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The expenditure for the year ended the 31st March, 1914, was £1,352, as follows :— £ Salaries of visiting nurses and local representatives .. .. .. 986 Travelling-expenses of district agents, visiting nurses, and local representatives .. .. . . .. .. .. .. 221 Payment to foster-parents for board of infants .. .. .. 147 Medical attendance .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 15 Office expenses (including rent) and sundries .. .. .. .. 74 1,443 Less recoveries .. .. .. .. .. .. 91 Total .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,352 For the preceding year the amount was £1,261. The report of the Secretary for Education in E.-4 gives detailed information as regards various phases of the work. School foe the Deaf. Number of pupils who returned to the school in February, 1913, after the summer vacation .. .. .. .. .. .. 89 Receiving instruction at Government experimental farm .. . . . . 1 Number admitted during the school year .. . . .. .. 14 Left during or at the end of the school year . . . . .. . . 1 Number remaining on the roll the close of the school year .. .. 103 The expenditure on the school for the last two financial years respectively was as follows: — Last Financial Year. Proceeding Year. 1913-14. 1912-13. • £ £ Salaries .. .. .. .. .. 3,574 3,486 Maintenance of pupils and sundry expenses . . 1,796 1,832 Maintenance of buildings and water charges . . 216 460 Additional buildings .. .. ..1,553 2.797 7,139 8,575 Less — Amount collected from parents by way of maintenance contributions .. 1,173 1,034 Amount collected from Charitable Aid Boards .. .. .. 1,210 1,197 Sundry other recoveries .... 1 5 2,384 2,236 Net expenditure .. .. .. .. £4,755* £6,339* * Including for 1912-13 £225 and for last year £274, paid from national endowment revenue. Jubilee Institute for the Blind. This institution is governed by "a Board of Trustees, four of whom are appointed by the Government and the remaining five elected by the subscribers to the funds of the Institute. As the Institute comes within the scope of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, subsidy at the rate of 245. in the pound is payable by the Government on voluntary contributions received by the Board, and 10s. in the pound on the value of bequests. The amount paid by the Government towards the cost of training twenty-nine pupils was £767, and the amount refunded to the Government during the year by parents and Charitable Aid Boards was £731, the Boards paying £402. The sum payable by the Government as subsidy to the Board of Trustees under the provisions of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act was £2,164 Is. Id,