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Approximate capitation earnings by Education Boards for the year amounted to £52,284, as compared with £41,906 for 1918, the large increase being due to the amended regulation providing for an increase of 20 per cent, on capitation payments for manual instruction ; while grants amounting to £2,948 in aid of buildings and equipment were received. The total receipts of Education Boards in respect of manual instruction amounted to £57,560, and the total payments to £63,094. The manual instruction accounts of all Boards were in credit (when assets and. liabilities were included) at the end of the year, a transfer from the General Fund to meet the expenditure being necessary in two cases. The following table gives some particulars of the payments by Education Boards in respect of certain branches of manual instruction : —

Stapfs op Public Schools. (Table El.) The number of teachers employed in the primary departments of public schools in 1919 was 5,626 (excluding 23 supernumerary teachers) as compared with 5,464 teachers in 1918. Of the total number, 5,000 were adult teachers and 626 pupilteachers. Classified according to sex, there were 1,606 male and 3,394 female adultteachers, and 123 male and 503 female pupil-teachers. The increase in the adultteacher staff has been, for the first time for many years, entirely in the number of men teachers, there being 240 more men teachers than in the previous year and 58 fewer women. The return to civil duty of soldier teachers and the relinquishing of positions temporarily held by women teachers account for the facts revealed by the figures. In addition to the staff of adult teachers and pupil-teachers 436 probationers (62 males and 374 females) were employed, the number being 58 more than the preceding year. The following table shows the number of adult teachers in each grade of school, classified under the headings of sole, head, or assistant teachers.

Number of Adult Teachers employed in Primary Departments of Public Schools, December, 1919.

Subjects. Payments. Number of Schools. Workingexpenses. Totals. Salaries of Instructors. Woodwork and ironwork Domestic subjects Agriculture and dairy science Elementary science Swimming and life-saving Elementary handwork and needlework 506 527 1,384 120 134 2,166 £ 10,997 9,045 7,423 680 237 1,397 £ 2,832 4,687 3,267 266 217 8,379 £ 13,829 13,732 10,690 946 454 9,776 Totals 29,779 19,648 49,427

Grade of School. Sole T 'eachcrs. Head Ti laclrcrs. Assi Teai chcra Total Adult Teaohcrs - F. M. F. Total. M. F. M. F. M. Grade 0. (1-8) I. (9-20) II. (21-35) „ IIIa. (36-80) „ Ills. (81-120) IV. (121-240) V. (241-400) VI. (401-500) VII. (over 500) 8 163 186 22 i41 478 316 13 6 382 119 105 84 23 85 6 142 3 1 5 1 7 3 39 105 41 227 8 163 11 193 528 411 233 122 265 144 393 189 131 64 728 312 2,289. 1,606 141 478 333 683 236 266 398 131 728 149 641 526 1,094 358 410 587 195 1,040 All grades .. 379 948 804 1.57 423 3,394 5.000 Note —The numbers of sole and head teach the summary on page 4, for the reason that all grades strictly according to the average attend the ease of half-time schools, and for salary and the grade is determined in the one case by th combined average attendance of the main ar teachers in addition to those shown in the table. lers do ] half-tin lot agree with the num' ic schools and side sch I each school counted ; purposes in the ease ol ige attendance of each schools together. (T bers of rools ar separai f main school 'here v schools in eaelr j i-c placed in thai tely, while for sr schools with side 1 group, and in yere twenty-thre grade as t summa shown in n-y in the rposes in attached >r by the lumerary lance oi staffing alary pu: 3 schools the othc le avera ad side se superr