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Domestic, Economy. —These classes showed a gratifying increase during the year, and will, I hopg, soon reach proportions more in accord with the importance of the subjects and the size of the town. The difficulty at present is to find room for students that are offering, and the sooner the College has decently good accommodation for domestic classes the better it will be for the persons and purses of future citizens. A very successful exhibition and sale of goods made by students in the cookery classes was held at the end of the year, about £45 being taken. The work done by the students in this as in other departments showing at the annual exhibition was very favourably criticized by the Press and the public. Day Technical School. —The numbers in the day Technical School are steadily increasing, though too large a proportion is still attracted to courses in the commercial department. Yet it must be said, in defence of that department, that students leaving appear to have no difficulty in securing appointments in which the remuneration is greater to begin with than that of apprentices to trades, and the prospects often considerably brighter if more illusive than those before a trade apprentice. The buildings and equipment have been kept in good order and repair during the year. Both are, however, ridiculously inadequate, keep the work backhand increase the difficulties of teaching and learning enormously. The thanks of the school are due to the following contributor of money to the funds of the school during the year —Wellington City Corporation, .£300; and to the following contributors of prizes for competition among day arid evening students in the December class examinations : Wellington Gas Company; McLeod, Weir, and Hopkirk; Searle, Joy, and Co.; A. T. Clarke; W. S. Wheeler; 0. S. Watkins; H. D. Vickery; Miss K. Williams; A. and T. Burt (Limited); H. W. Johnson; W. D. Robinson; Wright and Carman; Smith and Smith (Limited); Collins Bros, and Co. The thanks of the College are also due to the City Council for valuable gifts of electrical machinery and apparatus, to Messrs. E. W. Cameron and Co. for the gift of a model destructor to the plumbing classes, and to others who have lent or presented material and apparatus for the instruction of the students. W. S. Lα Tbobb, Director. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1913, in respect of Associated Classes conducted at the Wellington. Technical College. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Or. balance at beginning of year .. .. 759 7 7 Salaries of instructors .. .. .. 6,781 5 8 Capitation on classes .. .. .. 1,808 7 5 Office expenses (including salaries, staGapitation on account of free places .. 1,662 11 3 tionery, &o.) .. .. .. 753 14 0 Capitation on account of Day Technical Advertising and printing .. .. 153 5 0 Sohool .. .. .. .. 3,325 0 0 Lighting and heating .. .. .. 175 18 8 Bent .. .. .. .. .. 278 0 0 Insurance and repairs .. .. .. 162 0 7 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. 60 0 0 Rent .. .. .. .. .. 284 1 0 Material .. .." .. .. 425 16 10 Examinations, &c. .. .. .. 15 2 6 Subsidies on voluntary contributions .. 296 17 0 Material for olass use .. .. .. 772 12 4 Fees .. .. .. .. .. 1,040 13 10 Typewriter repairs .. .. .. 47 16 6 Voluntary contributions .. .. 300 0 0 Library .. .. .. .. 239 0 4 On account of olaeses at Wellington Colleges 80 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 40 14 3 On account of classes at Training College 142 10 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 90 19 0 On account of N.Z.S. " Amokura" classes 46 3 3 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 75 0 0 Bales of material .. .. .. 216 1 4 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. 249 19 6 Sundries .. .. .. .. 23 16 3 Cr. balance at end of year .. .. 698 15 5 Callendar Memorial Scholarships .. 75 0 0 £10,540 4 9 £10,540 4 9 David Robektson, Chairman) ~, W. 8. Lα Trobb, Secretary f of Mana g ers - Extract prom the Report of the Director op the Petone Technical School. The progress of the school has been most pronounced during the last year. The work throughout has been carried out by pupils and teachers with a degree of enthusiasm that is most commendable. The teachers have not spared themselves in their desire to do the best for the pupils, and these generally have shown by the excellence of their work that they have appreciated the work of their teachers. In some cases the attendance has been irregular, but taking all things into consideration good work has been done. The heavy rainfall we have had during the year has in some cases materially interfered with tKbse who live at a distance. While speaking of attendance I would like to point out the very great need there is of regularity. It is not the brilliant student who is going to make a success of things, but the one who has the grit in him to persevere in his work. Year after year we find some pupils making a fresh start, but after a month or two giving it up. Some of these pupils do no good to themselves, and are certainly no advertisement to the school. I think, however, that this class of student will soon be a thing of the past, with the assistance of parents and the example that is being set by some very earnest students to engender a desire for technical education in those who have just left school. Great progress has undoubtedly been made this year by the pupils in the wool-classing division. We have again to thank the manager of the Wellington Woollen-mills, who has so generously placed at our disposal such a fine variety of wool, without which we would not make much progress; outside support in other directions has also greatly assisted the class. Messrs. S. and H. Burridge examined the class for the first section during the year, and the four students who sat passed with first-class honours. They recommended also that we start a shearing class, so that the students could get actual shed experience. We decided to try the experi-

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