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membership, and two good wickets have been prepared for the current season. As it is intended to inaugurate a football club next winter, the sports activities of the association will then comprise all the most popular games. During the year the managers adopted the practice in vogue at the London Polytechnic of appointing honorary lecturers to give addresses to the students in matters relating to their course of instruction. Mr. Lawrence Birks, the Government electrical engineer in charge of tire Lake Coleridge works, gave the first lecture on " The water-power of New Zealand " to the electrical engineering students. The second lecture was given by Mr. W. Sarelius, instructor in Swedish gymnastics in the day school, on the " Educational value of physical instruction." A third lecture is to be given by Mr. Parry, ohief electrical engineer to the New Zealand Government. A display of students' work from almost all departments of the college was made in December, when Messrs. W. Strange and Co. again kindly placed their corner window at our disposal. Those who saw the exhibit agreed that it was an excellent one, doing credit to both instructors and students, especially when it, is considered that none of the work was done for display purposes, but was merely the product of the ordinary working of the classes. As a matter of fact, the display was contemplated only three days before it took, place, and when the suggestion was made every instructor concerned made a ready and willing response. Messrs. Strange and Co. not, only rendered every assistance possible in arranging the exhibit, but, gratuitously undertook the carting of the material and the lighting of the window eaeli evening. Isaac E. Newton, Acting-Director. - Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1914, in respect of Classes conducted at the Christchurch Technical College. Receipts. ■ £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Cr. balanco at beginning of year .. .. 36 7 5 Salaries of teaching stall .. .. 6,001 5 3 Capitation on account of day Teehnioal Material for class use .. .. .. 1,007 0 9 School .. .. .. .. 4,360 0 9 Scholarships, &o. .. .. .. 90 0 0 Capitation on account of other olasses .. 1,171 2 4 Repairs .. .. .. •• 30 17 11 Capitation on account of free places .. 453 9 7 Caretakers .. .. .. .. 407 0 9 Buildings .. .. .. .. 250 0 0 Lighting and heating .. .. .. 220 13 G Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. 791 14 4 Insuranoe .. .. .. .. GO 5 4 Material .. .. .. .. 383 7 7 Office expenses (including salaries, &c.) .. 024 9 1 Subsidies on voluntary contributions .. 578 14 2 Advertising and printing .. .. 114 0 9 Foes and other class payments .. .. 1,457 .16 1 Purchases of books and stationery .. 323 8 9 Sales of material and refunds .. .. 138 16 2 Fees and deposit refunds .. .. 29 15 0 Voluntary contributions .. .. 579 010 Prizes .. .. .. .. 89 2 3 Sales of books and stationery .. .. 341 19 8 Upkeep of plavirig-fields and hostel grounds 116 16 0 Prize fund .. .. .. .. 39 13 7 Cartages ' .. .. .. .. 20 0 0 From North Canterbury Education Board Sundries .. .. .. .. 179 4 2 and Canterbury College (on account of Buildings .. .. .. .. 420 17 1 salaries, material, &c.) .. .. 415 19 1 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. 740 011 Gas, firing, and cleaning .. .. 33 14 0 Cr. balance at end of year .. .. 472 14 11 Refunds and sundries .. .. .. 48 9 4 £11,086 4 11 £11,086 4 11 George Scott, Chairman 1 f m y, John H. Howell, Secretary j b Extract from the Report of the Director of the Ashburton Technical School. The session opened in February with a large increase in all departments as compared with the opening of the 1913 session. This large increase, maintained throughout the year, brings home the facts that the school is serving its appointed function and is appreciated by the community of the district; it is worthy of all the support that local public, semi-public, and private bodies can give it; and that the support now given by contributing bodies is being faithfully applied. The number of individual students attending technical classes in 1913 was 399; this year the number has increased to 453; and the collective roll number of the school is 1,672, including manual-instruction classes for woodwork and cookery, 472, as against 1,244 for 1913, showing an increase of 78 individual students and 428 on the roll number. The details of the several departments are as follows: Domestic science — Home nursing, 31; home-management, 24; cookery, 102; dressmaking, 198; millinery, 80. Commercial—Commercial English, 103; commercial arithmetic, 75; geography, 5; business methods, 31; book-keeping, 54; shorthand) 60; typewriting, 55. Trade classes—Mathematics, 47; trade drawing, 15; carpentry, 63; metalwork, 10; electricity and magnetism, 10; wool-classing, 17; carpentry and joinery (principles), 8; shearing, 42. Art classes—Painting and designing, 18; drawing, 66; principles of design, 6; sign and ticket writing, 18; elocution, 13; hygiene, 11. With the appointment of Mr. Bristol' the art department, especially the applied side, received a big forward impetus, new classes being started in sign and ticket writing, applied design, and a large teachers' class for drawing as required by the new syllabus. These classes were disorganized by Mr. Bristol- volunteering for service with the Expeditionary Force, but the results go to show the need of such classes, and I am certain that the arts and arts-craft side of the school could be worked up if we can only get the right person to take these classes. There was a marked improvement in the trade classes, but still not all that could be desired. A little more encouragement on the part, of employers I am sure would work wonders, because I know of cases where such encouragement has been given and have noted the effect.

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