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1907. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. [In continuation of E.-3, 1906.]

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

No. 1. EXTRACT FROM THE THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION. In view of the developments that have taken place during the last few years in the industrial-school system, it appears desirable to give a statement of the several establishments connected therewith and the functions allotted to each. Under the authority given by the Act the transfers from one institution to another necessary to secure a broad general classification of the inmates are freely made. The establishments belonging to the Government are the following:— Auckland Industrial School. —This institution receives girls who do not need reformatory treatment, and it has also the care of boys who are not too old or too wild to be boarded out, or who can be placed at once at service or in the Costley Training Institution. Girls only are taken into residence. Boys' Training Farm, Weraroa, receives boys who, not needing reformatory treatment, are, by reason of age or temperament, not fitted for boarding out. Wellington Receiving Home receives infants and young boys and girls fit to be boarded out, and older girls who can be trusted at service. It is not at present adapted for residential purposes. Christchurch Receiving Home. —The purpose of this establishment is similar to that of the Wellington Receiving Home. Te Oranga Home, near Christchurch (Reformatory). —This is a reformatory for girls whose character requires that they shall be kept under strict discipline. Young women of seriously vicious or depraved habits committed to the Home are at present transferred to institutions more specially fitted for the care of such persons ; but they will form a separate section of the institution when the contemplated extension of the buildings has been effected. Burnham Industrial School (Reformatory). —This is a reformatory for boys whose vicious or criminal tendencies" do not admit of their being dealt with at any of the other institutions. Caversham Industrial School. —Similar to the Auckland Industrial School. The private schools established under the Act are all in connection with the Roman Catholic Church, and receive boys and girls who do not need reformatory treatment. They are the following : — St. Mary's Industrial School, Auckland, with separate branches for boys and girls. St. Joseph's Industrial School, Wellington ; for girls. St. Mary's Industrial School, Nelson, with separate branches for boys and girls, St. Vincent de Paul's Industrial School, Dunedin ; for girls.

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