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General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1908. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 985 3 5 StaS salaries and clerical assistance .. 1,050 7 0 Grants from Government for— ! Office contingencies .. .. .. 1,010 9 7 Teachers' and pupil-teachers' salaries, and Teachers' and pupil-teachers' salaries, and allowances to pupil-teachers.. .. 20,017 13 11 allowances to pupil-teachers.. .. 20,570 4 1 Reserves revenue for primary education 635 4 0 Eelieving-teachers' salaries .. .. 217 11 10 Capitation at 6d. for relieving-teachers .. 119 5 6 Conveyance and board of school-children .. 80 18 9 Capitation at 11s. 3d. and grant of £250 2,933 8 0 Special capitation to School Committees .. 175 11 6 Special capitation at 9d. for School Com- j Incidental expenses of schools .. .. 586 14 2 mittees .. .. .. .. 175 11 6 Allowance to scholarship-holders and oxTraining of teachers other than at train- penses of examination — ing colleges .. .. .. 150 0 0 Board scholarships .. .. .. 382 2 0 Conveyance and board of school-children 96 12 6 ; National Scholarships .. .. 114 3 1 Refund postage departmental circulars 110 10 Salaries of teachers and additions to salaries Receipts from other sources—Sale of school of head teachers on staffs of district material, £79 6s. 7d.; interest on fixed high schools .. .. .. 940 0 0 deposits, £35; hire of tables, £2 .. 116 6 7 Manual and technical — Grants from Government for— School classes .. .. .. 1,024 3 4 Scholarships— Special classes .. .. .. 1,091 19 7 Education Board .. .. .. 456 30 | Maintenance of school buildings — National .. .. .. 135 16 8 ! Alterations, small additions, repairs, reDistrict high schools—Salaries of teachers 976 5 0 I painting, &c. .. .. .. 2,358 1 0 Receipts from other sources— Rebuilding .. .. .. .. 1,970 17 3 District High School fees .. .. 3 9 6 Rent .. .. .. .. .. 50 2 0 Refund Board Scholarship Account .. 3 10 House allowances .. .. .. 670 6 3 Grants from Government for manual and New school buildings, additional classtechnical instruction — rooms, furniture, sites, &c. .. .. 747 10 2 Capitation— - Buildings, class-rooms, furniture, &c, for On all classes .. .. .. 1,411 11 7 manual and technical purposes— On account of free places .. .. 53 14 0 School classes .. .. .. 60 16 0 Material for class-work .. .. 11 17 4 Special classes .. .. .. 1,118 6 9 Receipts from other sources, manual and Balance at end of year .. .. .. 2,132 14 5 technical—Pees, £238, ss. 2d.; refund, £3 10s. ; voluntary contributions, £66 6s. 6d.; sale of material, £4 19s. 4d. .. .. .. 313 1 0 Contributions from three Education Boards towards salary of Instruotor in Agriculture under combined Boards .. 199 15 0 Grants from Government for— Maintenance of school buildings, rebuild- # ing, rents sites, &c... .. .. 4,809 0 0 House allowances .. .. .. 653 12 11 New school buildings, additions, furniture, sites, &o. .. .. .. 1,066 0 0 Technical sohool buildings, furniture, fittings, apparatus, &c. .. .. 1,028 16 3 £36,352 19 6 £36,352 19 6 A. T. Maginnity, Chairman. 9th July, 1909. N. E. Williams, Secretary.

GREY. Sir, — Education Office, Greymouth, 31st May, 1909. 1 have the honour to present the report of the Education Board for the District of Grey for the year ending 31st December, 1908. Board.—At the beginning of the year the Board was composed of the following gentlemen : James Kerr (Chairman), William Robert Kettle (Treasurer), John Byrne, Frank White, Jeremiah McCarthy, Joseph Noble, Henry J. Bignell, John Ryall, and Hon. James Marshall. In July Mr. John Byrne resigned his seat; Messrs. Ryall and Hon. James Marshall also retired, but were reelected. Mr. Stewart Robert Harris, an ex-member of the old Board, was elected to the seat vacated by Mr. Byrne. At the annual meeting following the election Messrs. Kerr and Kettle were unanimously reappointed Chairman and Treasurer respectively. Schools. —During the year thirty-five schools were in operation, as against thirty-two in 1907, the new schools being Mitchell's (Lake Brunner), Slatey Creek, and Poerua (reopened). The schools were graded as follows: Grade 0, 17; Grade I, 3; Grade 11, 3; Grade IV, 3; Grade V, 3; Grade VII, 1; Grade IX, 2; Grade X, 1; Grade XI, 1; and Grade XVII, 1. Attendance. —The roll-number of pupils was 1,822, and the average attendance 1,580, as compared with 1,784 and 1,408 respectively, the corresponding figures for the previous year. Teachers.—At the end of the year fifty-eight teachers—twelve male and forty-six female— were in the employ of the Board. Of the fifty-three adult teachers, twenty-seven are certificated and one licensed. Secondary.—Work in this department has been of a satisfactory nature, the attendance of pupils and number of Junior Civil Service and Matriculation passes obtained being above the average. Scholarships.—At the departmental examinations held in December, 1908, sixteen candidates (in all) were presented for Junior National and Board Scholarships, but of these only one, a pupil of the District High School, succeeded in obtaining the qualifying number of marks for a Junior National Scholarship. In view of this result, the Board, with the consent of the Hon. Minister, has modified its regulations so far as regards the qualifying percentage of marks for Board scholars. Cadet and Physical Drill. —These important subjects have received every attention during the year, and results have been of the most gratifying rfature. Under Major Austin and his chief