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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — NEW ZEALAND
Instruction.
The University of New Zealand is solely an examining body, with an annual grant of 3,000Z. The number of graduates admitted after examination is now 1,631. There are four affiliated colleges — the Otago University at Dunedin, with 37 professors and lecturers ; the Canterbury College at Christchurch, with 22 professors and lecturers ; the Auckland University College, with 17 professors and lecturers ; and the Victoria College at Wellington with 19 professors and lecturers. They are all endowed with lands. The Canterbury Agricultural College is a recognised school of agriculture.
At the end of 1911 there were 32 incorporated or endowed secondary schools, with 340 teachers and 5,465 pupils. Total income, 1910, 157,461/., more than half from endowments and Government payments. There are also 59 District High Schools Avitli 87 teachers and 1,790 scholars. Children receiving secondary instruction at Technical Day Schools numbered 1,341 at the end of 1911.
For primary schools there is an Education Department. There are 13 Education Local Boards, with about 1,300 School Committees. There are 2,166 public x^rimary schools, 4,551 teachers, 161,648 scholars on the rolls; average attendance, 142,186. Education is compulsory between the ages of 7 and 14. The instruction given at the public schools is secular only, and for the ordinary standard course entirely free. Where there are no secondary schools classes may be formed in the public school for extra subjects, for which special subsidies are given.
There are 326 private schools, with 993 teachers and 19,868 pupils ; 7 schools of mines ; 4 normal schools, 5 central schools of art ; 12 industrial schools, with 2,617 children or young persons ; a school for deaf mutes, with 97 pupils ; an institute for the blind (at Auckland), and a special school for mentally backward boys at Otago.
There are 104 Native village schools, with 227 teachers and 4,557 scholars ; and 9 boarding schools providing secondary education for native children, at which 128 Government scholars are under instruction ; and 6 mission schools, with 230 pupils. Total net expenditure by Government on Native schools in 1911 was 35,881Z. Total expenditure in 1911-12 upon education of all kinds l,294,O00Z.
Justice and Crime.
There are six supreme court judges, and thirty stipendiary magistrates. There are numerous Magistrates' courts and justices of the peace.
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910 1911
Europeans summa- rily convicted .
Europeans convict- ed before supreme or district courts.
27,128 407 '
30,456 4501
30,300 501 1
30,697 514 1
31,980
4781
34,837 4031
1 Including convicts sent from Magistrates' courts for sentence, 167 in 1906, 148 in 1907, •23-2 in 1908, •_'".(•. in 1909, 243 in 1910, 185 in 1911.
At the end of 1911 the gaols contained 873 prisoners.
