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Table F.—Progress in Education: A Comparison of the Number of Pupils under Instruction in the Several Branches of Education in the Years 1903, 1908, 1913, and 1918 respectively.

National Endowment. Byjtlie provisions of the Land Act, 1908, areas ol' laud, not to exceed in the total 9,000,000 acres, are set apart as national endow in cuts, and, after administration and other expenses allowed by law have been deducted, 70 per cent, of the balance is applied for the purposes of education. The sum thus applied amounted last year to £70,345, and was allocated as follows : Primary education, £45,259 ; secondary education, £5,252 ; technical instruction, £3,473 ; training colleges, £2,267; higher education, £.10,049; Native schools, £1,730; school for the deaf, £193 ; homes for backward children, £283 ; industrial schools, £.1,833.

1903. 1908. 1903. 1908. 1913. 1018. I9U3. IUU8. I. Primary education (including public and Native schools, and 130,516 148,180 lower departments of secondary sohools) II. Industrial and special schools III. Secondary elucation (including secondary sohools, secondary 5,818 7,742 departments of district high schools, technical high schools, and Maori secondary schoo's) IV. Continuation and technical education .. .. .. 6,588jj 13,051 V. University education ' .. .. .. .. .. 1,194 1,711 VI. Private schools not included above (principally primary) .. 15,009 , 18,367 Total undar instruction .. .. .. .. 165,700 189,051 VII. Total under instruction higher than primary (HI, IV, an.3 V 13,545 j 22,504 above) 1 Number of latter (Vll) receiving free tuition .. .. .. i ,2601 7,959 809 9,959 15,206 2,371 172,390 600 12,829 18,400 2,022 23,412* 191,391 19,428 220,163 27,536 248,657 33,251 16,970 12,574 * Government Statistician's figure, which includes 18,594 pupils of registered private primary si registered private secondary schools. 1 Approximate. S Kstiinat chools and 1,200 pupils of ted.