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£95 for restoring Kokiri School, and £250 for rebuilding caretaker's residence, Greymouth School (all damaged or destroyed by fire), was £1,409 15s. lid. The Board's General Account at the close of the year showed a credit balance of £9 17s. I have, &c, S. E. Habbis, Chairman. The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington.

Gbnbeal Statement of Beceipts and Expenditube for the Year ending 31st December, 1900. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure £ s. d. Government grant for buildings .. .. 1,560 0 0 Balanoe .. .. .. .. 136 8 6 Statutory capitation .. .. .. 5,371 11 3 Office staff—Salaries .. .. .. 175 0 0 Scholarship grant .. .. ... 109 6 2 Clerical assistance .. .. .. 4 0 0 Inspection subsidy .. .. .. 150 00 ! Departmental contingencies— Grants for manual and technioal instruc- General Aocount .. .. .. 11 15 0 tion .. .. .. .. 12 7 9; Building Account .. .. .. 25190 School Commissioners .. .. .. 110 0 0 ; Inspector's salary .. .. .. 200 0 0 District High Sohool fees .. .. 51 0 0 Inspector's travelling-expenses .. .. 10 0 0 Other receipts— Teaohers' salaries and allowanoes (inoluding Grant from High School Board .. 200 00 ] rent, bonus, &c.) .. .. .. 4,934 7 9 Grant to cover cost of deeds re old Educa- ] Incidental expenses of schools .. .. 139 5 0 tion Board .. .. .. 75 00 j Training of teachers .. .. .. 32 10 0 Balance— Scholarships—Paid to scholars .. .. 112 10 0 Building Account .. .. .. 38 14 4 School buildings— Unpresented cheques .. .. 30 2 1 New buildings .. .. .. 595 14 6 Improvements of buildings .. .. 519 1 0 Furniture and appliances .. .. 174 0 11 Sites .. .. .. .. 90 10 6 Plans, supervision, and fees .. .. 30 9 0 Manual of technioal instruction .. 12 7 9 Printing .. .. .. .. 48 0 0 Advertising .. .. .. .. 72 8 0 Members' travelling-expenses— General Account .. .. .. 162 4 0 Building Account .. .. .. 70 12 6 Legal expenses— General Account ... .. .. 134 16 8 Building Acoount .. ~.,. .. 3 16 6 Interest— General Account .. .. .. 015 6 Building Account .. .. .. 1 12 6 Balance— General Account .. .. £119 0 4 Less unpresented oheques .. 109 3 4 9 17 0 £7,708 1 7 £7,708 1 7 S. E. Habbis, Chairman. F. W. Eiemenschneideb, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Wabbueton, Controller and Auditor-General.

REPORT ON THE GREYMOUTH DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

Subject taught. Class. Number of Pupils in eaoh Glass. Work done. iatin I. 1 Odes of Horace, Book I.; Livy, Book XXII.; Virgil's iEneid, Book VI.; Bradley's Arnold ; Revised Latin Primer. Csesar's Gallic War, Book VI. ; Livy, Book XXII. ; Principia Latina, Part IV., to exercise 50; Eevised Latin Primer. Principia Latina, Part II. (fables, anecdotes, and mythology) ; Principia Latina, Part I. Via Latina, to exercise 49. Via Latina, to exercise 27. Macmillan's French Eeader, Second Year ; Bue II. ; Brachet's Grammar. Macmillan's French Reader, First Year (prose only) ; Bue I. Jandu's Elementary, French Reader (without supplement) ; Bue I., to lesson 50, but no conversation. Bue I., First Part. Mason's Grammar; Nichol and Meiklejohn's Compositions ; miscellaneous exercises. Smith's Grammar ; Higher English (Campbell), Sections I., II., IV., and X.; Longmans' Composition. II. 5 III. 4 IV. V. I. 5 2 2 'rench ... II. 4 inglish... III. 4 IV. I. 2 5 II. 6