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The numbers on the books of all "the schools on the 31st December, 1906, compared with the numbers at the corresponding date of the previous year, are as follows:—

TABLE L1.—lnmates, 1905 and 1906.

The number in residence at Government schools was 343, and at private schools 317 so that 660 was the total number actually in residence. The number boarded out'on payment was 684, 7 being from private schools and the rest from Government schools. There were 11 girls maintained in various corrective institutions, 1 girl in hospital, 2 boys at the School for Deaf-mutes, Sumner, and 12 boys at the Costley Training Institution, Auckland. The total number of inmates dependent on public funds for maintenance was therefore 1,370, or 124 more than the number at the end of 1905. The remaining 705, although still subject to the control and supervision of the schools, were not dependent on them for maintenance. In Table L2 is shown the cost of the Government schools, in which is included the expenditure for the maintenance of inmates boarded out and the salaries of the resident staffs and medical officers ; it also shows the cost of supervision of all inmates who are licensed to reside away from the schools ; and, further, the amounts of the recoveries from Charitable Aid Boards, from persons against whom orders for maintenance have been made, and from the sale of farm-produce, &c. The total amount contributed by parents towards'the maintenance of their children was £3,477 Bs. 6d., being at the rate of £2 10s. 9d. per head of the total number of children (1,370) maintained at the public cost.

TABLE L2. —Expenditure on Government Schools, 1906.

led oul In Res: idenci Servii :e, &i Totals. loan 6 © P © I oi 3 o a N © s © u V 01 p o" © P 4 £ rH * I I © 9 3 © P 1 © P id | ci S © © © CJ i—( © al © i © P § © © P | © P © to a © © a CO CO § CO C o CO n CD Ov ci o a Government Sohools — Auckland (Mount Albert) Boys' Training Farm, Weraroa Beceiving Home, Wellington Te Oranga Home, Christchurch Beceiving Home, Christchurch Burnham Caversham Private Schools — St. Mary's, Auckland St. Joseph's, Wellington.. St. Mary's, Nelson St. Vincent de Paul's, Dunedin 63 192 137 4 18 39 48 67 18 231 185 4 178 24 111 6 41 12 97 ; 26 8 9 4 15 4 3 28 126 2 49 9 106 23 47 ! 37 18 96 1 1 132 199 105 8 6 i 1 7 2 4 lie 45 105 45 24 92 139 83 134 111 235 59 245 232 404 6 138 43 14 41 17 140 249 278 73 286 249 284 3 179 1 3 120 i i 4 i 6 87 30 177 37 9 5 22 96 25 155 41 54 28 104 11 '7 9 1 45 27 111 9 141 58 282 52 6 15 141 52 267 56 '2 4 '2 "i 579 112 1 f 648 I ! |49 37 660 726 133 134 725 1,953 263 I 2,075 Totals .. Il41 690

Government Schools. Cost of School, including Buildings and other Works. Boarding out. (Included in first column.) Salaries. (Included in first column.) Recoveries. Net Cost. Auckland (Mount Albert) Boys' Training Farm, Weraroa Beceiving Home, Wellington.. Te Oranga Home Beceiving Home, Christohuroh Burnham .. Caversham £ s. d. 2,277 6 3 14,442 17 10 6,503 19 7 1,800 0 10 4,846 10 0 5,465 16 2 5,314 6 7 £ s. d. 1,225 18 10 92 10 0 3,973 0 2 £ a. d. 387 14 9 1,657 13 1 341 19 3 634 14 5 396 0 5 1,937 4 7 693 14 0 £ s. d. 909 15 8 1,616 17 5 2,849 19 10 90 7 11 1,342 18 4 604 17 6 3,691 10 7 £ s. d. 1,367 10 7 12,826 0 5 3,653 19 9 1,709 12 U 3,503 11 8 4,860 18 8 1,622 16 0 3,122 3 2 49 12 10 3,611 1 8 Totals 40,650 17 3 12,074 6 8 6,049 0 6 11,106 7 3 29,544 10 0 Salaries and expenses of assistai Travelling-expenses of managers Befund of earnings to former ini Commission expenses, inquiry h Contingencies nt inspectors ar 3 and others mates.. leld at Burnhan visiting officers 1,963 12 10 409 15 9 20 6 9 537 13 1 235 5 4 al net cost 32,711 3 9 Toti