GIRLS AND BOYS.
For every hundred boys on the Dominion school roll there- are 91 girls (says the Education Department's report). Last year (19/09) it 'was pointed out that according to the census of 1906 there were, in New Zealand, between, the ages of -five .and fifteen., 97' girls for every 100 iboys. Deducting tfoe .number of scholars oyer fifteen years'bf age, we find that in New "Zealand" schools there are only 9b girls to every .100 boys. Using tlie same tests as were used in last year's report, we find that the proportion in the .case of children between five and sevcnjs 90 to 100. It would therefore appear, that -fche discrepancy is evenly distributed over the whole school age, 'and that it arises chiefly from the fact that there are a certain number of parents wiho think that it is not :so necessary for a girl -to receive as sound an education as a boy.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10441, 5 October 1911, Page 4
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157GIRLS AND BOYS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10441, 5 October 1911, Page 4
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