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General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1907. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ d. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 4,741 5 5 Staff salaries and olerical assistance .. 1,432 2 0 Grants from Government for— Office contingencies .. .. .. 892 6 1 Teachers'and pupil-teachers'salaries, and Teachers'and pupil-teachers' salaries, and allowances to pupil-teachers.. .. 26,419 15 10 allowances to pupil-teachers .. .. 30,055 12 10 Reserves revenue for primary education 3,889 5 0 Relieving-teachers'salaries .. .. 153 9 4 Capitation at 6d. for relieving-teachers .. 196 5 9 Conveyance and board of sohool-children .. 16 12 0 Capitation at 11s. 3d., and grant of £250 4,665 18 0 Special capitation to School Committees .. 292 12 3 Special capitation at 9d. for School Com- Incidental expenses of schools .. .. 2,595 10 9 mittees .. .. .. .. 292 12 3 Payments made on account of Gisborne Training of teachers other than at train- High School Board .. .. .. 38 11 9 ing oolleges .. .. .. 175 0 0 Allowance to scholarship holders and exConveyance and board of school-children 27 15 6 penses of examination— Eeceipts from other sources — Board scholarships .. .. .. 580 12 6 Rents .. .. .. .. 36 17 0 National Scholarships .. .. 280 0 0 Refunds and sundries .. .. 51 13 0 .Salaries of teachers and additions to salaries Truancy fines .. .. .. 12 0 of head teachers on staffs of district high School Committees' donations to teachers' schools .. .. .. .. 928 0 5 salaries .. .. .. .. 49 1 0 Other expenses —Additions to salaries of Technical Classes Account .. .. 202 1 2 teachers in the secondary department of Fixed Deposit Account .. .. 41 12 0 Gisborne District High School.. .. 75 0 0 Grants from Government for— Manual and technioal— Scholarships— School classes .. .. .. 1, 065 15 5 Education Board .. .. .. 703 7 6 Special classes .. .. .. 575 18 11 National .. .. .. .. 330 0 0 Other expenses— District high sohools — Offioe salaries .. .. .. 30 0 0 Salaries of teaohers .. ~ 907 11 11 Administration expenses .. .. 31 13 4 Receipts from other sources— Maintenance of school buildings— . Pees .. .. .. .. 6 0 0 Alterations, small additions, repairs, reDonation from Gisborne High School painting, &e. .. .. .. 2,031 19 10 Board towards teachers' salaries .. 75 0 0 Rebuilding .. .. .. .. 275 14 6 Grants from Government for manual and Rent .. .. .. .. 174 19 9 technical instruction— House allowances .. .. .. 902 17 6 Capitation on all classes .. .. 938 2 8 New school buildings, additional classMaterial for class-work .. .. 58 12 3 rooms, furniture, sites, &c. .. .. 3,421 2 3 Eeceipts from other sources— Buildings, olass-rooms, furniture, &c, for Pees .. .. .. .. 158 12 0 manual and technical purposes— Sales .. .. .. .. 42 11 5 School classes .. .. .. 1,771 10 11 Sundries .. .. .. .. 012 10 Special classes .. .. .. 3,934 17 5 Napier and Dannevirke High School Balance at end of year .. .. .. 3,389 0 6 Board, for cookery instruction .. 30 0 0 Grants from Government for— Maintenance of school buildings, rebuilding schools, &o. .. .. .. 2,931 7 1 House allowances .. .. .. 911 8 5 New school buildings, additions, furniture, sites, &o. .. .. .. 2,268 G 7 Technical-school buildings, furniture, fittings, apparatus, &c. .. .. 4,762 13 8 Other receipts— Sale of old residence, Puketapu .. 30 0 0 Sale of old shelter-shed, Waipukurau .. 1 10 0 £54,946 0 3 £54,946 0 3 W. E. Eussell, Chairman. 10th Febuary, 1908. G. Ckawshaw, Secretary.

MARLBOROUGH. Sir, — Education Board, Blenheim, 9th March, 1908. In accordance with the provisions of " The Education Act, 1904," the Marlborough Education Board has the honour to present the following report of the proceedings for the year 1907 :— Board.—At the beginning of the year the Board was composed of the following members : R. McCallum, E. H. Penny, J. J. W. White, representing Central Ward; John Conolly, W. H. Macey, W. B. Parker, representing Eastern Ward; H. M. Reader, Rev. W. B. Scott, J. S. Storey, representing Western Ward. During the year the Rev. W. B. Scott resigned his seat, and at the election to fill the vacancy Mr. John Smith (the Board's late Secretary) was returned. The members who retired by effluxion of time were Messrs. McCallum, Parker, and Storey; but at the election to fill the vacancies all three were returned. At the first meeting of the new Board Mr. McCallum. was unanimously re-elected Chairman. Schools. —The number of schools in operation during the year was seventy-seven. Of these, sixty-nine were inspected by the Board's Inspector, who, in addition, inspected five private schools. Full particulars as to the efficiency of the schools and of the results of examinations are set forth in the Inspector's annual report. The position in regard to the small isolated schools in the Sounds is still unaltered. It is quite evident that unless some centralising scheme can be adopted—which can only be effected by the use of launches —the instruction received by the children in such places

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