Negotiations for the receiving homes at Wellington and Christehureh are almost completed, and the homes will be opened shortly. These homes are intended for the temporary accommodation of children com mitted to" industrial schools (not of reforma tory cases), .and of industrial school girls who have left, the service of one employer and are wailing for another situation. One important purpose to be served by these receiving homes is that children may be boarded out or licensed out to service in the districts to which they belong without hav ing to be transferred (except in reforma tory cases) from one part of the colony ip the other.
Technical instructors have been appointed at Burniham, and the same course will be fol lowed as occasion arises at the other main institutions. Except where it is shown that an inmate boarded out is receiving a due amount of industrialjtraining, it is proposed to remove him at the age of twelve or thir teen for two years to the institution to which he belongs, in order that he may b© properly taught a trade. These remarks, the report continues, apply to Government industrial schools (includ ing reformatories). It is, however, de sirable that the organisation of the private schools should be modified if necessary, so that they may fall into line with the general scheme and be controlled by the same gene ral regulations. It is not anticipated that there will be any difficulty in accomplishing this.
