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in the immediate neighbourhood of Temuka. The Education Board and the Temuka School Committee strongly supporting the often-reiterated petition of the Maori people, the Department has at last set up a Native school, where there is now an average attendance of 29. At the date of this report a large new school at Euatoki (in the Urewera country) is nearly ready for occupation; another large building is in progress at Pipiriki (Wanganui Eiver); the buildings of the extinct school at Eotoiti are being removed to a site at Te Ngae, where they have been long wanted; a tender has been accepted for a school-building at Te Whaiti (Urewera) ; and tenders will soon be invited for one at Kokako (Waikaremoana). Negotiations are in progress for Native schools at Koriniti (Corinth, on the Wanganui) and at Karioi (on the main line of communication between Wanganui and Taupo). It will probably be found necessary to build at Kawhia, and at Karikari; and the buildings at Te Houhi (near Galatea) and at Taiharuru are quite temporary structures. The expenditure on new buildings in 1895 was £3,077 10s. lOd. The expenditure on maintenance was £14,759 12s. 9d., accounted for as follows : Paid to teachers, £10,704 4s. Id.; books and school requisites, £504 ss. 4d.; lantern lectures, and lanterns and slides, £203 7s. 5d.; repairs and small works, £736 12s. 5d.; inspection (including travelling), £768 Bs. 3d.; sundries, £52 17s. 2d.; boarding-school subsidies, and scholarships, £1,790 os. Id. Now that five lanterns and a large supply of slides have been procured and distributed, there will be no expenditure for lectures, which will be delivered by the teachers. At the end of 1895 there were 57 masters, 10 mistresses, 60 assistant mistresses, and 13 sewing-mistresses. The salaries of masters and mistresses varied from £94 to £210, and the salaries of assistants and sewing-mistresses from £7 to £50. The report of Mr. Pope, the Organizing Inspector of Native Schools, appears as a separate paper (E.-2). Industrial Schools. The inmates discharged from industrial schools during the year numbered 185, and the new inmates 175. Correspondingly, the number of names on the rolls has declined from 1,555 to 1,545. At the end of the year the total of 1,545 was made up of 560 inmates residing in the schools (203 in Government schools and 357 in private schools), 416 boarded out (405 from Government schools and 11 from private schools), and 569 licensed to service or to reside with friends or on other accounts absent (486 from Government schools and 83 from private schools). Of the 569 absent inmates, 419 were at service, 103 on probation with friends, 8 in hospitals, 5 in lunatic asylums, 3 at the Costley Training Institution on probation, 1 at a blind asylum, 15 absent without leave, 14 in refuges or preventive institutions, and 1 in prison. The resident and boarded-out inmates reckoned together (as being alike dependent) were 995 at the beginning of the year and 976 at the end. The wages of inmates are deposited in the Post-Office Sayings-Bank. The total amount on deposit on the 31st December, 1895, was £9,436 (£9,090 on account of Government schools, and £346 on account of private schools). The amount withdrawn and paid to inmates, or former inmates, during the year was £1,317, of which £16 3s. 4d. was on account of private schools.

TABLE T.—Inmates, 1894 and 1895.

Boarded ou< Rei iidence Ser 'ice, &c. Toti ils. *_ » © a d TO V O Q at00 d fi •__) O JJ d © fi CD TO 03 V J-i O fl w © irf r« _5 © rH S-r r © © © © o n -_. X d CD fi <D TO o3 © o fl H d TO d s o <D fi ___ o a; 6 CD fi x d CD Q d to 03 <D ft o fl I—I oi d o o fi rO C. CO 6 © Government Schools— Auckland Burnham Caversbam Private Schools — St. Mary's, Auckland St. Joseph's, Wellington St. Mary's, Nelson 43 170 181 21 4 6 39 164 202 13 111 103 3 4 17 10 107 86 49 263 174 6 6 43 269 174 105 544 458 4 13 4 92 540 462 '_ 4 "i 7 45 58 263 1 6 46 64 247 11 8 55 3 14 8 61 56 70 322 4 6 60 76 315 8 16 6 "l Totals .. 402 24 10 416 i 593 i 7 40 560 560 15 6 569 1,555 14 24 1,545