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Extract prom the Report op the Director of the Elam School op Art. The total number of attendances registered during the year was 26,434. This is slightly less than the previous year, the attendances towards the end of the year accounting for this. The work at the Auckland Industrial Exhibition took away a number of our artisan students, who like others had to work longer hours than usual ; and for the last two months the strike and the stoppage of the tram service made it impossible for many students, especially those living iit a distance, to attend as regularly as usual. The attendance of the more advanced students, those classed as " fourth year or over," was again excellent all through the year. Speaking generally, the work done during the year was very satisfactory, and although it was still necessary to hold the classes at two different parts of the city, on account of our new building not being ready, the work did not seem to suffer from the inconvenience to students and teachers. I had hoped that the year 19L'5 would have seen us installed in our new school, but from various reasons the commencement of the building was delayed, and later the progress suffered from the strike, in common with all buildings in course of erection. However, I am now assured that the new school will be quite ready for us by the time the classes recommence in March next. The attendance at the life classes has been excellent all through the year, and in most cases the students have made very noticeable progress in their work. Mr. Fristrom, the instructor, has a happy knack of arousing and keeping a very keen interest in their work in the students, and he is to be congratulated on the excellent work done in his classes during the year. Miss Copeland, who joined the staff of the school at the beginning of the year from the Wanganui Technical College, has also done much good work in her classes, and has succeeded in rekindling the interest of the students in such subjects as leather-embossing and stencil-work, which seemed in danger of languishing. The attendance at the wood-carving classes has not been quite so good as usual, but this may be partly accounted for by the fact that a number of the old students have taken up repousse copperwork in the clace of wood-carving. There is a small but representative exhibit from the school at the Auckland Industrial Exhibition which has attracted a large amount of attention. The action of the Education Department in bringing together at this Exhibition work from all the art schools in the Dominion is to be highly commended, the display being most interesting to students as well as to the public. In this connexion I regret that so far nothing has been done by the Education Department to replace by local examinations those of the Board of Education. London, which have bten so much altered as to be practically useless to the Dominion. E. W. Payton, Director. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1913, in respect'of Associated Glasses conducted by the Managers of the Elam School of Art. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Capitation on classes .. .. .. 960 12 8 Dr. balanoe at beginning of year .. .. 319 1 0 Buildings .. .. .. .. 750 0 0 Salaries of instructors .. .. .. 790 0 0 Rent .. .. .. .. .. 80 0 0 Offioe expenses (including salaries, staPurniture, fittings, and apparatus .. 13 17 3 tionery, &c.) .. .. .. .. 101 6 1 Material .. . .. .. 40 12 0 Advertising and printing.. .. .. 49 10 6 Subsidies on voluntary contributions .. 200 0 0 Lighting and heating .. .. .. 35 15 10 Fees .. .. .. .. .. 74 11 0 Insurance and repairs .. .. .. 2 0 8 From trustees Elam bequest .. .. 291 9 3 Rent .. .. .. .. .. 226 0 0 Dr. balanoe at end of year .. .. 105 10 2 Material for class use .. .. .. 12 16 9 c Models.. .. .. .. .. 57 5 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 2 14 6 Oontraots (new buildings, additions, &c.) .. 900 0 0 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. 20 2 0 £2,516 12 4 £2,516 12 4 C. J. Tunks, Chairman ) ~, E. W. Payton, Secretary | of Managers. KXTRAOT FROM THE REPORT OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL. The only technical class conducted during the year was a class in plumbing. This was attended by twenty-four students, a considerable number of whom sat for the qualifying examination in'plumbing at the end of the session. Little interest is shown in technical instruction, ami so few students were forthcoming for classes in dressmaking, cookery, and woodwork that the Board deemed it inexpedient to conduct evening, classes in these subjects. R. English, Secretary. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1913, in respect of Special Classes conducted at the Hamilton Technical School by the Hamilton High School Board of Governors. Receipts. £ «. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Capitation on classes .. .. 1.0 17 0 Salaries of instructors .. .. 20 0 0 Fees .. .. .. ■. .. 31 10 0 Advertising and printing .. .. .. 12 0 Dr. balance at end of year .. 88 10 0 Lighting and heating .. .. .. 2 16 Material for class use . . .. 23 14 4 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus . . . . 83 19 2 £130 17 0 £130 17 0 E. English, Secretary.