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Abstract of Expenditure and Receipts of the Whanganui Industrial School, From February, 1853, to 30th June, 1857.

Abstract of Expenditure and Receipts of the Whanganui Industrial School, From 1st July, 1856, to 30th June, 1857.

Forty pounds were given as the sum realized by the sale of crops, and forms part of the £152 ss. 4d. in the first Return. The income for the current year is estimated as follows :— From Leases £104 0 0 From Grazing 20 0 0 For the Education of European Children 15 0 0 £139 0 0 The improvements consist in draining the whole Estate, enclosing 40 acres, 14 of which are under grass, wheat, potatoes, and other crops; the erection of a substantial and commodious weatherboarded house for the Master and his family, a small weather-boarded building, divided into a Master's office, a printing room, and a school-room, and a few minor inexpensive out-buildings, in one of which, built of raupo and unfurnished, save with sleeping bunks, the pupils are lodged. There is no live stock belonging to the establishment, and the dead stock consists only of ordinary hand-tools. The 133 acres mentioned in the return of expenditure for the past year have been let to tenants on improving leases at rents varying from 10s. to 30s. per acre. The cultivation of 2 J acres is allowed to the Master by the other Local Trustees for his private emolument, hence in the above given estimate of .income for the current year crops are omitted; there is also a privilege of keeping cows, pigs, and poultry. On the 7th of February, 1854, at which period the school was opened, to the 14th of February of the following year, there were admitted 24 Native scholars, whose ages varied from 8 to 25 years, and whose maintenance on the establishment averaged 10 weeks each; at the period last mentioned, the School was suddenly broken up by the desertion of all the pupils, viz., 6 boys of Waitotara; thence, to the 20th April in the present year, none applied for admission ; on the same 20th April three were received, a father and two sons, whose respective ages were 35, 10, and 8 years, and who are still, and the only, pupils on the establishment. All those admitted in 1854-5 were fed and clothed, and during 5 days of the week, from 2 till 5 o'clock, employed in manual labour. Mr. Nicholls accounts for the defection by the situation of the school, on the road to the Waitotara, admitting frequent visits of the pupils' friends.

EXPENDITURE. BECEIPTS. - - - ~ i f f Li * r ' *- -■— *—* •*- * *- m r £ s. a. £ s. d. Grant from Sir G-. Grey 700 0 0 Ditto from Educational Board 725 0 0 Special Grant from the Bishop for completing the draining and fencing ... 200 0 0 Income derived from School Estate from various sources 152 5 4 Salaries (£100 a year to Master from 1st November, 1852, five years eight months) 466 13 4 Buildings (School and Master's house, and out-buildings, with repairs of same)... 520 6 4 House rent allowed by the Educational Board to the Master for one year ... 30 0 0 Improvement of the estate, viz., draining 250 acres, and fencing in 40 acres, tools, seeds, labour, &c 584 1 6 School Expenses, viz,, School furniture and maintenance of pupils 109 4 5 Legal advice and surveying 12 16 2 £1777 5 4 £1723 1 9 Balance in hand 54 3 7

EXPENDITURE. RECEIPTS, £ s. d. Salaries 100 0 0 School Expenses 16 9 1 Buildings and Repairs 10 8 2 Draining 210 chains, and fencing 62 chains (this item was incurred by the Bishop's direction, to render 133 acres available for letting, part of which expense will be repaid by the tenants) 250 18 6 Legal Expenses for leases 2 18 Survey of 133 acres, divided into nine blocks 8 12 6 Grant from Southern Educational Board School fees from European pupils Bent of Land Pasturage fees Half fencing repaid by Tenants Interest on a loan to one of the Tenants out ot the Balance in hand £ s. d. 50 0 0 15 7 6 71 16 6 16 3 2 9 9 10 17 0 £388 9 11 £164 4 0