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School fees are charged only in Antigua and the Virgin Islands, and the schools are required to receive all children applying for admission.

MALTA.

Elementary education is carried on principally in Government schools, which are Roman Catholic in character, the Roman Catholic religion being Elementary universal amongst the Maltese.

education is entirely free, and the expenditure is borne wholly by Government.

MAURITIUS.

There are two kinds of primary schools:

(i) Government schools established and maintained entirely from the public funds of the Colony;

(ii) Aided denominational schools, over 70 per cent. of which are Roman Catholic.

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All the schools are open, without payment fee, to children of all classes and creeds. MONTSERRAT (Vide Leeward Islands).

NATAL.

In Government primary schools education is free to those who are unable to pay; otherwise the fees vary from 1s. to £1 per month.

Children of farmers and others residing not less than five miles from a Government or Government-aided school, or unable from other reasons to attend the school receive, on certain conditions, grants of from £3 to £6 per pupil, pro- vided that the grant to any one family does not exceed £30 per year.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

The Government system of primary education rests upon the Act of 1903. The central administration is vested in three superintendents belonging espectively to the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Methodist denominations. The local management is in the hands of appointed Boards. The system is denominational and small fees are charged. The Government grant is the main source of the income of the Boards.

NEW ZEALAND.

The public primary schools are free and un- denominational. In addition to these there are native schools, nearly all of which are maintained by Government.

ORANGE RIVER COLONY.

Section 29 of the Public Education Ordinance 1905, enacts that education at all Government schools, with the exception of high schools, shall be free and open to all children of full European parentage. Excellent work is being

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done by the various churches in educating the natives of the Colony.

ST. HELENA. **

There are about three or four schools entirely supported by the Government.

There are also five endowed and private day schools, one of which is aided by Government.

Section 12 of the Elementary Education Ordinance 1903, provides that whenever the parent of any child is unable, from poverty, to pay the school fees of such child, the Board may remit at schools provided by Government, or cause to be paid at other public elementary schools, the whole or part of the fees for a renew- able period not exceeding six months.

ST. CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS.

(Vide Leeward Islands.)

ST. LUCIA.

All the schools are denominational schools assisted by Government grants. Education is practically free.

ST. VINCENT.

Practically the whole cost of primary education is borne by the Government. "No school fees are paid. The absence of any provision in the rules dealing with the point leaving it open to doubt whether the teachers can demand them, parents have elected to construe the omission as intentional and decline to pay them. The law, however, gives the Board power to regulate the charging of fees."

SEYCHELLES.

In 1905 there were over twenty denominational Secondary schools assisted by a Government grant, the majority of them being under Roman Catholic control. There are no primary schools of an undenominational character. Fees are paid in some schools.

vide Annual Report

1904, p.33.]

SIERRA LEONE.

All the schools in the Colony are denomina- tional and charge fees. A system of Government grants and inspection was established in 1882. A scheme for the education, on Western lines, of Mohammedan children was started in 1901, and there are now four schools in receipt of a Government grant. There is a Government Mohammedan school in the Protectorate for the education of sons of chiefs. Moderate fees are charged.

SOUTHERN NIGERIA.

There are numerous undenominational Gov- ernment schools, intermediate and elementary, and others managed by the several missionary

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