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Table No. 9. Summary of School Buildings Accounts (compiled from Boards' Returns), to which is added Information relating to Boards' Receipts and Expenditure.

1. Buildings Accounts as at ist January, 18S0. Estimated Cost of Fresh Works Needed, as set down by Boards. Boards' Receipts and Expenditure for last Three Years. Population Statistics. Average Attendance Statistics. Education Districts. Expended during the Year 1879. 2. 3. 4. B. 6. 7. Amount in i preceding column with Surplus subtracted and Deiicit added. 8. 9. * 10. 11. Shillings j received for j Buildings- per: Head of j Population in; Three Years. ! 12. Average Attendance last Quarter of 1859. 13. Pounds received for Buildings during Three Years per Scholar in average Attendance as per preceding column. Available Balance from all Sources. Liabilities on Contracts with Extras. Balance. Balance. Deficit. Fresh Works Needed. Received from Special Buildings Votes, 1857-78, 1878-79, 1879-80, Expended on Buildings during 1877, 1S78, and' 1879. Population last Census. Surplus. Auckland £ s. d. £ s. d.j £ S' d. £ s. d. £ a- d £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. £ 28,748 12 3 9,778 10 1 ",533 10 10 ... 1.755 o 9 36,635 o o 38,390 o 9 69.000 o o 62,960 16 n 79,140 i?"4 10,688 64 Taranaki 3.433 2 2 1,986 3 2 442 7 o , 1,543 16 2 1 4,380 o o 2,836 3 10 8,300 o oj S.383 7 3 7.376 22-5 979 8-4 Wanganui 10,797 9 o 355 18 8 3,771 16 o 3,415 17 4 6,597 o ° 10,012 17 4 20,000 o o 17.587 7 2 18,748 21*3 2,850 7-0 Wellington 13.857 o 9 4,479 13 3| 4,315 10 o 164 3 3 12,900 0 o 12,735 I6 9 29,000 o o 31,936 2 4 34,398 169 4,402 6-6 Hawke's Bay 12,410 11 4 3,302 1 1 8 4,231 3 1 928 11 5 7,149 IO o 8,078 1 5 22,000 O O 13.452 17 11 18,014 24-4 2,020 10-9 Marlborough 2,380 17 9 1,654 o ° 1,771 11 6 117 11 6 No return 117 1 1 6 6,350 O O 5,805 4 10 6,775 ,8-7 834 7-6 Nelson 5,899 1 8 4,743 13 6 3,6.53 7 o 1,090 6 6 6,091 13 o 5,001 6 6 15,400 O O 10,978 8 o 22,042 140 2,935 5'2 North Canterbury23,621 o 2 16,099 1 8 9,627 13 8 6,471 8 o 36,691 o o 30,219 12 o 47,834 O O 63.015 i? o 75,8io I2'6 11,380 4' 2 South Canterbury 15.727 14 2 750 o o 750 o o 8,614 o o 7,864 o o 16,916 O O 27,756 16 10 17,469 i9'3 2,324 7'2 Westland 2,542 3 o 3,117 II o 3,903 1 o 1 785 10 o 7,812 10 o 8,598 o o 20,800 O o 19,508 6 11 19,433 21*4 2,241 8-7 Otago 44,522 6 4 5,720 18 10 9,288 4 7 3,567 5 9 34,084 o ol 37,65i 5 9 55,500 o o 68,275 12 o 91,010 12*2 14,637 3-8 Southland 8,927 15 8 4,i79 10 7 4,250 19 4 7i 8 9 2,320 o o 2,39i 8 9 15,850 o o 17,021 2 8 23,459 I3'S 3.448 4-6 Totals ... 56,789 4 o 10,019 13 ii 163,274 13 o 163,896 4 7 326,950 o o 345,681 19 10 172,867 14 3 56,l67 12 5 10,641 5 6 413,684 15-8 58,738 5'S * The amounts in Columns 8 and 9 are not covered exactly by the same periods. The moneys in Column 8 are those received during the last three financial periods —viz., year 1877-78, £51,950; year 1878-79, £100,000; nine months 1879-80, r£i75r°° 0: total as above, £326,950. A large proportion of the grants for 1879-80 was not expended until after the close of 1879, and is not included in Column 9. The expenditure in Coiumn 9 is for the three school years specified, and includes othei moneys than those specially voted for buildings. These consisted of balances in hand, payments out of ordinary Board fund, and, in the case of North and South Canterbury, of the sum of £15,000 out of the Land Fund.