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travelling-allowance not exceeding £10 per annum is paid when necessary in addition to the salary or allowance. The salaries of organizing teachers, amounting to £7,250, are not included in any of the figures given above. Status of Teachers in regard to Certificates. (Tables E2 and E3 in E.-2.) The table below gives a summary of the position with regard to the number of primary-school teachers who held teachers' certificates in the years named.

Primary Teachers in Public Schools.

The percentage of certificated teachers (72) shows an increase of 1 compared with the previous year, and the percentage holding certificates higher than the D certificate an increase of 2. Taking men and women separately, it appears that 81 per cent, of the men teachers are certificated and 67 per cent, of the women teachers, the fact of the great majority of the small country schools being staffed by women teachers accounting for the difference in favour of the men. If schools with an average attendance of twenty and under are excluded, the proportion of certificated teachers is 81 per cent. The following table shows the number of teachers holding the various certificates in 1918 and 1919 : —

Classes of Certificates held by Primary-school Teachers.

Training of Teachers. (E.-2, Appendix D.) There are four training colleges situated in the four principal centres of the Dominion, which are open to four classes of students, as follows : Division A, ex-pupil-teachers, ex-probationers, or ex-trainees of recognized kindergarten schools who have obtained the necessary educational qualification; Division B, other students who have passed Matriculation or obtained a higher leaving-certificate ; Division C, University graduates admitted for one year ; and Division D, teachers entering on short-period studentships. The numbers of students in attendance during the last quarter of 1919 under the various divisions were —Division A, 516, Division B, 51 ; Division C, 4 ; and Division D, 11 : the total being 582, as compared with 500 for the previous year; 323 students were first-year students and 259 were second-year students.

1914. L91i 191' 1918. 1919 Nurabcr - centage. Number. [ Percentage. Number. I Percentage. Number. p ? r " centage. Number. Pcr:entage. I. Certificated teachers 3,282 74 3,322 71 3,323 71 3,426 71 3,577 72 I. Uncertificated teaohers — (1.) Holding licenses (2.) Unlicensed 90 1,076 2 24 82 1,306 1 28 99 1,285 2 27 107 1,285 2 27 122 1,301 2 26 Total uncertificated .. 1,166 26 1,388 29 1,384 29 1,392 29 1,423 2S Totals of I and II .. 4,448 100 4,710 100, 4,707 100 4,818 100 5,000 100

Class of Certificate. M. 1918. 1919. M. F. Total. F. Total. A R (1 30 178 504 360 44 7 68 841 1,146 248 37 246 1,345 1,506 292 38 186 622 419 38 8 64 885 1,102 215 46 250 1,507 1,521 253 c. ID Total 1,116 2,310 3,426 1,303 2,274 3,577