Reformatory and Industrial Schools. 
(7i) Value of the live-stock and produce sold off tlie farm and of that 
utilised for School purposes, giving definitely the actual quan- 
tities and prices in each case. 
(«■) Nature and suitability of farm-buildings. 
7. Please give any information or opinions that you may possess on tho 
general question of the adaptability of farm-labour to the general purposes of 
an Industrial or Reformatory School, especially under the two main objects in 
view, namely : — 
(a) As a means of influencing the mind in a right direction. 
(6) As a means of technical instruction with a view to future advance- 
ment in life. 
8. In the event of a working dairy being attached to the School, please give 
any details as to the means of instruction in dairy operations that have been 
adopted, and any results therefrom that may have been observed. 
9. Please give information on any special feature of the farm-work, and on 
any other points not included in the foregoing questions. (For instance, out- 
side employment and what may be termed agricultural manufactures, such as 
milling.) 
10. Please state the conclusions at which you have arrived with regard to 
the extent to which elementary education suffers (if at all) in such schools as 
yours by its combination with practical work, in comparison with the results, 
obtained at ordinary Board Schools. 
Origin of Reformatories and Industrial Schools. 
It will not be necessary to go deeply into this part of the 
subject, but some reference to it is desirable for the purpose 
of showing how successful has been, in the case of these institu- 
tions, the combination of personal, local, and Imperial aids.* 
In the last Report which was written by the Rev. Sydney 
Turner, who had been Her Majesty's Inspector for nineteen 
years, an interesting memoir on the origin and history of the 
schools is given ; and the following statement is a very con- 
densed abstract of the chief points referred to : — 
The "Philanthropic Society" for the protection of the children 
of convicts and the " Refuge for the Destitute " had taken an 
active part in receiving and reforming the younger classes of 
criminals long before the passing of the first Reformatory and 
Industrial Schools Act in l854,t and had largely enlisted public 
sympathy and support in their efforts. The principle that 
Government aid should be combined with voluntary agency had 
also been recognized and acted on by the managers of these 
institutions, in the reception of a large number of boys sentenced 
to transportation or long terms of imprisonment, and pardoned 
* In my ' Keport,' I urged that the " combination of local with Imperial 
mteresta iu the welfare of the school would be productive of good in regard to its 
management, and would ensure a proper use of the funds contributed for the 
purpose." — H. M. J. 
t The Reformatory Schools Act, 17 & 18 Victoria, cap. 86. The Industrial 
Schools Act (Reformatory and Industrial Schools, Scotland, Act), 17 & 18 
Victoria, cap. 74. 
