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General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ a. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Grants from Government for-— Balance at beginning of year .. .. 471 4 8 Teachers' and pupil - teachers' salaries, Staff salaries and clerical assistance .. 1,965 0 0 and allowances to pupil-teachers .. 39,723 8 6 Office contingencies .. .. .. 950 16 5 Reserves revenue for primary education 2,757 1 9 i Teachers' and pupil-teachers' salaries, and Capitation at lis. 3d., and grant of £250 7,299 13 6 allowances to pupil-teachers .. .. 43,542 11 0 Capitation for relieving-teachers.. .. 313 6 6 Relieving-teachers'salaries .. .. 11l 16 3 Drill-instruction .. .. .. 51 5 0 Drill-instruction .. .. .. 45 0 9 Grants from Government for— Conveyance of school-children .. .. 8 0 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 1,195 11 0 Incidental expenses of schools .. .. 2,606 13 4 District High Schools .. .. 386 10 0 Scholarships and examination-expenses .. 969 19 11 Reserves revenue for secondary education 107 19 10 Salaries of staffs of District High Schools Grants from Government for manual and paid out of special receipts .. .. 363 6 8 technical instruction — Manual and technical instruction — Scholarships.. .. .. .. 151 10 0 Instructors' salaries and travelling-ex-Capitation on attendance at classes .. 1,365 1 8 penses .. .. .. .. 195 12 5 Material for class-work .. .. 72 7 4 School classes .. .. .. 348 11 8 Instruction of teachers .. .. 200 0 0 Special classes .. .. .. 649 7 3 Subsidies on voluntary contributions and Payments to managers of associated bequests .. .. .. .. 136 17 6 classes .. .. .. .. 1,590 16 0 Expenses in connection with cookery .. 17 10 0 Maintenance of school buildings, &c. .. 1,840 7 0 Receipts from other sources — Pees, £337 House-allowances .. .. .. 1,765 15 0 135.; sales, £19 lis. lOd. .. .. 357 410 New schools, additions, sites, &c. .. 10,707 4 0 Grants from Government for— Buildings, class-rooms, furniture, &c, for Maintenance of school buildings, &c. .. 4,012 10 0 manual and technical purposes— House-allowances .. .. .. 1,765 15 1 School classes .. .. .. 106 1 0 New school buildings, furniture, &c. .. 2,622 0 0 Associated classes .. .. .. 361 8 2 Technical-school buildings, fittings, &c. .. 550 19 0 Other receipts— Truancy .. .. .. .. 3 0 6 Sale of land—Hutt, £206 18s. 3d. ; Newtown, £437 4s. 6d. Rent of reserves, £113 4s. 6d. ; forfeited deposit, £12 10s. 769 17 3 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 4,740 2 3 £68,599 11 6 £68,599 11 6 F. Bradey, Chairman. 15th March, 1904. A. Dorset, Secretary.

HAWKE'S BAY. Sir, — Education Office, Napier, 18th April, 1904. I have the honour to forward the following report of proceedings of the Hawke's Bay Education Board for the year 1903 : — The Board consists of the following members : T. Tanner (Chairman), Rev. W. J. Comrie, C. A. Fitzroy, Rev. A. Grant, S. Johnson, C. Hall, M.H.R., S. McLernon, J. J. Patterson, and Sir William Russell, M.H.R. School Attendance. —-The average attendance for 1903 was 7,152 ; roll-number, 8,375 ; and the number of schools, 85. Schools.—Two aided schools have been opened —Pakarae and Waihora; besides, schools at Hatuma, Mahora, Mangateretere, Mangatoro, and Mangapapa have been erected. Additions have been made to several schools, and teachers' residences erected and in course of erection. With reference to grant for school at Mohaka, a contract was accepted for the erection of a school on the site that had been arranged with the Natives, but they refused to permit the school to be erected unless it was placed under their sole control. The Government were appealed to but their reply was, " The Department regrets its inability to advise the Board upon the questions that have arisen in connection with the establishment of a school at Mohaka." The Board then decided to take no further steps in the matter for the present. The Public Health Department.—The Board can only reiterate what it said last year— that whilst the Board agrees that sanitary reform may be necessary in some schools, it should be supplied with means necessary to meet such an expenditure, and not compel the Board to expend money granted for erection of school buildings, repairs, desks, maps, and all apparatus and appliances (which are required to carry out the works of the schools), on sanitary works. Training-school.—lt has been decided by the Department that this school should be closed. The Board has much doubt if this is a step in the right direction, seeing that it will debar the pupil-teachers of this district from obtaining instruction such as it is intended to be given in the four centres of the colony. School Committee. —The Board has again great pleasure in reporting that its relations with School Committees continue to be most satisfactory. There is, however, an underlying feeling of dissatisfaction with the grants made to provide for necessary works, but of course the Board can only meet applications to the extent of its means. Several of the Committees subsidise the grants of the Board. Physical Drill. —Drill is taught in all schools. Drill classes for instructing pupil-teachers have been established and instructors appointed; they have done good work. Scholarship Regulations.—These are still under consideration and will be shortly submitted for the Minister's approval; they will be based upon the new regulations of the Department, as approved at the Inspector's Conference. The new regulations bearing on the work of secondary education have materially affected the conditions. Thirty scholarships are held as follows :9 at £30 4s. each, lat £22 10s., lat £16 45., and 19 at £2 lis. each per annum. Twenty-two attend the Napier High School, and eight attend the Gisborne High School, as free pupils,

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