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Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Tear ending Slst December, 1907, in respect of Associated Classes conducted at the Christchurch Technical College by the Christchurch Technical Classes Association. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 247 0 1 Salaries of instructors .. .. .. 1,626 16 8 Balance from "School of Domestic Instruc- Office expenses (including salaries, stationtion .. .. .. .. 20 17 4 cry, &c.) .. .. .. .. 288 15 9 Capitation on associated olasses .. .. 051 2 0 Advertising and printing .. ■ .. 88 010 Capitation on account of free places .. 340 1 8 Lighting, heating, and cleaning .. .. 170 4 4 Buildings .. .. 6,128 710 Insurance and repairs .. .. .. 22 6 3 Rent .. .. .. .. .. 139 10 0 Rent .. .. .. .. .. 123 9 4 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. 1,270 16 7 Material for class use .. .. .. 93 18 0 Material .. .. .. .. 95 6 2 Purchase of books, &c, for students .. 137 4 2 Subsidies on voluntary contributions .. 525 8 0 Contracts (new buildings, additions, &c.) .. 6,085 1 4 Fees .. .. .. .. ... 366 19 3 Architect, &o. .. .. .. .. 105 6 9 Voluntary contributions .. .. 275 19 0 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. 1,682 9 0 Deposits .. .. .. .. 11 10 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 493 3 5 Seddon Memorial Fund.. .. .. 613 4 10 ! Prize Fund .. .. .. .. 9 19 6 Sales of books, &c, to students .. .. 126 3 4 Lighting and cleaning .. .. .. 10 0 Working-expenses .. .. .. 2 18 3 Sundry sales .. .. .. .. 27 18 0 Received from School of Domestic Instruction.. .. .. .. .. 62 14 0 £10,916 15 10 £10,916 15 10 James Hight, Chairman ) . A , John H. Howell, Secretary j of Mana B ers - Sfa/f meat of Receipts and Expenditure for Nine Months ending 12th October, 1907, in respect of Associated Classes conducted at the School of Domestic Instruction. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 68 4 8 Salaries of instructors .. .. .. 337 16 8 Capitation on associated olasses .. .. 77 3 6 Office expenses (including salaries, stationRent .. .. .. .. .. 125 0 0 cry, &c.) .. .. .. .. 61 11 4 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. 18 9 4 Advertising and printing .. .. 8 6 6 Material .. .. .. .. 85 2 9 Lighting and heating .. .. .. 42 4 0 Fees .. .. .. .. .. 146 7 3 Rent .. .. .. .. .. 100 0 0 From North Canterbury Education Board— Material for class use .. .. .. 150 12 1 Capitation on teachers' classes .. 310 0 Petty cash .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Capitation on school classes .. .. 183 10 7 Bank oharges and cheque-books .. .. 110 Sales of material .. .. .. 46 7 5 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. 22 4 1 Hire of room for examination .. .. 017 6 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 20 17 4 £754 13 0 £754 13 0 [Note. —The classes of the School of Domestic Instruction were taken over by the Managers of the Christchurch Technioal College in October, 1907.] O'Bryan Hoare, Chairman and Secretary of Managers. Extract from the Report of the Managers of the Ashburton Associated Classes. The following are the averages of class entries for the year ending 31st December, 1907 :— Technical classes: Dressmaking, 48; cookery, 21; carpentry and joinery, 9; building-construc-tion, 7; wool-sorting, 22. Continuation classes: Shorthand, 14; book-keeping, 7. School classes: Cookery, 102; woodwork, 113. During the year the average attendance on the whole was good, and the interest generally was well maintained throughout the year. The roll-number in many of the classes would have been much larger if tire school had been more centrally situated. One of the rooms is used for woodwork, another for cookery, and the third—the smallest of the three—for all other subjects. The lighting and ventilation of this room leave much to be desired, and the shingle roof of the cookery and general rooms is so old that during the last two summers myriads of insects have been falling from it, causing great inconvenience. Classes have been held in the smallest room every evening of the week but one, and next year on that evening classes will be held in English and arithmetic. No other classes can be held in 1908, as no other room is available. Owing to the kindness of Messrs. Friedlander Bros. (Limited) in lending the loft of one of their grain-stores, a class was held in wool-sorting. Though an evening class in this subject would be well attended, it cannot be held, as no room lit with gas or electricity is available. This year, in the second term, an afternoon class in dressmaking was started at Hinds, and during the third term an evening class was also started. In both these classes the pupils worked with great enthusiasm. I am glad to bear testimony to the generous attitude towards technical training taken by the various public bodies in the district, notably by the County Council and the Borough Council. The latter body has for years pasfbeen contributing to the funds of the association, and some years ago it offered for a technical school an excellent site near the Council Chambers—an offer that is still open. There is no doubt that every one in the district interested in technical education recognises that a mistake was made in accepting for a technical school the old buildings discarded by the High School Board. A new school on the site offered by the Borough Council is inevitable if technical education is to advance as it is doing in other towns of the Dominion. J. McLeod, Director,