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Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities at 3 1st December, 1913. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Balance, Post Office Savings-bank (Trust Overdraft, Bank New Zealand, and outAccount) .. .. .. .. 41 4 1 standing cheques .. .. .. 378 4 9 Mortgage investment .. .. .. 875 0 0 Unpaid purchase new sohool site .. 1,220 0 0 Unpaid school fees .. .. .. 49 12 0 Unpaid rents .. .. .. .. 611 0 8 Unpaid charges .. .. .. 8 2 0 Capitation payment, third term, 1913 .. 382 10 0 £1,967 8 9 £1,598 4 9 Jas. Kernick. Secretary.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts fok the Year ended 31st December, 1913. Receipts. £ a. d. | Expenditure. £ s. d. Government capitation— Dr. balance at beginning of year.. .. 31 11 0 For buildings, furniture, fittiDgs, and I Management— apparatus for recognized school classes Office salary .. .. .. .. 100 0 0 for manual instruction .. .. 14 7 6 | Other offioe expenses .. .. .. 42 0 3 For free places .. .. .. 1,297 8 7 Other expenses of management .. 613 4 For recognized school classes for manual Teaohers'salaries and allowances .. 2,30111 4 instruction .. .. .. 92 13 6 Boarding-school Account .. .. 1,085 6 1 Current income from reserves .. .. 930 10 3 Prizes .. .. .. .. 27 6 3 Revenue of secondary-education reserves.. 1,078 3 2 Material for school athletics .. .. 5 0 0 School fees .. .. .. ■. 353 14 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 105 2 0 Boarding-school fees .. .. .. 1,277 5 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 156 14 6 Books, &c, sold, 13s. 10d. ; refunds and Temporary advances for pupils .. .. 216 2 8 advances, £138 19s. lid. .. .. 139 13 9 Purchases and new works .. .. 690 16 8 Other receipts, namely— Rent .. .. .. .. .. 75 0 0 Royalty on gravel (endowments) .. 13 3 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 70 910 Fire insurance .. .. .. 150 0 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 59 3 8 Acoident olaim .. .. .. 10 0 0 | Interest on ourrent aocount and on rnort School magazine, refund of part of grant gage .. .. .. .. 58 13 0 1912 .. .. .. .. 35 0 0 Inspection .. .. .. .. 5 5 0 Sundries and refunds.. .. .. 5 12 8 ' Other expenditure, namely— Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 19 16 0 Legal expenses, £3; refund fees, £8 Bs.. 11 8 0 Uniform cadet corps, £6 10s. 6d ; halfshare of royalty to tenant, £6 11s. 10d. 13 2 4 Accident olaim, £14 10s.; repayment account mortgage, £300 .. .. 314 10 0 Sundries, £6 135.; refund to Treasurer of subsidy, £35 .. .. .. 41 13 0 £5,417 8 11 £5,417 8 11 Examined and found correct, except that the payments totalling £26 Bs. 9d. to Smart Bros., of which firm Mr. W. N. Ewing, a member of the Board, is a partner, contravenes the principle of trustee law that no person occupying a position of a fiduciary character shall benefit from his relation to his trust, and the refund of £2 165., magazine charge, to the principal is without authority of law. —E. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General. Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1913. Assets. Liabilities. £ s. d. £ s. d. Rents outstanding .. .. .. 33 8 3 Overdraft, Bank of New Zealand .. 19 16 0 Tuition fees .. .. .. .. 7 17 6 Loan from Bank of New Zealand .. 900 0 0 Boarding accounts .. .. .. 49 7 6 Advanced on account of pupils .. .. 7729Government capitation .. .. .. 491 7 8 Reserves revenue .. .. .. 109 111 £768 5 7 £919 16 0 Statement of Bents at 31st December, 1913. £ s. d. £ s. a. Arrears, 31st December, 1912 .. .. 0 0 9 Bents reoeived, year 1913 .. .. .. 930 10 3 Charges, year 1913 .. .. .. 963 17 9 Arrears, year 1913 .. .. .. 33 8 3 £963 18 6 £963 18 6 E. Dockeill, Chairman. L. M. L. Menteath, Acting Secretary.

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