District Details.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1135, 16 March 1910, Page 2

District Details.

Tiik details of the district balancesheets are decidedly interesting. Apiti, for instance, wins kudos in having achieved the remarkable gain for the year of £41 10s sd. In its list of .'.receipts this enthusiastic selfhelping district gathered in £47 in voluntary contributions and £44 iv school fees. Naturally, its expenditure was heavy, including £125 for instructors' salaries and £74 for travelling expenses. Compare Ashhurst with Apiti's result: At Ashhurst there was a loss of £8 1.9s Sd on the year's working. Kimbolton also comes out of its operations well, with

a gain of £25 7s lid. That district gathered in £10 in voluntary contributions, and £40 in school fees, paying out £43 for instructors' salari* s and £9 travelling expenses. Bunnythorpe had a gain of £14 12s tOd. hut its voluntary contributions only amounted to 14s 6d, whilst its school fees reached £21. Instructors cost

tho district £22, but there was only os Id charged for travelling expenses. < Halconibe likewise showed a profit, ] albeit modest- (£1 7s 8d), and took . £14 in school fees, paying out £17 < for instructors and only 5s 2d for travelling expenses. Pohangina's gam was £4 13s lid, it gathered in £25 ' for fees, paid out £52 for salaries and ; £6 17s for travelling expenses. The Feilding area, which includes Cheltenham, Waituna, and Sandon, is necessarily one of heavy expenditure ; but even here we are very pleased to note that there is a. credit balance (£3 lis od). The total receipts were £694, of which school fees contributed £264, capitation £245, and voluntary contributions £55. On the expenditure side, instructors' salaries aggregated £375, the Director's salary £147, travelling expenses (including portion of Mr Watkiivs passage from the Old Country) £36, lighting, heating, and cleaning £76. A very satisfactory balance-sheet, it- must be admitted, whether taken on the general working or in detail. It is very evident that the residents of the Feilding district, especially those of the back country, fully appreciate the advantages offered by the Wanganui Board's enterprising and up-to- . date scheme of technical education, j