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SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS' REPORTS.

AUCKLAND. Sib, — School Commissioners' Office, Auckland, 17th June, 1908. I have the honour to forward a statement of the School Commissioners' Accounts for the year 1907, showing payments on account of primary and secondary education of £3,828 and £852 10s. 6d. respectively. The reserves let during the year comprised forty small sections of town and suburban land and thirty-three sections of country lands, yielding a joint annual rental of £548. The Commissioners have nothing of public interest to report, except that the demand for land set apart as Education Reserves cannot be satisfied, on account of the delay in the vesting of these lands in them. I have, &c, Oliver Nicholson, Chairman. The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington.

Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending the 31st December, 1907. I. General Account.

Primary. Secondary. Total. Receipts. Balance at 31st December, 1906 ... Rents received — Arrears of 1906 Due in 1907 Arrears of 1906 Due in 1907 Gisborne High School— Arrears of 1906 Due in 1907 Interest on fixed deposits Miscellaneous ... Lease deposits... £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 141 15 10 733 10 3,959 16 5 8 ( ... 4,693 7 1 126 13 541 6 1 8 1 667 19 9 33 12 1 10 98 14 5 0 0 109 10 259 8 2 11 0 10 14 7 4 2 0 0 0 } 368 18 6 36 3 5 2 0 0 113 1 0 Total receipts ... 6,023 5 7 Expenditure Office salary ... Office expenses Commissioners' travelling-expenses Legal expenses Crown-grant fees Expenses of leasing Expenditure on reserves Payments to Boards— Auckland Education Board Hawke's Bay Education Board Payments to secondary schools— Auckland Grammar School Thames High School ... Whangarei High School Gisborne High School Lease deposits paid out... Bank balance, 31st December, 1907 Less unpresented cheques £ s. d. 105 0 0 32 12 0 5 17 0 15 15 0 48 4 9 41 9 6 288 12 0 £ s. d. 35 0 0 10 17 0 1 19 0 5 5 0 1 2 11 19 11 4 18 3 £ s. d. 140 0 0 43 9 0 7 16 0 21 0 0 49 7 8 61 0 10 290 0 3 3,588 15 0 239 5 0 3,828 0 0 393 6 0 42 12 0 47 14 0 368 18 6 58 8 0 852 10 6 99 15 0 585 1 8 13 3 4 158 3 0 571 18 4 Total expenditure 6,023 5 7