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1893. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. [In Continuation of E.-3, 1892.]

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

No. 1. EXTRACT FROM SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OP THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION. The number of " inmates " of industrial schools was 1,492 at the beginning and 1,489 at the end of the year. The admissions were 225; the discharges were 228. The annual number of admissions, which fell from 340 in 1885 to 158 in 1890, has now been rising for two years. This rise has not augmented the number of children maintained by the schools ; on the contrary, the number of resident inmates has declined in the two years from 544 to 527, and the number of boarded-out children from 427 to 419. The number of young people licensed to employers or friends has increased during the- same period from 454 to 508. The principal changes in the numbers for 1892 appear in Table T.

TABLE T.—Inmates, 1891 and 1892.

The number 543 (" at service, &c") is made up as follows : 391 at service; 117 licensed to friends; 15 absent without leave; 5 at Costley Institute on probation ; 3 in hospital; 3in lunatic asylums; 2 in blind asylum; 6in refuges; 1 in prison.

-oardi )d oui Bes: idcnee. Ser 'ice, &c. Totals. I d a> P a> Q CD a P c4 OS CD p 1 d © P Q O 6 ci 1 I s a o CD <D p p CO d © A Q O i—i a> ffr CD r-t g d CD O P ft I p 1 I 1-H P 8 Q P i-overnmenfc Schools— Auckland, Kohimarama.. Parnell Burnham Caversham jocal School— Thames 'rivate Schools— St. Mary's, Auckland St. Joseph's, Wellington St. Mary's, Nelson 46 19 179 176 1 13 12 5 34 20 174 189 31 10 112 92 7 5 13 3 11 18 7 101 97 7 44 24 220 208 12 9 2 4 25 42 33 216 183 12 121 53 511 476 19 7 27 20 7 94 60 491 469 19 1 1 1 1 41 26 208 7 15 41 33 223 5 30 5 1 16 10 1 46 46 27 239 5 ' 8 31 51 35 270 Totals 422 14 17 419 527 27 27 527 543 31 31 1,492 51 I i ! 1,489 543 54 I