E.—3

1895. NEW ZEALAND

EDUCATION: INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. [In continuation of E.-3, 1894.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by command of His Excellency

No. 1 EXTBACT FROM EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OP EDUCATION The number of inmates of industrial schools changed but little during the year, the increase—from 3,550 to 1,555 —being only five, the difference between 203, the number of cases admitted, and 198, the number of discharges. The number of children dependent on the schools for maintenance declined from 998 to 995. The following table (T) shows the variations during the year of the numbers respectively (1) of children boarded out, (2) of inmates residing in the schools , (3) of inmates at service, or with their friends, or for some other reason absent from the schools. The absentees are 560 408 at service, 116 licensed to friends, 18 absent without leave, 4 in hospitals, 4 in lunatic asylums, 2 in a blind asylum, and 8 in refuges The wages on deposit m the Post-Office Savings-Bank amounted to ,£8,668 15s. Id for Government schools, and to £254 2s. 2d. for private schools.

TABLE T.—Inmates, 1893 and 1894.

The 203 new inmates are distinguished, with respect to religious denomination, as follows Catholic, 83 , Church of England, 74, Methodist, 20 , Presbyterian, 19, Salvation Army, 3, Baptist, 2, Congregational, 1, Church of Christ, 1. More than half (110) of these children were sent in on account of destitution , 40 as having been guilty of punishable offences , 31 as living m disreputable places, 11 as vagrant, as uncontrollable, 5, by arrangement with parents, 6. Such information as is on record with respect to the previous home-life of the new inmates is exhibited in Table U, and, so far as inferences from this table

Boardi !d OU' Eel sidence. Service, ;o. Tot! bis. <D 2 c3 Q o o d I a i—i § j CD O P P CO £ d o ft ! i 5 P CD P H p s 1—I a5 3 I t> CD p d p rovernment Schools— Auckland Burnham Caversham 'rivate Schools— St. Mary's, Auckland St. Joseph's, Wellington St. Mary's, Nelson 53 174 174 10 4 43 170 181 13 129 100 3 IB 13 111 103 62 237 205 2G 13 81 49 263 174 128 540 479 23 21 105 544 458 4 4 4 4 42 50 255 3 8 8 45 58 263 11 2 35 6 20 11 8 55 53 56 294 3 14 28 56 70 322 Totals 7 14 402 589 22 18 593 552 52 44 560 1,550 49 44 1,555 409