OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 18, 22 January 1895, Page 8

OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

BOARD O^fiDUgATION ACCOUNTS.

At to-da^a meeting of the Board of Education RigeneraK statement of receipts and expenditure /or the year ending 31st) Deceimber,-, and an abstract of assets and liabilities at December 318b, 1894, was read as follows :—'

General statement of receipts and expenditure for. the year ending 31st December,. 1594 : —Receipts : Credit balance at be&jfoiiing of year, £10,022 10s Id; on betiding account, £3,565 12s Id ; on general account, £6,456 18a; Government grant for buildings, £8,000; special for rebuilding Newton Bast closets, £29 5s lOd ; other ' receipts for buildings, £59 08s ; Government statutory capitation at £3 15s, £75,086 3s 9d ; scholarship grant' at la 6d, £1,823 14s 8d; inspection subsidy, ordinary £500, for native schools £150; payments by echool commissioners for primary education, £1,678 10s ; interest and rotunda. £11 14e 6d. Total, £97,361 6s lOd. Expenditure : office staff salaries, £1,113 ; clerical assistance, £64 7s; departmental contingencies, £805 6s 2d; inspectors' salaries, £1,88710s ; inspectors' travelling expenses, £55117s 2d; examination of pupil teachers, £83 3s 7d; teachers' salaries (for thirteen months), £70,535 3s 4d ; incidental expenses, of schools, £8,151 12s 8d ; scholarships paid to scholars, £1,453 6s 8d ; scholarships examination expenses, £40 7s Id; now buildings, £2,178 7a 8d; improvements of buildings, £3,727 12b lid ; furniture and appliances, £860 15b lid;" sites, £232 8s 2d ; plans supervisions and fees, £57jJ 2,s 9d ; interoeib on overdraft, £19 11s 3ci; credit fcraFariceafe end of year, £5,033 14b 6d, viz., ou building account, £4,081 18s 6d ; on general aqcount, £1,001 16s: 6a lOd.'' : • ' ''^jjjißbracfi'■'■, ot statement of assets and liabilities'ab December 31st, 1894 tenance account: Assets—Cash in bank, £1,001 16a. Liabilities—Grants for paint-' ings drainage,.and- repairs, £349 16s 4d ; due on sundry, accounts, £150 ; capitation advanced from reserves, £1,028 10b; lees, increase ■ ■. earned during quarter. £908 8,8 9d—£l2o Is 3d; .total, £619 17s 7d; credit balance, £381 18s Sd. Building fund account: Assets—Cash in bank,.£4,oßl 18b 6d; due from Kauaeranga and.. Kemuera Committees, £37; total, £4,-118 18s 6d. Liabilities— Buildings and works under contracb, £%489 18a ;,grants for improvemenlis, otc, £462 Is 4d ; due oa sun ; dry accounts, £150;; total, £3,101 19s 4d; buildings authorised, but not yet began, - £1,860; total, £4,961 19s 4d. Debit balance, £843 0s I Od.

An estimate of iacooae and expenditure for : 1895 waß also /read. Under the heading income the statutory capitation granb is put down at) £78,750, leas income from reserves, £1,700:; capitation grant for scholarships, £1,575; granb for school buildings, £8,000; gf.ranb in aid of. inspection, £650; local contributions, £50; income from reserves,1 £1,700 ; total, £89,025. The expenditure is jpub down at £88,845/ Ob the motion of. the iiev. Mr Babes ib was agreed to forward the accounts to the Government.: ! . .