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TABLTC G. (a.) Receipts and Expenditure of School Commissioners, 1910. Receipts. £ Expenditure. H Balances, Ist January, I'JIO .. .. 14,002 Office expenses and salaries .. .. 2,573 E"'-eipts— ' Hlier expenses of manngement .. .. 2,4M9 res-rvps .. .. .. 59,090 P.iil for prinary educat.ii n.. .. .. 53,032 Secondary reserves .. .. .. 6,108 Paid (or -econrlary edmation .. .. 4,198 Investments iepaid •• ■• •• 4,560 Investment-' and r> funds .. .. .. 14,8-">2 Interest .. .. •■ ■• 2,885 Ba.anoes, 31st December, 1910 .. .. 10,617 Sundries .. .. .. • ■ 380 Total .. .. .. £57,441 Total .. .. .. £87,441 (b.) Cash Assets and Liabilities of School Commissioners, 31st December, 1910. Liabilities. £ Assets. £ Amounts due to Capital Account .. .. 1,2.12 Arrears of rent and interest due .. .. 7,830 Other 1 abilitiis .. .. .. .. B,GJrt U.lance at .. .. .. £10,069 Net balance, 31»t December, 1910 .. .. 48,227 On .. .. .. 39,348 50,317 Total .. .. .. £58,147 Total .. .. .. £58,147 Balance brought do .mi, Ist January, 1911. £48,227. The payments made to Education Boards for primary education out of proceeds from education reserves during the year amounted to £53,032, as compared with £55,367 for the previous year. The revenues of the Boards are not, however, increased by this amount, for the Government deducts a like amount from grants payable to the Boards. The payments made by the School Commissioners to the governing bodies of the various secondary schools are shown in Table K7 of the secondary-education report (E. 6), and amounted during the year to £4,198, as against £4,628 in 1909. This sum was distributed to the various secondary schools within the district administered by the School Commissioners in proportion to the number of pupils in average attendance at these secondary schools, exclusive of those in any lower department. The cost of administration during 1909 and 1910 is as follows :— 1909. 1910. £ £ Total net income .. .. .. .. .. 65,708 68,515 Cost of administration .. .. .. .. 4,522 4,712 Cost of administration per cent, of income .. .. 6-88 6-88 Table G2 shows the total income from education reserves for the several districts for the ten years 1901-10, and the cost of administration for the same period. Summarized, this appears as follows, the figures for the period 1900-9 being inserted for purposes of comparison:- 1900 _ 9 muiQ £ £ Total income for ten years .. .. .. .. 587,003 608,005 Cost of administration for ten years .. .. .. 37,537 37,8-10 Cost of administration per cent, of income .. .. 6-39 6-22 As will be seen from these figures, the decrease in the cost of administration, which was noticed last year in connection with the figures for 1900-9, is this year still more marked. In one or two districts, however, the cost of administration was very high. Native Schools. Number of Schools. (E.-B—Table HI, rage 13.) At the end of the year 1909 there were ninety-four Native village schools in operation. During the year 1910 three new schools were opened—viz., Rakaunui, Kawhia ; Port Waikato, near the mouth of the Waikato River ; and Waimiha, King-country; and the schools at Pamoana, Wanganui River; and Te Kopua, Maniapoto country, were reopened. At the 31st December, 1910, there were, in addition to public schools giving instruction to Maori children, 114 schools in operation in New Zealand for the primary purpose of giving instruction to the Maori— Native village schools .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 99 Mission schools subject to inspection by the Education Department .. .. 6 Boarding-schools affording secondary education to Maoris .. .. . . 9 Total .. .. .. .. .. 114