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Arca.

Population

(in 1914).

Date.

Primary. Secondary. or University.

TABLE TO SHOW THE PERCENTAGE OF EXPENDITURE DEVOTED TO EDUCATION IN VARIOUS COLONIES.

Name of Colony.

NUMBER OF SCHOOLS.

Children

Percentage devoted to Education.

ATTENDANCE.

EXPENDITURE,

Superior

On

Enrolment. Average. Educa- Total.

tion.

attending per 100 of

population.

sq. m.

£

£

1913-14

161

9

1 25,690 15,290 22,958

222,177

Barbadoes,

166

176,397

8.4

9.8

1914-15

153

9

1

25,162

14,409 22,009

236,795

1914-15

11,475

6,075 9,068

95,661

Grenada,

133

71,082

8.4

9'1

1915-16

50

11,254

5,859 9,349 106,145

1913-14

277

51,930

29,781 67,862 951,982

Trinidad and Tobago,

1,754 & 114

357,553

9.1

7:0

1914-15

277

0

51,197

35,662 | 68,346

990,716

1913-14

26

1

?

4,181

2,308 2,306 38,173

St. Vincent,

150

41,877

5:3

6:14

1914-15

26

1

4,205

2,189 2,374 38,045

1913-14

?

?

British Guiana,

89,480

309,938

1914-15

228

1

36,660

44,000 502,532

21,093 44,044 622,025

6:800

7'0

1914

151

14

22,414

Mauritius,

720

383,257

1915

151

14

22,765

14,924) 41,695

14,884 | 41,172 869,438

710,181

3.9

5'3

Ceylon,

25,332 4,260,700

1914

2,918

1 or 2

356,530; 164,804 | 3,699,594

8:37

4'45

Singapore and Straits Settlements,

Singapore 217

1914

Primary & Secondary

Av. Enrol.

28,080

25,260; 50,436

1,187,689

Penang 388

761,521

220

3:3

4'3

Malace?

Av. Enrol.

1915

237

28,280

25,384 | 52,805 | 1,189,599

1914

631

20

20,216

14,134| 29,282 | 1,075,622

Hongkong,

391

501,300

1915

047

20

20,089

14,701 | 32,807 | 1,514,926

2.9

2.6

1916

606

19

21,382

15,775 32,110 | 1,107,991