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Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1882. Receipts. £ B. d. I Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance on 31st December, 1881— By Office staff, salaries ... ... ... 288 13 4 Building Account ... ... 3,134 17 5 Departmental contingencies ... ... 262 8 0 General Account ... ... 1,239 7 2 Inspectors'salaries ... ... 500 0 0 Government grants for buildings ... 2,182 0 0 Inspectors'travelling expenses ... 179 18 0 Subscriptions and donations for buildings 419 10 0 j Examination of pupil-teacliers ... 10 3 11 Other receipts for buildings— Teachers' salaries and allowances (inInterest on deposit, Trust and Loan eluding rent, bonus, &o.) ... 17,127 6 4 Company ... ... ... 17 14 0 Incidental expenses of schools — Committees, for scientific apparatus ... 4 0 0 Incidental expenses ... ... 1,062 10 0 Deposits on contracts ... ... 40 0 0 Rent of school-buildings ... ... 285 10 0 Government statutory capitation (£3155.) 18,219 15 0 Training of teachers ... ... 1,297 11 0 Special capitation (55.) ... ... 937 12 6 Scholarships— Scholarship grant (Is. 6d.) ... ... 227 13 4 Paid to scholars ... ... ... • 276 13 4 Inspection subsidy ... ... 300 0 0! Examination expenses ... ... 6 12 7 Grant for training of teachers ... 1,268 4 4j School-buildings— Other receipts— New buildings ... ... ... 1,843 13 0 Normal School fees ... ... 141 15 0 Improvements of buildings ... 1,107 5 0 Eefund overpayment of salary ... 8 6 8 Furniture and appliances ... ... 418 5 3 Rtfund overpayment of capitation ... 16 5 0 Sites ... ... ... ... 200 0 0 Plans, supervision, and fees ... 180 0 9 Deposits on contracts ... ... 26 5 0 Credit balance of account on 3lßt December, 1882— Building Account ... ... 22 12 5 General Account ... ... 1,06112 6 £26,157 0 5 £26,157 0 5 J. R. Blair, Chairman. Arthur Dorset, Secretary. Examined and passed.—R. Macalister, Provincial District Auditor.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1882. A. Exclusive of Building Fund. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash in bank on this account, 31st December, Due to Committees ... ... ... 242 10 0 1882 ... ... ... ... 1,061 12 6 £1,061 12 6 £242 10 0 B. Building Fund only. Cash in bank on this account, 31st December, Balance of amounts due, or to fall due, under 1882 ... ... ... ... 22 12 5 contracts ... ... ... ... 974 0 0 Due from Government for building grant ... 6,412 12 0 Deposits on contracts ... ... ... 13 15 0 £6,435 4 5 £987 15 0

MARLBOROUGH. Sir, — Blenheim, Ist May, 1883. I have the honour, in accordance with the provisions of "The Education Act, 1877," to submit the following report of the proceedings of the Education Board for the District of Marlborough, for the year ending the 31st December, 1882 : — Board.—The Board has consisted during the whole year of the following members : A. P. Seymour, Esq. (Chairman), the Hon. Major Baillie, the Hon. E. T. Conolly, A. Gt. Fell, Esq., E. Paul, Esq., J. Ward, Esq., W. Sinclair, Esq., R. W. Parker, Esq., and G-. Henderson, Esq. The three retiring members for the year were re-elected ; and the Board has held twelve meetings, with an average attendance of six members. Schools.- —The boundaries of the Board's operations were extended during the year. A new school district was proclaimed, embracing Port Underwood and such portion of Queen Charlotte Sound as had not previously been included in any school district. The number of schools open at the end of the year was 22. Of these, 14 were fully supported by the Board, and 8 were aided, being paid £3 10s. per annum per head of average attendance. It has been gratifying to the Board to comply with the desire for education shown by the scattered population of the Sounds and elsewhere; and by means of these aided schools a fair amount of useful work is being done. During the year two new schools have been opened, one at Okaramio and the other at Port Underwood. « Attendance.—The increase in the number of children belonging to the schools at the end of 1882 exceeded the corresponding number for the previous year by 93, the figures being 1,414 at the end of 1882, as against 1,321 at the end of 1881. With regard to the working average for the whole year there is a better increase, the numbers being respectively 947*66 for 1881, and 1,06350 for 1882, showing an increase of 115-84.

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