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APPENDIX B. EXTKACT FROM THE THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL BKPOBT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION. Education Reserves. Tables G-l, lα, Iβ, give a summary of the accounts of the School Commissioners, which are also given in full in the same appendix. These accounts may be presented in outline as follows : — TABLE G. (a.) Income and Expenditure of School Commissioners, 1908. Income. £ . Expenditure. £ Balances, Ist January, 1908 .. .. 12,599 Payments during year .. .. .. 65,990 Receipts during year .. .. .. 68,404 Balances at 31st December, 1908 .. .. 15,013 Total .. .. .. .. £81,003 £81,003 (b.) Assets and Liabilities of School Commissioners. Liabilities. £ Assets. £ Amounts owing .. .. .. .. 7,829 Amounts due .. .. .. .. 7,515 Balance .. .. .. .. 60,692 Balances at bank ou mortgage, &c. .. .. 01,006 £68,521 £68,521 Balance brought down £60,692 The payments made to Education Boards for primary education out of proceeds from Education reserves in 1908 amounted to £52,616 9s. 6d., as compared with £47,385 4s. Bd. for the previous year. The revenues of the Boards are not, however, increased thereby, as equal amounts are deducted from the grants otherwise payable by the Government. Table H8 in E.-6 shows the payments for secondary education from reserves under the control of the School Commissioners, which amounted in 1908 to £4,154 4s. 3d., as compared with £4,353 13s. 7d. in 1907. This money is distributed by the Commissioners to the governing bodies of secondary schools in the provincial districts in proportion to the number of pupils in average attendance at these secondary schools, exclusive of those in any lower department.

EDUCATION RESERVES: SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS' REPORTS, 1908. General. Table Gl is a summary of the accounts of the School Commissioners, which are given in full in the Appendix.

TABLE G1.—Summary of School Commissioners' Accounts.

Income for the Year 1908. Balances on 1st January, 1908. Beceipts during Year. Provincial Districts. Primary Reserves. Secondary Beserves. Investments and Deposits. Sundries. Total. Auckland .. Taranaki .. Wellington.. Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Westland .. Canterbury.. Otago £ s. d. 571 18 4 .. 2,102 12 5 965 2 0 .. 1,139 14 9 119 5 6 334 3 7 135 11 8 .. 2,989 12 84,241 6 4 £ s. d. 5,460 3 9 4,065 11 3 6,387 19 3 3,895 14 2 194 19 9 1,288 1 3 230 19 2 19,251 3 11 14,226 2 1 £ a. A. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1,176 15 6 96 17 0 526 19 48 10 9 14 10 0 2,137 15 3 ! 134 18 9 297 18 3 972 12 3 19 10 0 64 6 4 35 0 0 ! .. 468 6 1 777 18 0 .. 667 10 0 8 6 9 1,219 18 3 834 19 1 2,020 5 5 1,880 13 1 £ s. d. 7,305 14 7 6,757 6 2 9,923 13 6 6,091 17 6 349 5 3 2,090 10 11 1,811 18 10 23,469 1 7 23,203 6 0 Totals for 1908.. 12,599 7 8 Totals for 1907.. 13,499 15 3 55,000 14 7 "52,206 10 10 6,929 7 11 2,328 8 8 4,144 15 11 4,919 11 5 2,708 16 3 , 5,075 12 6 I 81,002 14 4 78,410 6 3