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Return showing the Amount of Subsidies paid to Local Bodies under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, and the Subsidies paid and Money expended on Roads and Bridges out of Loan Votes.

* The payments prior to the expenditure of this sum were made out of Consolidated Fund. Note. —The expenditure out of loan under the Local Bodies' Finance and Powers Act is not given in this Return, the amount having been furnished by the Treasury in a statement o£ expenditure out of Consolidated Fund.

SURVEY. Expenditure on Roads, etc., out of Loan for Years 1886-87, 1887-88, and 1888-89.

EDUCATION. Summary of Education Boards' Ordinary Expenditure for Twelve Years. (From Tables Nos. 4 and 5, Education Report, 1889.)

Subsidies paid under the Boads and Bridges Construction Act. Expi :nditure on Boi Is by Financial Year. Bates under Crown and Native Lands Bating Act. Total. Public Works Department. Survey Department. Mines Department. £ £ 212,500 109,800 119,500 111,000 102,100 101,700 110,400 68,700 54,600 £ 52,200 35,900 81,600 84,600 49,300 61,800 59,000 73,600 32,700 £ £ £ 264,700 145,700* 210,000 329,700 316,900 292,000 239,600 181,300 105,600 .880-81 .881-82 .882-83 .883-84 .884-85 .885-86 .886-87 .887-88 .888-89 106,400 149,900 98,300 13,800 5,500 1,000 8,900 27,700 15,600 30,200 31,300 25,100 7,000 *25,100 8,400 10,300 374,900 990,300 530,700 145,800 43,800 2,085,500

Roads, &c. 1886-87. 1887-88. 1888-89. Total Expenditure since 1870. loads and bridges north of Auckland [ain roads Eiscellaneous roads and bridges ... rants in aid oldfields roads... £ s. a. 30,738 2 6 22,294 4 6! 39,748 10 2 81,263 10 6 32,624 13 2 £ s. d. 3,137 18 10 13,755 16 11 25,988 15 7 57,631 15 4 25,053 9 4 £ 264 10,968 26,748 26,912 7,015 s. a. 0 o 1 n 3 4 5 7 0 10 £ s. a. 229,404 15 9 434,807 0 5 1,255,577 17 11 560,233 7 3 147,986 7 5 206,669 0 10 125,567 16 0 71,907 11 8 2,628,009 8 9 General Survey Department, 31st August, 1889.

Year, Management by Boards. Inspection and Examination. Maintenance of Schools. Schoolbuildings. Total, 1877 ... 1878 ... 1879 ... 1880 ... 1881 ... 1882 ... 1883 ... 1884 ... 1885 ... 1886 ... 1887 ... 1888 ... i£ ••• £ 10,485 10,226 11,109 10,038 8,109 8,459 9,663 9,448 10,551 10,695 9,893 9,567 £ 5,607 6,143 7,735 8,274 8,388 9,116 9,867 10,441 10,040 10,241 10,731 10,148 £ 173,726 192,737 221,053 247,121 243,257 258,683 272,484 293,748 310,986 325,597 340,407 327,146 £ 80,352 89,255 172,867 117,410 58,255 71,852 86,749 49,679 64,822 65,008 52,621 30,355 £ 270,170 298,361 412,764 382,843 318,009 348,110 378,763 363,316 396,399 411,541 413,652 377,216 24th August, 1889.