CHILDREN'S INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 141, 18 June 1902, Page 2

CHILDREN'S INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.

NKW REGULATIO 48. FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, June 17. Thursday's Gazette will contain regulitiiin< which have bten passed for the rim lament of chilir n's industrial school*, Thes* state that female inmat' s over tw lva years of ag<t are as fir a- practicable to be taught domestio wnk. The instruction of female inula'e« over fourteen yea-e if age is to include household management, cookie (.'.lmndry work, sewing, darning, cut it g out and gating plain work for the ienng machine. Care mult be taken thit no inmate is rtquired to do work beyond his or her strength. It is to be the aim of the managers to dii ct the attention of all instates to rural life and rur.il occupations. Wherever practictblo, regular ins'uiction ia swimming is to be g vttii to r. sident iam ite*. f bey are also to receive elementary tuition a'iri individual practice in Ufc-saving. Mi it'ry drill fur boys and appropriate physical exercise for girls resident at schools will form part of the school r ihtine for not lis* than half an hour on each day on which day school iesfci action is giv-n. Mutagen are enj lined to sen that all inmatts bave under proper supervision regular and sufficixiit opportunities for exercise, and both indoor and outdoor recreation. A suitable library must be provided nt e ich school, and inmates are to hll e »cccas to it frequently. Every fic liiy is to he given by the managers Ito rai- inters of raligion and o'her (au'hoiisel religious teachers for giving rel'gious instruction to inmates in thtir particular creed or denomination. I Wherever practicable reiid> nt inma'es are to be takin regularly to • pUce of worship of the pir'iiular creed end denomination to which th.y lelong.