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1895. NEW ZEALAND

EDUCATION: REPORTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. [In continuation of E.-9, 1894.]

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

SECONDARY SCHOOLS INCORPORATED OR ENDOWED.

SUMMARY OP THE ACCOUNTS OP INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR 1894 PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNING BODIES OP SECONDARY SCHOOLS. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Credit balances on Ist January, 1894 11,496 17 5 By Liabilities on Ist January, 1894 9,025 14 11 Endowment reserves sold 708 2 1 Office management and expenses 2,253 18 8 Rents of reserves 20,925 19 6 Teachers'salaries 30,634 17 6 Interest on investments 2,383 6 11 Boarding-school accounts 3,667 10 9 Reserves Commissioners 1,846 8 0 Examination fees and expenses 527 5 10 School fees. 21,603 2 1 Scholarships and prizes 1 725 19 3 Boarding-school fees ~ 3,710 18 4 Printing, stationery, and advertising 1,900 3 2 Books, &c, sold, and refunds 94 17 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 1,292 6 7 Sundries not classified 3,724 16 6 Buildings, furniture, rent, insurance, Interest on current account 208 2 5 rates, &c. 5,901 5 9 Debit balances, 31st December, 1894 . 10,366 6 5 Interest . 2,597 12 5 Sundries not classified 5,971 7 4 Credit balances, 31st December, 1894. 11,575 15 0 £77,073 17 2 £77,073 17 2 I—E 9.

Name. Act of Incorporation or Institution. Bern arks. Auckland College and Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School 1877 No. 51, Local. 1878, No. 55, Local Under management of Education Board. Not in operation in 1894. Thames High School Whangarei High School 1878, No. 54, Local. 1878, No. 63, Local Act may be repealed by Gazette notice under Act of 1885, No. 30. New Plymouth High School Wanganui Girls' High School Wanganui Collegiate School 1889, No. 2, Local. 1878, No. 42, Local [Nil] Board identical with Education Board. Endowment, Reg. I., fol. 52. See also D.-16, 1866, p. 9. Wellington College and Girls' High School Napier High Schools Gisborne High School Nelson College Nelson College for Girls Greymouth High School Hokitika High School Christ's College Grammar School 1887, No. 17 Local. 1882, No. 11, Local. 1885, No. 8, Local 1858, No. 38. 1882, No. 15, Local 1883, No. 21, Local 1883, No. 7 Local .. Canterbury Ordinance, 1855 1878, No. 30, Local [Nil] Not in operation in 1894. Under management of Nelson College. Not in operation in 1894. Not in operation in 1894. A department of Christ's College, Canterbury. Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School .. Under management of Canterbury College. Under management of Canterbury College. Endowment, Gazette, 1878, Vol. 1, p. 131. Rangiora High School Akaroa High School Ashburton High School .. Timaru High School Waimate High School .. Waitaki High School Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Southland Boys' and Girls' High Schools 1881, No. 15, Local. 1881, No. 16, Local. 1878, No. 49, Local. 1878, No. 26, Local. 1883, No. 19, Local 1878, No. 18, Local. 1877, No. 52, Local. 1877 No. 82, Local. Not in operation in 1894.

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Income of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1894.

From Endowments. Schools. Cr. Balances on 1st Jan., 1894. Eents Interest on Moneys invested. Paid by School Commissioners. School Fees. Boardingschool Fees. Stationery and Books sold, and Eefunds. Sundries unclassified. Interest on Current Account. Dr. Balances, 31st Dec, 1894. Totals. Sales. Auckland College and Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School Thames High School Whangarei High School New Plymouth High School Wanganui (Girls') High School Wanganui Collegiate 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 £ S. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 2,859 5 2 £ s. d. 15 17 0 28 0 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. 2,910 3 6 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 5,785 5 8 28 19 8 902 14 3 387 10 10 1,056 11 4 5,630 14 5 880 13 5 7,237 1 10 0 19 8 100 0 0 50 0 0 217 15 9 170 4 0 "274 0 0 8 8 0 48 3 8 38 0 10 60 8 10 378 16 0 108 17 0 371 8 7 55 18 0 518 19 9 226 0 0 794 9 2 1,657 17 1 109 2 0 126 7 0 259 7 0 1 176 13 9 366 3 4 1 272 17 4 f2,040 0 0 86 4 3 186 14 8 1 535 4 11 1,509 1 .2 1,583 8 4 44 0 0 1,005 14 7 472 2 2 873 12 2 226 11 1 53 2 6 924 15 10 25 4 0 63 13 4 3,231 10 6 271 8 0 2,097 6 3 1,046 17 10 37 10 0 724 15 3 1 10 0 18 15 0 2 748 9 8 429 13 0 2,287 11 3 186 8 0 152 4 7 577 10 4 1,383 12 3 204 7 6 1,082 7 4 2,597 9 11 962 19 10 20 0 0 445 3 9 300 0 0 1 325 12 6 84 18 9 }982 14 2 5,493 7 3 2,112 2 0 7 428 10 0 86 17 0 1,072 19 7 5,519 10 0 3,263 13 0 7,688 0 4 328 13 2 388 10 6 1,090 14 5 2,257 6 1 1,566 11 0 2,171 5 1 11,028 2 0 3,668 4 4 77,073 17 2 2,195 6 3 1 637 2 6 63 1 10 67 4 7 16 3 0 1 859 0 6 1,598 12 6 2,036 13 10 53 17 0 106 13 0 244 14 5 546 19 10 3 0 0 45 10 0 30 11 2 55 12 2 409 6 6 306 3 2 8 19 10 3,354 15 5 88 8 2 127 3 5 120 0 0 61 4 0 33 17 6 93 7 6 129 1 0 2 9 6 205 19 0 1,300 19 6 540 5 10 9 18 9 26 0 0 45 13 9 j 0 15 0 258 10 11 20 0 0 463 2 1 100 0 0 56 13 7 261 0 3 161 17 4 406 0 10 2,928 2 6 493 5 2 6 0 0 I I 4,109 15 6 1,821 1 0 11,496 17 5 529 10 6 Totals 708 2 1 20,925 19 6 2,383 6 11 1,846 8 0 21 608 2 1 3 710 18 4 94 17 6 3,724 16 6 208 2 5 10,366 6 5 * Includes a grant ot £200 from he General Assembly. 1 Mortgages discharged. ; Includes £968 6s. 8d. for mortgages paid off.

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Expenditure of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1894.

Schools. Liabilities on 1st Jan., 1894. Expense of Boards' Management: Office and Salaries School Salaries. Boardingschool Account. ExaminersFees and Expenses. Scholarships, Exhibitions, Prizes. Printing, Stationery, Advertising, &c. Land, Buildings, Furniture, Insurance, Eent, Eates. Cleaning, Fuel, Light, &c. Interest. Sundries unclassified. Cr. Balances, 31st Dec, 1894. Totals. £ s. d. 106 9 6 £ s. a. 307 1 6 £ s. a. 3,527 7 6 £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. d. 119 14 3 £ s. a. 196 9 7 £ s. a. 909 16 9 £ s. a. 64 8 2 £ s. a. 243 13 9 £ s. a. 201 3 2 28 8 10 38 13 10 0 15 0 £ s. a. 109 1 6 0 10 10 £ s. a. 5,785 5 8 28 19 8 902 14 3 387 10 10 1,056 11 4 5,630 14 5 880 13 5 7,237 1 10 Auckland College and Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School Thames High School Whangarei High School New Plymouth High School Wanganui (Girls') High School Wanganui Collegiate 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 106 6 6 72 0 2 2,198 8 3 39 8 0 18 3 5 25 11 6 65 19 6 64 14 10 131 19 4 75 11 1 150 0 0 400 7 4 10 0 0 5 5 0 80 0 0 70 0 0 221 5 0 612 10 0 191 5 1 717 3 4 1,072 7 4 2,709 4 6 1 966 7 2 2,197 10 6 75 0 0 3,734 19 4 1 517 5 8 2 936 1 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 606 13 4 1,494 15 4 37 10 0 1,032 0 0 4,716 17 5 1 140 0 0 1,242 4 0 271 8 0 1,526 4 1 3 3 0 24 13 6 68 5 0 20 6 0 93 2 10 17 1 8 135 14 9 10 6 6 10 4 0 365 8 0 6 2 0 4 11 0 28 9 8 40 6 8 215 2 2 98 14 5 257 11 5 56 13 7 116 16 0 85 13 3 545 9 4 439 8 11 547 13 10 432 6 9 260 4 6 3 9 3 3 10 0 780 4 4 109 11 2 692 18 0 28 12 0 41 6 8 19 4 0 53 8 3 25 14 4 9 16 7 54 11 6 46 16 0 157 4 4 30 4 0 77 13 11 17 6 0 45 15 6 123 13 4 1,007 0 8 3 10 4 325 0 Oj al 300 0 Oi 66 9 0 cl 300 0 0 dl,450 9 0 236 6 11 e59 4 4 13 16 0 74 5 11 30 7 1 148 10 7 19 3 0 12 17 3 15 18 11 87 1 6 7 8 7 /313 8 10 558 15 4 8 4 3 46 3 9 124 17 5 61 247 2 7 180 16 2 1,284 13 0 501 9 0 1,689 0 6 14 3 5 975 8 7 5,493 7 3 2,112 2 0 7,428 10 0 86 17 0 1,072 19 7 5,519 10 0 3,263 13 0 7 688 0 4 328 13 2 388 10 6 1,090 14 5 2,257 6 1 1,566 11 0 2,171 5 1 11,028 2 0 3,668 4 4 2,653 6 6 101 19 9 74 4 9 77 13 0 75 14 0 53 2 0 266 12 0 583 6 6 333 6 9 89 0 7 67 5 1 10 19 9 7 5 0 47 2 0 117 13 6 2 5 0 27 16 10 281 10 3 68 11 6 64 6 11 31 2 11 208 4 0 17 18 8 2 0 0 37 16 0 110 8 7 0 11 0 64 17 0 220 5 6 68 7 2 325 0 Oj 101 9 8 1,072 0 7 0 17 0 28 7 1 109 12 6 53 7 0 70 0 0 251 8 7 75 0 0 31 14 6 2 2 0 12 16 3 25 0 0 28 3 0 5 0 0 69 4 6 22 3 10 21 3 6 122 2 7 269 18 10 259 6 5 1,434 3 5 i 425 19 4 3 3 0 91 19 9 291 19 11 3,517 5 5 612 17 2 14 17 6 52 6 3 3 0 0 140 3 4 455 11 8 179 4 2 i 2,088 15 11 Totals 9,025 14 11 2,253 18 8 30,634 17 6 3,667 10 9 527 5 10 1,725 19 3 1,900 3 2 5,901 5 9 1,292 6 7 2,597 12 5j 5 971 7 4 11 575 15 077,073 17 a Mortgage Account. b In addition to £3,100 irtgai !e. e Lent on mortgage. d £1,450 lent on mortgage. e £50 investment. f £300 paid off mortgage.

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STAFF ATTENDANCE, FEES, AND SALARIES AT SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

• Seven guineas each for two; six guineas each for three. b Headmaster has no salary; seven masters board at school and two board and reside. "Four assistants have board and rooms in addition to salary. dAnd fees. eFor drawing naid to Technical School t Four masters board at school. g Three mistresses board at school. hFive masters have houses > Includes £170 paid to School of Art for instruction in drawing, j And house. k £4 lOs. for a pupil who has passed Standard V in a Primary schoob 1 £4 10s. for a pupil who has passed Standard IV. in a primary school. m Includes two teachers who also each m the tnrls High School. nIncludes two teachers who also teach in the Boys'High School. 0 The column shows 136 teachers, but two are necessarily counted twice; see notes m and n. p Boys, 1,449; girls, 1,005.

REPOETS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

AUCKLAND COLLEGE AND GEAMMAB SCHOOL. 1. —Eepoet of the Boaed. Board. —Of the Board of Governors of the Auckland College and Grammar School twelve meetings were held during the year 1894. At the end of 1894 the Board was constituted as follows Chairman, the Hon. Sir George Maurice O'Borke, B.A. Vice-Chairman, the Hon. Colonel Theodore Minet Haultain, member of the Board ex officio, as being Mayor of the City of

Schools. Stal Attend) ince for Li Quarter of 3t Term or .893. © o 9 in © O w o u © Annual Rati is of B'ees. Regular Staff. ™ttag_ Salaries at Rates paid at End of Year. ■ CO a '■Li O iri o o a a» o £ 3 *" >g a o^ For Ordinary Day-school Course. For Board, ixclusive of Day-school Tuition. £ s. d. J 10 10 0 |880 8 8 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Auckland College and ) Grammar School Whangarei High School 13 191 148 I ftl91 Iff 155 20 J6.21 W-17 J6.23 \g.32 | 324 ! 3 300 0 0 110 0 0 1 14 6 18 191 0 0 Thames High School New Plymouth High ) School [ Wanganui Collegiate | School } Wanganui (Girls') High Sohool J 2 14 28 24 27 | 38 1 51 •8 8 0 6 6 0 500 0 0 707 0 0 4 Wellington College Wellington Girls' High \ Sohool J Napier Boys' High School Napier Girls' High School Nelson College Nelson Girls' College Christ's College Gram- | mar School J Christchurch Boys'High | School j Christchurch Girls'High) School j 10 5 12 1. 1 1 2 , 76 33 54 30 20 27 36 32 I j 47 136 87 36 106 84 38 41 43 48 44 95 10 6 12 8 97 240 174 76 172 125 58 70 81 90 87 227 170 65 168 110 56 64 73 85 128 33 43 12 17 25 14 (900 j 12 0 0 J 10 10 0 18 8 0 ( 13 4 0 ' 10 12 0 113 4 0 1 10 12 0 9 9 0 18 8 0 (990 (700 j 12 12 0 (880 ( 12 12 0 1 8 8 0 14 3 6 11 0 6 { 7 17 6 (990 16 6 0 f 12 12 0 19 9 0 ] 9 9 0 16 6 0 10 10 0 j 9 9 0 (880 (990 (770 110 0 0 18 0 0 I "10 10 0 18 8 0 '8 0 0 (600 [10 0 0 1 8 10 0 I 10 0 0 8 10 0 { 4 4 0 I 45 0 0 I 40 0 0 I 42 0 0 ) i 40 0 0 | 40 0 0 I 40 0 0 I 40 0 0 ) 52 10 0 j 42 0 0 1 I 1 1 [ 40 0 0 I I ! I » 1,725 0 0 «740 0 0 1,635 0 0 1,000 0 0 933 0 8 800 0 0 f l 180 0 0 s 625 0 0 j12,228 6 8 3,270 0 0 a 140 0 0 e Fees. e Fees. [233 0 6 Fees. 254 16 8 J 295 0 0 6 67 57 129 120 1,070 0 0 290 4 0 Bangiora High School Akaroa High School 5 (6. 9 U- 2 (6.11 (9- 2 ! " U50 0 0 Fees. ! » i 200 0 0 Ashburton High School 23 |6.15 J 6.51 I 25 1 79 560 0 0 Timaru High School Waitaki High Schools— Boys' B 48 39 1,445 0 0 80 0 0 18 18 36 34 630 0 0 12 0 0 Girls' 3 10 17 3 36 32 390 0 0 Otago Boys' High School m 10 90 104 24 218 214 44 0 0 38 10 0 I 2,720 13 11 15 Otago Girls' High School Southland High School "10 72 36 96 38 18 187 74 178 70 18 ] 40 0 0 35 0 0 / 35 0 0 1 30 0 0 I Fees. 5 4 10 0 0 I 1 140 0 0 1,415 1 2 Totals ° 131 IS, 21 1114 1207 112 p 2454 2,309 337 27,140 7 3

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Auckland, Mr James Job Holland, elected by the Auckland Board of Education, Mr. Theophilus Cooper, Mr Samuel Luke, Mr Bichard Udy (Chairman of the Auckland Board of Education), 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 the said district, Mr Frederick Douglas Brown, M.A., B.Sc. (Professor of Chemistry and Experimental Physics in the Auckland University College) the Hon. Sir George Maurice O'Borke, 8.A., M.H.B. (Speaker of the House of Bepresentatives and 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 Canon Charles Mosely Nelson, M.A., and the Hon. Joseph Augustus Tole, 8.A., LL.B. Roll. —ln the last term of the year 1894 the total number of pupils was 346—viz., 191 male and 155 female. The number of pupils receiving free tuition in the last term of 1894 was fortyseven—viz., twenty-four male and twenty-three female. Drawing, Workshops, &c. —The usual classes on the girls' side have been held under Mr Kenneth Watkins, and good work has been done in shading from the flat and round , and, by the more advanced pupils, in water-colour and oils. The boys, under Mr Trevithick, have made good progress in geometrical and mechanical drawing, and from the workshop, under the same master, some work of great merit has been turned out. These workshop classes were attended by sixty boys. Cookery. —Classes in cookery were held by Miss Millington during part of the second and third terms. Gymnastics and Drill. —The classes on both sides of the school have been continued under Mr. Carrollo. 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 schoolhours, for receiving instruction and for practice, and performs on the occasions of the school " speeches " and prize-day German. —Mr Watkins, French master, has continued to conduct classes for the teaching of the German language, which are 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 playground, 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 six years. The present accommodation in both departments is barely adequate. W Wallace Kidd, Secretary

2. Geneeal Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves 2,859 5 2 By Dr. balance at beginning of year 106 9 6 School fees, 1894 2,861 3 6 ManagementArrears, 1893 49 0 0 Office salary 100 0 0 Interest on fixed deposit 15 17 0 Other office expenses 53 7 11 Other expenses of management, commission, &0., to Collector 153 13 7 Teachers' salaries and allowances 3,527 7 6 School requisites 90 3 10 Election expenses . 1 13 4 Law expenses 3 3 0 Scholarships 79 0 0 Prizes 40 14 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising 80 0 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, AcSchool 42 0 9 Property 22 7 5 Book and stationery account, and other temporory advances 116 9 4 Fencing, repairs, &c.— School 182 3 8 Property 544 0 6 Rents, insurance, and taxes— School 17 7 6 Property 166 5 1 Interest on current account 3 13 9 Interest on loans 240 0 0 Compensation 90 0 0 Contribution to swimming sports 3 3 0 cricket club 3 0 0 „ athletic sports . 10 0 0 Balance in Bank of New Zealand 46 17 3 Cash in Collector's hands 61 4 6 Petty cash in hand 0 19 9 £5 785 5 8 £5,785 5 8 W Wallace Kidd, Secretary Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. WOEK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest. —Boys Latin, mathematics, English, French, chemistry electricity and magnetism, 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. German is taught on both sides as an optional extra subject. Lowest. Boys Latin Elementa Latina (Morris) , French Chardenal's First Course English —Davidson and Alcock's Intermediate Grammar, with easy parsing and analysis , reading and repetition from Longmans' Fifth Beader, the Brief History of England Geography —Longmans' Shilling, English composition Arithmetic—Longmans' Shilling, as far as vulgar fractions, inclusive. Girls Same as boys, except that Latin is not taught. 4. Scholarships. The College gave free education to twenty foundation scholars (eleven boys, nine girls), sixteen holders of certificates of proficiency from the Education Board (seven boys, nine girls), seven Bawlings' scholars (boys), and eleven children of members of the teaching staff (six boys, five girls). Fifty-one scholarships of the Education Board (twenty-four boys, twenty-seven girls) were held at the College.

AUCKLAND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Geneeal Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance 0 19 8 By Legal expenses 25 18 10 Paid by School Commissioners 28 0 0 Repairs to Howe Street property 2 10 0 Balance 0 10 10 £28 19 8 £28 19 8 B. Udy, Chairman. Vincent E. Bice, Secretary and Treasurer Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

WHANGABEI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Bepoet op the Boaed. Seb,— Whangarei, sth March, 1895. I have the honour to send you a general report of the Whangarei High School Board for the year ended 31st December last. The personnel of the Board has remained unaltered, except that W A. Carruth, Esq., was appointed by the Auckland Board of Education in place of A. H. Mason, Esq., resigned. Considerable difficulty has been experienced in collecting the rents due by tenants of portions of the reserve, and in two cases the leases have been forfeited. Towards the end of the year arrangements were made for the purchase of a suitable site and the erection thereon of a schoolhouse. The Board will require considerable extraneous assistance before this property can be absolutely secured. The school continues under the sole charge of B. D. Duxfield, Esq., M.A., whose services as a teacher are fully appreciated by the parents of the pupils, and approved of by the Inspector-General, who visited the school towards the end of the year The average attendance (18-5) and the progress made by the pupils show that the school is more flourishing than it has ever been before. The Board regret that their funds did not permit of their offering any scholarships during the year. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington. J M. Killen, Chairman.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. To Balance 38 0 10 By ManagementCurrent income from reserves 55 18 0 Office salary 15 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners 50 0 0 Other office expenses 1 14 11 School fees .. 126 7 0 Other expenses of management 18 6 Mason-Carruth scholarship 8 8 0 Teacher's salary and allowances 191 5 1 Sale of building-site 108 17 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising 4 4 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 9 16 7 School appliances 0 7 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes 8 16 0 Deposit paid on account of new building site 108 0 0 Insurance premium paid in error, Kioreroa Maintenance Account 0 15 0 Balance 46 3 9 £387 10 10 £387 10 10 J M. Killen, Chairman. L. L. Cubitt, Treasurer. J S. McKinnon, Secretary Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Woek of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Arithmetic Whole, Hamblin Smith. Algebra Fractions and equations, Hall and Knight. Geometry Books I. and 18, Hamblin Smith. Political Geography Findlater Physical Geography Longmans' New Zealand Geography Patterson, with map drawing. History of England Buckley and Curtis, outlines. History of New Zealand Bourke. History of Europe Freeman. English Grammar Mason, Morris, Trotter, with lessons from Hewitt and Beach's Manual, and Earl's Saxon Grammar English Composition Abbott's How to Write Clearly, and Nichols's Composition. French Chardenal's Second Course La Canne de Jonc, for translation , and exercises from Blouet's Composition. Latin Abbott's Via Latina, Cassar, I. Drawing Perspective, light and shade, with special reference to model. Greek (optional) Smith's. Spelling, with meanings Carpenter Literature Wordsworth's Excursion Shakspeare's Merchant of Venice , Globe Beaders, V and VI. Science Elementary chemistry and biology Lowest. —Arithmetic Chiefly fractions and practice, Barnard Smith and Colenso. Algebra Simple rules and brackets, Hall and Knight. Geography (general) Longmans' Geography (New Zealand) Patterson, with map-drawing. History Brief. English Grammar Trotter English Composition Longmans' French Chardenal's First Course. Latin Elementa Latina. Drawing Freehand. Spelling, with meanings Carpenter Beading Globe II Beader Gymnastics Whole school.

4. Scholaeship The Mason-Carruth Scholarship gives free tuition for one year

THAMES HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Bepoet of the Boaed. The resolution passed some years since, granting free tuition to pupils of the primary schools who had passed the Sixth Standard, has been rescinded, and the number of paying pupils have, therefore, this year been increased. A further increase in the number of pupils, or a larger return from the Board's endowment at Waiorongomai, would enable the Governors to employ an assistant master in the room of Mr Purdie, whose services the Governors were forced to part with in June last on account of the falling-off in the goldfields revenue from the endowment. The Governors are anxious to employ an assistant master, as at the present time too much work is thrown upon the Headmaster, but this is impossible unless the revenue increases from the source mentioned.. The school still continues to show good work. At the public examinations in December and January one passed the matriculation examination, one gained a certificate of proficiency at the District Senior Scholarship Examination, seven passed the Junior Civil Service, and four passed the Senior Civil Service Examination, and of these one passed with distinction. H. J Geeenslade, Secretary

2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d Expenditure. £ s. d. To Grant from vote of the General Assembly 200 0 0 By Dr. balance at beginning of year 106 6 6 Current income from reserves . 371 8 7 Management— Paid by School Commissioners 100 0 0 Office salary 30 0 0 School fees 109 2 0 Other office expenses 7 6 0 Goldfields revenue 74 0 0 Other expenses 2 2 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances 612 10 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising 6 2 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 25 14 4 Fencing, repairs, &c. 28 10 5 Insurance and taxes 14 6 8 Interest on current account 17 6 0 Endowments — Expenses of management, &c. 15 16 6 School requisites 19 11 10 Dr. balance at end of year .. 48 3 8 Legal expenses 19 2 0 £902 14 3 £902 14 3 3. Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1894. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Outstanding school fees 218 8 0 Bank overdraft 48 3 8 Outstanding rents 347 1 6 £565 9 6 £48 3 8 Thos. Badfoed, Chairman. H. J Geeenslade, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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4. WOEK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. The work done by the highest form consists of Latin, French, English, Mathematics, and Science (Chemistry and Electricity) for University Junior Scholarship Examination, and precis for Senior Civil Service, As to the work done by the lowest form, it may be mentioned that nearly all admitted have passed the Sixth Standard, so that their instruction is continued in English, and they commence Latin, French, Geometry, and Algebra.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year 60 8 10 By Management— Endowments — Office salary 25 0 0 Current income from reserves 518 19 9 Other expenses of management 0 11 6 Paid by School Commissioners 217 15 9 Teachers' salaries and allowances 717 3 4 School fees 259 7 0 Examination expenses 3 3 0 Prizes 17 1 8 Printing, stationery, and advertising 28 9 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 54 11 6 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Fencing, repairs, &c. 66 8 3 Rents, insurance, and taxes 19 5 0 Balance at end of year— Bank . 107 19 5 Cash in hand .. .. 16 18 0 £1,056 11 4 £1,056 11 4 J. B. Roy, Chairman. E Veale, Secretary Examined and found correct—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. WOEK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest. Latin Principia, Bradley's Arnold, and Caesar general work with a view to matriculation. French Grammaire dcs Grammaires, and selected portions for translation from French into English and English into French, matriculation standard. Arithmetic All. Algebra Hall and Knight to end of Simultaneous Problems. Euclid Books 1., 11., and 111., and deductions. History General, and matriculation and Civil Service periods, special. Geography General, as for matriculation and Civil Service. Grammar As in geography, Morris's Historical Grammar. Science Electricity and magnetism. Lowest. —Latin: Principia, Part 1., ex. 1-17, and grammar French Dejardin, ex. 1-72, auxiliary verbs. Arithmetic Simple rules, vulgar fractions, and simple proportion. Algebra Todhunter, ex. 1-10, inclusive. Euclid Book 1., props. 1-25. History Primary, to James 11. Geography Petrie. Grammar Morrison. Science. Harrison's Mechanics. Note. —Two or three young pupils who entered late in the year were treated as exceptions, and did not take all the subjects enumerated. The lowest division of all does no Euclid. 3. SCHOLAESHIPS. The Board gave free tuition to three scholars. Four scholarships of the Education Board were held at the school.

WANGANUI (GIRLS') HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Revenue Account, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance, 31st December, 1893 378 16 0 By Office staff, Secretary 25 0 0 Interest on mortgages 366 3 4 Departmental expenses 40 19 6 Rents from endowments leased 226 0 0 Teachers'salaries and fees 1,072 7 4 School Commissioners— Inspection . 24 13 6 Taranaki 132 4 3 Caretaker .. 46 16 0 Wellington 37 19 9 School books and stationery 40 6 8 School fees School requisites (including piano) 60 10 0 Tuition 1 176 13 9 Boarding-school Account 1,242 4 0 Boarding 1 272 17 4 Furnishing Account 22 5 6 Mortgages discharged 2,040 0 0 Building gymnasium 333 13 11 Repairs 47 2 5 Telephone 6 15 10 School site 15 16 8 Plans and supervision 15 15 0 Fire insurance 27 15 0 Borough rates 15 15 0 Bank interest 45 15 6 Mortgage account 1,300 0 0 Balance, 31st December, 1894 1,247 2 7 £5,630 14 5 £5,630 14 5 Wanganui, 28th February, 1895. . A. A. Beowne, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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2. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —As for the B.A. examination of the New Zealand University Lowest. —English Reading and spelling, Fifth Reader Grammar Trotter Geography New Zealand. History Gardiner, to end of House of Lancaster. Arithmetic To end of compound rules. French Chardenal, Part 1., sixty exercises.

WANGANUI COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves 794 9 2 By Dr. balance 72 0 2 Refund, insurances 1 13 3 Managementfencing 15 0; Office salary 35 0 0 " building 118 0 ' Other office expenses 13 19 10 Insurance re fire—cottage 81 8 0 Other expenses of management 15 15 0 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works 260 9 1 Fencing, repairs, &c. 82 11 1 Rents, insurance, and taxes 96 8 9 Interest . .. 123 13 4 Balance 180 16 2 £880 13 5 i £880 13 5 Ed. N Liffiton, Attorney Examined and found correct.—A. C. Ritchie, Auditor.—2nd January, 1895. 2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.— Latin, Greek, French, mathematics, science, history, geography, all up to the Junior Scholarship Standard. Lowest.— Latin, English (including history, geography, reading, and composition), arithmetic, and drawing. 3. Scholarships. Besides the Education Board's Scholarships, some ten boys receive free tuition, and board at half the usual rates, from the Headmaster

WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Geneeal Statement of Beceipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves 1,657 17 1 By Dr. balance at beginning of year 2,198 8 3 Paid by School Commissioners 63 13 4 ManagementSchool fees 3,23110 6 Office salary 100 0 0 Prizes 5 13 0 Other office expenses 31 19 4 Levin Scholarship money 20 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,671 14 6 Interest, Moore and Rhodes Scholarship Janitor 37 10 o Funds . 152 15 0 Examinations— Interest, Turnbull Fund 8 6 8 Examiners' fees 68 5 0 Scholarships 93 6 8 Prizes . 42 8 1 Printing, stationery, and advertising 215 2 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 157 4 4 Furniture and apparatus 28 14 2 Fencing, repairs, &c. 166 6 11 Insurance and taxes 294 11 6 Interest on current account 162 12 8 Rates on endowments 58 1 3 Interest on cost of reclaimed land 136 2 8 Drawing fees received and paid to Technical School .. 54 15 0 Interest on cost of buildings 708 5 4 Dr. balance at end of year 2,097 6 3 Legal expenses 11 14 0 £7,237 110 £7,237 1 10 Scholaeship Accounts. Receipts. Expenditure. Turnbull Fund £ s - d. Turnbull Fund— £ s. d. Balance brought forward 2,233 9 8 To General Account for Scholarships 8 6 8 Interest 161 11 8 Balance .. 2,386 14 8 £2,395 1 4 £2,395 1 4 Moore Scholarship Fund— j Moore Scholarship FundBalance brought forward 547 8 0 To General Account for Scholarships .. 76 7 6 Interest 28 19 6 j Balance 500 0 0 £576 7 6 £576 7 6 2—E 9

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Scholaeship Accounts — continued Receipts. Expenditure. Rhodes Scholarship Fund— £ s. d. Rhodes Scholarship Fund— £ s. d. Balance brought forward 547 8 0 To General Account for Scholarships 76 7 6 Interest 28 19 6 Balance . 500 0 0 £576 7 6 £576 7 6 Barnicoat Prize Fund — Barnicoat Prize Fund— Balance brought forward 116 2 6 To Prize, 1894 5 0 0 Interest 6 7 8 Balance 117 10 3 £122 10 2 £122 10 2 Mary Scholarship Fund — Mary Scholarship Fund— Given by Mr. C. B. Izard £500 0 0 Balance £500 0 0 J B. Blair, Chairman. Chas. P Powles, Secretary Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. WOEK DONE BY THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST FoEMS. College. Highest. —Latin Prose, Bradley's Aids , translation—Livy,L, Virgil, iEneid, VI., Horace, Odes, IV , sight translation , history and antiquities , grammar. English Morris's Elementary Historical Grammar, King Lear, selections from Tennyson, Nichols's Composition Exercises essays and paraphrasing , Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons, grammar papers. French Brachet's Grammar, Bue's French, Studies in French Idioms, Havet's French Composition, Brachet's Accidence , Mdlle. de la Seigliere, L'Attaque dv Moulin. Mathematics Euclid, Books I. 11. lIP, IV., and VI., with exercises on all (Todbunter's), Algebra, to permutations and combinations (Hall and Knight's and Todhunter's Larger)- Trigonometry to solution of triangles (page 240, Lock's Elementary). Arithmetic general. Science Chemistry, inorganic (Jago's Elementary and Jago's Advanced) practical chemistry Lowest. —Latin : Via Latina (Abbott) to Ex. XXIV English Nelson's Geographical Reader No. 4., Longmans' Reader, Standard IV History Gardiner's Outlines (to Edward. I.) , Essays on subjects read. Grammar Parts of speech analysis of simple sentences dictation and spelling. French Gasc, Part I. to p. 34. Arithmetic Simple and compound rules , reduction. Science Bickerton's Elementary Lessons, 1.-11. Girls' High School. Highest. —Mathematics As for Junior Scholarships. Latin Prepared translations—Tacitus, Agricola and Germania Cajsar's Gallic War, fifty chapters ; Ovid, Tristia, Book I. sight translations grammar and composition —Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, and selected passages. Science Botany and Heat, as for Junior Scholarships. English Grammar—Morris's Historical Outlines Shakespeare's Julius Cassar, and part of Coriolanus parts of Chaucer's Prologue, and of Morris and Skeats's Specimens. Composition How to Write Clearly , parts of English Lessons for English People , Nicols's Primer on English Composition , practice in correction of sentences paraphrasing distinguishing between synonyms reproducing passages read, as the Light of Asia. French Grammar —Brachet's Elementary French Grammar (greater part) , composition—Havet's French Composition Book translation—La Cigale chez les Fourmes L'Attaque dv Moulin Horace. Lowest. —Arithmetic Four simple and four compound rules. Grammar Parsing , analysis of simple sentences. Geography Kurope, Asia, Africa, North America, generally, chief physical features of New Zealand, and chief towns of North Island. Beading and spelling Longmans' New Beaders, Standard 111. History Gardiner's Outline of English History, to page 55. Poetry Battle of the Baltic, Wreck of the Birkenhead, Loss of the Boyal George. Composition Fairy stories. 3. SCHOLAESHIPS. College. College Scholarships Free education, four Moore Scholarships £20, one £15, one. Turnbull Scholarships £15, one £5, two. Levin Scholarship, £10, one. Girls' School. College Scholarships Free education, six. Twelve scholarships of the Education Board were held at the College, and seven at the Girls' School.

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NAPIEB HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Bepoet of Boaed. The Board of Governors, as at present constituted, is comprised of the following members The Hon. J D. Ormond and Mr J W Carlile, elected by the Education Board of Hawke's Bay, Messrs. G H. Swan and J W Neal, elected by the Municipal Council of Napier, Messrs. W Shrimpton and B. D D McLean, elected by the Hawke's Bay County Council, Messrs. G. E. Sainsbury and H. P Cohen, elected by the Waipawa County Council, Mr. J W Twigg, elected by the Wairoa County Council, and Mr H. S. Tiffen, by the Governor in Council. The schools were examined, immediately before the recess, by A. Mac Arthur, LL.D., of Auckland. His report to the Governors shows that the work of the schools was generally satisfactory The average attendance at the Boys' School for the last quarter of the year was fifty-eight, and at the Girls' School, seventy Three boys passed in the Matriculation Examination, and three girls. One girl matriculated on the Junior Scholarship papers. J D. Oemond, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary

2. General Statement of Bbceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance . 1 535 4 11 By Office salary 60 0 0 Current income from reserves 363 2 10 Other office expenses 15 11 1 From property not a reserve 683 15 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances 1 733 6 8 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Portion of scholarships spent on board, paid purchase-money 226 11 1 rail, and coach 271 8 0 Paid by School Commissioners—Exami- Examiners' fees 20 6 0 ner's fee 20 0 0 Music teachers 233 0 6 School fees— Prizes 10 6 6 Paid by School Commissioners, £289; Printing, stationery, and advertising . 16 18 0 from scholarship pupils of Education Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 30 4 0 Board, £102 ; scholars, including Book and Stationery Account and other music, &c, £934125. 6d. .. .. 1 325 12 6 temporary advances 81 16 5 Boarding school fees received from Site and buildings— School Commissioners for board of Purchases and new works 210 0 0 scholarship pupils, and for rail and Fencing, repairs, &c. 116 8 9 coach fares 271 8 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes . 105 18 0 Books, &0., sold and other refunds 84 18 9 Interest on current account 3 10 4 Timber sold .. 14 7 6 Endowments, lent on mortgage 1,300 0 0 Mortgages paid off 968 6 8 Balance .. £1 286 13 2 Less unpresented cheque 2 0 2 1,284 13 0 £5,493 7 3 £5,493 7 3 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' School. Highest. —Latin Livy Book 1., Virgil, iEneid, 1., Prose Composition and Grammar (Public School). Greek Arnolds Prose, Xenophon s Anabasis, Book 1., Parry's Grammar French Extracts from modern authors, newspapers, &c. , conversation, and composition (continuous prose). Wellington College Grammar Mathematics Euclid, Books 1.-111. with riders, algebra, to quadratics , trigonometry to solution of triangles • mechanics and hydrostatics elementary) arithmetic, the whole subject. English Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, grammar, Meiklejohn and Morris , composition. History 1689 to 1837 Geography General and physical. Natural science Physiology Loiuest. —English and arithmetic About Third Standard, New Zealand Elementary Code. Latin To regular verbs. Euclid To proposition 15. Girls' School. Highest. —Arithmetic Whole subject. Geometry, algebra, trigonometry, as for Junior Scholarship. English Mason's Grammar, Morris's Historical Grammar composition literature, from 1744 to 1800. French Voltaire's Charles XII., Brachet's Grammar, composition. Latin Livy, Book 1., Kennedy's Latin Grammar German Macmillan, Second Course, Das Bild dcs Kaisers. Science Botany, as for Junior Scholarship. Applied mathematics, Newth. Lowest. —Arithmetic Simple and compound rules, reduction, mental arithmetic. Grammar Parts of speech easy analysis. Geography England, New Zealand, Australia. History Gardiner, 1066 to 1485. French : Loly and Goujon. Object lessons on common things, animals, plants. Reading No. 4 Royal Reader Singing , drawing, sewing, drill. 4. SCHOLAESHIPS. The School Commissioners gave twenty-eight scholarships, ranging in value from £50 4s. to £10 4s. Ten scholarships of the Education Board were held at the schools,

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GISBOENE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of the Board. Sir,— Gisborne, 9th April, 1895. Up to the 31st December last there was no change to report since previous years in the position of secondary education in the Poverty Bay District. In consequence of a decision arrived at during the year by the Education Board of Hawke's Bay, the District High School, as from the close of last year, has ceased to give instruction in the secondary subjects, and the assistant master employed by that Board for the past seven years has been withdrawn. My Governors therefore decided to establish tentatively for one year a high school exactly supplying the education previously afforded by the Hawke's Bay Education Board. The high school for the year 1895 will therefore be a separate school, administered by the Governors under "The Gisborne High School Act, 1885." In consequence of the limited population of the Poverty Bay District, and the vast area of country through which that population is scattered, and the primitive nature of the communications opened up, it is impossible to hope that the school as a separate school can be as economically administered as has heretofore been the case, when the public school afforded the same secondary education under more advantageous circumstances. The Governors, however, hope to have your approval in making the best provision possible under the circumstances, and retain the hope that the Education Board of Hawke's Bay will see its way, under some equitable financial arrangement, to revert to the system which has proved effective and economical. I am, &c, W Moegan, Chairman. The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington.

2. Geneeal Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. To Balance— By Teachers' salaries and allowances— On fixed deposits 1,494 11 4 Hawke's Bay Education Board 150 0 0 On current account 14 9 10 Scholarships 10 4 0 Current income from reserves . 37 10 0 Exchange 0 9 0 Interest on moneys invested 53 2 6 Invested on mortgage— Paid by School Commissioners, Auck- M. K. White .. 500 0 0 land .. 445 3 9 T. H. Grayson 950 0 0 Interest on deposit receipts . 67 4 7 Fixed deposits 475 0 0 Balance 26 9 0 £2,112 2 0 £2,112 2 0 W Moegan, Chairman. C. A. De Lautoue, Secretary Examined and found correct.—Jambs Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

NELSON COLLEGE. 1. Repoet of the Goveenoes foe the Yeae ending 31st Decembee, 1894. The Governors regret to record the occurrence of two vacancies in their body during the year, caused by the resignation of the Hon. Mr Shephard, owing to continued ill-health, and the death of Mr Hodgson, which, however, have been filled by the appointment of Mr John Graham, M.H.R., and Mr G. A. Harkness, M.A., Chief Inspector of Schools. The term of office of three other members of the Council expired in the course of the year—namely, Mr Sharp, Mr Fell, and Mr Cock, but, as they were all reappointed by His Excellency the Governor, no vacancy occurred. In the Boys' College, the number of pupils increased by one only, but the Governors notice with satisfaction a substantial addition to the roll during the current year In the Girls' College there was an increase during the year of ten pupils, which increase is being maintained. Mr Joynt, M.A., Principal of the Boys' College, having urgent need to visit England, applied for and was granted leave of absence without pay for the year 1895. His place will be ably filled in his absence by the Acting-Principal, Mr Littlejohn, M.A., the second master, and the staff has been strengthened for the time being by the appointment of Mr G. G. S. Bobison, of Wellington, as an additional assistant-master The reports of the Examiners this year speak highly of the work done in both colleges, and the Examiners appear to have been well satisfied with the' improvement which they notice in almost every department. In the Boys' College, the following honours have been gained during the past year For the second year in succession, two New Zealand Junior Scholarships were won by College boys, out of a total number of four candidates, and the other two passed, one of them on the credit list. For matriculation, there were five candidates, of whom four passed. For second-year's terms, only one candidate presented himself, and passed first-class in four subjects. In Senior Civil Service, there were three candidates, of whom one passed, and another failed in one subject only In Junior Civil Service there were eight candidates, of whom seven passed, and also one old boy

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Among old boys, the most noticeable distinction gained is that by Mr. Chaytor, who headed the list in the Law Tripos at Cambridge, and secured a fellowship. Mr Wilkes, who obtained a Junior Scholarship from Nelson College, won an exhibition in English at Canterbury College. Some changes worthy of note have taken place in the teaching staff of the Girls' College. Miss Watson, who has been an assistant-mistress for many years, resigned, to the Governors' regret. Her place was taken by Miss Gribben, M.A., and Miss B. M. Watt, M.A., was appointed secondassistant, while Miss Catley, who had been a part-time teacher only, was made a full-time teacher. The following honours have been gained by pupils attending the school For second-year's terms examination, two candidates only presented themselves, and both passed. Cable advice has since been received that both these pupils, Miss Elizabeth Graham and Miss Theresa Max, have also successfully passed the first section for the B.A. degree. For first year's terms examination, only one candidate offered, who duly passed. For matriculation, nine pupils presented themselves, eight of whom passed. A later cablegram announces that Mr Cecil E. Livesey, and Miss Florence E. Livesey and Mr. C. A. Eves, also pupils of the Nelson Colleges, had each been successful in passing the first section of the examination for the degree of B.A. From the above, it will be seen that, in proportion to numbers, the pupils of the Nelson Colleges have for the past year gained more honours than any other educational establishment in the colony. The Governors, recognising the growing importance of a knowledge of drawing, have made that branch of study a free subject instead of an extra one, and have appointed Mr. H. W Kirkwood teacher of drawing in the Boys' College, and in the Girls' College they have appointed Mrs. Cooke to that office. The Governors have also made a change in respect to the teaching of music in both Colleges, which they have placed under the sole control of the Nelson School of Music. Though no cooking classes have yet been held in connection with the College, a great many girls attended the short course of lessons given during the winter by Miss Wardrop. The audited accounts of both Colleges for the year 1894, together with a comparative statement of the rolls for 1893 and 1894, 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 Cuetis, Secretary

2. Absteact of Receipts and Expendituee of the Nelson College for Boys, for the Year ending the 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Boarding Account . 1,060 9 2 By Boarding Account . 919 13 2 Tuition Account . 936 5 1 Tuition Account 1,224 7 6 Miscellaneous Account 63 1 10 Stationery Account 87 8 10 Scholarships— Foundation 60 0 0 Endowed . 124 0 0 Joynt and Education Board, third year 32 12 1 Third-year lay boy scholar 12 12 0 Simmons prize . 6 0 0 Incidental expenses 86 6 7 Examiners' fees, two years . 78 2 6 Audit charges . 5 5 0 Science appliances . 12 2 6 Gas Account 46 0 11 Subscriptions to sports, &o. 20 0 0 Printing and advertising 56 16 0 Office rent and expenses 55 19 7 Balanoe—Transferred to Endowment Ac- Law costs . 14 10 4 count 982 010 Secretary's salary ... . 200 0 0 £3,041 16 11 £3,041 16 11

3. Absteact of Receipts and Expendituee of the Nelson College for Giels for the Year ending the 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Boarding Account 576 13 4 By Boarding Account 606 10 11 Tuition Account 1,259 1 2 Tuition Account 973 3 0 Stationery Account 69 10 10 Scholarships— Foundation 60 4 0 Endowed, Tinline . 40 0 0 Governors' fees 30 0 0 Printing and advertising 43 15 9 Auditors' fees 5 5 0 Examiners' fees, &o. 15 0 4 Gas Account .. 31 13 0 Office rent 35 0 0 Balance—Transferred to Endowment Ac- Secretary's salary .. 100 0 0 count 183 16 1 Incidental expenses 9 7 9 £2,019 10 7 £2,019 10 7

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4. Abstract of the Endowment Account of Nelson College for the Year ending the 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance on 31st December, 1893, brought By Interest, Girls' College 325 0 0 down .. 1,583 8 4 City rates— Interest Account 724 15 3 Girls' College 18 13 3 Rent Account 924 15 10 Boys' College 28 1 2 School Commissioners' subsidy 300 0 0 InsuranceGirls' College 42 0 0 Boys' College 67 4 0 Repairs— Girls' College 43 10 7 Boys' College 48 13 0 Governors' fees .. 105 0 0 Debit Balances—• Girls' College . .. 183 16 1 Boys' College .. 982 0 10 Balance carried down .. 1,689 0 6 £3,532 19 5 £3,532 19 5 Oswald Cuetis, Secretary We hereby certify that we have examined the above accounts, and found them correct. J T Catley, ) A -~, A. A. SOAiFE,t Audltors -

5. WOEK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Boys' College. Highest. —Latin Tacitus, Agricola, Virgil, iEneid 11., Horace, Satires 1., Bradley's Arnold , Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose , translation at sight from Livy, XXI.-XXIV., Smith's History of Borne. Greek Smith's Initia Greeca, Sidgwick's Introduction to Greek Prose , Xenophon's Anabasis, 11. English Shakspeare, Julius Caesar and Merchant of Venice, Johnson's Rasselas; Macaulay's Essay on Johnson; Mason's English Composition, Composition. French Voltaire's Charles XII., Moliere's L'Avare; Wellington College Grammar, Sharp's Syntax. Mathematics General Arithmetic, Hall and Knight's Larger Algebra up to Binomial Theorem, Jones and Cheyne's Algebra Exercises , Hall and Stevens's Euclid, 1.-VI., Lock's Elementary Trigonometry , Ward's Examination Papers in Trigonometry , Lock's Dynamics. Science Boscoe's Inorganic Chemistry , Dobbin and Walker's Chemical Theory, Deschanel's Sound and Light. Lowest. —English Beading, Writing, Dictation , Parsing and Analysis , Hall's Primary English Grammar, Gardiner's Outline of English History, Henry VII. to Charles 11, Geography of New Zealand, Australia, British Isles, Europe, and outline of the world , Geikie's Primer of English Geography Arithmetic Lock's Elementary, up to and including vulgar and decimal fractions. Latin Welch and Duffield's Syntax , Abbott's Via Latina, pp. 1-50. Girls' College. Highest. —Mathematics Arithmetic, the whole subject, Algebra, to the end of binomial theorem, Euclid, Books 1., 11., 111., IV., VI.; Trigonometry, to the end of solution of triangles. Latin Grammar —Bradley's Arnold and Abbott's Prose Composition, prose writing, sight translation ; antiquities, Boman history, Tacitus—Agricola, Germania , Ovid—Tristia, Book I. English Morris-'s English Grammar, Abbott's How to Write Clearly, Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People ; Lectures on Literature of Period, 1744-1800 chapters from Manual of English Literature, by Professor Brown, dealing with period, Esmond, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, essay writing, correction of sentences, &c. French Wellington College School Grammar; Sainsbury, Literature (period, the Age of Louis XIV.), Corneille's Cinna and Les Horaces , Moliere, Le Misanthrope ; Voltaire, Charles XII., French prose composition. History Epochs; the settlement of the Constitution, England during the American and European wars. Geography Gill's Geography—Africa, Australia, New Zealand, America. Class drawing, club exercises, &c. Lowest. —Arithmetic Easy sums in simple proportion by unitary method, compound rules, highest common factor English Writing, spelling, dictation, the parts of speech and easy parsing and analysis, Mrs. Ewing's Brownies , Standard Sixth, London School Series. Geography Europe, Africa, New Zealand —only most important facts, no text-book. English history Gardiner's History, Tudor and Stuart period. Sewing, club exercises, &c. 6. Scholarships. College. Endowed Tinline, £52 125., Newcome, £24, Bichmond, £24, Stafford, £20, Fell, £16. College One at £32 125., one at £16, one at £14, one at £12 125., one at £12 , one at £6 , three at £4. Girls' College. Tinline £52 12s. Governors' Fees Two at £15. College Two at £15 ; three at £12 125., one at £5. School Commissioners Six at £12 12s. Eleven scholarships of the Nelson Education Board and one of the Marlborough Education Board were held at the Boys' College, and eleven of the Nelson Education Board and one of the Marlborough Education Board were held at the Girls' College.

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CHRIST'S COLLEGE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 1. Geneeal Statement of Receipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 15th May, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Rent and interest 1,664 0 7 By Liabilities, being Dr. balance, 15th May, Scholarship endowments 623 10 8 1893 2,653 6 6 School fees 2,036 13 10 Expenses of management 221 5 0 Sundries, unclassified 8 19 10 Masters' salaries and allowances 2,936 1 0 Dr. balance, 15th May, 1894, including Examination expenses 75 14 0 £729 18s. Id., advance from land-fund Scholarships, exhibitions, and prizes .. 583 6 6 for building and improvements 3,354 15 5 Stationery school material, printing and advertising 67 5 1 Scientific apparatus and material 26 9 5 Fittings and requisites, infirmary 25 16 6 Timber and tools, carpenter's shop 13 9 3 Building, repairs, furniture, insurance, and rates 627 2 10 Caretaker and other labour, fuel, lights, &c. 208 4 0 Boys' games fund 124 4 2 Law costs, &c. .. 24 6 5 Interest 101 9 8 £7,688 0 4 £7,688 0 4 W. G. Beittan, Bursar

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin, French, English, mathematics, and either Greek or science (chemistry and heat) to standard of Junior University Scholarship Examination , divinity Lowest. —Latin Elementa Latiua, to page 61. French Gasc's Course, Part 1., to exercise 33, verbs avoir, etre, marcher, &c. Geography Zealandia, Part 11., to page 69. English History Gardiner's Outlines, to page 165. English Grammar Longmans' Junior, to page 80. Composition, reading, spelling, repetition. Divinity Arithmetic Longmans' School, chapters 1.-XIII., XV 3. Scholarships and Exhibitions. Scholarships on the Foundation of Mrs. Maria Somes. —These are open, without restriction as to place of birth or of previous education, to boys of good character who are members of the Church of England or of some Church in communion with it. Preference is given, cceteris paribus, to the kindred of Mrs. Somes and to that of her late husband, Mr Joseph Somes. Senior Somes Scholarships. —Four are to be offered, if funds permit, in each year —namely, (a) two to boys who will be under the age of eighteen years on the first day of December in that year, and (b) two to boys who will be under the age of seventeen years on the same day Candidates must compete at the examination held by the University of New Zealand for Junior University Scholarships, and, to be eligible, a candidate in Class (a) must obtain at least 2,000 marks, a candidate in Class (b) at least 1,500 marks in that examination. Scholarships in either class for which there is no qualified candidate may be awarded to qualified candidates in the other The scholarships are tenable for one year, and of the value of £25, with the addition of £20 in the case of boarders in one of the school-houses. A holder of a Junior Somes Scholarship gaining a Senior Scholarship ipso facto vacates the former Junior Somes Scholarships. —Five are to be offered, if funds permit, in each year—namely, (a) two to boys who will be under the age of sixteen years on the first day of December in that year, and (b) three to boys who will be under the age of fourteen years on the same day Candidates, to be eligible, must pass satisfactorily a preliminary examination in Divinity The subjects of the competitive examination, which is to be held in the month of September, are, for both classes Latin, English, Mathematics, French, and either Greek or English History and Geography No candidate will be elected who fails to obtain at least 50 per cent, of full marks. Scholarships in either class for which there is no qualified candidate may be awarded to qualified candidates in the other The scholarships are tenable for two years, and of the value of £18 per annum, with the addition of £15 per annum in the case of boarders in one of the school-houses. A holder of an Entrance Scholarship gaining a Junior Scholarship ipso facto vacates the former Entrance Somes Scholarships (No. 1). —Four are to be offered, if funds permit, in each year namely, (a) two to boys who will be under thirteen, and (b) two to boys who will be under twelve years of age on the first day of December in that year but scholarships for which there is no qualified candidate in the one class may be awarded to qualified candidates in the other The subjects of the examination, which is to be held in December are English History, Geography, and Arithmetic. No candidate will be elected who fails to obtain at least 50 per cent, of full marks. The scholarships are tenable for two years, and of a value sufficient to cover the tuition fees of the scholar, with an allowance of £3 per annum for books, and with the addition of £10 per annum in the case of boarders in one of the school-houses. Entrance Somes Scholarships (No. 2). —These are offered from time to time, as funds permit, to (a) boys under thirteen, (b) boys under twelve, and (c) boys under eleven years of age on the first day of the examination. The prescribed subjects are Divinity, Latin, English, and Arithmetic. The scholarships are tenable for two years, and reduce the ordinary fees by one half. Boys already entitled to free education on other grounds are not eligible for Entrance Scholarships No. 2. No text-books or portions of subjects are prescribed for Junior or Entrance Scholarships, it being left to the discretion of the Examiners to make the papers suitable to the age of the candidates.

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No candidate will be elected to any of the above scholarships until he has submitted to the Bursar certificates (1) of date of birth, and (2) of membership of the Church of England or of some Church in communion with it, the latter must be signed by a clergyman holding the license of the Bishop. Proof of good character and conduct must also be supplied, if required. The Junior and Senior Scholarships given by the Board of Education are tenable in the school, and may be held together with Somes Scholarships. It will be seen that a capable and diligent boy may, by winning in succession Entrance, Junior, and Senior Somes Scholarships, secure free education, with considerable assistance, if he be a boarder, towards the cost of maintenance, from an early age until he has reached the limit of age for Junior University Scholarships. Butler and Beay Foundation. —Exhibitions are given to the sons of clergy ministering in the Diocese of Christchurch, and to others who may require assistance, at the discretion of the governing body ; also six exhibitions, of £2 a term, to members of the chapel choir Any of the above scholarships may be terminated at the end of any term if the scholar fails to obtain from the Head-master a certificate of regular attendance, good conduct, and satisfactory progress, or at any time for flagrant misconduct. On the other hand scholarships may, for special cause, be extended by the governing body beyond the time for which they were originally granted.

CHRISTCHURCH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance 472 2 2 By Management—Office salary 80 0 0 Current income from reserves 2,748 9 8 Teachers'salaries and allowances . 3,734 19 4 School fees 1,859 0 6 Examinations— Interest on current account 30 11 2 Examiners' fees 66 10 3 Other expenses . 7 14 6 Scholarships 15 0 0 •' Prizes 38 2 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising, including books, stamps, and telegrams 226 10 10 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 64 6 11 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works 400 18 8 Fencing, repairs, &c. 90 2 1 Insurance 27 18 2 Hire of tables, chairs, &o. 14 8 6 Laboratory—Chemicals and apparatus 55 7 9 Expenses of Workshop Carpenters' wages, materials, and tools 47 17 1 Cricket club and cadet corps, annual grants 45 0 0 Magic-lantern and slides 38 13 6 Pumping out and cleaning bath 12 7 9 Laying out football ground 25 4 0 Grant to school library 5 0 0 Legal expenses .. .. 11 18 2 Inspecting reserves and advertising 106 15 11 Drainage-work on Reserve 2009 50 0 0 Re-pegging and fencing Reserve 1223 15 0 0 Interest on loan 325 0 0 Dr. balance at end of year 409 6 6 Sundries .. 14 14 7 £5,519 10 0 £5,519 10 0 H. B. Webb, Chairman. A. Ceaceoft Wilson, Begistrar.

2. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin Cicero, Actio Prima (King, C. P S.), Ovid, Selections by Shuckburgh (Macmillan) , History of Borne (Smith) , Bradley's Arnold, Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose, Simpson's Caesarian Prose unseen pieces from various authors, critical questions. English Tennyson, selections (Macmillan) Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book I. (C.P S.) Bacon's Essays (Selby, Macmillan) , Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings (Hale, Longmans) , Longmans' Handbook of English Literature, Part 11. (Chaucer to Shakespeare), Mason s English Grammar, Abbott's How to Write Clearly, paraphrase, essays. French Sandeau, Mademoiselle de la Seigliere , Malot, Sans Famille , Loti, Pecheur dTslande Macmillan's Progressive French Course, Part 11. , Eve and Beaudais', Wellington School Grammar, unseen pieces. Mathematics (Junior Scholarship Standard) Hall and Steven's Euclid, Books I. to VI. , Hall and Knight's Algebra, Lock's Elementary Trigonometry English history Bansome's Short History of England, period 1603-1714. Geography Longmans' School Geography for Australasia. Chemistry (as for Junior Scholarship) Jago's Inorganic Chemistry Physics Heat (as for Junior Scholarship), Garnett's Heat, Deschanel's Heat. Greek Abbott and Mansfield's Greek Grammar Primer, to end of accidence , Abbott's Arnold's Greek Prose (Bivington s), 30 exercises Xenophon, Cyropcedia, selections (Macmillan, Elementary Classics), Euripides, Alcestis (Scenes from), A. Sidgwick (Bivington's). Loiuest. —Latin: 1 Abbott's Via Latina, Exercises 1-30 , 2. Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course (declensions). English Royal Reader No. 4 , Our Friends of the Farm , Longmans' Junior School Grammar , spelling, dictation, transcription, easy composition. French First French Reader and

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Writer (Swarm and Sonnenschein). Mathematics First four rules, (simple and compound), tables, reduction, numeration, notation. English history Brief History of England. Geography Hill's First Lessons in Geography Chemistry Roscoe's Chemistry Primer Modern Shorthand Pitman s Phonographic Teacher and Manual. Physiology, Foster's Primer Manual Training Sloyd.

3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to thirty-five scholars, and a leaving exhibition of £15 a year to one. Eighteen scholarships of the Education Board were held at the school.

CHRISTCHURCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. j Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance 873 12 2J By Management—Office salary 70 0 0 Current income from reserves 429 13 0 : Teachers'salaries and allowances 1,517 5 8 Interest on moneys invested and on Examinations— unpaid purchase-money 306 3 2 Examiners' fees 70 7 0 School fees 1,598 12 6J Other expenses 7 6 0 Interest on current account 55 12 2 j Scholarships 240 0 0 Prizes 26 12 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising (including stamps and telegrams) 89 0 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 31 2 11 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works . 20 7 1 Fencing, repairs, &o. 14 7 9 Rents and insurance 68 16 11 Ingredients, &0., for cooking class 17 2 2 Music (cantata) 2 12 0 Tennis material, &c. 5 19 5 Inspecting reserves 6 0 11 Sundries 4 12 0 Balance 1 072 0 7 £3,263 13 0 £3 263 13 0 H. R. Webb, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Registrar 2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English Mason s Grammar , Morris's Historical English Grammar Sweet's AngloSaxon Primer, Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) Richard 111. (Shakespeare, Clarendon Press) , Goldsmith's Traveller ■ Gray's Elegy Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, composition on books read correction of sentences, selections from poets and prose-writers of nineteenth century Science Botany and heat, as prescribed for Junior University Scholarship Examination. Latin Selections from Horace's Satires and Epistles, Cicero's Second Philippic Livy Book XXI. ■ Virgil, iEneid, Book VI., Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius (selections by Wratislaw and Sutton), Sallust's Catiline War (White's Grammar School Texts), Caesarian Prose by Simpson, Arnold's Latin Prose (edited by Bradley) Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom, at sight, Cicero's De Senectute, De Amicitia, and Terence's Andria. Boman History Horton's History of the Romans. French Wellington Grammar, Syntax Brachet's Grammar and Exercises, Miscellaneous Prose, Bue's Idioms , Translation—Les Femmes Savantes (Moliere) Cinq Mars, Part 11. (Alfred de Vigny), Extraits (Victor Hugo), Phedre (Racine) Mathematics Lock's Trigonometry, to solution of triangles, Hamblin Smith's and Todhunter's Algebra, to permutations and combinations, Hall and Stevens' Euclid, six books. Lowest. —Star Reader, No. VI. Elements of botany taught without text-book. History and geography, taught without text-books. Stronach s Literature, Elizabethan period. Arithmetic Compound rules. French Easy words and sentences, without text-book.

3. Scholaeships. Scholarships of the value of £15 each were given to sixteen pupils. Nine scholarships of the Education Board were held at the school.

GBEYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance on 31st December, 1893 44 0 0 By Secretary's salary 1893-94 10 0 0 Interest on moneys invested 25 4 0 Insurance 1 11 9 Rents 1 10 0 Rates 1 17 6 Sale of property, R. Gregory 16 3 0 Sundries 2 0 0 Loan repaid 200 0 0 Law-costs 7 4 4 Loan, P G. Dorrington 250 0 0 Balance, National Bank, on 31st December, 1894 14 3 5 £286 17 0 £286 17 0 R. Nancaeeow, Chairman. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General. 3—E. 9.

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HOKITIKA HIGH SCHOOL. Balance-sheet of the Boaed of Governors for the Year ending 31st December 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance in Bank of New Zealand at By Subsidy to Westland Education Board beginning of year, viz.— on account of District High School 75 0 0 On fixed deposit 950 0 0 Insurance 3 10 0 On current account 55 14 7 Repairs, &c. 11 14 0 Interest on fixed deposits 45 10 0 Survey fee, plans, &c. 2 2 0 Rents 18 15 0 Bonus to Secretary .. 5 5 0 Fire insurance 3 0 0 Balance in Bank of New Zealand, viz.— On fixed deposit 950 0 0 On current account 25 8 7 £1,072 19 7 £1,072 19 7 John McWhirtee, Chairman. W A. Fend all, Secretary Audited and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

RANGIORA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of the Board. Sib,— Bangiora, 9th March, 1895. In accordance with section 16 of " The Bangiora High School Act, 1881," and of a circular letter from the Education Department, dated the 29th November last, I have the honour to forward herewith the report of the Board of Governors of the Bangiora High School for the year ending 31st December, 1894. _ This school was temporarily closed at the end of the second term of 1893, and re-opened in the beginning of 1894 under fresh management and on a more economical basis. The Inspector-General of Schools having very recently visited the school, we confidently trust that a favourable report of the management will be received from him. The lessee of the reserve having required a rebate of rent, the revenue from this source was considerably reduced notwithstanding this loss of funds at the disposal of the Board, however, the audited statement of accounts for the year shows a diminished overdraft at the bank. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education, Geoege John Leech, Wellington. Chairman.

2. General Statement of Receipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves 186 8 0 By Dr. balance at beginning of year 101 19 9 School fees . 53 17 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances 150 0 0 Dr. balance at end of year 88 8 2 Printing, stationery, and advertising 10 19 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 17 18 8 Fencing, repairs, &c. 18 12 11 Rents, insurance, and taxes 4 0 5 Interest on current account 5 18 8 Postage, &c. 13 6 Railway ticket .. 0 10 0 Rebate of rent 17 9 6 £328 13 2 £328 13 2 Geoege John Leech, Chairman. Examined and found correct, except as to the rebate of rent, £17 9s. 6d., for which there appears no authority of law, and which is therefore disallowed.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General. ,

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English. Mason's English Grammar, composition, exercises, and essay writing, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Merchant of Venice. Latin Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, Principia, Part 1., Caesar, Book 1., Wilkin's Latin Prose Exercises Belcher's Exercises, and Kennedy's Latin Grammar Arithmetic Barnard Smith's, the whole subject. Algebra Hall and Knight's, to simple equations. Euclid Books I. and 11. English literature Stopford Brook's Primer History Gardiner's Outlines. Geography Hughes's Class-book Asia, America, and Oceania. Physics Balfour Stewart's Primer French Ahn's First Course. Book-keeping, mapping, and drawing. Lowest. —English Mason's Elementary Grammar , dictation, composition, and parsing (Royal Readers 111. and IV) Arithmetic Royal Series, Standards IV and V Geography Petrie's. Writing Vere Foster's copybooks. Drawing Exercises in elementary perspective. History Gardiner's Outlines.

4. Scholarships. The school gave free education to two pupils.

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AKAROA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Receipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. To Balance 127 3 5 By Office expenses 0 17 0 Current income from reserves 152 4 7 Teachers' salaries and allowances . 200 0 0 School fees 106 13 0 Prizes 2 2 0 Interest on current account 2 9 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising 3 3 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 2 0 0 Book and stationery account and other temporary advances . 4 16 Rents, insurance, and taxes 41 6 8 Expenses letting reserves 6 9 3 Legal expenses 6 7 0 Interest on overdraft 0 10 Balance 122 2 7 £388 10 6 £388 10 6 H. C. Jacobson, Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer Examined and found correct —James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Arithmetic, Algebra. French . Macmillan s Course, Book I. Euclid Matriculation standard. Latin Via Latina, page 142. English The Tempest, Longmans' School Composition , School Geography , Mason's Grammar History Matriculation period. One pupil did Junior Scholarship work. Lowest. Arithmetic, Standard VI. Euclid : Book I. English Scott's Marmion, canto 6. Longmans' Junior School Composition and School Grammar French (just beginning) Latin Via Latina, to page 100.

3. Scholaeships. The school gave free education to one pupil.

ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of the Boaed. Sir, — Ashburton, 2nd February, 1895. I am directed to forward to you the following report:— As will be seen by the returns furnished herewith, the staff consists of three teachers, viz. headmaster, headmistress, and assistant mistress. The personnel having been, at the end of year, entirely changed, and the Board having been fortunate in securing teachers of high academical status and exceptionally good qualifications as teachers, the suggestion of the Inspector-General that the amalgamation of the two schools, boys and girls, would conduce to efficiency and economy had been anticipated by the Board, which prior to the receipt of his report had decided upon that course, and has since carried it into effect. There are already indications that the result will prove satisfactory The Board has also, in furtherance of its desire to popularise the school, and insure that its advantages shall be more largely availed of, reduced its fees by the amount of one guinea per term, and has also given eight scholarships, carrying free education and use of books, to be competed for by all children in the county other than High School pupils, and has, in addition, given three scholarships open to the High School pupils only These have all been awarded. A request has been received from a deputation of the two large primary schools in Ashburton and Hampstead, which have together an attendance of over eight hundred pupils, for admission to the High School, either free or at a greatly reduced fee, of pupils now attending those schools who have passed the Sixth Standard but, after careful consideration, the Board has decided that its finance will not permit of its acceding to the request, and has agreed to the following resolution on the subject " That the Borough School Committee be informed that the Board, having recently reduced its fees from three guineas per term to two guineas, with the object of making the advantages of the school more widely available, is not able to see its way to any further reduction, unless the proposal recently mooted be given effect to, viz. that capitation allowance be granted to secondary schools in respect of pupils admitted from primary schools at specially reduced fees. Under which circumstances the Board would be prepared to further consider the question." The Board hopes that the steps it has taken, as above detailed, will have the effect of considerably increasing the attendance at the school, and has reason to believe that this anticipation will, during the ensuing year, be realised. I have, &c, The Secretary, Education Department, Charles Beaddell, Wellington. Secretary.

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2. Geneeal Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure or the Year ending 31st December 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. ! Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves 577 10 4 By Dr. balance at beginning of year 269 18 10 School fees 244 14 5 Office salary 20 0 0 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds 9 18 9 Other office expenses 7 6 10 Other expenses of management 10 3 Teachers' salaries and allowances 606 13 4 Examinations— Examiners' fees 25 14 6 Other expenses 6 0 0 Prizes 12 16 3 Printing, stationery and advertising 47 2 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 37 16 0 Fencing, repairs, &o. 13 16 0 Rent, insurance, and taxes 4 2 6 Interest on current account 21 3 6 Soiree .. 12 9 0 Law 3 9 11 Dr. balance at end of year 258 10 11 Trees 15 6 £1 090 14 5 £1,090 14 5 Edwaed G. Weight, Chairman. Chaeles Beaddell, Secretary Examined and found correct. —James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Scholaeships. The school gave free education and books to eight pupils.

TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Repoet of the Boaed. Five pupils passed the Junior Scholarship examination of the University, two of whom were placed in the " Credit " list, and the other three qualified thereon for matriculation. Five others passed the Matriculation Examination, and one other the Preliminary Medical. Three passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. One former pupil, who won in succession the entrance and the second-year exhibitions at the Engineering Department of Canterbury College, has obtained the degree of B.Sc. in engineering, another gained the exhibition for natural science (geology) at Canterbury College. During the year Mr. John Hartley Smith, M.A., accepted a post in the Christchurch Boys' School. His place was taken by Mr A. S. M. Poison, 8.A., of the University of Otago, lately Secondary Master at the Waimate District High School. The school buildings are in very fair order The interior of the large room has been whitewashed, and the desks planed. Some additional fencing has been put up, and the trees thinned. Owing to the hard times the Board has made two rather serious losses in connection with its reserves rents, and there is a general tendency to a decline in revenue from the endowments of the Board. Heney W Haepee, Chairman.

2. Geneeal Statement of Receipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 81st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance 205 19 0 By Office salary 70 0 0 Current income from reserves 1 383 12 3 Other office expenses 10 10 0 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Other expenses of management 29 2 6 paid purchase-money 120 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances 1,494 15 4 School fees 546 19 10 Gratuity 10 0 0 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds 0 15 0 Prizes 15 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising 117 13 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 110 8 7 Rents, insurance, and taxes 27 3 3 Expenses of endowments 26 5 0 Subsidy Orari Bridge at Rolleston's 5 0 0 Turning lathe 13 2 6 Miscellaneous 68 19 0 Balance . y 259 6 5 £2,257 6 1 £2,257 6 1 Henry W Haepee, Chairman. J H. Bamfteld, Secretary Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGeeald, Auditor and Controller-General.

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3. WOEK DONE BY HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest. —English Mason's Grammar Morris's Historical Outlines , Peile's Philology , Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature Extracts from Morris and Skeat's Specimens of Early English, Shakespeare's Henry V , Milton's Lycidas Macaulay's Lord Clive Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale. Latin Cicero de Senectute Horace, Odes, Book I. unseen various, prose various —to Junior Scholarship standard , Via Latina Smith's Latin Grammar French La Fontaine's Fables, Musset, On ne saurait penser a tout, Anecdotes Historiques et Litteraires sight translation from French Echoes, &c. , Grammaire Brachet-Dussouchet, Cours Superieure, Vecqueray's Examination Papers , prose, oral and written, various. Mathematics Pendlebury's Arithmetic, and various, Hall and Knight's Algebra, Hall and Stevens's Euclid (Books I. to VI.), Lock's Trigonometry , and generally to Junior Scholarship standard. Science Botany, chemistry, heat, and electricity, to Junior Scholarship standard. Geography Longmans' Australasian, with additional work in physical and commercial geography History Buckley's English, General Sketch of the World's History, special work on the History of the British Empire. Commercial Class Book-keeping, Pitman's shorthand tots correspondence and indexing of letters. Drawing Freehand, model, geometrical, and mathematical. Lowest. Longmans' Historical Beader Robinson Crusoe Bo wen's First Book of Poetry Gardiner's First History, Morris's Primer of English Grammar and WethereU's Exercises, Southern Cross Arithmetics, Southern Cross Copybooks Colonial Drawing-books —freehand (IV.-VI.) and geometrical, Miall's Object-lessons from Nature Sloyd—cardboard and woodwork (boys) needlework (girls) singing, junior boys and all girls. Physical Education Boys—Cadet corps junior drill, gymnastics, seniors and juniors. Girls —Gymnastics, and drill with clubs. Languages are taught on the natural system (though not that of Gouin) and in other subjects the teaching is based as far as possible, in the higher as well as in the lower classes, upon a direct use of the concrete. In all the science classes the work is practical, experiments and measurements being made by the pupils themselves. Simple surveying and drawing to scale are made the foundation of map-drawing pupils are taught to take the altitude of the sun at different seasons, and to find the latitude (roughly), and models and pictures are largely used in teaching other parts of geography, physical and descriptive. The Sloyd and carpentry work serve not only their special purposes, but are connected with the lessons on geometry and drawing. Again, in one of the bookkeeping classes the boys are divided into firms trading with one another and write all the necessary forms and keep account of all transactions. It is found that not only is the treatment more natural, and the interest more easily sustained, but also that it is easier to make a real co-ordination between the several subjects of the school curriculum.

4. SCHOLAESHIPS. The school gave free education to eighteen holders of Education Board scholarships and five exhibitioners.

WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance 1 300 19 6 By Management 12 12 0 Current income from reserves (including Office expenses 10 0 £4 14s. refund costs of lease) . 204 7 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances 37 10 0 Interest on fixed deposits 61 4 0 Examinations 3 3 0 Scholarships 25 0 0 Prizes . 3 3 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising 2 5 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 0 11 0 High School fees 39 15 0 Solicitor's fees 4 13 0 Sundries 0 6 7 Science apparatus .. 2 2 0 Exchanges 0 7 0 Balance 1,434 3 5 £1,566 11 0 £1,566 11 0 H. C. Barclay Chairman. A. J Manchester, Secretary Examined and found correct —James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Bepoet of the Boaed. I have to report that the Board has decided to appoint a second assistant to the Boys' High School, Mr D W M. Burn leaving at the end of the year Applications were invited, and the following appointments have been made Mr W H. A. Craddoek, M.A., Senior Scholar New Zealand University, First Assistant Mr W G. Graves, partial 8.A., New Zealand University Second Assistant. The salaries respectively to be First Assistant, £220 per annum, Second Assistant, £120 per annum. It was also decided to make Miss Ferguson's salary £200 per annum.

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The Governors have taken steps to thoroughly renovate the interior of the Boys' High School, and to put the bath-room and lavatories in order The grounds surrounding both schools have been carefully attended to, and a large piece adjoining the buildings at the Boys' High School has been levelled and sown down with grass. A further sum of £300 has been paid off' the mortgage. I have, See., Geoege Sumptee, Secretary

2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance 540 510 By Management . 60 0 0 Capital Account—Price of reserves sold 20 0 0 Ranger 10 0 0 Current income from reserves 1,082 7 4 Teachers'salaries and allowances— Interest on moneys invested and on un- Girls 390 0 0 paid purchase-money 33 17 6 Boys 642 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners 56 13 7 Prizes 5 0 0 School fees — Printing, stationery, and advertising 15 8 9 Girls 187 1 4 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 64 17 0 Boys 218 19 6 Book and stationery account and other Interest on current account 6 0 0 temporary advances 12 8 1 Valuators 26 0 0 Site and buildings—New work 108 15 7 Fencing 12 13 6 Repairs 15 13 3 Interest on current account and on loan 91 19 9 Expenses of survey &c. 3 10 Solicitor's fees 9 4 6 Incidentals 4 4 4 Paid off mortgage . 300 0 0 Balance 425 19 4 £2,171 5 1 £2,171 5 1 3. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1894. Assets. £ b. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Rents uncollected 589 7 2 Loan on buildings 1,100 0 0 Fees uncollected, girls 69 19 8 Scholarship fund 125 0 0 Fees uncollected, boys 159 1 6 Interest on mortgage 37 11 3 Deferred-payment balances .. 568 2 2 Amount due secretary 4 18 Interest on purchase-money .. 69 12 8 Amount outstanding 2 17 0 Cash in hand and in bank 430 1 0 School-buildings. Reserves vested in Board by " The Waitaki High School Act, 1878." £1,886 4 2 £1,269 9 11 Donald Boeeie, Chairman. Geoege Sumptee, Secretary Examined and found correct. —James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

4. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —As for matriculation drawing (freehand), shorthand, and book-keeping. Lowest. —Abbott's Via Latina Macmillan's First French Course , Contes dcs Fees, 20 pages, Gardiner's History, Chisholm's Geography Mason's Grammar Best's Natural Science. Drawing, shorthand, book-keeping, and drill. Girls. The work done by the highest form in the school, irrespective of the work done by one Junior University Scholarship candidate, was as follows English Literature Bowen, Studies in English, Hereward the Wake, Kingsley, King John, Shakespeare. English Grammar and Composition Lessons and exercises in composition, weekly essay, Smith and Hall's English Grammar , etymology , Morris, Elementary Historical Grammar, 100 pages, suffixes exercises in analysis and parsing. English History The Settlement of the Constitution (Epoch) Geography Chisholm s Geography Europe map-drawing. Latin Principia Latina, Part IV., finished, Caesar's Gallic War Book 1., finished, Caesar's Invasion of Britain (sight translation) Heatley and Kingdon's Excerpta Facilia, finished. French Advanced exercises in Chardenal, Le Roi dcs Montagues. Arithmetic Goyen s Higher Arithmetic, the whole subject. Euclid Books I. and 11. with exercises. Algebra Up to quadratic equations, inclusive. Physiology Murche's Physiology finished. Scripture reading, also Acts of Apostles, chapters i. to vii. The work done by the lowest form is as follows English Literature Chambers's Beader No. IV , Miss Woods' Second Boetry Book, Part I. English Grammar Lessons from the blackboard and composition exercises in analysis and parsing, lessons and exercises in composition. English History Petrie's Geography South America, Africa, Asia, part of New Zealand. French Chardenal s First French Course, up to exercise 115. Arithmetic Compound rules, weights and measures problems, decimals, and fractions. Science Object lessons. Scripture Matthew's Gospel, chapters i. to xi. Drawing Freehand. Drill Exercises with rods and dumbbells. Singing : Exercises in modulation, songs (Tonic Sol Fa system).

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OTAGO HIGH SCHOOLS. 1. Repoet of the Boaed. In accordance with section 8 of "The Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Act, 1877," and in compliance with circular from the Education Department dated 29th November 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 31st December, 1894. I am pleased to state that the attendance in both schools during the year kept up to that of the previous year the number in the Girls' School showing an increase. I would desire to draw attention to the fact that of the number attending the schools during the year forty-five boys and thirty-two girls received free education, in virtue of their having obtained 50 per cent, of attainable marks in the Education Boards Senior and Junior Scholarship Examinations, and that the Board is therefore carrying out the object of the Endowed Schools Act which you proposed to introduce during the session of 1893, and which, in the case of the Otago High Schools, would have provided for the free education of about fifty-four pupils. In the month of August last the Inspector-General, at the request of the Board, and with your consent, made a special inspection of the Boys' and Girls' Schools for the purpose of reporting to the Board on the standard of attainments of the pupils, the work of each department, the organizations of the schools, the suitability of books, and generally The outcome of the inspection, as given in the Inspector's report (a copy of which was forwarded to you on the 7th September last), together with the results of recent examinations, goes to prove that the efficiency of the schools is being fully maintained, and that they are both doing excellent work. The following are the results of examinations referred to:— Boys' School—Junior University Scholarship competition (scholarships gained), 3, "credit" list on Junior University Scholarship papers, 4, medical preliminary pass, 12 matriculation pass, 13, Senior Scholarship competition, 6. Besides these scholars, five boys qualified for free education. Total, 43. Of all boys submitted two failed. Girls' School. —Ten pupils matriculated from the school, two pupils gained University Junior Scholarships, one pupil matriculated in the " credit " list, one pupil passed medical preliminary, one pupil Senior Civil Service, and one passed first in the competition for the Scott and the Women's Scholarships in the Otago University and accepted the Women's Scholarship. I regret to say that the increased depreciation in the value of pastoral and agricultural produce has had such a serious effect on the Board's revenue from endowments that it was found necessary to reduce the salaries and number of the teaching staff to the lowest limit consistent with efficiency, and it is feared that a further shrinkage of income will have to be faced during the current year I cannot close this report without referring to the loss the Board sustained during the year by the death of the Bey Dr Stuart, who held office as Chairman from the time the Board was constituted in the year 1878, down to the date of his death in May last. Dr Stuart was one of those _ who were instrumental in organizing and founding the High Schools, and his mature experience, together with his unflagging interest in the cause of secondary education in general, and of the Otago High Schools in particular, were of the utmost value to the Board during the many yeats he presided over it. I have, &c, Hon, the Minister of Education. A. R. Fitchett, Chairman.

2. Statements of Beceipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Capital account—Price of reserves sold. 463 2 1 By Dr. balance at beginning of year 3,517 5 5 Current income from reserves 2,597 9 11 ManagementInterest on moneys invested and on un- Office salaries .. 180 0 0 paid purchase-money 93 7 6 Rent 10 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners 261 0 3 Legal expenses 26 0 2 School fees— Telephone Exchange 11 4 11 Boys 1,538 9 8 Stamps 24 3 6 Girls . 1,389 12 10 Teachers'salaries and allowances, — Boarding-school fees -Girls 529 10 6 Boys 2,848 13 5 Amount received from D. Brent, surplus Girls 1,868 4 0 from Campbell and Hawthorne funds 45 13 9 Boarding-school accountBalances— Boys 169 2 1 Overdraft, Colonial Bank Girls 443 15 \ of New Zealand £1,911 8 5 Examination expenses, sundry inoiLess cash in hand 38 1 11 dentals 52 6 3 Scholarships 40 0 0 £1,873 6 6 Prizes 29 4 6 Outstanding cheques 177 15 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising 102 10 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, including wages 2,051 1 6 of two janitors 220 5 6 Overdraft,Colonialßank, Book and stationery account 179 0 0 No. 4 Account 2,058 14 0 Laboratory requisites 3 18 0 4,109 15 6 Repairs, &c. 193 0 1 Insurance and taxes 258 13 7 Interest on current account 291 19 11 Endowments—Auctioneer's commission, costs of inspection, &c. 3 13 7 Advance towards expenses of fives' court 45 13 9 Repayment of advances to Equitable Investment Company .. 509 8 0 £11,028 2 0 £11,028 2 0

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Balance Account, 1894. 1894. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1894. £ s. d. Jan. 1. Balances brought down — Jan. 1. Balances brought down—UneomBank .. 3,517 5 5 pleted purchases 2,670 0 4 Equitable Invest- Dec. 31. Ordinary revenue 6,316 3 2 ment Company 509 8 0 Grant from Campbell and Haw4,026 13 5 thorne funds 45 13 9 Dec. 31. Ordinary expenditure 6,955 14 10 Interest due on land-purchases 116 15 0 Rebate, part land-purchase, S. Proceeds of land sale 7 0 0 Bews 75 0 0 Balance carried down, Colonial Advance to Rector for fives court 45 13 9 Bank 4,109 15 6 Balance uncompleted purchases 2,162 5 9 £13,265 7 9 £13,265 7 9 1895. _ 1895. , Jan. 1. Balances brought down — Jan. 1. Balance brought down, Colonial Advance to Rector 45 13 9 Bank ..£4,109 15 6 I Uncompleted purchases 2,162 5 9 Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1894. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Rents overdue 530 15 8 Tradesmen's accounts unpaid 39 13 11 School-fees overdue 77 5 0 Bank overdraft. 4,109 15 6 Board fees overdue 57 0 6 Amounts due on mortgage (land instalments, including interest) 2,162 5 9 Gray Russell Scholarship Fund. 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. i 1894. Expenditure. £ s. d. Jan. 1. To Balance brought forward 101 18 4 Dec. 31. By Balance in Colonial Bank of New Jan. 5. Interest from High Schools Board 56 6 0 Zealand 219 0 4 Deo. 29. Interest from High Schools Board 60 16 0 £219 0 4 £219 0 4 Richardson Cadet Coeps Fund. 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. | 1894. Expenditure. £ s. d. Jan. 1. To Balance brought forward 57 16 9 Dec. 7 By Cash, Otago High School Cadet Jan. 5. Interest from Otago High School Corps 7 10 6 Board 15 1 0 Dec. 7 Cash, Normal School Cadet Corps 7 10 6 Dec. 29. Interest from Otago High School Dec. 31. Balances, 31st December, 1894— Board 15 1 0 In Colonial Bank 35 7 9 Due by W Reid, short paid on sale of security . 37 10 0 £87 18 9 £87 18 9 A. R. Fitchett, Chairman. C. Mac Andrew, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Woek of Highest- and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —All Junior University Scholarship work in Latin, French, English, mathematics, chemistry, mechanics, botany and German. In the languages no set books are used, but a general review and study of the language, literature, and grammar are attempted. Lowest. —A continuation class of the Sixth Standard of the primary schools. In this class the study of Latin, French, and mathematics is commenced, with further development on the lines of the work handled in the Sixth Standard. Girls. Highest. —English Chaucer's Nonne Prestes Tale, Shakespeare's Richard 111. , Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I. Pope's Essay on Man, Ep. I. and II selections from prose writers, 1490---1684 Boman history, to end of Punic Wars, Historical English Grammar, composition, &c. Latin Virgil's ißneid, Book V , 600 11. , Livy, Book XXII., chapters 9-25, Horace, selected odes, at sight Caesar, Gallic War, Book IV , Composition, Grammar, &c. French Wellington College Reader, Boielle, Poetry Grammar, Composition, &c. German Homann's Deutsche Maerchen and Fouque's Undine Macmillan's Second Reading-book. Mathematics Arithmetic, the whole subject, algebra, to permutations and combinations, inclusive, geometry—Euclid, Division A, Books 1., 11., 111., IV., VI. trigonometry Division A, Lock's Trigonometry 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 Lowest. —English Arnold's Fifth Reader, History, Blackwood's Short Stories, Geography, Macdonald's Zealandia Geography, Parts I. and II. ; Physical Geography, explanation of geo-

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graphical terms, grammar, simple analysis and parsing , object lessons—simple lessons on common objects, with a view to subsequent composition on the subject of lesson. French Vocabulary, and easy sentences. Arithmetic Simple and compound rules in money, simple problems, mental arithmetic.

4. Scholaeships. The Gray Eussell Scholarship of £40 per annum, tenable for three years, is attached to the school. School fees are not charged to any candidate who obtains 50 per cent, of the attainable marks at the scholarship examinations of the Otago Education Board, but does not win a scholarship.

SOUTHLAND HIGH SCHOOLS. 1. Beport of the Board. The following composed the Board during the year Messrs. J W Bain and Robert McNab, M.H.R., elected by the Southland Education Board, Hugh Carswell and Charles Gilbertson, the nominees of His Excellency the Governor, and the Mayor of Invercargill, Mr. Andrew Baeside. Mr. Bain was elected Chairman, and on the termination of his period of office Mr Baeside's place was taken by Mr W B. Scandrett, the newly-elected Mayor Mr Lumsden, who had held office as a member of the Board since its establishment in 1878, and who for many years filled the position of chairman, having retired from the Board, a motion indicating its appreciation of his long service in the cause of secondary education in Southland was placed upon record by the Board. Mr J S. Vernon, M.A., B.Sc, who had been appointed to the post of mathematical and science master the previous year, entered upon his duties on the opening of the school in January There were no changes in the staff during the year The Collegiate Classes Association, which has for many years occupied the school buildings during the winter months, did not hold its usual classes during last winter, and the school buildings were not occupied outside of the Board's work. In the month of April Mr W Macalister, 8.A., resigned the management of the boarding establishment, and arrangements were made with the headmaster, who immediately took over the residence and premises attached thereto, and the boarding establishment was conducted in a highly satisfactory manner That but few pupils avail themselves of this useful adjunct to school-life is easily accounted for in these times of commercial depression , but the number who are now in attendance fully warrants the expenditure to which the Board is put. Beference was made in the last report to an effort the Board was making to extend the usefulness of the schools by introducing free pupils from the primary schools under the age of fourteen years. Owing to the hurried manner in which the arrangements had to be completed to enable the first trial to be made in the beginning of the year, the original scheme had to be slightly modified , but twenty new pupils were introduced, and the work done by the greater portion during the year was highly satisfactory It is intended by the Board to give up to twenty free scholarships annually, the scholarships to be available for three years. Difficulties have been experienced in connection with the Education Board's scholarships which are now open for pupils up to fifteen years of age, and the standard of work to be required, but, with the experience which has been obtained this year, the Board anticipates being able to remove the difficulties and establish a scheme by which the brightest of the pupils from the primary schools will find free education in the high schools. It is worthy of note that the granting of twenty free scholarships caused no diminution in fees, the fees for 1894 exceeding those of 1893 by £11 Is. Bd. The Board is indebted to Messrs. James Hendry, 8.A., and G. D. Braik, M.A., the Southland Education Board Inspectors, for the assistance rendered by them in selecting the most deserving pupils. In the month of October the schools were examined by the Very Bey Archdeacon Stocker, 8.A., the Rev R. Thornton, M.A., and the Rev W White, M.A. The results showed that the work done in the schools was of a very high standard, and reflected great credit upon the teaching staff. In future no pupils will be admitted into what has been known as the lower division of the schools. All pupils will be required to have passed the Fourth Standard of the primary schools, or some equivalent examination. During the year considerable additions have been made to the library, which will shortly be a feature in connection with the schools. The physical development of the pupils also has not been overlooked. The Town Council, early in the year, granted permission to the Board to fence off a portion of the reserve opposite the schools. This has been done, and, at considerable expense, an area enclosed and prepared for the recreation of the pupils. During the last session of Parliament the provisions of the Harbour and Education Beserves Bill were carefully considered by the Board. In the opinion of the Governors the Bill, in its operation, would be adverse to the interests of secondary education, as the revenue of the Board would be seriously affected by the proposed changes. J Walker Bain, Chairman. 4—E. 9.

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year 62 16 5 By Management—-Office salary 75 0 0 Bank of New Zealand, fixed deposit from Teachers'salaries and allowances 1,140 0 0 last year 1,355 4 7 Boarding establishment 14 17 6 Bank of New South Wales, fixed deposit Examination expenses 3 0 0 from last year 403 0 0 Prizes (two years) 22 3 10 Capital Account —Price of reserves sold 100 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising 68 11 6 Current income from reserves . 962 19 10 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. . .. 68 7 2 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Fencing, repairs, &c. 30 8 3 paid purchase-money 129 1 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 21 15 0 Paid by School Commissioners 161 17 4 Reserves—Rates, expenses of leasing, &c. 59 2 9 School fees — Chemicals 4 15 3 Boys' school 257 11 6 School fittings 10 0 Gh-ls' school 235 13 8 Playground 62 2 11 Sundry expenses, stamps, telegrams, &c. 8 4 3 Amount in Bank of New Zealand on fixed deposit . 1,355 4 7 Amount in Bank of New South Wales on fixed deposit 403 0 0 Balance at end of year 330 11 4 £3,668 4 4 £3,668 4 4 J Walker Bain, Chairman. Charles Bout, Secretary Examined and found correct. —James Edwaed FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General., 3. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1894. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Bank of New Zealand, fixed deposit 1,355 4 7 Tobin Bros., £3; D. L. Matheson and Co., Bank of New South Wales, fixed deposit 403 0 0 13s. Bd., H. and J Peldwiek, 6s. 9d.; Bank of New Zealand, balance current ac- J E. Vernon, £1 17s. 3d.; W Macalister, count 319 5 3 £2 Is. Id. .. 7 18 9 Rent of reserves, due and unpaid 94 11 2 Balance . ~ 2,330 19 2 Interest due on properties sold 24 17 6 School fees, due and unpaid 70 13 4 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. Cash in hand 11 6 1 £2,338 17 11 £2,338 17 11 J. Walker Bain, Chairman. Charles Rout, Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

4. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —As for Junior Scholarship Examination. English Henry V ; Knight's Tales (part); Bacon's Essays (Storr's selection), Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature; Longmans' Literature (Part IV), Morris's Elementary Historical Grammar, Mason's Grammar; Composition. Geography Hughes's. Latin Cicero, In Verrem, 1., Horace, selections (Baker); Virgil, iEneid, 11., Bradley's Arnold, prose, translation at sight. French Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Gautier's Scenes of Travel, Blouet's Prose, Brachet's Grammar. Mathematics : Arithmetic, the subject, algebra, to progressions, trigonometry, to solution of triangles; Euclid, Books 1.-IV., VI., and exercises. Science Inorganic chemistry, reactions of the common metals and acids, mechanics. Lowest. —English Lady of the Lake, Cantos 1., 11., Sixth Reader; Mason's Smaller Grammar, Longmans' School Composition, Recitation. Geography. Petrie's. History: 1688-1789. Latin Principia, gradation. French Principia, Macmillan's First Beader. Arithmetic: Compound rules, vulgar and decimal fractions. Science Elementary course in electricity and magnetism. Book-keeping. Drawing Geometrical (boys), freehand from blackboard (girls).

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