INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.
The total number of pupils belonging to the seven Government and four private industrial schools whose maintenance was a charge against the public fund in 1907 was 1,441 an increase of 71 as compared with the previous year. Of these 392 were resident at Government schools and 329 at private schools. The total net cost was £32,552, being £2 946 less than for the previous year. The amount collected from parents was £4,329, an increase of £852. The total represents contributions at the rate of £3 0s Id per head of. the children maintained at the public cost. The total amount in the Post Office Savings Bank to the credit of the earning accounts of young people now under the control of industrial schools, or who formerly belonged to them, was, on December 31st last, £22,084. Of this amount £17,514 was held on account of Government and £4,563 for private schools.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2992, 16 September 1908, Page 4
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153INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2992, 16 September 1908, Page 4
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