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No. 3. —COSTLY TEAINING INSTITUTION. Balance-sheet for Year ending 31 st December, 1914. Liabilities. Assets. £ s. d. £ s. d. Costley bequest .. .. 12,150 0 0 Mortgages .. .. .. .. 16,000 0 0 Eebeooa Hodge Account .. . . 742 3 9 Accrued interest .. .. .. 206 211 Revenue Account accumulated .. 3,758 6 3 Jackson and Russell .. .. .. 382 18 1 Boys'savings account .. .. 11 2 5 Bank of New Zealand .. .. 72 11 5 £16,661 12 5 £16,661 12 5 Revenue Account. £ s. d. *£- s. d. To Office expenses .. .. .. 42 9 0 By Balance, Ist January, 1.914 .. 3,001. 810 „ Maintenance .. .. .. 142 3 8 „' Interest .. .. .. 941 10 1 ~ Balance carried forward .. .. 3,758 6 3 £3,942 18 11 £3,942 18 11 4th February, 1915. C. Hudson, F.P.A.N.Z., Secretary. Examined and found correct. —R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General.

No. 4.—INFANT LIFE-PBOTECTION. REPORT OP THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION Education Department, Wellington, 30th June, 1915. The Hon. the Minister of Education. I submit the following report on the work of the Department in respect of infant-life protection for the year 1914. It will be seen that the bulk of the infants were in foster-homes—that is, with women who have the motherly capacity and the time and accommodation necessary to satisfy the Department's requirements for the license prescribed by the Act. The remainder were in various benevolent institutions, of which particulars are given below. Numbers. The number of infants in licensed foster-homes on the 3.lst December was 908, which is 101 more than there were at the beginning of the year. The individuals comprising these totals varied to a much greater extent than these figures indicate, however ; the total number of individuals dealt with in connection with foster-homes during the year, by admissions, withdrawals, transfers, &c, being 1,423. The number of new admissions to foster-homes—s9l—was 35 more than in the previous year, and the number removed from the homes was 8 less. In the institutions there were 568 at the end of the year, making in all a total of 1,476 infants being dealt with under the Act on the 31st December, 1914—an increase of 205 over the number on the hooks a year previously. The following table exhibits the transactions of the year in respect of infants in licensed fosterhomes :—

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