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The regulations made by Orders in Council since the publication of the former annual report are contained in the Appendix. Institutions for Secondary and Higher Education. It is provided by the Education Act that the Minister of Education shall submit an annual " lleport upon the Progress and Condition of Education in New Zealand." In compliance, therefore, with what appears to be clearly required by the Act, it is deemed adA risable to embrace in this report some information respecting the work accomplished last year by the institutions of a more or less public character which haA re been established for the promotion of secondary and higher education. But as the ltoval Commission uoav sitting Avill submit to your if Of Excellency a very full report on this subject, the information herein furnished is of a briefer character than would otherwise have been necessary. The higher and secondary educational institutions which have been established by Acts of the Colonial or of the late Provincial Legislatures, and Avhich have been in operation during the past year, are the University of New Zealand; the University of Otago ; Canterbury College; Auckland College and Grammar School; Auckland Girls' High School; Wellington College ; Canterbury Girls' High School; Otago Boys' High School, and Otago Girls' High School, Dunedin. To these may be added Nelson College, and Christ's College and Grammar School, Christchurch, Avhich are both incorporated by public Acts. The folloAving institutions of a less public character have been affiliated to the University of NeAV Zealand : St. John's College, Auckland; Church of England Grammar School, Auckland; Bishopdale Theological College, Nelson ; and Wesley College, Auckland. There are also the Boys' Trust School and the Girls' Trust School, Napier; Wanganui Collegiate or Industrial School; and the Bishop's School, Nelson; resjiecting all of which information has been readily furnished by the respective governing bodies. The annual reports respectively of the University of Ncav Zealand, the University of Otago, and the Canterbury College, Avith correspondence and papers, will be submitted to your Excellency in a separate form. The folloAving summary has been compiled from the returns furnished by the several governing bodies of the secondary schools :—

TABLE J. —Secondary or Iktermediate Schools.

* Exclusiv'3 of visiting teachers. t Approximate number. The University of New Zealand, the University of Otago, and Canterbury College, Avhich are for the higher education only, —and St. John's College, Auckland; Wesley College, Auckland ; and Bishopdale College, which are theological colleges

Secondary Schools. •C 2 o fl 2 9 is « 8 O a O*. sa 9s a CD [fi CO 3 . ii H a u '■5 M o Attei Last I or Ti IS H a o idauce I Quarter 31-m of 178. | s 1 *& Q_> Ages (whet Quarter c rS!2 a U :e g irTei rdCO ci u !2fl 0 iven) Last •in, 1878. CO . K al «S O H Ordinary DaySchool Fees per annum. '3 — - V o ?« 'or Boys— Auckland College and Grammar School Wellington College ... 1850 1877 7 7 214 198 4 142 OH 214 £ s. d. 8 0 0 1853 1872 6 6 73 71 2 56 13 2 73 (16 16 0) (l2 12 0) 12 12 0 (15 15 0\ 112 12 0) 8 10 0 14 Nelson College 1857 1858 5 6 105 lOOf 58 Christ's College Grammar School... 1855 1855 9 9 200 190 O 104 81 13 200 88 Otago High School, Dunedin 1863 1877 8 7 156 147 6 117 33 156 81 Barm 11 Church of England Grammar School, Auckland Trust School, Napier... 1855 3 2 3 73 57 71 51 37 7 56 10 0 0 4 12 8 8 0 (700) (.6 0 0) 8 8 0 Collegiate School, Wanganui 2 36f 36f Bishop's School, Nelson 1843 2 4 26 25 2 20 4 26 Totals 910 889 18: 'or Girls — Girls High School, Auckland 1877 1878 7 150 141 8 0 0 (12 12 0} I 9 9 0J (10 0 0 } (800) 4 0 0 Girls' High School, Christchurch... 1877 5 G 93 84 2 65 26 93 Girls' High School, Dunedin 18; l" 1877 5 G 132 122 2 99 29 2 132 Girls' Trust School, Napier 3 6 58 50 29f 29t 08 Totals 433 397