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Numbeb of Teachees Table No. 9, Appendix, pages 9-44, contains a nominal roll of the teachers employed at the end of the year in the schools of the several Board districts, with their positions in the schools, and their rates of emolument. The following is a classification of the teachers m each of the districts :—

TABLE E.—Number of Teachers.

The increase (148) in the number of teachers has kept about equal pace with that of the attendance, the average number of scholars to each teacher being 31 5, as against 31-9 a year previously. As usual, the largest increase (72) in any class is in that of the female pupil-teachers, which is about equal to the increase m all the other classes of teachers. There is again an actual fallmg-off in the number of male pupil-teachers employed. Of the whole number employed in the schools at the end of the year, there were 1,064 male teachers and 1,227 of the other sex, two years previously the numbers were 1,019 and 1,068, and five years ago (m 1878) they were 825 and 786 respectively In five years the number of teachers of sewing has increased from 80 to 122. The duties of the sewmg-teachers or work-mistresses are m almost every case limited to the giving of lessons to girls in needlework and other industrial branches during a portion of the school time. They are employed almost solely in the smaller schools, where the attendance does not warrant the employment for the whole of the school hours of a fully-qualified mistress or assistant mistress in addition to the master The proportion of certificated teachers employed m the public schools is yearly increasing Income and Expenditure op the Boards. In addition to the statutory grant of .£3 15s. for every child m average daily attendance at the public schools, the General Assembly last session voted money for the following purposes :— 1. For supplementary grants to Boards, at the rate of ss. for each child in average daily attendance 2. For grants to Boards, at the rate of Is. 6d. for each child in average daily attendance, for the support of scholarships established by them under the provisions of the Education Act. These are the only payments from the consolidated revenue that the Boards can make applicable to scholarships. 3. For the distribution amongst Boards of the sum of £4,000 by way of subsidy, with a view to aid and encourage them to make sufficient provision for the efficient inspection of the public schools. 4. For grants to Boards for the training of teachers. The amount voted was £8,000. 5. For special grants to Boards for school buildings.

Number of Teachers, exclusive of Teachers of Si during the Last Quarter of 1883. swing, em] iloyed 8. 9. 10. Education Disteicts. Males. Females. Average Attendance for Last Quarter ol 1883. Average Number of Pupils to each Teacher. Teachers of Sewing not included in preceding columns. 1. Teachers. 2. Assistants. 3. PupilTeachers. 4. Teachers. 5. Assistants. G. PupilTeachers. 7. Totals. Auckland Taranaki Wangarrui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborougli Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury Westland Otago Southland *162 19 53 38 26 20 41 130 35 27 144 68 24 18 1 9 6 12 36 18 14 15 10 6 38 89 4 9 82 16 98 10 18 29 16 6 41 33 14 18 32 4 152 13 26 63 28 8 490 61 126 169 95 42 126 446 95 81 433 127 13,348 1,458 4,155 5,344 2,940 1,141 3,424 13,462 3,045 2,289 17,070 4,538 27-3 24-0 33-0 31-6 31-0 25-1 27-2 30-2 32-0 28-2 39-4 35-7 40 6 18 3 2 6 19 8 5 45 6 45 4 10 46 8 130 30 12 84 25 6 1 38 12 14 11 Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 763 737 142 130 159 169 337 327 319 281 571 499 2,291 2,143 72,214 68,288 31-5 31-9 122 111 Increase or decrease 26 12 -10 10 88 72 148 3,926 - 0-4 11 * Including 5 visiting teachers.