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assistants ; in Class 11., three assistants ;in Glass 111., two assistants; in Glass IV., one assistant. And there shall be as many juniors as are required to make up the number of teachers here presoribed. The salaries shall be as follows :— Principal. — Class 1.. £400, and ss. oapitation for the exoess over 700 ; Class 11., £320, and sa. oapitation for the exoess over 400; Class 111., £260, and Bs. capitation for the excess over 250 ; Class IV., £225 and ss. oapitation for the excess over 150 ; Class V. (a), £200, fixed ; Class V. (6), £165, fixed ; Class V. (c), £140, fixod. Sole Teacher.— Class VI. (a), £130, for attendanoe 25 to 35 ; Class VI. (6), oapitation at £3 155., with £20 added, for 20 to 24; Class VI. (c), capitation at £3 15s. Assistants.— Class 1., £320, £260, £200, £150; Class 11., £260, £200, £150: Class 111., £200, £150; Glass IV., £150; Class V. (a), £130; Glass V. (b), £110 ; Glass V. (c), £90. Juniors.— £6o for one, £60 and £70 for two, £60, £70, and £80 for three ; £60, £70, £80, and £90 for four ; £100 for a fifth, and £100 for eaoh above that status. Pupil-teachers. —First year, £16; second year, £24 ; third year, £32 ; fourth year, £40. A pupil-teacher remaining after four years' service, and not promoted to be junior or assistant, will reoeive only suoh remuneration as will not make the average pay of the pupil-teaohers in the school higher than £28. Example. —Average, 839. School in Class I. Principal's salary, £434 15s. (£4OO and oapitation). Pour assistants—£32o, £260, £200, £150. Nine pupil-teachers (eight for 800, and one for 39). For 839 there must bo seventeen besides the principal; therefore there must be four juniors. On the 31st March, 1895, the working average was 109,044. Had the sohools been then organized on this scale, these would have been the results (the salaries of pupil-teachers being estimated at an average of £28): Class 1., 13 schools, 11,034 pupils; tuition cost per head, £2-328. Glass 11., 41 schools, 20,936 pupils; tuition cost per head, £2-581. Class 111., 36 schools, 11,408 pupils; tuition oost per head, £2-580. Glass IV., 63 sohools, 12,146 pupils; tuition cost per head, £2-641. Class V.(a.), 50 schools, 6,560 pupils; tuition cost per head, £2-942. Class V.(6.), 126 sohools, 11,624 pupils; tuition cost per head, £3-284. Class V.(c), 387 schools, 19,378 pupils; tuition cost per head, £4593. Class VI. (a.), 265 sohools, 7,796 pupils; tuition cost per head, £4-418. Class V 1.(6.), 154 sohools, 3,380 pupils; tuition coat per head, £4-661. Class Vl.(c), 296 schools, 4,782 pupils ; tuition cost per head, £3-750. Total, 1,431 schools, 109,044 pupils ; tuition, £3 ss. ljd. eaoh. Number of Teachers. —Principal, 716; sole, 715; assistants, 873; juniors, 265; pupil-teachers, 850: total, 3,419 (one for 31-9 pupils). Average pay of 3,419 teachers, £355,077-7 ~- 3,419 = £103 17s. Id. Capitation paid to Boards, £408,915; inspection subsidy, £4,000; cost of tuition, £355,077; available for management, inspection, and incidentals, £57,838. Wellington, July, 1895. Wμ. Jas. Habbns.

School-books.—Ciboular to Education Boards. The question of uniformity of school-books has been brought under the attention of the Minister of Education. The Minister deems it unlikely that the want of uniformity in sohool-books would often create serious iuoonvenience through removal of ohildren from one education district to another; on the other hand, he thinks that hardship might frequently be caused thereby through the removal of pupils from one sohool to another within the same education district; and he wishes to point out that this matter would be set right if every Education Board would see that the chief books, especially the Readers, were the same in all sohools under its jurisdiction. Under the regulations just issued the number of series of Readers authorised has been reducod from ten to six, but the Minister considers that there is still ample ohoice to enable Boards to suit the wants of their respective districts ; and he desires me to oall the attention of the Boards to the obligation imposed by the regulations of confining their choioe of books to those contained in the list of authorised sohool-books. I might suggest that the hardship that sometimes ensues when pupils are moved from one education distriot to another would largely disappear if Boards would adopt some suoh plan as that of buying from pupils second-hand books in good condition, the books so bought being either sold again or kept to be used as supplementary Readers when the Readers in use were changed. Geoboe Hogben, Education Department, Wellington, 4th July, 1899. Secretary for Eduoatioa. Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given ; printing (5,625 copies), £1110s. 6d.

By Authority : John Mackay, Government Printor, Wellington.—lB99. Price 6d.

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