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Table A. —Pass-subjects.

Table B.—Pass-subjects (Numbers reduced to Percentages).

Class and Additional Subjects.

Note.—The above terms expressing degrees of profioienoy are used in the sense in which they are direoted to be used in Departmental Form No. 24. In the schools examined there were present on the dates of examination 19,036 children out of a roll-number of 20,428. The standard classes (Standards I. to VI.) were represented by 14,197 (present, 13,583), and of these 11,466 succeeded in passing their respective standards, the proportion of the roll-number of the schools so succeeding being 56-1 as compared with 56 of the previous year. The total number of schools is not altered, being just 200, as in the past two years, but the enrolment shows a further decline, for which the older settled parts of the district are chiefly

Classes. Presented. Examined in Standards. Passed. Schools presenting. Average Age of those that passed. Yrs. mos. _bove Standard VI. Standard VI. V. ... „ IV. ... „ III. ... II. ... I. ... 'reparatory Totals for 1899 Totals for 1898 ... * 326 ... 1,460 ... 2,299 ... 2,778 ... 2,923 ... 2,505 ... 2,233 ... 5,904 ... 20,428 ... 20,890 189 1,390 2,174 2,632 2,796 2,417 2,174 5,264 1,153 1,654 2,069 2,238 2,240 2,112 96 169 189 188 192 191 188 196 13 9 12 11 11 11 10 11 9 8 8 7 19,036 19,538 11,466 11,691 200 200 11 11 3* 3* * Mean of average age.

|School-roll. Class-roll. Passed, 1899. Passed, 1898. Classes. Presented. Present. School-roll. Class-roll. School-roll. Class-roll. Above Standard VI. Standard VI. ... V. ... IV. III. ... II. I. ... Preparatory 1-5 7-2 11-2 13-6 14-3 12-3 10-9 28-9 58-0 95-2 94-5 94-7 95-6 96-5 97-3 89-2 5-6 8-1 10-1 10-9 11-0 10-3 79-0 71-9 74-4 76-6 89-4 94-5 5-5 7-6 10-5 10-6 110 10-8 79-0 69-6 72-9 73-7 90-4 95-1 Totals ... 100-0 93-2 56-1 80-8 560 79-8

Class-subjects. Additional subjei its. Number of Schi ioIs. degree of Profioiency. GeoHistory. ( Standard II. only). Science and Objectlessons. Mental Arithmetic. Name of Subject. Number of Schools represented. Grammar. __ Excellent Good ... Satisfactory Fair ... Moderate Inferior 4 17 41 62 22 52 14 44 71 40 8 21 24 50 56 38 15 8 7 50 69 40 5 29 2 19 44 49 24 62 Repetition of poetry Drill Singing ... Sewing ... Comprehension of reading-matter 200 154 149 189 200 Total schools included in estimate 198 198 191 200 200