TABLE V. PERIOD OF SERVICE OF TEACHERS.

Of the 1,674 Teachers employed during the Term ending Dec. 1891, 976 were employed in the same District as during previous term, 211 were engaged for the first time, and 362 others had not been more than three years in the service. Of the 299 First-Class Teachers employed, 210 had been upwards of five years in the service. Of the 818 Second-Class Teachers employed, 378 had been upwards of five years in the service.

Of the 1,669 Teachers employed during the term ending June, 1892, 1,005 were employed in the same District as during previous term, 94 were employed as teachers for the first time, and 484 others had not been more than three years in the service. Of the 304 First-Class Teachers employed this term, 210 had been upwards of five years in the service. Of the 783 Second-Class Teachers 351 had been upwards of five years in the service.

TABLE VI.-TIME IN SESSION OF THE SCHOOLS.

Second Term, 1891.-There were 98 teaching days in this Term. average number of days the schools were in session was 91.95.

The

The

First Term, 1892.-The total number of teaching days was 127. average number of days the schools were in session was 115.4. It will thus be seen that the schools were open on number of days First Term and 91

an average about 94 per cent. of the whole

per cent. of the Second.

TABLE VII.-EXAMINATIONS, PRIZES, VISITS.

The number of schools reporting semi-annual public examinations was 1,455 for the First Term and 1,440 for the Second. 663 prizes of the aggregate value of $403.66 were given to pupils during the year.

The County Inspectors made 864 visits to the schools during the term ending Dec., 1891 and 1,012 during the term ending June, 1892. The visits by Clergymen, Teachers and others, show an increasing interest in the schools. There has also been a gratifying increase in the number of visits made by Trustees and District Secretaries. This is a cause of special encouragement, for next to the ability and fidelity of the teachers, the progress of our schools depends more upon the intelligence, the liberality, and the hearty and persevering co-operation of the Trustees, than upon any other agency whatever. The law requires every board of Trustees to visit at least monthly each school under their charge. If this duty were faithfully attended to much good would follow, not only in the preventing of misunderstanding between teachers and trustees, but in the stimulating to more efficient activity of both teachers and pupils.

TABLE VIII.-AVERAGE SALARIES OF TEACHERS.

The average rate of Teacher's Salaries per annuin from all sources, compiled from the returns of the First Term of 1892, was as follows:

The Salaries of Grammar School Principals are not included in the above averages (see Table XII).

It is a matter of regret that with the exception of the average salary of First Class Female Teachers, there has been a uniform decrease in the average of salaries for the year. A permanent efficient service cannot be maintained on the present average salary. It is to be hoped that School Boards will afford every possible encouragement to competent and experienced teachers to remain in the profession, and to continue year after year in charge of the same schools in which they may have won a reputation for faithfulness and efficiency.

In comparing the average salaries paid in the several Counties it will be seen that the following are above the average in the respective classes :

1st Class Male-St. John, York, Northumberland.

St. John, Gloucester, Charlotte, Westmorland.

Charlotte, Carleton, Gloucester, Westmorland, Northumberland, Sunbury, York.

All the Teachers in the County of Madawaska engaged during the two terms were of the third class, except the Principal of the Superior School at Edmundston.

The following table shows the average salaries for the Province since 1882 -the salaries for the years 1880 and 1881 were not reported :

TABLE IX.-DISBURSEMENTS OF PROVINCIAL GRANTS.

The total amount of Provincial Grants to Teachers for the year ended June 30th, 1892, was as follows:

Of the above sum, $6,667.61 were paid as special grants to Teachers in poor Districts, an increase of $643.81 on special grants of previous year.

The total expenditure during the year for the Grammar, Superior and Common Schools (not including district assessments for school buildings, apparatus, fuel, etc.,) is approximately as follows:

PROVINCIAL GRANTS FOR SCHOOLS FROM THE YEAR ENDING APRIL, 1877, TO JUNE, 1892, INCLUSIVE, AND NUMBER OF TEACHERS

TABLE X.-APPORTIONMENT OF COUNTY FUND TO SCHOOL TRUSTEES.

For the apportionment of this fund the law provides as follows: "There shall be allowed to the trustees of each district, in respect of each qualified teacher, exclusive of assistants by them employed, the sum of thirty dollars per year, and the balance of such amount shall be apportioned to the trustees according to the average number of pupils in attendance at each school, as compared with the whole average of pupils attending the schools of the county and the length of time in operation." The law further provides that "the fixed sum to be paid out of the County School Fund in respect of each teacher, to schools returned as poor schools, shall be forty dollars," and that an amount not exceeding one-third more per pupil than the allowance to other districts sharing such funds may be allowed by the Chief Superintendent in respect of attendance made by pupils.

Second Term, 1891.—The amount of the County Fund apportioned this term to Boards of Trustees was $47,252.25. The sum of $23,845.99 of the fund was apportioned to the Boards of Trustees in respect of the service of teachers (according to the length of these services within the prescribed term.)

The balance of the fund, $23,406.26, was apportioned to the several Boards of Trustees in each county in proportion to the average attendance of pupils and the length of time the schools were open.

Of the fund, $2,509.52 were apportioned as extra aid to Boards of Trustees in poor districts.

First Term, 1892.-The amonnt of the County Fund apportioned this term to Boards of Trustees was $45,917.70. Of this sum, $22,714.22 were apportioned to the Boards of Trustees in respect of the services of teachers (according to the length of these services within the prescribed terms).

The balance of the fund, $23,203.48 was apportioned to the several Boards of Trustees in each county in proportion to the average attendance of pupils the length of time the schools were open.

Of the fund, $2,210.71 were apportioned as extra aid to Boards of Trustees in poor districts.

The County Fund is withheld from Boards of Trustees which refuse to comply with the Inspectors' recommendation in respect of apparatus, repairs, etc. Other details will be found in the tables.

Each Board of Trustees may readily determine its share of the County Fund, since the table shows the rate per pupil. This rate, multiplied by the average number of pupils attending the school, compared with the average number of the county for full term time, will give the amount apportioned on account of pupils. If the school has been open full time, there should be an additional amount of $15 per term for services of teacher, and in "poor districts" $20. For each teaching day the school has been closed during the term, there will be deducted from that amount the proportion which the number of teaching days lost bears to the full term.

TABLE XI.-GRANTS TO THE BLIND ASYLUM, HALIFAX, AND TO THE DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION, FREDERICTON.

The following provisions for the education of the Blind and of the DeafMute children of the province were enacted at the last session of the Legislature:

(6 For every blind person received into the Halifax Asylum or other Institution for the Blind, approved as aforesaid pursuant to this Act, and educated and boarded therein, the Board of Managers of such School or Institution for the Blind shall be entitled to receive from the Provincial Treasury, at the rate of seventy-five dollars per annum payable half-yearly, and also to receive at the same rate from the County School Fund of the Municipality to which the said blind person belongs. This Section to apply to the blind persons in attendance at the Halifax Institution at the time of the passing of this Act."

"The Trustees or Board of Managers of the Deaf and Dumb Institution in Fredericton shall be entitled to receive from the County School Fund of the County to which any deaf or deaf-mute person received into the said Institution, and educated and boarded therein, belongs, at the rate of sixty dollars per year, payable half-yearly. This Section to be applicable to children at the Institution at the time of the passing of this Act."

Under these provisions the Managers of the Blind Asylum, Halifax,