period of the year. Forty-nine detailed inspections were made of Roman Catholic and other schools not under the control of the Department. From unavoidable causes eight of the schools open at some time during the year were not inspected. The Annual General Reports of the inspectors are appended.

EXPENDITURE.

Secondary,
Education.

38. The expenditure on Primary Education during the year 1895 was on Primary, £185,303 14s. 10d. On Grammar School and University Education it was and Technical £13,348 5s. 6d. On Technical Education, the Museum, and Schools of Arts it was £5,608 9s. 1d. The sum total spent on education was £204,260 9s. 5d., being £8,488 11s. 7d. more than was spent in 1894.

1894.

39. In the following tabular statement the gross departmental expenditure Compared with in 1895 is compared with that in 1894 :-

Amount.

40. In the following tabular statement is given an analysis of the increase in Items of the expenditure on Primary Education alone :

increase.

294 9 8
912 8 6

8,282 9 1

and provisional

41. Of £185,303 14s. 10d., the total cost of Primary Education, £151,917 12s. 7d. Cost of State must be charged to the State schools, and £33,386 2s. 3d. to the provisional schools. schools. 42. The cost of administration was £4,652 14s. 11d., or about 2.3 per cent. Administration. of the gross departmental expenditure.

43. The cost of inspection was £5,717 3s. 7d., or about 3 per cent. of the Inspection. expenditure on Primary Education alone.

44. In State schools the average cost per head during the twenty years Cost per head in ending 31st December, 1895, was as follows:

(A) INCLUDING THE TOTAL EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR IN CONNECTION WITH STATE SCHOOLS.

(B) INCLUDING TEACHERS' SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES
AND INCIDENTAL EXPENDITURE ONLY.

State schools.

45. In provisional schools the average cost per head during the twenty years ending 31st December, 1895, was as follows:

Cost per head in all schools,

attendance.

46. For all schools-State and provisional-the total expenditure on Primary based on average Education, £185,303 14s. 10d., divided by the average daily attendance, 48,270, gives £3 16s. 91d. as the average cost of each pupil in attendance all over the service. In 1894 it was £3 18s. 7d.

Cost per head in all schools,

based on net enrolment.

Local

subscriptions

47. For all schools-State and provisional-the total expenditure on Primary Education, £185,303 14s. 10d., divided by the net enrolment, 74,542, gives £2 9s. 8d. as the average cost of each child who claimed the right to instruction during the year 1895. In 1894 it was £2 12s. 31⁄4d.

48. The local contributions towards the cost of State school buildings, received received in 1896. during 1895 amounted to £1,795 11s. 1d. A statement of the local subscriptions account will be found in Table M, appended to this Report.

Candidates

examined.

GRAMMAR SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS.

49. At the annual examinations held in December 1895, 60 schools sent up 171 boys, and 33 schools sent up 79 girls to compete for Grammar School Scholarships. Of these candidates 94 boys and 34 girls were successful in obtaining scholarships. In the following tabular summary the numbers for 1895 compared with those for 1894:

are

Scholarship holders,

how allotted.

50. The 128 scholarships granted were allotted to the several Grammar Schools as follows:

State scholars

in Grammar Schools.

51. The total number of State scholars attending Grammar Schools during the last quarter of the year 1895 was 181, of whom 134 were boys and 47 girls, as tabulated below:

52. The quarterly reports on the attendance, conduct, and progress of the Conduct and State scholars in the Grammar Schools were, as a rule, satisfactory.

EXHIBITIONS TO UNIVERSITIES.

progress of State Scholars.

53. The usual examination for Exhibitions to Universities to be awarded to Ten competitors. pupils of Grammar Schools was held in November, 1895, when 10 candidates presented themselves-5 from Brisbane, 3 from Ipswich, 1 from Maryborough, and 1 from Townsville Of these the examiners declared that 3 showed sufficient merit to entitle them to the award of an exhibition. Two of the three were pupils of the Brisbane Grammar School, and the other was a pupil of the Maryborough Grammar School. All three had been holders of Grammar School scholarships.

State scholars.

54. Of the 54 exhibitions granted from the year 1878, when they were first Number won by established, to 1895, 40 have been gained by students who had previously won scholarships from the State schools.

ORPHANAGES.

Inspector.

55. The Inspector of Orphanages has furnished a separate report of the Report of operations of the Department in connection with the State and licensed orphanages. At the end of the year 1895 there were 1,619 children under the control of the State, showing an increase of 35 for the year. The expenditure for 1895 amounted to £21,441 13s. 3d., there being an increase of £622 Os. 7d. on the expenditure for the preceding year.

56. The distribution of the children is shown in the following table :

Distribution of orphans.

MUSEUM.

57. From the report of the trustees of the Museum I learn that the number Visitors. of visitors during 1895 was 54,666-viz., 40,337 on week days and 14,329 on Sundays. This is an increase of 1,007 on the number recorded for the previous year, notwithstanding that the Museum was closed for repairs during five weeks of the year. The total expenditure on the Museum was £733 4s. 10d., showing an Expenditure. increase of £48 19s. 5d. on the expenditure for 1894.

APPENDICES.

58. The tables which follow this Report show in detail the operations of the Tables. Department during the year.

The following is a list of the Appendices :

Report of the General Inspector.

Reports.

Reports of the District Inspectors.

papers.

Examination papers given in December, 1895, to candidates for Grammar Examination
School Scholarships, and to teachers and pupil-teachers.

Department of Public Instruction,

27th April, 1896.

[L.S.]

D. H. DALRYMPLE.

COMPARATIVE VIEW of PRIMARY SCHOOL OPERATIONS during TWENTY successive YEARS, 1876-95.

1883.. 387 292 79

1884

:

424

321 98

1885...

447

333

108 113

1886... 479 358 111

142

135

133 230
152 152 230
160 168 242
166 141 203

171

127 203

206

139

102 211

143

286 1,161 27,678 24,878 52,556 20,891 19,034 39,925 14,793 13,070 27,863

266

163

122 252

1887 ...

216 1,027 24,529 21,733 46,262 18,253 16,474 34,727 12,869 11,378 24,247 52:46 52:35 52:41 70-50
69.82 90,153 19 9 29,443 2 1
53.44 52 51 53:01 70-81 68 66 69.79 102,320 6 3 36,940 9 4
302 1,285 28,899 26,911 55,810 22,285 20,358 42,643 16,007 14,110 30,117 55.29 52.51 54.00 71-82 69.30 70-62 122,874 1 0 32,504 8 8
172 368 1,383 30,902 28,037 58,939 23,860 21,901 45,761 17,135 15,115 32,250 55 45 53.91 54-71 71-81 69 01 70-25 130,348 15 3 31,450 1 6
527 387 123 137 278
170 384 1,479 33,650 30,054 63,704 25,961 23,457 49,418 19,155 16,164 35,319 56.92 53.78 55.44 73-78 68.91 7147 141,169 0 6 36,824 9 2
1888.. 552 396 140 154 289 159 348 1,486 35,635 32,283 67,918 27,676 25,593 53,269 20,585 18,341 38,926 58:04 56.81 57-31 74-37 71.66 73:07 151,830 10 6 24,158 7 8
1889... 584 422 145 158 332
305 1,497 37,581 84,106 71,687 29,078 26,782 55,860 21,390 19,082 40,472 57 18 55 95 56:46 73.55 71:25 72:45 157,614 2 4 32,219 4 4
122 277 1,539 38,731 34,544 73,275 30,193 27,447 57,640 21,712 19,124 40,836 56:05 55:36 55.72 71.24 69.67 7084 167,138 17 10 35,430 16 8
213 1,504 40,232 36,905 77,137 31,882 29,080 60,962 23,815 21,189 45,004 59-19 57:41 58:34 74-69 72.89 73.82 175,875 6 1
154 1,498 41,382 37,507 78,889 32,628 30,035 62,663 24,268 21,707 45,975 58.64 52:45 58-26 74.37 66.53 73.36 187,964 4 0 11,225 15 7
113 1,485 41,037 37,293 78,330 33,178 30,286 63,464 23,539 20,893 44,432 57-36 56 02
109 1,470 39,977 36,062 76,039 31,988 29,239 61,227 23,828 21,222 45,050 59-71
147 1,535 43,428 39,409 82,837 33,881 30,809 64,690 25,542 22,728 48,270 58.81

114 81 168 689 18,850 17,421 36,271 14,162 13,061 27,223 9,998
100 194 776 19,952 18,694 38,646 15,023 13,977 29,000 10,501
868 20,840 19,821 40,661 15,756 15,001 30,757 10,983
924 21,861 19,519 41,380 16,527 15,184 31,711 11,340
989 22,623 20,682 43,305 17,255 16,255 33,510 12,431
922 21,517 18,792 40,309 16,370 14,588 30,958 11,616 10,136 21,752 53-99 53-94 53.96 70-96 69-49 70-26 86,504 2 4 13,605 7 0
935 22,251 19,458 41,709 16,751 15,027 31,778 11,543 10,067 21,610 51.88 51.74 51-81 71-02 69.03 70'08 86,891 5 1 13,555 11 0
69 06

NOTE.-After the 31st day of July, 1893, children under six years of age have not been admitted.