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1909. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: CAPITATION PAID TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS (RETURN SHOWING AMOUNT OF) FOR YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1909.

Return to an Order of the Bouse of Representatives dated the 25th November, 1909. Ordered, " Tbat there be laid before this House a return showing the amount of capitation paid to each secondary school in the Dominion during the year ended 31st March, 1900, and stating the amount of such capitation per scholar per annum."—(Mr. Russell.)

Capitation, Secondary Schools, Financial Year 1908-9.

E. O. Gibbes, Secretary for Education.

Education Department, Wellington, 2nd December, 1909.

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School. Amount paid. Rate of Capitation. Remarks. £ s. d. Whangarei High School ... 722 0 10 Auckland Boys' and Girls' Gram- 3,233 15 0 mar School Thames High School ... ... 503 15 0 New Plymouth High School ... 516 13 4 Wellington College ... ... 1,927 1 8 £ s. 10 15 9 5 9 0 6 6 9 5 d. 0 0 The claim for the third term (£1,509 5s. lOd.) was not paid until after the end of the financial year, and is therefore not included in this statement. 0 Including £4 5s. arrears, Sep-tember-December, 1907. 8 0 Including £27 15s. arrears for 1907. Napier High Schools ... ... 920 10 0 Palmerston North High School... 1,268 10 0 Dannevirke High School ... 684 8 4 Marlborough High School ... 935 5 0 Nelson College ... ... 2,160 15 0 Christchurch Boys' High School 491 0 0 Christchurch Girls'High School 1,66111 8 Rangiora High School ... 509 15 0 Ashburton High School ... 777 11 8 Timaru High School ... ... 688 15 0 Waitaki High School... ... 821 6 8 Otago Boys' and Girls' High 3,430 6 8 School Gore High School ... ... 354 5 0 Southland Boys' and Girls' High 2,764 15 10 Schools C-4,372 1 8 7 0 10 15 10 15 10 15 10 15 (6 0 "(4 5 9 15 10 0 10 15 6 3 8 0 8 3 10 15 10 15 0 0 0 0 0 Oj Average per scholar, £5 per 0J annum. 0 0 0 4 0 4 0 0