. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . E DUCATION CHAPTER XX. N Natal, public education—which is modelled as far aspossible on the English system—is compulsory as faras all children are concerned who are residing withinthree miles of a Government or Government-aidedschool. The State expenditure in 1909-10 was £130,747 17s. present there are 578 schools under Governmentinspection :—342 European schools, 175 Native schools,36 Indian schools, and 25 schools for coloured children,with an average enrolment of 31,972 ; consisting of13,999 Europeans, 13,452 Natives, 3,387
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . E DUCATION CHAPTER XX. N Natal, public education—which is modelled as far aspossible on the English system—is compulsory as faras all children are concerned who are residing withinthree miles of a Government or Government-aidedschool. The State expenditure in 1909-10 was £130,747 17s. present there are 578 schools under Governmentinspection :—342 European schools, 175 Native schools,36 Indian schools, and 25 schools for coloured children,with an average enrolment of 31,972 ; consisting of13,999 Europeans, 13,452 Natives, 3,387 Indians, and1,134 coloured children. The average daily attendance is, in Europeanschools, 84 per cent, of the average number enrolled ;in Native schools, 82 per cent. ; in Indian schools, 77 percent. ; and in schools for coloured children. 82 percent. Of the 578 schools, 57 have been established and are maintained exclusively by theGovernment. The other schools are either proprietary, denominational, or schools under theactual or nominal control of local committees, recei
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