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The number of pupils on the rolls of the Native mission schools at the end of 1918 was 175, and on the rolls of the Native boarding-schools 471. The total number of children on the roll, at the end of the year, of Native village, mission, and boarding schools visited and inspected by the Inspectors of this Department was therefore 5,710. The following are the figures for the years 1917 and 1918 in respect of the three classes of Native schools mentioned :— 1917. 1918. Combined rolls of Native schools .. .. .. .. 5,784 5,710 Combined average weekly roll number .. .. .. 5,806 5,694 Combined average yearly attendance .. .. .. 5,073 4,927 Percentage of regularity of attendance . . .. .. 87-4 865 The increase in the development of the Native village schools since the year 1881, when they were transferred to the control of this Department, is shown in the following table: —

Native Village Schools.—Number, Attendance, and Teachers.

No account is taken in the above table of a number of schools that have from time to time been transferred to the various Education Boards. Table H2 in this report supplies the information for each school in regard to the roll number and average attendance. In addition to the Maori children in attendance at the schools specially instituted for Natives there were 4,854 Natives attending 509 public schools at the end of 1918, the number of pupils being 107 more than in 1917. The great proportion of these pupils are in the North Island, half of them being in. the Auckland Education. District. Details as to their age and classification are given in Table H5 of this report, from which it appears that the great majority of them are in the lower classes, the proportion reaching the higher standards being much smaller than in the case of Maoris attending Native schools. The total number of children of Maori or of mixed race on the rolls of the primary Native schools, public schools, Native mission schools, and secondary Native schools, together with such pupils as were receiving special technical training, at the end of the year 1918 was as follows : — 1. Primary schools— (a.) Government Native schools .. .. .. 4,472 (o.) Mission schools .. .. .. .. 175 (c.) Public schools .. .. .. .. .. 4,854 9,501 11. Secondary schools .. .. .. .. .. .. 471 111. Special technical training .. ~ .. .. . . 4 Total .. .. .. .. ... .. 9,976

Year. 1881 1886 1891 1896 1902 1907 1912 1915 L916 1917 1918 Number of Schools | at End of Year. 60 69 66 74 98 99 108 J17 118 118 119 Average Mean of Average . Average Attendance: p ™ nt „ S I Weekly Roll. Whole Year. „fXekfy Roll. 1,406 2,343 2,020 86-2 2,395 1,837 76-7 2,874 • 2,220 77-3 3,650 3,005 82-3 4,321 3.561 82-4 4,644 4,042 87-() 5,232 4,604 88-0 5.190 4,504 86-8 5.191 4,507 5,044 4,338 86-0 I Number o: Teachers in Charge. Male. Female. j 54 6 60 9 59 8 64 11 77 20 82 18 86 22 81 33 79 37 7J 45 73 43 [ Teachers. Assistant Teachers. Male. Female. 4 26 1 26 61 83 2 105 4 122 7 123 8 123 9 122 8 119