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Caversliam and Burnham. The boys —except a few very young ones —have been removed to the premises formerly occupied by the Naval Training School, and the girls remain at the home in Howe Street. It is proposed to sell the Howe Street property, and to provide new accommodation for both boys and girls on a reserve made for the purpose of a site for a lunatic asylum near Mount Eden. The St. Stephen's Orphanage at Auckland is maintained by a Church of England charity, and the St. Mary's Industrial School and Orphanage (also at Auckland) by the authorities of the Roman Catholic Church. The payments made by Government to both these schools are £1 for every pound of voluntary contributions, and £10 for each child sent in by the Relieving Officer, and, in the case of St. Mary's, for each committed child. The Thames Orphanage is practically maintained by the Borough and County Councils; and the Lyttelton Orphanage by the Charitable Aid Board: the accounts in both cases being paid in the first instance by the Colonial Secretary's Department, and then charged against the subsidy payable to the local bodies. The amount so paid by Government for each child at the Thames Orphanage was £21 4s. 3d., and the Education Board received £8 16s. 6d. for each child in average attendance at the day-school. The payments paid by Government on account of the Lyttelton Orphanage amount to £16 15s. for each child, the remainder of the cost, £2 ss. 7d., being met by contributions of relatives. Eor each child sent to St. Joseph's, Wellington, by order of the City Council, the cost is Is. a day, which is borne in equal proportions by the Government and the City Council. The payment for children maintained by the Government at St. Mary's, Nelson, is Is. a day; and at Motueka Orphanage (which is a school carried' on'by a private person) the charge is 7s. a week in some cases, and Bs. a week in others. The schools at Burnham and Caversliam have been for the last two years under the direct management of the Education Department, and the Auckland Industrial School at Howe Street and Kohimarama has been placed on the same footing during the current quarter. The other industrial schools and orphanages, though they have all been inspected by, and made returns to, the Education Department, receive their income from the State out of the Charitable Aid vote administered by the Colonial Secretary, or out of subsidies to local bodies. The site and buildings at Caversliam, as appears from a report supplied by Dr. Hector, which will be found in the paper (E.-4) on Industrial Schools and Orphanages, are not well adapted to their purpose. The adoption of a new site for the Auckland School will involve expenses that may not be covered by the proceeds of the sale of the Howe Street property; and extensions are needed at Burnham. The boarding-out system, if adopted as proposed in the Industrial Schools Bill now under consideration in the House of Representatives, will probably have the effect of greatly diminishing the number of inmates in large institutions, but this process is not likely to be very rapid in its operation for the first few years, and provision must be made for the immediate future. The number of the children received into and dismissed from these institutions during the year, and the number of children maintained in them at the beginning and at the end of the year respectively, are shown in Tables S and T, of which the first relates to children committed under " The Neglected and Criminal Children Act, 1867," and "The Naval Training Schools Act, 1874," and the second to children admitted as destitute.

TABLE S.—Number of Committed Children at Industrial Schools, etc.

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Institutions. Nun on 31st iber in School December, 1880. Admitted during 1881. Total Number at all in 1S81. Placed out lander License. Discharged or Absconded Died. Nun on 31st iber in Si Decembt :hool :r, 1881. Total Number at all in 1881. industrial Home, Auckland ... St. Mary's, Auckland Hiames Orphanage ... iohimarama Naval Training School ... it. Mary's, Nelson ... 3uniham ... Boys. 58 Girls. 28 Total. 86 26 26 Boys. Givls. 37 32 Total. 87 32 9 "(g 32 2 3 2 8 53 4 139 36 10 4 ■39 36 10 I S 4 SS 6 8 56 108 55 '4 170 262 24 24 82 i°5 79 38 252 367 7 '9 53 12 "26 72 110 S3 38 217 249 79 38 367 114 '54 7 21 27 93 169 1 4 '45 139 Totals 393 234 627 294 921 62 5 404 281 68e 921