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assistants, who in nearly every case belong to the family of the head teacher, ranged from merely nominal amounts to £50. The expenditure on Native schools was as follows : Teachers' salaries and allowances, £13,206 9s. 9d. ; books and school requisites, £492 3s. 2d. ; repairs and small works, and tree-planting on sites, £475 ss. lid.; inspection, £960 19s. 10d. ; boarding-schools and scholarships, £1,846 18s. sd. ; buildings, fencing, furniture, &c, £2,748 3s. ;- technical instruction classes (including material for workshop), £111 14s. 6d.; sundries, £143 17s. 6d.: total, £19,985 12s. Id. Industrial Schools. The number on the books of the Government industrial schools at the close of the year 1900 was 1,163, or 55 more than in December, 1899; on the books of the private industrial schools there were 540, or 20 less than at the end of the previous year. The total number of " inmates "on the books of all the schools was therefore 1,703, an increase of 35 over the corresponding number for 1899. The number actually in residence was 598—namely, 231 at Government schools (including 7 at receiving-homes) and 367 at the private industrial schools (including lat a receiving-home). There were boarded out 402 from Government schools, and 7 from private schools, or 409 in all. There were 18 girls in various corrective institutions, 8 boys and girls in orphan homes, 2 boys at the Institution for the Blind, Auckland, and 1 at the School for Deaf-mutes, Sumner. The total number of inmates dependent on the schools for maintenance was therefore 1,036, being 3 more than the number at the end of 1899. The remaining 667 were not dependent on the schools for maintenance,, but were still subject to control and supervision. They may be classified as follows : Licensed to reside with friends, 138 ; at service, 472; in hospital, 2; in lunatic asylum, 3 ; in the Costley Training Institution, Auckland, on probation, 2 ; in other institutions without payment, 15 ; in gaol, 3; absent without leave, 32 (namely, 16 from service and 16 from the schools). The inmates on the books of the four Government industrial schools in existence at the end of 1900 were distributed as follows : Auckland, 94; Burnham, 562 ; Caversham, 494 ; Te Oranga, 13 : total, 1,163. Of those belonging to private industrial schools, there were on the books of St. Mary's, Auckland, 127; St. Joseph's, Wellington, 82; St. Mary's, Nelson, 307; St. Vincent de Paul's, Dunedin, 24 : total, 540.

TABLE T.—Inmates, 1899 and 1900.

The changes referred to in last year's report have been advanced a further stage, so that gradually a greater degree of classification of industrial-school inmates is being introduced. It was then stated that all the girls had been removed from residence at Burnham. During the year that school has been established as a reformatory for boys, and accordingly all boarded-out inmates, both boys and girls, and all other girls belonging to it, have now (August,

Boarded ou; Kesi idence. At Service, &c. Totals. I I I t-l CD R o d u o a I—I P P CI ¥ a) S S g g S d o g o r ® rt OJ a 3 a q © P £ 7 q lovernment Schools — Auckland Burnham Caversham Te Oranga Home, Christchurch 'rivate Schools — St. Mary's, Auckland St. Joseph's, Wellington St. Mary's, Nelson Sb. Vincent de Paul's, South Dunedin 44 158 206 2 4 12 46 162 194 9 104 87 96 51 229 14 7 i 8 12 16 108* 95 12 100 49 202f 16 36 262 202 29 28 101 3 80 3 1 4 32 292 205 1 27 31 100 8 89 524 495 125 82 336 17 5 33 13 i 94 562 494 13 127 82 307 24 3 6 1 1 '2 5 4 .2 27 3 2 2 2 i 29 8 7 Totals .. 417 6 14 409 29 598 661 42 7 696 1,668 65 590 37 30 1,703 * Including seven children in the receiving-homes. I Including one child in a receiving-home.