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iBB3. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS AND ORPHANAGES (PAPERS RELATING TO). [In Continuation of E.-3, 1882.]

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

No. 1. BXTEACT FEOM SIXTH ANNUAL EBPOET OF THE MINISTEE OF EDUCATION. Industrial Schools and Orphanages. The following is a list of the Industrial Schools and Orphanages maintained wholly or partly by the Government from parliamentary votes : In Auckland, the Auckland Industrial School (comprising Kohimarama and the Howe Street Home), St. Stephen's Orphan Home at Parnell, St. Mary's Industrial School and Orphanage, and the Thames Orphanage and Training School; in Wellington, the St. Joseph's Providence Orphange for Girls; in Nelson, the St. Mary's Industrial School and Orphanage and the Motueka Orphanage; in Canterbury, the Burnham Industrial School and the Lyttelton Orphanage; and in Otago, the Oaversham Industrial School. The Industrial Schools at Burnham. and Caversham have been for the last three years under the direct management of the Education Department, and since the beginning of the past financial year the Auckland Industrial School has been on the same footing. The building in Howe Street, Auckland, is occupied by the girls and very young boys, under the immediate charge of a matron; the other boys being accommodated at Kohimarama, under the control of the manager and assistants. These three institutions receive only children committed under the Industrial Schools Act. The St. Stephen's Orphanage at Parnell, maintained by a Church of England charity, is open for non-committed children only ; the St. Mary's Industrial School and Orphanage at Auckland, under the control of the Roman Catholic Church authorities, receives both committed and non-committed children. Each institution receives from Government a subsidy at the rate of £1 for every £1 of voluntary contribution, and a capitation payment of £10 a year for each child sent in by Government authority. The Thames Orphanage was established by the Borough and County Councils, and is under the charge of a committee of management. A public day-school is maintained at the institution by the Education Board, and is attended not only by the inmates of the Orphanage, but also by the children of the settlers in the neighbourhood. The usual capitation grants are paid to the Board for the children attending this school. There is no industrial school in the Wellington District for the reception of committed children; those dealt with under the Industrial Schools Act are sent to the institutions at Nelson, Burnham, or Auckland, as may in each case be deemed most advisable. By an arrangement between the Government and the I—E. 3.