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in private schools, opened either in competition with tlie Govern- 

 ment, or in the absence of provision by Government. The remainder, 

 he added, are going without education. Thus, in the rural areas 

 of the Transvaal alone, 15,000 children are running about wild and 

 untaught ; and to these we have to add the untaught children of 

 the towns and villages. 



The Director of Education in the Orange River Colony, in his 

 last Annual Report for the year ending June 30th, 1904, states : "As 

 the population of the Colony is about 150,000 whites, there should 

 be about 25.000 children of school age, if we take the proportion 

 as 1 in 6. It is somewhat difficult to know how many pupils attend 

 the private schools which are conducted by the Dutch Reformed 

 Church, or by teachers for private profit; but if we assume the 

 number to be, roughly, 2,000, it means that about 10,000 children 

 are still unprovided with education — a somewhat gloomy prospect 

 to contemplate." 



From the 1904 Statistical Year Book for Natal, it appears that 

 out of a total white population of 97,109 there were 16,080 children 

 between the ages of six and fifteen, whilst only 11,338 were enrolled in 

 Government or Government-aided schools, which latter total includes 

 several hundred children above the age of fifteen. In the 

 Natal Report for 1899 (volume 5, page 201, of the Special 

 Reports on Educational Subjects published by the Board of Educa- 

 tion, London, in 1901), "it is estimated that about 1,600 children of 

 European parentage are being taught privately or at schools not in 

 receipt of Government aid." Assuming that the increase of privately 

 taught children in the last five years is balanced by the children over 

 fifteen in the above school totals, it would appear that not more than 

 13,000 children between the ages of six and fifteen are at school, out 

 of a total of 16,000, and that therefore 3,000 white children in Natal 

 of a school-going age are not being taught at all. 



The Director of Education in Rhodesia states that, according to 

 the 1904 census, out of a total white population in Southern Rhodesia 

 of 12,623, there were only 1,406 children between the ages of five and 

 fifteen, of whom only one-half were receiving any education, either 

 in Government or private schools. 



In the Cape Colony at the last census of 17th April, 

 1904, out of a total European population of 579,741, there 

 were 120,849 white children of school-going age — that is, between 

 the ages of six and fourteen ; but according to the last Annual Report 

 of the Superintendent-General of Education for the year ending 

 30th June, 1904, there were only 63,434 children on the roll. In 

 this connection, Dr. Muir says : — " In speaking of administration 

 mention must also be made of an extraneous aid which the year has 

 given us, viz., the Census. Its value, of course, does not lie in the 

 weight which it lends to the argument for compulsory school attend- 



