industry, C.-7, 4, 8, 9, 10. Lands — Drainage operations— Hauraki. Plains, C.-8, 1, 5. Rangitaiki land drainage, C.-11, 3. Swamp, C.-4, 3. Kauri-gum industry—Exports : Value, C.-12, 2. Lands for Settlement Act, 1925, C.-5, 2, 3, 6. National endowments, C.-14, 1. Scenery preservation, C.-6, 10. Settlement of Crown lands, C.-l, 20, 21, 33, 34, 52, 53. Settlement: Discharged soldiers, C.-9, I. Mining industry, C.-2, 1, 7, 10, 13, 14, 17, 19. State Coal-mines, C.-2a, 6-14. Native affairs— Board of Native Affairs, G.-10, 19, 28, 42, 50, 54, 59, 69, 73. Department : Annual report, G.-9, 4, 5. East Coast Native Trust lands, G.-3 ; G.-4. Post and Telegraph— Cable, radio-telegraph, and radio-telephone business transacted during the year, as compared with the year previous, table showing, F.-l, 39. Money-orders issued and money-orders payable in New Zealand since the year ended 1863, F.-l, 32. Paid telegrams and toll-calls (including cablo and radio messages and overseas toll-calls) during the year ended 31st March, 1938 and 1937, F.-l, 37. Receipts and payments, F.-l, 3, 5, 32. Revenue and expenditure for the year : Graph, F.-l, 39. Revenue under separate headings : Graph, F.-l, 40. Savings-bank, F.-l, 3, 17, 34, 35, 42. Letters of credit, F.-l, 18. School Savings Branch, F.-l, 17. Total turnover : Graph, F.-l, 41. Public works, D.-l, i, vi, 1-22, 23. Railways, D.-2, ii, xi, 1-31. State Forestry Service, C.-3, 32. FORESTRY— Bush preservation, C.-l, 2. Forestry Branch, Railways Department, D.-2, xxxi. Public Domains and National Parks, C.-10, 9. State Forest Service : Annual report— Forestry and land use problems, C.-3, 2. Forest policy, C.-3, 2. General— Commercial afforestation companies, C.-3, 33. Finance, C.-3, 32. Honorary forest rangers, C.-3, 33. Legislation, C.-3, 31. Recreation, C.-3, 32. List of common and botanical names of species mentioned in the report, C.-3, 37. Management, C.-3, 6, 37. Areas of State forests, C.-3, 8. Forest reconnaissance, demarcation, and surveys, C.-3, 11. Protection forests, C.-3, 10. State afforestation, C.-3, 12. Timber sales, C.-3, 12. Waitangi endowment, C.-3, 14. West Taupo timber lands, C.-3, 14. Objective versus methods, C.-3, 3. Protection— Fire control, C.-3, 4. Fires and fire districts, C.-3, 17. Forest fires, C.-3, 16. Forest Pathology, C.-3, 19. Forest protection : Animal destruction, C.-3, 18. General, C.-3, 15. Realities of forestry, C.-3, 4. Reports, summarized, on State afforestation in forestconservation regions, C.-3, 34. Single-use versus multiple-use forestry, C.-3, 3.

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