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General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1909. Receipts. & s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 5,340 911 Staff salaries and clerical assistance .. 1,234 1 6 Grants from Government for— Office contingencies .. .. .. 431 13 2 Teach rs'and pupil-teachers'salaries, and Teachers' and pupil-teacliers' salaries, and allowances to pupil-teachers .. 17,764 14 3 allowances to pupil teachers .. .. 21,509 1 2 Reserves revenue for primary education 3,631 7 6 Relieving-tfaohers' salaries .. .. 91 11 10 Capitation at 6d. for relieving-teachers .. 118 2 2 Conveyance and board of school-children .. 404 211 Capitation at 11s. 3d., and grant of £250 2,907 2 4 Special capitation to School Committees .. 174 12 0 Special capitation at 9d. for School Cum- Incidental expenses of schools 1,216 19 6 miitees .. .. .. • • 174 12 0 Erection of new offices .. .. .. 719 11 9 Conveyance and board of school-children 404 211 Free school-books .. .. .. 133 6 8 Free school-books .. .. .. 100 11 6 Rents of residences (paid to teachers) .. 22 13 6 Inspection of private schools .. .. 16 3 0 Allowance to scholarship holders, and exReceipts from other sources— penses of examination — Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 86 15 0 Board scholarships .. .. .. 340 010 Truancy fines .. .. .. 4 16 National Scholarships .. .. 80 0 0 Bents .. .. .. .. 125 16 3 Salaries of teachers, and additions to salaries Sale of old furniture .. .. .. 4 1 3 of head teachers on staffs of district high Refunds .. .. .. .. 010 0 schools .. .. .. .. 1,206 19 8 Grants from Government for— Manual and technical — Scholarships— School classes .. .. .. 935 8 7 Education Board .. .. .. 355 14 0 Special classes .. .. .. 92 7 5 National .. .. .. .. 67 10 0 Instructors, high school classes .. 465 18 8 District high schools— Maintenance of school buildings— Salaries of teachers .. .. 1,244 16 9 Alterations, small additions, repairs, reSubsidies on voluntary contributions, painting, &c. .. .. .. 3,202 5 2 &o. .. .. .. .. 151 5 8 Rebuilding .. .. .. .. 265 12 6 Receipts from other sources—Voluntary oon- Rent .. .. .. .. .. 31 0 0 tributions .. .. .. .. 164 2 5 House allowances .. .. .. 208 6 1 Grants from Government for manual and New school buildings, additional classtechnical instruction — rooms, furniture, sites, &c. .. .. 46 4 0 Capitation— Buildings, class-rooms, furniture, &c, for On all classes .. .. .. 1,172 15 5 manual and technical purposes— On account of free plaoes .. .. 44 7 6 Special classes .. .. .. 15 0 Material for class-work .. .. 26 16 9 Payments to managers of associated Subsidies on voluntary contributions .. 67 15 0 classes .. .. .. .. 648 4 3 Receipts from other sources— Purchase of sites .. .. .. 242 0 6 Fees .. .. .. .. 615 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 2,799 8 7 Voluntary contributions .. .. 2 0 0 Cookery sales .. .. .. 31 9 3 High School Board : Fee for cookery and woodwork instructors .. .. 45 0 0 Fairveiw, cost of carving material .. 2 0 0 Woodwork-sales .. .. .. 10 0 Grants from Government for— Maintenance of school buildings, rebuilding, rents, sites, &c. .. .. 879 19 3 House allowances .. .. .. 204 4 1 New school buildings, additions, furniture, sites, &c. .. .. .. 450 0 0 Technical - sohool buildings, additions, furniture, fittings, apparatus, &c. .. 650 7 1 Other receipts — Sale of sites .. .. .. .. 242 0 6 Voluntary contributions .. .. 615 0 Sale of stoves .. .. .. 7 12 0 £36,502 15 3 t £36,502 15 3 W. M. Hamilton, Chairman. A. Bell, Secretary. OTAGO. Sir,— Education Office, Dunedin, 31st March, 1910. In accordance with the provisions of section 174 of the Education Act, 1908, the Education Board of the District of Otagq has the honour to submit the following report of its proceedings for the year 1909 :— Board. —At the beginning of the year the Board was composed of the following members : Messrs. Donald Borrie. Andrew McKerrow, and James Mitchell, representing the Northern Ward ; the Hon. Thomas Fergus, Messrs. George C. Israel, and William Scott, representing the Central Ward ; the Eev. P. B. Fraser, M.A., the Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, M.P., and Mr. William Snow, representing the Southern Ward. Of the members who retired in the ordinary course, Messrs. Donald Borrie (Northern Ward) and G. C. Israel (Central Ward) were re-elected without opposition ; while the Hon. Thomas Mackenzie (Southern Ward) did not offer himself for nomination. Three nominations were received for the vacancy in the last-named ward, and the election resulted in the return of Mr. David Thomas Fleming. At the first meeting of the Board in August the Hon. Thomas Fergus was re-elected Chairman. Twenty-five meetings of the Board were held during the year. The Hon. Thomas Fergus and the Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, M.P., were reappointed members of the Board of Governors of the Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools, and Mr. James Mitchell was appointed the Board's representative on the Waitaki High Schools Board. The Hon. Thomas Fergus, the Rev. P. B. Fraser, M.A., and Messrs. G. C. Israel, William Scott, James Mitchell, and P. Goyen, were appointed the Board's representatives on the Board of Management of the Dunedin Associated Classes. In the month of August the Hon. Thomas Fergus retired from that Board, and T. Fleming was appointed in his stead. Mr. 1). Borrie continues to represent the Board as one of the Education Reserves Commissioners.