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12th. Purarakanui, or North Road Church of England Mixed School.—There are two buildings in connection with this school, the one a chapel-school 26 x 16, the other a master’s house, built in the year 1859, partly out of the Government grant for educational, and partly out of that for church-building purposes, on a site of one acre, being part of a piece of land reserved by the Government for church and school purposes in connection with the Church of England, and vested in the Superintendent, under the Public Reserves Act, 1854. The parents complain of the coldness of the building, which may probably explain the paucity of the scholars. The master’s house is in an unfinished state. The number on the books is 11.

of £150 from the Church-building Grant, and £118 2s 11d from subscriptions to a church and school, were not available for the building of a master’s house, although the greater portion of it would appear to have been used for this purpose. These buildings stand on a Government reserve of five acres, vested in the Superintendent in trust for church and school purposes in connection with the Church of England. The school-house is in a very unfinished state. It has been found impossible from various causes to secure a proper attendance at the school while held at the chapel-school, and for this reason the school has been removed to a building belonging to a private individual, said to have been built for religious purposes other than those of the Church of England, and open to Evangelical ministers of all denominations.

13th. Harewood Road, Wairarapa Church of England Mixed School.—This is a chapel-school, consisting of church and vestry; the former 27 x 18, the latter 9 x 8; erected in the year 1862, at a cost of £274 1s 9d, of which £100 was raised by private subscription, £150 provided by the Government grant, and the remaining £24 1s 9d arose from sources not specified. It stands on a site of 5 acres reserved by the Government for church and school purposes in connection with the Church of England. It is in contemplation to build a separate schoolhouse on one acre of this reserve. The present building has no fire-place, and requires to be lined; the floor is badly laid, and upon the whole the building is unfit for school purposes in bad weather. The number on the books is 11.

14th. St. Albans Wesleyan Mixed School.—The school is held in a building consisting of a room built in 1859, with an addition built in 1862; the dimensions of the former are 24 by 14, and of the latter 20 by 14. The cost of the whole was about £300, of which £100 was provided from the Government grant, and £200 by voluntary contributions; the building stands on a site of a quarter of an acre in extent, a private donation, vested in local trustees, according to the provisions of Wesleyan Methodist model deed. The original building requires lining. Number on the books, 65.

15th. Oxford, Church of England, Mixed School.—There are two buildings connected with this school. The one a chapel school, 24 x 12; the other a master’s house, containing six rooms, both erected in 1862, the former at a cost of about £110, the latter at a cost of £215 7s 6d, making a total of £325 7s 6d, of which £150 was provided from the Church Building grant, £52 4s 7d, out of the Educational grant, and £123 2s 11d from private subscriptions. It is stated that the last of these sums was subscribed for the building of a church and school, but it would appear that a portion of it, that is to say the difference between £123 2s 11d and £110, the cost of the chapel-school, or £13 2s 4d, is a part of the sum expended in the erection of the master’s dwelling; according to this statement, the £150 contributed from the Church Building grant, instead of being devoted to the purpose for which it was available, has also been expended in the erection of a master’s house. In any case it appears that the sum of £273 2s 11d, made up of the above sums...

16th. Lyttelton Presbyterian High School, for Boys and Girls.—The school is held in a building used also for the purpose of religious worship, 40 x 20, erected in the year 1859, at a cost of £475 0s 4d, of this £246 4s 3d was raised by voluntary subscriptions, and £228 16s 1d was provided out of the Government grant. The building stands on a site of a quarter of an acre, purchased from funds raised by voluntary subscriptions, for the sum of £85, and held by trustees for the Presbyterian Church in Canterbury, the building being under the control of the minister and local trustees. Number on the books, 88.

The three schools held in buildings belonging to the Municipal Council of Lyttelton, are:—

1st. Lyttelton Church of England Boys’ and Girls’ School.—This school is held in a part of the buildings erected by the Canterbury Association, originally used as immigration barracks, and subsequently made over to the Municipal Council of Lyttelton. The dimensions are 33 x 22; the room is badly lighted, and there is no ventilation. There are no out-door offices, the drainage runs under the schoolroom, rendering the building most unwholesome for school purposes; the master represents that the children suffer severely in health, especially during the warm weather, from the foul state of the atmosphere; the room is badly lighted, and altogether unfit for a schoolroom. The school furniture is very inferior; number of children on the books 61, of which only 9 are girls; the probable reason of this is, that there is no mistress and no provision for instruction in needlework. From 15 to 20 girls have lately been withdrawn from this school, who now attend the Wesleyan school, in charge of a