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, 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 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 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 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... 479 358 111 142 135 133 230 171 127 203 206 139 102 211 143 286 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 70-50 114 81 168 689 18,850 17,421 36,271 14,162 13,061 27,223 9,998 NOTE.-After the 31st day of July, 1893, children under six years of age have not been admitted. |