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were—for Auckland, £443 Os. lOd. ; Burnham, £373 15s. lid. ; Caversham, £263 12s. 4d. The excess of the expenditure at Burnham over that at Caversham requires explanation. In the Burnham accounts a sum of £85 is entered for salaries of the preceding year; the excess in the expenses of travelling is £112, due to the distance of Burnham from Christchurch; about £300 has been spent on stock and farm with a view to future use; and an excess of about £625 in the expenditure on clothing appears to be due to the fact that the new manager has had to use great exertions to bring up the stock of clothing to a proper level. The outlay on buildings, which is not included in the foregoing statement, was £882 165., as follows: Caversham, £810 Bs. Bd., principally on account of the new school-room built to supply tbe place of the -old one that was destroyed by fire in 1884; Burnham, £36 19s. 6d. ; Auckland, £35 7s. lOd. Thanks are due to the ladies who visit all the boarded-out children and make a report on every case every month. It is proposed to arrange if possible for the extension of this system of visiting, so as to obviate the necessity of making inquiries through the police authorities as to the welfare of young people placed at service. It should be remarked that the police officials render very efficient aid to the Department, not only in making such inquiries, but also in tracing defaulting parents and obtaining payment from them.

« No. 2. Memoeandum by the Inspectoe-Genebal of Schools. The following is a statement of the number and status of the inmates of the industrial schools, using the word "inmates" in the sense given to it by the Industrial Schools Act, that is, asequivalent to " persons under the legal guardianship of the managers of industrial schools."j

"Inmates" of Industrial Schools, 31st December, 1885.

The number of committed children received into industrial schools and their precedent condition is shown in the following table :—

Precedent Condition of Children admitted in 1885.

Govt >rnment Schi >ols. Local Schools. :ivate Schools. All Schools. Inmates. Auc] [land. Burnham. Cavers sham. Thames. ft 5 a . a a Nelson. o .9 P. CD o B B. G. B. G. 15. G. B. | G. G. G. B. I G. jo. the schools .. ) 1 1 . - I 3oarded-out ../ i 'J-Lb'l Nith their friends .. H service "n hospital Ibsent without leave 63 66 22 26 1 40 8 29 1 95 112 23 59 32 95 17 27 1 91 98 45 65 64 85 27 38 1 4 8 47 6 7 23 2 2 108 '_ 4 82 8 6 361 276 93 160 257 222 63 107 3 1 618 498 156 267 S '<_ *6 10 'i i 23 3 24 Totals 183 299 172 306 215 8 61 27 91 913 653 1,566 79 10 115 61 27 1, 166

Government Schools. Local Schools. -ivate Schools. All Schools. Committed as Auckland. Burnham. Caver B. | G. B. | G. B. -sham. Thames. o a P. o to a . H a ■35 Nelson. co co o 3 4_> O B G. B. G. G. a, B. I G. destitute .. r agrant jiving in disreputable places Jncontrollablo J-uilty of punishable offences 'ransferred from other schools 9 4 53 36 33 1 .. 1 .. i 3 6 5 1 9 ; .. 22 5 6 1 ! 3 7 .. 8 ..10 2 1 .. .... 27 1 2 1 1 3 7 *5 11 3 21 6 5 1 2 5 15 2 3 117 11 12 32 27 7 103 2 18 16 2 2 220' 13 30 48 29 9 - " i 1 Totals .. J i 47 15 69 46 I 49 47 31 1 3 12 14 40 22 206 143 349 12 14