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General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure of the School Commissioners of Otago for Year ending 31st December, 1897 — continued.

Primary. Secondary. Total. Expenditw ly Salaries and allowances to officers, viz.,— Secretary, £300; clerk, £120; agent at Invercargill, £225 ... School Commissioners' travelling-expenses at-' tending monthly meetings— J. Green, £15 17s. J. W. Bain, train-fares, £21 13s. ; hotel ex-1 penses, £23 10s. A. Baldey, train-fares, £23 3s. lOd.; hotel expenses, £23 10s. W. Dallas, hotel expenses, £16 Office-rent, cleaning, fuel, &c. ... Printing and stationery Incidentals, £11 15s. 4d.; stamps, £28 19s.; telegrams, £3 19s.; telephone, £7 Legal expenses Expenses of leasing : Auctioneer's commission and charges Advertising ... Inspection of reserves : Travelling-expenses and valuation-fees Expenditure on reserves — Protective works, draining, and road-making ... Surveying new block Insurance premiums ... Bates Destroying rabbits ... Payment for improvements to outgoing tenants ... Behind rent, paid in error to Beceiver Land Be venue Beturn of deposit to rabbit contractor ... Amount advanced on mortgage Payments towards primary education— Otago Education Board Southland Education Board Payments towards secondary education— Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Board Southland Boys' and Girls' High Schools Board Waitaki Boys' and Girls' High Schools Board... Credit balances on 31st December, 1897 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. r 645 0 0 123 13 10 96 9 5 40 2 6 51 13 5 45 8 9 1,537 19 11 49 8 3 28 16 1 117 0 6 45 12 9 116 19 5 12 12 0 13 14 6 0 5 0 250 0 0 667 0 0 667 0 0 4 19 4 19 100 0 6 6 0 4 19 6 4 19 6 100 0 0 9,461 1 3,461 14 3 1 6 J- 12,922 15 9 425 15 177 4 58 9 4 8 2 661 9 2 11,856 15 10 Total expenditure 27,805 7 11 Assets. .rrears on 31st December, 1897, viz.,— Arrears of rent due in and prior to 1894 ... 1895... 1896... Arrears of interest due in 1896 ... Arrears of rent due in 1897 Arrears of interest due in 1897 ... .mount due on fixed deposit mount of balance in bank .mount of money advanced on mortgage ... £ s. d. 90 1 9 120 14 10 627 18 3 45 16 0 5,429 11 8 183 18 5 £ s. a. £ s. d. 90 1 9 120 14 10 632 0 9 45 16 0 5,569 16 5 183 18 5 11,700 0 0 156 15 10 27,819 4 6 4 "2 6 140 4 9 Total assets 46,318 8 6 Liabilities. >ue to primary apportionment to Education Boards ,ents overpaid... £ s. £ s. d. I £ s. 121 16 6 5 d. 0 0 Total liabilities i 128 1 128 1 0 0