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TABLE M.—Teachers Certificated and Uncertificated, 31st December, 1897. (Numbers in brackets represent licensed teachers included in other numbers.)

If the results of examination of January, 1898, were taken into account, it would be necessary to revise Table M, to make it show 2,334 qualified by examination, and 215 unqualified, as follows: —" partial pass," 41; failed, 54; not examined, 120. At the examination of January, 1898, sixty-eight of the unqualified teachers satisfied the examiners. If these are added to the numbers in the first three columns they raise the number of teachers qualified by examination to 2,334. In a similar way the numbers in the other three columns after the examination would be as follows : —Partial pass, 41 ; failed, 54; not examined, 120. Education Boards. The annual reports and accounts of the Boards are given at length in the Appendix (pp. 63-87), and an abstract of their accounts in the same Appendix (pp. 4 and 5). Table Nis the summary statement of this abstract. TABLE N.—Absteact of Receipts and Expenditure of Boards. Dr. £ s. d. Or. £ s. d. To Balance, Ist January, 1897.. .. 12,005 13 3 By Boards'administration .. ... 12,536 14 11 Government grants — Inspection and examination .. 12,614 18 5 Maintenance .. .. .. 393,358 14 3 Teachers'salaries and allowances, and ; Buildings .. .. .. 57,527 1 3 training .. .. .. 362,985 11 7 Technical .. .. .. 1,153 9 0 Incidental expenses of schools .. 36,918 410 Reserves revenues .. .. .. 38,857 1 9 Scholarships .. .. .. 7,883 3 5 Local receipts— Interest .. .. .. .. 205 5 7 Pees, donations, &c. .. .. 3,859 0 3 Buildings, sites, plans, &c. .. .. 60,485 18 7 Rents, sales, &o. .. .. 859 14 4 Refunds and sundries .. .. 234 16 10 Interest.. .. .. .. 175 2 8 Balances.. .. .. .. 14,317 17 3 Refunds, deposits, &c. .. .. 386 14 8 £508,182 11 5 £508,182 11 5 Owing to the lateness of the second session of 1897 the greater part of the year's building vote was not distributed to the Boards until the new year, and this accounts for the smallness of the sum entered under the head of "Balances "on the credit side of Table M. In Table O this part of the building vote is included in the assets. Tables O and P show what was the financial position of each Board at the beginning of 1898.

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Education Districts. . SI o 43 u fa 3. <nr3 CO p>, o .a a ft a»a CO Bβ s Sag, go 3 Pupil-teachers having Certificates, not included in Column headed " Certificated Teachers." Auckland Taranaki .. :.. Wanganui Wellington Hawke'a Bay i.. Marlborough Nelson .. Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 493 69 140 184 100 32 95 27 26 373 103 430 172 1 5 1 1 4 1 1 17 2[1] 8[1] 6 8 3 9[1] 4[1] 4 18 7 2 4[1] 6 2[1] 4[1] 2 13 [2] 5 2[1] 3 8[1] 4 12 24 7 [2] 36 27 8 13 4 529 78 164 220 115 75 148 45 46 399 112 433 185 50 11 23 3 1 7 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 4 2[1] 3 9 Total for 1897 Total for 1896 Total for 1895 Total for 1894 Total for 1893 Total for 1892 Total for 1891 Total for 1890 2,244 2,179 2,084 1,984 1,914 1,826 1,753 1,674 2 i 6 5 i 0 7 5 20 17 24 24 a2 19 17 21 92 [5] 96 [15] 90114] 85 88 94 107 142 45 [6] 42 [5] 36 [4] 42 48 54 58 57 146 [3] 134 [5] 127 [5] 120 125 131 132 139 2,549 2,469 2,366 2,260 2,201 2,130 2,074 2,038 111 106