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Extract from the Report of the Board of Governors of the Gore Hioh School. During the winter of 1912 the following technical and continuation classes were in operation : Cookery (including invalid cookery), wood-carving, carpentry, architectural drawing, building-construction, dressmaking, book-keeping, electricity, English, arithmetic, French, shorthand, Fifth and Sixth Standard work. For the staff we drew largely from the teachers of the High School and the Education Board's itinerant instructors, and the students who attended undoubtedly reaped much benefit; but the fact remains that the value of the instruction provided is not realized by the great majority of the young people. It is a difficult matter to bring home to those who have recently left school and entered on a business career the great importance of carrying on their education with special reference to subjects having a direct bearing on their daily work. The same difficulty is probably experienced in other centres, especially the smaller centres. How to discover a remedy short of compulsion is not an easy problem to solve. J. Hervet, Chairman. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1912, in respect of Special Classes conducted by the Gore High School Board of Governors. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 72 11 0 I Salaries of instructors .. .. .. 179 0 6 Capitation on speoial classes .. .. 15 0 3 Advertising and printing .. .. 12 14 0 Furniture, fittings, apparatus .. .. 100 0 0 Material for class use .. .. .. 3 3 6 Fees .. .. .. .. .. 56 15 0 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. 100 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 50 11 9 ' £294 18 0 £294 18 0 George Brett, Secretary. Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given ; printing (3,209 copies), £H!i

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