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General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the "Year ending 31st December, 1896. Receipts. £ a. d. Expenditure. £ s d To Balanoo at beginning of year— By Office staff—Salaries .. .. 425 10 0 On Building Account .. .. 2,540 C 8 Truant Officer—Salary and expenses 181 13 0 On General Account .. .. 2,520 14 2 Departmental contingencies .. .. 209 9 G Subscriptions and donations for buildings 13 7 7 Inspectors' salaries .. .. .. 697 11 3 Government statutory capitation .. 20,480 10 4 Inspectors' travelling-expenses 201 13 8 Scholarship grant .. .. .. 500 1 G Examination of pupil-teachers . 21 10 0 Inspection subsidy .. .. .. 300 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances (inPayments by School Commissioners .. 3,277 12 2 eluding rent, bonus, &c.) .. .. 25 900 2 0 Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 78 2 0 Incidental expenses of schools .. I.VjG 5 2 Eents of school sites .. .. 70 15 7 ScholarshipsPaid to scholars .. .. .. 480 0 0 Examination expenses .. .. 20 1 6 School buildings— New buildings .. .. .. 2,196 16 1 Improvements of buildings .. 1,148 5 4 Furniture and appliances .. .. 177 3 2 Sites .. .. .. .. 50 13 10 Plans, supervision, and fees .. 244 8 7 Advertising tenders .. .. 19 9 0 Members' travelling-expenses .. 89 9 0 Balance at end of year— Cr. General Account £3,144 10 8 Dr. Building Account 1,223 1 9 1,921 8 11 £35,781 10 6 £35,781 10 G Thomas Mac Gibbon, Chairman. John Neill, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

EEPOETS AND ACCOUNTS OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.

AUCKLAND. Sir, — Office of the School Commissioners, Auckland, 11th June, 1897. I have the honour to report briefly as follows upon the transactions of the School Commissioners for the year 1896 : — The reserves let comprised: Thirty-three sections of town and suburban lands, 131 acres 2 roods 18 perches, yielding £92 14s. 6d. per annum; and thirty-one sections of country laud, 2,635 acres 2 roods 27 perches, yielding £210 2s. sd. per annum. Included in the latter are three sections which were relet after termination of a former lease. The balance of £395 3s. 2d. at the close of the year in current account was made up as follows: Primary reserves revenues, £166 16s. 2d.; secondary reserves revenues, £187 175.; deposits, £40 10s.: total, £395 3s. 2d. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education. R. Udy, Chairman.

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1896. I. —General Account. Receipts.

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Primary. Secondary. Total. £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. 216 5 3 'o Balances at 31st December, 1895 Seventies from reserves— Arrears of 1895 Due in 1896 Miscellaneous — Grazing and sale of timber ... Interest on fixed deposit, &o. Lease deposits 866 8 1,474 7 9 5 406 0 10 460 6 9 1,272 9 7 1,934 14 2 19 16 21 19 48 6 8 7 0 19 19 0 19 16 8 21 19 7 08 5 0 Total receipts ... 3,533 10 3