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TABLE U. —Admissions classified according to Parents' Circumstances and Character, 1888.

The expenditure for the year on account of Government schools was £18,805 2s. Bd., against which is to be set £7,154 2s. 9d., recovered from Charitable Aid Boards and from parents. It is not easy to ascertain the exact average cost for one child. The expenditure for 1888 includes an unusually large proportion of accounts of the previous year, and part of the expenses is on account of outfit furnished to children sent out to board for the first time. The average number of children resident in the Government schools or boarded-out from them was 812 (285 resident and 527 boarded-out). The apparent cost for each of these children (ascertained by dividing the total cost by 812) is £23. The rate of payment for boarded-out children has until lately been 7s. a week. In new cases the rate is now 65., and steps are being taken to make this rate general. Table W shows the cost of each of the Government schools.

TABLE W. —Cost of Government Schools.

Table X shows the payments made by the Department for the maintenance of children in " private" schools. The " local" school at the Thames is maintained wholly by the local authorities.

TABLE X. —Government Expenditure on Private Schools.

Eurther information with respect to the industrial schools will be found in another paper (E.-3). The Costley Institute received five boys from Kohimarama school during the year, and at the end of the year had four other boys on probation from the same school, and one girl from the Girl's School at Parnell. The accounts of the Institute have been duly received by the Department, and will be submitted to Parliament (E.-3a). University and Secondary Education. Consequent upon the examinations held at the end of 1888, the University of New Zealand has conferred the degree of M.A. on eleven Bachelors of Arts; of LL.B. on two Graduates in Arts; of B.Sc, on two Graduates in Arts; of B.A,

Mothers [escribed as Children of Dead. Sick, Lunatic, Disabled, &c Of Good Character (or Poor). Not known or not stated. Of Bad Character. Deserters. Total. 'athers described as— Dead Sick, lunatic, disabled, &c. Of good character (or poor) Not known or not stated Of bad character Deserters 15 2 14 2 14 3 6 6 12 12 4 1 7 1 16 3 4 2 7 2 5 7 19 3 2 2 1 43 6 53 17 42 29 "i 11 3 Totals .. 50 27 36 26 43 190

School. Cost of School. Cost of Boarding-out. Recoveries. Net Cost. Auckland Kohimarama Burnham Caversham £ s. d. 337 17 11 1,353 11 3 3,180 3 10 2,809 14 5 7,681 7 5 £ a. d. 752 8 0 1,504 1 6 4,502 12 1 4,106 1 1 10,865 2 8 £ s. d. 280 7 1 846 16 0 2,916 4 10 3,110 14 10 7,154 2 9 £ a. d. 809 18 10 2,010 16 9 4,766 11 1 3,805 0 8 Totals 11,392 7 4 Salary and expenses of Visiting Office: 258 12 7 Total 11,650 19 11

School. Payments. Recoveries. Net Expenditure by Government. It. Mary's, Ponsonby (Auckland) It. Joseph's, Wellington It. Mary's, Nelson Totals £ s. d. 622 19 0 123 2 0 1,640 1 1 2,386 2 1 £ a. d. £ s. d. 47 12 2 575 6 10 30 19 2 92 2 10 260 14 9 1,379 6 4 339 6 1 2,046 16 0