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General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year— Staff salaries and clerical assistance .. 975 11 10 On General Account .. .. .. 22 19 11 Office contingencies .. .. ... 637 13 0 On Building Account .. .. .. 291 4 11 Teachers' and pupil-teachers' salaries, and Grants from Government for — allowances to pupil-teachers .. .. 15,880 2 2 Teachers' and pupil-teachers' salaries, Relieving-teachers' salaries .. .. 64 5 8 and allowances to pupil-teachera .. 14,199 17 11 Incidental expenses of schools .. .. 1,194 8 3 Reserves revenue for primary education.. 1,898 18 0 Capitation, 9d. .. .. .. 155 5 9 Capitation at 11s. 3d. and grant of £250 2,628 16 6 Scholarships and expenses of examination 349 9 0 Capitation for relieving-teachers .. 105 14 9 Salaries of staffs of district high schools .. 412 15 4 Special grant, School Committees .. 155 5 9 Other expenses— Makahu inspections .. ... .. 4 0" 0 Secretary, £5; books, £19 ss. 3d. .. 24 5 3 Receipts from other sources— Manual and technical instruction — Subsidy towards Central School repairs 22 2 6 School classes .. .. .. 172 10 1J Sale of old material, &c. .. .. 514 0 Special classes .. .. .. 438 1 6J Refunds .. .. .. .. 18 10 0 General maintenance of school buildingsGrants from Government for— Repairs, repainting, &c. .. .. 1,203 19 1 Scholarships.. .. .. .. 262 17 9 Rebuilding.. .. .. .. 503 12 3 District high schools .. .. .. 352 5 0 Alterations and small additions .. 75 0 0 Receipts from other sources— House allowances .. .. .. 436 511 District high school fees .. .. 31 2 0 New schools, additions, furniture, sites, &c. 2,027 3 9 Refund Wing Kee's Scholarship .. 10 0 Buildings, class-rooms, furniture, &c, for Grants from Government for manual and manual and technical purposes— technical instruction— School classes .. .. .. 224 15 2 Capitation (general and scholarship) .. 354 12 7 Special classes .. .. .. 91 3 9 Instruction of teachers .. .. 100 0 0 Other expenses— Subsidies on voluntary contributions and Railway fare refunded, 7s. ; cost of lease, bequests .. .. .. .. 40 10 0 14s. Bd. .. .. .. .. 118 Receipts from other sources— Police Department, service of summons 0 10 0 Fees .. .. 193 17 4 Balance at end of year— Voluntary contributions .. .. 5 4 6 On General Account.. .. .. 14 12 3 Sale of material .. .. .. 116 5 On Building Account .. .. 1,014 18 10 Grants from Government for— Maintenance of buildings, rebuilding, &c. 2,551 8 7 House allowances .. .. .. 411 18 i New schools, additions, furniture, &c. .. 2,028 0 0 Technical-school buildings, fittings, &c. 138 3 8 Other receipts— Rents of school-sites .. .. ' .. 67 7 2 Truancy fines, £2 Is. ; oosts of leases, £2 2s. .. .. .. .. 4 3 0] £25,897 10 7 £25,897 10 7 James Wade, Chairman. Btli May, 1906. P. S. Whitcombe, Secretary. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

WANGANUI. Sir,— Wanganui, 31st March, 1906. In accordance with the provisions of " The Education Act, 1904," the Education Board of the District of Wanganui has the honour to present the following report of its proceedings for the year 1905. Board. —At the beginning of the year the ±>oard consisted of the following members : Messrs. G. S. Bridge, G. Carson, F. M. Spurdle, F. Pirani, E. Dixon, F. Y. Lethbridge, M.H.E., A. H. Atkinson, H. E. P. Adams, and A. Fraser. The retiring members, Messrs. Pirani, Lethbridge, and Dixon, were re-elected at the annual election in July. Mr. G. S. Bridge was re-elected Chairman. Number of Schools. —At the end of 1904 there were 178 schools in operation in the district, 14 schools were opened and 9 closed, leaving 184 in operation on the 31st December, of which 21 were placed in Grade 0. Teachers. —The number of teachers increased by 12, there being at the end of the year 360 teachers, 138 male and 168 female adults, and 54 pupil-teachers —11 males and 43 females. During the year the Board experienced considerable difficulty in obtaining assistants for schools in the lower grades, and had, in some cases, to promote to assistantships pupil-teachers with less than two years' teaching experience. A similar difficulty arose in obtaining teachers for small schools in the outlying parts of the district, and in not a few cases the Board found it necessary, in order to obviate the closing of the schools, to appoint temporarily applicants without any experience. Salaries. —The Board is pleased to know that additions have been made to the salaries of the teachers of small schools, and that pupil-teachers are at last to receive nearly enough to enable them to keep themselves from the beginning of their service. It is, however, a matter for regret that a number of deserving teachers, such as the first assistants in the large schools, were not included in the increase, and that adequate provision was not made for the special assistants in district high schools at least on the scale hitherto paid by the Board. Pupil-teachers.—At the last examination conducted by the Board's Inspectors 54 candidates presented themselves for examination, and 45 obtained the percentage of marks necessary for a pass. Scholarships.—At the annual examination for the Board's scholarships 23 senior and 50 junior pupils were examined. Eleven senior and 12 junior scholarships were awarded, 4of the former going to former winners of Junior Scholarships. National Scholarships.—The three scholarships were awarded to gins—two from country schools and one from a town school. Owing to the legislation of last year two scholarship holders of Board and National Scholarships have had to forfeit one of the two scholarships. Eetrospective legislation of this kind hardly accords with the general idea of justice