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carriage-builder, 1; clerks, 8; cabinetmakers, 7; coffee-grinder, 1; drapers, 6; dressmakers, 4; engineers, 11; electrical engineer, 1; engravers, 5; fitters, 2; grainers, 2; grocers, 2; ironmongers, 5; jewellers, 1; lithographic artist, 1 ; machinist, 1 ; milliner, 1; moulder, 1; mining engineers, 2 ; patternmakers, 2 ; photographic artists, 3 ; photographic printer, 1 ; plasterers, 3; plumbers, 2 ; painters, 9 ; printer, 1; retouchers, 8 ; storeman, 1; saleswomen, 4 ; signwriters, 6 ; students, 14; tailoress, 1; teacher, 1; wireworkers, 2; no occupation, or home duties, 10: total, 161.

REPORT OF THE RECTOR OF THE TRAINING COLLEGE. Sir, — I have the honour to submit my report on the Training College for the year 1892. The following was the attendance : First-year students—l 6 males, 27 females; second-year students—2o males, 15 females; third-year students—4 males, 1 female; fourth-year students— 1 male, 1 female : total, 41 males, 44 females. No change was made in the teaching staff during the year. The following are the results of examinations affecting the students' classification as teachers: Twenty-one students kept terms at the Otago University. Three passed the New Zealand University honours examination, securing the M.A. degree ; three passed the B.A. degree examination, and qualified for B certificate; five passed the first section of the B.A. degree examination, and qualified for C certificate ; one received a partial pass for C certificate; nineteen passed the New Zealand University matriculation examination. Twenty-five passed the D examination, and ten made a partial pass—most of the latter have to pass in only one subject to complete their examination for D certificate; four passed the E examination, and one made a partial pass; eighteen received special mention for excellence in the D and E examinations—one of them in six subjects, one in three subjects, and six in two subjects. The students devote every fifth week during the session to practice in teaching and management of classes in the ten associated schools of the city and suburbs. The students attending the University take their practice in teaching during the recess. The verbal and written reports of the headmasters show that good work is being done. Every Friday afternoon is devoted to model and criticism lessons in the Normal School. A large proportion of time and attention is thus devoted to the practical part of the student's training. I have to thank the headmasters and assistant teachers of the associated schools for the valuable help so cordially given us in this important department of our work. At the request of the Board I visited the Wakari School, and observed Mr. Patterson's method of teaching two blind pupils along with the other pupils of the school. I have since taught several of the second-year students to read and write the embossed Braille type for the blind. Want of the necessary apparatus prevented us taking up arithmetic. The students should have no difficulty in acquiring a knowledge of the system and its simple apparatus sufficient to enable them to begin the education of blind children, should such be in the neighbourhood of schools to which they are appointed. With sympathy, patience, and ordinary skill, I have no doubt they would be successful in the work. I have, &c, The Secretary, Otago Education Board. W. S. Fitzgerald, Eector.

INSPECTORS' REPORT ON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS. Sir, — We have the honour to submit our report on the special work of the District High Schools for the year 1892.

Palmerston District High School.

Subject. Class. Pupils examined. Amount of Work done. English Latin French Geometry I. I. II. III. IV. V. I. I. II. III. I. II. III. IV. I. 15 1 0 5 3 4 3 1 6 8 1 6 8 13 15 Hamlet, Clarendon Press Edition. Principia Latina, II.; Book V. of Boman History; Ceesar, The Helvetian War; Grammar. Principia Latina, I., and of Part II. 2nd Book of History. Principia Latina, I., and Mythology of Part II. Principia Latina, I., and Fables of Part II. Principia Latina, I., 32 Exercises. Macmillan's First French Course. Euclid, Books I., II., III., IV., and VI. Euclid, Books I. and II. Definitions of Book I. Hamblin Smith's, 233 pages. Hamblin Smith's, 163 pages. Hamblin Smith's, 113 pages. Hamblin Smith's, 61 pages. Goyen's Higher Arithmetic and Mensuration. Algebra Arithmetic and Mensuration Book-keeping ... English Composition I. I. 0 15 Chambers's Book-keeping. Dr. Wm. Smith's English Composition.