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1917. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: SPECIAL SCHOOLS, AND INFANT-LIFE PROTECTION. [In continuation of E.-4, 1916.]

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

CONTENTS. Page Page 1. Extraot from the Annual Report (8.-l) of the 3. Coatley Training Institution — Minister of Education .. .. .. i Statemont of Aocounts .. .. g 2. Industrial School Statistics .. .. T 4> Infant-life Protection Statistics .. .. g

No. 1. —EXTEACT FEOM THE FOETIETH ANNUAL EEPOET OP THE MINISTEE OF EDUCATION. SPECIAL SCHOOLS. Work of the Special Schools Section. The special-schools section of the work of the Education Department includes (1) the care of destitute, uncontrollable, or deliquent children committed to receiving-homes or industrial schools, and all juvenile offenders transferred from gaols to industrial schools; (2) the education and care of deaf, blind, or feeble-minded children over the age of six years; (3) the supervision of all children under the age of six years who are—(a) maintained apart from their parents or guardians, (b) adopted with premium. Industrial Schools. At the 31st December, 1916, there were nine institutions, officially known as industrial schools, directly under the control of the Education Department. Of these, three are devoted to the training of girls and three to the training of boys. The remaining three are receiving-homes which deal with children (boys and girls) who are fit to be boarded out in country homes, or who, if over the age of fourteen years, are capable of taking situations. There are also thirty-six industrial schools under private control to which children may be committed under the Industrial Schools Act, and which are subject to inspection by the Education Department.

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