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Table No. 4. Summary of School Buildings Accounts (compiled from Boards' Returns).

1. Buildings Accounts as at ist January, 1881. Estimated Cost of Fresh Works set down by Boards as Needed. Boards' Receipts for last Fc and Expenditure >ur Years. Population Statistics. Average Attendance Statistics. Expended during the Year 1880. 2. 3. 4. s. 6. 7. 8. * 9. 1O. 11. 12. 13. 14. Pounds Received in Four Years for each average Attendance. 15. Education Districts. Available Balance from all Sources. Liabilities on Contracts with Extras. Balance. Surplus. Balance. Deficit. Fresh Works set down as Needed. Amount in next preceding column with Surplus added and Deficit subtracted. Received from Special Buildings Votes from 1877 to 1881 inclusive. Expended during the Years 1857, 1878, 1879, and 1880. Population by Census of i8 7 8. Shillings Received per Head of Population in Four Years. Shillings Expended per Head of Population in I Four Years. Average attendance last Quarter of 1880. Pounds Expended in Four Years for each average Attendance. £ s. d. £ s. a. £ s. d £ s. d. £ s. dJ £ s. d. 26,810 o o £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. s. £ £ Auckland 26,742 4 10 12,098 18 5 5,601 o o 6,497 18 5 20,3 12 1 7 83,000 o o 89,703 1 9 79,140 20'9 22-6 ",839 r° 7- 5 Taranaki 3>66o 5 9 366 16 5 323 10 8 43 5 9 3,217 o o 3,173 H 3 9,050 o o 9,043 13 o 7,37 6 24- 5 24'5 I,H7 7-8 7-8 Wanganui 5,191 8 7 1,004 12 7 806 14 o 197 18 7 I 3,900 o o 3,7°2 1 5 22,000 o o 22,778 15 9 18,748 23'4 24'3 3,4O3 64 67 Wellington 10,060 1 9 3,641 14 11 825 2 6 2,816 12 5 15,360 o o 12,543 1 7 31,500 o o 41,996 4 1 34,398 18-3 24-4 4,685 67 8'9 Hawke's Bay 6,658 19 4 2,566 16 1 2,536 1 1 3° 15 ° 10,362 o o io,33i 5 ° 23,000 o o 22,111 17 3 18,015 25'5 24'5 2,334 98 9'4 Marlborough 1,580 4 o 825 5 7 39 6 5 3 429 o 4 2,415 o o 1,985 19 8 7,100 o o 7,385 8 10 6,775 2I'O 21-8 883 8-0 83 Nelson 6,149 I0 4 1,698 13 1 404 2 6 1,294 10 7 4,975 ° ° 3,680 9 5 16,600 o o 17,127 18 4 22,042 I5-O '5'5 3,008 5'i, 5-6 North Canterbury ... 18,200 o 5 12,028 10 o 3,219 7 2 8,809 2 10 ■ 28,841 o o 20,031 17 2 53,834 o o 81,215 17 5 75,8io 14-2 2 1'4 12,233 4"4 6-6 South Canterbury ... 3,046 on 1,246 6 5 7°5 13 2 54° 13 3 8,721 o o 8,180 6 9 18,916 o o 30,802 17 9 17,469 21-6 35' 2 2,616 7-2 117 Westland 6,362 13 8 3,247 2 5 1,460 16 9 1,786 5 8 10,425 o o 8,638 14 4 25,300 o o 25,871 o 7 19,433 26'O 266 2,447 10-3 IO '5 Otago 24,742 1 6 6,000 o o 5,961 11 1 38 8 11 37,17° ° ° 37,!3i 'I 1 61,500 o o 93,017 13 6 91,010 13-5 20-4 16,047 3'8 5'7 Southland 5,016 10 9 2,432 16 7 2,522 13 o 89 l6 5 2,350 o o 2,439 l6 5 17,850 o o 22,037 13 5 23,459 15-2 18-8 3,765 47 5-8 Totals for 1880 1 - I 117,410 1 10 47,157 12 6 24,762 17 2 2 2,484 II 9 89 l6 5 iS4,546 o o 132,151 4 8 369,650 o Oj 463,092 1 8 413,684 17-8 ?2'$ 64,407 5'7 7-1 Totals for 1879 172,867 14 3 56,167 12 5 56,789 4 o IO ; OI9 13 II 10,641 5 6 163,274 13 o 163,896 4 7 326,950 o o 345,681 19 10 413,684 iS-8 16*17 58,738 5*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 from the Special Buildings Votes for the last four financial periods —viz., year 1877-78, £51,950 ; year 1878-79, £100,000; nine months 1879-80, £175,000 ; year 1880-81, £42,700: total as above, £369,650. A large proportion of the grants for 1880-81 was not expended until after the close of 1880. The expenditure in Column 9 is for the four years 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, and includes other moneys than those specially voted for buildings. These consisted of balances in hand, payments out of ordinary Board funds, and, in the case of North and South Canterbury, of the sum of £15,000 out of the Canterbury Land Fund. The sum of £82,322 expended on buildings by Boards in 1877 was so expended before the first Special Buildings Vote was distributed, and was mainly taken out of the ordinary Education Vote for 1876-77, and of other funds in the possession of Boards.