EDUCATION IN NEW ZEALAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9178, 29 August 1908, Page 4

EDUCATION IN NEW ZEALAND.

The annual report of the Department of Education shows that 2,005 schools were open in New Zealand at the end of 1907. The total average attendance for the year was 120,026, being a decrease of 1,932 as compared with the previous year's total. In 1904, 1905, and 190(3 there was an increase of 3,459, 3,75!), anil 1,(593 respectively. The hitrh standar.l of regularity of attendance of the years 1905 and 1906 (86.9) fell in 1907 to 84.6. Otago, which from 1901 to 1905 stood at the head of the list, again heads (he list with a percentage ot 88.2, Weatland coming second with a percentage of 87.8. Southland, with a percentage of 86.2, and South Canterbury, with 85.9, hold third and fourth places, respectively. As a whole the South Island shows a greater degree of regularity of attendance than the North, the respective rates being 85.6 per cent, and 83.7 per cent, of the average weekly roll. The decrease in total average attendance for the year 1907 was attributable in the main to epidemics of sickness which prevailed during a part of the year in almost all parts of the Dominion. In the North island the decrease was 1,035, and in the South Island 897. For every 100 boys on the roll there are 91 girls.