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ANNUAL Statement of the Palmerston District Road Board, for the year ended 31st July, 1874:—

RECEIPTS.

EXPENDITURE.

Blue Mountain Subdivision—

Bushey Subdivision—

| Surface-man Sinclair | 7 | 8 | 0 |
| Taylor | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Macgregor | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Taylor | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| M’Vinish | 20 | 6 | 0 |
| Annan | 7 | 14 | 0 |
| Garven | 1 | 10 | 0 |

Contracts

| Contract No. 2, Templeton | 137 | 0 | 0 |
| Contract No. 2, Henderson | 563 | 12 | 6 |
| No. 5, M’Vinish | 74 | 0 | 0 |
| No. 5, Donald M’Leod | 223 | 10 | 0 |
| No. 2, Templeton | 380 | 0 | 0 |
| No. 5, Donald M’Leod | 59 | 14 | 6 |
| No. 8, Adam M’Leod | 76 | 1 | 6 |
| Goodwood Subdivision— | 495 | 5 | 6 |

Goodwood Subdivision—

| Surface-man Filewood | 2 | 12 | 0 |
| Lusty | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Robt. Johnston’s Account | 1 | 19 | 10 |
| Contract, Adam M’Leod | 79 | 9 | 9 |
| Surface-man Lusty | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Contract, D. Philip | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| | 14 | 0 | 4 |
| Mr. Thos. Calcutt | 6 | 18 | 0 |

Meadow Bank Subdivision—

| David Gardiner | 25 | 7 | 3 |
| Surface-man Cummings | 6 | 13 | 0 |
| Ross | 2 | 0 | 0 |

Contracts

| Contract, Alex. Munro | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Fergusson | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Contract No. 6, D. Philip | 60 | 0 | 0 |
| Contract No. 4, Alex. Munro | 172 | 19 | 0 |
| No. 3, Alex. Munro | 90 | 0 | 0 |
| Henderson | 57 | 0 | 0 |

General Expenditure

| Messrs. Barr and Oliver | 180 | 9 | 0 |
| Two years’ Stamps and Stationery | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Solicitor | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Advertising | 7 | 16 | 6 |
| Clerk and Collector | 60 | 0 | 0 |

| Expended on Coal Point Road, J. C. Rowley’s Donation and Subsidy | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| Balance | 364 | 5 | 10 |

Total | £3564 | 4 | 6½ |

JOHN M’BRYDE, Auditor.
WILLIAM ALFRED YOUNG, Chairman.

THURSDAY, 1st OCTOBER, 1874.

NOTICE is hereby Given, that the Lease for 10 years of Run No. 459, containing 6200 acres, will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Survey Office, Clyde, on the 1st day of October next, at noon, in terms of the Otago Waste Land Act, 1872, at the upset price of half-penny per acre. Rental to be an assessment of 3s. 6d. for every head of great cattle to be depastured on the run; but the minimum stock on which assessment will be charged shall not be less than the number set opposite each. Lease to commence on the 1st day of October, 1874. The annual rent and a deposit of one-tenth of the purchase money shall be payable at the fall of the hammer, the balance of purchase money within a month.

TO SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SCHOOL TEACHERS.

The following Resolutions of the Education Board are published for the information of School Committees and School Teachers. By order,

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

1. The salary due to any teacher who may have resigned and left his appointment in any school will not be paid to him unless he produce to the Secretary of the Board a certificate from the Chairman or Clerk of the Committee of such school, to the effect that the said teacher has, up to the date of his leaving, properly made all the entries in his School Register, and account of School Fees, which are requisite for the correct filling up of the Annual Returns of the school, and that such registers and accounts have been handed over to the said Chairman or Clerk.

2. The Clerks of School Committees are hereby enjoined to intimate to the Secretary of the Board without any delay the date on which any teacher may cease to perform his school duty, and also the date on which any teacher hereafter appointed may enter on the performance of duty; otherwise there may be a difficulty in obtaining payment of salary.