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The Government Fire Insurance Fund was called on to provide £6,357 for the replacement or repair of schools destroyed or damaged by fire. Among the larger works completed during the year were additions at Otorohanga, Glen Eden, Hikurangi. in the Auckland District; Fitzroy, New Plymouth ; and Linwood Avenue, Christchurch. New schools were erected at Richardson Road, Auckland ; Milson's Line, Palmerston North ; St. John's, Wanganui ; Rand wick Road and Brooklyn (Infants), Wellington. A district high school was erected at Opunake, a manual-training building at Tauranga, and schools at Terrace End, Palmerston North ; Castlecliff, Wanganui. Invercargill Middle and Normal School (Dunedin) were remodelled. Additional accommodation was provided at the Dannevirke High School and at the Pukekohe, Hamilton, Palmerston North, and Southland Technical Schools. Several large works are in progress, including additions to the Morrinsville, Te Kuiti, Christchurch West, and Wilford primary schools ; Hawera Technical School, Hastings High School, Rongotai Boys' College, Wellington East Girls' College ; and temporary class-rooms are being provided at the Nelson Boys' College until the new school is available. The Richmond Special School for Girls and the Burwood Girls' Home are also being added to. The following schools are being rebuilt: Wellington Boys' College, College Street Infant School, Palmerston North, Hunterville, Tapanui, and Nelson Central. Further hostel accommodation is being erected at the Mount Albert Boys' Grammar School, and considerable progress is being made with the erection of the science building and refectory for the Massey Agricultural College. Pending a decision regarding the proposed reorganization scheme, it was deemed inadvisable to erect expensive additions to schools that would be affected if the scheme came into operation. Accordingly, in many such schools temporary expedients were adopted in the way of temporary or rented buildings to accommodate the children in the meantime. Thanks are due to the forbearance of Education Boards and School Committees in accepting such temporary accommodation without great demur. The following table shows for the year ended 31st March, 1930, the amount expended by the Department on new buildings, additions, sites, and teachers' residences :— £ Public schools . . . . . . . . 253,636 Secondary schools .. .. . . .. 78,438 Technical schools . . . . . . . . 32,593 Training colleges. . .. .. .. .. 10,984 Universities . . . . . . . . . . 800 Native schools .. .. .. .. .. * 1,068 Schools for feeble-minded .. .. .. 2,999 Child-welfare institutions .. .. . . 9,995 School for the Deaf Kindergartens . . . . . . . . . . 1,107 Massey Agricultural College . . . . . . 45,304 Canterbury Agricultural College . . . . . . 6,961 Total .. .. .. .. £443,885 In addition, a grant of £2,500 was made by the Department towards the cost of erecting a social hall, at Canterbury College.