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could be done than is being effected by the schools in general of every description in the Colony, most of which I have minutely inspected,

but no edusational system

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be considered complete in the absence of Industrial and Reformatory Schools

reformation of young

for

the

criminals or

the proper training of poor, homeless

gutter children, who are likely to

become criminals.

I.

oft present there is_

abundant evidence to show that

juvenile offenders sent to Gaol.

out worse and more hardened in

character than when

they

went

The establishment therefore of

Come

in.

Industrial and Reformatory schools

is

ce, not

of the very first importan. only as a work of philanthropy, and for the diminution of crime,

but as a means

of reducing the

accommodation, estimated at no - less than seven hundred separate

cello, in the new

$400,000 constructed at

a

-Gaol to be

cost of Four

hundred thousand dollare, a

juvenile

Duni