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Beresford Street: 400 volumes. Concerts by teachers, .£lO from Board, Id. a week, presents of books from scholars on leaving the school. Papakura : 2 years old. 120 books. Entertainment, £5 from Board. Northcote : 40 books from Scripture Gift Association. Mount Eoskill: 85 books. Entertainment by pupils. Titirangi: 280 books. Kauaeranga Girls': 200 books. Pupils' entertainment, 2d. a month, Scripture Gift Association. Tauranga : 400 books. Childrens' concert, Board's subsidy. Wellesley Street: 241 books. Parents' subscriptions, Scripture Gift Association. , Wanganui. —Wanganui, Boys': 1 year old. 150 books. ,£l5 from boys and parents, Id. a volume. Wellington. —Otaki: 4 years. 150 books. Contributions £6, children's collecting cards, concert. Fernridge : 5 years. 400 books. £10 from Committee. Masterton: 1 year. 200 books. Vote from Town Lands Trustees. Terrace : New library. 110 books. Is. a year. HawJce's Bay. —Gisborne : Concerts, 150 new books given this year by the scholars. Nelson. —Pangatotara: A library of 220 volumes managed by the teacher alone. Subscription, Cs. a year. Otago. —Albany Street: 6 years. 400 books. Money voted by cadet corps out of Government capitation allowance. William Street: 20 years. 1,100 books. 6d. a quarter. North School, Oamaru : 50 books. Money obtained by children. Tuapeka Mouth : 4 years. £7 collected in district. The twenty-fourth letter is given in full:—■ Sib, — Spring Grove, Nelson, 22nd March, 1886. The Waimea Circulating School Library was formed in this way : All schools wishing to join collected subscriptions in their own districts; the moneys thus collected (£33) were put together, and supplemented by a grant of £10 from the Education Board. Books were purchased by a committee of teachers, and divided equally into as many lots as there were schools belonging to the library, and lettered A, B, C, &c. The books are circulated every quarter, A passing to B and receiving J, BtoC, C to D, and so on. By this system each school enjoys the privilege of reading ten times as many books as it would with a library of its own. The whole number of books is about 350, and the following are the schools comprising the association: Hope, Eiver Terrace, Brightwater, Wakefield Boys' and Girls', Upper Wakefield, Eighty-eight Valley, Foxhill, Churchill, and Spring Grove. I have the honour to enclose a copy of rules. I have, &c, The Secretary, Education Department, J. W. Humpheeys, Wellington. Secretary. Education Keserves. The reports received from School Commissioners and their accounts for the year 1885 are printed in pages of the Appendix. Their receipts and expenditure are shown in the following table:—

TABLE T. —Summary of School Commissioners' Accounts.

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Income for t] le Year 1885. Pbovincial Districts. Balance on 1st January, 18H5. Heceipts di iring Year. # Total Income. Arrears of Eent due on 31st December, 1885. Liabilities or Engagements on 31st December, 1885. Primary Keserves. Secondary Keserves. mckland 'aranaki Vellington .. lawke's Bay larlborough felson lanterbury .. Vestland )tago £ s. a. 1,084 2 8 •295 11 G 426 G 0 6G4 15 7 220 5 9 202 2 8 150 18 G 43 9 11 568 5 8 £ s. d. 1,447 9 4 684 3 3 706 3 7 1,973 19 6 129 10 0 580 2 9 13,063 2 G 23 12 6 17,248 19 6 £ s. d. 577 3 1 274 10 1 32 1 0 155 14 10 10 0 0 202 0 0 £ a. d. 3,108 15 1 1,254 4 10 1,104 10 7 2,794 9 11 359 15 9 984 5 5 13,214 1 0 112 7 5 18,444 9 5- £ s. d. 975 15 2 871 4 10 338 1 4 142 18 9 48 15 0 119 12 9 G79 3 4 181 5 9 4,617 6 7 £ s. d. 13 15 11 142 10 0 588 1 4 319 14 0 45 0 0 15 9 4s' 5 0 G27 4 3 Totals 3,655 18 3 35,857 2 11 1,923 18 3 41,436 19 5 7,974 3 6 1,110 7 0 * Last year's balance included £12 5s. for certilicatcs of exchange of town sections held as the table. :ash. This has bi :en omitted fro;