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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 66

Native Schools

Native Schools.

The number of schools at the end of 1884 for the education of the Maori race was 71. The number of pupils amounted to 2,226, an increase, as compared with the previous year, of 393. The average attendance during the year was 1,733. The number of instructors was 115. The cost of the education of Native children (excluding those who attend the public schools) was, for the year 1884, £15,448.

Many European schools also received subsidies from the Government for the support of Maori pupils : 703 Maoris—viz., 386 boys and 317 girls—attended these schools, a decrease on the previous year of 80 boys and an increase of 2 girls. Thus the total number of Maori children receiving education in 1884 amounted to 2,929.