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TABLE B.—School Attendance* for 1887.

As usual, this table shows a very remarkable number of additions and withdrawals of pupils in comparison with the whole number on the rolls. The true explanation doubtless is that a child moving from one school to another in the course of a year, or being absent long enough to have his name taken off the roll and then returning, counts for two in the enumeration. As the roll number was 106,328 in December, 1886, and there were 50,107 apparent additions to the roll in 1887, and only 110,919 names at the end of 1887, the apparent number of pupils leaving during the year is 45,516. The increase for the- year is the difference between 50,107 entries and 45,516 withdrawals. It is quite certain that there were not 50,107 new pupils during the year ; if there had been so many, the number of individual scholars during the year would have been 156,445, while there were in the whole country at the end of December not more than 158,000 Europeans between the ages of 5 and 15, and about 17,000 of these were attending private and secondary and Native schools. It is not possible to ascertain precisely how many new pupils entered, and how many old scholars finally left, but it is possible to fix minimum numbers for both. Since during the year 12,209 passed the Second Standard, and were promoted to the class preparing for the Third Standard, and yet the number below Standard 11. was increased by 598, there must have been a genuine addition of 12,807 to the

*Included in Table B are Maoris and half-castes to the number of 936, as follows: —

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Eoll Ni imbers. Strict Average. Average Daily Attendance. Working Average. 4 bi UJ friil yini Education Districts. Pupils at Beginning of Year. Admitted during the Year. Loft during the Year. Pupils belonging at End of Year. © IS I! Fourth Quarter. Whole Boys. Girls. Total. 1887. 1880. Auckland laranaki Wanganui Wellington .. Hawko's Bay Marlborough Nelson 18,680 2,204 5,671 8,235 4,857 1,604 4,719 1,423 1,820 18,343 4,158 20,035 6,857 10,824 1,064 3,256 5,053 3,390 810 1,926 780 523 9,101 1,746 8,180 3,454 8,503 873 2,248 3,077 2,785 680 1,232 595 423 7,399 1,320 6,135 2,524 21,001 2,395 6,679 9,611 5,462 1,734 5,413 1,608 1,920 20,045 4,584 22,680 7,787 17,033' | 1,597 5,139 7,072 4,251 1,238 4,052 1,190 l,490| 15,551 3,477 19,286! 6,010: 16,407 1,735 4,894 7,173 4,153 1,247 4,025 1,103 1,453 15,175 3,452 19,003 | 5,697 8,978 961 2,783 3,915 2,339 699 2,154 615 778 8,436 1,882 10,190 3,258 8,241; 17,2191 839 1 1,800 2,482! 5,265 3,502 7,417 2,114] 4,453 612: 1,311 2,032 4,186 626 1,241 754! 1,532 7,499- 15,935! 1,750: 3,632! 9,289 19,479j 2,861 6,119 16,834 1,853 5,025 7,431 4,319 1,296 4,146 1,195 1,526 15,589 3,598 19,231 5,894 79'G 75-5 75-5 77-8 78'3 77-3 77'0 74-2 77-9 77-4 78-1 84-5 76-7 79-8 73-8 74-0 78-2 78-4 77'5 77-1 75'4 77-0 75-7 78-3 83-5 77-0 Grey WestlancT North Canterbury .. South Canterbury .. Ofcago Southland Totals for 1887 .. Totals for 1886 .. 99,206 95,377 50,107 49,178 38,394 38,227 110,919 106,328 87,386 83,361 85,637 80,737 40,988 44,762' 42,601 89,589 40,581 85,343 87,937 83,405 79-1 78-6 78-6 Increase in year.. 3,829 929 1(67 4,591 4,025 4,900 2,226 2,020' 4,246 4,532 0-5

Education Districts. ire Maoi ris. Half-ci astes liv Maoris. ing as Hal: ;-castes: among }uropeai living us. Total. No. of Schools in which there were Native Children. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Auckland Paranaki ■Yanganui .Vellington .. rlawke's Bay.. tfarlborough .. kelson 46 1 15 22 46 38 14 13 28 84 1 29 35 74 4 ... 2 7 11 2 150 7 18 13 38 139 4 13 21 26 1 289 11 31 34 64 1 200 8 35 35 103 5 5 2 8 10 7 41 45 184 4 27 34 66 7 5 2 13 10 7 25 48 384 12 62 69 169 12 10 4 21 20 14 66 93 76 6 16 15 18 3 4 1 3 6 4 12 13 19 5 12 6 31 11 5 "5 io "2 "2 jrey iVestland STorfch Canterbury 5outh Canterbury )tago southland 6 2 7 5 12 7 5 2 18 9 12 7 2 1 1 3 1 1 4 4 2 1 2 "7 '34 45 3 1 21 48 10 1 55 93 Totals for 1887 Totals for 1886 155 213 124 155 279 368 35 66 29 41 64 107 314 343 279 276 593 619 504 622 432 472 936 1,094 177 185 Difference -58 -31 -89 -31 -12 -29 3 -26 -118 -40 -8 -43 -158