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The following is a summary of the receipts and payments of all operative secondary schools : — Summary of the Statements of Receipts and Payments for the Year 1922 furnished by the Governing Bodies of Public Operative Secondary Schools. Receipts. Payments. Endowments— £ £ Sales .. .. .. .. .. 451 Endowments (including proportion of office oxLands vested in High School Boards .. 46,843 penses) .. .. .. .. 6,81;! Secondary-education reserves .. .. 10,413 Toaohors' salaries and allowances .. .. 150,705 Interest on moneys investod .. .. 675 Incidental expenses of secondary departments— Government grants — Office expenses and salaries (excluding endowGrants for buildings, sites, rent, apparatus, ments) .. .. .. .. 5,016 &0., and subsidies .. .. .. 42,489 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 3,096 For salaries .. .. .. .. 123,859 Cleaning, heating, lighting, and earo of schoolFor incidental expenses .. .. .. 27,353 grounds .. .. .. .. 12,778 Tuition fees .. .. .. .. 10,278 Material, examinations, prizes, games, and Lower Department Account .. .. 6,369 other incidentals .. .. .. 4,043 Hostels Account .. .. .. .. 63,442 Maintenance of buildings, rates, and taxes .. 6,869 Loans, interest, &c. . .. .. .. 3,315 Sites, buildings, furniture, and apparatus .. 61,099 Technical Classes Account . . .. .. 4,770 Lower Department Aooount .. .. 7,134 Voluntary contributions, income from property Hostels Account . . . . . . . . 60,571 not reserves, refunds, and sundries .. 8,964 Loans repaid, and interest .. .. .. 7,670 Tochnical Classes Account .. .. .. 5,237 Scholarships, manual instruction, advances to pupils, and miscellaneous .. .. 8,594 £349,221 £345,624 The total amount expended was £79,500 less than in the previous year, the reduction being principally in the item, " Sites, new buildings, furniture, and apparatus." The expenditure of £61,000 on new buildings, &c, included, among other items, part of the cost of a new boys' school at Auckland, of rebuilding the boys' school at Oamaru, of a new site at Whangarei, of additions to the buildings at Hamilton and New Plymouth, and of a hostel at Gore. The Government's contribution towards the expenditure was £46,000. The cost of maintenance, including salaries and incidental expenses, was practically the same as in the previous year. The Department pays the Boards the cost of salaries (less net income from endowments), and also a grant of £2-5 per pupil, to cover the cost of incidental expenses. The cost of incidentals ranged in the various schools from £1-6 to £4-6, the average cost being £2-25. The total net income from indowments, being the sum. the Boards contributed towards the cost of salaries, was £17,000. As stated above, the majority of the hostels are being managed without any financial loss, and when certain changes are made in the administration of one or two of them, it should be unnecessary for any of them to lose money on the year's working. Several secondary-school Boards have raised loans on the security of their income from endowments with which to carry out their building operations, the loans being repaid, gradually from the said income. The total indebtedness of all Boards on this account is about £75,000, the value of their property, of course, far exceeding this amount. The following payments were made by the Department on account of secondary education during the year ending 31st March, 1923 : — Payments to Education Boards for — £ District high schools : Secondary teachers —Salaries .. .. 36,311 National Scholarships .. .. .. .. .. .-. 10,082 Payments to secondary schools and colleges for — Salaries and incidental expenses .. .. .. .. 159,013 Manual instruction capitation .. .. .. .. .. 2,649 Subsidies on voluntary contributions .. .. .. .. 108 New buildings, equipment, furniture, sites, &c. —Education Purposes Loans Act, 1919 .. .. .. .. .. ..44,480 Rebuilding high school destroyed by fire .'. .. .. 1,994 From reserves revenue in accordance with Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1914 .. .. .. .. .. .. 9,085 Conveyance of pupils to secondary and district high schools . . . . 6,789 Marlborough High School: Statutory payment .. .. .. 400 Inspectors" salaries .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,270 Inspectors' travelling-expenses .. .. .. .. .. 426 Total .. .. .. .. .. .. £272,907