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5. STATEMENT RESPECTING CLASSES HELD UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF "THE MANUAL AND TECHNICAL ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION ACT, 1895," DURING ONE TERM OF THE YEAR 1897.

Subject. Number oi Meetings per week. Number of Hours per meeting. Total Hours. Number of Students. Average T °™ Attendance. f Country. Technical School Association, Auckland, for term ending 10th July, 1897. Association, i Auckland, fo; term ending 10th July, 1, 19?. (Classes are held for four terms of ten weeks each.) ies are held fo; >r four terms if ten weeks ei &ch.) 8-0 5-0 8-5 5-6 5-1 62 6-3 9-4 6-5 102 8-8 8-1 Freehand drawing .... 2 2 40 11 8-0 Town Mechanical drawing .... 2 2 40 7 5-0 „ Architectural drawing .... 2 2 40 12 8'5 Carpentry and joinery .... 2 2 40 7 5-6 Staircasing and handrailing .. 1 2 20 6 51,, Wood-carving ...... 1 2 20 7 6'2 Plumbing (practical) .... 2 2 40 10 6-3 Marbling and graining .... 1 2 20 13 9'4 „ Algebra and geometry .... 1 2 20 10 65 „ Shorthand ...... 1 1 10 11 102 Cookery ........ 1 2 20 15 88 Dressmaking (two classes) .... 2 2 40 9 8 - l „ 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 40 40 40 40 20 20 40 20 20 10 20 40 11 7 12 7 6 7 10 13 10 11 15 9 Town Totals .. .. 18 .. 350 118 87-7 18 350 118 87-7 Mr. W. I. Robinson's Classes at Auckland, Remuera, and Onehunga, for term ending 30th June, 1897. '.emuera, and Onehunga, fi ir term emfe (Classes are held for four terms of thirteen weeks each.) Machine construction and applied 3 2 68 39 27'4 Country mechanics (two classes) Mechanical drawing and engineering 1 2£ 30 12 9"7 Town Mechanical drawing and machine . 1 1J 15 6 5'5 , construction Mechanical drawing and solid geo- 2 2 and 3 63 28 17-6 „ metry (two classes) :our terms of thirteen week: 3 each.) 39 2 68 81 1J 30 15 12 6 2 and 3 63 28 Totals .... 7 .. 176 85 60-2 176 85 60-2 Education Board, Auckland: Devonport School, for term ending 3rd June, 1897. (Class is held for three terms of three months each.) Woodwork .. .. .. | 2 | 2 | 48 | 19 | 11-4 | Town Education Board, Auckland: Remuera Sclwol, for term ending 30th June, 1897. (Class meets for four terms in a year.) Woodwork .. .. .. | 1 | 3 | • 36 | 8 | 6-0 | Town Gisborne Technical Instruction Society, for term ending September, 1897. Bookkeeping ...... 1 2 22 11 110 I Country. Shorthand ...... 2 2 20 8 7-7 Totals .... 3 .. 42 19 18-7 42 111 18-7 Misses Bardie and Manning's Classes at Napier and Hastings, for terms ending June and August, 1897. (Classes meet for four terms in a year.) Shorthand (six classes) .. .. | 14 | 1 to 3 | 267 | 39 | 28-4 i Town Education Board Wanganui, Technical School, for term ending 30th April, 1897. (Classes meet for four terms of ten weeks each.) Drawing from models .... 3 2 68 7 52 | Town. Drawing ornament from the cast .. 3 2 68 5 4-5 „ Building construction .... 3 2 68 3 2-7 „ Machine drawing ...... 3 2 68 3 2-6 Painting from the antique .... 1 2 20 6 56 Painting from the living model (mono- 2 2 48 6 5-7 chrome) Drawing from the cast .... 2 3 75 2 18 Painting still life in oil (two classes).. 3 3 and 4 123 5 4-8 Painting figure from the cast (two 3 7 111 2 2-0 classes) Painting from living model in colour. .1 3 36 10 93 Freehand from flat examples .. 1 2 24 12 10-7 „ Scale drawing ...... 1 2 24 12 10 7 Practical plain geometry .... 1 2 24 8 5-6 „ Blackboard freehand .... 1 2 24 8 5-6 Practical solid geometry .... 1 2 24 5 4'8 „ Model drawing ...... 1 2 24 5 4-8 Painting from the cast .... 1 4 44 1 l - 0 „ Shading from models .... 1 4 48 1 1-0 „ Totals .. .. .. 32 .. 921 101 88-4