EDUCATION: REPORTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. [In continuation of E.-9, 1892.]

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1893 Session I, E-09

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1893. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: REPORTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. [In continuation of E.-9, 1892.]

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

SECONDAEY SCHOOLS INCORPORATED OR ENDOWED. Name Act of Incorporation Remarks JName - or Institution. K-emarKS. Auckland College and Grammar School .. 1877, No. 51, Local. Auckland Girls' High School .. .. 1878, No. 55, Local .. Under management of Education Board. Not in operation in 1892. Thames High School .. .. .. 1878, No. 54, Local. Whangarei High School.. .. .. 1878, No. 63, Local .. Act may be repealed by Gazette notice under Act of 1885, No. 30.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. Wanganui Endowed School ... .. [Nil] .. .. Endowment, Reg. 1., fol. 52. See also D.-16, 1866, p. 9. Wellington College and Girls' High School 1887, No. 17, Local. Napier High Schools .. .. .. 1882, No. 11, Local. Gisborne High School .. .. .. 1885, No. 8, Local .. Not in operation in 1892. Nelson College .. .. .. .. 1858, No. 38. Nelson College for Girls .. .. .. 1882, No. 15, Local .. Under management of Nelson College. Greymouth High School.. .. .. 1883, No. 21, Local .. Not in operation in 1892. Hokitika High School .. .. .. 1883, No. 7, Local .. Not in operation in 1892. Christ's College Grammar School .. Canterbury Ordinance, A department of Christ's College, Canterbury. 1855 Christchurch Boys' High School .. .. 1878, No. 30, Local .. Under management of Canterbury College. Christchurch Girls' High School ... .. [Nil] .. .. 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 .. Not in operation in 1892. 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.

SUMMARY OP THE ACCOUNTS OP INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR 1892 FURNISHED BY THE GOVERNING BODIES OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. Receipts. £ s. a. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Credit balances on Ist January, 1892 .. 12,667 6 7 By Liabilities on Ist January, 1892 .. 15,150 5 9 Endowment reserves sold .. .. 722 5 2 Office management and expenses .. 2,156 15 10 Rents of reserves ~ .. .. 20,583 0 5 Teachers'salaries .. .. .. 31,010 19 3 Interest on investments .. .. 3,030 12 7 Boarding-school accounts .. .. 3,257 11 10 Reserves Commissioners .. .. 2,254 811 Examination fees and expenses .. 620 7 1 School fees.. .. .. .. 20,766 6 8 Scholarships and prizes .. .. 2,170 12 7 Boarding-school fees;. ... .. 3,361 8' 1 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 1,151 14 2 Books, &c, sold, and refunds .. 1,832 13 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 2,213 4 1 Sundries not classified .. .. 194 19 5 Buildings, furniture, rent, insurance, Interest on current account .. .. 11l 6 6 rates, &c. .. .. .. 5,793 16 9 Debit balances, 31st Deoember, 1892 .. 15,300 311 Interest .. .. .. .. 3,015 1 0 Sundries not classified .. .. 1,516 1 9 Credit balances, 31st December, 1892.. 12,768 1 2 £80,824 11 3 £80,824 11 3 I—E. 9. ~~~"~ " "

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Income of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1892.

Prom E: idowments. Schools. Cr. Balances on Jan. 1,1892. Paid by School Commissioners. School Pees. Boardingschool Fees. Stationery and Books sold, and Refunds. Sundries unclassified. Interest on Current Account. Dr. Balances, Dec. 31,1892. Totals. Sales., Rents. Interest on Moneys invested. £ S. d. 793 3 : 10 13 7 10 £ s. a. £ s. d. 2,589 19 2 £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. 2,243 8 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. 0 11 6 £ s. a. £ s. a. 31 16 0 £ s. a. £ s. d. 5,658 18 6 63 7 10 1,015 8 8 395 12 2 1,020 13 5 5,010 19 8 975 4 9 6,907 19 1 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 Greymouth High School Hokitika High School Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School Christ's College Grammar School . - *. Rangiora High School ' .. * Akaroa High School Ashburton High School Timaru High School . . ,.-... .-. Waimate High School .. * .'. Waitaki High School Otago High Schools Southland High Schools ... ■ 62* 9; 5 : 73*19 5 •• ; 1,738 16 1 1,089 14 9 *1,257 9 11 776 16 3 943 11 1 551 12 4 1,035 13 6 21**0 0 •• ;;,„:■ 279 3 9 19 15 0 436 1 6 226 0 0 844 14 4 1,671 18 8 1,037 16 6 50 0 0 489 13 0 6 0 0 51 16 6 3,242 15 4 371 9 2 1,992 1 7 186 8 0 155 4 0 573 14 7 1,272 10 10 296 12 6 1,275 5 9 2,623 16 4 890 3 11 '• 31512 3 157 5 0 49 9 0 753 2 8 47 0 0 44 13 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 150 0 0 230, 4 6 139 15 6 190 7 4 247 4 4 300 0 0 168 17 0 202 7 0 291 18 0 929 6 8 2,736* 4 1 1,092 13 5 2,141*15 0 •'•• 1,108 is 0 1,668*14 1 2310 2 1,19012 11 017 0 76 15 3 * •' * 19*12 0 73 1 0 83* 6 8 0 0 6 296* 7 11 *1,100 14 4 36. 19 0 2,425 18 4 4,293 13 7 1,436 8 1 6,694 1 4 829 16 9 1,040 0 7 5,035 16 4 3,345 0 4 13,944 10 8 421 16 6 388 0 5 1,266 13 1 2,759 15 8 1,239 15 7 2,540 1 1 9,831 12 7 4,709 4 7 •• 1,228 10 0 1,640 2 0 2,805 7 0 203 7 0 108 0 0 312 15 6 558 7 2 ' 12*18 8 60 11 10 . ioo"o 0 237' 3 10 930- 3 -2- .. . 18*18 .3 8,098* 0 8 32 1 6 '■ ' .. 4 18 6 19 16 8 500 2 0 2**5 0 117*12 11 •■ •• •• 6' 1 0 3*15 0 360* 5 4 310 0 8 904 8 1 198 17 0 430 0 0 61 12 6 109 12 8 722 5 2 115 0 038 15 0 18 18 0 150 15 4 172 15 4 63 1 8 384 8 3 249 7 4 2,254 8 11 553 18 8 3,092 19 4 456 10 10 568* 4 0 15 12 0 •• " 2,949' 16 10 2,799 13 6 12,667 6 7 15" *9 0 I I 20,583 0 5 3,030 12 7 20,766 6 8 3,361 8 1 1,832 13 0 194 19 5 111 6 6 15,300 3 11 80,824 11 3 ■', Totals * Disregarding money invested on Capital Acc< tunt.

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Expenditure of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1892.

Schools. Expense of Liabilities Boards' on ManageJan. 1,1892. ruent: Office and Salaries. School Salaries. Boarding- Ex ™ rs ' school Fees Account. Ex £ e n n d ses . Scholarships, Exhibitions, Prizes. Land, Printing, Buildings, Stationery, Furniture, Advertising, Insurance, &c. Rent, Rates. Cleaning, SihmMm FueljLight, Interest. £$$3*1. Cr. Balances, Dec. 31,1892. Totals. £ s. d. £ s. d. 347 2 11 £ s. a. 3,423 6 1 £ s. d. £ s. a. £ s. d. .53 3 0 £ s. d. 71 11 0 £ s. a. 733 19 2 30 12 3 37 8 3 54 10 4 97 3 7 865 12 10 453 8 2 543 16 2 £ s. d. 70 18 6 £ s. a. 253 2 9 £ s. d. 219 5 3 £ s. a. 486 9 10 32 15 7 £ s. a. 5,658 18 t 63 7 1C 1,015 8 6 395 12 S 1,020 13 c 5,010 19 £ 975 4 £ 6,907 19 1 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 Greymouth High School Hokitika High School Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School Christ's College Grammar School Rangiora High School Akaroa High School Ashburton High School Timaru High School Waimatc High School Waitaki High School Otago High Schools Southland High Schools •• 143 14 2 6 1G 5 32 10 0 5 3 0 25 6 0 48 10 9 67 17 0 118 16 8 725 0 0 269 0 4 710 0 0 931 0 0 250 0 0 2,175 8 4 315 0 3216 3 14'ii 0 3 10 0 25 14 0 3 8 2 6 10 6 102 14 11 11 15 0 21 18 4 53 3 11 89 5 8 1,141**4 8 26" 0 0 19**7 7 47*0 1 53 9 2 1,788* 10 10 11 4 4 203 17 4 79 1G 6 181 0 3 1,100 4 7 2,46019 5 •• 5210 0 89**3 3 141 5 0 73 17 2 1,750 9 8 150 0 0 1,996 5 9 50 0 0 60 0 0 3,081 7 6 1,645 0 0 3,629 8 5 380 0 0 200 0 0 522 6 0 1,446 7 8 75 0 0 1,324 6 4 5,036 13 2 1,180 0 0 20 6 0 185 8 6 23 9 4 188 11 6 114 7 10 67 14 9 2 12 0 79 2 7 1,869 8 10 1,283 16 1 1,300 12 0 769 16 7 969 1 7 60 4 2 1,017 2 0 4,293 13 r i 1,436 8 ] 6,694 1 4 829 16 i 1,040 0 7 5,035 16 4 3,345 0 4 13,944 10 8 421 16 t 388 0 5 . 1,266 13 1 2,759 15 8 1,239 15 7 2,540 1 1 9,831 12 7 4,709 4 7 381 *4 9 10 0 2 1,402 12 10 5o"o 1 440 14 8 204 19 0 428 12 3 63*11 5 337 "o 0 10 19 0 976 10 11 86 1 9 375 12 6 10 6 10 40 15 5 162 5 7 83 12 8 •• 175 16 7 80 4 0 226 4 0 78 5 0 81 2 0 275 3 0 73 18 0 287 0 0 879 5 2 111 9 3 75 19 7 150 4 4 6 17 5 4 18 6 67 12 5 40 15 7 46 19 5 23 6 3 234 12 4 15 18 0 8 12 0 31 13 0 127 14 1 306 "o 4 125 5 2 49 4 9 179 18 2 7,688*17 2 5 14 3 305 5 7 3 0 0 0 10 31 11 C 0 6 0 392 0 G 0 7 0 27 18 4 102 1 9 19 11 0 70 0 0 261 19 4 82 5 5 •• •• 12 12 0 38 0 0 3 3 0 2 12 0 7 4 3 19 1 0 36 5 0 8 2 7 11 10 0 35 8 5 3 9 8 366 0 11 178 16 C 17 10 1 122*11 11 866 8 6 1,102 6 11 404 3 10 •• 2,663*13 0 37 10 0 564 10 0 111 14 4 •• . I 62**7 6 8 10 3 28 4 G 102 9 6 24 19 6 70 17 4 479 17 4 03 2 11 82 10 0 238 9 5 880 1 4 156 8 2 242 16 10 0 7 0 2,340*13 9 Totals .. 15,150 5 9 2,156 15 10 31,010 19 3 3,257 11 10 2,170 12 7 1,516 1 9 620 7 1 1,151 14 2 5,793 10 9 2,213 4 1 3,015 1 0 12,768 1 2 80,824 11

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STAFF, ATTENDANCE, FEES, AND SALARIES AT SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

Schools. Sti ;tendi ,nce for Last Ten Juartor of 1892. 2 S» H^ or oi 8 S > a) DO <P & o m O <D a Annual Ral ;es of Pees. Salaries at Ri End of t,tes paid at Year. i 3 DO DD .3 o m >0 O o For Ordinary Day-school Course. For Board, exclusive of Day-school Tuition. Regular Staff. Visiting Teachers. Aucklana College and ) Grammar School j 13 h 84 7G 58 51 1 2 0.143 g.131 16. 12 \g. 6 (6. 31 \g. 27 6. 20 g. 25 i 138 116 I- £ s. a. J 10 10 o (880 . £ s. d. :} - £ s. a. 3,216 10 0 J £ s. a. ) 110 0 0 Whangarei High School 1 3 15 28 30 !} 13 - 55 8 8 0 8 8 0 i •100 0 0 725 0 0 ) Thames High School .. ) ) New Plymouth High ) School } Wanganui Endowed 1 School J {':: 8 10 12 15 19 23 I.. J 0 6 0 i 710 0 0 > Wanganui Girls' Wellington College Wellington Girls' High ) School j Napier Boys' High School Napier Girls' High School Nelson College Nelson Girls' College .. 3 2 75 19 72 50 34 24 27 23 84 31 45 87 25 31 49 44 6 1 5 9 165 53 121 147 61 59 81 76 161 50 117 135 5G 56 78 73 125 27 22 14 11 28 14 f 12 0 0 |900 J 10 10 0 [880 [ 13 4 0 "i 10 12 0 f 13 4 0 1 10 12 0 j 9 9 0 (880 (990 18 8 0 ] 12 12 0 18 8 0 j 12 12 0 18 8 0 18 0 0 15 0 0 (12 0 0 (990 [660 ( 12 12 0 19 9 0 ] 10 10 0 t 8 8 0 10 10 0 '990 (880 (990 (880 ( 10 0 0 '( 8 0 0 \ | 45 0 0 ' L 40 0 0 I 42 0 0 I - I 40 0 0 J- 40 0 0 j 40 0 0 | 40 0 0 I 52 10 0 I .. J ) I •• ( - 40 0 0 I .. I 142 0 0 I 42 0 0 i »1,475 0 0 = 620 0 0 i 1,175 0 0 965 0 0 i "835 ° ° 800 0 0 i '1,120 0 0 8 535 0 0 I 1*160 0 0 i Pees to Sc. of Design. ' Do. i St 0 0 Fees. Pees. Christ's College Gram- ) mar School J G6 69 13 148 137 42 2,875 0 0 304 0 0 Christchurch Boys' High ) School j Christchurch Girls' High) School 111 62 48 61 165 132 154 119 2,680 0 0 1,304 0 0 ."116 0 0 . 256 0 0 5 4 Rangiora High School .. {:.' 6 4 7 2 2 b. 16 g. 6 15 6 I" 380 0 0 , Akaroa High School 9 1 (6. 15 III- 2 lb. 11 \g. 26 J 6. 53 \g. 20 ! 15 I 35 3 200 0 0 Ashburton High School.. 8 25 12 525 0 0 Timaru High School 6 3 46 21 3 51 18 I 6 1,417 15 0 50 0 0 Waitaki High Schools—• Boys' Girls' 2 20 14 1 35 34 12 (10 0 0 | 18 8 0 £8 to £410/ 620 0 0 12 0 0 2 1 10 10 1 28 25 3 300 0 0 Otago Boys' HighSchool Otago Girls' High School 56 63 148 88 12 13 210 168 212 159 17 f 10 0 0 1 8 10 0 I 10 0 0 8 10 0 (440 (10 0 0 18 0 0 I 44 0 0 [ 40 0 0 I 35 0 0 2,787 17 6 1,657 17 0 260 0 0 340 0 0 and fees for music. Southland High School.. 5 1 31 30 1 lb. 39 (9- 24 1=2,262 I 59 2,129 7 1,180 0 0 Totals 120 46 31 1054 1085 92 347 28,203 19 6: 1,691 0 0 a And fees. & Headma: lave board and residence, school. K Three mistresses tTlfth Standard pupils from p ster d] 3 bo; irimi ha: Mui ard ary i no i ;ic-te£ at si scho< salarj ichers 3hool jl. -. Pi s are 1 ve ma paid ■ Also is, 1,81 isters b by fees £120 tc 32; girl! •oard a j. e ) Schoi 3, 930. .t sci Secot ol of tool, and one id master hi Art. i Boi i boards and resides. c T is a bouse. f Three mast* ird scholars at £30. i £i 1( 'wo teachers ers board at 0s. or £3 for r 1'Bo:

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REPORTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

AUCKLAND COLLEGE AND GEAMMAE SCHOOL. 1. Beport op the Board. Board.- —Of the Board of Governors of the Auckland College and Grammar School, thirteen meetings were held during the year 1892. At the end of that year the Board was constituted as follows: Chairman, Sir George Maurice O'Borke, 8.A.; Vice-Chairman, the Hon. Colonel Theodore Minet Haultain. Member of the Board ex officio, as being Mayor of the City of Auckland, Mr. William Crowther; elected by the Board of Education, Mr. Theophilus Cooper, Mr. James Marshall Lennox, and Mr. Samuel Luke; elected jointly 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 that district, Mr. Frederick Douglas Brown, M.A., B.Sc. (Professor of Chemistry and Experimental Physics in the Auckland University College), Sir George Maurice O'Borke, B.A. (Chairman of the Auckland University College Council), and Mr. William Pollock Moat; elected by the Senate of the University of New Zealand, the Hon. Colonel Theodore Minet Haultain, the Bey. Charles Mosley Nelson, M.A., and the Hon. Joseph Augustus Tole, 8.A., LL.B. 801 l the last term of the year 1892, the total number of pupils was 274—viz., 143 male and 131 females. The number of pupils receiving free tuition in the last term of 1892 was thirtyfive —viz., twenty-one male and fourteen female. Drawing, Workshops, &c. —Attention has been paid, as hitherto, to freehand, geometrical, and especially mechanical drawing. Good results have been obtained in the workshop. Gymnastics. —lmprovements and additions have been made to the gymnastic appliances, and the classes under Mr. Carrollo, Drill Instructor, bave done good work. Orchestra. —The orchestra instituted in the year 1890, by Mr. Trevithick, Assistant Master, has continued to. receive his gratuitous services. The orchestra meets once a week, outside of school hours, for receiving instruction and for practice, and performs on the occasions of the school " speeches " and prize day. Singing. —ln August last, Mr. Trevithick commenced classes in singing on the girls' side of the school, giving one hour a week for that purpose. German. —Mr. Watkins, French master, has continued to conduct classes for the teaching of the German language, which is held outside of school hours, and without any payment of fees. Endowments. —The endowments which were set apart for the Auckland Girls' High School remain unutilised, and at the same time the wants of this school, caused by the opening of the girls' department, are urgent. When the Girls' High School was closed, a portion of this building and of the play-ground, which had been designed exclusively for boys, was appropriated to the school for girls ; and this arrangement, which was intended to be temporary, has now been in operation for more than four years. The present accommodation in both departments is barely adequate, seeing that there was an increase of thirty-two pupils for the third term over the third term of 1891, when the school was then considered somewhat crowded. W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 793 3 10 By Management— - Current income from reserves.. .. 2,589 19 2 Office salary .. .. .. 100 0 0 School fees.. ..' .. .. 2,243 8 0 Other office expenses .. .. 58 17 1 Interest on deposits— Commission, &c, to collector .. 188 5 10 Bank of New Zealand " .. .. 15 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,423 6 1 Post Office Savings Bank .. .. 16 16 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 4 0 0 Miscellaneous refunds .. .. 0 11 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 49 3 0 Printing, stationery, and aavertising .. 71 11 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, (feeSchool .. .. .. .. 55 13 9 Property .. .. .. .. 15 4 9 Book and stationery account, and other temporary advances .. .. 91 10 8 School requisites .. .. .. 107 14 7 Fencing, repairs, &c.— School .. .. .. .. 269 1 9 Property .. .. .. .. 257 10 2 Rents, insurance, and taxes — School .. .. .. .. 48 14 4 Property .. .. .. .. 83 0 11 Insurance .. .. .. 75 12 0 Interest on current account .. .. 3 2 9 Interest on loans .. .. .. 250 0 0 Contribution to swimming sports .. 3 0 0 „ cricket club .. 2 0 0 athletic sports .. 10 0 0 „ musical and dramatic entertainment .. 5 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 486 9 10 £5,658 18 6 18 6

W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Boys: Latin, mathematics, English, French, chemistry, electricity, as for Junior University Scholarships. Girls: The same, with the substitution of heat and botany for chemistry and electricity, and the addition of drawing and painting. Lowest. —Boys : Latin —Elementa Latina, pp. Ito 81; French —Chardenal's First Course, exs. 1 to 103, and verbs; English—Davidson and Alcock's Intermediate Grammar (except analysis of complete sentences), reading and repetition from Macmillan's Fifth Globe Eeader and Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Borne; History—The Brief; Geography—Longmans' Shilling, pp. 1 to 121; Object-lessons on various minerals, raw products, and materials for manufacture; Composition on subjects of object-lessons; Arithmetic — Compound rules, weights and measures, miscellaneous examples, practice (easy), mental arithmetic. Girls : French—Chardenel's First Course, ex. Ito 70, and verbs; English—reading, spelling, &c, from Longmans' Fifth Beader, pp. Ito 217, repetition Edinburgh after Flodden, and extracts from Lady of the Lake; Grammar—Most of Davidson and Alcock's Intermediate; History—The Brief, to end of Plantagenets ; Geography— Longmans' Shilling, pp. Ito 109; Composition; Sewing; Arithmetic—simple and compound rules. 4. Scholarships. College. —The College gave free education to ten foundation scholars, fifteen holders of certificates of proficiency from the Education Board, eight Bawlings scholars, and seven children of members of the teaching staff. Bawlings (£lO and books). —Seven boys.

AUCKLAND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Beceipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. 13 710 By Rates on endowment for 1892 .. .. 30 12 3 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 50 0 0 Balance .. .. .. 32 15 7 £63 7 10 £63 7 10 Samuel Luke, Chairman. Vincent E. Bice, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

WHANGABEI HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. a. i Expenditure. £ s. a. To Balance .. .. .. .. 6 0 3 By Office expenses and law costs .. -.. 8 5 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 24 8 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 269 0 4 Paia by School Commissioners .. .. 150 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 318 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 202 7 0 Insurance ana taxes .. .. .. 012 4 Refund from separate account No. 1 .. 6 0 0 Deposit on building site .. .. 50 0 0 Interest on mortgage on building site .. 3 10 0 Transfer to separate accounts Nos. 1 and 2 0 6 2 Balance .. .. .. 53 3 11 \ £388 15 9 £388 15 9 James M. Kielen, Chairman. L. L. Cubitt, Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

THAMES HIGH SCHOOL. I.—Beport oe the Board. During the year the school has been regularly visited by the Visiting Committee of the Board, and on all occasions they found the order and discipline excellent, and the pupils fully employed in their respective classes. The difficulty that was at first experienced in having the school independently examined, without expense to the Board, has now been in a great measure removed, as for some years past nearly all the pupils of the upper forms are candidates at the public examinationsin December and January. At these last examinations two pupils passed the Senior Civil Service examination, two passed the matriculation examination, and five were placed in the third division at the Junior Scholarship examination, and got special mention for superiority in science. These results are, in the opinion of the Governors, of a satisfactory character, and afford practical evidence of the valuable work that is being done at the institution. It is therefore to be regretted that the Board's application for assistance financially has not yet been recognised by Government, but the Governors trust that the much-needed aid will shortly be forthcoming, in order that the school may

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be enabled to continue its career of usefulness, and achieve still greater success. As showing the public appreciation of the school it may be pointed out that for the year ending 31st December, 1890, the attendance was fifty-one, in 1891 it was fifty-six, and in 1892 fifty-eight. H. J. Greenslade, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. a. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 29 8 0 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 173 2 2 Current income from reserves .. .. 155 16 9 Office— Paia by School Commissioners .. .. 250 0 0 Salary .. .. .. .. 30 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 168 17 0 Other office expenses .. .. 210 0 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 122 1 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 725 0 0 Fees, fines, &c. .. .. .. 16 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 315 0 Sale of houses on reserve .. .. 21 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 32 16 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 11 12 9 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 17 13 0 Dr. Balance at end of year £318 711 Interest on current account .. .. 14 11 0 Less cash in hand .. 22 0 0 Endowment .. .. .. .. 8 2 6 296 7 11 School requisites .. .. .. 25 14 0 £1,044 16 8 £1,044 16 8 James McGowan, Chairman. Bichard A. Heald, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct, subject to the alteration initialled.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

. . . 3. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin, French, English, mathematics, and science (chemistry and electricity) for Junior University Scholarship examination. Lowest. —Nearly all the pupils admitted to the school have passed the Sixth Standard in the primary schools; they are therefore able to commence Norris's Primer of English Grammar and Abbott's English Composition; they also begin to learn Latin. French, geometry, and algebra.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Beceipts. £ s. d. - Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 62 9 5 By Management— Current income from reserves .. .. 436 1 6 Office salary .. .. .. 25 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 230 4 6 Other expenses .. .. .. 0 6 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 291 18 0 " Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 710 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 26 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 19 7 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 47 0 1 Book and stationery account and other temporary advances .. .. 6 10 6 _~..- Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 48 14 0 Rents, insurance, arid taxes .. .. 20 18 10 Expenses of leasing new endowments .. 27 10 9 Balance .. .. .. 89 5 8 ' £1,020 13 5 £1,020 13 5 E. Veale, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. - . Highest. —Latin : Principia Latina and Arnold's Latin Prose, Latin fables and stories. French : De Fiva's Grammaire dcs Grammaires, grammar and exercises, English translation into French prose, Soulier's Valeric. Arithmetic: The whole. Algebra: To quadratics, inclusive, Euclid : Books 1., IL, and part of 111., with deductions. History : Conquest to present period generally; and special periods for matriculation and Civil Service. Geography: Chisholm's Colonial. English: Smith and Hall's Grammar, analysis, parsing, and correction of sentences; Shakspeare's Borneo and Juliet and Coriolanus. Science: Sound, light, and heat. ' Drawing :' Boys, geometrical; girls, freehand and model. Lowest. —Latin : Principia, 1., exs. 1 to 13. French: De Jardin, exs. 1 to 64, avoir, etre, dormer. Arithmetic: Compound rules. Algebra: To division (easy examples of formula). History: Nelson's Primary History, Conquest, to James I. Geography: Petrie's, to page 64. Grammar : Morrison's, to page 48. Science : .Harrison's Mechanics, pp. 1 to 53. Beading: Boyal Beaders, IV. and V. Drawing : Boys, geometrical; girls, freehand. Mental arithmetic, map drawing, and drill throughout the school; dictation and writing in the lower forms; sewing for the girls.

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WANGANUI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Bevenue Account, 1892. Receipts. £ s. a. I Expenditure. £ s. d. To Interest on mortgages .. .. .. 315 12 3; By Balance, 31st December, 1891 .. 1,788 10 10 Rents from endowments leased .. 226 0 0 Office staff, Secretary .. .. 25 0 0 Taranaki School Commissioners .. 139 15 6 Departmental expenses, viz.,— School fees—tuition .. .. .. 929 6 8 Members' expenses .. .. 10 0 Boarding fees .. .. .. 1,108 18 0 Stamps and stationery .. .. 7 0 2 Mortgages discharged .. .. 1,190 12 11 Advertising ... .. ... 12 15 9 Balance, 31st December, 1892.. .. 1,100 14 4 Telegrams and petties .. .. 2 14 10 Teachers' salaries and fees .. .. 931 0 0 Technical school, painting fees ... 500 Caretaker .. .. .. .. 53 9 2 School books and stationery .. .. 26 2 5 School requisites (including piano) .. 46 12 6 Boarding-school account .. .. 1,141 4 8 Furnishing account .. .. .. 194 14 8 Building .. .. .. .. 536 0 0 School site (including tennis court) .. 66 10 2 Plans and supervision (balance) .. 23 3 0 Fire insurance .. .. .. 28 0 0 Borough rates .. .. .. 17 4 6 Bank interest .. .. .. 79 16 6 deposit, refund .. .. 25 0 0 £5,010 19 8 £5,010 19 8 Wanganui, 17th February, 1892. A. A. Browne, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English: Lear, Samson Agonistes, Mason's Grammar and Composition. Mathematics : Arithmetic, the whole subject; Algebra, to quadratics. Euclid: Books I. to 111. History and Geography: General. Latin: Eutropius, Public School Primer (part), Bradley's Arnold (part). French: Paul et Virginie, general grammar and composition. German: Schiller's Wilhelm Tell; grammar and composition. Loiuest. —English: Marmion; elementary grammar and composition. Arithmetic: The simple rules. History and Geography : Outlines. French : Chardenal, 1., exercises Ito 90.

WANGANUI ENDOWED SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. a. To Balance .. .. .. .. 73 19 5 By ManagementCurrent income from reserves .. .. 844 14 4 Office salary .. .. .. 40 0 0 Refuna insurances .. .. .. 3 17 0 Other office expenses .. .. 14 0 0 „ law costs .. .. .. 11 15 0 Other expenses of management .. 13 17 0 „ rates .. .. .. 110 0 Teachers' salaries ana allowances (oia fencing ... .. .. 2 10 0 account) .. .. .. 250 0 0 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 36 19 0 Printing, stationery, ana advertising .. 114 4 Site and buildings .. .. ' .. 279 13 4 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 37 6 4 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 136 8 6 Interest .. .. .. 181 0 3 Law costs .. .. .. .. 11 15 0 ~ : ■ ' ■ £975 4 9 £975 4 9 Ed. N. Liffiton, Treasurer. Audited and found correct. —A. C. Bitchie, Auditor. 3rd January, 1893. 2. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.— Latin, Greek, French, English, mathematics, science, drawing, divinity. The work done is supposed to be up to the Junior University Scholarship standard. Lowest. —Latin, English, arithmetic; English includes history, geography, reading and composition.,

WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIBES' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport op the BoArd. The Governors of the Wellington College and Girls' High School are pleased to be able to report that the two institutions under their control still continue to do good work. At the last University examinations the following results were obtained :-*■

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Of eighteen pupils sent up from the College, one passed the Junior Scholarship Examination with credit, four matriculated on the Junior Scholarship papers, ten passed the Matriculation Examination, and one the Medical Preliminary. At the Girls' High School twenty-seven pupils sat for University examinations, three passed the examination for keeping first year's terms, one matriculated on the Junior Scholarship papers, and twenty passed the Matriculation Examination. The Governors must again refer to the heavy burden of rates and interest which presses upon them, and largely interferes with the efficient working of the College and Girls' High School. The College and High School buildings and reserves around them are rated by the City Council at £258 6s. Bd. per annum. The Governors should have been relieved of this burden by the amendment of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1891," and last year they urged the Government to bring in a Bill so to relieve them, but nothing was done. As to interest, the Governors have to pay £708 ss. 4d. annually on cost of buildings; they are virtually paying this sum as a rent for their school buildings, a position in which no other similar body is placed, and one from which the Governors strongly urge they should be relieved. Why should these institutions in Wellington be placed at such disadvantage as compared with similar institutions in other parts of the colony ? Year after year the Governors have brought these matters before the Government, year after year they have urged that under "The Education Beserves Act, 1877," reserves should be set apart for secondary as well as primary education, but without avail. In conclusion the Governors would again refer to the high standard of efficiency which the College and Girls' High School still maintain, notwithstanding all the difficulties mentioned above, and would again urge upon the Government the duty of rendering them some tangible assistance in carrying on their work. Wellington, 29th March, 1893. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. .. 1,671 18 8 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 2,460 19 5 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,736 4 1 Management— Prizes .. .. .. .. 21110 Office salary .. .. .. 100 0 0 Levin scholarship money .. .. 20 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. 18 16 8 Moore and Rhodes scholarship .. 31 10 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 2,175 8 4 Refunds .. .. .. .. 017 0 Examiners' fees , .. .. .. 52 10 0 Scholarship (Levin) .. .. .. 20 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 64 3 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 203 17 4 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 141 5 0 Site and buildings, new works .. .. 250 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 102 5 11 Insurance and taxes .. .. .. 94 11 6 Interest on current account .. .. 201 3 3 Endowments— Rates .. .. .. .. 57 0 8 Interest, reclaimed land .. .. 188 10 0 Chemicals .. .. .. .. 4 12 Furniture and apparatus .. .. 39 18 1 Interest on cost of buildings .. .. 710 11 4 Legal expenses .. .. .. 17 17 2 Dr. Balance at end of year .. .. 2,425 18 4 Barnicoat prize .. .. .. 5 0 0 £6,907 19 1 £6,907 19 1 C. P. Powles, Secretary.

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. College. Highest. —Latin: Virgil, iEneid, Book II.; Cicero's Orations, I. and 11. In Cat., and Boman history stories; sight translation; Bradley's Arnold, to Ex. XLI.; Kennedy's Latin Primer; Bryan's Caasarian Prose. Mathematics: Arithmetic, general; Algebra to permutations ; Trigonometry to solution of triangles. Euclid, Books I. to VI. English : Smith and Hall's grammar; Morris's Historical Grammar; Nichols' Comp. Exercises; Merchant of Venice; Chaucer's Prologue; paraphrasing and precis writing, and essays. French : Gasc's French Book, Part II.; Hatchett's French Beader. Science : Jago's Inorganic Chemistry and Garnett's Heat. Lowest. —Latin : Via Latina, exs. 1 to 38. Mathematics: Arithmetic (Hamblin Smith's) to simple interest; Algebra to division. Euclid, definitions. English: Grammar (Hall's elementary). Geographical Beader, pp. 1 to 76. Buckley's History of England, from the earliest times to Henry 11. Essays on easy subjects. Science : B. Stewart's Physics. French : Gasc's French Book, 1., exs. 1 to 40; Janan's French Beader, pp. 1 to 5. Girls' High School. Highest. —Latin: Translation (prepared)— Virgil's Eclogues; Cicero in Verrem, Book IV.; at sight from Caesar's Bell. Gall., Book VII., and Horace, Satires, Book I.; grammar of composition ; Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition ; Boman history and antiquities. Mathematics : Euclid, algebra, trigonometry, as for Junior Scholarship. French : Grammar—Havet, Part 1., pp. 167-187 ; Part IL, pp. 234 to 305; Brachet, pp. 46-72 and 98-117; composition—passages from 2—E. 9.

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Havet's Composition; translation—Valeric; Femmes Savantes; Les Anecdotes dans Havet, pp. 43-58. English: Correction of sentences; critical essays on Shakespeare's Hamlet and Borneo and Juliet, and essays on set subjects ; Morris's Elementary English Historical Grammar; Smith and Hall's Grammar —syntax ; part of Chaucer's Prologue and Canterbury Tales ; Abbott's How to Write Clearly. Botany :As for Junior Scholarship. Heat: As for Junior Scholarship. Lowest. —Arithmetic : Easy numeration and notation ; simple addition, subtraction ; short and long multiplication ; short division. Beading: Longmans' New Beader, Standard 11. ; Longmans' New Geographical Beader. Spelling: Words selected from reading lessons. Composition on simple subjects. Poetry : Seven short selections, chiefly from reading-books. Grammar : How to distinguish the parts of speech. Geography: A very brief sketch of the continents. Writing: Vere Foster's Copy-books, 1.-IV.

4. Scholarships. College. College Scholarships. —Free education, six. Moore Scholarship. —£35, one. Bhodes Scholarship.^ —£3s, one. Levin Scholarships. —£lo, two. Girls' School. College Scholarships. —Free education, five.

NAPIEB HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. The Board of Governors, as at present constituted, is composed of the following gentlemen : The Hon..J. D. Ormond and Mr. J. W. Carlile, elected by the Education Board of Hawke's Bay ; Messrs. G. H. Swan, M.H.8., and J. W. Neal, elected by the Municipal Council of Napier; Messrs. J. N. Williams and W. Shrimpton, elected by the Hawke's Bay County Council; Messrs. D. Guy and G. E. Sainsbury, elected by the Waipawa County Council; Mr. J. W. Twigg, by the Wairoa County Council; and Mr. H. L. Tiffen, by the Governor in Council. The schools were examined by A. Macarthur, M.A., LL.D., immediately before the recess. His report to the Governors shows that the work of the schools is satisfactory, and especially so in the upper forms. Five boys and four girls passed in the Matriculation Examination. The average attendance at the Boys' School for the year was fifty-six, and for the Girls' School, fifty-six. J. D. Ormond, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Beceipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 1,738 16 1 By ManagementEndowments— Office salary .. .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 292 16 6 Other office expenses .. .. 10 7 6 From property not a reserve.. .. 745 0 0 Other expenses of management .. 3 9 8 Interest .. .. .. .. 157 5 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 1,656 1 8 Paid by School Commissioners —Exa- Boarding-school account —■ miner's fee .. .. .. 20 6 0 Portion of scholarships spent on board School fees .. .. .. .. 1,092 13 5 and railway fares .. .. 170 8 0 Boarding-school fees—Portion of School Examiner's fee .. .. .. 20 6 0 Commissioners' scholarships paid on Music teachers .. .. .. 94 8 0 board of scholarship-holders, and rail Prizes .. .. .. .. 15 0 6 charges* .. .. .. .. 170 1 4 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 23 9 4 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 76 15 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 114 710 Book ancl stationery account ana other temporary advances .. .. 67 14 9 Site and buildings, new works .. ... 15 1 1 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 38 7 2 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 135 3 3 Balance .. .. .. .. 1,869 8 10 £4,293 13 7 £4,293 13 7 * The value of the scholarships was £397 17s. 4d. £227 9s. Id. were included in school fees, and the remainder as above. J. D. Ormond, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. — Mathematics: Euclid, Books 1.-IV., with deductions and exercises; Algebra, to quadratic equations; Trigonometry, solution of triangles. Mechanics:; Statics, dynamics, hydrostatics (elementary). ' General arithmetic. Latin: Livy, XXII.; Horace, Ode I.; Prose composition and grammar. French: Le Conscrit; composition; conversation and grammar.

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English: Historical Grammar; composition; Shakespeare's Hamlet. Geography: Physical and general. History: 1689-1837. Natural Science: Physiology. Class singing. Scripture history. Drawing. The work of lowest form was that of the Third Standard of the Elementary Schools. Girls. Highest. —Mathematics : Euclid, Books 1.-IV; Algebra—Quadratics, proportion, &c.; Arithmetic, whole subject. Science: Botany, Matriculation standard. Latin: Brincipia, Parts Ii and II.; Hamblin Smith's Composition ; Eclogues. German : Macmillan, 11. ; Bachette's Second German Beader. French: Macmillan, Part III.; Le Boi dcs Montagnes. English: Meiklejohn's Historical Grammar; composition; analysis. Geography: British Isles and colonial possessions. History : 1688 to 1837, with literature of the same period. Drawing. Calisthenics. Lowest. —Arithmetic : Simple rules; money, weights and measures. Grammar: Parts of speech; easy analysis. Geography: England, Australia, North America. History : Boman Conquest to 1307. Object lessons on common objects. French : Bue, pp. 1 to 41. Beading: Boyal Beaders, IV. and V. Poetry: Boyal Beaders, 111. and V. Class-singing. Needlework. Calisthenics. Drawing.

4. Scholarships. The school gave free education to twenty-one holders of scholarships given by the School Commissioners, and to seven Education Board scholars.

GISBOBNE HIGH SCHOOL BOAED. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance ' .. .. .. 1,089 14 9 By Teachers'salaries and allowances, under Current income from reserves .. .. 50 0 0 section 4 of "The Girl's High School Paid by School Commissioners .. 247 4 4 Act 1885 Amendment Act, 1887" .. 150 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 49 9 0 Solicitors .. .. .. .. 212 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 42 8 3 Balance (fixed aeposits) .. .. 1,326 4 4 £1,478 16 4 £1,478 16 4 W. L. Williams, Chairman. C. A. De Lautour, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

NELSON COLLEGE. I.—Beport of the Governors for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. The Governors are glad to be able to record that the steady increase in the number of pupils of both Colleges noted in their report for the year 1891 was well maintained during the succeeding twelve months; and in view of its continuance, especially as regards the younger boys, they have found it necessary to make some addition to the staff of teachers in the Boys' College, which they have done by the appointment of Mr. C. H. Broad, an old and distinguished pupil, to the post of Assistant Master for the year 1893. The Governors have pleasure in congratulating the Principals of both Colleges and their respective staffs upon the marked success of their senior pupils at the late University examinations. One boy gained a junior scholarship, four were placed on the honours list, and five passed the matriculation examination. Of the girls, eight entered for the matriculation examination, and all passed; one girl entered for a junior scholarship, and., though not successful in gaining one, came out on the honours list. At the November examinations of Canterbury College, four pupils of the Girls' College presented themselves for the second year's terms examination, and one for the first year's terms, and all were successful in passing, the four who took the second year's work being thus qualified to sit for the first section of the B.A. examination, the result of which is not yet known. The results of the Civil Service examinations are also not yet available. The Hon. J. C. Bichmond having vacated his seat in the Council of Governors by nonattendance, owing to ill-health, His Excellency the Visitor appointed the late Judge Broad to fill the vacancy; but the death of Mr. Broad a few months afterwards, led to the appointment of Mr. J. Henry Cock, who holds office for the remainder of Mr. Bichmond's term, which will expire in November, 1894. In consequence of the death during the year of Mr. George Hodgson, one of the Auditors of the College accounts, Mr. A. A. Scaife was appointed by His Excellency to take his place. There is no special feature worthy of notice in the statement of accounts now presented. A heavy expense has been incurred in painting both the College buildings; but the revenue of the year has been sufficient to meet it, in addition to the ordinary current expenditure; The audited accounts of both Colleges for the year 1892, together with a comparative statement of the rolls for 1891 and 1892, 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.

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2. Abstract of Beceipts and Expenditure of Nelson College for Boys, for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Boarding Account .. .. .. 1,153 16 0 By Boarding Account .. .. .. 852 11 6 Tuition Account .. .. .. 974 14 10 Tuition Account .. .: .. 1,216 6 0 Miscellaneous Account .. .. 35 0 0 Stationery Account .. .. .. 85 611 Joynt Scholarship .. .. .. 33 6 8 ScholarshipsFoundation .. .. .. 70 0 0 Endowed .. .. .. .. 124 0 0 Governors' Fees .. .. .. 50 8 0 Joynt .. .. .. .. 45 4 0 Miscellaneous Account— Audit charges .. .. .. 5 5 0 Examiners' fees, &c. .. .. 45 12 7 Fire insurance .. .. .. 67 4 0 Gas Account .. .. .. 36 17 3 Printing and advertising .. .. 29 7 0 Office rent and expenses .. .. 46 4 9 Law costs .. .. .. .. 22 19 7 Governors' fees .. .. .. 7 0 0 Subscriptions to sports, &c. .. .. 20 0 0 Small repairs .. .. .. 6 16 Sundries .. .. .. .. 12 10 6 Balance —Transferred to Endowment Ac- Secretary's salary .. .. .. 200 0 0 count .. .. ' .. .. 752 1 1 Simmons Prize .. '.. .. 6 0 0 £2,948 18 7 £2,948 18 7 Oswald Curtis, Secretary. We hereby certify that we have examined the above accounts and compared them with th e several vouchers relating thereto, and have found them correct. J. T. Catley,) . ~. . . . a a or Auditors. A. A. Scaife,)

3. Abstract of Beceipts and Expenditure of Nelson College for Girls, for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Boarding Account .. ;-. .. 514 18 1 By Boarding Account .. .. .. 550 1 4 Tuition Account .. .. .. 1,167 0 2 Tuition Account .. .. .. 779 19 9 Edger Scholarships .. .. .. 15 0 0 Stationery Account .. .. .. 64 12 1 Scholarships— Foundation .. .. .. 60 2 8 Edger .. .. .. .. 15 0 0 Tinline .. .. .. .. 40 0 0 Governors' fees .. .. .. 30 0 0 Miscellaneous Expenses— Printing and advertising .. .. 25 13 0 Fire insurance .. .. .. 42 0 0 Gas Account .. .. .. 26 14 2 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 13 13 6 Proportion of office rent and expenses and law costs .. .. .. 35 0 0 Auditors' fees .. .. .. 5 5 0 Subscription to swimming club .. 5 0 0 Balance—Transferred to Endowment Ac- Sundry expenses .. .. .. 12 6 count .. -.. .. .. 97 5 9 Secretary's salary .. .. .. 100 0 0 £1,794 4 0 £1,794 4 0 Oswald Curtis, Secretary. We hereby certify that we have examined the above accounts and compared them with the several vouchers relating thereto, and found them correct. J. T. Catley, ) . -,-, A. A. ScAiFE;( AudltorS '

4. Abstract of the Endowment Account of Nelson College for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Interest Account .. .. .. 489 13 0 By Interest, Girls' College .. .. 337 0 0 Rent Account .. .. .. 753 2 8 Debit balances — School Commissioners .. .. 300 0 0 Boys' College .. .. .. 752 1 1 Balance on 31st December, 1891 ..1,257 9 11 Girls' College .. .. .. 97 5 9 Repairs— Boys' College .. .. .. 195 3 1 Girls' College .. .. .. 118 3 8 Balance carriea down .. .. 1,300 12 0 £2,800 5 7 £2,800 5 7 Balance on 31st December, 1892, brought down .. .. .. .. £,1300 12 0 Oswald Curtis, Secretary. We hereby certify that we have examined the above accounts and compared them with the several vouchers relating thereto, and found them correct. J. T. Catley,) ~., A. A. ScAiFEj Audltors -

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5. Work done in Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' College. Highest. —Latin: Livy, Book I.; Cicero, De Amicitia; Virgil, .ZEneid, Book IV.; Horace, Odes, Book I.; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose; Boman History, Smith's Smaller. Greek: Homer, Iliad, Book I.; Plato, Apologia and Crito; grammar, &c. Mathematics: Lock's Arithmetic; Algebra, to include binomial theorem, Hall and Knight, Aldis, Jones and Cheyne's Exercises. Geometry: Books I. to VI., with exercises, Hall and Stevens. Trigonometry: To include solution of triangles, Lock. Dynamics, Lock. Science: Inorganic Chemistry, Thorpe; sound and light, Deschanel, Jones's examples. French: De Tocqueville, L'Ancien Begime et la Bevolution; Moliere, Les Femmes Savantes; Grammar, Eve and De Baudit's; Composition, varied. English Grammar: Mason's Grammar and Analysis, and Morris's Historical Outlines of English Grammar. Composition : Bain's Bhetoric and Composition, Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People. Literature : Shakespeare's Hamlet; Macaulay, Essay on Lord Bacon; Spedding, Evenings with a Beviewer. History : Greece, Chapters VII. to X. Lowest. —Latin: Principia Latina, about twenty-six pages. English: History, Gardiner's Outlines. Geography: Hughes's Elementary, Physical, first eleven chapters. Grammar: Hall's Elementary. French : Sharp's Elementary. Arithmetic : Lock to end of Practice. Girls' College. Highest. —Mathematics : Algebra, to the end of binomial theorem; Lock's Trigonometry, to the solution of triangles; Euclid, Books I. to IV., Definitions of Books V. and VI.; Arithmetic, the whole subject. Latin: Bradley's Arnold, Abbott's Latin Prose, Cicero, In Verrem, Actio II.; Book IV. Virgil's Eclogues; Prose and sight translation; Antiquities. English: Morris's Historical Grammar, Abbott's How to Write Clearly, Abbott and Seeley's Lessons for English People, Morley's Literature (Elizabethian period), Hamlet, Borneo and Juliet, Burkes French Bevolution, Macaulay's Essays on Walpole and Bacon; Essays, correction of sentences, &c. French: Selections from Blouet's French Composition; Brachet's Public School Grammar; Moliere's Femmes Savantes; De Tocqueville's L'Ancien Begime et La Bevolution. History: Epochsj the Settlement of the Constitution, and England during the American and European Wars. Geography : Longmans'. Science : Sound and Light. Lowest. —Arithmetic: The simple rules. English: The parts of speech, and easy parsing; Composition; the Parables from Nature (Mrs. Gatty). Geography: The Continents generally, New Zealand more particularly. History: Gardiner's, Part 11. to the end of George 111. Elementary Botany and Physiology. Sewing. Club Exercises. 6. Scholarships. College. Endowed— Tinline, £52 125.; Newcome, £24; Eichmond, £24; Stafford, £20; Fell, £16. College. —One at £52 125., two at £12 125.; one each at £16, £14, £12, £6, £4, £5, and £3, respectively. Girls' College. Tinline.— £s2 12s. Governors' Fees. —£15, two. College. —Two at £15, two at £12 125., one at £5. School Commissioners'. —Six at £12 12s.

GBEYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. 26 16 3 By Office salary .. .. .. .. 5 0 0 Interest .. .. .. 47 0 0 Other expenses of management .. 3 14 8 Rent .. .. .. .. 6 0 0 Stationery, &c. .. .. .. 15 6 Exchange .. .. .. .. 0 0 6 Grant to Grey Education Board .. 50 0 0 Balance .. .. .. 19 16 7 £79 16 9 £79 16 9 J. Nancarrow, Chairman. Edward Bobinson, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

HOKITIKA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year— By Repairs .. .. .. .. 7 9 0 Fixea aeposit .. .. .. 931 9 6 Insurance .. .. .. .. 310 0 Balance, current account .. .. 12 1 7 Grant to the Eaucation Board of the Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 44 13 0 District of Westland .. .. 60 0 0 Rents .. .. .. .. 51 16 6 Balance in bank at end of year— On fixed deposit .. .. .. 950 0 0 On current account .. .. 19 1 7 £1,040 0 7 £1,040 0 7 25th April, 1893. John McWhirter, Chairman. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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CHBIST'S COLLEGE GBAMMAB SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 15th May, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Sales of land .. .. .. 100 0 0 By Liabilities, being Dr. balance, 15th May, Rent .. .. .. .. 1,992 1 7 1891 (including £6,167175. 7d., advance Scholarship endowments .. .. 930 3 2 from land fund) .. .. .. 7,688 17 2 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,805 7 0 Expenses of management .. .. 226 4 0 Sundries unclassified .. .. .. 18 18 3 Masters'salaries .. .. .. 3,629 8 5 Dr. balance (including £6,235 4s. lOd ad- Examination expenses .. .. 275 3 0 vance from land fund for buildings Scholarships, exhibitions, and prizes .. 879 5 2 and improvements in accordance with Stationery and school material, printing " Christ's College Act, 1885," to be re- and advertising .. .. .. 150 4 4 paid out of sales of land) .. .. 8,098 0 8 Buildings, repairs, furniture, insurance, and rates .. .. .. .. 375 12 6 Caretaker and other labour, fuel, lights, &o. 234 12 4 Grant, boys' games fund .. .. 164 3 5 Sundries unclassified .. .. .. 15 14 9 Interest .. .. .. .. 305 5 7 £13,944 10 8 £13,944 10 8 24th February, 1893. W. G. Brittan, Accountant.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin, English, French, mathematics, on classical side Greek, on modern side sound and light, with mechanics or heat, to the standard of the Junior Scholarship Examination. Divinity : Prayer-book and St. Matthew's Gospel. Lowest. —Divinity : Church Catechism and part of St. Matthew's Gospel. English : History, Gardiner's Outline. Geography: Longmans'—New Zealand, England, and Europe. Grammar: Longmans' Junior; analysis, simple. Dictation; composition; writing. Latin: Collar and Daniell's Book for Beginners. Arithmetic : Southern Cross, Standard IV. French : Gasc, to end of regular verbs. 3. Statement Bespecting Scholarships. Somes Senior and Junior Scholarships. —About £450 annually is available for these scholarships. Four senior and eight junior Somes Scholarships are open for competition from time to time. In addition to the amount paid for scholarships an amount is given to assist the boarding expenses of boarders. Somes Entrance Scholarships. —The subjects for examination for these scholarships are English grammar and composition, English history, arithmetic, and geography. Five scholarships are offered for competition each year. There were twenty-one scholars on this foundation during the past year, all of whom were from Government primary schools. The amount expended for entrance scholarships last year was £207. Buller and Beay Scholarships. —£3oo a year is set apart for exhibitions for sons of the clergy, and £60 for other exhibitions. Tancred History Prize Fund. —Prizes are given annually from this endowment for proficiency in history and English literature. The amount so expended last year was about £20. The remainder of the funds available from various scholarship endowments (about £380) is devoted to the collegiate department of Christ's College, students in which are required to study for their degree at Canterbury College.

CHEISTCHUECH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. 551 12 4 By Management .. .. .. 80 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 3,242 15 4 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 3,081 7 6 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,228 10 0 Examinations — Interest on current account .. .. 12 18 8 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 68 5 0 Other expenses .. .. .. 10 0 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 15 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 58 18 0 Printing, stationery, stamps, telegrams, and advertising .. .. .. 11l 9 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 46 19 5 Transfer of Dr. balance from Buildings Account .. .. .. .. 795 4 7 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 77 13 4 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 103 13 0 Annual expense of workshop .. .. 25 O O Inspecting reserves and advertising .. 95 16 7 Laboratory, chemicals, and apparatus .. 24 17 8 Grants to cricket club and cadet corps .. 45 0 0 Expenses of school concert .. .. 6 10 Legal expenses .. .. .. 514 3 School library .. .. .. 10 0 0 Interest on loan .. .. .. 306 0 4 Pictures (Art for Schools Association) .. 3 10 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 5 2 3 Balance .. .. .. .. 60 4 2 £5,035 16 4 £5,035 16 4 H. B. Webb, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Begistrar.

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2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin: Horace —Odes, Book I. (Macmillan's Elementary Classics); Ovid, Selections (Shuckburgh); Ctesar, Book VII. (Bond and Walpole) ; Livy, Book XXII. (Melhuish) ; Horton's History of the Bomans; Bradley's Arnold, Latin Prose Composition; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose; Latin Prose, Part 1., Caasarian prose (Simpson); Bevised Latin Primer (Kennedy's); Wilkin's Primer of Boman Antiquities; Gepp and Haigh's Latin Dictionary; Easy Graduated Latin Passages for Unseen Translation (Bennett). English: Mason's English Grammar; Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Hale's Longer English Poems; Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale ; Kinsley's Hypatia ; Longmans' Handbook of English Literature, Part V., from Burke to present time. French : Alfred De Musset (Hachette's Modern Authors) ; Macmillan's Progressive French Course, Part 11. ; Short Passages from Standard Authors for Translation and Dictation (Alfred Hamonet); George Sand, La Mare au diable (John Davis) ; Wellington School French Grammar (Eve and De Beaudais). Mathematics: Ward's Examination Papers in Trigonometry; Hamblin Smith's Exercise on Algebra; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Steven's Euclid, Parts I. and II.; Lock's Elementary Trigonometry. Science: Longmans' Advanced Scienoe Manuals; Jago's Inorganic Chemistry; Garnett's Heat. Greek: Mayor's Greek for Beginners. Drawing : Geometrical —Longmans' Drawing Books. Lowest. —Latin : Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, Part I. English : Star Beader, Standard IV. ; Brief History; Longmans' Junior School Grammar. French: Macmillan's French Course, Part I. Mathematics: Nelson's Arithmetic, No. 4. Singing: Nursery Bhyme Quadrilles —first set, Jack and Gill; Mendelssohn's Four-part Songs. Writing: Upright Penmanship; Jackson's Vertical Writing Copy-books, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Drawing : Freehand.

3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to twenty-seven scholars. Twenty scholarships of the Education Board—four, at £40, sixteen at £20—were held at the school.

CHBISTCHUBCH GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 1,035 13 6 By Management .. .. .. 70 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 371 9 2 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,645 0 0 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 237 3 10 Examinations— School fees .. .. .. .. 1,640 2 0 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 70 7 0 Interest on current account .. .. 60 11 10 Other expenses .. .. .. 10 15 0 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 224 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 63 0 0 Printing, stationery, stamps, telegrams, and advertising .. .. .. 75 19 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 23 6 3 New carpets and furniture .. .. 13 10 11 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 21 17 8 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 50 13 2 Expenses of cooking-classes .. .. . 23 15 1 Music, ana tuning pianos .. .. 7 10 0 Microscopes .. .. .. .. 14 8 7 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 10 4 0 Refuna of fees .. .. .. 2 12 6 Sundries .. .. .. .. 018 7 Balance .. .. .. .. 1,017 2 0 £3,345 0 4 £3,345 0 4 H. B. Webb, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Begistrar. 2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English : Literature—Morell's English Literature; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature; Chaucer's Prologue; Shakespeare's King John, Bichard 11., Midsummer Night's Dream ; Milton's L'Allegro, II Penseroso, Lycidas ; grammar and composition—Mason's English Grammar; Morris's Smaller Historical Grammar; selections from Abbott's How to Write Clearly ; composition on books read ; correction of sentences. Latin : Translation —Cicero's Philippic, No. II.; Cicero's Select Letters (Macmillan's Series); Horace's Satires and Epistles; Virgil's iEneid, Books V. and VI., lines 1-265 ; Pliny's Letters, Book I.; Livy, Book XXI., first forty chapters; translation at sight; grammar—Bradley's Arnold; Abbott's Idioms; Latin Prose Composition. Boman History: Smith's Smaller History of Borne; Smith's Antiquities (selections). French: Translation —Zola's L'Attaque dv Moulin; Merimee's Colomba; Quinet's Lettres a sa Mere; Moliere's L'Avare; Bacine's Andromaque; Bruey's L'Avocat Patelin; grammar—Brachet's Public School French Grammar, with exercises; Bue's Idioms; selections from the Wellington College Grammar; French Prose Composition. Mathematics: Arithmetic, Euclid, algebra, and trigonometry, as for the Junior University Scholarship Examination. Science': Botany, heat, as for the Junior Scholarship Examination, University of New Zealand. Cooking; dress-cutting ; drill; swimming.

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Lowest. —English : Text-book, Star Beader No. IV.; reading, spelling, dictation, composition, easy sentences for correction. History: Gardiner's History of England, Part 1., from invasion of Britain to end of reign of Henry 111. Geography : Petrie's First Geography (New Zealand and Europe). Botany: Schedules of flowers and leaves. French: The verbs avoir and etre, easy French sentences. Arithmetic : The simple rules and compound rules of money. Sewing; elementary drawing; class-singing; drill; swimming. Physiology (elementary). 3. Scholarships. Scholarships of the value of about £2 Bs. and free education were given to sixteen pupils. Seven scholarships of the Education Board, £20 each, were held at the school.

BANGIOEA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditue for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. .. 186 8 0 By Dr. Balance at beginning of year .. 514 3 School fees .. .. .. .. 203 7 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 380 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 32 1 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 6 2 5 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 15 18 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 6 6 5 Rents, insurance, and taxes ... .. 405 Interest on current account .. .. 3 0 0 Postage and receipt stamps and chequebook .. .. .. .. 0 15 0 £421 16 6 £421 16 6 George John Leech, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.— Latin: Kennedy's Bevised Latin Primer; Abbott's Via Latina, and Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, exs. I. to XXI.; translation—Cassar, De Bell. Gall, Book I. English: Mason's Outlines of English Grammar; Stopford Brooke's English Literature Primer; author—Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; parsing and composition. Arithmetic : The whole subject; Euclid—Books 1., 11., and 111., to Brop. XVII. ; algebra—to simultaneous simple equations and problems. French: Macmillan's First Year. English History: Gardiner's Outlines, from James I. to end. Geography : Hughes' Class-book, Introduction and most of Europe. Science : Murche's Physiology. A good many pupils learnt shorthand and book-keeping (single and double entry). Drawing: Blair's Series. Lowest. —Arithmetic : Compound rules and easy problems. Spelling, reading, and recitation—Star Beaders, V. and VI.; Dictation—Boyal Beader, V. History: Gardiner's Outlines, Henry VII. to Anne. Geography: Philips's First Geography. French: Ann's First French Course. Grammar : Morrison's English Grammar for Junior Classes, and parsing. 3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to two pupils.

———— ■■ ■ — mil iiiiib !■■—— ASHBUBTON HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. .. 573 14 7 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 392 0 6 School fees .. .. .. 312 15 6 ManagementBooks, &c, sold and other refunds .. 19 16 8 Office-salary .. .. .. 20 0 0 Exchange .. .. .. .. 0 10 Other office expenses .. .. 310 5 Balance at end of year .. .. 360 5 4 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 522 G 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 12 12 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 7 4 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 67 12 5 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 31 13 0 Site and buildings, new works .. .. 112 10 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 36 1 8 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 3 7 6 Interest on current account .. .. 31 11 0 Making water-race in Reserve 1,111 .. 7 8 0 Solicitor's bill of costs .. .. 2 18 5 Soiree, &c. .. .. .. .. 9 8 0 Dumb-bells .. .. .. .. 2 2 0 Charges (travelling, £2 135.) .. .. 4 711 £1,266 13 1 . £1,266 13 1 W. C. Walker, Chairman. Charles Braddell, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin, French, English, geography; arithmetic, algebra, Euclid. Lowest. —Elementary in all stages.

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AKAKOA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. ... 117 12 11 By Office expenses .. .. .. 070 Current income from reserves .. .. 155 4 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 200 0 0 School fees .. .. .. 108 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 2 12 0 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 418 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 418 6 Interest .. .. .. .. 2 5 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 8 12 0 Book and stationery account, and other temporary advances .. .. 4 0 7 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 40 15 5 Legal expenses .. .. .. 4 2 0 Interest on overdraft .. .. .. 0 10 Balance .. .. .. .. 122 11 11 £388 0 5 £388 0 5 H. C. Jacobson, Chairman. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Matriculation work. English—Henry V.; Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted Village; Longmans' School Composition; Mason's Grammar; Abbott's How to Parse. Latin: Livy, Hannibalian War; Virgil, iEneid, Book I.; Via Latina. Euclid, Books 1., 11., 111. Algebra : Quadratic equations. French : Le Conscrit; Macmillan's Second Course. Lowest. —Arithmetic as far as Vulgar' Fractions. English: Longmans' Geographical Beader, No. VI. ; Longmans' School Grammar and Junior Composition. Latin : Via Latina, page 39. 3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to three pupils.

TIMABU HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. Last year the school was examined by outside examiners of considerable experience, and the reports were in all respects satisfactory not only in the highest classes, where the work was stated to reach the standard of other good secondary schools, but also as to the soundness of the teaching in the middle and lower parts of the school. Two pupils obtained Junior University Scholarships at the examination held in December, 1892; and five others passed matriculation. Four pupils, formerly junior Board scholars, obtained senior Board of Education scholarships. Gas is now laid to the school laboratory, and the practical work in physics and chemistry is much benefited thereby. The hand-and-eye training has been reduced more to a system : all juniors do Sloyd cardboard models (chiefly of geometrical forms) and geometrical drawing. Twenty-nine boys take the carpentry lessons, which are arranged to form a course occupying between two and three years. The seniors have to set off the work in the workshop from their own drawings. It is to be regretted that the number of girls in the girls' school is so small. The number in both schools would probably be much larger if they were taught in separate buildings. Both schools also suffer from the want of school-boardinghouses. The population of Timaru forms only a small part of the population of South Canterbury, and yet comparatively few of the pupils attending the school come from the country districts. The buildings are in a fairly good condition. J. H. Bampield, Secretary. 2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 310 0 8 By Management— Endowments — Office salary .. .. .. 70 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 1,272 10 10 Other office expenses .. .. 9 16 8 Interest on moneys invested.. .. 115 0 0 Other expenses .. .. .. 22 5 1 School fees .. .. .. .. 558 7 2 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 1,446 7 8 Interest on fixed deposit .. .. 315 0 Examiners' foes .. .. .. 38 0 0 Investment repaid .. .. .. 500 2 0 Cricket club .. .. .. .. 3 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 19 1 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 40 15 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 127 14 1 Book and stationery account and other temporary advances .. .. 32 8 5 Site and buildings, new works .. .. 35 0 2 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 12 16 6 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 32 8 6 Interest on current account .. .. 0 6 0 Endowments .. .. .. .. 3 7 6 Balance .. .. .. .. 866 8 6 £2,759 15 8 £2,759 15 8 Henry W. Harper, Chairman. J. 11. Bamfield, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General. 3—E. 9.

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3. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English: Morris's Elementary Historical Grammar; Mason's Grammar ; Hodgson's Errors in English (part); Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People (part); Bowen's Studies in English (part); Nicholls and McCormick's Exercises on English Composition; Shakespeare's Julius Cassar; Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I.; Macaulay's Essay on Milton; Scott's Quentin Durward. Latin: Livy, Macedonian War; Virgil, ißneid II.; Smith's Smaller Latin Grammar; Horton's History of the Bomans; Latin Prose to Junior Scholarship Standard ; sight translation from Virgil, Cicero, Sallust, Horace. Greek: Plato, Apology and Crito; Sophocles, (Edipus Tyrannus; Selections from Thucydides; sight translation from Homer, Euripides, and Herodotus ; Sidgwick's Greek Prose : Smith's Smaller History of Greece ; Abbott and Mansfield's Grammar. French: Bacine's Athalie; Souvestre's Philosophe sous les Toits; sight translation from La Fontaine, Voltaire, Fenelon, Erckmann-Chatrian, Moliere, Hugo, Ponsard, About, Scribe, &c.; Grainmaire Brachet-Dussouchet, Cours Superieur; Vecqueray's Grammar Questions (last part); Prose, various. German: Goethe, Egmont; sight translation; Macmilllan's Second Beader; Macmillan's Courses 11. and 111. ; Prose; Schmidt's Grammar. Mathematics: Arithmetic, various ; Geometry, Hall and Stevens', I. to VI.; Algebra—Hall and Knight, Todhunter's Larger; Trigonometry, Lock. Science : Blaikie's Elementary Dynamics ; Worthington's Practical Physics ; Botany —Edmonds's, and Thome and Bennett's; Chemistry, Bemsen and Howard's Practical; Heat—Garnett and Wright's Physics. Geography: Longmans' for Australasia, and Mill's Commercial Geography. History : Yonge's Primer of French History, supplemented by notes from Freeman's Summary of European History ; Buckley's History of England; and Lectures. Commercial Class: Book-keeping; Pitman's shorthand; tots; correspondence; indexing of letters. Drawing: Freehand, model, geometrical, mechanical. Lowest. —Longmans'Fourth Beader; Longmans' Geographical Beader, Nos. 5 and 6; Abbott, How to tell the Parts of Speech; English composition; Gardiner's First History; Star Arithmetics ; Southern Cross Copy-books; Colonial Drawing-books—freehand (IV. to VI.) and geometrical; Botany and Natural History (Paul Bert). ■ Physical education : Boys—Cadet corps, seniors, and drill, juniors; gymnastics, seniors and juniors; singing, juniors. Girls—Gymnastics and drill with clubs, dumb-bells, and wands; plain and fancy needlework, knitting, cutting-out, singing. 4. Scholarships. The school gave free education to thirteen holders of Education Board Scholarships, and to three others.

WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 904 8 1 By Management— Rents .. .. .. .. 296 12 6 Office salary .. .. .. 12 12 0 Interest on fixed deposit .. .. 38 15 0 Other office expenses .. .. 10 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 75 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 3 3 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 36 5 0 Solicitor's account .. .. .. 2 8 0 Letter-press .. .. .-. 2 5 8 Travelling-expenses .. .. .. 3 3 0 Tracing of reserve .. .. .. 110 Exchange, 65.; cheque-book, ss. .. 011 0 Balance ... .. .. .. 1,102 611 £1,239 15 7 £1,239 15 7 G. H. Graham, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 198 17 0 By Management—Office salary .. .. 60 0 0 Endowments — Teachers' salaries and allowances— Reserves sold .. .. .. 292 0 0 Girls' School .. .. .. 352 1 8 Amount paid on account of reserves Boys' School .. .. .. 972 4 8 sold last year .. .. .. 138 0 0 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 10 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 1,275 5 9 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 28 4 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. 63 1 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 82 10 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 18 18 0 Book and stationery account and other School fees — - tomporarv advances .. .. 11 4 0 Girls .. .. .. .. 235 11 8 Site and buildings .. .. .. 30 9 3 Boys .. .. .. .. 318 7 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 38 16 7 Interest on current account .. .. 015 0 Interest on loan .. .. .. 155 13 2 Expenses of endowment .. .. 11 11 6 Solicitor's fees .. .. .. 38 3 0 Amount paid off mortgage .. .. 300 0 0 Boarding establishment .. .. 37 10 0 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 6 13 11 Balance .. .. 406 2 8 Less amount due secretary, petty cash .. 1 18 10 -104 3 10 £2,540 1 1 £2,540 1 1 David Dunn, Chairman. George Sumpter, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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2. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1892. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Rents uncollected .. .. .. 398 411 Loan on buildings .. .. .. 1,600 0 0 Foes uncollected, boys .. .. .. 234 8 0 Scholarship fund .. .. .. 125 0 0 Fees uncollected, girls .. .. .. 109 9 4 Salaries accrued and unpaid .. .. 99 15 4 Deferred payment balances .. .. G5B 2 2 Interest on mortgage .. .. .. 53 17 4 Interest on purchase-money due December, Amount due secretary, petty cash.. .. 1 18 10 1892 .. .. .. .. .. 53 2 2 Cash in Colonial Bank ... .. .. 406 2 8 £1,859 9 3 School buildings Reserves vested in Board by " The Waitaki £1,880 11 6 High School Act, 1878." - David Dunn, Chairman. George Sumpter, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edward Fitzgerald, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —Junior Scholarship work in Latin, Greek, English, mathematics, physical scienceMatriculation work in French, botany, shorthand, book-keeping, and drawing. Lowest. —Arithmetic to end of fractions, algebra to simple equations. Elementary English Grammar, Longmans' English Composition. Drawing. Shorthand. Latin, to end of verbs. French, to Macmillan's First Course. Science : Paul Bert's Introduction. Girls. .ffigftesf.—English : Mason's Grammar, whole subject; English Composition; Shakespeare's Bichard II.; Tennyson's Princess ; History of England. Geography: Europe. Science : Paul Bert's First Year of Scientific Knowledge; physics. Latin : Via Latina, to ex. 63; Caesar, Book 1., to chap. 35. French: Oxford and Cambridge Grammar, IV., junior work; reading and translation, Christopher Columbus. Arithmetic : Hamblin Smith's examples; algebra, to chap. 36; Euclid, two books. Lowest. —English: Longmans' Sixth Beader; Mason's and Smith's Grammars; Petrie's Geography; StorieS from English History; English Composition. French: Chardenal, to chap. 80. Arithmetic : Compound rules, money, weights.

OTAGO BOYS' AND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOLS. 1. Beport op the Board. Sir,— Dunedin, 10th April, 1893. In accordance with section 8 of " The Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Act, 1877," and in terms of circular from the Education Department dated 10th 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 ended 31st December, 1892. The attendance in the Boys' School for the first half of the year was 214, and for the second half 216, being slightly lower than for the corresponding periods of the previous year. The average daily attendance was 98 per cent. The numbers on the roll in the Girls' School for the four quarters of the year were 175, 175, 180, and 168 respectively, and show a satisfactory increase on the'attendance during the previous year. The average daily attendance in the Girls' School for the last quarter of the year was 159. I am pleased, to report that the schools are fully maintaining their efficiency, and that the results of the work done during the year were satisfactory. The Board decided, after the commencement of the present year, to grant free education at the High Schools to boys and girls who obtain fifty per cent, of the attainable marks in the junior scholarship examinations. This privilege has hitherto only been enjoyed by candidates for senior scholarships. During the year the Board sold four quarter-acre sections in the Township of Arden, at £7 each, and leased sixteen suburban and two rural sections for a term of fourteen years. The area of the suburban holdings ranged from 2 to 42 acres each, and the rural sections contained 74 and 218 acres each. During the year the Crown Lands Department forwarded a petition, which it had received from workmen and others on the Otago Central Bailway-linc, to have part of the Board's endowment at Strath Taieri thrown open for settlement. As the lease of the land in question had over seven years to run, the Board was unable to consider the advisability of agreeing to have the petition granted, but it resolved to hand over Section 8, Block V., Strath Taieri, containing 170 acres, to the Lands Department, for disposal as a Village Settlement, in terms of " The Land Act, 1892." The section has since been subdivided into eight allotments, averaging about 20 acres each, which will be offered to the public at an early date. In the early part of the year the Board received with regret the resignation of the Hon. Thomas Dick, who, in various capacities, rendered valuable services to the cause of education, and it welcomed the appointment of Dr. Hislop as his successor on the Board. Dr. Hislop's experience in educational matters is of considerable value to the Trust. I have, &c, D. M. Stuart, D.D., Chairman. The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington.

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2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Beceipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Endowments— By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 2,663 13 0 Reserves sold .. .. .. 61 12 6 Management— Current income from reserves .. 2,623 16 4 Office-salary .. .. .. 180 0 0 Interest on moneys invested and on Rent .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 unpaid purchase-money .. .. 150 15 4 Stamps and telegrams .. .. 26 3 1 Paid by School Commissioners .. 384 8 3 Legal account .. .. .. 6 4 6 School fees — Incidentals .. .. .. 39 11 9 Boys .. .. .. .. 1,730 4 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances—■ Girls .. .. .. .. 1,362 14 10 Boys' School .. .. .. 3,078 4 2 Boarding-school fees — Girls' School .. .. .. 1,958 9 0 Boys .. .. .. .. 617 6 Boarding-school account— Girls .. .. .. .. 561 6 6 Boys' (ground rent and furnishing recDr. balance at end of year .... .. 2,949 16 10 tory) .. .. .. .. 80 7 6 Girls' .. .. .. 484 2 6 Furnishing .. .. .. ~ 26 2 5 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 40 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 22 7 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 102 9 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. (including wages of two janitors) .. .. .. 238 9 5 Book and stationery account— Boys' .. .. .. 102 7 6 Girls' .. .. .. .. 76 9 0 County and city rates.. .. .'".'. 307 5 0 Repairs, &o. .. .. .. .. 83 1 11 Insurance .. .. .. .. 52 9 6 Interest on current account .. .. 242 16 10 Endowments— Destroying rabbits .. .. .. 7 16 6 Auctioneer's commission .. .. 3 2 0 . . . £9,831 12 7 £9,831 12 7 D. M. Stuart, D.D., Chairman. C. Macandrew, Secretary.

Balance Account. 1892. £ s. d. 1892. £ s . a. Jan. 1. Balances brought forward — Jan. 1. Balance brought forward—UncomBank .. .. .. 2,663 13 0 pleted purchases .. .. 2,870 14 8 Equitable Investment Company 509 8 0 Dec. 31. Ordinary revenue .. .. 6,669 711 Dec. 31. Ordinary expenditure (including re- Interest from personal accounts .. 137 4 2 bate of interest, £5) .. .. 7,172 19 7 Proceeds land sales .. .. 61 12 6 Balance uncompleted purchases .. 2,852 3 6 Balances carried down— Bank .. .. .. 2,949 16 10 Equitable Insurance Company .. 509 8 0 £13,198 4 1 £13,198 4 1 1893. 1893. Jan. 1. Balances brought down — Jan. 1. Balance brought down — UncomBank .. .. .. £2,949 16 10 pleted purchases .. .. £2,852 3 6 Equitable Investment Company 509 8 0 Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1892. Assets. £ s. d. Inabilities. £ s. d. Rents overdue .. .. .. .. 328 12 7 Tradesmen's accounts unpaid .. .. 159 13 8 School fees overdue .. .. .. 207 2 0 Board fees overdue .. .. .. 115 0 Amounts due on mortgage (land instalments, including interest) .. .. .. 2,852 3 6 3. Statement of Income and Expenditure of the Gray Busseel Scholarship Fund for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. 1892. Beceipts. £ s. d. | 1892. Expenditure. £ s. d. Jan. 1. To Balance brought forward .. 49 18 7 Dec. 81. By Balance in Colonial Bank of Interest from mortgage New Zealand .. .. .. 101 18 4 on land at Signal Hill —W. Drake.. .. £3 16 11 Interest from High Schools' Board on deposit, Colonial Bank of New Zealand .. 48 2 10 51 9 9 £101 18 4 £101 18 4

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4. Gray Bussell Scholarship Fund. Capital Account. 1892. £ s. d. 1892. £ s. d. Dec. 31. To Amount due by W. Reid (defi- Dec. 31. By Capital .. .. # .. 1,000 0 0 ciency on sale of security) .. 398 2 11 „ Balance deposited in Colonial Bank of New Zealand .. 601 17 1 £1,000 0 0 £1,000 0 0 5. Statement of Income and Expenditure of the Bichardson Cadet Corps Fund for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. 1892. Beceipts. £ s. d. I 1892. Expenditure. £ s. d. Jan. 1, To Balance brought forward .. 72 17 9 June. By Cash, Otago High School Dec. Interest from Otago High School Cadet Corps .. £7 10 G Board on deposit in Colonial ! Nov. Cash, Otago Normal Bank of New Zealand .. 15 1 0 I School Cadets .. 710 6 15 1 0 Dec. 31. Balance on 31st Dec, 1892— In Colonial Bank of New Zealand, due by W. Reid .. 35 7 9 Short paid on sale of security .. .. 37 10 0 72 17 9 £87 18 9 £87 18 9

6. Bichardson Cadet Corps Fund. Capital Account. 1892. £ s. d. I 1892. £ s. d. Dec. 31. To Amount deposited in Colonial j Dec. 31. By Original capital .. £150 0 0 Bank of New Zealand .. .. 179 12 0 Amount of profit on Bank of New Zealand shares sold .. 29 12 0 179 12 0 £179 12 0 £179 12 0 D. M. Stuart, D.D., Chairman. C. Macandrew, Secretary.. Examined and found correct—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General. 7. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —The work of the Junior University Scholarship Examination in French, Latin, English, German, mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry, besides which one lesson each week in gymnastics. Boys in VI. and Upper V. are allowed an option between German and the science subjects. Lowest. —The work of this form is about that of the Sixth Standard in the Primary School, with addition of Latin and French; the Latin means easy accidence, and the French, verbs, nouns, and adjectives ; in both cases easy translation into English. All classes to Lower V. inclusive, take drawing or book-keeping, according to a fixed course. All classes of the school attend either once or twice a week, according to the rank of the class, gymnastic lessons during the school day. The Gymnastic Instructor has also given extra instruction to the two highest classes. Girls. Highest. —English.: Chaucer, Prologue; Shakespeare, Henry V.; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book III.; Cowper, The Task, Book IV. ; selections from prose writers, 1490 to 1684; Boman History, The Early and Middle Bepublic ; Historical English Grammar; composition, &c. Latin: Virgil, iEneid, Book VI., 11. 620 ; Cicero, selections—advanced section (in addition). Sight Translation : Livy, Book I.; Horace, Book 1., selections from Satires and Epistles; Sallust, part of Jugurtha; Composition, grammar, &c. French : Saintine, Picciola; Boielle, Poetry ; Grammar, etymology, composition, &c. German : Macmillan's German Course; Homann's Deutsche Maehrchen. Mathematics : Arithmetic, the whole subject; algebra, to permutations and combinations inclusive; Euclid, Division A, Books 1., 11., 111., IV., VI., Division B, Books 1., 11., and III; Trigonometry, Division A, Lock's Trigonometry, Division B, Lock's Trigonometry, chapters Ito 11. Science: Botany, the morphology and physiology of the botanical types specified in the Junior Scholarship schedule ; Chemistry, the metallic elements, revision of the non-metallic elements. The Senior Division have revised the whole of inorganic chemistry.

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Lowest. —English : Longmans' Fourth Beader; History—Blackwood's Short Stories. Geography—Macdonald's Zealandia Geography, Part I.; 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 : Ohardenai's First French Course. Arithmetic : Simple and compound rules in money, simple problems, mental arithmetic. Drawing is taught throughout the school.

SOUTHLAND BOYS' AND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL BOABD. 1. Beport of the Board. Sir,— Invercargill, 27th March, 1893. In conformity with section 8 of " The Southland Boys' and Girls' High Schools Act, 1877," and terms of circular of 10th December from the Education Department, I have the honour to present the following annual report of the High Schools Board for the year ended 31st December, 1892: — The members of the Board at the beginning of the year were Messrs. G. Lumsden and H. Carswell, appointed by His Excellency the Governor; Messrs. D. L. Matheson and B. McNab, elected by the Southland Education Board; and His Worship Mr. J. W. Bain, the Mayor of Invercargill. Mr. Lumsden was elected chairman. Miss Billing, successor to Miss Pitcaithly, as first assistant-teacher in the. Girls' School, entered upon her duties at the beginning of 1892. There has been no change in the teaching-staff during the year. The Collegiate Classes Association continues the occupation of part of the school building during the winter session for their classes. The boarding establishment referred to in last annual report is still continued. The Board has, during the year, availed itself of the opportunity of purchasing a property adjoining the school suitable, with addition, for a boys' boarding establishment. The building is now complete and is very suitable for the purpose. The want of a boys' playground is, however, still very much felt. An effort is being made to secure the use of an area near the school for this purpose, but arrangements are not yet completed. The separation of the boys' and girls' schools, referred to in previous reports, is still under consideration, but no definite steps have yet been taken. The leasing of a property, suitable for a school and boarding establishment in one, for girls, was favourably considered by the Board, but before arrangements were completed a committee was formed for the purpose of ascertaining whether some scheme could be devised to increase the popularity of the school, and it was deemed desirable to defer deciding upon the matter until the committee had sent in its report. The absence of a systematic annual examination of the schools by outside examiners, which has been referred to in previous reports, is a much-felt want, and this Board would be glad if such examinations could be undertaken by the Government. No transactions of any importance have taken place during the year in connection with the Board's endowments. At the end of the school year there was held a public demonstration on a limited scale, but somewhat more extensive than has been usual on previous occasions. The entertainment, which partook of the character of a conversazione, brought before the public the kind of work done at the schools. I append hereto financial statement for the year ended 31st December, 1892, duly certified by the Auditor-General. I have, &c, J. Walker Bain, Acting Chairman. The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington.

2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Beceipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 126 18 9 By Management—Office salary .. .. 75 0 0 Bank of New Zealand, fixed deposit from Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,180 0 0 last year .. .. .. .. 2,219 14 9 Boaraing establishment .. .. 11l 14 4 Bank of New South Wales, fixed deposit Prizes .. .. .. .. 810 3 from last year .. .. .. 453 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 24 19 6 Endowments — Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, .. .. 77 5 5 Reserves sold .. .. .. 109 12 8 Book and stationery account, and other Current income from reserves .. 890 3 11 temporary advances .. .. 17 10 1 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 41 7 11 paid purchase-money .. .. 172 15 4 Insurance and taxes .. .. .. 21 15 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. 249 7 4 Interest on current account .. .. 0 7 0 School fees, Boys' School .. .. 309 8 8 Site and buildings for Boys' Boarding Boarding establishment .. .. 15 12 0 Establishment .. .. .. 781 7 1 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds, Boys' Reserves—Rates, and expenses of leasing 3 16 6 School .. .. . ■ .. 2 4 0 Furniture and fittings .. .. 17 12 4 School fees, Girls' School .. .. 147 2 2 Sundries —Stamps, telegrams, &c. .. 7 5 5 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds, Girls' Balance in Bank of New Zealand on fixed School .. .. .. .. 016 0 deposit .. .. .. .. 1,355 4 7 Rent of building purchased for boarding Balance in Bank of New South Wales on establishment .. .. .. 12 0 0 fixed deposit .. .. .. 403 0 0 Amount received for window broken .. 0 9 0 Balance .. .. .. ' .. 582 9 2 £4,709 4 7 £4,709 4 7 George Lumsden, Chairman. Charles Bout, Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 3 ist December, 1892. Assets. £ s. d. 1 Liabilities. £ s. d. Bank of New Zealand, fixed deposit .. 1,355 4 7 Sundry accounts unpaid ... .. .. 11 10 0 Bank of New South Wales, fixed deposit .. 403 0 0 Contract entered into— Bank of New Zealand, balance current ac- M. Frain, addition to residence on Section count .. .. .. .. 513 11 9 26, Block NHL, Invercargill, balance Cash in hand .. .. .. .. 68 17 5 , due .. .. .. 175 0 0 Rent of reserves due and unpaid .. .. 58 18 1 Reserve sold on deferred payment—instalment duo .. .. .. 203 10 8 Interest due and unpaid .. .. .. 18 5 3 School fees due and unpaid .. .. 82 5 9 Furniture of Boarding Establishment .. 60 0 0 Freehold property, Sections 26, 27, and 28, Block XIII., Town of Invercargill Reserves vested in Board by Acts of the General Assembly 1 _ George Lumsden, Chairman. Charles Bout, Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

4. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin: Livy, Book XXI. and XXIL, chapters 1 to 18; Latin Grammar; Bradley's Arnold; Latin prose, and unseen passages for translation from and into Latin. French: " Aventures de Lyderic " ; Moliere's L'Avare; Brachet's Grammar; French prose, and unseen passages for translation from and into French. English: Historical Grammar, Morris's; Shakespeare—The Tempest and Julius Caesar; Chaucer—Prologue and Knight's Tale. English composition and essays. History: Bansoine's History (England), and Creighton's Borne. Mathematics: Arithmetic, the subject; Euclid, Books I. to IV. and Book VI., with problems; Algebra, to the binomial theorem; Trigonometry, to the solution of triangles. Natural Science; Inorganic Chemistry (Boscoe), practical analysis (Silden); heat, sound, and light. Lowest. —Latin : Smith's Principia, Part I. to end of verbs. French : Bue's First French Book, Lessons I. to XXXVIII. English: Mason's Grammar, Analysis and Parsing ; Chambers' Beader (No. VI.), Waverley (Scott), Macaulay's Lays. History : Gardiner's History, to page 229. Geography : Petrie's Geography. Arithmetic : Weights and measures, vulgar and decimal fractions, practice, simple and compound proportion, mental arithmetic and problems. Science: Elementary lectures. Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given; printing (1,525 copies 9?.

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