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General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1909 Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. ..11,282 12 2 Staff salaries and clerical assistance .. 3,518 6 8 Grants from Government for— Office contingencies .. .. .. 1,25G 7 2 Teachers' arid pupil-teachers' salaries, and Teachers' and pupil-teachers' salaries, and allowances to pupil-teachers .. 62,715 6 7 allowances to pupil-teachers .. .. 72,019 5 1 Reserves revenue for primary education 14,531 5 G Relieving-teachers'salaries .. .. 390 18 8 Capitation at 6d. for relieving"teachers .. 439 13 11 Training collegesCapitation at 11s. 3d., and additional Salaries of teachers .. .. .. 1,581 6 4 grant of £250 .. .. .. 10,142 19 10 Incidental expenses of training collego .. 71 5 3 Special capitation at 9d. for Schcol Com- Allowances to students .. .. 4,306 0 10 mittees .. .. .. .. 655 3 3 Training-college library .. .. 25 17 3 Training colleges Conveyance and board of school-children .. 862 12 3 Salaries of btaff .. .. .. 1,542 10 4 Special capitation to School Committees .. G55 3 8 Allowances to students .. .. 4,221 19 9 Incidental expenses of schools .. .. 5,292 7 f> Inspection of private schools .. .. 2G 6 6 Gymnastic instruction .. .. .. 142 16 9 Conveyance and board of school-children 876 14 9 Truant Officer .. .. .. 198 13 5 Teachers' train fares .. .. .. 5 6 0 Library books .. .. .. 38 611 Pomahaka School .. .. .. 80 0 0 Teaohers' train-fares .. .. .. 5 6 0 Receipts from other sources— Interest on overdraft .. .. .. 24 10 3 Truancy fines .. .. .. 16 10 6 Allowance to scholarship-holders, and exRent of offices .. .. .. 105 0 0 penses of examinationInterest on fixed deposit .. .. 163 13 9 Board scholarships .. .. .. 1,207 2 0 Grants from Government for— National Scholarships .. .. 257 10 0 Scholarships Salaries of teachers, and additions to Education Board .. .. .. 1,235 18 0 salaries of head teachers on staffs of disNational .. .. .. .. 242 10 0 trict high schools .. .. .. 1,997 18 4 District high schools — Salaries of Pees—District high school .. .. 10 0 teachers .. .. .. .. 1,996 10 G Manual and technical — Receipts from other sources, district high School classes .. .. .. 1,391 15 1 schools—Pees .. .. .. 37 10 0 Special classes .. .. .. 1,079 5 3 Grants from Government for manual and Payments to managers of associated technical instruction— classes .. .. .. .. 2,552 9 8 Capitation— Maintenance of school buildings— On all classes .. .. .. 3,386 16 9 Alterations, small additions, repairs, reOn account of free places .. .. 646 11 9 painting, &c. .. .. .. 9,662 8 9 Material for class-work .. .. 75 9 1 Rebuilding .. .. .. ..2,456 17 11 Subsidies on voluntary contributions .. 273 8 0 Rent .. .. .. .. 27 11 0 Receipts from other sources— House allowances .. .. .. 710 1 2 Pees .. .. .. .. 246 17 0 New school buildings, additional classVoluntary contributions .. .. 24 1 0 rooms, furniture, sites, &c. .. .. 7,900 9 8 Grants from Government for— Buildings, class-rooms, furniture, &c, for Maintenance of school buildings, rebuild- manual and technical purposesing, rents, sites, &c. .. .. 540 6 7 School classes .. .. .. 789 18 0 House allowances .. .. .. 691 6 2 Special classes .. .. .. 754 0 0 New school buildings, additions, fumi- Payments to managers of associated ture, sites, &c. .. .. .. 6,930 16 10 classes .. .. .. .. 1,306 1 G Technical - school buildings, furniture, Balance at end of year .. .. .. 3,099 19 7 fittings, apparatus, &c. .. .. 2,431 13 6 Other receiptsSale of sites ... .. .. .. 350 0 0 Voluntary contributions .. .. 184 1 0 Examination fees .. .. .. 10 8 0 Rents of school-cites .. .. .. 72 0 6 Schcol Committee Account closed .. 2 3 0 £126,183 10 6 £126,183 10 6 Thomas Fergus, Chairman. P. G. Phyde, Secretary. SOUTHLAND. Sir,— Education Office, Invercargill, 18th March, 1910. In compliance with the requirements of the Education Act, 1908, I have the honour to submit the following report of the proceedings of the Education Board of the District of Southland for the year ended 31st December, 1909. The Board. —The members in office at the beginning of the year were ; Messrs. J. Crosby Smith (Chairman), Thomas Mac Gibbon, J. C. Thomson, H. F. S. King, W. Macalister, D. Gilchrist, John Cowie, George James Anderson, and John Fisher. In the month of May, Mr. 11. K. S. Bong, consequent on his removal to Wellington, resigned his position as a member. In accepting Mr. King's resignation, a motion appreciative of his services was recorded in the Board's minutes. The retiring mem for the year were as follows : Mr. D. Gilchrist, East Ward ; Mr. John Cowie, Wesl Ward : Mr. \\. Macalister, Central Ward. At the election held in July, Messrs. D. Gilchrist and John Cowie were re-elected unopposed for the East and West Waids respectively, while Messrs. W. Macalister (re-elected) and W. N. Stirling were elected to fill the ordinary and extraordinary vacancies respectively in the Central Ward. Later in the year Mr. John Cowie found it necessary, on account of ill health, to resign his seat on the Board as a member for West Ward, and the Board minuted an expression of regret at