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TABLE S.—Summary of School Commissioners' Accounts.

Native Schools. The village schools at Te Moari, in the Mangonui district, and at Pakia, in the Hokianga district, were transferred in 1888 to the Auckland Education Board, the population in both cases having assumed a European character. At Whakatane, in the Bay of Plenty, the school-room- has been vacated by the Maori school, and is now occupied by a public school under the Auckland Board; but the Native school has been removed to the Native settlement at Poroporo, about four miles from Whakatane, where it is proposed to erect suitable buildings as soon as a satisfactory title to the site can be obtained: for the present, the school is carried on in a Maori house, and the master, with his family, lives in great discomfort. Three schools—at Ngunguru, near Whangarei; at Waitetuna, in Raglan County; and at Ohinemutu—have been closed on account of the very small number of pupils attending them; and a subsidiary school at Lower Waihou, established in a somewhat irregular manner by the master of the neighbouring school at Whakarapa, has been closed on the ground that the results of the work done Avere insignificant. The only extensions of Native school operations during the year were the opening of a side school at Ngapeke, in connection with the village school at Maungatapu, near Tauranga; and of another side school at Hawai, in connection with the village school at Torere, in the Bay of Plenty. These side schools are held at present in Native houses; but, with respect to Ngapeke, it is expected that it will be necessary to remove thither the school buildings now at Maungatapu, from which place the Native people are migrating to Ngapeke for sanitary reasons. By the changes recorded in the preceding paragraphs the number of village schools was reduced from 67 at the beginning of the year to 65 at the end, and the number of subsidised schools from 12 to 10. The number of boarding schools

Income for the Year 1888. Provincial Districts. Balances on 1st January, 1888. Receipts during Year. Arrears of Rent due on 31st December, 1888. Liabilities or Engagements on 31st December, 1888, Primary Beserves. Secondary Reserves. Total Income. Auckland "aranaki (Vellington .. rfawke's Bay ,, tfarlborough sTelson tVestland Janterbury .. Dtago £ s. d. 1,689 2 1 666 13 5 240 12 0 647 8 8 43 5 4 20 14 0 40 16 5 170 17 2 3,257 14 8 £ s. d. 1,359 5 11 732 7 9 986 7 9 2,319 3 7 62 0 0 712 3 0 33 5 6 14,886 6 10 12,679 16 10 £ s. d. 546 14 5 114 14 11 40 1 6 256 9 9 £ s. d. 3,595 2 5 1,513 16 1 1,267 1 3 3,223 2 0 105 5 4 964 13 9 83 1 11 15,057 4 0 16,778 1 10 £ a. d. 1,462 7 9 1,191 4 11 487 1 6 444 13 7 189 15 0 83 12 3 18 0 0 686 4 1 5,609 11 8 £ s. d, 44 8 4 8l' 1 2 231 16 9 9 0 0 45' 0 0 840'10 4 Totals for 1888.. Totals for 1887.. 0, '77 3 9 128 15 8 33,770 17 2 35,232 4 1 2,039 7 8 42,587 8 7 1,934 7 6 42,095 7 3 10,172 10 9 9,470 4 9 120 9 6 446 2 2 Expend] iture for the 'ear 188! Provincial Districts. Office Expenses and Salaries. Other Expenses of Management Paid for Primary Education. Paid for Secondary Education. Depc Invest] an Sund >sits, nients, id ries. Balances on 3ist December, 1888. Total, £ a. d. 152 17 2 108 5 0 157 12 3 110 17 4 31 5 0 28 14 8 56 10 0 572 11 5j 700 2 4 £ s. d. 138 18 5 183 16 2 387 19 10 283 0 8. £ s. d. 1,600 0 0 548 0 3 350 0 0 2,050 0 0 £ s. d. 825 11 4 103 4 6 £ s. d. 7 12 6 £ a. d. 870 3 0 570 10 2 371 9 2 779 4 0 74 0 4 £ s. d. 3,595 2 5 1,513 16 1 1,267 1 3 3,223 2 0 105 5 4 964 13 9 83 1 11 15,057 4 0 16,778 1 10 Auckland Taranaki Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Westland Canterbury Otago 40 5 6 682 0 11 21312 8 140"5 9 719 5 lj 14,200' 0 0 j 9,712 7 9 26 11 11 144 6 10 1,553 15 11 767 IO 9 3,325"o 0 Totals for 1888 Totals for 1887 1,918 15 2 1,615 14 5 1,893 11 5 2,331 6 6 29,142 8 11 '29,627 2 5 1,909 19 3 1,444 0 4 3,332 12 6 299 19 10 4,390 1 4 6,777 3 9 42,587 8 7 42,095 7 3