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Extract from the Report of the Managers of the Banks Peninsula Associated Classes. During the year the following technical classes were held : Cookery, 13 pupils; dressmaking, 20 pupils; wool-sorting, 28 pupils; woodwork, 16 pupils. Thirty-one school-children also received instruction in cookery. Dressmaking and wool-sorting classes have been added this year, and shorthand and bookkeeping discontinued. To teach wool-sorting the instructor has come weekly from Christchurch. The class has been a most successful one, as the students took a very keen interest in the work. Much permanent good must accrue to the peninsula from the knowledge of wool gained at this class. The dressmaking class has been very ably conducted, and when a more suitable room has been obtained no doubt the number in the class will increase. In the cookery- classes the instructor deserves the greatest credit for persevering with the work under most disadvantageous circumstances. The class is still being conducted in the building which Mr. Isaac, the Inspector of Technical Schools, reported last year as being totally unsuited for the work. In the woodwork class seven school boys were allowed to attend as free pupils. We again recommend the Association to ask the Managers to persist in urging the Education Department to make a grant for a new building, as it is absolutely impossible for the classes to continue a success under present conditions. Mr. E. E. Le Lievre has informed the Managers that unless a definite reply has been obtained from the Education Department re the new building before the Ist April, 1908, he will withdraw his offer of a site. Statement of Receipts and Fxpenditure for the Year ending Slst December, 1907, in respect of Associated Classes conducted by the Banks Peninsula Technical Classes Association. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 91 7 8 Salaries of instructors .. .. .. 63 0 0 Capitation on associated classes .. .. 38 14 4 Office expenses (including salaries, stationery, Rent .. .. .. .. 26 7 0 &o.) .. .. .. .. .. 019 1 Fees .. .. .. .. 43 5 0 Advertising and printing .. .. .. 410 3 Sales of material.. .. .. .. 615 8 Lighting and heating .. .. .. 317 0 Charts sold .. .. .. 12 2 6 Insurance and repairs .. .. .. 017 6 Received from Education Board .. .. 10 10 0 Rent .. .. .. .. 20 3 0 Material for class use .. .. .. 20 610 Charts for dressmaking class .. .. 11 15 2 , Plumbing, cookery-room .. .. .. 712 6 Cleaning .. .. .. .. 218 0 Bank charge .. .. .. .. 0 10 0 Balance at end of-year .. .. .. 92 12 10 £229 2 2 £229 2 2 J. D. Bruce, Chairman ) . w Alex. Gray, Secretary jof Managers. Extract from the Report on Special Classes at Kaiapoi. The Committee reports that during the year ending 31st December, 1907, classes were held for instruction in wood-carving, dressmaking, cookery, wool-classing, woodwork, and shorthand. The attendances have been good, and the interest taken by pupils is very gratifying to the Committee. Also, the school classes in woodwork and cookery are excellent, and the progress made by the pupils is very satisfactory. Statement of Receipts and Fxpenditure for the Year ending Slst December, 1907, in respect of Special Glasses conducted at Kaiapoi. Receipts. £ s. d. j Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 81 18 4 I Salaries of instructors .. .. .. 112 17 0 Capitation on special classes .. .. 45 0 0 Office expenses (including salaries, staRent .. .. .. • • 36 10 0 . tionery, &c.).. .. .. .. 12 19 0 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. .. 4 9 0 Advertising and printing .. .. .. 2 6 6 Fees .. .. .. .. 35 5 0 Rent .. .. .. • .. .. 36 10 0 Material for olass use .. .. .. 12 13 4 Apparatus .. .. .. .. 7 7 9 Bank charges .. .. .. .. 010 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 500 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 12 18 9 £203 2 4 £203 2 4 Charles Allard, For Secretary. Extract from the Report on Special Classes at Lincoln. In the earlier portion of the year some difficulty was experienced, owing to the incomplete equipment of the workshop, but the boys were employed as regularly as possible up to the 28th May, by which time everything was in order. Since then, with a little extra pressure towards the end of the term, the sixty hours' work required to qualify for capitation has been accomplished. The attendance has not kept up to its early promise, the average for the three periods into which the year has been divided being—first, 14; second, 13; third, 11. The boys from the secondary department, for whom the subject is compulsory, attend on the whole very well, but the same cannot be said of a number of those in the primary department. One trouble has been the lateness of the hour in the winter months; but next year I propose to get the bulk of the work counting for capitation done while the evenings are fairly long.