Industrial Schools, year ended 31st Dec,1902
Government Industrial Schools for
neglected and criminal children 21,708
Government Expenditure on Private
Denominational Industrial Schools 2,526
5. Police Force, year ended 31st March, 1903 123,804
6. Prisons, year ended 31st March, 1903 32,070
7. Criminal Courts (Criminal Prosecutions),
year ended 31st March, 1903 16,813
8. Old Age Pensions (pensions only for
persons over 65 years of age, who
have been 25 years in the Colony,
and who make a declaration of
poverty, including departmental
expenses) 212,962
A total of L705,756. This constitutes the burden due to defectives and
defects in others, a handful of workers have to bear in a sparse
population of 800,000 souls in one of the finest countries on which the
sun of heaven ever shone.
The burden which the fit have to bear has often been referred to by Dr.
MacGregor, who states in one of his reports, "Wives and husbands,
parents of bastards, all alike are encouraged by lavish charity (falsely
so called) to entirely shirk their responsibilities in the well grounded
assurance that public money will be forth-coming to keep them and their
families in quite as comfortable position as their hardworking and
independent neighbours.
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