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Liabilities.

J. E. Blaie, Chairman. W. H. Waeben, Secretary. Examined and passed.—E. Macalistee, Provincial District Auditor. sth March, 1885.

HAWKE'S BAY. Bm,— Napier, 2nd April, 1885. In accordance with your Circular No. 84/17, of 3rd January last, I have the honour to forward the report of the School Commissioners for the Hawke's. Bay Provincial District for the year ended 31st December last. During the year the leases of two valuable reserves expired. One of these reserves, a really good business site in the Town of Napier, was subdivided into two lots and offered for lease for forty-one years; the other, a block of pastoral country of 7,760 acres, was offered in one lot for twenty-one years. On being submitted to auction very satisfactory rentals were obtained, and at present exceed by £739 17s. the annual revenue from these lands under the former leases. Under each lease the rents increase according to the scale fixed by the Commissioners in such cases. Since the last report the Commissioners recommended that a reserve of 9,700 acres of bush land should be sold subject to the provisions of " The Land Act, 1877." A portion of this block is now under survey and roading, and will be offered for sale about the month of June next. During the year the sum of £350, derived from reserves for secondary education, was paid to the Governors of the Napier High School towards the advancement of secondary education. The Commissioners desire to draw the attention of Government to their opinion, expressed in previous reports, that they should have power to lease rural bush lands for a longer period than twenty-one years. There are several large reserves of the class referred to in this district which are still lying in their natural state and have not been dealt with. 15—B. 1.

& s. a. 0 7 3 47 19 0 8 5 6 7 6 6 £, s. d. £ s. a. 0 7 3 50 0 0 8 5 6 7 6 6 39 14 7 iy Debtor balances on 1st January, 1884 ... Salaries and allowances to officers Printing, stationery, &c. Expenses of leasing—Advertising, &c. ... Transfer to primary receipts ... Expenditure on reserves — Surveying Fencing, &c. Destruction of rabbits Payments to Wellington Education Board Payments to Wanganui Education Board Bates Land transfer fees .Postage, &c. Office rent, 1883 Bank exchange Credit balances of account on 31st December, 1884 5 5 0 4 0 0 7 0 0 287 18 3 162 1 9 5 4 11 8 5 8 10 1 8 9 11 9 0 10 402 3 3 2 1 39 14 20 "O 0 7 0 5 5 0 24 0 0 7 0 0 287 18 3 162 1 9 5 4 11 8 5 8 10 1 8 10 0 0 0 10 426 6 0 0 "8 3 24"2 9 Total expenditure ... 965 11 6 86 6 7 1,051 18 1

•alance of cash on 31st December, 1884 .rrears due on 31st Decembeer, 1884 — Arrears of year 1882 ... Arrears of year 1883 ... Arrears of year 1884 ... £ s. 402 3 a. 3 £ s. 24 2 a. 9 £ s. 426 6 a. 0 30 10 33 10 220 3 0 0 8 30 10 33 10 224 3 0 0 2 3 19 6 Total assets 686 6 11 28 2 3 714 9 2

'encing secondary reserves fader " The Eabbit Nuisance Act, 1882 " £ s. a. £ s. 180 0 50 0 a. o o £ 3. 180 0 50 0 a. o o Total liabilities 230 0 0 230 0 0