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Extract from the Report of tiik Director op the Elam School of Art. The total attendance of students registered during the forty weeks of the school year amounted to 27.G87. This is smaller than some previous years before the new Government regulations came into force disallowing the attendance of the younger students at nights, but very satisfactory when it is considered that it represents the attendance of older and more experienced .students only, as compared with previous years. The attendance of the most advanced students (fourth year or over) amounted alone to 9,955, which is must satisfactory. Both the attendance and the work done at the more advanced classes, such as drawing and painting from life, have been more than usually satisfactory, and the students in the advanced classes in wood-carving and modelling and design have also attended well and have produced excellent work. The classes for elementary and intermediate work have been at a slight disadvantage during the latter part of the year, owing to the work having to be carried on in two or three sets of rooms for the time being. About the middle of the year the City Council asked us to discontinue the use of one or two r is in the upper Hour of tin.- Ait Gallery building for night classes, as it was not considered advisable to have these rooms lighted by artificial light. To make up for this the Council gave us the use of more rooms on the lower Boor until we were able to erect a building of our own. The change interfered a little with our advanced work, and it was considered advisable to obtain other rooms elsewhere for the present. We were fortunate in being able to lease what ale known as the Federal Club looms in W'ellesloy Street, not far away, and in these rooms the advanced work has been carried on for about six months with great success. These large and convenient rooms were specially lighted with roof lights and litted with the electric light, and have been much appreciated by students. Some members of the City Council made the suggestion that we should try to obtain a building of our own for the school elsewhere, as some of the rooms occupied by the school might be wanted for other purposes when the City Council moved to the new Town Hall. They offered, if the idea could be carried out, to give the trustees of the school a suitable site in the heart of the city at a nominal rental. This offer was considered by the trustees and gratefully accepted, and a suitable site has been given In the City Council within a few yards of the old Art Gallery building, where within a few months a thoroughly up-to-date School of Art will be erected. The number of passes in the examinations of the Science md Art Department. London, was satisfactory, and in the number of works for teachers' ait certificates examined in London the sohool was more than usually successful. Works to the number of thirteen out of sixteen submitted being "accepted," three of them being "commended in the British National Competition. Ihe exhibition of students' work held in December was successful, and was largely attended, much interest being taken in it. It was stated on all hands that the display of advanced work in drawing and painting and craft work was much in advance of any previous year. With the promise in the very near future of a suitable permanent home of its own, the prospects of the school are vny bright, and a considerable addition to the number of advanced students may be confidently expected. E. W. Payton, Director. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1912, in respect of Associated Classes conducted by the Managers of the Elam School of Art. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 44 4 0 Salaries of instructors .. .. 789 0 0 Capitation on classes .. .. .. 323 1 8 Office expenses (including salaries, etaRent .. .. .. .. .. 20 0 0 tionery, &c.) .. .. 95 12 3 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. 25 4 11 Advertising and printing. S3 13 9 Material .. . .. .. 34 10 6 Lighting and heating 27 8 9 Subsidies on voluntary contributions .. 200 0 0 i Insurance and repairs 10 4 Fees .. .. .. .. .. 57 13 9 Rent . .. 152 5 0 From the trustees of the Elam bequest .. 209 18 6 Material for class use 10 9 11 Balance at end of year .. 319 1 0 Models.. .. . 54 18 8 Various expenses .. 12 0 10 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus 67 4 10 £1,233 14 4 £1,233 14 4 C. J. TuNKS, Chairman ) ~, E. W. I>a vto.v, Secretary [of Manage,,. Extract prom the Report op the Board op Governors ok the Hamilton High School. Evening classes in cookery and dressmaking were held at the Technical School for two terms of the (rear. Highly trained instructors were secured, the classes were well advertised in the local papers, but little interest was taken in either class- the attendance, a total of twenty-nine for the two classes, being very disappointing. An effort was made to establish a class in w I work, hut no students were forthcoming. R. ENGLISH, Secretary. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1912, in respect of Special Classes conducted at the Hamilton Technical School by the High School Board of Governors. Receipts. £ s. d. I Expenditure. £ s. d. l-'ees .. .. .. .. .. 32 5 0 I Advertising and printing .. .. .. IHi n From High Sohool on account of sohool classes 24 14 0 : Lighting and heating .. .. 14 6 4 Balanco at end of yoar .. . . .. 40 16 8 £56 19 0 £.-)6 19 0 R. English, Secretary.

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