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The Board appointed as headmaster Mr. Ernest Pridham, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, and the school was opened on the 30th January with an attendance of thirty scholars. The headmaster's salary at present is £300 per annum with residence and a capitation allowance of £1 per head. The scholars' fees are to be £4 each for one in a family, and £2 each for each additional boy of the same parents. The master has already urged the great wrant that he feels of an assistant-master, owing to the very different attainments of the scholars; but the funds at the Board's disposal are at present insufficient to allow of one being appointed. I have, &c. The Hon. the Minister for Education, Wellington. Heney Govett, Chairman.

Receipts and Expenditure "for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. Receipts. £ s. A. Expenditure. £ a. d. Balance, Ist January, 1881 ... ... 388 010 Building High School ... ... ... 1,530 16 0 Grant from Government ... ... ... 400 0 0 Furniture ... ... ... ... 80 0 0 Deposit from Bank of Kew Zealand... ...1,500 0 0 Plans and working drawings ... ... 113 0 0 Interest on ditto ... ... ... ... 65 9 6 Making drain ... ... ... 26 0 0 Esat of cottage ... ... ... ... 6 10 0 Legal expenses ... ... ... ... 9 19 6 Insurance ... ... ... ... 1 17 6 Grubbing furze on site ... ... ... 6110 Advertisements and telegrams ... ... 9 11 2 Trap-hire and cartage ... ... ... 100 Books ... ... ... ... ... 0 12 0 Allowance to country members of the Board 2 0 0 1,781 7 2 Balance ... ■ ... ... 578 13 2 £2,360 0 4 £2,360 0 4

Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1881. Assets. £ a. A. ■ Liabilities, £ s. d. Jash ... ... ... ... ... 578 13 2 Contracts ... ... ... ... 707 0 0 Unpaid accounts (estimated) ... ... 50 0 0 £578 13 2 £757 0 0 Wm, Northcroft, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—o. Eennell, Auditor. —New Plymouth, 31st January, 1882.

WANGANITI INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. (Account furnished by the Eight Eeverend Bishop Hadfleld.) Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. Meceipts. £ s. A. . Expenditure. £ s. d. Rents ... ... ... ... ... 587 17 5 Salaries ... ... ... ... 595 16 8 Schoolfees ... ... ... ... 158 15 0 School porter ... ... ... ... 26 0 0 Balance ... ... ... ... 90 14 8 Prizes, &c. (two years) ... ... ... 48 4 6 Firewood ... ~. ... ... 11 10 0 Repairs ... ... ... .., 41 5 1 Kates ... ... ... ... ~. 18 3 0 Advertising, &c. ... ... ... 17 3 0 Interest on overdraft ... ... ... 29 11 0 Trustees' travelling expenses ... ... 440 Insurance ... ... ... ... 7 12 6 Postage and exchange ... ... ... 010 9 B. Churlon's commission on £746 12s. 5d., at 5 per cent. ~, ~, ... ~, 37 6 7 £837 7 1 £837 7 1 Amount of school fees accrued during the year, £172 15s.