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

Expenditure.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Assets. & s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. To Balance on Current Account .. .. 828 6 9 By Land Fund .. .. .. .. 395 11 5 Savings-bank.. .. .. .. 71 13 5 Balance of assets .. .. .. 2,183 18 8 Fixed deposits .. .. .. 323 18 0 Rents due and in arrear .. .. 1,346 1 7 Interest accrued to 31st December, 1896 9 10 i £2,579 10 1 £2,579 10 1 E. Pakkis, Chairman. E. Veale, Secretary. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Waebubton, Controller and Auditor-General.

WELLINGTON. Sic,— Wellington, Ist February, 1897. I have the honour to forward herewith the eighteenth annual report and balance-sheet of the School Commissioners for the Wellington Provincial District for the year ended the 31st December, 1896. The Commissioners consist of Mr. J. E. Blair, Chairman, and Messrs. John Duthie, A. W. Hogg, M.H.E., F. Pirani, M.H.E., and J. W. A. Marchant, Commissioner of Lands. A number of leases were offered by auction in June at considerably reduced rentals. Twenty of these were taken up at the sale, and one shortly afterwards, comprising sixteen town and suburban and five rural sections, so that a total of twenty-one sections, containing an area of 805 acre 1 rood 39 perches, were let to sixteen tenants, at an annual rental of £109 Is. 7d.

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Primary. Secondary. Total. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 983 17 11 2,040 16 3 5 10 0 12 19 2 'o Balance on 31st December, 1895 Eents of reserves Transfer fees Interest on deposits ... 1,709 3 11 5 0 0 5 0 0 331 12 0 10 7 19 4 0 2 Total receipts ... 3,043 3

ly Officer's salary Eanger's salary Commission Stationery, &c. Bates Law charges Expenses of leasing ... Expenses of reserves ... Travelling-expenses of members Taranaki Education Board Wanganui Education Board New Plymouth High School Board Wanganui High School Board Purchase of school site Balance on 31st December, 1896 —Bank, £828 6s. 9d.; Savings-bank, £71 13s. 5d.; fixed deposits, £323 18s. s s. a. 45 6 3 60 17 0 20 19 8 3 8 6 1 10 10 28 4 3 38 8 2 27 4 0 3 7 0 682 15 5 417 4 7 £ a. d. 15 2 1 18 15 0 5 9 4 £ s. d. 60 8 4 79 12 0 26 9 0 3 8 6 1 10 10 37 12 4 38 8 2 27 4 0 4 7 6 682 15 5 417 4 7 248 6 8 151 13 4 40 4 6 9 8 1 l'"0 6 248 6 8 151 13 4 1,223 18 2 Total expenditure 3,043 3 4