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The number of teachers employed in December and classified according to certificate held was

Approximately 40 of these 399 teachers were employed as. relieving teachers, and this, in part, accounts for the increase in the number of uncertificated teachers over 1947 figures (64). In addition to the number of teachers given in the above table, there were 19 probationary assistants and 114 junior assistants employed. An increasing proportion of teachers employed in Maori' schools are those teachers who entered the training colleges under the Maori quota, and it is pleasing to note from the following table that, of the total number who have qualified since the first Maori quota students entered training college in 1940, so many are still actively engaged in teaching. The staffing problem of Maori schools would undoubtedly have been more serious if there had not been such a good response for the Maori quota over the past eight years.

Maori Schools' Quota for Training Colleges

I wish to thank the Auckland, Hawkes Bay, and Wanganui Education Boards for inviting an Inspector of Maori Schools to sit on the Training College Selection Board when applicants for entry to training colleges under the Maori quota were being interviewed. With the opening of the Ardmore Teachers' Training College, most of the students under the Maori quota were transferred to the new college. 3. Primary Education The continuance of the poliomyelitis epidemic delayed the opening of primary schools until the Ist March, 1948. The shortening of two consecutive school years threw a heavy burden on both pupils and teachers, but I am happy to report that by judicious modification of courses and an intensification of effort a good deal of leeway was overtaken by the end of the year.

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Classification. Males. Females. Total. A Certificate 1 1 B Certificate 36 ii 47 C Certificate 125 127 252 I) Certificate 9 17 26 Uncertificated 7 66 73 Totals 178 221 399

Number Admitted Number Number Year. to Training Completing Still Engaged College. the Course. in Teaching. 1940 4 4 3 1941 9 9 5 1942 18 16 11 1943 16 12 7 1944 20 17 10 1945 21 17 12 1946 29 24 24 1947 32 28 28 1948 37 *32 *32 * Still at training college.