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have a credit balance in the Building Account, but a debtor balance in the Maintenance Account; with five Boards the reverse case holds; and one Board has a deficiency on both accounts. On the whole, the credit balances (£23,273 18s. 2d.) exceed the debit balances (£5,653 13s. 5d.) by £17,620 4s. 7d. As the corresponding balance of the preceding year was only £4,587, it follows that the Boards have improved their financial position during the year to the extent of more than £13,000. Grants were made from the School Buildings votes of 1895 as follows: Auckland, £7,800; Taranaki, £1,700; Wanganui, £3,900; Wellington, £4,700; Hawke's Bay, £2,600; Marlborough, £1,000; Nelson, £2,200; Grey, £1,000; Westland, £750; North Canterbury, £6,850 ; South Canterbury, £1,700 ; Otago, £6,600; Southland, £2,850. The Boards continue to find the grants for school buildings inadequate to their needs. Ten Boards out of the thirteen refer to this question in their reports (Appendix, pp. 61-94). Table Q shows that there is an increase in the number of overcrowded schools (from 42 to 51), and that the numbers of schools without residences, and of schools that meet in buildings that do not belong to Boards, have been reduced. Schools with average attendance below ten have not been taken into account in compiling this table.

TABLE Q. —Deficiency of School Buildings.

The payments made to the Boards in 1895 on account of scholarships under the fifty-first section of " The Education Act, 1877," amounted to £7,247 13s. 4d. Their expenditure on the same account amounted to £7,449 6s. 6d., as shown in the following table :—

TABLE R. —Scholarships.

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Education Districts. Schools in Operation (omitting those with less than Ten Pupils each). Schools not belonging to Boards. Schools without Residences. Schools with less than 10 sq. ft. for each Child {but not less than 8 sq. ft.). Schools with less than 8 sq. ft. for each Child. Available in 1895. (Tables O and P.) Luckland .aranaki Vanganui Vellington lawke's Bay /farlborough Telson irej Vestland Torth Canterbury South Canterbury )tago iouthland 324 53 113 99 59 30 101 22 25 182 65 208 132 44 2 13 11 6 2 8 1 1 10 2 7 7 135 18 58 41 28 5 34 10 5 28 20 10 21 12 5 8 2 3 •3 2 1 1 5 1 3 5 1 1 5 2 £ s. d. [-1,033 14 .5] [-190**9 1] 512 8 11 [-225 1 8] [-566 9 11] [-193 15 0] 201 12 6 603 14 10 139 0 9 3,079 7 1 [-88 3 4] 716 6 6 1,379 19 4 2 1 Totals for 1895 .. Totals for 1894 .. 1,413 1,346 105 117 406 446 51 42 12 14 Net 4,334 16 6 , 430 1 10

Education Districts. Number held in Dec, 1895. Boys. Girls. Period Boards' i-enoa Expenditure Tenure on Scholarships 1 enure. in 1895. Annual Value, &c. mekland .aranaki Vanganui Vellington lawke's Bay larlborough Jelson 54 7 13 37 23 3 14 8 7 29 7 9 18 15 2 7 2 5 25 4 19 8 1 7 6 2 Years. 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 £ S. d. 1,457 14 11 203 2 0 446 16 6 685 15 0 416 15 6 120 0 0 349 13 6 100 0 0 111 14 0 3 at £40; 23 at £30; 28 at £20. 5 at £35; 1 of £16; 1 of £10. 9 at £40 ; 4 at £20. 6 at £30; 31 at £15. 6 at £30 4s. ; 17 at £10 4s. £40 each. 6 at £52 12s.; 2 at £4 ; 6 at £2. 4 at £35 ;-4 at £10. * 2 at £23; 1 of £15 10s. ; 1 of £13 4s. ; 1 of £10 10s.; 2 at £8. 17 at £40; 14 at £20. 7 at £34 ; 1 of £24; 15 at £4. 8 at £40; 6 at £35 ; 1 each at £24 and £30; 2 at £22 ; 23 at £20; 7 at £17 ; 13 at £15 : 35 for 3 years, 26 for 2 years. 10 at £35 ; 7 at £20: 9 for 3_ years, 5 for 3 years, 3 for 1 year. Jrey Vestland.. Torth Canterbury .. South Canterbury .. )tago 31 23 61 24 11 40 7 12 21 2 2 Varies. 1,154 13 7 411 3 5 1,479 16 7 Southland 17 9 8 Varies. 512 1 6 Totals, 1895.. Totals, 1894.. 298 297 178 174 120 123 7,449 6 6 7,023 3 1