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My Lord,

Referring to Sir Matthew Nathan's

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Despatch No. 177 of the 29th. of June, 1906, I have the

honour to transmit the Report of the Inspector of Schools

for the year 1906.

2.

The report shows that in Govern-

-ment Grant Schools and Private Schools there was an

average school attendance of 10,132 children or 14 per

centum of the population of boys and girls between the ages

of 5 and 20 years according to the Census for 1906 an

increase of 8 per centum on the attendance for the

previous year (Table V); that the attendance in the Govern-

-ment Schools exclusive of Queen's College was 927 against

782 in the previous year (Table I); while in the Grant

Schools it was 3,564 as against 3,527 in 1905. The total

Government expenditure on Education was $159,373.00 being

2.33 per centum of the expenditure of the Colony; and the

revenue

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

&c.

&C.,

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