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is an abstract of their accounts, several of which are without certificates of audit:—■

TABLE T.—Summary of School Commissioners' Accounts.

The receipts for the year include a sum of £2,230 lis. 7d. received by the Otago School Commissioners for land sold. This sum is also included in the amount of £2,769 12s. 2d. invested in mortgage. The Otago Commissioners have altogether £26,756 9s. Bd. so invested. The other receipts are almost exclusively rents of reserves. There is no noteworthy difference between such receipts for 1886 and those for 1885, nor between the contributions made by the Commissioners to the several Education Boards and High Schools for the two years respectively. The payments made to the Education Boards by the Commissioners on account of primary education amounted to £29,013 7s. 7d. The amount received by the Boards during the year was £28,674 7s. Id., the difference being accounted for by the fact that money was in transit at the beginning and at the end of the year. When the estimates for 1886-87 were being prepared it was not considered safe to rely upon the receipt of so large a sum as £28,000 or £29,000 from reserves, and the probable" receipts were put down at £26,000; consequently the disbursements from the Treasury have been in this respect less by £2,674 than was anticipated. Native Schools. There are now in operation 64 Native village schools fully organised, 5 inferior schools receiving subsidy, 2 half-time schools, and 5 boarding-schools. Six of the village schools are new, and one that w*as closed for a time has been reopened. The new schools are at Kopua, in the King-country; Tapapa and Te

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Income for the Year 1880. Provincial Districts. Balances on. 1st January, 1880. Bcceipts during Year. Arrears of Bent due on 31st December, 1886. Liabilities or Engagements on 31st December, 1886. Total Income. Primary Beserves. Secondary Beserves. Auckland Taranaki Wellington .. 1 lawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Westland Canterbury Otago £ s. d. 1,185 14 2 324 6 7 417 5 1 652 11 1 107 4 0 319 14 0 291 17 5 140 0 2 1,830 2 1 £ B. d. 1,112 2 2 1,134 0 2 658 10 4 2,183 6 8 123 3 0 579 0 4 43 1 0 14,304 15 4 14,537 0 3 £ s. d. 492 8 8 242 8 0 24 12 6 211 14 8 31 0 0 210 10 4 22 0 0 £ s. d. 2,790 4 7 1,700 14 9 1,100 7 11 3,047 12 5 261 7 0 1,115 16 8 356 18 5 14,445 1 0 17,060 16 2 £ s. d. 1,483 4 8 863 15 2 531 7 0 287 8 5 67 7 0 108 7 3 20 0 0 675 5 1 5,392 2 0 £ s. d. 59 11 10 39 0 9 150 0 0 22 0 4 45' 0 0 693'13 10 Totals for 1886.. Totals for 1885.. 5,209 0 7 3,055 18 3 34,675 5 3 35,857 2 11 1,934 13 7 1,923 18 3 41,878 19 5 41,436 19 5 9,428 17 1 7,974 3 6 315 18 11 1,011 7 0

Expe: tditure for the Year 1880. ■rovincial Districts. i Office Expenses and Salaries. Expenses of Leasing and Sale, Advertising, &c. Expended on Beserves: Surveys, Fencing, &c. Bates, &c. Crown Grants, Land Transfer Fees, and Law Expenses. Paid for Primary Education. Paid for Secondarj' Education. Balances Sundries ou 31st (sundries. December, 1886. Total. ~nd faranaki Wellington Hawke's Bay .. Marlborough Nelson Westland Canterbury Otago £ s. d. 102 1 6 124 18 2 52 0 7 100 0 7 25 0 0 81 8 4 22 16 0 546 8 9 683 8 3 £ s. d. 19 6 6 80 8 3 8 14 6 50 8 0 3 3 0 6 5 11 17 16 6 32 16 4 356 16 2 £ s. d. 94 14 10 128 12 0 32 16 0 50 5 1 £ s. d. 52 7 0 1 13 8 2 19 2 £ s. d. 1,072 9 8 570 0 0 600 0 0 1,950 0 0 170 2 0 430 4 2 £ s. d. 275 0 0 165- 0 0 120 0 0 32 10 243 10 0 300 0 0 j £ s. d. £ s. d. 6 0 01,220 12 1 I 579 14 4 7 0 2 398 3 0 ! 767 19 7! 0 10 25 0 0 390 16 5 8 15 5 143 19 0 *2769 12 21,387 15 10 £ s. a. 2,790 4 7 1,700 14 9 1,100 7 11 3,047 12 5 261 7 0 1,115 16 8 356 18 5 14,445 1 6 |17,060 10 2 7'ii 10 7 10 6 21 17 5 43 9 4 13,706' 0 0 10,514 11 9 673 "4 2 G3i'is 0 Totals for 1886 Totals for 1885 1,693 17 2 1,669 10 3 575 15 2! 252 10.11 987 3 11 790 3 9 129 17 1 117 10 1 29,013 7 128,G64 12 10' 1,767 9 6 'l,610 12 5 2,782 13 44,928 15 8 4,612 12 7 3,719 0 7 '41,878 19 5 41,436 19 5 i * Includes £2,758 12s. 2d. invested on mortgage.