E.'—3,

TABLE V. —Committed Children classified according to Parents' Circumstances and Character.

The cost of maintenance of the Thames Industrial School, which is a local school, is defrayed by the local authorities, who also receive any contributions received from the parents of the children in the school.* The private (that is, Roman Catholic) schools receive from the Government Is. a day for every child under the age of 15, except for children committed as destitute, for whom they receive payment from Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards, recoveries from parents being received by the Government or the Boards according as the liability falls on the one or the other. The Government payments to such schools was made by the Colonial Secretary's Department until the end of March, 1886. From that time to the end of the year payment was made by this department, the payments made and recoveries obtained from parents being as follows :—

TABLE W. —Payments and Recoveries, Private Schools, April to December, 1886.

The statement that the Government pays the private schools Is. a day for each child is more exact than any conclusion that could be drawn from the foregoing table. In this year particularly such a table does not afford sufficient data for correct conclusions: for the first three months, as has been stated, Government payments were made through the Colonial Secretary's Office, and in April the payments were made for March and were not affected by the deductions made in subsequent months on account of direct payments from Boards to schools. In the case of the Government schools the whole expense falls in the first place on the Government, recoveries being obtained from Charitable Aid Boards for cases of mere destitution, and also from some of the parents under orders of Court. The recoveries from Boards are part of a new system which at the end of the year had been in operation only thirteen months, and, as the payments are usually made by the quarter, the payments made in 1886 are not the full payments of four quarters, and do not represent the fair receipts of a year. On these schools the expenditure has been as follows : —

TABLE X.—Cost of Government Schools.

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liers lesori] as Children of Kick, ~. „ , Do^ ££, Character &a (or Poor). Not known or not stated. Cl2£Etar. !*■«*» Total. Fathers described as— Dead Sick, lunatic, disabled, &c. .. Of good character (or poor).. Not known or not described Of bad character Deserters 11 1 21 2 4 10 12 8 4 3 G 12 2 18 1 1 ia 7 6 1 16 5 3 12 24 11 11 2 52 8 69 28 37 44 1 15 Totals 49 33 29 i 28 71 28 238

School. ■ Government Payments. Recoveries. [ Net Expenditure by Government. 3. Mary's, Ponsonby .. 3. Joseph's, Wellington 3. Mary's Nelson £ s. a. 548 0 0 165 19 0 1,373 1G 0 £ s. a, 28 2 Ci 3 0 0 201 9 6 £ s. a. 519 17 6 102 19 0 1,172 6 6 | Totals .. I 2,087 IS 0 232 12 0 1,855 3 0

School. Cost of School. Cost of boarding out. ■ Becoveries. Net Cost. Auckland Burnham Caversham s s. a. 2,004 9 7 3,996 1(5 0 3,311 7 9 s s. a. 2,073 8 2 4,225 2 3 3,519 18 7 & s. a. 413 15 5 1,333 2 4 1,213 5 10 £ s. A. 3,664 2 4 6,888 15 11 5,618 0 6 Totals 9,312 13 4 9,818 9 0 2,960 3 7 16,170 18 9 Salary and expenses of Visiting ( ifficer 'l 241 0 2 Total 16,411 18 11 * The department has however received a sum of £33 lls. Id, as a refund on account of payments made before ;he present method of maintenance came into force,