E.—l.

The salaries of the teachers, pupil-teachers, and sewing-mistresses at the the end of the year amount to £353,409. When this sum is divided by 3,706 the quotient is .=£9s 7s. 3d. At the end of 1895 the average of the salaries was £94 14s. Bd.

TABLE L.—Salaries of Teachers, December, 1896.

Omitting pupil-teachers and sewing-mistresses, the number of teachers at the end of the year was 2,469. As is shown in Table M, 2,179 then held certificates, and 18 others had passed the certificate examination. The remaining 272 are accounted for as follows: 96 had obtained "partial pass," 42 had failed at examination, and 134 had not been examined by the department.

TABLE M.—Teachers Certificated and Uncertificated, 31st December, 1896. (Numbers in brackets represent licensed teachers included in other numbers.)

If the results of examination of January, 1897, were taken into account, it would be necessary to revise Table M, to make it show 2,241 qualified by examination, and 228 unqualified, as follows: "partial pass," 64; failed, 44; not examined, 120. Education Boaeds. The annual reports of the Boards will be found in the Appendix (pp. 62-95), as also an abstract of their accounts (pp. 4-5). Table Nis a summary statement of the totals shown in the abstract of accounts.

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Education Districts. Sewing- Pupil- Other mistresses, teachers. Teachers. Under £100. £100 and £200 and under under £200. £300. Sm (Maximum, * 4UU - £304). Number of Teachers. Total of Bates of Salary, December, 1896. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson 67 26 10 ~2 237 26 100 169 79 13 39 15 17 145 42 99 62 213 30 42 78 24 53 86 26 31 150* 30 132* 24 240 41 97 78* 67 18 52 16 13 198 67 216 140 38 3 21 39 10 3 8 3 ■2 81 7 59 13 12 2 9 5 2 1 809 126 262 383* 192 89 185 60 63 574* 167 555* 241 £ s. d. 69,012 0 0 9,455 2 0 27,240 5 0 34,646 18 0 19,914 12 6 5,820 10 8 15,222 0 0 5,002 10 0 4,812 5 3 57,760 16 0 15,261 10 0 63,216 9 10 26,044 0 0 Grey Westland North Canterbury .. South Canterbury .. Otago Southland 36 18 32 13 3 15 2 1 2 Totals for 1896 191 1,043 919t 1,243* 243 61 6 3,706J 353,408 19 3 Totals for 1895 2,153 2,064 1,223 222 6a 5 3,576 338,774 7 9 Difference 89 20 2] -1 130 14,634 11 6 * Includes one vacancy. + Includes two vacancies. J Includes three vacancies.

Education Districts. 5SEH O ii $ kit "vo£ .H a a s o a CO a a •11 go j3 Pupil-teachers having Certificates, not included in Column headed " Certificated Teachers." Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Maryborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 481 62 137 173 97 34 95 26 29 366 101 419 159 2 1 9 • i :-i 8[1J 6 6 2 12 [1] 7 [5] 4 20 6 1 9 [5] 6 6[1] 3 4[1] 2 14 [1] 2 1 2 7[1] 4 [2] 11 19 6[1] 34 21 10 12 4[1] 505 74 162 203 113 74 146 45 46 392 107 423 179 53 2 3 27 4 4 3 2 3 3 2 i i'PJ 6 7 Total for 1896 Total for 1895 Total for 1894 Total for 1893 Total for 1892 Total for 1891 Total for 1890 2,179 2,084 1,984 1,914 1,826 1,753 1,674 1 5 5 4 (i 7 5 17 24 ■2i 22 L9 17 21 96 [15] 90 [14] 85' 88 94 107 142 42 r 5] 36 [4] 42 48 54 58 57 134 [5] 127 [5] 120 125 131 132 139 2,469 2,366 2,260 2,201 2,130 2,074 2,038 106