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In the table below are given the names of the teachers together with certain details of expenditure. The average roll number and average attendance for each school are also shown.

SPECIAL SCHOOLS. Afflicted and Dependent Children. (See also E.-4, 1913.) The number of children brought under the operation of the Industrial Schools Act in 1913 was 328, being seventy-seven less than for the preceding year. The number whose names were written off the books was 204, leaving a total roll number of 2,908. Of these 1,777 were boys and 1,131 girls. The classification of the children was as follows :— Boarded out — Prom Government industrial schools .. .. .. .. 995 From private industrial schools .. .. .. .. .. 1 Total .. .. .. .. .. .. ..996 In residence — In Government industrial schools (other than reformatories) .. .. 419 At private (Roman Catholic) industrial schools . . .. .. 281 Total .. .. .. .. .. .. ..700 At reformatories (boys) .. .. .. . . .. .. 142 (girls) 74 Total .. .. .. .. .. .. ..216 In situations .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 500 With friends on probation .. .. .. .. .. .. 297 Under private guardianship .. .. .. .. .. 52 In hospitals, private institutions, absent without leave, in prison, &c. .. 147 In the total number on the books are included twelve young women and one young man who are more than twenty-one years of age ; and control of them is maintained under the law that provides for detention beyond that age of any young person who a Magistrate is satisfied is morally degenerate or otherwise in the public interest unfitted to be free from guidance. These cases will be reviewed every four years, and by like procedure detention may be indefinitely prolonged. The power of placing out applies as though the inmate were under twenty-one. At each hearing counsel is provided at Government expense for the person concerned. By similar provisions in the Education Act young people of feeble mind may be detained under the guidance of special schools. In this way lifelong control

Attendance. School. Names of Teachers. Salaries at End of 1913. Allowance (or Conveyance of Mean of Average Mean of Weekly Goods Attendance for Eoll Number for Four Quarters of Four Quarters of 1913. 1913. Te One ,. Wentzel, E. S. B. Renwick, Miss F. Lanauze, Miss G. Seymour, A. Hutchinson, J. Russell, Mrs. E. A. H.M. Pt. 2 Pt. 5 F. M. F. £ s. d. 205 0 0 *50 0 0 55 0 0 •j-108 0 0 103 10 0 99 0 0 £ 25 41 50 Te Roto .. Owenga .. Matarakau 15 20 13 8 24 15 9 Total I 620 10 0 55 82 98 •In< dudes lodging-allowance, £15 per anni im. t Also house allowance, ;i5 per annum.