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TBE BRITISH EMPIRE: — NEW SOUTH WALES

under the Archbishop of Sydney, of churclies : —

The following table shows the statistics

Denoiiunation

Clergy i 1911

Adherents 1 Census 1911 j

Denomination

Clergv 1 1911

Adlierents Census 1911

Church of England . Roman Catholic Presbj'terian . Methodists Congregational . Baptist Lutherans .

491

36t)

215

243

71

57

8

734,000 412,013 182,911 151,274

22,655 (

20,679 7,087

Unitarians Hebrew

Salvation Army- Others

Total .

1

6

18

65

844

7,660

7,413

100,198

1,541

1,646,7342

1 Licensed to i)erform marriages.

- Aborigines and persons in Federal capital territory not included.

Instruction.

Education is under State control, and instruction is compulsory between the ages of 6 and 14 years ; in State Primary and Superior public schools education is free.

There were during 1910, 3,257 Government schools, divided into 3,464 departments, and classified as follows :— High schools 5; public schools 1,959; half-time schools 306; provisional schools 485; house-to- house schools 9 ; evening schools 42 ; subsidised schools 448 ; industrial and reformatory schools 3 ; total 3,257 schools. During 1910 there were 243,839 children enrolled, and an average attendance of 157,498, with 5,900 teachers. In 1910 the expenditure on Public Instruction was 1,191,713Z.

Of private schools at the end of 1910 there Avere 774, ^vith 59,247 pupils and 3,602 teachers, of which 394 were Roman Catholic Denominational Schools having 1,985 teachers and 44,249 pupils.

The University of Sydney, founded in 1850, receives from Government a yearly subsidy, amounting, with special aid, to 18,8001. in 1910. The total revenue for 1910 was 64,305^. There were 1,357 students and, in addition to 6 honorary lecturers and demonstrators, 106 professors, lecturers, &c. There are 3 theological colleges and a college for women, unsectarian, affiliated to the University. The Technical College, with branch schools, comprising classes in agriculture, physics, applied mechanics, &c., had a total enrolment of 22,822 in 1910.

Old Age, Invalidity and Accident Pensions.

In Australia the old age pension law grants (subject to conditions as to birth, residence, and character) a pension of 26Z. a year to every person over 65 years of age, or over 60 if incapacitated by infirmity or injury from earning a living. The amount of the peusion is diminished by one pound for every pound of income which the pensioner receives from other sources above 261, and by one pound for every lOZ. over 501. of property the pensioner possesses. In the year 1909-10, 27,306 pensioners received 590,400/. in New South Wjiles. Since July 1, 1909, old age pensions have been paid throughout the Commonwealth by the Federal Government, and on December 13, 1912, 30,202 pensions were current.

Invalidity and Accident Pensions are paid to persons over the age of 16 years who are permanently incai)acitated and who are not receiving an old age pension. From Dec." 15, 1910, the payment of these pensions was undertaken by the Federal Government, and 5,028 persons were in receipt

of the benefits on December 13, 1912.