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1892. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. [In Continuation of E.-3, 1891.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

No. 1. extbagt from fifteenth annual report of the minister of education. Industrial Schools. The number of children committed to industrial schools in 1891 is 184, and the number discharged is 146, the consequence being that the number on the rolls is raised from 1,454 to 1,492. The increase appears in the number of inmates licensed to reside with their Mends on probation, or licensed to employers. The number of children in the schools declined from 544 to 527, and the number of boarded-out children from 427 to 422 • so that the number maintained by the institutions fell from 971 to 949. There were 394 at service at the end of the year, and 119 were with their friends on probation; 1 was on probation at Costley Institute, 2 were in a school for the blind, 2 in hospital, 2 in lunatic asylums, and 3 in refuges ; 20 (of whom 4 returned before the end of April, 1892) were absent without leave.

TABLE T.—Inmates, 1890 and 1891.

Of the inmates in residence, 275 were Catholics in private schools, 39 Catholics in Government schools, and 213 Protestants in Government schools. Of the boarded-out children, 365 were Protestants from Government schools, 55 Catholics from Government schools, and 2 Catholics from private schools. Of the children admitted during the year, 94 are described as belonging to the I—E. 3.

O I I Board! >d oil CD CD P Q P I: Q A Be: CD 8 i=1 M Ldence. Ai o e5 6 I O <D CD I Q Q P I Service, 6 Q Q c3 P Toti Q O als. o a I d q rovernment Schools — Auckland, Kohimarama.. „ Parnell Bumham Caversham jocal School — Thames 'rivafce Schools — St. Mary's, Auckland St. Joseph's, Wellington St. Mary's, Nelson 45 17 190 174 1 2 '2 11 46 19 179 176 43 13 110 94 8 2 12 3 '2 1 31 10 112 92 7 34 22 181 186 10 10 39 22 2 44 24 220 208 12 122 52 481 454 18 1 30 22 1 1 121 53 511 476 19 1 i 1 44 2G 200 3 41 26 208 6 1 43 1 1 13 5 50 28 249 4 1 10 46 27 239 1 2 30 i •• '■ I Totals I 427 6 422 544 1 4 21 527 483 75 15 543 1,454 J I ! 54 1 16 1,492 11