INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 17

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.

THEIR POSITION. According to the education report, laid before Parliament on Thursday, in Decernber. 1904, the number on the books of all the industrial schools was 1918, or 9 more than at the close of the year 1903. On the books of the Government Industrial schools there were 1387, an increase of 21 over the corresponding number for 1903; on the books of the privat® industrial schools there were 531, or 12 less than at the end of the previous year. The number in residence at Government schools was 299, and at private industrial schools 304, so that 603 was the total number of “inmates” actually in residence. There were six Government industrial schools in existence in 1904, and the numbers of inmates on their bookß at the end of the year were as follows: —Auckland, 135; Receiving Home, W ellington, 195; Receiving Home, Christchurch, 236; Burnham 231; Te Oranga Home, 63j Caversham, 527: total, 1387. Those belonging to private industrial schools were distributed as follows: St. Mary’s, Auckland, 135; St. Joseph’s, Wellington. 69; St. Mary’s, Nelson, 280; St. Vincent de Paul’s, Dunedin, 47: total, 531. The number of admissions during the year (191) shows a decrease of 40 from the number for 1908. Of these 31 were sent from Dunedin, 44 from Wellington, 28 from Auckland, and 37 from Chrstchurch. Of the remaining 51 children, no one town sent more than 6 to the schools. From information taken from the Magistrates’ orders it is found that the religious denominations in which the children who were admitted are to be brought up are: Church of England, 80j Roman Catholic, 58; Presbyterian, 88; Methodist, 14; and Baptist, 1. . At the end of 1904 there was in the Post Office Savings Bank on account or the earnings of inmates of Government industrial schools a sum of .£14,055 14© lid, and on account of inmates of private industrial schools <£3312 19s 6d. For inmates of Government schools a 6um_ of ,£1755 6s 8d was withdrawn during the year, and for inmates of private schools <£7o 13s.