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Dalrymplr Prize Fund. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Interest on fixed deposit, Bank of New Zea- Paia prizes, Girls' High School .. .. 4 0 0 land . . .. .. .. 4 0 0 £4 0 0 £4 0 0 Dalrymple Prize Fund Capital Account. £ s- A. £ «. d. Balanoe on 31st December, 1909 .. .. 100 0 0 Balance, 31st December, 1910, fixed deposit, Bank of New Zealar.d.. .. .. 100 0 0 £100 0 0 £100 0 0 Statement of Income and Expenditure of the Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Sinking Fund Account for Year ending 31st December, 1910. E a. d. £ s. d. Balance on Ist January, 1910 .. .. :{:s 0 0 Balanoe on 31st Deoember, 1910, fixed Annual payment to sinking fund .. .. lti 10 (i deposit, Bank of New Zealand .. .. 60 15 8 Two years interest on fixed deposit. Bank of New Zealand.. .. .. .. 16 8 £60 I £50 15 8 J. K. Sinclair, Chairman. C. Macandrew, Secretary. Board of Governors, Otago Boys' and Girls , High Schools. — Statement of Rents for Year ending 31st December, 1910. . cl. £ s. d. Arrears on 31st Deoember, 1909 .. .. 666 14 8 Cash collected, 1910 .. .. .. 2,728 15 7 Charge for year 1910 .. .. .. 2,456 ! as— Kent over-collected or paid in advance .. (104- Current year .. .. .. .. 268 10 7 Previous year .. .. .. 23 17 8 Written off .. .. .. .. 15 0 £3,022 8 in £3,022 8 10 C. Macandrew, Secretary. Bank Balances. £ s . f |. Outstanding cheques .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 482 13 4 Otago Boys' and Girls' High School— No. 2 Account .. .. .. .. .. .. Dr. £157 14 5 No. 1 Acoount .. .. .. .. .. .. Or. 51 14 0 106 0 5 Amount belonging to G. G. Russell Scholarship . . .. .. .. .. 64 15 r> 653 9 2 Less amount on fixed deposit, Bank lif ,\\\v■ /mlaml .. .. .. 47 17 8 £605 11 l> C. Macandrew, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except (I) the ai nit of £64 15s. sd. at credit of the George Russell Scholarship Fund lias unlawfully been used to reduce the bank overdraft, and (2) the payments included in the item Sundries and incidentals, £49 Bs. Bd.; of £3 25., expenses of members attending meetings of the Board; and £7 9s. Bd., travelling-expenses of Rector attending the Secondary Schools Conference, arc without authority of law, and are therefore disallowed. — R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General. GORE HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. Hunter, M.A. ; Mr. W. T. Foster, M.A. ; Mr. A. B. Fitt. M.A. ; Mice H. P. Kerse, M.A. 1. Report of the Bo*ard of Governors. The buildings occupied by the school during the year 1909 were found totally inadequate to accommodate the pupils who were enrolled at the commencement of 1910. The Board were fortunate in securing from Messrs. Wallis and Waddell, at a rent of £1 per week, the lease for twelve months from the Ist of February of the upper story of Ambrosse's Buildings. This provided for five class-rooms, and, although not all that could be desired, was probably the best that could be obtained for the purpose. The alterations, &c, to the surroundings cost the Board about £40. Owing to the large increase in the roll the Board invited applications for a second male assistant to take up commercial subjects, and on the 10th March Mr. A. B. Fitt, M.A., of Napier Boy's High School, was appointed. On the 29th March the Board accepted the tender of Mr. Owen Kelly for the erection of the new school buildings on the plans approved by the Department, the contract price being £4,350. The contract included the erection of a woodwork and a cookery room. On the 10th May the Southland Education Board made a distribution of the accumulated savings of the last ten years to the various technical schools. The amount allotted to Gore and received by the Hoard was £375 towards the cost of the erection of a cookery-room in brick, of which the primary-school teachers and pupils should have the use for classes as well as of the woodwork-room. On the 6th April the foundation-stone of the new school building was laid by His Excellency the Governor, Lord Plunket, B—E. (').