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The amount collected from parents towards the maintenance of their children was £4,329 10s. 9d., an increase of £852 2s. 3d. This total represents contributions at the rate of £3 os. Id. per head of the number of children (1,441) maintained at the public cost. The total amount in the Post-Office Savings-Bank to the credit of the earnings accounts of young people now under the control of industrial schools, or who formerly belonged to them, was £22,084 9s. lOd. at the 31st December, 1907. Of this amount, £17,514 18s. lOd. was held on account of Government school's, and £4,569 lis. for private schools. The sum withdrawn during the year amounted to £2,157 18s. Bd. for Government schools, and £399 Bs. 9d. for private schools.

No. 2. STATISTICS. Memorandum for the Hon. the Minister of Education. In December, 1907, the number on the books of all the industrial schools was 2,151, or 76 more than at the close of the year 1906. On the books of the Government industrial schools there were 1,632, an increase of 73 over the corresponding number for 1906; on the books of the private (Roman Catholic) industrial schools there were 519, or 3 more than at the end of the previous year. Of the total number (2,151) belonging to all schools, 1,441 children were dependent on public funds for maintenance. The remainder (710) may be classified as follows: Licensed to reside with friends, 171; at service, &c, 421 ; boarded out without payment, 8; in hospitla, 3; at the Costley Training Institution, Auckland, under license, H; in other institutions, 13; in gaol, 6; absent without leave, or whereabouts unknown, 80—namely, 12 from service, 67 from the schools, and 1 from friends. The following table shows the status of all the inmates at the close of the year :—

Inmates, 31st December, 1907.

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