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TABLE F1. —School Staff, December, 1905.

In addition to the teachers shown in this table, several Boards employed re-lieving-teachers, whose numbers and rates of salary are given in Table 1 in the Appendix. » The last column of Table Fl shows the number of pupils per teacher for all schools, the difference in the numbers in the several districts being chiefly due to the larger or smaller number of schools in grades 0 to 3 in proportion to those in higher grades.

TABLE F2.—Comparison of Attendance and Number of Teachers in New Zealand, other British Colonies, and England.

In the United States, on the 30th June, 1903, there were 280 female teachers employed in the common schools to every 100 males. (Five years previously there were only 210 females to each 100 males ; while in 1879-80 the figures were 133 to 100). These figures, taken in conjunction with those in column 6of the above table, will probably be of spacial interest at the present time, as they show the number of women employed as teachers in elementary schools for every hundred men so employed in the principal English-speaking countries of the world. In England and America the proportion of women to men among the adult teachers is very much higher than it is in any of the other countries named ; in the Province of Quebec, indeed, it is as high as seven to one. The numerical predominance of women in the profession is also more marked in South Australia, Cape Colony, and Tasmania, than in New Zealand; the four remaining States of Australia show, on the other hand, a smaller proportion of women, the male teachers being in the majority in New South Wales and Victoria. The ratio of male to female teachers in New Zealand remained the same for 1905 as for 1904 —100 to 141. It is, however, noticeable that whereas in 1904 the number of female teachers increased by 71 and the number of male teachers by only 2 there was in 1905 an increase of 38 females and 30 males. This

Education Districts. ! I Heads of Sole Assistant Total Number of School. Teachers. Teachers. Adult Teachers. _l 1 M. I F. M. F. I M. F. M. I F. Tota ! I : J 9 o— fa 2 w A xn 2 a t, •■> ed . eo in — O Pupil- s- 9-2 © So teachers. g2-?S 3-2 ■4S&* A3c 'ZZa, ©-a© ffai V h5 a £ - rH ed M. F. «<$? !-» X s* < M. I F. Total. 1 Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 133 21 71 62 44 10 28 8 5 85 26 95 48 6 4 7 6 4 1 4 148 21 51 30 12 4 18 119 27 56 56 34 44 62 21 24 So 32 87 70 51 7 16 43 19 1 6 2 1 36 10 47 14 236 35 104 126 70 13 43 13 8 159 40 171 62 332 49 138 135 75 15 52 10 9 155 51 178 103 361 66 167 188 108 56 109 37 32 245 73 25S 133 693 115 305 323 183 73 161 47 41 400 124 436 236 35 3 11 9 7 "3 124 17 43 85 43 8 25 4 3 76 15 57 28 27,507 4,252 10,774 14,071 7,029 1,633 4,831 1,381 901 16,871 4,501 17,438 8,476 32-3 315 300 337 32-7 202 260 25 6 20-5 333 30 6 33-5 302 1 1 3 34 15 36 41 31 8 27 17 1 Totals for 1905 .. Totals for 1904 .. 636 619 35 38 413 415 720 709 25:! 238 10S0 1050; 1,302 1 272 j_] 30 1,835 1,797 3,137 3,069 68 151] 144| 5231 505 120,265 116,506 31-5 31-3 Difference i \ 17! ! -3 -2 11 15 I 30 ! 38 7 23 3,759 0-2

1 3 4 5 6 7 8 Country. 03 CO O 3 ■§ A co CO © o tc3 ed Jd 5-t T3 > 3 Number of Adult Teachers. Number of Pupil-teachers and Monitors. to 43 « O h Q 1—I ffl § 3^^; •rt 33 - :H 0) J) 0 cj -t o ri O 2"tf.a Pn e3 . tH -» « M o u oH ■2§o-* So)-. I" 5 r5 O CO u rr- © £-S~ = o o ill 3g o ■2-335 jz © M. F. Total. M. F. Total. New Zealand Que' nsland .. New South Wale? Victoria Ta-mania .. Smith Aus'ralia Wis ern Australia Quebec Ontario Cape Colony England 1,827 1,003 2,817 1,922 336 715 202 6,212 6,062 2,734 20,173 116,506 69,035 153,304 145,500 13,803 42,752 20,283 246,319 261,480 126,860 5,047,129 1,272 850 2,581 1,561 22G 349 229 1,304 2,294 1,877 31,819 1,797 932 1,711 1,256 360 660 271 9,43:-! 7,073 3,411 95,158 3,06! 1,785 4,292 2,817 592 1,009 500 10,737 9,367 5,288 126,977 144 287 441 350 23 54 42 505 30! 594 1,219 7(i 248 133 04! 5!K 1,03; 1,569 9! 305 175 141 110 66 80 162 : "1S9 §118 T722 308 ,-•182 "299 21 33 24 56 17 30 35 34-3 33-5 31-9 40-4 21-6 36-9 36-3 22-9 27-1 20-5 34-9 29,028 11822 35,149 35 28 6,121 * Extracted from last year's annual repo: ■t. t Two pupil-teachers are here (column 8) reckoned as equivalent to one adult.