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3. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1907. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in bank at beginning of year .. 74 0 0 Management—Office expenses .. .. 219 10 Government grants— Teachers'salaries and allowances .. .. 437 10 0 For sites, building, furniture, &c. (general Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 680 purposes) .. .. .. .. 2,082 1 0 Class material .. .. .. .. 14 011 For buildings, furniture, fittings, and ap- Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 14 0 4 paratus for reoognised sohool classes for Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. .. 20 8 9 manual instruction .. .. .. 87 17 10 Maintenance of classes for manual instrucGovernment capitation— tion .. .. .. .. 70 5 8 For free places .. .. .. 520 9 2 Government grant for site, buildings, furniUnder Manual and Technical Instruction ture, &c. .. .. .. .. 2,082 1 0 Regulations.. .. .. .. 49 12 9 Manual instruction .. .. .. 87 17 10 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 244 0 0 Pui chases and new works .. .. 141 4 8 School fees .. .. .. .. 13 6 8 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 38 7 0 Other receipts— Miscellaneous (rates, &o.) .. .. 2 13 8 Balance of Technical Fund received from Buildings, equipments, &c, for manual inHawke's Bay Education Board .. 21 6 3 struction .. .. .. .. 18 14 5 Sold scrap-lead .. .. .. 618 10 Other expenditure—To balance account .. 0 0 2 Refund .. .. .. .. 0 19 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 163 2 0 £3,099 14 3 £3,099 14 3 J. J. Patterson, Chairman. A. Grant, Secretary.

GISBOENE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report op the Governors. There has been no change since my last report. As heretofore, under arrangement with the Education Board of Hawke's Bay, and under powers conferred upon the Board of Governors by the special statutes, secondary education has been taught without fees in the district high school at Gisborne. The Governors defray the cost of this branch of public education, after receiving credit for all moneys payable by the Department. Fifty-nine pupils are now in attendance at the secondary classes. The Governors, as a controlling authority, have also to report a satisfactory advance of interest in the Technical School classes. Woodwork, dressmaking, and cookery have been taught at the Gisborne Technical School, to which the school-children from all accessible public schools in the district are sent to attend the requisite number of hours prescribed by regulations. The Governors are anxious to meet the strongly expressed wish of the settlers of the district, by establishing classes for the practical teaching of subjects which relate to the agricultural, pastoral, and dairying industries of the district. Representations have been made to the Department that the regulations might be altered to suit the circumstances of farming districts in this respect. 2. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1907. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 3,413 5 6 Management— Government grants for buildings, furniture, Office salary .. .. .. .. 62 10 0 fittings, and apparatus for recognised Other office expenses .. .. .. 0 9 11 school classes for manual instruction .. 25 15 6 Other expenses of management .. 0 12 6 Government capitation under Manual and Scholarships .. .. .. .. 55 0 0 Technical Instruction Regulations .. 37 19 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 3 0 0 Subsidy on voluntary contributions, manual Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 6 19 4 and technical instruction .. .. 22 10 0 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and Current income from reserves .. .. 150 0 0 other temporary advances .. .. 66 0 0 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Maintenance of classes for manual instrucpaid purobase-money .. .. 150 7 6 tion .. .. .. .. 280 9 0 Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 368 18 6 Government grants for site, buildings, furInterest accrued on ourrent acoount, Post- niture, &c.—Manual instruction .. 25 15 6 Office Savings-BaDk .. .. .. 13 3 9 Buildings, equipments, &c, for manual inVoluntary contributions on account of struction .. .. .. .. 41 1 8 manual and technical instruction .. 20 0 0 Other expenditure— Other receipts— Balance, Hawke's Bay Education Board 115 2 9 Refund commission .. .. .. 1 15 3 Insurance .. .. .. .. 9 7 1 Refund boarding allowance .. .. 5 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 3,704 17 3 From Hawke's Bay Education Board, capitation, sohool and teachers' classes 162 9 6 £4,371 5 0 £4,371 5 0 W. Morgan., Secretary.