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Otago, £8,097 6s. sd. ; Southland, £3,417 12s 2d. The payments for secondary education from reserves under the control of the School Commissioners amounted to £5,176 Is. 3d. Under sectionjl7 of "The Secondary Schools Act, 1903," the revenues derived from reserves set apart for secondary education are to be "harded over by the Commissioners to the governing bodies of secondary schools in the provincial district in proportion to the number of pupils in average attendance at the several secondary schools, exclusive of the pupils in any preparatory department." The following tahle shows the total income from education reserves for the ten years 1894-1903, and the cost of adminstration by the School Commissioners for the same period, which it will be seen averages 676 per cent.: —

Table I2.—Income and Cost of Administration of School Commissioners.

Industrial Schools. In December, 1904, the number on the books of all the industrial schools was 1,918, or 9 more than at the close of the year 1903. On the books of the Government Industrial Schools there were 1,387, an increase of 21 over the corresponding number for 1903, on the books of the private industrial schools there were 531, or 12 less than at the end of the previous year. The number in residence at Government schools was 299, and at private industrial schools 304, so that 603 was the total number of " inmates " actually in residence. The number boarded out was 548, 8 being from private schools and the rest from Government schools. There were 7 girls maintained in various corrective institutions, 2 girls in cottage homes, 3 boys at the School for Deaf-mutes, Sumner, and 9 boys at the Costley Training Institution, Auckland. The total number of inmates dependent on the schools for maintenance was therefore 1,172, or 37 more than the number at the end of 1903. The remaining 746, although still subject to control and supervision of the schools, were not dependent on them for maintenance. They may be classified as follows : Licensed to reside with friends, 178; at service, 494 ; in hospital, 4 ; in lunatic asylum, 5 ; in the Costley Training Institution, Auckland, 3 ; in other institutions, 15 ; in gaol, 3 ; absent without leave, 44—namely, 29 from service, 13 from the schools, and 2 from friends. There were six Government industrial schools in existence in 1904, and the numbers of inmates on their books at the end of the year were as follows :—Auckland, 135; Receiving Home. Wellington, 195 ; Receiving Home, Christchurch, 236 ; Burnham, 231 ; Te Oranga Home, 63 ; Caversham, 527 : total, 1,387. Those belonging to private industrial schools were distributed as follows: —St. Mary's, Auckland, 135 ; St. Joseph's, Wellington, 69 ; St. Mary's, Nelson, 280 ; St. Vincent de Paul's, Dunedin, 47 : total, 531.

TABLE J1.—Inmates, 1903 and 1904.

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Provincial District. Total Income for the Ten Years 1891-1903 inclusive. Cost of Administration for the Ten Years 1894-1903. Cost of Administration Per Cent, of Income. Auckland raranaki Wellington hawke's Bay Marlborough Slelson iVestland Canterbury Dtago £ 35,489 29,089 38,009 38,446 3,009 13,470 3,020 166,495 196,554 £ 3,051 3,448 5,543 2,205 320 830 753 6,159 13,101 £ 8-59 11-85 14-60 5-74 10-63 6-16 24-93 3-70 6-66 For the colony 523,581 35,410 676

Boarded o' Res: idence. At Service, &c. Totals. t. w o « CD <£ P £ - 9 5 a ■J o ci 3 a. 9 Q d hi 9 0 a O O $ W g O S O CD CD 2 CD q q 3 a o d CD 0 CO s en d o Q d <o -w « s a ci e8 I OS I S M O 9 \ 9 ~ Q CD a p | a iovernment SchoolsAuckland Receiving Home, Wellington Te Oranga Home, Christchurch Receiving Home, Christchurch Burnbam Caversham 'rivate Schools— St. Mary's, Auckland St. Joseph's, Wellington.. St. Mary's, Nelson St. Vincent de Paul's, Dunedin 63 135 130 2 177 1 31 1 i 1 131 1 178 64 166 28 31 10 92 137 1 9 7 2 14 28 1 40 8 99 123 40 31 25 99 158 208 18 3 3 2 2 27 43 28 23 97 131 226 131 166 56 239 252 522 *5 4 29 7 3 21 135 195 63 236 231 527 83 34 160 5 6 78 28 167 48 46 130 9 5 20 57 41 110 131 80 291 4 11 11 135 69 280 i a 3 7 4 i 5 25 6 31 12 1 11 41 6 47 Totals 512 37 1 548 600 30 27 603 797 30 60 767 1,909 55 46 1,918