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1904. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. [In continuation of E.-3, 1903.]

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

No. 1. EXTRACT PROM THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OP THE MINISTER OP EDUCATION In December, 1903, the total number on the books of all the industrial schools was 1,909, or 62 more than at the close of the year 1902. On the books of the Government Industrial Schools there were 1,366, an increase of 80 over the corresponding number for 1902; on the books of the private industrial schools there were 543, or 18 less than at the end of the previous year. The number in residence at Government schools was 299, and at private industrial schools 302, so that 601 was the total number of " inmates " actually in residence. The number boarded out was 513, 5 being from private schools and the rest from Government schools. There were 11 girls maintained in various corrective institutions, 8 boys and girls in orphan homes, and 2 boys at the School for Deaf-mutes, Sumner. The total number of inmates dependent on the schools for maintenance was therefore 1,135, or 46 more than the number at the end of 1902. The remaining 774, although still subject to control and supervision, were not dependent on the schools for maintenance. They may be classified as follows: Licensed to reside with friends, 195 ; at service, 489; in hospital, 7 ; in lunatic asylum, 3; in the Costley Training Institution, Auckland, on probation, 7; in other institutions without payment, 12; in gaol, 5; absent without leave, 56—namely, 33 from service and 23 from the schools. There were six Government industrial schools in existence in 1903, and the numbers of inmates on their books at the end of the year were as follows : Auckland, 131; Eeceiving Home, Wellington, 166; Keceiving Home, Christchurch, 239; Burnham, 252; Te Oranga Home, 56; Caversharn, 522: total, 1,366. Those belonging to private industrial schools were distributed as follows :' St. Mary's, Auckland, 131; St. Joseph's, Wellington, 80; St. Mary's, Nelson 291; St. Vincent de Paul's, Dunedin, 41: total, 543.

TABLE J1.—Inmates, 1902 and 1903.

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