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TABLE O.—Money Assets (and Deficits).
TABLE P.— Money Liabilities (and Balances).
It will be seen that Taranaki has a nominal balance of £138 14s. 9d. for building purposes, but that, on the other hand, it is in debt to the extent of £230 ss. lOd. on general purposes account. Hawke's Bay, on the contrary, has a nominal balance of £622 3s. 7d. for general purposes, but, if it were to devote the whole of this sum to the discharge of its liabilities on building account, that account would still show a deficiency of £266 2s. sd. Wanganui has on the whole a credit balance of £1,009 Bs. Bd., but the building account may be said to be in debt to the general purposes account to the extent of £868 15s. 5d., and there is nothing to spend on buildings except what may be taken out of the general balance. The reverse is the case with Wellington, Grey, Otago, and Southland, which have balances for buildings, but are in debt on their general purposes accounts. These four Boards must depend on advances, resort to external credit, or borrow from their building accounts to pay what they owe on other accounts. On the whole it appears that tw To Boards are in debt, and can only extricate themselves by being more economical; that there are two that, instead of having any money to spend this year on buildings, begin the year in debt so far as their building account is concerned; and that the real and nominal balances on building account amount to £24,898 2s. 4d., in the hands of eleven Boards. What the actual wants of the several districts are with respect to new buildings is not ascertained. Only three of the Boards have sent in the estimates of income and expenditure ordered by section 39 of " The Education Act, 1877." Returns have, however, been made, which show that 87 schools are carried on in buildings that do not belong to the Boards, that 271 school districts are not yet provided with masters' residences, and that there are 23 schools in which there is less than 8 square feet of floor space for each unit of average attendance, and
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Due from Deficit on Account of Education Districts. ('ash. Building. Other Purposes. Totals. Government. Other Sources. £ s. d. 4,742 7 1 41 9 4 1,670 0 0 £ s. d. 10,287 11 6 821 19 11 2,553 2 8 4,007 5 7 1,791 1 7 638 18 2 2,138 13 10 718 4 10 1,045 1 2 : 2,777 3 0 594 17 5 7,100 10 0 I 2,310 18 8 ! £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 15,029 18 7 1,179 12 3 5,092 4 1 5,657 3 11 2,679 7 7 1,653 4 1 6,671 4 7 1,043 6 5 1,469 3 3 12,880 4 11 1,944 6 1 8,934 9 3 3,477 4 4 Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay .. Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 85'17 2 808 15 5 230' 5 10 45"o 0 888"o 0 1,544 18 4 1,014 5 11 4,532 10 9 121 3 0 400 2 9 10,103 1 11 1,229 8 8 19 9 8 30 19 8 23 19 4 17218 11 12()"o 0 245 6 8 1,569 2 11 1,166 5 8 Totals .. 23,874 5 1 j 36,845 8 4 757 1 5 4,683 11 8 67,711 9 4 551 2 10
Liabilities for Balances for Education Districts. Totals. Buildings. Other Purposes. Buildings. Other Purposes. Auckland' Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland .. North Canterbury .. South Canterbury .. Otago Southland £ s. d. 1,027 4 4 857 13 3 2,477 10 7 420 14 2 1,050 0 0 407 5 0 1,055 16 8 181 12 0 138 0 0 3,969 7 10 1,201 11 1 3,433 5 1 1,047 11 10 £ s. d. 4,886 3 11 183 4 3 736 9 5 1,886 0 7 407 4 0 208 0 3 1,278 17 4 89 5 6 30 0 0 739 10 11 350 0 0 100 0 0 937 7 5 £ s. d. 7,655 6 5* 138 14 9 3,350' 9 2 568 16 10 2,801 12 6 772 8 11 1,096 15 4 4,464 1-2 7 155 16 7 5,401 4 2 1,492 5 1 £ s. d. 861 3 11 1,878' 4 If 622 3 7 469 2 0 934 18 1 £ s. d. 15,029 18 7 1,179 12 3 5,092 4 1 5,657 3 11 2,679 7 7 1,653 4 1 6,671 4 7 1,043 6 5 1,469 3 3 12,880 4 11 1,944 6 1 8,934 9 3 3,477 4 4 204 7 11 3,706 13 71 170 18 5 Totals 19,127 11 10 67,711 9 4 11,832 3 7 24,898 2 4 8,853 11 7 * Includes £1,000 in reserve for playgrou provincial fund for scholarships. inds. ! Do. ;s not include the capital of the Kei >S bequest. t £4,000 is an old