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General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1898 — continued.

Primary. Secondary. Total. Expenditun By Salaries and allowances to officers, — Secretary, £300 ; clerk, £120; agent at Invercargill, £225 ... School Commissioners' travelling-expenses at-^| tending monthly meetings — J. Green, £14 13s. J. W. Bain, train-fares, £22 8s. 6d. ; hotel expenses, £25 JA. Baldey, train-fares, £24 0s. 5d.; hotel expenses, £25 W. Dallas, train-fares, 14s. 9d.; hotel expenses, £16 10s. J Office-rent, cleaning, &c. Printing and stationery Incidentals, £42 17s.; stamps, £34 7s. 3d.; telephone, £7 ; telegrams, £1 17s. 8d. ... Legal expenses Expenses of leasing : Auctioneer's commission and charges Advertising ... Inspection of reserves : Travelling-expenses and valuation-fees ... ... ...» Expenditure on reserves— Eiver protection, draining, and road-making ... Surveying ... ... Insurance premiums ... Bates Destroying rabbits : Stock Department... Refund, deferred payment interest, Southland Land Board ... Eefund of rents overpaid Interest, Bank of New Zealand, on temporary overdraft Payment of valuation for fencing to outgoing tenants Purchase of land for road ... Amounts 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... Balance £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 645 0 0 128 6 8 121 0 4 19 14 1 -\ 86 1 11 2,309 8 41 8 11 44 18 6 50 3 4 43 I' 6 39 14 4 201 16 9 133 6 0 17 7 6 6 17 10 L 813 1 4 4 9 5 3 2 3 4 9 5 3 2 3 0 7 3 27 6 3 37 12 6 4,010 0 0 27 6 3 37 12 6 4,010 0 0 10,046 10 10 3,677 13 0 } 13,724 3 10 407 14 3 172 12 7 57 5 11 637 12 9 10,531 14 11 Total expenditure 31,326 19 3 Assets. Arrears on 31st December, 1898, viz.,— Arrears of rent due in and prior to 1895 ... 1896... 1897... Arrears of interest due in and prior to 1897 Arrears of rents due in 1898 Arrears of interest due in 1898 ... Amounts due on fixed deposit Amount of balance in bank and in hand Amount of money advanced on mortgage ... £ s. 7 6 29 5 309 1 45 6 4,710 13 247 17 d. 1 8 1 0 2 3 £ s. 16 6 122 "3 d. 9 0 £ s. d. 7 6 1 29 5 8 325 7 10 45 6 0 4,832 16 2 247 17 8 10,400 0 0 1,598 2 0 28,618 11 5 Total assets 46,104 12 10 Liabilities )ue, Primary apportionment to Education Boards ients overpaid... lutstanding cheques £ s. d. £ s. d. £ a. 294 11 3 18 1,466 7 d. 4 7 1 Total liabilities 1,764 17 0