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Conclusion. The scheme which I have outlined is naturally only skeletal, and I have not embodied suggestions as to the provision of such institutions as will he found necessary to carry it out. The first step should be the appointment of the Eugenics Board, who would proceed at once to take stock of our present resources with the view to developing a programme in accordance with the estimated needs. The clinics could no doubt later on be increased in number, and their work more specialized in certain directions, such as problems of behaviour, penology, or sex abnormality, as necessity arose ; but in the meantime they would fulfil a great and urgent need in the community. In concluding the first part of my report, I desire to assert my belief that no country in the world is more favourably circumstanced than New Zealand for the successful carrying-out of eugenic measures, and I entirely and whole-heartedly subscribe to the opinions expressed by J. H. Curie in " To-day and To-morrow" : " Subject to the limitation of New Zealand's area, nothing need bar their progress. Australians and New-Zealanders still have it in their power, by excluding colour, limiting entry to the best whites, and preventing the unfit from breeding, to become, and remain, about the finest white strains in the world." I have, &c., Theo. G. Gray, Inspector-General. (Note. —The second part of this report, which deals with modern methods employed in the care and treatment of the insane, is now in preparation, and will be completed at an early date.)

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