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Expenditure.

Assets.

Liabilities.

Primary. Secondary. Total. By Salaries and allowances to officers, viz. — Secretary, £300; clerk, £120; agent at Invercargill, £225 ... School Commissioners' travelling-expenses at-\ tending meetings— J. Green, £8 8s. J. W. Bain, train-fares, £24 7s. 2d. ; other I expenses, £20 ... A. Baldey, train-fares, £26 Is. 8d.; other expenses, £20 ... W. Dallas, £10 11s J Office rent, cleaning, fuel, &c. ... Printing and stationery Incidentals, £18 14s. 3d.; stamps, £27 3s. 10d.; telegrams, £2 17s. 7d. ; telephone exch., £5 ... Legal expenses Expenses of leasing : Auctioneer's commission and charges Advertising ... Inspection of reserves : Travelling-expenses and valuation-fees Expenditure on reserves — Protective works, draining, and road-making ... Surveying new blocks Insurance premiums ... County rates Interest on temporary overdraft Destroying rabbits Payment for improvements to outgoing tenant Amount advanced on mortgage Payments towards primary education— Otago Education Board Southland Education Board Payments towards secondary education— Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Board Southland Boys' and Girls' High Schools Board Waitaki Boys' and Girls' High Schools Board... Expended on purchase of land Credit balances on 31st December, 1896 1,830 1 10' £ s. a. £ 47 10 s. a. 9 £ s. a. 645 0 0 109 7 10 120 7 6 22 3 0 J 53 15 8 30 9 0 15 18 9 56 3 0 57 2 9 372 5 7 212 6 6 12 6 0 8 11 0 14 6 [ 160 11 6 9 18 0 350 0 0 9 18 350 0 0 0 9,227 13 3,382 5 5 6 I 12,609 18 11 434 5 5 181 12 11 61 6 11 677 5 3 1,412 0 6 1,412 0 6 8,220 16 7 Total expenditure 25,157 11 10

.rrears on 31st December, 1896, viz.— Arrears of rent due in and prior to 1893 ... 1894... 1895 ... Arrears of interest due in 1895 ... Arrears of rent due in 1896 Arrear of interest due in 1896 ... .mount due on fixed deposit .mount of balance in bank .mount of money advanced on mortgage ... £ a. d. 142 4 6 219 15 6 1,118 1 2 62 4 5 4,511 10 10 269 8 1 £ s. 0 10 37 3 132 19 a. o 3 0 £ s. a. 142 4 6 220 5 6 1,155 4 5 62 4 5 4,644 9 10 269 8 1 8,000 0 0 220 16 7 29,819 19 5 Total assets 44,534 12 9

>eposit Account >ue to primary apportionments to Education Boards >ue to secondary apportionments to High Schools Boards ... ... ... ... - ... ients overpaid ... £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. a. 26 19 6 30 18 9 7 10 0 1 17 3 Total liabilities 67 5 6