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TABLE H.—Salaries of Teachers. (The numbers show how many teachers in each district are paid at rates within the limits stated at the heads of the columns respectively.)

School Buildings. The sum of .£70,800 voted for school buildings by the General Assembly out of loan for the financial year 1883-4 was not distributed till the beginning of 1884, when it was apportioned as follows: Liabilities of previous year, £800; Education Boards, £51,500 ; Native Schools, £4,394 6s. 3d.; Industrial Schools, £402 15s. lid.; lapsed, £13,702 17s. lOd. The amounts paid to the several Boards were as follows : Auckland, £9,682; Taranaki, £1,542; Wanganui, £2,736 ; Wellington, £5,007 ; Hawke's Bay, £2,159 ; Marlborough, £846 ; Nelson, £2,307 ; North Canterbury, £9,439 ; South Canterbury, £2,230 ; Westland (held over till 1885), £1,824; Otago, £10,628; and Southland, £3,100: total, £51,500. The following payments were also made to Boards during the year out of other votes : Hawke's Bay Board, £100. for Tarawera school, out of vote for Native Schools, and £250 for Gisborne school out of vote for purchase of playgrounds ; Otago, £200 out of same vote for Forbury school site; Southland Board, £230 to replace building destroyed by fire. The total special payments to Boards on account of buildings for the year thus amounted to £50,475, as shown in Table Fl. The total amount of expenditure on buildings, sites, &c, was £49,679 Is. 4d., as stated in Table F2, or £796 below the receipts. In the year 1883 the excess of expenditure on buildings over the amount of the special building grants was £3,426 2s. 3d. None of the money voted by the General Assembly for school buildings for 1884-85 was distributed till after the close of the school year (December, 1884), and it is therefore not shown in the Boards' accounts. The following table, compiled from the Boards' statements of accounts, shows, under five different heads, the amounts expended on school buildings in the several Board districts :—'

TABLE J.—School-Buildings' Expenditure.

Education Distbict. Under £100. £100 and under £200. £200 and under £300. £300 and under £400. £400 and upwards (maximum, £486). Total of Teachers. Total Amount of Salaries paid in Last Quarter of 1884. Auckland Paranaki vVanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay ilarlborough kelson Sforth Canterbury Jouth Canterbury /Vestland )tago Southland . 388 57 GO 100 G3 28 72 308 81 43 194 5G 162 21 57 G6 32 15 56 161 34 29 195 80 27 *12 21 8 2 5 30 6 8 61 9 7 1 8 7 2 1 7 2 2 1 58G . 79 132 194 106 45 134 510 123 80 472 147 £ s. a. 50,042 0 0 4,8G5 4 0 14,465 3 3 19,257 0 0 10,670 9 0 3,834 12 0 11,893 0 6 46,030 2 0 10,057 5 0 8,045 14 6 59,062 0 0 16,155 1 0 4 16 2 6 Totals 1,450 189 1G8 008 13 2,608 254,377 10 9

Education Distbicts. fl _ • _ o . OQ. o _. •gl . o O _ 0_ <_> O j Srr. _ _ ... o Ij _ o _ 0 _ o° Iff. °s o g s _ o Expe: School Furuituro and Appliances not included in the preceding. iditure in 1884 upon Plans, Supervision, and other Expenses. Total. New Buildings. Improvements, Enlargements, Bopairs, &c. Purchase of Bites. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson North Canterbury South Canterbury Westland 201 36 74 57 37 29 82 146 45 35 166 79 109 i 21 55 30 24 15 35 137 31 16 167 66 34 3 4 5 5 7 10 6 2 2 6 4 £ s. d. 6,868 8 6 2,337 12 4 464 16 0 674 7 6 154 2 0 113 17 0 2,010 13 2 5,409 12 1 1,156 3 8 £ s. d. 1,676 4 5 498 0 9 1,019 3 5 1,527 0 5 410 5 4 157 19 5 495 9 0 3,319 4 5 204 8 8 £ s. d. 1,535 0 6 207 12 4 0 10 0 134 12 1 341 18 7 26 4 5 67 15 5 679 2 8 167 6 1 £ s. d. 192 0 5 91 15 7 250* 0 0 500 0 0 £ s. d. 444 19 5 87 0 0 106 12 2 181 14 0 27 7 0 10 4 0 £ s. d. 10,716 19 _ 3,222 1 C 1,597 1 7 2,767 14 C 1,439 13 5 314 5 i 2,596 7 7 10,299 18 8 1,713 11 2 22 10 0 157 15 6 23 19 7 674* 4 0 101 13 2 Otago Southland 8,573*12 5 1,748 14 0 2,108 13 0 674 15 8 438*18 0 139 18 11 448* 3 3 36 6 11 72416 11 117 10 3 12,294 3 7 2,717 5 9 Totals for 1884.. Totals for 1833.. 987 943 700 087 88 83 129,571 19 2i 48,330 0 5, 12,157 4 6; 23,218 0 11, 3,744 19 0 5,192 7 4 1,722 17 3 5,583 18 10 2,482 1 B 4,424 6 2 49,679 1 4 86,748 13 0 Increase Decrease 44 19 ' 5 18,758* 1 3j 11,060 16 5j 1,447* 8 4 3,861* 1 7 1,942* 4 9 37,069*11 8