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SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS' REPORTS.

AUCKLAND. Sib, — School Commissioners' Office, Auckland, 18th June, 1901. I have the honour to forward herewith the statement of the accounts of the School Commissioners for the year ending the 31st December, 1900, from which it will be seen that they were enabled to pay over during that period for the purposes of primary education the sum of £2,400, and to secondary schools the sum of £300. The reserves let during the year comprise twenty-eight sections of pastoral land, mostly o inferior quality, of total area of 3,451 acres, yielding an annual rental of £143 25.; and seventee sections of town and suburban land, 44-J- acres, yielding a rental of £66 19s. 6d. a year. I have, &c. The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington. E. Udy, Chairman,

General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1900. I.—General Account.

II.—Endowments Account.

Primary. Secondary. Total. Receipts. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. &■ 49 0 2 'o Balance Revenues from reserves— Arrears of 1899 .,. Due in 1900 Arrears of 1899 Due in 1900 Miscellaneous Interest ... Lease deposits 740 15 1,929 11 1 8 1 213 19 390 19 5 0 11 7 9 9 7 7 0 8 0 1 2,670 6 9 604 19 2 7 0 0 40 15 4 58 16 0 2 0 29 7 49 7 0 8 0 Total receipts ... 3,430 17 5 * Expenditure >y Commissioners' expenses Office salary Office expenses Legal expenses Crown-grant fees Expenses of leasing ... Expenditure on reserves Payments to Education Boards— Auckland Education Board Hawke's Bay Education Board Payments to secondary schools— Auckland College and Grammar School Thames High School Whangarei High School Lease deposits Balance Less due Endowments Account Cash in hand & s. 43 6 90 0 28 16 31 9 4 18 68 8 132 0 d. 3 0 7 6 6 1 0 £ s. 14 8 30 0 9 11 10 4 3 15 26 19 72 9 d. 9 0 8 0 5 8 3 £ s. d. 57 15 0 120 0 0 38 8 3 41 13 6 8 13 11 95 7 9 204 9 3 2,258 16 141 3 4 8 I 2,400 0 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 11 11 0 0 0 0 } 300 0 0 24 3 117 4 13 6 0 9 8 ) 35 14 0 103 18 1 24 17 8 Total expenditure 3,430 17 5

Primary. Secondary. Total. Receipts. 'o Balance Beceipts in 1900 (timber sold) £ s. 1,018 2 71 3 d. 0 2 £ 380 68 s. d. 2 6 3 6 1,398 139 s. d. 4 6 6 8 Total receipts ... 1,089 5 2 448 6 0 1,537 11 2