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one, and sixteen were over twenty-one years of age. The procedure in regard to the retention of control beyond that age is"|similar tojjthat already described in respect of inmates of industrial schools. The inmates are instructed in the occupations of basket-making, coir-mat making, and wood-carving. Farm and garden work is also out by the inmates, the institution producing more of such commodities as milk, fruit, and vegetables than its own requirements demand. Much of the school-work undertaken takes the form of handwork and kindergarten occupations. As there is shown to be a very considerable aggregate of young persons of feeble mind throughout the country who would best be provided for at Otekaike, an important extension of the accommodation there has been in progress for some time past, and with the advent of warmer weather it is anticipated that the institution will be in a position largely to increase its usefulness by taking in many who are now excluded. Preparations have also been made for the establishment of a separate school for feeble-minded girls at Richmond,^elson, towards the equipment of which a sum has now been placed on the estimates. The following is a statement of the expenditure for the years 1914-15 and 1915-16:— 1914-15 1915-16. £ £ Salaries .. .. .. .. .. 2,510 2,630 General maintenance .. .. .. 2,130 2,316 Travelling-expenses .. .. ..247 299 Maintenance of buildings .. .. .. 172 144 Additional buildings, furniture, clearing land, &e 2,245 12,515 7,304 17,904 Less — Amount collected from parents by way of maintenance contributions .. 723 797 Amount collected from Charitable Aid Boards .. .. .. 694 950 Sundry other recoveries .. .. 133 346 1,550 — 2,093 Net expenditure .. .. .. .. £5,754* £15,811* * Including for 1914-15 £300, and for 1915-16 £139, from national-endowment revenue.

No. 2. —INDUB T R I A L SCHO 0 L S.

Table I 1. —Expenditure on Government Schools, 1915-16.

Government Schools. Salaries. General Maintenance (including Provisions, • Clothing, Farms, &c). (2.) Furnishings, Nevf Travelling- Buudtoa? ! liuildm 8 8 expenses. ,3*' and Works. I W0IJ£S - (3.) (4.) J (5.) Boarding out. (Payments to Fosterparents.) Gross Cost. Recoveries from Parents and Others, and Sales from Farms, &c. £80 Net Cost.* (1.) (6.) (7.) _ . M-l _ Auckland. • Boys' Training-farm, Weraroa Receiving Home, Wellington Receiving Home, Nelson Boys' Training-farm, Nelson Receiving Homp, Christchurch Te Oranga Home . . Burnham Caversham £ 860 2,733 I ,055 265 2,648 924 1,384 3,345 997 £ 1,205 5,548 1,595 130 4,247 1 ,028 I ,728 4,782 1,250 £ £ £ 103 128 160 179 713 275 17 20 .. 531 119 370 643 91 10 82 237 318 462 180 39 £ 2,664 £ 5,120 9,173 13,081 1,617 8,027 7,534 3,431 8,907 6,799 £ 2,283 3,330 7,865 172 1,746 3,589 300 967 3,787 £ 2,837 5,843 5,216 1,445 6,28J 3,945 3,131 7,940 3,012 10,139 671 5,481 4,333 Totals 14,211 21,513 1,367 1,976 1,334 23,288 63,689 24,039 39,65i (Salaries, travelling-allowances, Amount paid to Postal Depart! Sundries and expenses of certain departmental officors (Inspectors, visiting officers, &c.) nent for payment of boarding-out orders lectors, vii 1,751 101 io: Total nei t cost t41,611 * Column (7) 1( bsb column (8). t Including £2,057 paid from national-endowment revenue.