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General Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1901. Receipts. £ a. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance —On Building Account .. .. 1,790 811 Balance—On General Account .. .. 471 15 9 Government grant for buildings .. 2,000 0 0 Office staff —Salaries .. .. .. 305 5 0 Other receipts for buildings— Departmental contingencies .. .. 441 18 2 Refund .. .. .. .. 0 12 6 Inspectors' salaries and travelling-expenses 875 0 4 Eent .. .. .. .. 2 0 0 ScholarshipsInterest on fixed deposit .. .. 15 0 0 Paid to scholars .. .. .. 363 10 0 Statutory capitation— Examination expenses .. .. 7 19 0 Amount paid by Government .. 17,336 9 3 Training of teachers .. .. .. 119 1 3 Amount paid by School Commissioners.. 635 4 0 j Teachers' salaries .. .. .. 17,816 5 10 Addition to statutory capitation —For Pupil-teachers'lodging-allowances .. 78 11 4 teachers'salaries .. .. .. 1,839 0 0 Incidental expenses of schools .. .. 1,795 9 5 Scholarship grant .. .. .. 355 8 7 Sohool buildings— District High Schools— New buildings .. .. .. 2,024 18 3 Grants .. .. .. .. 49 0 0 Improvements of buildings .. .. 818 511 Capitation .. .. .. .. 57 0 0 Furniture and appliances .. .. 83 0 7 Inspection subsidy .. .. .. 300 0 0 Sites .. .. .. .. 58 6 0 Grant for training of teachers .. .. 125 0 0 Bank charge.. .. .. .. 010 0 Grant for encouragement of swimming .. 12 12 0 Manual and technical instruction— Payments by School Commissioners—For Encouragement of swimming .. .. 12 12 0 secondary education .. .. 112 10 0 Salaries .. .. .. .. 75 0 0 District High Sohool foes .. .. 68 0 0 Travelling-expenses .. .. .. 27 510 Other receipts— School of Cooking— Rents .. .. .. .. 3 16 0 Apparatus.. .. .. .. 8 17 0 Refunds .. .. .. .. 8 8 9 Furniture .. .. .. .. 13 10 9 Sale of school-books .. .. .. 474 12 8 Incidentals .. .. .. .. 4 12 5 Contractors' deposits lodged .. .. 54 19 0 Other expenses— Balance on General Acoount .. .. 1,361 4 1 Purchase of school-books .. .. 351 8 1 Contractors'deposits refunded.. .. 25 0 6 Balance on Building Account .. .. 823 2 4 £26,601 5 9 £26,601 5 9 Geobge Talbot, Chairman. Stead Ellis, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Wakbdeton, Controller and Auditor-General.

REPORT ON WESTPORT DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL. (Number of scholars on roll: —Passed Standard VI.: Males, 12; females, 21: total, 33.)

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Subject taught. Class. Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Latin I. 3 Caesar's Gallic War, Books II. and III.; Bradley's Arnold, to page 206, and exercises at end ; Allen's Grammar ; Dr. Smith's Grammar. Principia Latina, Parts I. and II. (fables, anecdotes, geography, mythology) ; Caasar's Gallic War, Books II. and III. ; Allen's Grammar; Dr. Smith's GramII. 7 French III. IV. I. 13 10 1 mar. Principia Latina, Part I Principia Latina, to end of 4th declension. Premiere Croisade ; Chardenal, Parts I. and II. ; Heron Wall's Grammar ; Wellington College Grammar. Chardenal, Pare I., eighty exercises. Morris and Skeat (Extracts from Early English, Wyclif to Chaucer) ; Elizabethan Literature ; precis- writing. As You Like It (Shakespeare), Acts I.—III.; Dr. Smith's Grammar ; notes on grammar and English generally. The whole subject. Hall and Knight, to end of geometrical progression. Hall and Knight, to end of surds. Hall and Knight, to end of simultaneous equations. Hall and Knight, to end of simple equations. Hall and Knight, first four rules. Books I.-IV., VI. (Hall and Stevens). Books I.-IV. Books I. and II Book I. Book I., propositions 1-14. Lock, to solution of triangles. Lock, to p. 120. Elementary statics and dynamics (Briggs and Bryan). Eoscoe —Programme for Senior Civil Service. Eoscoe—Primer. The world, and physical geography. North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and physical geography. English II. I. 1 3 II. 30 Arithmetic Algebra I. I. II. III. IV. V. I. II. III. IV. V. I. II. I. I. II. I. II. 33 1 3 7 13 9 1 3 7 13 9 2 1 1 1 25 9 20 Euclid Trigonometry ... Mechanics Chemistry Geography