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education districts where the Boards and their officers have taken an interest in the matter, and haA re put themselves to some trouble to direct and assist the School Committees. The following statement is a summary of the Committees' receipts and expenditure for the year : — Receipts. £ s. d. 1. From Education Boards ... ... ... ... 28,472 14 10 2. From donations, subscriptions, &c. ... ... ... 2,608 16 2 3. From other sources ... ... ... ... 1,776 11 8 4. From balances ... ... ... ... ... 7,555 81L £40,413 11 7 Expenditure. £ s. d. 1. Cleaning of schools and outhouses, fuel, &c. ... ... 11,055 0 4 2. Repairs to buildings, fences, and furniture ... ... 10,141 19 6 3. Books, maps, and furniture ... ... ... ... 2,736 4 6 4. Contributions towards teachers'salaries... ... ... 1,323 611 5. Committees' business expenses —Salaries, stationery, &c. ... 1,712 9 1 6. Sundries ... ... ... ... ... 6,129 17 . si--7. Balances ... ... ... ... . ... 7,314 13 9*£40,413 Jl 7 SCHOOL-BUILDINGS. The Boards' general statements of accounts appended to their annual reports include information respecting the grants received from the special vote for schoolbuildings, and the amounts expended by them during the year 1880. A summary of these accounts is contained in Tables 1 and 2 of the Appendix. The total receipts for buildings amounted to £104,436 16s. Bd., and the expenditure to £117,410 Is. lOd. The excess of expenditure over the amount of the special grants was £12,973 ss. 2d., made up for the most part, as already shown, of moneys in hand at the close of the previous year, and of payments out of the ordinary Board fund by one or two of the Boards. The following table, compiled from the Boards' statements of expenditure, shoAvs, under different heads, the amounts expended on school-buildings by the different Boards during the year 1880 : —

TABLE M. —School-Buildings Expenditure.

The foregoing table shows that, while the sum of £71,441 9s. scl. Avas expended on new buildings, no less a sum than £30,476 7s. 4d. was devoted to the enlarge-

U Education Districts, jj § o • I % t s 8 . o » ° «i_ bC . _ t, fl fco ■m -a s ».a ° 3 -S?05 _■ __ o New Buildings, Improvements, Enlargements, Repairs, Sec. Expei School Furniture and Appliances not included in the preceding. iditure in 1880 upon Purchase of Sites. Plans, Supervision, and other Expenses. Total. Auckland ... 193 Taranaki ... 31 Wanganui ... 55 Wellington ... 43 Hawke's Bay ... 36 Marlborough ... 16 Nelson ... 65 North Canterbury 122 South Canterbury 29 Westland ... 34 193 31 55 43 36 16 65 122 29 34 152 60 81 49 ll! ... 39 2 26 2 21 9 18 2 29: 8 120 3 31 ... 7, 3 140 9 5l| 2 £ s. d. 16,637 3 11 2,770 1 0 2,580 3 5 8,234 5 7 4,876 12 9 711 0 0 4,284 9 2 5,923 7 3 1,845 15 10 2,601 0 6 16,930 18 8 4,046 11 4 £ s. d. 5,137 0 10 654 15 9 2,115 19 5 812 9 6 715 2 2 569 16 6 1,122 15 S 9,802 18 1 819 6 0 2,609 7 9 5,468 5 2 618 10 6 £ s. d. 3,290 10 2 116 12 6 12 5 6 598 2 11 551 3 11 229 0 3 £ s. d. 497 0 2 195" 1 5 232 0 0 350 10 0 68 0 0 30 0 0 . £ s. d.| £ s. d. : 1,180 9 9| 26,742 4 10 118 16 6! 3,660 5 9 287 18 10 5,191 8 7 415 3 9 10,060 1 9 254 0 6 0,658 19 4 70 7 3 1,580 4 0 391 15 6. 6,149 10 4 1,337 19 111 18,200 0 5 126 15 5 3,046 0 11 280 3 8 6,362 33 8 985 17 7 24,742 1 6 j 5,016 10 9 1,067 15 2 224 3 8 872 1 9 897 0 1 351 8 11 Otago ... 152 Southland ... 60 460 0 0 Totals for 1880 836 Totals for 1879 817 836 817 569! 89 535! 94 71,441 9 5 106,321 15 8 130,476 7 4 36,602 4 5; 8,210 4 10 ill,236 3 7 1,832 11 7 12,801 2 7 5,449 8 8117,410 1 10 5,906 8 0172,867 14 3 Decrease 34,880 6 8 6,125 17 1 3,025 18 9 10,968 11 0 456 19 4 55,457 12 5