TR.\r>K SI llool.s \S AIDS To I^"1>^STR^'. 



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December. 1902 

 1903 

 1904 



'905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 

 1911 

 1912 



5913 

 1914 



1915 



Decembei 



School J 

 17H 

 .^95 

 395 

 400 



435 

 503 

 63] 

 720 



739 

 706 

 718 

 738 

 764 

 802 



Scholars. 



16,265 

 26,922 

 27,518 

 -'9,4.S6 

 32,360 



37-529 

 44452 

 474H8 

 49,996 

 54,882 

 58.676 

 64,370 



^5,953 

 76,487 



tor 



Vig. I shews yraphicall}- the position as given in the Direc- 

 . Report. 



P'ig. I. 



For Johannesburg and the Rand, the increase in the num- 

 ber of scholars in the primary schools has been from 7,477 in 

 1903 to 26,859 i" '9' 5. the increase in 1915 over the previous 

 year being 2,454. 



In the absence of any definite statistics, it is difficult to sav 

 how many of these primary school children are cast out into 

 the world every year to earn their own living without further 

 preparation. Free secondary education should undoubtedly be 

 the means of inducing many to continue their educati.)n at the 

 secondary schools, but the statistics shew that there has not 

 been the phenomenal increase anticii)ated in the number of se- 

 condary pupils during the past oflicial year; in fact, 

 the totals for the Transvaal Province have decreased from 2,754 



