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Table I 2.—Total Amounts paid in Salaries and for the General Maintenance of all Government Industrial Schools for the past Five Years. The, figures for the year 1919-20 include the salaries of Probation Officers, Boarding-out, Officers, and Visiting Officers, also the, upkeep of probation and receiving-homes, and the expenditure under the Infant Life Protection system. 1915-11). 1910-17. 1917-18. 1918-19. 1911)20. £ £ £ £ £ Salaries .. .. 14.211 14,788 15,687 11,270 20,152* Maintenance .. 21,513 23,237 24,183 19,217 26,299 35,721 38,025 40,170 33,517 46,451 *This figure includes .salaries of Visiting Officers, Probation Officers, District Agents, Visiting Nurses, and Boarding-out Officers not included in figures for previous years.

Table 12a. —Salaries and Cost of Maintenance of Government Industrial Schools (including Receiving-homes, Probation Homes, etc.) and Special Schools for 1918-19 and 1919-20.

Table I 2b.- -Gross Recoveries from Parents and Others. 1918-19. I !»!!)■ 20 l £ Industrial schools .. .. .. .. .. 15,86.", 16.098 Special schools .. .. .. .. ..2.971 2,797 Charitable Aid Boards (industrial and special schools) . . 16,769 10,008 £35,603 £28,903* * A sum of EB,OOO was outstanding from Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards at 3lst March, Table J 2c. Cash Sales of Produce from Institutions. 1918-19. 1919-20. £ £ Training-farms .. .. .. .. .. .. 5,610 6,111 Special School. Otekaike .. .. .. .. 654 1,125 Special School, Sumner . . . . . . . . . . 55 18 Special School, Richmond . . . . . . . . 5 2 £6,324 £7,256 Refund from industrial-school inmates' earnings for clothing, &c. 1918 19, £5,687 ; 1919 20, £6,633.

Table I2d. —Summary showing Comparative Cost of Upkeep at Special Schools, 1917, 1918, and 1919.

., , Maintenanei ' Sala,l( '' s - and Ag 191S 19. 1919 20. 1918 19. e of Schools jeneies. 1919-20, Uare of State children Special School, Otekaike .. Speoia.] School, Sumner Special School, Richmond.. £ £ £ 14,270 20.152 19,247 3.660 3.778 3.789 3.851 4,818 1,795 1.262 1.1 II 985 £ 26,299 2.679 2,031 1,040 23,0-16 29,892 25,816 32,019

j Number of Pupils maintained. Net Maintenance Expenditure, Average Annual Cost per Head. csonooi. 1917. 1918. 1919. 1917. 1918. 1919. £ £ £ School lor Deal', Sunnier 109 104 95 3,393 3,625 5.332 Schools for Feeble- . 143 138 148 7,364 6,415 6,105 minded 1917. 1918. 1919. £ s. d. , £ s. d. C s. d. 31 2 7 34 17 I 56 2 6 51 9 ll 46 9 9 41 5 0