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31. It may be urged that this plan deprives certain boys who are neither 

 juvenile offenders nor vagabonds of the advantages to be gained from an 

 Industrial School. To our minds it is a mistake to endeavour to draw the 

 present distinction where no real separation of the classes exists, and we sug- 

 gest below a means whereby the requirements of respectable boys of the 

 peasant class may be provided for. 



32. Should this proposed alteration be made, it will be well to preserve 

 the present arrangements at Stony Hill, under the designation of the Indus- 

 trial School, and the boys should continue to be trained much as at present. 

 The instruction in various trades now carried on appears to be valuable and 

 calculated to turn out boys useful as tradesmen in after life. The boys are 

 now taught to work as carpenters, blacksmiths, masons and tailors : some 

 training in field work in agriculture is given to a number of the boys at 

 Stony Hill, while all th<- boys at Hope Industrial School are trained in field 

 work and agriculture. 



33. Those boys for whom an agricultural training is thought desirable, 

 should be placed at the Hope Industrial School, which would then become a 

 branch of the Stony Hill establishment set apart for the training of a particu- 

 lar class of boys in agriculture just as certain classes are trained in other 

 occupations — carpenters, blacksmiths, masons, at Stony Hill. The discipline 

 should be the same at both establishments, and to ensure this there should be 

 at Hope an Officer in charge who is able to maintain efficient control over 

 the whole affairs of this branch of the Industrial School ; he should be an 

 Assistant Superintendent. The rest of the staff should be arranged upon 

 similar lines to those at Stony Hill. We think this should comprise a school- 

 master and four warders ; or one warder for every 12 boys. 



34. Provision may be made for the accommodation of 50 Boys at Hope 

 with but little alteration of the existing buildings. The boys now take their 

 meals and attend school in the same room in which they sleep : it would be 

 an advantage in many respects if a separate room were provided to serve as 

 a school-room and dining-room. Portions of the dormitories are now par- 

 titioned off for officers' quarters : these partitions might be removed and 

 other quarters found for the officers : by means of minor alterations such as 

 these, 50 boys may be accommodated. If a larger number of boys are to 

 receive agricultural training at Hope new buildings must be erected. 



35. If the course which we now recommend is adopted, it would be well 

 to reorganize the whole of the arrangements at Hope by regarding the 

 present staff and inmates as a portion of the Stony Hill establishment, even 

 if they are not temporarily drafted there. The officers in charge at Hope 

 should be definitely appointed to their duties, and boys suitable for agricul- 

 tural training should be selected for the school ; boys who are too young or 

 otherwise unfitted for useful employment in agricultural work should be 

 retained at Stony Hill. 



36. In going to work at the Experiment Station, or elsewhere, the boys 

 should go in detachments, each under the control of a competent warder, 

 who will remain in charge of his detachment to maintain order and will ac- 

 company the boys back to the school. An efficient drilling will greatly facili- 

 tate the maintenance of discipline in the field and the orderly transfer of the 

 boys to and from the school and the Experiment Station. 



37. Up to this point we have outlined the functions of an Experiment 

 Station and have pointed out an available site and the manner in which the 

 work of the Station may be managed , together with a provision for the cul- 

 tivation of crops by the inmates of the Industrial School. 



38. Apart from the agricultural instruction to be given to boys of the 

 Industrial School class, it is essential that higher instruction in agriculture 

 should be given to those who are ultimately to have charge of estates and 

 pens in the colony : these are to be found in the Secondary and 

 High Schools. Much benefit would accrue to the colony if those 



