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MAORI PURPOSES FUND CONTROL BOARD. Receipts and Payments Account for the Yeae ending 31st Maech, 1931. Receipts. £ s. d. Payments. £ s. d. To Balance at Ist April, 1930 .. .. .. 81,983 11 8 By Educational grants— Native Department— Special monetary grants to £ s. d. Fifth and last payment under sundry colleges, schools, and section 13, Native Land £ s. d. students .. .. 2,379 110 Amendment Act, 1925 .. 3,000 0 0 Continuation scholarship grants Contribution towards cost of to sundry colleges and schools 1,000 0 0 unveiling ceremony of Late 3,379 1 10 Sir James Carroll Memorial 500 0 0 Miscellaneous grants — Contribution towards cost of Contribution to Maori Agriculerecting the Tnakau Maori tural College, Hastings .. 100 0 0 Hostel .. .. .. 100 0 0 Contribution towards super3, 600 0 0 vising Rotorua villages .. 104 0 0 Hawke's Bay Earthquake Relief Contribution towards cost of Fund—Contributions from— aerial survey of Native land South Island Maori Land Board 66 0 0 in King-country .. .. 88 0 0 Ikaroa Maori Land Board .. 134 0 0 Grants for drainage and water - Tairawhiti Maori Land Board 200 0 0 supply (Tβ Kuiti Pa —DrainWaiariki Maori Land Board .. 200 0 0 age, £25; Maketu Pa— 600 0 0 water, £65 3s. 2d.; Waikawa Native Trust Office—lnterest at 4J per cent, to (Picton) Village — water, 31st March, 1931 .. .. .. 3,472 19 6 £50; Mangamaunu (KaiSundry refunds — koura) —water, £50 ; WaitaUnexpended portion of grant ruke—drainage-works, £40) 230 3 2 for combating dysentery in Grants for medical and nursing Waikato villages .. 38 12 6 services (Tuwharetoa Trust Unexpended grants—Assisted Board, towards salary of students .. .. 312 7 nurse for tribe, £150; WaiMiscellaneous grants .. 9 0 0 apu medico car-hire commit51 5 1 tee, towards transport of doctor, £50; Palmerston North Hospital District — Welfare of Natives, £250; Wanganui River—-Nursing service, £70; Health Department —special services, Dr. Gilberd, £50).. .. 570 0 0 Grant for cost of removal Moeraki meeting-house .. 50 0 0 Fifth and final instalment of grant of £8,000 and interest to Te Auto College Trust Board .. .. .. 1,702 0 0 Contribution to Maori Ethnological Research Fund .. 3,800 0 0 Grant to Board of Maori Arts for salaries and wages .. 350 0 0 Sundry grants to Waiariki District Maori Land Board, Rotorua (erection of cottages for students of the Maori Arts School, £500 ; timber and wages, Board of Maori Arts, £700; material, Tokomaru Bay carved meetinghouse, £250) .. .. 1,450 0 0 Subsidy for relief of Maketu unemployed .. .. 25 0 0 Subsidy to Arawa Trust Board for improvements of Ohinemutu villages .. .. 100 0 0 Expenditure in connection with the Poho-o-Rawiri carved meeting - house and the [Waiomatatini carved memorial hall .. .. 2,309 10 1 Expenses in connection with the Maori entertainment and reception to the British Rugby Football Team .. 829 0 6 Travelling - expenses, Rar otongan party .. .. 329 14 11 Grant for cost of tangi—Late Sir Maui Pomare.. .. 500 0 0 Purchase of Kakaho for meet-ing-house .. .. 225 0 0 Balance, expenses in connection with the Ngaruawahia meeting and Pa .. .. 1 17 6 Grants for travelling-expenses (assi st e d students, £143 19s. 2d. ; late Sir Maui and Lady Pomare, £354 6s. Bd.; Bishop of Aotea-roa, £60 ; miscellaneous, £36 Bs. 4d.).. 594 14 2 ■ 13,359 0 4 Carried forward .. .. .. £89,707 16 3 Carried forward .. .. .. £16,738 22

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