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1902. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. [In continuation of E.-3, 1901.]

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

No. 1. EXTRACT PROM THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION. In December, 1901, the total number on the books of all the industrial schools was 1,765, or 62 more than at the close of the year 1900. On the books of the Government industrial schools there were 1,227, an increase of 64 over the corresponding number for 1900 ; on the books of the private industrial schools there were 538, or 2 less than at the end of the previous year. The number in residence at Government schools was 293, and at private industrial schools 348, so that 641 was the total number of "inmates" actually in residence. The number boarded out was 419, one being from a private school and the rest from Government schools. There were 17 girls maintained in various corrective institutions, 13 boys and girls in orphan homes, 1 boy at the Blind Institute, Auckland, and lat the School for Deaf-mutes, Sumner. The total number of inmates dependent on the schools for maintenance was therefore 1,092, or 56 more than the number at the end of 1900. The remaining 673, although still subject to control and supervision, were not dependent on the schools for maintenance. They may be classified as follows : Licensed to reside with friends, 155 ; at service, 448; in hospital, 4 ; in lunatic asylum, 5; in the Costley Training Institution, Auckland, on probation, 2; in other institutions without payment, 13 ; in gaol, 6 ; absent without leave, 40 —namely, 29 from service and 11 from the schools. There were six Government industrial schools in existence in 1901, and the numbers of inmates on their books at the end of the year were as follows : Auckland, 97 ; Eeceiving Home, Wellington, 69 ; Keceiving Home, Christchurch, 226; Burnham, 281; Te Oranga Home, 46; Caversham, 508: total, 1,227. Those belonging to private industrial schools were distributed as follows: St. Mary's, Auckland, 130; St. Joseph's, Wellington, 76; St. Mary's, Nelson, 305; St. Vincent de Paul, Dunedin, 27 : total, 538.

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