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TABLE K.—School Staff, December, 1902.

In addition to the teachers shown in this table several Boards employed relieving teachers whose numbers and rates of salary are given in Table 6 in the Appendix. The last column of Table X shows the number of pupils per teacher for all schools, but a fairer comparison of the numerical strength of the staffing in the various education districts may be made by excluding from the calculation the schools that are staffed without pupil-teachers. In practically only one district was the assistance of a pupil-teacher given when the average attendance was less than 41. Taking all schools with more than 40 pupils, there were on an average 40• 2 pupils to one adult teacher (two pupil-teachers being counted as one adult), Westland having the lowest average with 33 - 2 children per adult teacher, and Wellington the highest with 42-7. In 1901 the average for the colony was 43 - 2. In 1902 in schools with an average attendance of from 31 to 40, there were 212 adult teachers and 17 pupil-teachers, and a total average attendance of 6,904. .If these schools also are taken into account the average number of pupils per adult teacher would be 394, as against 41 - 9 in 1901. In short, the effect of the Public-school Teachers' Salaries Act has been to improve the staffing of the schools by reducing the average number of children under the charge of one teacher. It is to be feared, however, that in some cases the number of children actually under the charge of a single teacher considerably exceeds the number that the Act appears to indicate. It would probably tend to greater efficiency if, subject to the conditions of classification and the suitability of the several teachers for the various classes of each school, the average number under the instruction of any teacher or teachers did not in general greatly exceed the number indicated by the scale of staffs in the Schedule to the Act, which allows not more than sixty children for each adult teacher, and not more than thirty for each pupil-teacher, or on the average not more than forty-five for each member of the staff.

TABLE K1.—Comparison of Attendance, Number of Teachers, and Average Salaries of Adult Teachers in New Zealand, Australian States, and England.

Education Districts. Heads ol School. Sole ' Assistant Teachers. Teachers. Total Number ol Adult Teachers. Pupil- |»|8 |° teachers. gggl §° M. P. |58| l^g M. P. M. P. M. F. M. F. Total. Auckland Taranaki .. Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 139 7 22' 4 00 6 57i 7 36 6 8 1 28J 9 71 3 7 1 88 4 28 1 90 ! .. . 47 2: 122 22 47 24 11 10 16 1 40l 16 30 46| 108 22 41 62 23 40 69 20 J 23 75 25 87 j 52 50 6 23 35! 20 10 1 3 37 10 50 16 1 213 32 86 ! 110 55 12 29 14 10 157 43 1671 59; I I 11 I I 311 50 130 116 67 19 54 9 12 165 54 176 ; 109 328. 58| 133 : 179' 84 53 107 37 34 236 69 254 1 113 639 108 263 295 151 72 161 46 46 401 123 430 222 41 14 ? 3 2 134 20 43 86 55 10 36 10 6 82 16 77 29 24,476 3,914 9,585 12,580 7,046 1,745 4,809 1,380 1,015 16,681 4,455 17,784 8,241 30-1 30'l 300 32-3 31-9 21-0 24'0 23-8 19-5 330 30-3 34-1 31-2 14 13 Totals for 1902 .. Totals for 1901 .. I 617! 51 587 61 393 401 647 624 ! 262 234 ! i 987J 761 : j I: 1,272 1,222 1,685 1,446 2,957 2,668 143 184 604 771 113,711 112,158 30-7 31-0 Difference 30-10' ' 23 28 226 1 50 239 1 1 i 289 -167 -8 -41 1,553 -0-3

Country. S5 » 6 n I! Number of Adult Teachers. , .. Shg}° H Number ot 3«n* p.« a Pupil-teachers and 'S'S'SS ? a o Monitors. SgSiS £ S * » — a a»*. I a« s M. j P. Total. &£,§! I g 1 . < : JZ CO U III 1Mb Cβ rj-n <, Cβ << M. F. Total. New Zealand Queensland New South Wales Victoria Tasmania South Australia .. Western Australia England 1,754 113,711 99l| 72,683 2,700: 154,405 2,034! 150,271 338| 14,541 716i 42,104 245j 18,448 20,153|4,890,237i 1,272 818 2,370 1,585 215 359 227 |30,932 1,685 885 1,566 1,381 373 669 232 90,734 2,957 1,703 3,936 2,966 588 1,028 459 121,666 143 323 471 332 17 52 34 5,633 604 361 704 1,358 73 261 124 26,193 747 684 1,175 1,690 90 313 158 31,826 132 108 66 87 175 186 102 293 25 40 30 57 15 30 34 26 34-1 35-4 34-1 39-4 23-0 35'6 34-3 35-5 £ s. d. 133 1 0 138 6 4 143 5 9 153 12 0 80 7 8 123 5 2 145 13 4 * Two pupil-teac; ;ost of pupil-teachers salaries and allowance here are here reckor i and monitors, calc is and the balance n ned as e :u!ated eckonei [uivalei >n thei: as paid it to one average to adult adult. t To obtain > rates of salary, was Iβ figun leduotec )s in thii I from tl i column ie total e: the estimated [penditure on n.