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1890. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: REPORTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. [In Continuation of E.-9, 1889.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

SECONDARY SCHOOLS INCORPORATED OR ENDOWED.

SUMMARY OF THE ACCOUNTS OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR 1889 FURNISHED BY THE GOVERNING BODIES OF SECONDABY SCHOOLS.

Beceipts. £ s. d. To Credit balances on Ist January, 1889 .. 15,296 15 5 Endowment reserves sold .. .. 1,545 2 7 Rents of reserves .. .. .. 21,405 15 3 Interest on investments .. .. 2,431 _ 7 Reserves Commissioners .. .. 1,609 10 4 School fees.. .. .. .. 18,587 10 8 Boarding-school fees .. .. 2,347 19 6 Books, etc., sold, and refunds .. 893 12 2 Sundries not classified .. .. 222 17 5 Interest on current account ..- .. 72 9 6 Debit balances, 31st December, 1889 .. 15,003 17 5 £79,416 14 10 I—E. 9.

Expenditure. £ s. d. By Liabilities on Ist January, 1889 .. 11,738 13 3 Office management and expenses .. 2,050 15 6 Teachers'salaries .. .. .. 30,361 1 8 Boarding-school accounts .. .. 2,195 6 5 Examination fees and expenses .. 194 3 3 Scholarships and prizes .. .. 1,043 1 9 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 953 0 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 1,34115 11 Buildings, furniture, rent, insurance, rates, etc. .. .. .. 5,086 4 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 2,970 13 0 Investments .. .. ... 1,929 10 8 Sundries not classified .. .. 2,440 14 9 Credit balances, 31st December, 1889.. 17,111 13 11 £79,416 14 10

._ __ Act of Incorporation Aame- or Institution. Remarks. Auckland College and Grammar School .. ! 1877, No. 51, Local. Auckland Girls' High School .. .. 1878, No. 55, Local .. Thames High School .. .. .. 1878, No. 54, Local. Whangarei High School.. .. .. 1878, No. 63, Local .. Under management of Education Board. Noi in operation at the end of the year. Not in operation in 1889. Act may be repealed by Gazette notice under Act of 1885, No. 30. New Plymouth High School .. .. 1889, No. 2, Local. Wanganui High School .. .. .. 1878, No. 42, Local .. Board identical with Education Board. Not in operation in 1889. Endowment, Reg. I., fol. 52. See also D.-16. 1866, p. 9. Wanganui Endowed School .. ■ .. j [Nil] Wellington College and Girls' High School I 1887, No. 17, Local. Napier High Schools .. .. .. j 1882, No. 11, Local. Gisborne High School .. .-. .. I 1885, No. 8, Local .. Nelson College .. .. .. .. ! 1858, No. 38. Nelson College for Girls .. .. .. 1882, No. 15, Local .. Greymouth High School.. .. .. 1883, No. 21, Local .. Hokitika High School .. .. .. 1883, No. 7, Local .. Christ's College Grammar School .. Canterbury Ordinance, 1855 Christchurch Boys' High School .. .. 1878, No. 30, Local .. Christchurch Girls' High School .. .. [Nil] Not in operation in 1889. Under management of Nelson College. Not in operation in 1889. Not in operation in 1889. A department of Christ's College, Canterbury. Under management of Canterbury College. Under management of Canterbury College. Endowment, Gazette, 1878, Vol. 1, p. 131. Rangiora High School .. .. .. 1881, No. 15, Local. Akaroa High School .. .. .. 1881, No. 16, Local. Ashburton High School .. .. .. , 1878, No. 49, Local. Timaru High School .. .. .. 1878, No. 26, Local. Waimate High School .. .. .. 1883, No. 19, Local .. Waitaki High School .. .. .. 1878, No. 18, Local. Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools .. 1877, No. 52, Local. Southland Boys' and Girls' High Schools .. 1877, No. 82, Local. Not in operation in 1889.

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Income of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1889.

From Endowments. I Stationery and Books sold, and Kefunds. Schools. Cr. Balances on Jan. 1,1889. Sales. Kents. Interest on Moneys invested. Paid by School Commissioners. School Fees. Boardingschool Fees. Sundries unclassified. Interest on Current Account. Dr. Balances, Dec. 31,1889. Totals. i Auckland College and Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School Thames High School Whangarei High School New Plymouth High School Wanganui High School Wanganui Endowed School* Wellington College and Girls' High Sehool Napier Epgh Schools Gisborne High School Nelson College (Boys') Nelson College (Girls') Greymouth High School Hokitika High School Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School Christ's College Grammar School 1 Rangiora High School Akaroa High School Ashburton High School Timaru High School Waimate High School Waitaki High Sehool Otago High Schools Southland High Schools £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 3,090 1 2 £ s. d. £ s. a. £ s. d. 1,852 11 6 £ s. d. £ s. d. 95 6 1 1 18 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ S. d. £ s. d. 5,037 18 9 43 8 5 941 2 3 25 0 1 917 4 8 8,672 5 8 964 14 8 7,186 1 5 0 10 5 41 14 8 25 0 1 30 6 11 8,066 15 11 623 9 7 362 17 9 74 0 0 832 0 7 1,546 7 5 41 0 0 275*0 0 275 18 0 249 0 0 • • 531' 9 9 312 7 105 10 0 •• 2,607* 6 10 129 1 6 2,926 17 2 612 9 8 691 19 6 1,008 7 6 25 0 0 503 0 6 128 2 0 325 0 0 174 12 5 874 5 9 58 3 6 33 19 7 117 15 6 41 5 0 3,006 8 5 925 11 6 3,165 14 8 2,433 17 1 799 11 2 1,211 0 11 4,115 10 7 3,016 14 11 13,141 8 9 556 11 10 384 4 4 1,202 6 0 2,565 4 10 770 7 10 2,169 8 1 11,968 4 8 4,196 13 4 989 10 4 770 4 0 940 8 4 785* 4 4 555 1 0 741*10 0 15512 9 757 18 6 1,151 18 5 I 7* 0 0 2,984 4 0 371 9 6 +1,900 11 0 232 14 0 123 6 6 549 17 8 1,549 15 5 162 18 0 1,497 19 10 3,384 15 10 575 19 0 41*12 8 52 2 6 •• ■• 892 12 0 1,737 4 6 2,787 15 0 212 15 0 86 2 0 297 11 7 833 15 2 48 15 2J 23 14 4 189* 19 5 607' 16 0 216 10 7 459**6 2 7,99316 7 111 2 10 ' •• 170' 5 10 •• 4 10 0 337* 1 11 l6' 1 8 580 19 4 159' 7 6 26 10 6 1714 10 12 5 1 1,428* 5 7 116 17 0 182' 11 4 98 17 5 53 11 10 427 12 0 157 1 4 521 10 10 2,973 17 0 674 12 8 1,007* 14 2 55**8 6 29*17 4 10*19 9 2,563 8 3 2,48818 6 15,296 15 5 84**7 5 •• Total 1,545 2 7 21,405 15 3 2,431 4 7 1,609 10 4 18,587 10 8 2,347 19 6 893 12 2 222 17 5 79,416 14 10 72 9 6 15,003 17 5 * The ordinary school income and expenditure belong to the private concerns of the Principal. t For year ending May, 1889. J "Rents and interest.

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Expenditure of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1889.

Schools. Expense of Liabilities Boards' on ManageJan. 1,1889. ment: Office and Salaries. School Salaries. Boardingschool Account. Examiners' Fees and Expenses. Scholarships, Exhibitions, Prizes. Printing, Stationery, Advertising, &c. Land, Buildings, Furniture, Insurance, Rent, Rates. Cleaning, Fuel, Light, &c. Interest. Sundries unclassified. Endowments: Cr. Proceeds Balances, invested. Dec. 31,1889. Totals. Auckland College and Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School Thames High School .. Whangarei High School New Plymouth High School Wanganui High School Wanganui Endowed School* Wellington College and Girls' High School Napier High Schools .. Gisborne High School .. Nelson College (Boys').. Nelson College (Girls').. Greymouth High Sehool Hokitika High School .. Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High Sehool Christ's College Grammar Schoolf Rangiora High School .. Akaroa High School Ashburton High School Timaru High School Waimate High School.. Waitaki High School .. Otago High Schools Southland High Schools £ s. d. 9 14 9 . £ s. d. I 253 8 0 £ s. d. i 3,266 17 10 £ s. d. £ s. d. 26 4 3 £ s. d. 90 12 0 £ s. d. 91 13 0 £ s. a.j 313 14 8 £ s. a. 87 1 3 £ s. d. 250 16 0 £ s. d. 178 7 9 £ s. d. £ s. d. 469 9 3 £ s. d. 5,037 18 9 40 16 4 1 12 3 0 19 10 43 8 5 53 2 6 I 712 10 0 i 3 2 6 66 3 2 31 2 9 22 0 11 53 0 5 25 0 1 177 15 10 941 2 3 25 0 1 917 4 8 •' 13 18 0 i 500 0 0 i 9**5 8 167* 3 10 45**5 10 3 15 6 197 10 5 6 12 7 i 60 7 0 . 2*15 0 465* 15 11 221 13 8 16*12 8 8,665 13 1 8,672 5 8 964 14 8 I 2,378 9 7 ■ 181 10 11 2,752 10 0 i 7 7 0 120 17 6 189 3 1 457 8 5' 189 2 0 902 12 1 7 0 10 7,186 1 5 192 0 0 148 5 0 77 18 0 0 17 6 I 251 7 3 I 130 0 0 6 12 4 i 1,617 2 6 112 10 0 1,005 5 0 i 909 1 9 50 0 0 i 746 8 0 624 10 10 J 282 10 0 100 0 0 10 3 9 100 "o 7 54 15 0 258 IS 9 22 17 0 141 15 0 74 10 2 111 14 4 38 16 10 34 10 1 0 9 6 337**0 Oi 0 3 6 53 18 2 100**9 0 21 4 3 876 12 5 788 17 6 307 3 0 3,000 8 5 925 11 6 3,165 14 8 2,433 17 1 799 11 2 1,211 0 11 4,115 10 7 10 0 101 5 6 12*19 0 320 9 3 13**1 6 193 18 2 742 15 4 1,184 0 5 463* 17 10 i 80**0 0 2,487 10 0 59 0 4 25 18 0 33**5 6 350 "o 0 70 0 0 1,661 6 0 60 5 8 266 10 0 46 13 3 106 8 5 24 15 2 42 0 6 738 15 11 3,016 14 11 5,843 14 7 282 5 0 4,160 13 6 27 13 2 56 4 10 I 1,233 10 1 157 17 0 316 4 0. I 1,063 6 1 13,141 8 9 131 1 9 12 0 369 7 7 275 0 0 615 9 6 1,403 5 9 75 0 0 1,372 12 11 5,772 12 0 1,242 7 4 30,361 1 8: 11 4 11 2 15 0 24 9 0 82 0 0 0 15 5 19 12 0 79 13 0 66 9 3 12 18 10 53 16 6 56 12 4 119 1 5 110 85 7 0 719 8 11 355 8 0 16 2 6 15 14 0 28 0 6 99 14 0 13 6 4 1 16 6 36 13 0 5 7 0 0 16 264 17 0 269 12 11 2 9 11 14 16 4 41 2 1 4 11 6 0 8 C 58 18 9 19 4 0 556 11 10 384 4 4 1,202 6 0 2,565 4 10 770 7 10 2,169 8 1 11,968 4 8 4,196 13 4 390* 6 1 9 13 6 36 18 6 22 10 0 12 10 0 37 8 1 10 1 0 500 0 0 205 13 2 1,778 0 1 156 17 8 13 16 0 55 0 3 280 19 6 75 0 0 8**8 0 12 0 94 17 0 265 7 10 66 17 1 149 1 0 655 13 11 824 7 7 1,94014 9 3110 0 91**8 9 2,25711 11 - ■• Total 11,738 13 3: 2,050 15 6! 2,195 6 5 194 3 3 1,043 1 9 953 0 9 2,970 13 0 1,929 10 8 5,086 4 0 1,341 15 11 2,440 14 9 17,111 13 11 79,410 14 II * The ordinary school in< lome and expenditure beloi ig to the private concerns >f the Principal. + For the year ending May, 1889.

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EXTRACT FROM THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION. TABLE Y.—Staff, Attendance, Fees, and Salaries at Secondary Schools.

The number on the roll and the average number in attendance—2,l47 and 2,019 respectively— are a very little higher than the corresponding numbers (2,120 and 2,004) for the preceding year, so that the scale appears at last to have turned, and it may be hoped that there is an end to the steady decline observable for several previous years. The principal income of the schools consisted of about £18,500 derived from school fees, and about £25,400 from endowments. The amount expended in salaries was a little over £30,000.

AUCKLAND COLLEGE AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 1. Repoet op the Boaed. Board'. —Of the Board of Governors of the Auckland College and Grammar School the Chairman is the Hon. Sir George Maurice O'Borke, 8.A., Speaker of the House of Representatives; and

—a, t_ <3 •p 3 o o _ pi Salaries at Ri Find of Staff. Ai jtendance for La; Quarter of 1 st Term or J -880. Annual Rates of Fees. btes paid at Year. Schools. I 'a O T-i ■ Oi o S _ _ o o fcj - S 3 o^ _ ifj=l jo™ n o __ For For Board, Ordinary exclusive of Day-school i Day-school Course. \ Tuition. Kegular Staff. Visiting Teachers.a £ s. a. f 10 10 0 t 8 8 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Auckland College and ) Grammar School j" »'10 2 128 89 (6.134 \g. 88 (6. 40 }g. 21 \b. 23 \g. 28 j- 210 [- 59 1 J "2,745 0 0 210 0 0 <_,745 0 0 Thames High School .. 3 .. 33 28 8 8 0 700 0 0 700 0 0 New Plymouth High ) School )" Wanganui P^ndowed I School J 2 .. 33 79 18 48 6 86 5 5 0 ( 12 0 0 '(900 [13 4 0 \ 10 12 0 (13 4 0 1 10 12 0 19 9 0 '(880 I 42 0 0 I 42 0 0 ) I ) j- 40 0 0 ''500 0 0 e 1,700 0 0 60 0 0 <J 500 0 0 e 1,700 0 0! 3 133 130 Wellington College 2 79 25 o : 108 107 16 1,605 0 6.-5 0 0 1,005 0 0 Wellington Girls' High ) School | Napier Boys' High School 6 55 77 142 126 1,110 0 0 1,110 0 0 4 26 22 50 47 11 * 790 0 0 '790 0 Q Napier Girls' High School Nelson College Nelson Girls' College .. Christ's College Gram- ) mar School )' Christchurch Boys'High ) School } Christchurch Girls'High) School J i3: 101 *6| 3 3 4 23 40 18 68 87 74 19 27 45 94| 36 60 2 4 2 43 69 07 165 133 145 41 B63 58 101 127 132 IS 11 50 (990 '(880 ( 12 12 0 '(880 ( 12 12 0 \ 8 8 0 ( 18 0 0 -j 15 0 0 ( 12 0 0 19 9 0 1 6 6 0 f 12 12 0 | 9 9 0 ( 10 10 0 (880 10 10 0 9 9 0 (880 f 9 9 0 '(770 (10 0 0 (800 l 40 0 0: ) '- 40 0 0 j- 40 0 0^ I 52 10 0: ) ) 1 J " ) J " ) I - i 1 39 0 0 740 0 0 ''920 0 0 '575 0 0 i 3,150 0 0; 220 0 0 k 2,200 0 0 200 0 0 11,283 0 0i 297 0 0 740 0 0 '' 920 0 0 1575 0 0 i 3,150 0 0 k 2,200 0 0 11,283 0 Oi - 7| a 8 Rangiora High School .. 20 11 1 (6. 22 ]g. 10 (6. 7 J- 27 380 0 0; I 380 0 0 Akaroa High School 3 I" m 275 0 0! m 275 0 0 Ashburton High School.. 25 11 I 6. 23 [g. 19 I 6. 46 \g. 26 I 38 j 69j 625 0 0| 625 0 0 Timaru High School 43 27 a 1,850 0 0^ 35 0 0 1,850 0 0 G a Waitaki High Schools — Boys' Girls' 3 3 1 1 2 25 25 16 15 3 4 45 46 42, 41 13 10 10 0 8 8 0 38 0 0 i 970 0 0; 12 0 0 970 0 0 405 0 0 405 0 0 Otago Boys' High School 11 6 127 94 8 235 230 18 10 0 0 44 0 0 " 3,424 0 0 150 0 0 " 3,424 0 0 Otago Girls' High School "8 1 84 103 7 195 184 31 10 0 0 40 0 0 p 2,079 0 0 1 150 0 0 p 2,079 0 0 Southland High School.. 5 2 45 30 2 631 \b. 48 \g. 31 6.1281 g. 866 I 72' ) f 10 0 0 18 0 0 1 J " 1,224 0 ol I 1,224 0 0 Totals illS 40 1146 898 j 262 | 29,250 0 01159 0 0 23 2019 a Visiting teachers paid by fee and janitor, £125 and house, &_. d Inclusive of headmaster's capit lodging, in addition to salary. in addition to salary. i Ex. addition to salary. i Four ma 1 Inclusive; of lady principal's cap of rector's capitation. Hector al are employed in Girls' School al assistant, £175, with board and masters are partly employed in i service of drawing-master. 3s or cap tation. t Twi :clusive <: asters ha litation; lso has l lso, to w residen and paid >s 0 litation are not taken ac( Exclusive of drill-instrui e Salary of princip 0 masters have liouses. of matron, £100, with bo: tve residences in additio] exclusive of caretaker, residence. One part-til: vhich salaries are parti ice. P Inclusive 1 by the Boys' School. count c ctor, ar ml esti: of in nd inc imate' s Est: d rosi lary. these coliinins. ■> j elusive of estimated value !d. Four masters receiv iimated. h One mas idence. Two mistresses t Exclusive ofcaretf m With house. " i Lias board and residence < o Exclusive of ina1 3d value of headmaster's is a subsidy paid to the Fr I I Exclusive of drill-instructor i of headmaster's capitation, e board, and two board and 5ter lias board and residence have board and residence in liter, -90, and messenger, £30. [nclusive of estimated value only. Some of the masters tron of boarding-school and s capitation. Some of the ducation Board for the part ard anr n to sal , £75. ne mas y chari of esti '11 ster h ■ged. iina/tc rhisti

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the Vice-Chairman is the Hon. Colonel Theodore Minet Haultain. The Board normally consists of ten members. The Mayor of the City of Auckland is a member of the Board ex officio. The present members of the Board are as follows : — Ex officio: Mr. John Henry Upton. Elected by the Auckland1 Board of Education : Mr. Theophilus Cooper, Mr. James M. Lennox, and Mr. Samuel Luke. Elected by the members of the Legislative Council usually resident within the Provincial District-of Auckland and the members of the House of Bepresentatives for the several electorates of the said district : Mr. Frederick D. Brown, M.A,, B.Sc, Professor of Chemistry and Physics in the Auckland University College ; Sir G. Maurice O'Borke, B.A. ; and Mr. John Henry Upton. Elected by the Senate of the University of New Zealand : The Hon. Colonel Haultain; the Bev. Charles M. Nelson, M.A. ; and the Hon. J. A. Tole, 8.A., LL.B. Mr. Upton is thus a member of the Board in two capacities. Female Pupils. —ln consequence of the closing of the Auckland Girls' High School, because of the cessation of the parliamentary grant for that institution, this Board of Governors, at the request of the Auckland Board of Education, made arrangements for having a department of the school of which the pupils should be females. This department was opened in September, 1888. It is under the supervision of the headmaster, who takes part in the instruction of the more advanced girls, as do also the masters for mathematics, natural science, and French. The girls' department is distinct from that of the boys, though for the present carried on in the same building. The classrooms on the southern side, to which there is a separate entrance, and the adjacent portion of the grounds, are set apart for female pupils, and are cut off from the rest of the premises by suitable partitions. It is considered, however, that additional endowments are needed, in order that the Board of Governors may be enabled to do full justice to the girls' department with reference to buildings and otherwise. Boll. —ln the last term of 1889 the total number of pupils was 222—viz., 134 male and 88 female. In the last term of the previous year the total number of piupils was 223—viz., 145 male and 78 female. Scholarshipis, etc. —Three senior and three junior scholarships, called foundation scholarships, are annually offered for competition by the Board of Governors. These scholarships are open to all candidates of both sexes within the prescribed ages, but are not tenable with district scholarships maintained by the Board of Education. The foundation scholars are exempt from the payment of fees, and each holder of a senior foundation scholarship receives also an allowance of money at the rate of £20 per annum. A junior foundation scholar, if residing at a distance of more than two miles, is furnished with a railway ticket, purchased by the Board, if required. The senior foundation scholarships are awarded, for one year, to candidates for University junior scholarships who have failed to obtain such University scholarships, but have passed with credit for matriculation. The number of junior foundation scholars in the last term of 1889 was eight. Free tuition in this school is also granted in each year to six pupils who, in the examination held under the Board of Education for district scholarships, were unsuccessful as to obtaining scholarships, but were judged deserving of special certificates of proficiency. The number of such pupils in the last term of 1889 was 10. The total number of pupils receiving free tuition was 45—viz., 32 male and 13 female. Nine Bawlings scholars have been attending during the past year. Drawing, Worksliops, &c. —Attention has been paid, as heretofore, to freehand, geometrical, and (especially) mechanical drawing. Good results have been obtained in the workshops. Gymnastics. —The practice of gymnastic exercises has continued to receive attention. Bobeet Kidd, Secretary.

2. Statement of the Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s . d. Expenditure. _ s. el. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 11 510 By Overdraft at beginning of year .. 21 0 7 Current income from endowments .. 3,090 1 2 Management.. .. .. .. 253 8 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,852 11 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,266 17 10 Books sold, &c. .. .. .. 5 19 10 Examinations .. .. .. 26 4 3 Refund .. .. .. .. 89 6 3 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 60 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 30 12 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 15 13 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 87 1 3 Stationery advances .. .. .. 76 0 0 Repairs— School .. .. .. .. 58 11 3 Property .. .. .. 149 17 1 Insurance and rates .. .. .. 74 6 3 Interest on current account .. .. 016 0 School furniture and requisites .. 31 0 1 Interest on loans .. .. .. 250 0 0 Sports and cricket .. .. .. 18 3 0 Science night-school .. .. .. 20 16 8 Dunedin Exhibition .. .. .. 18 2 6 Law charges .. .. .. .. 411 0 Guarantee .. .. .. .. 1 10 0 Travelling expenses .. .. .. 2 0 0 Elections .. .. .. .. 12 3 Outstanding liabilities, 1888, paid off .. 112 2 4 •Balance in hand (£420 7s. 2d., less £8 Cs. Bd., unpresented cheque) and in bank (£57 Bs. 9d.) at end of year .. 469 9 3 £5,049 4 7 £5,049 _ 7 _________________ __—____—_— * This balance is subject to outstanding liabilities, £ 109 6s. 3d., reducing the actual available balance for 1890 to £302 Os. 4d. G. Maueice O'Roeke, Chairman. Robeet Kidd, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Woek op Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —Latin : Cicero, In Verrem L, Pro Archil, Philippic ix., Pro Lege Manilia (part); Horace, Balser's Selection of Epistles and Satires; prose from Frost's Materials, and selected pieces f also revision of Bradley's Arnold, Ex. 40 to end; sight translation; grammar. English: Smith's Smaller History of Rome (Revised) ; Milton's Comus; Airy's Selected Essays from the Spectator; Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; Chaucer's Squier's Tale. Grammar: Revision of Morris's Elementary Historical Accidence, and general; Peile's Primer of Philology; Nichol's Primer of Composition; essays; paraphrase. French: Chardenal's Advanced Exercises, Nos. 20-84, and general; Turrell's Lemons en Prose et Vers, pp. 145-246 ; Blouet's Composition, Part hi. Nos. i.-xvii., revisal of Part i. Nos. i.-l. Mathematics, chemistry, electricity, and magnetism, as for junior University scholarships, with practical work in chemistry. Lowest. —English : History of England, Blackwood's Second Beader (the whole). Geography ; Blackwood's Second Beader (the whole). Beading: The above Readers; also from Macaulay's Poems, Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, etc. Repetition : Macaulay's Armada and Ivry, Cowper's John Gilpin. Grammar: Davidson and Alcock's Intermediate, to p. 58 ; analysis of simple sentences, &c. Spelling. Writing. Drawing. Visits to local industries, with preparatory lessons and subsequent composition. Arithmetic :To easy fractions. Girls. Highest. —Latin : Cicero, In Verrem i., Pro Archia, Philippic ix., Pro Lege Manilia (part); Horace, a few Satires and Epistles ; prose, Bradley's Arnold, Ex. 35 to end; revision of early exercises; a few pieces of continuous prose; sight translation; grammar. English: Milton's Samson Agonistes ; Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice ; Airy's Selected Essays from the Spectator; Chaucer's Squier's Tale. Grammar: Bevision of Morris's Elementary Historical Accidence, and general; Nichol's Primer of Composition; essays; paraphrase; Smith's Smaller History of Borne. French : Chardenal's Advanced Exercises, Nos. 1-49, and general grammar; Turrell's Lecons en Prose et Vers, pp. 1-115 ; Blouet's Composition, Part i. Nos. i.-xli., Part ii. Nos. i.-vi. Mathematics, chemistry, heat, as for junior University scholarships. Drawing. Lowest. —English: History of England; Blackwood's First Reader (the whole); Second Reader, pp. 1-100. Geography: Blackwood's Second Reader (the whole). Reading: The above Readers; Longman's Fourth Beader (the whole) ; and from Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare. Bepetition. Grammar : Davidson and Alcock's Intermediate, to p. 37. Spelling. Writing. Drawing. Berners's First Lessons in Health (the whole). Arithmetic: To compound rules (inclusive).

4. SCHOLAESHIPS HELD AT THE SCHOOL DUEING LAST QuAETEE. Boys. College Scholarships. —Senior foundation (£2O and free education), 1; junior foundation (free education), 7; special scholarships (free education), 8; to ex-district scholars (free education), 4; under Education Board's certificates of proficiency (free education), 3; children of members of staff, 4. The College also gives free education to some holders of Education Board's scholarships. Bawlings Scholarships (free education), 9. Girls. College Scholarships. —Senior foundation (£2O and free education), 2 ; junior foundation (free education), 1 ; to ex-district scholar (free education), 1 ; to ex-Girls' High School scholar (free education), 1; under Education Board's certificates of proficiency (free education), 6; children of members of staff, 3.

Twenty-six Education Board scholarships were held at the College, seventeen by boys and nine by girls, of whom fourteen received free tuition.

AUCKLAND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Statement of Receipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 0 10 5 By Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 112 3 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 41 0 0 Rates on endowment .. .. .. 40 16 4 Sale of furniture .. .. .. 118 0 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year 019 10 £43 8 5 £43 8 5 i J. H. Upton, Chairman. Vincent E. Rice, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct, —James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller £tnd Auditor-General,

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THAMES BOYS' .WD GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 41 14 8 By Management— £ s. d. Endowments —Current income from re- Salary .. .. .. .. 30 0 0 serves .. .. .. .. 178 11 10 Other office expenses .. .. 18 2 6 School fees .. .. .. .. 275 18 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 712 10 0 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 444 17 9 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 3 2 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 31 2 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 34 5 8 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 31 17 6 Endowments—Expenses of management 5 0 0 School requisites .. .. .. 22 011 Balance at end of year .. .. 53 0 5 £941 2 3 £941 2 3 James McAndrew, Chairman. Richard A. Heald, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Subjects for University Junior Scholarships : Latin, French, English, mathematics, chemistry, electricity, and magnetism. Lowest. —English Grammar : Morris's Primer. Easy essays. English history : Stuart period. Geography: Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Latin: Principia, Book I. (Smith), exercises 1 to 40. French : Chardenal, 1., exercises 1 to 60. Arithmetic : Compound rules and vulgar fractions. Geometry : Euclid, Book 1., Props. Ito 20.

3. SCHOLAESHIPS. Two scholarships of the Auckland Education Board were held at the school.

WHANGAREI HIGH SCHOOL. 1, Report of the Boaed. Sib,— Woodhill, Whangarei, 10th May, 1890. Beferring to telegram received a few days since, asking for return of accounts of the Whangarei High School during the year, I regret to state that there has been nothing done, though the Board had several meetings and an effort was made to re-establish the school. The Governors have the matter still under consideration, and if we can obtain sufficient funds from the Auckland Commissioners to supplement the fees we will likely start the school again. There is a small balance to the credit of the Board at the Bank of New Zealand, Whangarei, for the last three years, of £25 os. Id. This I beg to enclose you a certificate for from the bank. We have also a few class-books and maps, a cupboard, and a box. That is all the property we have, excepting our interest in endowment reserve. I have, &c, J. lewin Wilson, The Secretary, Education Department, Wellington. Chairman and Secretary.

(Enclosure.) Whangarei, 9th May, 1890. It is hereby certified that, at the close of the business on the 31st day of March, 1890, the balance standing to the credit of the Whangarei High School Account with the Bank of New Zealand, Whangarei, amounted to £25 os. Id. For the Bank of New Zealand, B. C. M. Haeinoton, pro Agent.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report op the Goveenoes. The management of this school was transferred on the' 23rd October, 1889, from the Taranaki Education Board to the present Board of Governors, appointed under " The New Plymouth High School Act Amendment Act, 1889." The number of scholars in .attendance for the last term of 1889 was 51 —viz., 23 boys and 28 girls—and the average attendance for the same term was —Boys, 86-7 per cent.; girls, 88 per-cent. Enclosed are the accounts for the year ended 1889, certified to by the Audit Department. The programme of the work of the school has already iJeen forwarded by the Secretary. New Plymouth, 2nd April, 1890. A; Follett Halcombe, Chairman.

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2. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 30 611 By Management— Current income from reserves .. .. 362 17 9 Salary .. .. .. .. 5 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners.. .. 275 0 0 Other expenses of management .. 818 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 249 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 500 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 9 5 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 45 510 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works .. .. 83 14 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 73 7 6 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 10 2 4 Law charges .. .. .. .. 315 6 Balance at end of year— Or. Bank .. .. 180 18 2 Dr. Outstanding cheques 3 2 4 177 15 10 £917 4 8 £917 4 8 A. Follett Halcombe, Chairman. E. Veale, Secretary and Treasurer. Audited and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.— Latin: Principia and Coasar; one pupil doing Arnold's Prose Composition and extracts from various authors. French :De Fivas' Grammaire des Grammaires, Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and Hachette's Third Beader. Arithmetic: The whole subject. Algebra: To end of quadratics; one pupil, indices and surds. Euclid: Books I. and IE; one pupil, Book 111. and deductions. Trigonometry: Easy to solution of triangles, with natural sines, &c, and logarithmically. English : Smith and Hall's Grammar, and parsing and analysis of miscellaneous passages ; Paradise Lost; and Coriolanus. Geography: General, and Africa and Asia, from Chisholm's Colonial Geography. History : General outlines; special periods, Conquest to Anne. Botany: Matriculation course. Sewing. Composition, essays, and mapping. Biographical sketches. Lowest. —French : De Jardin, exercises 1 to 80, and stories ; regular verbs and principal parts of irregular ones met with in Reader. Latin : Principia, Book 1., exercises Ito 22. Arithmetic : Vulgar fractions and practice, and problems from Standard 111. test-cards. Algebra : Todhunter, I. to XV. English: Morrison's Grammar to syntax. Beading: Royal Reader, VI. Geography: Australia and Oceania (Chisholm). History: Tudor period; B.C. 55 to a.d. 1187 in outline. Sewing for girls. Map-drawing. Dictation from Sixth Reader. Composition : Easy stories and essays, with letter-writing. Copy-writing. Drawing throughout the school.

4. Scholarships held at the School during the Last Quarter op the Year. The school gave free education to four Education Board scholars.

WANGANUI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Extract prom the " Wanganui Chronicle." Tenders are now being called by the Board of Governors for the erection of the Wanganui Girls' High School. We have therefore inspected the plans at the office of Mr. A. Atkins, F.8.1.8.A., architect to the Board, and propose now to give a description of the building. The site of the proposed school is two acres in area, having a frontage to Liverpool Street extending from Wicksteed to Campbell Streets. The building will face Liverpool Street, standing back from the road about 1-|- chains and towards the Wicksteed-street side of the section, taking advantage of a low terrace, and leaving the lower portion for recreation grounds, for which it is most suitable. The plans show the buildings to have a frontage of 132ft., consisting of a main central two-story portion 36ft. high to ridge, with a single-story wing at either end, and in the centre a tower 14ft. square at its base by 66ft. high, including the vane. The design is simple but effective. The architectural style is a question frequently difficult to answer honestly, as in most modern buildings to be successful in all respects any acknowledged style requires to be very freely treated. This building may be considered somewhat of Swiss character. It does not pretend to be other than of wood construction, except the foundations, which are of concrete throughout; and the wood is in all cases treated as it should be, and every joint properly protected from ingress of wet. The grouping of parts is well arranged, with just sufficient breaks to relieve the monotony. The tower projects 4ft., and the wings 16ft. In the lower part of the former is the main entrance, having a gable-fronted porch opening into the hall, 24ft. x 14ft. x 14ft. high (the front and wing rooms are the same height), on the left and right of which are the visitors' and mistress's rooms respectively, each 18ft. x 13ft. Beyond each of these is a class-room for twenty-four pupils, and beyond these, again, is, on the left, a class-room for forty, divided by a screen into two ; and on the right a music-room, within which are two small practisingrooms, the walls of these latter being deadened. All these rooms have stepped floors, and a good left-hand light. The main staircase is an open one sft. wide, in three flights. Under the centre one and opposite the main entrance the dining-hall is entered. It is 45ft. x 22ft., with an openframed roof 28ft. from floor to ridge. It is lighted by three large windows on either side, high up the wall, and may in the meantime be partially used for art work. To left and right under the stair landings is a corridor, 6ft. wide, straight to the outer walls of wings, finishing with entrance porches

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for pupils, and widening to 14ft. near each end to form a lobby and give room for a staircase to dormitories. Round the walls of these lobbies are small cupboards for the pupils' books, music, shoes, &c. On the opposite side of the corridor is a cloak-room with cupboards, lavatory, and offices to the left of (lining-hall, and to the right is a corridor Bft. wide leading to the domestic offices, its greater portion being of fireproof construction, so as to detach the main building. The left wing terminates in a gymnasium 30ft. x 24ft. On reaching the main stair landing, the mistress's bedroom and linen closets are opposite, the former having a bay window over entrance porch; and to the left and right are the two dormitories, each of which has a central passage, terminating in the lobby at the head of the staircase above mentioned. Each dormitory has a bathroom, and one of the latter has outside a housemaid's sink, &c. The dormitories are each 12ft. high, divided into cubicles by partitions about Bft. high, with a door to each into the passage, accommodating one teacher and nine pupils, one or two being double, for sisters. Above the mistress's bedroom the tower breaks from square to octagon, with hipped angles, the main eaves being carried round, and the angle-posts cut and projecting above. This story finishes with eaves, the roof being domical, having at its base the eight angle-posts cut and projecting above, with a pierced parapet, and at its summit an octagonal main ventilator, w 7ith a hollow curved roof, finishing with a suitable vane. The entrance to the domestic offices is from Wicksteed Street, and the front door opens into a passage with a staircase to three bedrooms above; and on the ground floor has housekeeper's room and store, kitchen (18ft. x 16ft. x 15ft. high), servery and pantry, scullery, larder, storeroom, coal- and wash-houses, and offices. The inside finishing generally is simple in its character, but arranged with a view to continue for a long period in good order without renovating. The sanitary arrangements are of the most approved description at present known, it being a subject to which Mr. Atkins has devoted much attention. The drainage is conveyed to the Liverpool Street drain, and every waste-pipe and drain is separately trapped and ventilated, with a current of air continually passing through and having exit well above the roof in every case. Every part of the building is thoroughly ventilated with proper inlets, and with outlet shafts and exhaust ventilators above the roof. The water-supply from the town main is conveyed to a 2,500-gallon cistern in the tower, before entering which it is passed through a filter. From this, water is conveyed to the kitchen boiler, baths, lavatories, sinks, &c. As special arrangements for protection against fire, there are water-sprinklers over each staircase, and four taps with hose and reels judiciously distributed inside, also five similar ones outside, the building. For similar reasons, also, wherever in the building it has been considered advisable the doors open outwards, and the passages are all straight, the upper ones leading to the staircases, and the lower ones to the outside doors, to which latter the lower flights of the staircases face. A large proportion of the rain-water is conveyed to a 2,500-gallon concrete tank in the yard, for cooking and drinking; there is also a tank sufficiently high to supply rain-water for bedroom use. Gas is laid on over the building to such rooms as require it. The whole buildings are specially arranged with a view to convenient future extension, and we trust that the success of the institution may be such as to show the value of the arrangement at no very distant date.

2. Statement of Receipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. General Account. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance, 31st December, 1888 .. .. 213 13 6 By Departmental expenses— Interest on mortgages .. .. 531 9 9 Secretary's salary ..£500) r\_ i Rent of leases .. .. .. 74 0 0 Members'expenses .. 112 7j Loan refunded .. .. .. 1,897 19 6 Transferred to Investment Account .. 440 10 0 Balance on 31st December, 1889 ..2,270 0 2 £2,717 2 9 £2,717 2 9 Investment Account. Receipts. £ s. d. I Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance, 31st December, 1888— ; By Mortgage paid off .. .. ..1,897 19 6 Mortgage Account ..,£6,128 12 s)_ Rr ., g - Balances on 31st December, 1889— Fixed deposit .. 1,724 10 oj'' Bos A,J Mortgages .. .. £5,730 12 111 - g95 - 2 n Transfer from General Account .. 440 10 0 [ Fixed deposits .. 665 0 0)' £8,293 12 5 I £8,293 12 5 - - — i „.. A. A. Beowne, Secretary.

WANGANUI ENDOWED SCHOOL. 1. Repoet op the Trustees. The Trustees of the Wanganui Collegiate School Estate have to report that, as will be seen by the statement of receipts and expenditure for the year ended 30th June, 1889, the finances are in a satisfactory condition. The bank overdraft has been only slightly reduced; but certain repairs were found necessary during the year amounting to upwards of £100, and some areas of rates had to be paid. Mr. Liffiton, the business agent for the Trustees, has succeeded in getting a substantial reduction in the amount of borough rates, and in the charge made by the borough for water supplied to the school, and during the present year it is expected that the bank overdraft will be almost paid off. The debt on the buildings amounted at the 30th June to £2,086 25., and additional liabilities (including a debt due to the widow of the late Dr. Harvey) to the extent of £1,020 3s. 5d., making in all £3,106 ss. 5d.; against which there are assets amounting to £312 6s. 4d., leaving a balance of liabilities amounting to £2,793 19s. Id. -The school continues to prosper under the able management of Mr. Empson. Wellington, 12th September, 1889. 0. Wellington, Chairman. 2—E. 9.

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2. Geneeal Statement of Accounts of the Industrial School Estate for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from endowments .. 832 0 7 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 197 10' 5 Law cost's refunded .. .. .. 0 310 ManagementRates refunded .. .. .. 2 0 0 Salary .. .. .. .. 44 0 0 Sale of _ro)i .. .. .. .. 0 119 Other office expenses .. .. 517 0 Sale of timber .. .. .. 0 5 0 Other expenses of management .. 10 10 0 Insurance refunded .. .. .. 012 0 Law costs .. .. .. 16 12 8 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 129 1 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 215 0 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works .. .. 194 15 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 151 18 8 Insurance .. .. .. 38 8 9 Taxes .. .. .. .. 80 13 6 Interest on current account .. .. 221 13 8 £964 14 8 £964 14 JS E. N. Liffiton, Secretary. Audited and found correct. —A. C. Ritchie, Accountant. 7th January, 1890.

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Greek, Latin, French, English, science, arithmetic, algebra, Euclid, trigonometry— all as for University junior scholarships ; divinity. Lowest.— Elementary Latin, reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography, divinity.

4. Scholarships held at the School during the Last Quarter of the Year. Headmaster's Scholarships. —Six valued at £33; one valued at £12. Six Education Board scholarships were held at the school.

WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of the Board op Governors. The Governors of the Wellington College and Girls' High School have to report that the two institutions under their charge continue to do good work. The College has suffered a slight diminution in the number of pupils, due, it is believed, to the great improvement in the primary schools of late years, to the establishment of St. Patrick's College, and to the success of the Wanganui Collegiate School. Both these, being denominational schools, naturally attract a large number of pupils. That the tuition at both institutions is good is evidenced by the result of the late University examinations. The College sent up nine pupils for the junior scholarship examination, four pupils for the matriculation examination, and one for the medical preliminary, and all passed. From the Girls' High School seventeen girls were presented, of whom fifteen were successful: eleven passed the matriculation examination, two matriculated on the junior scholarship papers, and two passed the junior scholarship examination " with credit." The Governors have again to report being greatly hampered by want of funds, chiefly brought about by their having been compelled to borrow moneys for the erection of buildings, and being therefore under the necessity of paying a large sum annually for interest—a position in which no other similar Board in the colony is placed. They are bringing the matter again before Government, with the hope that the pledge given by Sir B. Stout, when Premier and Minister of Education, maybe fulfilled. Wellington, 27th March, 1890. J. B. Blair, Chairman.

2. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure of the Wellington College and Girls' High • School for the Year ending 31st December, 1889.

Receipts. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. 1,546 7 5 School fees .. .. .. 2,607 610 Interest for scholarships .. .. 76 0 0 Levin scholarship .. .. .. 20 0 0 Donation for prizes .. .. .. 210 0 Barnicoat Prize Fund .. .. 5 0 0 Refund .. .. .. • • 2 0 0 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 2,926 17 2 ■ -_7lBtT T~5

Expenditure. £ s. d. By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 2,378 9 7 Management .. .. .. 18110 11 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 2,752 10 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 7 7 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 90 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 30 17 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 184 3 1 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 189 2 0 Book and stationery account and other temporary advances .. .. 5 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c, .. . 39 15 1 Insurance .. .. .. .. 95 9 6 Interest on current account .. .. 194 6 9 Endowments, rates, fencing, &c. .. 322 310 Interest on cost of buildings .. :. 708 5 4 Sundries .. .. .. .. 7 010 £7,186 1 5

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3. Balance-sheet of Special Funds for the Year ending 31 st December, 1889. Tumbull Fund (Wellington College). Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. By Balance brought forward .. .. 1,823 18 1 To Prizes, 1888 and 1889 .. .. 50 0 0 Interest .. ~' .. .. 130 17 10 Balance .. .. .. .. 1,904 15 11 £1,954 15 11 £1,954 15*11 Balance down .. .. ..£1,904 15 11 Moore Scholarship Fund (Wellington College). By Balance brought forward .. .. 500 0 0 To Transferred to General Account for payInterest .. .. .. .. 35 0 0 ment of scholarship .. .. 35 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 500 0 0 £535 0 0 £535 0 0 Balance down .. .. .. £500 0 0 Bhodes Scholarship Fund (Wellington College). By Balance brought forward .. .. 500 0 0j To Transferred to General Account for payInterest .. ~ .. .. 41 0 0 ment of scholarship .. .. 41 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 500 0 0 £541 0 0 £541 0 0 Balance down .. .. .. £500 0 0 Bamicoat Prize Fund (Wellington College). By Balance brought forward .. .. 115 17 4 To Expenditure for prizes, 1888 and 1889 .. 10 0 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 312 8 Balance .. .. .. .. 109 10 0 £119 10 0 £119 10 0 Balance down .. .. .. £109 10 0

4. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1889. Assets. £ s. d. ] Liabilities. £ s. d. Fees .. .. .. .. .. 75 18 0 | Bank overdraft .. .. .. 2,913 10 Rents .. .. .. .. .. 329 8 6 j Unpresented cheques .. .. .. 13 6 8 Sundry accounts .. .. .. 332 14 9 405 6 6 , 3,259 11 11 College buildings (cost £12,000) and reserves, not less than .. .. .. 7,000 0 0 Loan contracted for buildings (College) .. 5,000 0 0 Girls' High School buildings (cost £5,118) Loan contracted for buildings (Girls' High and reserves, not less than .. .. 7,000 0 0 School) .. .. .. .. 5,118 3 2 £14,000 0 0 £10,118 3 2 "■'■■'' i ___________________ Tumbull Fund. £ s. d. Invested in mortgage .. .. .. 800 0 0 At interest in bank and elsewhere .. 1,104 15 11 • Nil. £1,904 15 11 Moore Scholarship Fund. Capital invested in mortgage .. .. £500 0 0 j Nil. Bhodes Scholarship Fund. Capital invested in mortgage and at interest £500 0 0 1 Nil. Bamicoat Prize Fund. Capital at interest .. .. 109 10 0 Interest accrued .. .. .. 1 19 9 Nil. £111 9 9 J. R. Blair, Chairman. Wellington, 28th February, 1890. Charles P. Powles, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

5. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. • Highest. —Latin as for junior scholarship examination. Greek as for matriculation and medical preliminary. Mathematics, English,'and French as for junior scholarship examination. Science : Inorganic chemistry and heat. Mechanics as for medical preliminary.

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Lowest. —Latin: Child's First Latin Rook. Arithmetic : Commercial rules. English: Elementary grammar and analysis; Royal Reader No. IV. Geography: Elementary political. History : Brunswick period. Composition : Reproduction and correction of sentences. Girls. Highest (Form VI.).- —English : Morris's Elementary Lessons in Historical English Grammar, pp. 1--23; Smith and Hall's Grammar, Syntax; "How to write clearly," exercises 19-54; Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 300 lines. Composition : Correction of errors in words and syntax (from Hodgson's Errors in the Use of English); paraphrasing from Milton's Eikonoklastes and Bacon's Essays; criticism and comparison of short extracts from standard authors— e.g., Wordsworth and Pope; analysis of the story and meaning of Faerie Queene, Book 11., Canto i.; and story of Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale. Literature: Chambers's Literature, Chapters XL to XXVII., text only; Merchant of Venice, Chambers's edition, edited by Meiklejohn, text and notes. English History : From Elizabeth to William IV. (only two pupils take history as a subject) ; Green's History of the English People. Geography as for University scholarship examination. Latin: Translation —Virgil, iEneid, Book IV.; Tacitus, Germania and Agricola. Grammar—Arnold's Latin Prose, first thirty-two chapters ; Student's Latin Grammar, etymology to end of irregular verbs. French : Havet's Complete French Class-book (revised the First Course from p. 94: to p. 133, inclusively ; learnt the Second Course from p. 234 to p. 294, inclusively; revised the irregular verbs, pp. 148-151 and 167-187 ; read, translated, and did the conversations from p. Bto p. 33, inclusively); read —Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon, Valery, and La Grammaire ; written — Havet's French Compositions, Nos. 40-48. German: Junior Division—Havet and Schrumpf s First German Book, Second Course ; Senior Division—Otto's Conversational Grammar from p. 107 to p. 198, anecdotes from English into German; reading for both divisions— Schiller's Der Nefi'e als Onkel, Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm. Mathematics : Euclid, Books I. to VI., with exercises; trigonometry, Lock's Elementary Trigonometry; algebra as for junior scholarship ; arithmetic as for junior scholarship. Lowest (Form I.) —.English Grammar: Definitions of parts of speech. Arithmetic: Four simple rules. English History: Chambers's Historical Reader No. I. to p. 70. Geography: Countries, capitals, and capes of South America. Reading: Royal Reader No. 111. Writing: Vere Foster. French: Henri Bue's First French Book to exercise 26; verbs avoir, Hre, and donner. ——

6. SCHOLABSHIPS HELD DUKING LAST QuAETEE OF YeAE. College. College Scholarships. —Free education, four. Moore Scholarship. —£3s, one. Bhodes Scholarship. —£35, one. Levin Scholarships. —£10, two. Girls' School. College Scholarships. —Free education, five.

Twenty-one scholarships of the Wellington Education Board were held at the College, and sixteen at the Girls' School, and one each of the Auckland and Wanganui Education Boards were held at the Girls' School.

NAPIER HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Geneeal Statement of Receipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s . d. To Balance at beginning of year .. 612 9 8 By Management .. .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 263 7 6 Office expenses .. .. .. 5 7 10 Current income from property not a re- Other expenses of management .. 12 10 8 serve .. .. .. 745 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 1,534 0 0 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Music-teachers .. .. .. 83 2 6 paid purchase-money .. .. 128 2 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 10 3 9 Paid by School Commissioners .. 325 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 11l 14 4 School fees .. .. .. 874 5 9 Book and stationery account and other Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 58 3 6 temporary advances .. .. 53 18 2 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 108 18 9 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 150 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 876 12 5 £3,006 8 5 £3,006 8 5 J. D. Oemond, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary and Treasurer.

2. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —Mathematics: Algebra to quadratics; geometry—Euclid, Books I. to 111., and deductions ; arithmetic, general. Latin : Ca.sar, Book I.; iEneid I. French : Chardenal's Second Course, and selected reading, English : Merchant of Venice; Historical Grammar. History: English, 1689-1837. Geography: Physical and general. Science: Physiology (Huxley). Drawing : Geometrical and perspective ; model. Lowe_..—-Latin: Declensions of nouns and adjectives. English ; Elementary. Arithmetic to compound division and reduction.

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Girls. Highest. —English: Milton's Samson Agonistes; Shakespeare's As you like it. English Literature: Anne to Victoria. Grammar : Morris's Historical English Grammar. History : William 111. to Victoria. Geography : Physical and political. Arithmetic : Stocks, shares, general rules. Algebra to binomial theorem. Euclid : Books 1., 11., 111. Trigonometry to solution of triangle^. Latin : Ca.sar, Book I.; Principia Latina, Book IV. French : Macmillan's Progressive French Book, Third Course; Bourgeois Gentilhomme; La Tulipe Noire. German : Otto, to exercise 50; do., Reader. Chemistry: Non-metallic elements and atomic theory. Physiology: Elements of animal physiology and laws of health. Drawing : Freehand. Singing : Tonic Sol-fa. Needlework. Lowest. —Reading: Fifth Reader. Grammar: Parts of speech, analysis of easy sentences. Geography: Political —England and New Zealand; physical—grouping of land and water, tides, currents. History : William I. to Richard 111. Arithmetic : Compound rules. Botany : Parts of a plant, flowers. Object-lessons. Drawing. Needlework. Dictation and writing.

3. SCHOLAESHIPS. Thirteen Education Board scholarships were held at the school.

GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. | Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year, fixed deposit 700 00j By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 80 6 Current income from reserves .. .. 25 0 0 ; Management—Office expenses .. .. 017 6 Paid by School Commissioners ~ .. 174 12 5 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 112 10 0 Interest on current account ~ .. 33 19 7 Interest on current account .. .. 0 9 6 Harbour rates .. .. .. 10 15 6 County rates .. .. .. 12 1 6 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year 788 17 6 £933 12 0 £933 12 0

NELSON COLLEGE. 1. Repoet of the Governoes. The Governors, in presenting the accounts of both colleges for the year just ended, have little to add to the information contained in them. That the quality of the teaching in both colleges has been well maintained is, the Governors think, sufficiently evidenced by the success of the pupils in the University examinations, six in the Boys' and seven in the Girls' College having passed the matriculation examination, and one in the Boys' College having gained a junior scholarship, the total number of pupils being sixty-nine and sixty-seven respectively. Arrangements are in progress for the appointment of a teacher in science for the two colleges. A fund in aid of the purpose having been appropriated by the School Commissioners, a committee of the Governors has been appointed to carry the project into effect. The Governors think much practical good will arise, especially in the case of pupils preparing for University and Civil Service examinations. The audited accounts of both colleges for the year 1889, together with a comparative statement of the rolls for 1888 and 1889, and a schedule showing the number, value, and present position of the scholarships connected with both colleges, are appended to this report. By order of the Council of Governors. Oswald Curtis, Secretary.

2. Geneeal Statement of Receipts and Expenditure of Nelson College for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. To Current income from reserves .. 503 0 6, By Overdraft at beginning of year .. 192 0 0 Interest on moneys invested and on Management— unpaid purchase-money .. .. 989 10 4 Salary .. .. .• • • 200 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 770 4 0 Other office expenses .. .. 39 7 3 Boarding-school fees.. .. .. 785 4 4 Other expenses of management .. 12 0 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 117 15 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,005 5 0 Boarding-school Account .. .. 746 8 0 Scholarships .. .. •• 264 0 0 Prizes 18 10 O Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 100 0 7 Light .. ... .. ■• 38 16 10 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 22 10 0 Bents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 119 5 0 Audit charges .. . ■ • • 8 3 0 Subscriptions to sports, &c. .. .. 22 0 0 Law-costs .. .. • • • • 32 13 6 Science appliances \.. .. •• 14 19 6 Miscellaneous .. • • • • 22 13 0 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year 307 3 0 TsTieTlT^' ■ ■?■■____-. Oswald CuETis.cretary. [Ai>d_!tpr's certificate attached to accounts as kept in the College books.]

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3. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure of Nelson College for Girls for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. , Expenditure. £ s. d. To Pafd by School Commissioners.. .. 155 12 9 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 148 5 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 940 8 4 Management— Boarding-school fees .. .. .. 555 1 0 Salary .. .. .. 100 0 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 11 5 0 Other office expenses .. .. 30 0 0 Edger Scholarship .. .. .. 30 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 909 1 9 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 741 10 0 Boarding-school Account .. .. 624 10 10 Scholarships .. .. .. 100 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 54 15 0 Light, &e. .. .. .. .. 34 10 1 Insurance and taxes .. .. .. 74 10 2 Interest on mortgages .. .. .. 337 0 0 Auditor's fees.. .. .. .. 5 5 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 15 19 3 £2,433 17 1 £2,433 17 1 Oswald Curtis, Secretary. [Auditor's certificate attached to accounts as kept in the College books.]

4. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest (Form VI.). —Classics: Caesar, Gallic War, Book VII. ; Tacitus, Germania and Agricola; Horace, Satires Book 1., Ars Poetica, Odes Book I. ; Virgil, _Eneid, Book IV.; Xenophon, Anabasis, Book III.; Latin prose composition—Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose, and miscellaneous selections; Greek prose—Sidgwick's smaller. English: Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Julius Caesar; Trench, English Past and Present; Tennyson, Idylls of the King; history, 1702-1832; grammar and analysis, Morell; composition. French: Moliere, Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Corneille, Cinna, Horace; Madame de Stael, selected passages from Corinne and L'Allemagne; grammar and composition. Pure mathematics: Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, as defined for B.A. and B.Sc. of N.Z. University. Applied mathematics: Statics, hydrostatics, dynamics, as defined for B.A. and B.Sc. of N.Z. University. Physical science : Acoustics, optics, as defined for B.Sc. degree, N.Z. Chemistry: As for B.Sc. degree, N.Z., with some quantitative analysis and assaying. Lowest. —Latin: Principia, Part 1., 26 exercises and all verbs. English: Scott's Ivanhoe, Macaulay's Horatius and Armada, Hall's Elementary Grammar. History : From Conquest to end of Tudor period (Edith Thompson). Geography : Hughes's Smaller Physical, first eleven chapters. French: Sharp's Elementary Exercises, firso 27, with regular and irregular verbs. Arithmetic: Hamblin Smith, to simple interest. Girls. Highes ..—Mathematics : Arithmetic, Barnard Smith's School Arithmetic; algebra, to simple simultaneous equations; Euclid, to end of Book VI., Prop. 12. (Also by one member of the form, algebra, Euclid, and trigonometry as required by the B.A. degree in New Zealand University.) English: History of English literature of last half of eighteenth century; Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book I.; Morris's Elementary Historical English Grammar; composition. (Also read, by a section of the form, the books set for the B.A. degree.) English history : Early Hanoverians (Epochs of Modern History). General history: Sketch of early European history to the end of the tenth century. Geography: Geography of British Isles and some of the British colonial possessions. Elementary science : Portions of Todhunter's Elements of Natural Philosophy. French : Blouet's Composition, Brachet's Grammar, La Fontaine's Fables. (One member of the form prepared work for the B.A. degree.) German : Otto's German Grammar, selections ; Uhlancl's Select Ballads; part of Schiller's Maria Stuart. Latin: Bradley's Arnold, exercises Ito 32 ; Caesar, Book VII. of Gallic War ; selections from Ovid. Lowest. —Arithmetic : Simple and compound rules. English : Scott's Lady of the Lake ; Smith and Hall's English Grammar, selections ; parsing, analysis, and composition. Geography : General physical features of the continents; chief ports, with exports and imports; physical geography of the ocean. English history : Outlines from William the Conqueror to beginning of George the Third. General history : Brief sketch of European history during first twelve centuries. Elementary science : First principles of physics. French : Chardenal's First French Course, exercises 1 to 144; Contes de Fees, by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont; selections; easy conversation. Latin: Principia Latina to end of exercise 20. German: Grimm's Kinder und Haus Marchen; Macmillan's First German Course (a portion).

5. SCHOLAESHIPS HELD DURING LAST QuAETER OF YeAE. College. Endowed.— Tinline, £52 10s.; Newcome, £24; Richmond, £24 ; Stafford, £20; Fell, £16. Foundation. —First classical, £20; second classical, £10; third classical, £5. First mathematical, £20'; second mathematical, £10; third mathematical, £5. Governors' Fees. —First modern languages, £12 10s.; first English literature, £12 10s.; second English literature, £12 10s.^ chemistry, £12 10s. Simmons Prize. —£6. Girls' College. Tinline.— £s2 12s. Edger. —At £15, two. Governors' Fees. —At £15, two. School Commissioners, —At £12 125., six,

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Eight scholarships of the Nelson Education Board and two of the Marlborough Education Board were held at the College, and six of the Nelson Board at the Girls' College. Free tuition is given by the College to eight boys and eight girls under the scholarship regulations of the "^Nelson Education Board, and to two holders of scholarships under the Marlborough Education Board.

GREYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance in bank at beginning of year .. 257 18 6 By Management— Interest on moneys invested .. .. 41 12 2 Office salary .. .. .. 5 0 0 Exchange on cheque .. .. .. 0 0 6 Other office expenses .. .. 112 4 Debit balance at end of year, being unprc- Endowment Sales Account—Proceeds insented cheque, £25, less credit balance, vested .. .. .. .. 250 0 0 £17 15s. 4d. .. .. .. 7 4 8: Grey Education Board, for High School.. 50 0 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 0 3 6 £306 15 10 ! £306 15 10 j . J. Barkley, for Chairman. Edward T. Robinson, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

HOKITIKA HIGH SCHOOL. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Fixed deposits in Bank of New Zealand By Balance outstanding at beginning of year 6 9 7 at beginning of year .. .. 1,158 8 0 Borough rates to 1890 .. .. 12 19 0 Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 52 2 6 Rickard and Priest, timber, &c. .. 5 12 6 Kent, H. S. Andrewes, half-year .. 7 0 0 Benton, James, sundry articles .. 5 16 Aitken, A., four days' labour .. .. 2 0 0 Curie, D., printing, &c. .. .. 10 0 Telegrams, cheque-book, and interest .. 0 7 6 Fixed deposits in Bank of New Zealand 1,175 4 6 Balance open account ditto .. .. 8 15 11 £1,217 10 6 £1,217 10 6 Assets. £ s. d. I ■ Liabilities. To Balance at bank .. .. .. 1,184 0 5 " Government House " and grounds, say 1,200 0 0| Nil. £2,384 0 5 J. P. Will, Hon. Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

CHRISTCHURCH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves.. .. 2,984 4 0 By Overdraft at beginning of year .. 463 17 10 School fees .. .. .. .. 892 12 0 Management—Salary .. .. 80 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 48 15 2 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,487 10 0 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 189 19 0 Examinations— Examiners' fees .. .. .. 54 1 6 Other expenses .. .. .. 5 410 Prizes .. .. .. .. 25 18 0 Printing, stationery, stamps, and advertising 101 5 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 33 5 6 Fencing, repairs, &c... .. .. 44 10 9 Bents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 104 0 0 Chemicals and apparatus .. .. 11 17 7 Interest on loan .. .. .. 350 0 0 Surveying, inspecting, and advertising reserves .. .. .. 171 18 6 Cleaning bath .. .. .. 918 9 Legal expenses .. .. .. 20 8 6 Grants to cricket club and cadet corps.. 45 0 0 Alterations to workshop .. .. 37 7 6 Annual expense of workshop .. .. 25 15 0 Connecting bath with main sewer .. 25 13 4 Sundries .. .. .. .. 17 17 6 . £4,115 10 7 £4,115 10 7 % -____- F. de C. Malet, Chairman. F. G. Steadman, Registrar, Canterbury College. Examined.—A. H. Maclean, Inspector of Audit.

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2. Work done at Christchurch Boys' High School during Last Term of 1889. Highest. —Latin : Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia; Livy, Hannibal's campaign in Italy ; Horace, Odes, ___>ok IV.; Horton's History of the Romans; Primer; Bradley's Arnold; Simpson's Latin Prose, Part I. (Caesarian Prose) ; Harkness's Latin Grammar; Revised Latin Primer; unseen translations; retranslations of Livy. Greek: Mayor's Greek for Beginners (complete), to end of regular verbs, with exercises and vocabularies; Abbott and Mansfield's Greek Grammar Primer ; Greek Reader. English : Shakespeare's Richard II.; Macaulay's Essays (Frederick the Great; Earl of Chatham) ; Tennyson (Selections for Indian Students) ; Mason's English Grammar; Stopford Brooke's Literature Primer ; Abbott's How to write clearly ; abstracts ; paraphrases ; essays. French: Selection from About's Tales; Moliere, L'Avare; Macmillan's Progressive French Course, Parts 11. and 111. Mathematics (for junior scholarship) : Hall and Knight's Algebra; Euclid, Books 1.-VI.; Barnard Smith's Exercises in Arithmetic; Lock's Trigonometry. History : Longman's Epochs of English History (The Settlement of the Constitution; Modern England); Student's Hume. Geography: Longman's School Geography for Australasia. Science: Thorpe's Metals ; Howard's Practical Chemistry. Physics : Garrett's Heat. Lowest.- —Latin : Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course; Public School Latin Primer (to end of declensions). English : Abbott's How to tell the Parts of Speech ; Royal Reader No. 4 ; Nelson's Brief History; dictation, transcription, composition (easy), parsing. French: Macmillan's French Course, Part I. Mathematics: Lock's Arithmetic for Beginners (four rules, simple and compound). Geography : Whitcombe and Tombs's First Lessons in Geography. Science : Roscoe's Chemistry Primer; Balfour Stewart's Physics Primer; Garnett's Elementary Mechanics ; Bettany's First Lessons in Practical Botany. General.— Book-keeping: The Irish Educational Series. Singing: Collegiate Singing Manual; Curwen's Pupil's Manual of Tonic Sol-Fa. Writing (on foolscap, from copies on blackboard) ; extra writing (upright penmanship). Drawing: Freehand and model, geometrical; Colonial Drawing-book (for junior class). Swimming. Drill.

3. Scholarships held at the School during the Last Quarter of the Year. The school gives free education to twenty-seven scholars. Eighteen scholarships of the North Canterbury Education Board are held at the school.

CHRISTCHURCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 667 16 0 By Management—Salary .. .. 70 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 371 9 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,661 6 0 Interest on moneys invested .. 216 10 7 ; ExaminationsSchool fees .. .. .. .. 1,737 4 6 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 54 1 6 Interest on current account .. .. 23 14 4 Other expenses .. .. .. 6 4 2 Scholarships .. .. .. 228 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 38 10 0 Printing, stationery, stamps, and advertising .. .. .. 46 13 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 24 15 2 Fittings .. .. .. .. 18 8 6 Fencing, repairs, &e... .. .. 25 19 10 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 62 0 1 Expenses of teaching cookery .. 14 7 7 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 5 16 0 Music and tuning pianos .. .. 7 11 3 Pumping waste water from ram .. 418 10 Legal expenses .. .. .. 212 8 Sundries .. .. .. .. 614 2 Balance at end of year .. .. 738 15 11 £3,016 14 11 £3,016 14 11 F. de C. Malet, Chairman. F. G. Steadman, Registrar, Canterbury College. Examined and found correct. —A. H. Maclean, Inspector of Audit.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.- —English literature : Shakespeare's Macbeth, Richard III.; selections from Morris's Specimens of English Literature ; Morrell's English Literature from Dryden to Scott. Grammar : Morris's Smaller Historical Grammar, Mason's English Grammar. Composition : Essays, &c, on subjects from books read; correction of sentences. Latin: Horace's Odes, Book III.; Livy, greater part of Book I.; Cicero, second Philippic; sight translation ; Latin grammar, and prose composition; Bradley's Arnold and Abbott's Idioms; selections from Smith's Antiquities; general sketch of Roman history (Smith's Smaller History). French : Brachet's Public School French Grammar and Exercises; Bue's French Idioms; French prose composition; Racine's Athalie; Souvestre's Philosophe sur les Toits; La Tulipe Noire; Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ; Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr. Mathematics : Arithmetic, algebra, Euclid, trigonometry, as for junior University examination. Science: Botany and heat as for junior scholarship examination. Dress-cutting. Cooking. Swimming, Gymnastic exercises.

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Lowest. —Reading, spelling, writing, dictation ; Royal Reader No. V.; composition on stories read; easy letters ; grammar without a text-book, and simple parsing. History : Gardiner's History of England, Part I. French : The exercises and rules of Bue's First French Course up to verbs etre \a.H avoir. Arithmetic: Compound rules and reduction of weights and measures. Geography : Geographical terms ; easy lessons on chief countries in the world ; more special lessons on New Zealand. Science : Easy lessons in botany and physics. Drawing : Elementary freehand. Plain sewing. Gymnastic exercises. Swimming.

3. Scholarships held at the School during Last Quarter of Year. The school gave nineteen scholarships at £15, and three at £12. Sixteen scholarships of the North Canterbury Education Board were held at the school.

CHRIST'S COLLEGE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure from Ist May, 1888, to 15th May, 1889. Income Account. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. ' £ s. d. To Bent and interest .. .. .. 1,793 10 0 By Balance brought forward, Ist May, 1888 522 14 6 Jackson Trust endowment .. .. 107 1 0 Interest on bank overdraft .. .. 33 15 0 Tuition fees .. .. .. .. 2,787 15 0 Interest on deposits .. .. .. 282 9 0 Books .. .. .. .. 348 15 2 School Account — G. Gould, Esq., donation .. .. 50 0 0 Salaries— Temporary loan repaid .. .. 50 0 0 Masters .. .. .. .. 4,160 13 6 The Bight Bev. the Warden, payment for Special payment to late Headmaster 500 0 0 prize .. .. .. .. 16 3 Bursar (moiety of salary) .. .. 50 0 0 Hire of chairs, gas, &c. .. .. 0 2 9 Porter .. .. .. 100 0 0 Law charges recovered .. .. 3 2 0 Books .. .. .. .. 266 15 9 Balance carried forward, 15th May, 1889 1,63116 9 Prizes .. .. .. .. 27 13 2 Printing and advertising .. .. 50 410 Insurances.. .. .. .. 75 1 10 Coals and gas .. .. .. 44 1 0 Sweeping chimneys and scavengering.. 13 16 0 School fees refunded .. .. 10 0 Ironmongery, chemicals, <_x. .. 10 0 6 Games Account— Grant to Games Fund .. .. 120 18 0 Grant to Cricket Pavilion, Hagley Park 50 0 0 Rent cricket-ground, Hagley Park .. 16 0 0 Papers and magazines, boys' readingroom .. .. .. .. 12 16 4 Repairs^ . Masters' houses .. .. .. 29 1.9 Sundry repairs, buildings and bath and work in school grounds .. .. 25 12 7 Rates, Rural Section 319 .. .. 12 13 2 Law charges .. .. .. .. 4 9 0 Expenses connected with weekly tenancies— Repairs to cottages and fences .. 25 7 3 Rates .. .. .. .. 21 2 9 Insurance .. .. .. .. 3 110 Expenses of management— Salaries and auditors'fees .. .. 199 8 5 Telephone, half subscription .. 4 0 0 Inspecting farms .. .. .. 3 0 0 Stamps, stationery, and sundries .. 25 17 1 Debit balance on Library Account paid off 316 6 Deposit, Balfour Medal Account, transferred to Deposit Account .. .. 50 0 0 £6,779 8 11 £6,779 8 11 Building Account. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance carried forward, 15th May, 1889 6,36119 10 By Balance brought forward, Ist May, 1888 5,321 0 1 Alterations to gymnasium .. .. 4 0 3 Alterations to Mr. Worthy's house .. 24 4 2 W.C., &c, for new class-rooms.. .. 25 4 2 Building (late Principal's house) .. 211 10 0 Chapel, balance of Building Account .. 776 1 2 £6,361 19 10 £6,361 19 10 30th May, 1889. W. G. Brittan, Agent for Christ's College. Examined with books and vouchers and found correct.—A. McKellae, Auditor. 3rd June, 1889.

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2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin: Virgil, _Eneid 1., and XII., lines 1-444, also Georgic I.; Horace, Odes, Book 111. (Classical Side only); Cicero, Phil. 11., 1-24 ; Livy, Book XXIII., 1-16 ; Revised Latin Primer ; Bradley^ Aids to Latin Prose; sight translation; Roman history. Greek (Classical Side only): -Eschylus, Prometheus Vinctus ; Thucydides, Book VI., 1-53; Demosthenes, De Corona, 1-101; Abbott- and Mansfield's Greek Grammar; Sidgwick's Greek Prose; sight translation ; Greek history. English: Grammar, descriptive and historical; composition ; essay-writing and paraphrase ; Chaucer's Prologue; Shakespeare's As you like it, Macbeth; selections from Tennyson. Mathematics: Arithmetic; Euclid, Books 1.-IV. and VI.; algebra, to simultaneous quadratic equations and surds ; trigonometry, Lock's Trigonometry for Beginners. French: Brachet's French. Grammar ; Hachette's Third French Reader; translation; composition. German (Modern Side only): Otto's Conversation Grammar ; Hauff's Karavane ; sight translation. Science (Modern Side only) : Statics, dynamics, hydrostatics, sound and light. Lowest. —English : Geography—British Empire ; Gardner's History, pp. 1-80 ; grammar— parsing and analysis ; composition ; dictation ; repetition ; reading ; writing. French : Aim's First Course, exercises 1-25. Latin: Subsidia Primaria, pp. 1-24. Mathematics : Arithmetic, to compound rules ; definitions of Euclid.

3. Statement respecting Scholarships. Gould Scholarships. —These scholarships are two in number, and are given to deserving boys who require assistance. These scholarships cover the school fees and cost of books. Somes Scholarships. —About £450 annually is available for scholarships; they consist of three or four senior scholarships and eight junior scholarships. In addition to the amount given for the scholarships, an amount is given to assist the boarding expenses of boarders. The amount to be given in each case is now under consideration by the governing body. Besides these scholarships a considerable number of exhibitions are given to the sons of clergy and other boys who may require assistance. The value of the exhibitions is determined annually, according to the amount available from an endowment called " The Buller and Reay Scholarship Fund." .\bout £450 available for school annually. Prizes are also given from an endowment called "The Tancred History Prize Fund," for proficiency in history and English literature.

RANGIORA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. ] Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. .. 232 14 0■ By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. .. 131 1 9 School fees .. .. .. .. 212 15 0 ! Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 369 7 7 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 11l 210 . Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 11 411 ! Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 16 2 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 818 5 Bents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 4 0 5 Interest on current account .. .. 13 6 4 Travelling allowance to pupil .. .. 2 0 0 Postage, &c. .. .. .. ..059 Cheque-book .. .. .. ..042 £556 11 10 ; £556 11 10 A. H. Cunningham, Chairman. Geo. John Leech, Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.- —Latin : Grammar, Public School Latin Primer; composition, connected prose; translation, portions of Virgil's JEneid (Book II.), Livy (Book I.), Cicero; Roman history, Smith's Smaller History, pp. 1-177. Mathematics : Arithmetic, the whole subject; algebra and Euclid, as for junior scholarship; trigonometry (Lock's Elementary), one pupil. English: Mason's Outlines of English Grammar, Morris's Elementary Historical Grammar, Abbott's How to write clearly, Brooke's Primer of English Literature; parsing, analysis, and composition. French: Brachet's Grammar; composition; translation, Moliere's Misanthrope, Racine's Berenice. English history : Gardiner's Outlines; Stuart and Brunswick periods (one girl, matriculation work). Geography: Hughes's Class-book, most of Europe ; mapping. Science : Botany and physiology, Murche's text-books (one girl, junior scholarship botany and heat). Drawing, book-keeping,.&c. [Note. —One boy took Greek (Initia Grseca, Part 1., early portion); and one girl took German (Otto's Conversation-Grammar, early portion).] >.' Lowest. —Latin: Grammar and exercises as far as the fifth declension. French: First fifty exercises in Aim's First French Book. English : Easy composition and parsing, dictation ; reading

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and spelling, Royal Reader IV. History : Brief outlines from Norman period to end of George 111. Geography : Philip's First Geography, Europe, New Zealand and Australia; mapping. Arithmetic : Compound rules, weights and measures, easy mental arithmetic. Elementary drawing and writing.

3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to three boys.

ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL. L Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. ! Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves.. .. 549 17 8 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 390 6 1 School fees .. .. .. .. 297 11 7 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 615 9 6 Books, &0., sold, and other refunds .. 17 14 10 j Prizes .. .. .. .. 913 6 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 337 111 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 24 9 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, .. .. 28 0 6 Book and stationery account, and other temporary advances .. .. 33 19 7 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 54 0 5 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 2 11 11 Interest on current account .. .. 36 13 0 Other expenditure, unclassified .. 7 2 6 £1,202 6 0 £1,202 6 0 W. 0. Walker, Chairman. J. E. Buchanan, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest ol_ssesHighest.— Matriculation work. Lowest. —Various stages.

AKAROA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. : Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 170 510| By Total cost of management .. .. 12 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 123 6 G I Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 275 0 0 Interest on fixed deposit .. .. 410 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 215 0 School fees .. .. ... .. 86 2 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. 15 14 0 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 7 17 Book and stationery account, and other temporary advances .. .. 16 9 4 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 8 5 6 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 45 11 0 Interest on current account .. .. 1 16 6 Legal expenses • .. .. .. 417 8 Incidentals .. .. .. .. 010 11 Balance at end of year.. .. .. 19 4 0 £391 5 11 £391 5 11 W. B. Tosswill, Chairman. Examined and found correct —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin: Virgil, JEneid, Book I.; Eutropius, History of Rome; Public School Primer; Bennett's Prose Exercises. French : Macmillan's Course, I. and part of 11., with First Reader. English : Smith and Hall's Grammar, Contie's Word Expositor, Gray's Elegy, Macaulay's Horatius, Milton's Lycidas, &c.; parsing, analysis, composition. Arithmetic: Whole subject. Euclid: Books I. and 11. Algebra: Hall and Knight's, to simple equations. History : Epochs of Modern History (The Settlement of the Constitution). Geography : Cornwell's School Geography, Patterson's New Zealand. Drawing. Lowest.- —-Latin : Macmillan's First Year. English : Morrison's Grammar, parsing, composition. Arithmetic: Weights and measures. Euclid: Book I. History: Gardiner's History, to end of Charles 11. Geography : European outlines, New Zealand, and Australia. Drawing.

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TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 10 1 8 By Management— £ s. d. Endowments— Office salaries .. .. .. 69 7 10 Current income from reserves .. 1,549 15 5 Other office expenses .. .. 44 13 0 Irfterest on moneys invested.. .. 157 10 0 Other expenses of management .. 42 16 10 Interest on unpaid purchase-money .. 1 17 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,403 5 9 Boarding-school fees .. ... .. 833 15 2 Examiners'fees .... .. 880 Evening Mail discount .. .. 0 6 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 36 18 6 Error, December, 1885 .. .. 11 19 1 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 82 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 99 14 0 Purchases and new works .. .. 83 16 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 7 4 0 Rents, insuranco, and taxes .. .. 16 2 0 Interest on current account .. .. 5 7 0 Endowments — Proceeds invested .. .. .. 500 0 0 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. .. .. .. 11 19 2 Cheque-book, commission, &c... .. 4 11 6 Balance in bank .. 102 110 Less unpaid cheques 13 0 10 — 89 1 0 Fixed deposit .. .. .. 60 0 0 £2,565 4 10 £2,565 4 lo W. Ziesler, Chairman. J. H. Bamfield, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James EdWard FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English: Bain's Higher English Grammar, Abbott's How to write clearly, Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People (part), Hodgson's Errors in English (part), essays, correction of faulty English, Milton's Comus, Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Bacon's Essays (selected). Latin: Virgil, iEneid, Book III.; Cicero's Letters (Macmillan's Series), in part; Caesar, Book 1., with Simpson's Caesarian Prose for Composition; unseen translation, varied three times a week; grammar. Greek: Initia Grasca; easy translation. French: Voyage autour de ma Chambre, X. de Maistre ; Anecdotes Hist, et Litt., Hachette ; grammar and composition, Macmillan's Course, 11. and 111. Mathematics : Arithmetic, Lock, &c.; geometry, Hamblin Smith, and Cuthbertson's Euclidian Geometry; Hall and Knight's Algebra'; Lock's Trigonometry for Beginners ; Blaikie's Elementary Dynamics. .Science : Practical physics (no text-book), elementary chemistry (boys); elementary natural history, Paul Bert's First Year of Scientific Knowledge (girls). Geography: Longman's for Australasia. History: Buckley's, Green's Short History, Epochs of English History (1688-1820). Commercial Class : Book-keeping by double-entry, correspondence. Lowest. —Longman's New Reader IV., Historical and Geographical Readers, Abbott's Parts of Speech, Park's First English Composition, Star Arithmetics, Goyen's Compound Rules, Bue's Early French Lessons, Southern Cross Copy-books, Colonial Drawing-books, freehand and geometrical drawing. Boys. —Cadet corps and junior drill; gymnastics, seniors and juniors. Girls. —Gymnastics, and drill with Indian clubs; plain and fancy needlework, and knitting.

3. Scholarships. The school gives free education to ten scholars of the South Canterbury Education Board.

WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ a. d. Expenditure. £ s. fl, To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 580 19 4 By Management— Current income from reserves .. .. 162 18 0 Office —Salary .. .. .. 8 6 0 Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 26 10 6 Other office expenses .. .. 10 0 Subsidy to South Canterbury Education Board .. .. .. .. 75 0 0 Examination expenses .. .. .. 12 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 22 10 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 015 5 Interest on current account .. .. 0 16 Plan of Albury sections .. .. 110 Exchange on cheques .. .. .. 0 8 0 Travelling expenses, members of Board .. 4 10 0 Balance in bank on 31st December, 1889— Current account .. .. ~ igo 13 i] On fixed deposits .. .. .. 465 0 0 i m° 710 . -770 710 Samuel W. Goldsmith, Chairman. G. H. Graham, Secretary. 'Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General,

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WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. > Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. 1,497 19 10 By Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 205 13 2 Paid by School Commissioners .. 53 11 10 Management— School fees— Salary .. .. .. ... 50 0 0 Boys .. .. .. .. 295 17 6 Other expenses of management. .. 5 0 3 Girls .. .. .. .. 225 13 4 Teachers' salaries and allowances — Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 55 8 6 Boys .. .. .. ..1,039 6 3 Interest on rents in arrear .. .. 417 4 Girls .. .. .. .. 333 6 8 Scholarship Account.. .. .. 25 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 12 10 0 Dr. balance.. .. .. .. 10 19 9 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 19 12 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 94 17 0 Book and stationery account, and other temporary advances .. .. 58 18 9 Site and buildings— Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 15 4 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 24 15 3 Interest on current account .. .. 37 7 0 Endowment—Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c.. .. .. 19 6 9 Interest on loan on buildings .. .. 227 10 0 Furnishings (Girls' School) .. .. 16 2 0 School appliances (Girls' School) .. 919 0 £2,169 8 1 £2,169 8 1 H. J. Miller, Chairman. George Sumpter, Secretary and Treasurer. Audited and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1889. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Petty cash in hand .. .. .. 111 9 Loan on buildings .. .. .. 3,500 0 0 Rents uncollected .. .. .. .. 371 6 3 Scholarship Fund .. .. .. 125 0 0 Pees uncollected, boys .. .. .. 334 9 0 Salaries accrued and unpaid .. .. 64 1 8 Fees uncollected, girls .. .. .. 149 13 4 Interest on mortgage to 31st December, 1889 113 15 0 Deferred-payment balances .. .. 556 16 0 Overdraft at Colonial Bank of New Zealand 12 11 6 School buildings. Reserves vested in Board by "The Waitaki High School Act, 1878," GeOrge Sumptbr, Secretary.

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys'. Highest. —Mathematics : Hamblin Smith's Euclid, Books I. to XL ; mechanics; algebra to theory of indices; arithmetic, all; H. Smith's Trigonometry to solution of triangles. Latin: Bradley's Arnold, to page 300; Bryan's Latin Prose; Livy, Hannibalian War; Horace, Odes; Virgil, -Eneid Book IV., Georgics Book IV.; Caesar, Book II.; Eutropius (Macmillan); Principia, Book 11., twenty pages. French : Chardenal, Courses 11. and III.; La Fontaine's Fables (Moriarty); Les Femmes Savantes (Macmillan's Reader, Part II.). English : Hale's Longer English Poems ; repetition, Traveller, Deserted Village, Lycidas ; Higher English Grammar ; paraphrases. Chaucer, Man of Lawe's Tale; Morris's Historical English Grammar; Burton's History of the Romans. Geography. Science: Physiology (Vincent Murche). Shorthand: Pitman's system. Book-keeping: Chambers's. Lowest. — Mathematics: Algebra, H. Smith's to simple equations ;■ arithmetic to end of decimal fractions. French : Chardenal's First Course, to exercise 120. Latin : Cook's Latin Course, to exercise 120; Abbott's Via Latina, exercises Ito 30. English : Royal Poetical Reader, Hale's English Grammar. Gardiner's English History. Petrie's Geography. Girls. Highest. —English : Mason's Grammar, pages 100 to 180 ; parsing, analysis ; Ancient Mariner, L'Allegro, II Penseroso, Deserted Village ; dictation, essays, composition and punctuation exercises. History: Morris's Class-book, England (Norman to Tudor period). Geography: Chisholm's, Europe (exclusive of British Isles), Australasia. French: Baume's Grammar (whole book) ; Chardenal's Course 11. and advanced exercises; translation, dictation, vocabularies. Latin : Principia, Part IV., pages 1 to 64, exercise 82 ; Caesar, Gallic War, selections from Books IV. and V.; Sallust's Bellum Catilinarium, chaps, i. to xxii. Mathematics : Arithmetic—Complex problems, square root, simple interest (including problems), mental arithmetic; algebra, Todhunter's for Beginners, exercises xxv. to problems leading to simultaneous quadratic equations; Euclid, Book 111., Prop. 16, to end of Book IV., exercises; Todhunter's Elementary Trigonometry, pages Ito 118. Chemistry : Mille_s Inorganic Chemistry, pages 1t097 ; problems. Lowest.- —English : Royal Star Reader VI. to page 103 ; composition and dictation; Blackie's Grammar to page 130; analysis and parsing.* History: Gardiner's England, William 111. to Victoria. Geography : Petrie's Europe (continental), Asia, Africa, North America; general definitions ; maps, Mathematics ; Arithmetic—Fractions, to division of money, weights, &c.;

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decimals to multiplication ; mental arithmetic and tables ; algebra,- to page 36. Latin : Principia, Book I. to page 30. French: Baume's, to page 40; Chardeual's, Course L, to chapter 130, exercises, dictation, vocabularies.

> ..... 4. Scholarships. The school gave free education to six scholars.

OTAGO BOYS' AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS. 1. Report of the Board. Sir,— Dunedin, 15th May, 1890. In accordance with section. 8 of " The Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Act, 1877," and of circular from the Education Department dated the 11th December last, I have the honour to forward herewith report of the Board of Governors of the Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools for the year ending the 31st December, 1889. In doing so I have great pleasure in stating that the schools are in a satisfactory condition as regards discipline and efficiency. During the year the enrolment of pupils in the Girls' School was 209. In the Boys' School the total number on the roll was 276, being about 32 less than in the previous year. This was accounted for by the fact that, at the end of the year 1888, 81 boys left the school either for college work or for situations. The average annual supply of new boys during the past five years has been about 87. During the year the Board, after having obtained a report from Mr. Donald Reid on the capabilities of the land, and a recommendation for its disposal, subdivided Runs No. 205 and No. 213a, Strath-Taieri, into four divisions—viz., Run No. 205d, 6,376 acres; Run No. 205e, 9,584 acres; Run No. 213a, 7,616 acres; Run No. 213d, 9,736 acres; and offered them for ten years' lease, from the Ist March, 1890 (the original leases expiring on that date), at upsets of Is., 9d., and 7d. per acre, with the result that they realised rentals of Is., ll^d., and 9d. per acre, or a total annual rental of £1,414 Bs., as against the original rent of £1,750 per annum. This rent shows a deficiency of £335 125., which the Board can ill afford, in view of the fact that a great number of the perpetual lessees at Strath-Taieri are applying for reductions in their rents from the Land Board under "The Selectors' Lands Revaluation Act, 1889." Up to the present time the Board has with difficulty been able to make both ends meet, but the shrinkage in revenue from endowments is such as to render this a difficult, if not impossible, task, and in order to provide, in a measure, for this shrinkage it has been compelled to arrange for the discontinuance of free education to holders of Education Board scholarships. At present the High Schools Board is giving free education to about 43 scholarship-holders, which is equal to, say, £518 per annum. The most of the scholarships in question have two years to run, and the holders will therefore be exempted from payment of fees until the expiry of that time ; so that the Board's funds will not be augmented from this source for some time to come. As I explained in rny report for the year 1888, the Board is compelled to pay the sum of £150 per annum to the Corporation of Dunedm for city rates, and on its behalf I would again strongly urge you to make another attempt during the coming session of Parliament to have it exempted from such payment. The report referred to fully explained the position of this matter, and gave reasons why the Board should not be called upon to pay city rates. I have, &c, D. M. Stuart, D.D., Chairman. The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington.

2. General Statement of Accounts of the Board of Governors for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. I Expenditure. £ s. d. To Endowments— By Overdraft at beginning of year .. 1,778 0 1 Reserves sold .. .. .. 1,428 5 7 Management— Income from reserves .. .. 3,384 15 10 Office salaries .. .. .. 178 6 8 Interest on moneys invested and on Legal account .. .. .. 15 12 6 unpaid purchase-money .. 182 11 4 Incidentals .. .. .. 87 0 4 Paid by School Commissioners .. 427 12 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 5,772 12 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,973 17 6 Boarding-school Account— Boys' boarding-school fees .. .. 35 9 2 Boys .. .. .. .. 37 0 0 Girls' boarding-school fees .. .. 972 5 0 Girls .. .. .. .. 787 7 7 Overdraft at end of year—. Reserves Account — Reporting and exBank .. .. .. .. 2,231 10 5 penses of management .. .. 121 18 8 Cheques to present .. ... 331 17 10 Prizes .. .. .. .. 37 8 1 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 79 13 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, including salaries of two janitors .. .. 265 7 10 County and city rates .. .. 326 7 9 Site and buildings, from current revenue—Repairs, &o. .. .. 218 13 0 Insurance premiums.. .. .. 52 9 6 Interest on current account, including discount of bills discounted .. 269 12 11 Endowment Sales Account—P. McGill, land-purchase .. .. .. 20 12 7 Repayment of loans .. .. .. 1,920 2 2 £11,968 4 8 £11,968 4 8

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Balance Account, 1889. £ s. d. I £ »■ dBalances brought down, Ist January, 1889— | Balances down, uncompleted purchases, Ist Gunn > .. .. .. .. 533 19 8 January, 1889 .. .. .. 8,723 3 7 Bank .. .. .. .. 1,778 0 1 Ordinary revenue .. .. .. 7,793 19 6 Ordinary expenditure .. .. .. 8,249 910 I Interest due, personal accounts .. .. 529 11 0 Amount of-uncompleted purchase cancelled 1,643 6 0 I Balances carried forward, 31st Dec, 1889— Balance uncompleted purchases .. .. 7,672 15 9 I Gunn .. .. .. •• 267, 8 I Colonial Bank .. .. .. ' 2,563 8 3 __^877~101_ | £19,877 10 11 £ s. d. £ s- ABalances brought down. Ist January, 1890— . ' Balance down, uncompleted purchases, Ist Gunn .. .. .. .. 267 8 7 January, 1890 .. .. •• 7,672 15 9 Colonial Bank .. .. .. 2,563 8 3 £2,830 16 10

3. Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1889. Assets. £ s. d. [ Liabilities. £ s. d. Rents overdue .. .. .. .. 689 8 8 Salary unpaid .. .. .. .. 125 0 0 | Tradesmen's accounts unpaid .. .. 73 210 j £198 2 10

4. Statements and Balance-sheets of Special Funds for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Statement of Income and Expenditure of the Gray Bussell Scholarship Fund. Receipts. £ s. d. j Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance brought forward, Ist January, 1889 02 6 7\ By Amount paid J. Watt, scholarship .. 40 0 0 Rent from farm, Signal Hill .. .. 4 7 6 j Balance in bank .. .. .. 26 14 1 Interest on deposit .. 17 10 0 Cash in hand .. .. .. .. 17 10 0 £84 i 1 j £84 41 Capital Account, Gray Bussell Scholarship Fund. £ s. d. £ s. d. To Amount invested on mortgage .. 726- 4 11 By Capital .. .. .. .. 1,000 0 0 Balance in bank on 31st December, 1889 273 15 1 £1,000 0 0 £1,000 0 0 Statement of Income and Expenditure of the Bichardson Cadet Corps Fund. Receipts. £ s. d. . Expenditure. £ _. d. To Balance brought forward, Ist January, 1889 139 16 9I By Amount paid Otago High School Cadet Corps .. .. .. .. 26 10 0 Balance on 31st December, 1889 — In bank .. .. .. 63 6 9 Invested on mortgage .. .. 50 0 0 £139 16 9 j £139 16 9 Capital Account, Bichardson Cadet Corps Fund. £ s. d. £ s. dTo Amount deposited in Colonial Bank of By Original capital .. .. .. 150 0 0 New Zealand .. .. .. 179 12 0 Amount of profit on Bank of New Zealand shares sold .. .. .. 29 12 0 £179 12 0 £179 12 0 D. M. Stuakt, Chairman. C. Macandrew, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

5. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —Subjects of the junior University scholarship examination, and according to the range thereof — viz., Latin, mathematics, French, German, English literature and language, chemistry, and mechanics. It is attempted to offer the fullest teaching that time and circumstances allow. Lowest. —Latin, drawing (much time is devoted to this subject), object-lessons, arithmetic, English grammar (and especially memoriter work), first notions of science, reading, and writing. Two lessons in gymnastics are included in the weekly time-table. Girls. Highest. —English : Chaufcer, Prologue ; Shakespeare, Coriolanus ; Pope, Essay on Criticism ; Macaulay, Essay on Milton; Selections from Prose Writers, 1490-1684; Roman history, Kings and early'Republic; Morris's Historical English Grammar; composition, &c. Latin: Virgil, _Eneid, Book Vl.; Livy, Book XXII. (advanced section in addition); Horace, Odes, Book IV.; selections from Tacitus and Cicero ; at-sight translation—Sallust, Jugurtha, 61 chapters; grammar,

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composition, &c. French: Parry's Passages for Translation ; Moliere, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ; grammar, etymology, composition, &c. German : Fasnacht's Grammar, HaufFs Die Karavane, Mathematics: Arithmetic, the whole subject; algebra to quadratic equations; geometry, Euclid. Books IT-IV., VI.; trigonometry, Lock's Trigonometry. Botany : The morphology and physiology of the botanical types specified in the junior scholarship schedule. Chemistry: The non-metallic elements ; revision of the metals. (The senior division revised the whole of inorganic chemistry.) Lowest. —English : Longman's Fourth Reader. History : Nelson's Stories. Geography : Australasia, chief oceans, seas, &c. Physical geography : Explanation of geographical terms, &c. Grammar: Simple analysis and parsing. Object-lessons: Simple lessons on common objects, with a view to subsequent composition on the subject of lesson. French : Chardenal's First French Course. Arithmetic : Simple and compound rules in money and avoirdupois, simple problems, mental arithmetic.

6. Scholarships. Free education is given to holders of scholarships from the Otago Education Board, and also to candidates at the scholarship examinations who gain 50 per cent, of the attainable marks. The numbers for the year were—Boys, 38; girls, 25. Free education was also given at the Boys' School to the holder of a scholarship from the Grey Education Board, and at the Girls' School to one from the Westland Education Board.

SOUTHLAND HIGH SCHOOLS. 1. Report of the Board. Sir,— Invercargill, 31st March, 1890. I have the honour to present the following report of the operations of the Southland High Schools Board for the year ending 31st December, 1889 : — At the commencement of the year the constitution of the Board was : Mr. George Lumsden, Chairman, who, with Mr. H. Carswell, were nominees of His Excellency the Governor; Messrs. D. L. Matheson and J. A. Preshaw, elected by the Southland Education Board; and Mr. Thomas Fleming, Mayor of Invercargill. The only change was in December, when at the annual election of Mayor Mr. J. W. Mitchell was elected on the retirement of Mr. Fleming. In the last annual report reference was made to a change in the teaching staff of the schools, four new teachers having been appointed. The Board has reason to be satisfied with the change. The number of pupils in the Girls' School has increased satisfactorily, but at the end of the year the number of boys had only increased by one. The continued commercial depression is probably the chief reason of the increase in the Boys' School being so small. The scientific-lecture hall and chemical laboratory, to which reference was made in the last annual report, was formally opened by Sir Robert Stout on the 16th April; and practical science is now fully established as one of the branches of study at the schools. The Board has not yet seen its way to make any provision for boarders. If satisfactory arrangements could be made there is no doubt the schools would increase more rapidly. The leases of some of the Board's endowments matured during the year, and the lands have been leased at fair rents. In some cases, when rents have been excessive, the Board has exercised its power to make reasonable concessions. An examination of the schools by outside examiners was made towards the end of the year, but the value of such examinations can only be ascertained when they have become established as periodical, when comparisons can be made. The annual cash returns, which have been duly audited, are appended hereto. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington. Geo. Lumsden, Chairman.

2. General Statement of the Accounts of the Boys' and Girls' High Schools Board for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance in bank at beginning of year .. 322 17 7 By Office —Salary .. .. .. 75 0 0 Bank of New Zealand, fixed deposit from Teachers' salaries and allowances (inlast year .. .. .. 2,106 011 eluding fees for drawing and paintEndowments — ing paid to visiting teacher, £18 45.) 1,242 7 4 Reserves sold .. .. .. 116 17 0 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 31 10 0 Income from reserves .. .. 575 19 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 10 1 0 Interest on moneys invested and on Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 66 9 3 unpaid purchase-money .. 98 17 5 Gleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 00 17 1 Paid by School Commissioners .. 157 1 4 Book and stationery account, and other School fees, Boys' School .. .. 418 3 8 temporary advances .. .. 32 18 11 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds, Boys' Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 18 2 6 School .. .. .. 28 1 5 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 36 1 6 Fees received for extra subjects, Boys' Expended on site or buildings .. 301 4 0 School .. .. .. 4 4 0 Beserves—Rates, expenses of leasing, School fees, Girls' School .. .. 238 5 0 inspection, __e. .. .. .. 30 1 7 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds, Girls' Robert Mills, refund deposit on contract 7 0 0 School .. .. .. 16 6 0 School furniture .. .. .. 3 3 8 Fees received for extra subjects, Girls' Chemicals .. .. .. 13 2 9 School .. .. .. 14 0 0 Stamps, telegrams, &c. .. .. 5 110 C. \Y. Brown, deposit for survey fees .. 40 0 0 Balance in bank at end of year — Current account .. .. .. 91 11 0 Fixed deposit account .. .. 2,166 011 £4,196 13 4_ £4,196 13 4 Geo. Lumsden, Chairman. Charles Rout, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGfjßald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1889. Assets. £ s. d. Inabilities. £ s. d. Bank of New Zealand— Sundry accounts unpaid .. .. 17 2 6 Fixed deposit .. .. .. 2,166 Oil Contracts entered into— Balance'current account .. .. 91 11 0 J. S. Aldred, painting .. .. .. 45 0 0 Rent of reserves due and unpaid.. .. 81 4 6 W. Peasey, school desks, fencing, &G. .. 32 7 0 Reserves, sold on deferred-payment instalments due and unpaid .. .. 329 2 0 £94 9 6 School fees due and unpaid (including sta- -^^ tionery) .. .. .. .. 197 14 10 Freehold property, Sections 27 and 28, Block XIII., Town of Invercargill .. * Reserves vested in Board by Acts of General Assembly .. .. .. .. * £2,805 13 3 * Value of property not estimated. Geo. Lumsden, Chairman. Charles Rout, Treasurer. Examined and found eorrect. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

i. Work, of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Requirements for the junior scholarship examinations of the University of New Zealand. Lowest. —The Fourth Standard of the primary schools.

5. Scholarships. Eighteen scholarships of the Southland Education Board were held at the school. [Approximate Cost of I'apcr. —Preparation, nil; printing {1,450 copies). £__.]

By Authority: Gbobge DIDSBXJBY, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB9o.

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