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Assets. £ k. d. Liabilities. £ c. d. Balance brought down .. ~ .. 1 17 5 Salaries due to instructors .. .. 224 6 6 Capitation for second term .. .. 244 6 6 Balance .. .. .. .. 21 17 5 £246 3 11 £246 3 11 W. H. P. Marsdon, Hon. Superintendent. Extract from the Report of the Director, " Elam " Sohooi> op Art. The attendance at the school has been the largest of any year since its foundation, the total number of attendances registered being 39,997 for the forty weeks the school whs open, or as nearly as possible 1,000 per week. The general character of the work also seems to me to be distinctly above the average, and the students as a whole have certainly displayed a greater interest in their work than I have noticed in some years. The evening attendance was, as usual, much greater than that of the day classes, the greatest number of individual students present at an evening class being seventy-five, and at a day class forty,' which figures give a fair idea of the relative attendances of day and evening. The number of students on the roll at the beginning of the year was 352, and at the present time is 400. The subjects taught at the various classes have included freehand and model drawing, geometry, perspective, light and shade, monochrome painting, modelling, still-life painting, drawing and painting from the antique and from life. The life classes have been much better attended than usual, and some very good work has been done, particularly in line drawing, which several students have taken up with a good deal of success. At the annual examinations of the Board of Education, London, 84 candidates entered, and 64 of these obtained passes. The particulars are as follows: Freehand drawing, 30 passed; model-drawing, 15 passed; light and shade, 5 passed; geometrical drawing, 4 passed; perspective, 6 passed; blackboard drawing, 4 passed. Only three works were submitted to the London Examiners for teachers' certificates, and of these two were accepted. E. W. Patton, Director. Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Tear ending the Slit December, 190Jf. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 87 0 5 Administration — Grants from Government — Salaries of instructors .. .. .. 658 6 8 Capitation on classes .. .. .. 495 16 6 Office expenses (including salaries, staFurniture, fittings, apparatus .. .. 32 9 9 tionery, &c.) .. .. .. 89 16 0 Subsidies on voluntary contributions .. 150 0 0 Advertising atd printing .. .. 1 15 6 The trustees for the Elam School of Art .. 276 6 8 Lighting and heating .. .. .. 16 5 8 Insurance and repairs .. .. .. 2 2 9 Material for class use .. .. .. 11 16 2 Life models .. .. .. .. 6 3 9 Buildings—Furniture, fittings, and apparatus 79 11 5 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 175 15 5 £1,041 13 4 £1,041 18 4 Sam. Jackson, Chairman ) {l/r B. W. Payton, Secretary (of Managers. Audited and found correct —G, O'Halloran, Jun., F.N.Z.A.A. —Auckland, 27th January, 1905.

TARANAKI. Extract from the Report op the Education Board. Teachers' Classes. —Classes in cookery, woodwork, and botany and kindergarten work were taken at the winter school held between the 27th June and 9th July, and were well attended and much appreciated by the teachers. Plumbing classes have teen held at New Plymouth and Stratford, and the pupils attending these classes have been very successful in gaining certificates at the City and Guilds of London and Wellington Technical Examinations, thus qualifying themselves to carry out work in the boroughs without having to get permits from the local Sanitary Inspector. School classes under that part of the Education Acl relating 1o manual and technical instruction have been established at about one-third of the schools in the district on very successful lines. WANGANUI. Extract from the Report of the Education Board. Manual and Technical Instruction. —Early in the year Mr. Ritchings Grant, of the Wanganui Boys' District High School, was appointed instructor of the woodwork classes at Palmerston North, Wanganui, and Hawera. At the first-named place the classes were held in the High School. The class for teachers in Palmerston North was poorly attended. The teachers' class in Wanganui was fairly attended. Cookery classes in Palmerston North and Hawera were begun in August. At the latter place, owing to the refusal of the Government to grant a sum sufficient for the erection of a suitable room, work was carried on at a great disadvantage in the science-room. During this year classes will be held at Wanganui, in addition to Palmerston North and Hawera. Other handwork classes were Held during the year, as follows: Kindergarten, &c, at 43 schools, cottage-gardening at 13, cßemistry at 2, ambulance-work at 2, chip-carving, swimming and life-saving, perspective, and dressmaking, each at 1 school.

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