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1896. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. [In continuation of E.-3, 1895.]

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

No. 1. EXTRACT FROM NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION. 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 The amount withdrawn and paid to inmates, or former inmates, during the year was £1,317, of which £16 3s. 4d.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.

Of the inmates whose names were removed from the roll during the year six had reached the age of 21, and were ipso facto discharged. One young woman, having married (with the consent of the manager, her guardian) ceased to he under the control of the school. Three were transferred to the Costley Training Institution at the request of the Trustees. There were three deaths I—E. 3.

Boarc 1 otr In Res: iidenee A Seidee, &c. Tot ials. • _ I - I 1 M | _ _ CO <x> u CO a _ S3 CO 6 _ a 1 2 o a ® I _ _ CO c © -2 2 8 r r o - _ CD _ V p I n a 3 ! 10 49 4 I 107 263 17 j 86 174 CD i 3 oi , _ CO Oi <s ; * o ! *1 5 ' - a | q a; o _ _ s __ o <u _ CO _ ~ 2 p w - c O _ n q lovernment Schools — Auckland Burnham Caversham 'rivate Schools— St. Mary's, Auckland St. Joseph's, Wellington St. Mary's, Nelson 43 I 170 i 181 21 4 6 39 164 202 13 ] .. Ill .. 103 | .. 6 6 6 43 .. 269 .. 174 105 544 458 4 18 ' 92 4 j 540 .. I 462 i *4 4 3 47 45 | 1 58 ! 6 263 I .. .. ! 46 11 64 8 16 247 55 40 560 560 8 6 14 8 61 66 70 322 4 6 .. ! 60 .. j 76 7 | 315 24 ! 1,545 Totals 402 24 10 416 593 ' 7 15 6 6 569 1,555 14