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TARANAKI. Balance-sheet of the Taranaki School Commissioners for the Year ending 31st December, 1891. Receipts.

Expenditure.

Statement of Balances on 31st December, 1891. Account. £ s. d. j Sank. £ Bi <j. Cr. Balance 652 5 8 Or. Current Account, Bank New Zealand 142 011 „ Fixed deposit, Bank Now Zealand 323 18 0 „ Fixed-deposit, Savings-bank 188 1 2 654 0 1 Less outstanding cheques 1 14 10 £652 5 3 £652 5 3 Statement of Assets and Liabilities Assets. £ 8i d_ Liabilities. £ g , <j. To Balance on Current Account 142 0 11 By Land Fund 511 19 2 Land Fund (fixed deposits) 511 19 2 Outstanding cheques 1 14 10 Eents due and in arrear 867 9 11 Balance of assets 1 007 16 0 £1,521 10 0 £1,521 10 0 T King, Chairman. E. Vbale, Secretary Examined and found correct.—Jambs Edwakd FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

WELLINGTON Sic, — 16, Queen's Chambers, Wellington, 19th May, 1892. I have the honour, on behalf of the School Commissioners for the Wellington Provincial District, to submit, for the information of His Excellency the Governor and the Government, their thirteenth annual report, being that for the year ended the 31st December, 1891. The personnel of the Commissioners has again been altered by the resignation of Mr J W A. Marchant in June last, by which the Commissioners were deprived of the services of a most useful member of the Board. The vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr Marchant has been filled by the appointment of Mr J H. Baker, the Commissioner of Crown Lands. With this exception the personnel of the Commissioners is the same as last year During the past year the Commissioners paid over to the Education Boards entitled to receive the funds under the 21st section of ' The Education Eeserves Act, 1877, the sum of £1,100. During the year also the Commissioners disposed of thirty-eight reserves, at a rental of £300 Cs. Bd.,

Primary Secondary. Total. To Balance on 31st December, 1890 Bents of reserves Transfer fees Interest on fixed deposits £ 1,199 5 23 a, 5 0 4 a. 6 0 7 u s. a. 282 10 6 10 0 19 2 0 £ a. a. 827 12 5 1,481 16 0 6 0 0 42 6 7 Total receipts 2,357 15 0

By Officers' salaries Commission Surveys Bates Law charges Labour Stationery Taranaki Education Board Wanganui Education Board New Plymouth High School Wanganui High School Purchase of school sites Unclassified expenditure Refunds to tenants Balance & s. a. 37 10 0 16 14 10 1 17 6 36 1 5 92 14 0 9 5 0 3 14 6 668 4 3 431 15 9 & s. d. 12 10 0 4 0 4 67 5 6 2 10 4 9 19 0 0 4 6 & s. a. 50 0 0 20 15 2 69 3 0 38 11 9 102 13 0 9 5 0 3 19 0 668 4 3 431 15 9 165 15 4 37 0 5 84 10 0 15 9 22 11 4 652 5 3 165 15 4 37 0 5 Total expenditure 2,357 15 0