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Managers regret that they were again unable to form classes in wool-sorting. Now that there has been an interval of three years they hope to be more successful. An effort was made to have a class in veterinary science. Owing to our distance from a large centre it was found, however, that it would be too expensive to have an instructor from Christchurch. We have to thank the Agricultural Department for sending us an expert in veterinary work. He gave two very interesting and instructive lectures that were very well attended. Alex. Gray, Director. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1913, in respect of Associated Glasses conducted at Akaroa by the Banks Peninsula Technical Glasses Association. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d Or. balanoe at beginning of year .. .. 14 116 Salaries of instructors .. .. .. 53 0 0 Capitation on classes .. .. .. 16 2 6 Office expenses (including salaries, staSubsidies on voluntary contributions .. 26 6 0 tionery, &c.) .. .. .. .. 0 3 9 Fees .. .. .. .. 16 7 6 Advertising and printing .. .. .. 113 0 Voluntary contributions .. .. .. 26 6 0 Lighting and heating .. .. .. 110 On aooount of publio-school olasses .. 17 10 6 Insurance and repairs .. .. .. 8 10 Sales ofjmaterial.. .. .. .. 913 9 Material for class use .. .. .. 20 010 Bank charges, &o. .. .. .. 0 16 8 Cleaning .. .. .. ..1140 Water and drainage .. .. .. 2 10 0 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. .. 2 4 6 Cr. balance at end of year .. .. 26 3 0 £126 17 9 £126 17 9 John Bruce, Chairman ) ~, Alex. Gray, Secretary (^Managers. Extract from the Report of the Board of Governors of the Rangiora High School. The technical classes controlled by the High School Board are steadily growing in popularity, pupils attending classes from places as far distant as Bennett's and Scargill. Pupils from the primary schools at Fernside, Swannonoa, Loburn, and Southbrook are also attending for instruction in woodwork and cookery. The Director reports that sixty-six primary-school pupils received instruction in woodwork and fifty-five in cookery, and that the teaching at all the classes seems to have been of a satisfactory nature, the syllabus of instruction following approved lines and the instructors being persons of considerable experience. The new syllabus seems to be creating a greater demand for work of this nature, and applications have been received from several more schools. The problem of conveyance is in some cases an obstacle to attendance, and it will evidently not be satisfactorily settled until the Department makes a special grant on the lines of that made for conveyance of children attending public schools. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1913, in respect of Special Glasses conducted at the Rangiora Technical School, by the Rangiora High School Board. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Capitation on classes .. .. .. 103 3 9 Salaries of instructors .. .. .. 227 15 8 Fees .. .. .. .. .. 95 9 10 Advertising and printing .. .. 10 0 On account of public-school olasses .. 49 0 3 Lighting and heating .. .. .. 22 17 9 Sales of material .. • .. .. 14 18 3 Eent .. .. .. .. .. 17 1 3 Dr. balanoe at end of year .. .. 33 14 9 Material for olass use .. .. .. 21 7 7 Instructors' board and lodging .. .. 6 4 7 £296 6 10 £296 6 10 S. S. Clark, Secretary. Extract from the Report of the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College. School of Engineering. —The income in this department exceeded the expenditure by £577, due to the fact that very little was expended on apparatus and upkeep of plant owing to the absence of the Professor in Charge. The account commenced the year with a credit balance of £261 and ended with a credit of £839, which amount has been carried forward, and will be required during the current year for the purchase of apparatus and plant. Students' fees showed an increase of £53 as compared with the previous year, and the Government capitation for technical classes amounted to £431, as against £384 in 1912. Salaries were increased by £64, while the amount expended on apparatus, upkeep of plant, and stores totalled only £88, as compared with £365 during the preceding year. The proposed additions to the buildings used for the School of Engineering having now been completed, greater facilities are given for carrying on the work as arranged for in the four-years course. That these additions have not been made too soon is shown by the fact that the possibility of completing the degree course in a shorter time has attracted a larger number of students than has hitherto been the case, and had the additions not been made it would have been almost impossible to deal with the influx. The Board has spent a large amount of money in providing, from first to last, an engineering school that shall meet the wants of all those in the Dominion who wish to take up engineering as a profession, and this has been recognized by the Government, as a special grant is made each year to help in the upkeep and equipment. Considering the population of the Dominion it seems that, for the present at all events, one such school is sufficient, and that the expense of duplication, such as has been proposed in another portion of the Dominion,

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