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1896. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: REPORTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. [In continuation of E.—9, 1895.]

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

SECONDARY SCHOOLS INCORPORATED OR ENDOWED.

SUMMARY OF THE ACCOUNTS OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR 1895 FURNISHED BY THE GOVERNING BODIES OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ g. d. To Credit balances on Ist January, 1895 .. 11,575 15 0 By Liabilities on Ist January, 1895 .. 10,366 6 5 Endowment reserves sold .. .. 1,571 13 5 Office management and expenses .. 2,134 8 9 Rents of reserves .. .. .. 20,635 15 1 Teachers'salaries .. .. .. 30,702 14 4 Interest on investments .. .. 2,507 14 7 Boarding-school accounts .. .. 3,344 17 10 Reserves Commissioners .. .. 2,106 14 1 Examination fees and expenses .. 371 17 0 School fees.. .. .. .. 22,202 911 Scholarships and prizes .. .. 1,675 19 1 Boarding-school fees .. .. 3,592 12 2 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 1,454 19 4 Books, &c, sold, and refunds .. 2,939 2 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 1,336 13 7 Sundries not classified .. .. 15 12 2 Buildings, furniture, rent, insurance, Interest on current account .. .. 123 5 0 rates, &c. .. .. .. 5,662 16 0 Debit balances, 31st December, 1895,. 8,646 14 11 Interest .. .. .. .. 2,434 18 5 Sundries not classified .. .. 3,623 11 2 Credit balances, 31st December, 1895., 12,806 6 7 £75,915 8 6 £75,915 8 6

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Name. Act of Incorporation or Institution. Bemarks. 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 1895. 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 Act may be repealed by Gazette notice under Act of 1885, No. 30.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] Under management of Nelson College. Not in operation in 1895. Not in operation in 1895. 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 1895.

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Income of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1895.

From Endowments. Schools. Cr. Balances on 1st Jan., 1895. Sales. Eents. Paid by School Commissioners. School Fees. Boardingschool Fees. Stationery and Books sold, and Refunds. Sundries unclassified. Interest on Current Account. Dr. Balances, 31st Dec, 1895. Totals. Interest on Moneys invested. £ s. d. 109 1 6 0 10 10 £ s. a. £ s. d. 3,090 4 2 £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. d. 2,785 16 0 £ s. d. £ s. a. 5 13 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. a. 5,990 14 8 108 8 5 659 7 7 408 1 3 1,073 5 i 6,306 5 10 1,035 12 4 7,577 12 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 46 3 9 124 17 5 1,247 2 7 180 16 2 1,284 13 0 501 9 0 1,689 0 6 14 3 5 975 8 7 313 11 6 71 0 6 367 3 1 130 10 0 796 12 10 1,728 15 6 1,107 10 0 55 12 8 604 0 0 2 10 0 46 3 6 3,300 13 0 371 9 2 1,695 13 4 203 17 6 135 0 9 624' 6 11 1,395 4 10 281 8 2 1,049 12 9 2,600 15 2 663 19 9 015 0 197 15 0 109 4 8 151 13 4 106 5 0 592 15 0 78 y 1 45 0 0 107 17 7 125 0 0 150 0 0 248 17 10 190 9 1 6719 1 20 0 0 195 1 8 300 0 0 166 14 0 130 18 0 332 7 0 1,247 19 2 3,951 12 9 1,259 7 4 201 12 0 1,870 11 4 1,492' 10 0 1,590 17 8 9" 4 0 1,800 "0 0 58 3 4 585 12 2 20 15 0 125 "0 0 54' 2 1 1,720* 0 10 4,408 15 10 1,080 15 4 6,647 4 6 220 2 6 1,066 12 1 5,280 17 11 3,530 7 5 7,474 16 4 383 2 1 390 2 10 1,025 8 7 2,369 6 1 1,778 14 7 2,220 0 3 10,521 18 0 4,357 15 11 75,915 8 6 235 10 11 566 10 11 1,968 3 6 1,708 18 9 1,677 17 2 172 9 3 130 2 6 232 7 6 624 14 10 9 1 11 24 0 0 2" 19 6 118"s 0 1,072' 0 7 6* 7 9 3,528 7 2 6 15 4 122' 2 7 2 17 0 167* 9 10 ■ •• 90 0 0 63 3 0 52 9 11 60 3 5 157 19 4 14 4 259 6 5 1,434 3 5 425 19 4 289 15 4 603 10 0 678 8 1 1,571 13 5 52 6 4 500 0 0 149 2 6 5 0 7 2,088 15 11 11,575 15 0 344 16 0 2,776 12 6 619 10 4 509' 4 6 301 12 9 3,169 19 8 Totals 20,635 15 1 2,507 14 7 2,106 14 1 22,202 9 11 3,592 12 2 2,939 2 2 15 12 2 121 5 0 8,646 14 11

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Expenditure of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1895.

Schools. Expense of Liabilities i Boards' on Managelst Jan., 1895. ment: Office and Salaries School Salaries. Boardingschool Account. Examiners' ScholarFees ships, and Exhibitions, Expenses. ' Prizes. Printing, Stationery, Advertising, &c. Land, Buildings, Furniture, Insurance, Rent, Rates. Cleaning, Fuel, Light, &c. Interest. Sundries unclassified. Cr. Balances, 31st Dec, 1895. Totals. £ s. d. £ s. d. 322 10 5 £ s. d. 3,625 0 0 £ S. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 46 11 9 £ s. d. 199 15 7 £ s. d. 1,176 4 2 108 8 5 17 11 5 60 16 1 66 16 2 416 6 8 764 1 7 599 5 5 £ s. d. 39 7 3 £ s. d. 240 0 0 £ s. d. 106 14 0 £ s. d. 234 11 6 £ s. d. 5,990 14 8 108 8 5 659 7 7 408 1 3 1,073 5 4 6,306 5 10 1,035 12 4 7,577 12 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 Gisbome 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 .. 48 3 8 2,097' 6 3 •' 48 4 3 5 15 3 35 1 0 88 10 4 81 15 7 191 18 7 76 13 2 432 19 9 5 4 0 10 12 1 80 0 0 70 0 0 173 7 0 500 0 0 213 11 8 764 13 0 1,141 8 0 3,020*11 4 1,962 12 8 276 6 0 1,853 15 8 60 0 0 3,726 14 0 1,576 9 8 2,596 7 6 220 0 0 205 5 0 561 17 4 1,535 18 2 \\\2 10 0 1,151 3 4 4,435 9 4 1,163 1 8 1,439'il 0| 1,419*1 2 •• i 22*10 0 77 10 6 20 6 0 16 16 0 67 9 2 2 "0 0 15 5 7 91 IO 6 12 2 6 82 9 0 365 8 0 1 16 0 4 2 0 22 10 5 39 2 3 3 5 6 243 16 9 15 17 6 9 19 0 257 15 6 536 6 9 46 0 0 204 17 8 15 9 3 11 0 80 10 2 189 2 1 267 6 11 49 17 0 41 1 0 40 5 9 79 13 9 44 17 0 204 12 11 499 9 6 164 8 10 19 10 10 0 10 0 55 9 6 46 16 0 135*17 10 107 14 3 2 0 0 79 15 0 7**5 10 3 0 6 0 17 6 112 5 8 994 8 9 195* 0 0 16*15 7 0 8 6 *2,358**1 0 125 *6 11 110 12 9 115 156 3 6 f45 6 11 .. 117 17 3 113 9 8 775 13 1 51 14 0 1,566 10 3 646 3 11 1,614 19 1 168 5 10 992 9 0 32 13 9 1,167 14 11 4,408 15 10 1,080 15 4 6,647 4 6 220 2 6 1,066 12 1 5,280 17 11 3,530 7 5 7,474 16 4 383 2 1 390 2 10 1,025 8 7 2,369 6 1 1,778 14 7 2,220 0 3 10,521 18 0 4,357 15 11 409 6 6 85*10 2 62 1 10 74 10 6 263 18 6 581 6 3 171 5 1 61 17 7 86 13 1 6 17 6 5 16 0 41 14 3 48 14 9 3 15 0 53 2 3 141 16 9 35 6 7 56 5 11 41 12 2 174 5 10 14 17 2 16 1 4 30 9 6 116 0 9 325**1 3 239 0 7 97 10 8 94 14 6 12 1 0 10 10 25 9 9 43 2 10 3,354*15 5 88 8 2 145*19 10 2 0 2 •' 258 10 11 1 12 6 23 8 10 125 0 1 15 1 6 70 0 0 195 19 8 80 14 9 ' " 1212 0 3**3 0 2 10 0 17 8 6 15 0 0 45 8 0 16 0 0 44 10 0 13*11 9 0 8 0 73 13 6 321 5 8 117* 6 2 1 405 15 9 1,553 12 1 427 17 10 4,10915 6 46713 8 18 12 0 98 0 2 229 18 10 72 1 3 §125*10 3 75 19 1 3*i8 4 2,819 12 6' •• ■• Totals .. 3,344 17 10 371 17 0 1,675 19 1 1,454 19 4 10,366 6 5 12,134 8 9 30,702 14 4 5,662 16 0 1,336 13 7 2,434 18 5 3,623 11 2 12,806 6 775,915 8 * Includes investment, £2,350. t Law costs I Paid to South Canterbury Education Board. 5 Includes £100 »aid off mort£ ,'e.

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Staff, Attendance, Fees, and Salaries at Secondary Schools.

a Headmaster has house. b Seven masters board at the school, and one boards and resides: headmaster has no salary, o Includes payments for board. a Headmaster has house and boarders. c Head-teacher has house and boarders; second teacher, house. ' Headmaster and three others have board. 6 And board. b There are six houses. k And boute, m One assistant has board and residence. ' Two teachers attend both schools.

EEPOETS OF SBCONDAEY SCHOOLS.

AUCKLAND COLLEGE AND GBAMMAE SCHOOL, I.—Eepoet of the Boabd. Distinctions.—the following distinctions were gained by pupils of the school during the year : In the University Junior Scholarship examination, three scholarships; all the other eleven candidates sent up passed with credit. Thirteen pupils passed the ordinary examination for matriculation, and one the medical preliminary. The Gillies Science Scholarship at the Auckland University College was won by a pupil on the boys' side. In the Civil Service examinations, one passed the Senior, and twenty the Junior, five of whom obtained cadetships under the Government. In the

Attendance f< Quarts nr L: u- of .st Term or 1895. <D "O fi ri o ■A o ® s s Annual Rates of Fees. Salaries at Ri End of ,tes paid at Ve&x. Staff. Schools. 03 . ' <D d O | O O "" j *« 6 IHrt gg For ! For Board, Ordinary exclusive of Day-school Day-school Course. | Tuition. ri 3 130 © 'A "to CD • ,-H CO Regular Staff. Visiting Teachers. £ s. d. j 10 10 0 (880 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Auckland College and 1 Grammar School j 13 2! 25 147 147 I 6172 1(7153 (6. 8 \g- 5 19 18 ' (6.22 tsr.34 I 315 I - I 37 | 53 ! •■ 3,300 0 0 110 0 0 Whangarei High School 1 3 8 2 8 8 0 213 0 0 Thames High School .. (6. Is9 7 10 11 (880 {.6 60 ] f •' »500 0 0 • • New Plymouth High \ School | Wanganui Collegiate 1 School I Wanganui (Girls') High ) School I 4 1 19 34 2 6 6 0 "765 0 0 Fees. - Wellington College Wellington Girls' High ) School J 10 4 10 3 17 6 58 23 74 26 106 41 108 100 9 4 11 9 183 71 210 141 179 67 210 132 132 37 44 (900 ( 12 0 0 ( 10 10 0 (880 ( 13 4 0 '( 10 12 0 j 13 4 0 | 10 12 0 (990 (880 (990 (700 j 12 12 0 (880 j 12 12 0 (880 (14 3 6 1 7 17 6 (880 (660 ( 12 12 0 (990 | 45 0 0 l 40 0 0 I 42 0 0 ) - I 40 0 0 I 40 0 0 | 40 0 0 I 40 0 0 "1,725 0 0 «770 0 0 d l,945 0 0 1,115 0 0 (£205 and (music fees Napier Boys' High School 3 18 33 54 52 15 e800 0 0 Napier Girls' High School 22 31 10 2 65 60 12 <>860 0 0 ( 30 3 0 (and fees. Nelson College 2 32 57 5 96 92 23 £1,125 0 0 Nelson Girls' College .. 5 25 48 1 79 70 13 S625 0 0 Christ's College Gram- 1 mar School f Christchurch Boys'High \ School J Christchurch Girls' High 1 School J 31 58 47 3 139 136 29 52 10 0 42 0 0 I h 2,403 0 0 251 12 6 10 6 13 6 122 51 103 66 7 10 245 133 238 124 \ - 3,175 0 0 283 0 0 375 0 0 1,120 0 0 Rangiora High School .. 6 13 7 1 (6.12 \g.l5 (6.11 \g- 5 16.29 \g.li 6.52 g.41 2 9 9 0 40 0 0 «230 0 0 Akaroa High School Ashburton High School.. Timaru High School Waitaki High SchoolsBoys' 1 ( 65 U3 8 32 22 19 7 10 25 16 *3 1 50 40 36 f 10 10 0 (880 (990 (770 10 0 0 8 0 0 [800 ( 4 10 0 (800 1 4 10 0 j I I •• I - ) - 1 - k200 0 0 565 0 0 1,482 0 0 50 0 0 4 31 3 38 "740 0 0 12 0 0 Girls' 11 20 4 35 32 410 0 0 Otago Boys' High School «2 56 135 5 196 188 20 10 0 0 44 0 0 "2,288 0 0 213 6 8 336 13 4 and music fees Otago Girls' High School N 5 41 84 18 148, ! U1 13 (10 0 0 (400 I 40 0 0 m l,512 10 0 Southland High School.. 5 16. \gh 30 ! 29 \ 4735, } 79 2,426 6| 10 0 0 35 0 0 a l,140 0 0 13 0 0 Totals 933 . I 13171 I 108 I 6142l! gilOi] 346J 130 48 167 29,008 10 0 1,879 15 6

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examination for Senior District Scholarships given by the Auckland Education Board, the school gained all the six scholarships and eighteen certificates of proficiency. The following honours were gained by former pupils of the school at the University of Cambridge : Mr. E. C. Maclaurin was twelfth wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos; Mr. B. N. Tebbs took a first class in the Natural Science Tripos; and Mr. W. S. La Trobe a scholarship and prize at St. John's College. 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 seven years. The present accommodation in both departments is barely adequate. W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary.

2.—General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. & s. d. I Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. 109 1 -6 By Management— Current income from reserves.. .. 3,090 4 2 Office salary .. .. .. 100 0 0 School fees, 1895 .. .. .. 2,76110 0 Other office expenses .. .. 43 14 2 Arrears, 1894 24 6 0 Commission, &c, to collector .. 178 16 3 Refunds .. .. 513 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,625 0 0 School requisites .. .. .. 85 4 7 Election expenses .. .. .. 1 13 4 Scholarship expenses .. .. 15 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 46 11 9 Printing and advertising .. .. 114 11 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. — School .. .. .. .. 39 7 3 Property .. .'. .. .. 26 6 10 Book and stationery account, and other temporary advances .. .. 75 2 8 Fencing, repairs, &c.— School .. .. .. .. 57 8 6 Property .. .. .. .. 378 18 3 Insurance and taxes — School .. .. .. .. 7 3 6 Property .. .. .. .. 134 19 7 Interest on loans .. .. .. 240 0 0 Compensation .. .. .. 496 7 6 Contribution to swimming sports .. 3 3 0 „ athletic sports .. 10 0 0 Purchase of workshop appliances from cadet corps .. .. .. 75 0 0 Cab for funeral of Mr. Moat .. .. 1 15 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 234 11 6 Total .. .. ..£5,990 14 8 Total .. .. ..£5,990 14 8 T. M. Haultain, Vice-Chairman. W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary. Examined and found correct.— James Edwabd .FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. WOBK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest. —Boys : Latiu, mathematics, English, French, chemistry, electricity and magnetism, as for University Junior 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 Eeader; 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. SCHOLABSHIPS. The College gave free education to seventeen foundation scholars (nine boys, eight girls), eleven holders of certificates of proficiency from the Education Board (four boys, seven girls), and eleven children of members of the teaching staff (four boys, seven girls). Fifty-two scholarships of the Education Board (twenty-seven boys, twenty-five girls) were held at the College.

AUCKLAND GIELS' HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 010 10 By Rates on endowment for two years ending Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 107 17 7 31st March, 1896 .. .. .. 108 8 5 £108 8 5 £108 8 5

E. Udt, Chairman. Vincent E. Bice, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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WHANGAEEI HIGH SCHOOL. I.—Eepoet of the Boaed. Thebe was a considerable falling-off in the attendance towards the end of the year: during the last term it was only thirteen. Three of the pupils were under twelve years of age, eight between twelve and fifteen, and two between fifteen and eighteen. They were all day pupils ; the accommodation at the school did not permit of boarders being received. The Board regret that they were unable, being crippled financially, to offer any scholarships during the year, and no scholarship has been forthcoming from any other source. During the year the school has been held in a new building specially erected for the purpose on ground chosen by the Board, but before this property can be permanently secured for the High School a sum of £300 must be paid. It is most desirable that a grant of this amount should be made by the Government: but appeals for it have hitherto been made in vain. For want of it the Board are prevented from offering scholarships, and the course of intermediate education in the district languishes. J. M. Killen, Chairman.

2. —Geneeal Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ a. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 46 3 9 By Management .. .. .. 12 17 9 Current income from reserves .. 71 0 6 Teacher's salary and allowances .. 213 11 8 Paid by School Commissioners .. 150 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 2 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 130 18 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 4 2 0 Interest on current account .. .. 0 15 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 0 10 0 Refunds — Site and buildings — Kioreroa Maintenance Account .. 610 0 From current revenue .. .. 110 3 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 214 0 From capital account .. .. 27 10 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 13 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 17 3 0 Interest on current account .. .. 1 12 6 Tennis-court .. .. .. 8 3 1 Balance .. .. .. .. 117 17 3 £408 1 3 £408 1 3 J. M. Killen, Chairman. J. McKinnon, Secretary. This statement is consistent with the statement to which the certificate of the Audit Office is attached, the difference being that here the items relating to the Kioreroa Plantation are not included. W. Jas. Habens.

3. WoEK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest. —Arithmetic : Whole, Hamblin Smith. Algebra : Fractions and equations, Hall and Knight. Geometry: Books I. and 11., 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; Caesar, 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 Eeaders, 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 11. Eeader. Gymnastics: Whole school.

THAMES HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Eepoet op the Boaed. At the public examinations in December and January, two entered for the University Junior Scholarship examinations, one being placed in the second division and one in the third division. At the Matriculation examination three passed. At the Senior District Scholarship examination one candidate gained a scholarship. At the Junior Civil Service examination four passed, and one of these gained the fourth place. H. J. Geeenslade, Secretary.

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2. Geneeal Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. & s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. .. 227 1 6 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 48 3 8 Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. 125 0 0 Office salary .. .. .. .. 30 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 166 14 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 4 5 0 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 86 10 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 500 0 0 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 54 2 1 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 1 16 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 19 10 10 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. . ■ .. 10 12 11 Insurance and taxes .. .. .. 6 18 6 Interest on current account .. .. 7 5 10 Expenses of management of endowment 13 19 3 School requisites .. .. .. 12 7 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 4 8 7 £659 7 7 £659 7 7 Statement of Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1895. Assets. & s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. To Uncollected school fees .. .. 266 12 0 By Overdraft, Bank of New Zealand .. 54 2 1 Uncollected rents .. .. .. 401 6 8 £667 18 8 £54 2 1 Thos. Eadfoed, Chairman. H. J. Geeenslade, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —As for the University Junior Scholarship Examination—namely, Latin, French, English, mathematics, science (chemistry and electricity). Lowest.— Latin : Via Latina (Abbott). French : Macmillan's Progressive French Course, Part I. English Grammar: Mason's. English Composition : Abbott's How to Write Clearly. Arithmetic : Hamblin Smith. English History : Nelson's Eoyal English History.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Geneeal Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 124 17 5 By ManagementCurrent income from reserves .. 367 3 1 Office salary .. .. .. 25 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. 248 17 10 Other office expenses .. .. 110 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 332 7 0 Law charges and reports .. .. 8 110 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 764 13 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 15 5 7 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 22 10 5 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 55 9 6 Site and buildings .. .. .. 12 7 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 25 5 11 Eents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 19 15 0 Felling bush on endowment .. .. 9 7 6 Balance .. .. .. .. 113 9 8 £1,073 5 4 £1,073 ~i J. B. Eoy, Chairman. E. Veale, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —James Edwaed FitzGebald, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin : Principia, Part 1., all; Cassar, Lib. 1., Cap. 10-35. French : Gram, dcs Gram., pages 18-119 ; Le Conscrit, pages 43-63. Arithmetic : Colenso, to end of Miscellaneous, page 140. Algebra: Hall and Knight, pages 1-163. Euclid: Hall and Stevens, Books 1., 11., 111., and IV., to Prop. 5 ; exercises on Book 1., to page 95. History : Eansome, 1688 to Victoria. Geography: Chisholm, omitting Europe and America. Grammar: Mason, pages 1-141. Science: Heat, sound, electricity, and magnetism, from notes. Lowest. —Latin: Elementa Latina, pages 1-35. French: Dejardin, Exercises 1-100. Arithmetic: Beduction; comp. rules; G.C.M.; L.C.M.; and vulgar fractions, to xxxvi. in Colenso. Algebra: Hall and Knight, pages 1-47. Euclid: Book 1., girls 1-20, boys 1-12 (some do none). History: Primary, William 111. to Victoria, and 1066-1215. Geography: Petrie, pages 1-17 and 82-124. Grammar: Mason's First Notions, pages 1-75; simple analysis and parsing. Science : Harrison's Mechanics.

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3. Scholarships. The Board gave free tuition to two scholars. Seven scholarships of the Education Board were held at the school.

4. Report of the Inspector-General of Schools. g _ Department of Education, Wellington, 16th December, 1895. I have the honour to send you, at your request, a report on your school. T inspect the school carefully every year, and have done so from the date of its foundation. The nuXr on the roH at ofmy last visit (21st October, 1895) was 57: the boys numbered 22 the girls, 35. The disproportion is noticeable; it is probably due to the fact thS some parents who are quite willing to send their boys-for a time at least-to he primary schooTTre Ell ng to send their girls there. I think, too, that it would be found on inquiry that -par lv for the sTme reason-the high-school course of one of your girls extends on an average, over a longer period than that of one of the boys. I observed that only one boy had advanced so far in Latin as to have begun reading an author: seven girls had reached that stage. The smallness of thf number in attendance, and the shortness of the average stay in the school artery closely connected: a prolongation of the average stay would, of course mvove a ProportionJaddition to the school-roll Taking New Zealand as a whole, it may be said that the number o * high-school pupils is disappointingly low, and that the average stay at school is too Zrt In Auckland Education District at the end of 1894 there were 25,019 pupils in the public schools and only 404 in high schools; in New Plymouth the corresponding numbers were 3,b37 and £': 40*5?616 per cent, of 25,019, and 56 is 1-54 per cent of 3,637. For the whole colony the percentage is 193 New Plymouth therefore stands low, but not absurdly low. P TheTenfth of stay that is necessary to secure any very useful result depends very much on the state of preparation in which the pupil enters. In a school to which most of the pupils come P repared P the Sixth Standard, two years may suffice to prepare for matriculation, and four yeara for the Junior Scholarship examination. Your boys probably do not stay two year on an Iverai and they enter very ill-prepared. The dictation of the junior boys, as I saw it, was full of bad Stake's it was not -ood Fourth Standard work. How boys who are so backward in their first vlar can 'be worked up to make a respectable senior class in two years it is hard to understand I Sose that a school that has only twenty-two boys cannot afford to be too particular about its usance examination; but it is very hard for high-school teachers to *»**J energy on such elementary work as they are now obliged to do in the lower part of the school, and to know that very few of the pupils will remain long enough to do the school any credit Know ma v £J hig Btaff j can say unhes itatmgly that their work is done so wel that I should expect nothing but disadvantage to the school to follow upon the retirement of any one of hem S Board would be very unlikely to obtain better service than is rendered by the teachers now in the school They cannot be insensible to the drawbacks of their position Nothing that X can do will secure a large school in a small population. If their pupils come ill-prepared and stay oX a year or two, and if some of the most advanced arrive late every moming-as they dothe teachers know that the most faithful work will bring them little credit, and that they will never have much oppoTtunitv of doing the best they are capable of. But I believe hat discouraged as thJv must be they are doing the best work that the circumstances of the school will allow. Y in a good school, the play-ground is scarcely second in importance to the class-room ; but it is difficult to evoke much enthusiasm when you have only twenty-two boys to deal with, some of them very small and very few of them long enough at the school to get imbued with whatever ittle sentimTn of loyalty is possible in such a school. It is just possible to get a first and a second eleven them if they all like cricket. But you cannot compare a school like this with one that has in its ffixth Form a of young men eighteen and nineteen years old, some of whom have been ei-ht or nine years at the school, and who are fond of their school and proud of it Th°e chief"defect of the school is its want of numbers, and that is its misfortune and not its fault As far as I have any influence, I wish to use it to cheer the teachers in the midst of their discouragements, and I am 7 sorry that I have not been able to write a report without making mention of matters that must be to them the cause of anxiety. I have &c., The Chairman, High School Governors, New Plymouth. Wμ. Jas. Habens.

WANGANUI (GIRLS') HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of the Boaed. Wanganm, March, 1896. I have the honour to report that this school has made satisfactory progress during the past year It closed with a roll-number of seventy-one pupils, of which thirty-seven 7 An examination was held at the close of the year by an outside examiner (Mrs. Mellsop, M. A.), and the report shows that the school is doing sound and useful work. Of the honours obtained by the pupils, one succeeded in obtaining a senior scholarship of the Wanganm Education Board, tenable for two years. At the University Junior Scholarship examinlfflSate (Mis Gordon) took fourth place on the "credit list," and thus became Board of Governors' Scholarship, of the value of £40 for one year The principal distinction however, was that of Miss Gurrie, a pupil of the school, who passed for her BA. degree. The Lady Principal reports that the most satisfactory feature of the school-roll for Ms year-to the unusually large proportion of old pupils who have returned, so that the standard of the highest classes is much higher than formerly.

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At the Trinity College examination in the theory, of music, held in June last, ten pupils passed—viz., one in intermediate honours, one intermediate pass, two junior honours, and six junior pass ; and at the Trinity College practical examination in pianoforte-playing six pupils passed—viz,, two senior passes, two junior passes, and two junior honours. Athletics and swimming have received a proper amount of attention, the former under the direction of Miss Watt, the newly-appointed teacher, and the latter under Mr. Mowtell. The whole of the boarders are now able to swim, I have, &c, Gilbert Caeson, Chairman. The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington. 2. Eevenub Account, 1895. £ s. A. £ s. d. £ s. a. To Balance from 1894 .. .. .. 1,247 2 7 By Office StaffInterest on mortgages .. .. 197 15 0 Secretary .. ..21 5 0 Eents from endowments leased .. 130 10 0 Clerk .. .. ..18 6 8 School Commissioners — 39 11 8 Taranaki .. .. £151 2 2 General expenses .. .. .. 48 18 8 Wellington .. 39 611 Teachers'salaries and fees .. .. 1,141 8 0 190 9 1 Caretaker .. .. .. .. 46 16 0 School fees — School books and stationery .. .. 39 2 3 Tuition .. .. .. •■ 1,247 19 2 School requisites (including piano) .. 97 16 6 Boarding .. .. .. ■• 1,492 10 0 Boarding-school Account .. .. 1,439 11 0 Mortgages discharged .. .. 1,800 0 0 Furnishing Account.. .. .. 93 14 11 Building .. .. .. .. 148 0 0 Plans and supervision .. .. 7 7 0 Site .. .. .. .. 9 10 Borough rates .. .. .. 25 10 0 Fire insurance .. .. 24 12 6 Legal expenses .. .. .. 2 10 Bank interest .. .. .. 017 6 Repairs .. .. .. .. 10 4 9 Telephone .. .. 6 0 0 Mortgage Account .. .. .. 2,350 0 0 Balance, 31st December, 1895— Fixed deposit .. £1,656 0 0 Less bank overdraft 880 6 11 . 775 13 1 £6,306 5 10 £6,306 5 10 A. A. Bbowne', Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edwabd FitzGebald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Wobk of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English: Mason's Grammar; Morris's Grammar; Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Tennyson's Princess; Spenser's Faerie Queen, Book 1., Cantos 1-6; Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. History: William 111. to Victoria. Geography: Great Britain and her colonies ; general physical geography. French : Grammar — Historical and Formal; Eacine's Phedre ; Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme ; Taine's Voyage aux Pyrenees; Blouet's Composition. Latin: Arnold's Latin Prose Composition ; General Grammar; Csesar, Gallic War, Book VII., 51 chapters ; Virgil, ißneid, Book I. ; Horace, Satires, Book 1., Nos. 1, 3, 4; Eoman History, Creighton (all), and Merivale and Pullar to end of Augustus Cassar; General Antiquities. Mathematics: Euclid, Books 1.-IV. and Book VI., with deductions; algebra, to permutations and combinations (inclusive); trigonometry, to solution of triangles (inclusive). Mechanics :To Junior Scholarship standard. Heat : To Junior Scholarship standard. Lowest. —English: Chambers' sth Eeader; Trotter's Grammar; Geography of Australia; elementary physical geography ; history, 55 B.C. to 1087 a.d. ; analysis and parsing, elementary; composition, elementary. Arithmetic : Long division, long multiplication, compound rules, reduction of money. French : Chardenal, Part 1., Ito 70; verbs avoir and etre. Latin : Smith's Principia, Part I. to end of compounds of sum.

WANGANUI COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. 1. Eepoet of the Teustees. Undeb Mr. Empson's excellent management the school continues to maintain its high position, and to command the support of the public, there being always a full complement of boarders. The trustees have recently entered into an arrangement with Mr. Empson for a renewal of his present agreement for a period of five years from Ist January next. G. H. Bethune, Secretary to the Trustees.

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2. General Statement of Accounts for tha Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 180 16 2 By ManagementCurrent income from reserves .. .. 796 12 10 Office salary .. .. .. 40 0 0 Refund .. .. .. .. 110 0 Other office expenses .. .. 13 18 7 Drainage .. .. .. .. 613 4 Other expenses of management .. 27 17 0 Insurance .. ~ .. 50 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 22 10 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 3 5 6 Sites and buildings— Purchases and new works .. .. 358 5 5 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 107 11 10 Insurance and taxes .. .. 151 15 10 Painting .. .. .. .. 146 8 6 Interest .. .. .. .. 112 5 8 Balance .. .. .. 51 14 0 £1,035 12 4 j £1,035 12 4 Ed. N. Liffiton, Attorney for the Trustees of the Industrial School Estate. Audited and found correct this 2nd day of January, 1896.—A. C. Eitchie, Auditor.

3. Woek of Highest and Lowest Foems. Highest.- -Latin, Greek, French, English, mathematics, science, drawing, and divinity. The work is supposed to be up to the standard of the University Junior Scholarships. Lowest.' —Latin, English (including history, geography, reading, and composition), arithmetic, drawing, and divinity.

4. SCHOLAESHIPS. Eight scholarships of the Education Board were held at the school. The headmaster gave fifteen scholarships, varying in value from £12 to £57, and in tenure from one year to four years.

WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIELS , HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Eepobt foe the Hon. the Ministee of Education. The Governors of the Wellington College and Girls' High School, in presenting the usual statistics to the Minister of Education, are able to report that during the year 1895 both the institutions under their charge were carried on to their satisfaction, and did good work. The College at the close of the year was attended by 210 pupils ; and the Girls' High School had 141. At the last University examinations twenty-two boys from the College passed, one obtained a junior scholarship, two passed the Medical Preliminary, one the Solicitors' Entrance Examination, and eighteen passed the Matriculation Examination. At the January Civil Service Examination one pupil passed the senior, and eight pupils the junior, examination. Of the pupils at the Girls' High School twenty passed, one passed the Junior Scholarship Examination with credit, seventeen passed the Matriculation Examination, and two matriculated on the junior scholarship papers. In the Civil Service Examination one passed the senior, and eight the junior, examination. The matter of scholarships held at secondary schools having been the subject of discussion last session, it is worthy of remark that twenty-two pupils at the College, and twenty-four at the Girls' High School, attended last year, holding scholarships as follows : At the College, nine consisting of money-payments from funds given to the Board by sundry benefactors, four consisting of free tuition given by the Board of Governors, and nine given by the Education Board. At the Girls' High School, six consisting of free tuition given by the Board of Governors, and eighteen given by the Education Board. The Board of Governors are pleased to be able to report that, owing partly to an increase in the revenue from endowments, and partly to the notable success of the college and the increase in the number of pupils there, —the number on the roll at this date being 234, —their financial position is improved, though the burden of interest which they have to pay on money borrowed for buildings still presses heavily upon them, and prevents them providing as thoroughly as they should do for the efficient working of the College and Girls' High School. From this burden of interest they should be relieved by the Government, if the same measure of assistance to secondary education were meted out to Wellington as has been done to other centres. Wellington, 24th March, 1896. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary.

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves.. .. 1,728 15 6 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 2,097 6 3 Paid by School Commissioners .. 67 19 1 Management— School fees .. .. .. .. 3,951 12 9 Office salary .. .. .. 154 3 4 Levin Scholarship money .. .. 20 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. 37 15 3 Moore and Ehodes Scholarship income 51 4 8 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,020 11 4 Turnbull Scholarship income .. .. 38 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 77 10 6 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 1,720 010 Scholarships .. .. 83 6 8 Prizes .. .. .. .. 8 3 10 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 243 16 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 135 17 10 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Labour .. .. .. .. 10 12 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 40 18 9 Insurance and taxes .. .. 311 3 3 Furniture and apparatus .. .. 11l 810 Interest on current account .. .. 150 0 9 Endowments— Bates and survey .. .. .. 95 6 4 Interest on cost of reclaimed land .. 136 2 8 Fencing .. .. .. .. 29 16 3 Tuition-fees refunded or paid over to Technical School .. .. .. 117 18 11 Legal expenses .. .. .. 7 8 0 Interest on cost of buildings .. .. 708 5 4 Total .. .. .. £7,577 12 10 Total .. .. .. £7,577 12 10 J. E. BiiAiK, Chairman. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary. Examined and Jbuni correct. —James Edward FitzGebald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Forms. College. Highest. —Latin : Translation, Livy, Book XXII.; Virgil, iEneid, Book I.; compositionBryan's Caesarian Prose, Bradley's Arnold, Bradley's Arnold's Aids; sight translation. History: Horton's History of the Romans; antiquities; notes; grammar. Mathematics: Euclid, Books L, 11., 111., IV., and VI. ; Algebra, Hall and Knight's, to the end of permutations and combinations; Arithmetic papers ; Trigonometry, Lock's Trigonometry, to page 229. English : Literature—Shakespeare's Tempest, Chaucer's Squire's Tale, general reading; grammar, Nome's Historical Grammar ; composition—Nichol's Exercises, paraphrasing, essays. French : Literature—Zola's L'Attaque dv Moulin, Bue, La Camaraderie, Labiche, Voyage de Mons. Perichon ; grammar —Brachet's Grammar, Bue's First Studies in French Idioms. Science: Chemistry, Jago's Advanced Text-book of Inorganic Chemistry ; physics, Wright's Heat. Lowest. —Latin: Abbott's Via Latina to Ex. XXIV. Mathematics : Arithmetic, simple and compound rules, reduction. English: Parts of speech, essays on subjects read, dictation, and spelling. History : Gardiner, to end of Edward I.'s reign. New Zealand Geographical Header. Nelson's Eoyal Eeader No. 4. Analysis of easy simple sentences. Science : Object-lessons. Girls' High School. Highest. —Mathematics : Euclid, algebra, trigonometry, arithmetic, as for Junior Scholarship. Latin : Translation —Caesar's Gallic War, Book VII.; Virgil, Georgic II.; Horace, Satires, Book L, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10; sight. Grammar and composition : Bradley's Arnold's Latin prose composition ; test and exercises. Horton's Roman History. French : Translation —Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, La Camaraderie, Athalie (part) ; grammar and Havet's French Composition (selection) ; irregular verbs —Brachet's French Grammar, Book III.; syntax—Bue's French Idioms, French-English, pp. 54-91; English-French, pp. 1-38. Heat: As for Junior Scholarship. Botany :As for Junior Scholarship. English: Morris's Elementary Historical Grammar, pp. 1-210; parts of Mason's Grammar, exercises from How to Write Clearly; Shakespeare's Coriolanus; Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I.; Samson Agonistes ; Chaucer's Prologue to Canterbury Tales. Composition based on plays read, and on parts of Carlyle's Heroes and Hero-worship, and Samson Agonistes. Lowest.— Grammar: Easy parsing and analysis of simple and easy compound sentences. Geography: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, from My First Geography; New Zealand Geography from notes. History : Gardiner's History to end of reign of Eichard I. Composition : Some of the first parts of Hiawatha, The Pygmies, and Aladdin. Beading : To page 198 of New Zealand Geographical Eeader. Poetry. Dictation. Spelling. Arithmetic : Weights and measures, four simple and four compound rules; least common multiple and highest common factor. 4. Scholarships. See Board's Eeport.

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NAPIBE HIGH SCHOOL. Genebal Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 1,284 13 0 By ManagementMortgage repaid .. .. .. 500 0 0 Office salary .. .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 362 10 0 Other office expenses .. .. 15 19 10 From property not a reserve .. .. 745 0 0 Law-costs .. .. .. 013 4 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 1, 727 16 8 paid purchase-money .. 151 13 4 Music teachers, &c. .. .. .. 234 16 0 Paid by School Commissioners — Ex- Examiners' fees .. .. .. 20 6 0 aminer's fee .. 20 0 0 Scholarships — Portion of scholarships School fees .. .. .. 1,259 7 4 spent on board, rail, and coach .. 299 10 0 Board of scholarship children, rail and Prizes .. .. .. .. 10 12 6 coach fares, paid by School Commis- Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 15 17 6 sioners .. .. .. .. 298 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o.; also careBooks, &c, sold and other refunds .. 81 17 6 taker's salary .. .. .. 107 14 3 Refund of rail fare .. .. .. 010 0 Book and stationery account and other Gas in gymnasium .. .. .. 0 16 6 temporary advances .. .. 79 19 1 Rebate on insurance policy .. 1 14 6 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Excess of school fees paid .. .. 013 8 Purchases and new works .. .. 30 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 70 4 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. 79 17 3 Endowments, sales account —Expended on site or buildings .. .. 356 5 6 Loan to cadet corps .. .. 30 0 0 Refund, dinners and music .. .. 0 13 8 Deposit in bank .. .. .. 750 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 816 10 3 £4,706 15 10 £4,706 15 10 J. W. Cablile, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —James Edwabd FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —Mathematics: Euclid, Books 1.-VI., with deductions and exercises : algebra, to permutations and combinations; trigonometry, to solution of triangles; arithmetic, general. Latin: Virgil, JEneid, Book II.; Caesar, Book I.; composition and grammar. Greek: Anabasis, Zenophon, I.; grammar and composition. French : L'lnvasion; composition and grammar. English : General and Historical Grammar. Composition : Extracts from the Spectator, Samson Agonistes; period, 1800-1830. Geography: Political and physical. History: England, 1689-1837. Natural Science : Physiology. Loivest. —The work of the lowest form was that of the Third Standard of the Elementary Code in English and arithmetic, with elementary Latin and French.

Girls' School. Highest. —Mathematics : Arithmetic, whole subjects; Algebra, including simultaneous quadratics ; trigonometry, to solution of triangles; geometry, Books I. to IV. (inclusive). English: Mason's Grammar, Morris's Historical Grammar; composition; literature, period, 1800-1850; Milton's Samson Agonistes. History : Matriculation standard, and period. French : Brachet's Grammar, Voyage aux Pyrenees, composition. German : Matriculation standard. Latin : Cassar, Book II.; Virgil's .ZEneid, Book II.; grammar, Church and Smith, Kennedy. Science: Botany, as for Junior Scholarship. Lowest. —Arithmetic : Simple and compound rules, reduction, mental arithmetic. Grammar : Parts of speech, easy analysis. French: Easy conversation. History : 1485 to 1603 (Gardiner's). Geography : Australia, New Zealand (with special reference to North Island), England in outline. Object-lessons: On common objects. Beading. Singing. Drawing. Sewing. Drill.

3. Scholarships. The School Commissioners gave twenty-six scholarships (sixteen boys, ten girls), ranging in value from £50 4s. to £10 4s. Eleven scholarships of the Education Board were held at the. schools.

GISBOENE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Eepobt of the Boaed. Sib,— Gisborne, 19th March, 1895. I have the honour to report that during the year ending the 31st December the Board carried on instruction in the secondary classes, formerly a part of the Gisborne District High School, at its cost. The Board made no change in the management of these classes, which in all respects were conducted as heretofore when under the control of the Education Board. I am happy to state that an arrangement has been arrived at, of which you have been already informed, in terms of "The Gisborne High School Act 1885 Amendment Act, 1895," whereby the Education Board has resumed the control of secondary education in this district, as from the Ist January, 1896. I am, &c, The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington, W. Mobgan, Chairman.

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2. Genebal Statement of Accounts for the .Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 501 9 0 By Teacher's salary and allowances .. 276 6 0 Mortgages .. .. .. .. 1,450 0 0 Examinations— Current income from reserves .. 55 12 8 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 12 12 0 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Supervision .. .. .. 4 4 0 paid purchase-money .. .. . 106 5 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 82 9 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. 195 1 8 Printing, stationery and advertising .. 919 0 School fees .. .. .. 201 12 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 2 0 0 Interest on deposits .. .. .. 20 15 0 Rents .. .. .. .. 46 0 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 115 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year .. .. .. .. 2,096 3 11 £2,530 15 4 £2,530 15 4 W. Morgan, Chairman. C. A. De Lautoub, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGebald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Woek op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin : Gradatim, pieces 101 to 150; Caesar, Book I.; Anglice Reddenda, pieces Ito 100; Belcher's Latin Exercises (Part I.) ; Dodds' Matriculation Latin; Allen's Latin Grammar. French: Macmillan's Second French Course; Translation, miscellaneous; Dejardin's French Class-book. English: Shakespeare's Macbeth; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Longmans' School Composition; Abbott's How to Write Clearly. Higher Grade English : Mason's English Grammar ; Hewitt and Beach's Manual of our Mother Tongue. Geography : Longmans' Australasian Geography. Algebra : Hamblin Smith (to quadratics). Arithmetic : Eepetition, from Hamblin Smith. Science: Mechanics, Grieves, Stages 11. and 111. Euclid: Hall and Stevens', Books I. and 11. Lowest. —Latin : Principia (Part I.); Gradatim, pieces Ito 100; Primer: Gender Rules. French: Macmillan's First French Course; Dejardin's First French Class-book. English: Shakespeare's Macbeth; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Longmans' School Composition. Euclid: Hall and Stevens, Book I. Algebra: Hamblin Smith (to quadratics). Arithmetic: Repetition, from Hamblin Smith. Science: Grieves Mechanics, Stage I. 4. Scholarships. Scholarships, tenable for one year, of £10 4s. each, were allotted during the year to four pupils, previously in attendance at the Government schools in the Poverty Bay District; travelling-allow-ances of £20 and £14 being made to two of the pupils, resident at Patutahi and Matawhero. These scholarships were granted in supplement to those allotted by the Hawke's Bay Education Board. The Education Board's annual examination was made use of in selecting pupils qualified for a scholarship, but who had not received one. A second year scholarship pupil also received £10 4s. for the year.

NELSON COLLEGE. 1. Ebpoet of the Goveenoes foe the Yeae ending 31st Decembee, 1895. The Governors have no special subject which appears to require comment on their part. The Boys' College. The Principal, who was absent on leave during the whole of last year, has returned from his holiday, and resumed his duties with renewed energy. The appended extracts from the roll show that the number attending the colleges has been well maintained, that of the Boys' College showing a considerable increase on the past year. The following honours have been taken by the two colleges during the year just ended: A Junior University Scholarship has been won by J. H. Baillie; while two other scholars, A. Crump and N. Fell, passed with credit. E. Strong passed the first terms examination of Canterbury College; and a considerable number of College boys passed matriculation, medical preliminary, and Senior and Junior Civil Service examinations. Among many distinctions gained by former pupils, may be mentioned the following: E. Eutherford, the Exhibition Scholarship of £150 a year for two years, tenable at an English or Continental University. This was open to competition to the whole colony. F. Milner, a Junior Latin Scholarship in the University of New Zealand. The same student has also completed his B.A. degree. Four former pupils are now pursuing their medical studies at Edinburgh University, and have been so far successful in passing the examinations of their course. During the year the Governors have spent a considerable sum in renovating and refurnishing the interior of the building. The Girls' College The work done at the school has been very satisfactory, and has been quite up to the standard of previous years. Four girls were sent in for the first annual examination at the Canterbury College, and one for the third annual examination, all of whom were successful. One was sent in for the final section of the B.A. degree, and has passed —namely, T. M. Max. Two others—E. Graham and B. Black—have also passed the final section, and, though they were not last year

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College pupils, they may practically be regarded as such,- having passed the degree examination in four subjects out of six from the College. Of the candidates sent in for the Junior Civil Service, the four who were examined in Nelson have all passed ; two who were examined elsewhere have not as yet heard the result. By order of the Council of Governors. Oswald Curtis, Secretary.

2. Statement of Accounts of the Nelson Colleges for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. A. To Interest on endowments .. .. 592 15 0 By Interest, Girls' College mortgage .. 195 0 0 Eent from endowments .. .. 604 0 0 Insurance— School Commissioners' subsidy .. 300 0 0 Girls' College .. .. .. 34 10 0 Boys' College .. .. .. 47 3 0 Repairs—Boys' College ... .. 123 .4 8 Governors' fees .. .. .. 98 19 6 Boys' College. To Boarding-fees .. .. .. 1,025 1 2: By Boarding .. .. .. .. 817 13 6 Tuition-fees .. .. .. 991 16 4 Tuition .. .. .. .. 1,128 0 5 Stationery and prizes .. .. 105 12 2 Scholarships— Foundation .. .. .. 72 12 0 Endowed .. .. .. 124 0 0 Joynt .. .. .. .. 32 12 0 Simmons prize .. .. .. 6 0 0 Gas account .. .. .. 47 13 3 Secretary's salary .. .. .. 200 0 0 Printing and advertising .. .. 47 10 7 Office rent and expenses .. .. 18 18 3 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 116 7 7 Audit charges .. .. .. 5 5 0 Science appliances .. .. .. 919 5 Law-costs .. .. .. .. 4 12 0 Subscriptions to sports .. .. 25 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 33 14 7 Girls' College. To Boarding-fees .. • • • • 565 16 6 By Boarding .. .. .. .. 601 7 8 Tuition-fees .. .. • • 878 15 0 Tuition .. .. .. .. 725 15 3 Stationery and prizes .. .. 82 12 9 Scholarships— Foundation .. .. .. 60 4 0 Governors' fees .. .. .. 30 0 0 Tinline .. .. .. .. 40 0 0 Gas account .. .. .. 32 1 9 Secretary's salary .. .. .. 100 0 0 Printing and advertising .. .. • 22 0 0 Audit charges .. .. .. 5 5 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 33 14 7 Balance .. .. .. 74 1 5 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 416 6 £5,032 5 5 £5,032 5 5 Oswald Cdetis, Secretary. We hereby certify that we have examined the above accounts, and compared them with the several vouchers relating thereto, and have found them correct. J. T. Catlby, ) . ~, . . a . ' [ Auditors. A. A. bCAIFE, j

3. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' College. Highest. —Latin: Horace, Satires, Book 1., and Ars Poetica; Caasar, Book VII.; selections from Cicero; Eoman History; later portions of Abbott's Via Latina. English: Mason's English Grammar; Shakespeare, Macbeth; Milton, Samson Agonistes; Chaucer, Knight's Tale; Macaulay, Essay on Milton ; Anglo-Saxon. Mathematics (as for Junior Scholarship) : Arithmetic, general; Geometry, Hall and Stevens's, 1.-VI. ; Algebra, Hall and Knight's, to binomial theorem, and Jones and Cheyne's Exercises; Trigonometry, all Lock's Elementary, and Ward's Examination Papers; Mechanics, no special text-book. Science: Chemistry, Roseoe's Elementary; Black's Chemistry for the Goldfields ; Dobbin and Walker's Theory ; Tilden's Practical Chemistry ; Sound and Light— Stone's Elementary Lessons on Sound, Deschanel's Sound and Light. French : Edmond About, Le Eoi dcs Montagnes; Moliere, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Eve and De Baudiss, French Grammar. Lowest. Arithmetic: Lock, for Beginners, to decimals. English; History, Gardiner's Outlines, Part I.; Geography, Petrie's Elementary ; Grammar, Hall's Primary; Eeader, Lee's New Zealand Beader. Latin ; Via Latina, to verb. French : Chardenal, Ex. 1-100.

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Girls' College. Highest. —Mathematics: Euclid, Books 1.-VL, Definitions of Book V.; Algebra, Todhunter's Larger Algebra, to binomial theorem ; Trigonometry, Lock, to solution of triangles; Mechanics, to B.A. pass standard. Latin: Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose; Abbott's Latin Prose; Caesar, De Bello Gallico, Book VII.; Horace, Satires, Book 1., 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, and Ars Poet'ca; Virgil, iEneid, Books I. and II.; prose ; sight translation. English : Morris's Historical Grammar; Mason's English Grammar; Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People; Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Anglo-Saxon and Middle English Primers; Carlyle's Sartor Eesartus; Milton's Samson Agonistes; Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; Literature Period, 1800-50. French: Wellington College Grammar; Brachet's Public School Grammar; Moliere, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, L'Avare; Eacine, Pbedre; Literature Period, 1815-50; French prose idioms. Geography : Gill's Geography. English History: Epochs; the settlement of the Constitution ; England during the American and European wars. Lowest. —Arithmetic: Simple and compound rules; easy fractions. English: Parts of speech; simple parsing and analysis; The Brownies; Jackanapes; Eoyal Eeader, VI.; composition and letterwriting. Geography : General geography—New Zealand and Europe more particularly. History : Gardiner's Outlines of English History, Part I. French : Chardenal, Part I. Latin: Via Latina. Sewing. Club exercises.

4. Scholarships. Boys' College. Endowed : Tinline, £52 125.; Newcome, £24 ; Richmond, £24 ; Stafford, £20 ; Fell, £16. College : One at £32 12s. ; one at £16 ; one at £14 ; two at £12 125.; one at £6 ; one at £5 ; one at £4 ; one at £3. Girls' College. Tinline :■ £52 12s. Governors' Fees : Two at £15. College : One at £15 12s. ; two at £15 ; one at £12 125.; one at £12. School Commissioners : Six at £12 12s.

Twelve 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 two of the Marlborough Education Board were held at the Girls' College.

GBEYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. | Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. 14 3 5 By Fire insurance ... .. .. 159 Interest .. .. .. 78 9 1 Law-costs .. .. .. .. 45 611 Loans repaid .. .. .. .. 125 0 0 Secretary's salary .. .. .. 5 0 0 Rent .. .. .. .. 210 0 Cheque-book .. .. .. .. 0 4 0 Balance — In bank .. .. .. .. 18 510 Fixed deposit in bank .. .. 150 0 0 £220 2 6 £220 2 6 Eichard Nancarrow, Chairman, F. W. Eiemenschnbider, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

HOKITIKA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ a. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 975 8 7 By Management .. .. .. .. 10 12 1 Interest .. .. .. 45 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances (District Eent of dwelling-house and grounds .. 46 3 6 High School) .. 60 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 019 0 Insurance .. 2 12 0 Balance .. .. .. 992 9 0 £1,066 12 1 £1,066 12 1 John McWhietee, Chairman, W. A. Fendall, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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CHEIST'S COLLEGE GEAMMAE SCHOOL. 1. Geneeal Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 15th May, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. | Expenditure. £ s. d. To Rent and interest .. .. .. 1,693 13 4 By Liabilities, being Dr. balance, 15th May, Scholarship endowments .. .. 566 10 11 1894 .. .. .. .. 3,354 15 5 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,677 17 2 Expenses of management .. .. 173 7 0 Sundries, unclassified .. .. 6 7 9 I Masters'salaries and allowances .. 2,596 7 6 Dr. balance, including £729 18s. Id., ad- Scholarships, exhibitions, and prizes .. 507 7 0 vance from land fund for building Examination expenses for scholarships, and improvements .. .. 3,528 7 2 &c. .. .. .. .. 73 19 3 Stationery, school material, printing and advertising .. .. .. 86 13 1 Repairs to buildings, furniture, and insurance .. .. .. .. 173 11 5 Caretaker and other labour, fuel, lights, &c. .. .. .. .. 174 5 10 Boys' games fund .. .. .. 94 14 6 Expenses in connection with estate, viz.— Rates, repairs, insurance, and lawcosts .. .. .. .. 93 15 6 Interest .. .. .. .. 145 19 10 £7,474 16 4 £7,474 16 4 W. G. Bkittan, Bursar.

2. The Woek done during the Yeae 1895. Highest. —Latin, English, French, mathematics, and either Greek or science, as for Junior University Scholarships. Beading and spelling from Star Eeader, No. V. Grammar of noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, from the first number in Parallel Grammar Series. Geography : Europe, Asia, Africa, America, New Zealand, trade routes; text-book, Zealandia Geography. History : Nelson's Brief. Arithmetic :To end of money rules. Eepetition; writing; drawing; singing.

3. SCHOLABSHIPS AND EXHIBITIONS. Somes Senior Scholarships. —Pour are to be offered, if funds permit, in each year—namely, (a) two to boys under the age of eighteen years, and (b) two to boys under the age of seventeen years. 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 schoolhouses. Somes Junior Scholarships. —Five are to be offered, if funds permit, in each year—namely, (a) three to boys under the age of sixteen years, and (b) two to boys under the age of fourteen years. 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 schoolhouses. Somes Entrance Scholarships (No. 1). —Four are to be offered, if funds permit, in each year— namely, (a) two to boys under thirteen, and (b) two to boys under twelve. The scholarships are tenable for two years, and cover the school fees for tuition, with £3 per annum for books, and a further addition of £10 per annum in the case of boarders in one of the schoolhouses. Somes Entrance 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. The scholarships are tenable for two years, and reduce the ordinary fees by one-half. Somes Scholarships for Music. —Sixteen scholarships, covering the school fees for tuition, and eight of half the value, are given after examination. The boys elected become members of the Cathedral choir. Butter and Reay Foundation. —Exhibitions are given to the sons of clergy ministering in the Diocese of Christchurch, and to others who may require assistance ; also six exhibitions of £2 a term to members of the chapel choir, and two of £12 a year for two years to boys leaving the Cathedral choir. The chapel choir exhibitions are awarded term by term.

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CHEISTCHUECH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Geneeal Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. „ n , . , Receipts. £ s , d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. 3,300 13 0 By Balance 409 6 6 School fees 1 i968 3 6 Management—Office'salary '.'. '.'. 80 0 0 Interest on promissory note, for rent of Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,726 14 0 _ 2 19 6 Examinations— Sale of books 6 10 Examiners'fees 70 19 2 bnarland and Co., London, refund .. 3 011 Other expenses .. .. 14 11 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 30 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 44 10 6 Printing, stationery, advertising, stamps, and telegrams .. .. .. 171 5 1 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 56 5 11 Fencing, repairs, &c.. .. .. 52 0 6 Insurance .. .. .. .. 28 9 8 Interest on current account .. .. 0 13 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 108 13 8 Cricket club and cadet corps, annual grants .. .. .. .. 45 0 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 7 5 6 Grant to school library .. .. 5 0 0 Interest on loan .. .. .. 325 0 0 Workshop—Material and tools .. 10 5 Chemicals and apparatus .. .. 32 13 2 Protective-works on Eeserves 1124 and 1142 .. .. .. .. 15 10 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 23 17 10 Balance .. .. .. .. 32 13 9 £5,280 17 11 £5,280 17 11 H. E. Webb, Chairman. A. Ceaceopt Wilson, Eegistrar.

2. WOEK DONE IN HIGHEST AND LOWEST FOEMS. Highest. —Latin: Cicero, Stories from Eoman History; Virgil, Selections by Shuckburgh; Livy, Hannibal's Campaigns in Italy (H. Lee Warner); passages for sight translation; Smith's Smaller History of Eome; Bradley's Arnold, Latin Prose Composition ; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose ; Simpson's Cassarian Prose, Part I. English : Abbott's How to Write Clearly ; Longmans' Handbook of English Literature ; Chaucer's Prologue ; Bowen's Selections from English Authors ; Scott's Guy Mannering ; Morris's Historical English Grammar; essays, abstracts, &c. French: L'Orient, Gautier; Dumas' Hidden Treasure (Kitchin), Monte Cristo; E. About, Le Eoi dcs Montagnes; Macmillan's Progressive French Course, Part II.; Eve and Beaudais' Wellington School French Grammar. Mathematics :As for University Junior Scholarships. Geography: Longmans' School Geography for Australasia. Science: Jago's Inorganic Chemistry; Wright's Heat. Greek: Thucydides' Capture of Sphacteria; Scenes from Greek Plays (Sidgwick) ; Sidgwick's Greek Prose ; Arnold's Greek Prose. Lowest. —Latin: Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course. English: Star Eeader; Children's Treasury of English Songs ; Brief History ; Longmans' 'Junior School Grammar; dictation, transcription, composition, spelling. French: First French Eeader and Writer (Swarm and Sonnenschein). Mathematics : Nelson's Eoyal Arithmetic, No. 4b. Geography : Hill's First Lessons in Geography. Science: Eoscoe's Chemistry Primer; Balfour Stewart's Physics. Greek: Mayor's Greek for Beginners. Drawing : Freehand, model, and geometrical. Modern Form (non-Latin). —Pitman's Phonographic Teacher; Pitman's Manual of Phonography ; Geikie's Geology Primer ; practical, plane, and solid geometry ; sloyd. 3. SCHOLAESHIPS. The school gave free education to twenty-five scholars. Nineteen scholarships of the Education Board were held at the school.

CHEISTCHUECH GIELS , HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Geneeal Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 1,072 0 7 By Management—Office salary .. .. 70 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 371 9 2 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,576 9 8 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Examinations— paid purchase-money .. .. 235 10 11 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 52 3 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,681 1 0 Other expenses .. .. .. 918 10 Interest on current account and invest- Scholarships .. .. .. 235 0 0 ment .. .. .. .. " 118 8 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 28 18 6 Proceeds from cooking-class (fees, &c.) 27 17 9 Printing, stationery, advertising, stamps, Sale of piano .. .. .. 24 0 0 and telegrams .. .. .. 61 17 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 41 12 2 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works .. .. 6 15 5 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. 113 9 9 Bent and insurance .. .. 68 16 11 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 8 9 11 Expenses of cooking-class .. .. 70 13 7 Hire of chairs .. .. .. 5 0 0 Music .. .. .. .. 413 6 Legal expenses .. .. .. 110 Sundries .. .. ... .. 712 8 Balance .. .. .. ..1,167 14 11 £3,530 7 5 £3,530 7 5 H. E. Webb, Chairman, A. Ceaceoft Wilson, Eegistrar. n T7l .-V

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2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —As prescribed University for Junior Scholarship Examination in the following subjects :—Latin : Livy, Book XXII. ; Horace, Odes, Book III.; Virgil, iEneid, Books 11. and V.; Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia, unseen translation ; Cicero, De Officiis, Book 11. and part of Book III.; Catullus, selected poems; Caesar, Gallic War, Book VI. and part of Book VII. ; Simpson's Caesarian Prose; Arnold's Latin Prose (edited by Bradley) ; Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom. Soman History : Horton's History of the Eomans. French: Brachet's Grammar and Exercises ; Chardenal's Advanced French Course ; Miscellaneous Prose ; translation—Souvestre, Au Coin dv Feu; Balzac, Eugenic Grandet; Edmond About, Nouvelles et Souvenirs (Hachette'a Modern French Authors); Eacine's Phedre. English : Mason's Grammar ; Morris's Elementary Historical Grammar; parts of Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People, and of Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature ; Shakespeare's Macbeth; Chaucer's Prologue; Selected Essays of Elia. Botany and heat, as prescribed for University Junior Scholarship Examination ; different text-books used. Mathematics : Hamblin Smith's Elementary Algebra; Todhunter's Algebra, to permutations and combinations; Lock's Trigonometry, to solution of triangles; Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Books I. to VI. Arithmetic, the whole subject. Lowest. —Southern Cross Eeader 111. Elements of botany, taught without text-book. Hansome's Elementary History, from beginning to reign of Edward I. Southern Cross Geography for Standard 111. Longmans' School Grammar, Part V. Parts of speech. Arithmetic : Four simple rules, and money rules. French : Fifty exercises from Chardenal's First French Course. Freehand drawing ; needlework ; class singing ; swimming ; drill and calisthenic exercises.

3. Scholarships. Scholarships of the value of £15 each were given to fifteen pupils. Seven scholarships of the Education Board were held at the school.

EANGIOEA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. .. 186 8 0 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 88 8 2 Befund of disallowed rebate of rent, 1894 17 9 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 220 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 172 9 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 617 6 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 6 15 4 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 14 17 2 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 45 16 7 Bents', insurance, and taxes .. .. 4 0 5 Interest on current account .. .. 2 0 2 Incidental .. .. .. .. 12 1 £383 2 1 £383 2 1 George John Leech, Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—Edward James FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin, algebra, Euclid, and English. Lowest. —Eeading, writing, arithmetic, geography, grammar, singing, and art needlework.

3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to five pupils.

ASHBUETON HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. 624 611 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 258 10 11 School fees .. .. .. .. 232 7 6 Office salary .. .. .. 20 0 0 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 14 4 Other office expenses .. .. 3 810 Bank .. .. .. .. 154 19 10 I Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 561 17 4 Unpresented cheque.. .. .. 12 10 0 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 12 12 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 17 8 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 41 14 3 Gleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 30 9 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 37 2 0 Bents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 3 3 9 Interest on current account .. .. 13 11 9 Other expenditure, namely— Soiree, 1894 .. .. .. 3 9 0 Scientific apparatus .. .. 11 3 10 Filters .. .. .. .. 410 0 Cricket and football .. .. 2 18 6 Cabs, exchange, &c. .. .. 1 18 5 Refund fees .. .. .. 1 10 0 £1,025 8 7 £1,025 8 7 Andrew Orr, Chairman. Charles Braddell, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—-James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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2. Woek in Highest and Lowest Classes during 1895. Highest. —English : Grammar—Morris's Historical English Grammar, pages 1-191; correction of sentences, analysis, &c. ; etymology of words; exercises in composition; literature—Hamlet. French: Grammar—Macmillan's Second Year, whole book ; Wellington College French Grammar, to page 50; translation —About's Le Eoi dcs Montagnes. Latin: Grammar—Kennedy's Latin Primer, whole book; Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, to page 175; translation—Livy, Book XXI. Arithmetic : Goyen's Arithmetic, to page 238. Algebra: Hall and Knight's Algebra, to page 310. Euclid: Books I. and 11., with exercises. Trigonometry: Lock's Elementary Trigonometry, to page 143. Mechanics : Todhunter's Mechanics, to page 54. Lowest. —English: Chambers's Advanced Eeader, to page 216; oral teaching in grammar; composition exercises. French: Bue's First French Book, to page 66. Latin: Abbott's Via Latina, to page 40. Arithmetic :To fractions. Algebra : Hall and Knight's Algebra, to page 65. Euclid : Book 1., to prop. 20. Geography : Gill's Imperial Geography, pages 49-165. History : Creighton's Shilling History of England, to end of reign of Elizabeth. Science : Elementary lessons in botany. Writing from copybooks. Several of the junior pupils omitted Euclid and algebra from their course.

3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to thirteen pupils.

AKAEOA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. a. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance. ... .. .. .. 122 2 7 By Office expenses .. .. .. 1 12 6 Current income from reserves .. .. 135 0 9 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 205 5 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 130 2 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 2 10 0 Interest en current account .. .. 217 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 516 0 Gleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 16 1 4 Book and stationery account .. .. 010 10 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 218 6 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 38 2 6 Balance .. .. .. .. 117 6 2 £390 2 10 £390 2 10 H. C. Jacobson, Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed PitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Wobk of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Arithmetic : Algebra, including quadratic equations. Euclid : Books 1., 11., and part of Book 111. Latin : Abbott's Via Latina ; Caesar; Cicero, De Amicitia. English : Hewitt and Beach's Manual; Marmion (extracts), and Lady of the Lake (part). French: Macmillan's Course, Book I. History : Matriculation period. Geography, for matriculation. Lowest. —Arithmetic : Elementary. Latin : Declensions. English : Scott's Marmion, Canto VI., and Lady of the Lake, Canto II.; Longmans' Junior School Grammar and Composition. History : Gardiner's Outlines, Part I. and half of Part 11. Geography : Nelson's Eoyal Eeader, No. 4 ; Europe. French : Elementary. Eeading, writing, dictation, elementary drawing, &c.

3. SCHOLAESHIPS. The school gave free education to two pupils.

TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of the Board. The school did very well in the entrance examinations of the University of New Zealand. J. S. S. Cooper, who was for four years a pupil of this school, and afterwards for one year at the Christchurch Boys' High School, was at the head of the list of winners of junior scholarships, being first in mathematics and electricity, and second in English and French. E. J. Parr, a pupil of this school for the last five years, gained the seventh junior scholarship, being first in chemistry and third in English. Mary Olive Cunninghame passed the examination with credit. One boy passed the preliminary medical, and two girls the matriculation examination. One boy passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. Last November a former pupil gained the exhibition for French at Canterbury College. Since the Ist January this year (1896), Mr. A. S. M. Poison having been appointed second master at the Boys' High School, Napier, the vacancy is at present filled by a locum tenens, Mr. Benjamin Harris Low. J. H. Bampibld, Secretary.

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. '.. .. 259 6 5 By ManagementCurrent income from reserves .. 1,395 410 Office salary .. .. .. (0 U U Interest .. .. ■ • 90 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. 12 10 0 School fees .. ■■ 624 14 10 Other expenses of management .. 42 10 1 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,535 18 2 Cricket club .. .. .. 0 17 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 15 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 48 14 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 116 0 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 46 12 9 Bents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 33 1 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 717 2 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 34 8 2 Balance .. .. .. .. 405 15 9 £2,369 6 1 £2,369 6 1 Heney W. Habper, Chairman. J. H. Bamfield, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —James Bdwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work 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 IV., Part I. ; Keats's Hyperion, Book I. ; Thackeray's Esmond. Latin : Livy, Last Two Kings of Borne (Eawlins); Virgil, iEneid 11. ; unseen, various; prose, various—to Junior Scholarship standard ; Via Latina ; Smith's Latin Grammar. French: Corneille, Horace; About, Contes Choisis; La Fontaine, Fables ; unseen, various; prose, oral and written, various; Grammaire Brachet-Dussouchet, Cours Superieure; Vecqueray's Examination Papers. Mathematics: Pendlebury's Arithmetic; Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid; Lock's Trigonometry; and generally to Junior Scholarship standard. Science: Botany, chemistry, electricity, and heat, to Junior Scholarship standard ; text-books used — Thome and Bennett's Structural and Physiological Botany; Sylvanus Thomson's Electricity and Magnetism; Wright's Elementary Physics; Bemsen's Elementary Chemistry; Garnett's Heat. Geography: British Empire ; physical and commercial geography. History : General sketch of the world's history; History of the British Empire, with especial attention to the last hundred years. Commercial Class: Book-keeping; Pitman's shorthand ; tots; correspondence; and indexing of letters. Drawing: Freehand, model, geometrical, and mechanical. Loivest. —Tennyson for the Young; Gatty's Parables from Nature ; Arnold Foster, Things New and Old; No. 4 Southern Cross Copybooks and Arithmetics; Colonial Drawing-books; Grimm's German Tales; Longmans' Junior Composition; Masterman Beady (Bell's Beaders) ; Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Borne; Miall's Object-lessons from Nature; sloyd—cardboard-work, boys and girls ; woodwork, boys ; needlework, girls ; singing, junior boys and all girls. Physical Education: Boys —Cadet corps; physical drill with arms and with dumb-bells; gymnastics. Juniors—Drill and gymnastics. Girls—Gymnastics, and drill with Indian clubs.

4. SCHOLAESHIPS. Three senior exhibitions (each £10, for one year) are awarded to those pupils who stand highest in the annual school examinations, and declare their intention of competing for the junior scholarships of the University of New Zealand. The Governors give free education to holders of Education Board scholarships, and to others who obtain more than half marks in the scholarship examination of the South Canterbury Board of Education. During 1895 the number receiving free education under these conditions was thirty-three (nineteen boys and fourteen girls).

WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Eepoet op Goveenoes. The Governors are glad to report very considerable progress throughout the year. A new and comfortable class-room has now been erected as a wing to the District High School, especially intended to accommodate High School pupils, and is capable of holding about forty scholars. Last year twenty was the maximum number taking secondary subjects. At the opening of this year the number was thirty-two. The favourite subjects are : Algebra, Euclid, Latin, French, and higher English. The report of the Inspector for the year ending December, 1895, shows very satisfactory results. " I have much pleasure," he says, "in stating that the papers afford ample evidence of diligence on the part of the pupils, and of conscientious labour and skilful teaching on the part of the masters ; and that the high standard of proficiency which has been characteristic of the work in this school for several years is still maintained." In the subject of algebra, the average percentage was 81; in Euclid, 84 ; in French, 81 ; in Latin, 64 ; and in higher English, 64.

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The Governors during the last year increased their contribution to the teaching staff from £75 per annum to £100, besides making a special grant to the same of £109. The Board during the last year assisted in paying school fees for secondary subjects to the extent of £24 155., and the public scholarships lately awarded (one senior and two junior) amounted to £40. The Board has also contributed towards annual prizes a sum of £3 3s. The Governors, it will be seen, while holding in view the contingency of a separate institution by-and-by, are in the meantime giving effect to the spirit of the Waimate High School Act, and have, they submit, some reason to be congratulated on their efforts. George Barclay, Chairman. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 1,434 3 5 By Management— Current income from reserves .. 281 8 2 ! Office salary .. .. .. 12 12 0 Interest on fixed deposit .. .. 63 3 0 j Other office expenses .. .. 10 0 Contractor's deposit .. .. .. 20 0 j South Canterbury Education Board .. 112 10 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 3 3 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 17 10 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 330 Printing, stationery, and advertising ~ 3 15 0 Interest on current account .. .. 0 8 0 Expended on site or buildings .. 36 9 0 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. .. .. .. 8 8 0 District High School pupils' fees paid .. 24 15 0 Member's travelling-expenses.. .. 10 0 Cheque-book, 2s. 6d.; exchange, 7s. 0 9 6 Contractor's deposit .. .. .. 2 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 1,553 12 1 £1,780 14 7 £1,780 14 7 Geoege Baeclay, Chairman. Waimate, 16th March, 1896. G. H. Geaham, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edward PitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Eepoet of the Board . The interior of the Boys' School has been thoroughly renovated, and the grounds of both schools have been much improved. A scholarship has been founded, named the Macandrew Memorial Scholarship. This was obtained chiefly through the exertions of the Hon. S. E. Shrimski, who collected the requisite funds, which have been placed in a separate trust account. The Eector of the Boys' School has also offered to reduce the boarding-fees to £30 per annum- -first, to boys who have gained Otago scholarships ; second, who have obtained 70 per cent, of the last scholarship winner's marks; and, third, who shall gain a similar percentage in an equivalent examination. The offer to extend to not more than four boys at one time, and the reduced rate to continue during their school course. A further sum of £100 has been paid off the mortgage, which now stands at £1,000. George Sumpter, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ c. d. j Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 425 19 4 By Management— . Reserves sold .. .. .. 289 15 4 Office salary .. .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 1,049 12 9 Other office expenses .. .. 10 0 0 Interest .. .. .. 52 911 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,151 3 4 Paid by School Commissioners .. 52 6 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 16 0 0 School fees— Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 53 2 3 Boys .. .. .. .. 195 10 0 Gleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 98 0 2 Girls .. .. .. .. 149 6 0 Book and stationery account and other Refund, oooking-class .. .. 5 0 7 temporary advances .. .. 14 2 8 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works .. .. 139 3 11 Insurance .. .. .. 12 13 6 Taxes .. .. .. .. 15 0 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 73 13 6 Endowment —Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. .. .. 37 15 6 Incidentals .. .. .. 5 17 Paid off mortgage .. .. .. 100 0 0 Oooking-class .. ... .. 660 Balance .. .. .. .. 427 17 10 £2,220 0 3 j £2,220 0 3 Donald Boerie, Chairman, Oamaru, 10th April, 1896. George Sumpter, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General

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3. Woek op Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —Junior scholarship standard, shorthand (advanced), drawing, drill, &c. Loivest. —Latin : Via Latina, Ex. 1 to 40 ; a few pupils to Ex. 60. French : Macmillan's First Course ; Oxford and Cambridge First Writer and Eeader ; Parallel Eeader and Writer I. English: Blackie's Grammar; Longmans' Composition; Scott's Waverley; Longmans' Geography; Gardiner's History; St. Matthew's Gospel. Science: Physiology (Murche). Book-keeping; drawing; writing, Jackson's Civil Service Series; drill. Arithmetic: To interest and discount. Algebra: To simultaneous equations. Euclid : Book 1., with deductions. Boys are prepared in the Lower School for the Otago Education Board senior scholars' examination (open to town and country boys under fifteen and sixteen respectively). Girls. Highest. —English: Macmillan's VI. Eeader; Smith's English Grammar; Morris's Historical English Grammar; precis writing, and other exercises ; weekly essay. Latin: Bradley , s Arnold; Caesar's Gallic War; selections from various authors. French: Le Eoi dcs Montagnes (About); Eacine's Andromaque ; Chardenal's Advanced Course; French Grammar to matriculation standard; prose composition. Arithmetic: Goyen's Higher Arithmetic, whole subject. Algebra: Hall and Knight Euclid: Books 1., 11., and 111. Science (botany) : The morphology and physiology of the commonest order of flowering plants. Scripture: The Acts of the Apostles, chapter xii. to end. History : Epochs; the settlement of the Constitution; England during the American and European War. Geography : Longmans' School Geography for Australasia, pages 1-202. Lowest. —English : Chambers's Graduated Eeader, No. VI.; parsing and analysis ; composition lessons; weekly essay. French: Chardenal's First French Course, Ex. 1-172. Arithmetic: Hamblin Smith; practice; simple problems; and vulgar fractions. History : Miss Buckley's History of England for Beginners, Stuart period. Geography : New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia, brief sketch of the world. Science: MurcWs Animal Physiology, pages 1-62. Scripture: Gospel according to St. Matthew, chapter xi., to end. Drawing; singing; drill.

i. SOHOLAESHIPS. Free education is given to candidates who gain 50 per cent, of attainable marks at the Otago Education Board's scholarship examination. A resident scholarship, obtainable by competition, is also given to one pupil.

OTAGO BOYS' AND GIELS' HIGH SCHOOLS. 1. Eepobt of the Boaed. Sib,— Dunedin, 16th April, 1896. 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, 1895. I regret to say that the attendance in both schools this year showed a decline on that of the previous year. The enrolment of boys during the present term, however, shows a substantial increase over the attendance during the fourth quarter of last year, and it is hoped that the attendance will be not only maintained, but also increased during the current year. The falling off in attendance at the Girls' School is attributed to the fact that several private schools for girls have been established in Dunedin, which probably attract pupils who would otherwise attend the Girls' High School. These private schools are largely attended. During the year thirty-three boys and seventeen girls received free education in the High Schools by virtue of having obtained 50 per cent, of the attainable marks in the Education Board's senior and junior scholarship examinations, from which it will be seen that the Board is practically carrying out the object of the Endowed Schools Bill which your predecessor proposed to introduce into Parliament last session, and which would have provided for the free education of about fifty-four pupils. The Eev. Henry Belcher having signified his intention of resigning the Eectorship of the Boys' School at the end of the year, the Board appointed Mr. Alex. Wilson, M.A., Eector of the Girls' High School, to the Eectorship of the Boys' School; and, having resolved to place a lady at the head of the Girls' School, it advertised in New Zealand and the Australian Colonies for a Lady Principal, the result being that Miss M. E. A. Marchant, M.A., of the Wellington Girls' High School, was selected from thirty-nine candidates for the vacancy. Mr. Wilson and Miss Marchant assumed the charge of their respective schools at the commencement of the present year, and the Board fully anticipates that under their management the schools will maintain the same efficiency and success as heretofore. I am sorry to say that the unusual severity of last winter pressed so heavily on most of the Board's pastoral tenants that it was found necessary to make very considerable concessions in the year's rents, and it was therefore with the utmost difficulty that the Board was enabled to keep its expenditure during the year within its income. I have, &c, J. F. M. Fbasee, Chairman. The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington.

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2. Statements of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Reserves sold .. .. .. 172 5 0 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 4,109 15 6 Eepayments of instalments of land-pur- Management— chases .. .. .. .. 431 5 0 Office salary .. .. .. 146 13 4 Rents from endowments .. .. 2,600 15 2 Rent .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Legal expenses .. .. .. 6 0 0 paid purchase-money .. .. 60 3 5 Stamps and telegrams .. .. 25 1 4 Paid by School Commissioners .. 500 0 0 Telephone Exchange .. .. 8 5 0 School fees— Teachers' salaries and allowances — Boys .. .. .. .. 1,021 5 6 Boys' School .. .. .. 2,632 14 0 Girls .. .. 1,155 7 0 Girls' School .. .. .. 1,802 15 4 Boarding-school fees—Girls .. .. 509 4 6 Boarding-school AccountRefund of stationery allowances — Boys' .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Rector, Boys' School .. .. 15 19 5 Girls' .. .. .. .. 417 13 8 Rector, Girls' School .. 240 0 0 Sundries and incidentals .. .. 50 2 3 Repayment of advance to Rector, Boys' Scholarships .. .. .. 40 0 0 School, from Campbell and Hawthorne Prizes .. .. .. .. 4 10 0 Funds .. .. 45 13 4 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 141 16 9 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 3,169 19 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, including wages of two janitors .. .. 229 18 10 Laboratory requisites .. .. 919 6 Fencing, repairs, and furnishing— Boys' School .. .. .. 136 1 5 Girls' School .. .. .. 182 4 2 Insurance and taxes .. .. 181 3 11 Interest on current account, &c. .. 321 5 8 Endowments —Inspection fee .. 1 10 0 Advance to Otago High School Cadets.. 7 3 8 Advance to Normal School Cadets .. 7 3 8 £10,521 18 0 £10,521 18 0 Balance Account, 1895. 1895. £ s. d. 1895 £ s. d. Jan. 1. Balance brought down, Colonial Jan. 1. Balances brought down— Bank of New Zealand .. 4,109 15 6J Advance to Rector, Boys' High Dec. 31. Ordinary expenditure .. .. 6,412 2 6 School .. .. .. 45 13 9 Rebate of purchase-money, F. Uncompleted purchases .. 2,162 5 9 James .. .. .. 162 111 Dec.3l. Ordinary revenue .. .. 6,386 12 2 Balances carried down— Interest due on personal accounts Uncompleted purchases .. 1,591 5 5 (land sales) .. .. .. 82 10 0 Due by Rector, Boys' School, Proceeds of land sales .. .. 172 5 0 Campbell and Hawthorne Refund of stationery moneys from Funds .. .. .. 0 0 5 Rectors .. .. .. 255 19 5 Balance down, Bank of New Zealand.. .. .. .. 3,169 19 8 £12,275 5 9 £12,275 5 9

Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1895. Assets. £ b. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Bents overdue .. .. .. .. 473 14 8 Tradesmen's accounts unpaid .. .; 56 10 7 School foes overdue .. .. .. 39 17 6 Bank overdraft.. .. .. .. 3,169 19 8 Board fees overdue .. .. .. 9 10 Amounts due on mortgage (land instalments, including interest) .. .. 1,591 5 5

Eichaedson Cadet Coeps Fund. 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. 1895. Expenditure. £ a. d. Jan. 1. To Balance brought forward.. .. 72 17 9 Dec. 31. By Balance carried forward .. 72 17 9 £72 17 9 £72 17 9

Geay Bussell Scholarship Fund. 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. 1895. Expenditure. £ s. d.. Jan. 1. To Balance brought forward .. 219 0 4 Deo. 31. By Balance in Bank of New Zealand 284 L 3 8 Dec. 31. Interest from High Sohools Board 65 13 4 1 £284 13 8 £284 13 8 John F. M. Feasee, Chairman, Board of Governors. C. Macandeew, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Bdwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-Generel.

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3. WOEK OF HIOrHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Boys. Highest. —The highest or Sixth Form takes all the Junior Scholarship work in Latin, French, English, German, mathematics, chemistry, and botany. There are no set books or authors in use. A good deal of sight translation both ways in the languages is practised. Lowest. —The lowest or Third Form is for the most part recruited from the Sixth Standard of the district schools. In this form Latin, French, and mathematics are commenced. In Latin and French the usual work ; the whole of the accidence considered in an elementary way, and easy translations. Exercises from English into languages are not used. In mathematics, Euclid, Book 1., propositions 1-30, with easy exercises. Algebra, as far as very simple equations, without fractions. Gymnastics are part of the school work, and take their place in the time-table. Drawing, writing, book-keeping, and the Sixth Standard work generally are carried a stage further forward. Girls. Highest. —English : Chaucer, Prologue ; Shakespeare, Henry VIII.; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II.; Pope, Essay on Criticism ; selections from prose writers, 1490-1684 ; Eoman history, from end of Punic Wars to the Empire ; Historical English Grammar; composition, &c. Latin : VirgM, iEneid, Book IX.; Livy, Book XXII., chapters 25-40 ; Horace, selected odes and epistles; Caesar, Gallic War, Book V.; Cicero de Senectute, 17 chapters; composition, grammar, &c. French: Chardenal's Advanced Exercises ; Erckmann-Chatrian's Waterloo; Boielle; poetry, grammar, composition, &c. German : Child's Own Eeading-book ; Macmillan, Part I. Mathematics: Arithmetic, the whole subject ; algebra, to permutations and combinations, inclusive ; geometry— Euclid, Division A, Books 1., 11., 111., IV., VI.; trigonometry, 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 : Longmans' Fifth Eeader ; history; Blackwood's Short Stories ; geography, Macdonald's Zealandia Geography, Parts I. and II.; physical geography ; explanation of geographical 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. Scholarships. 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 BOYS' AND GIELS , HIGH SCHOOLS. 1. Ebpoet op the Board. No changes have taken place in the teaching staff of the schools. The boarding establishment for boys has been continued under the direction and supervision of the headmaster, and while the Board regrets that more pupils do not avail themselves of the privileges.of the establishment, it is nevertheless doing good service, and supplies a long-felt want. This branch does not involve the Board in any expense beyond the interest on the money invested in the building and land, as the headmaster accepts all other monetary responsibility. The special effort initiated towards the end of 1893 with the view of popularising the school and increasing the attendance by introducing some of the most promising pupils from the primary schools is bearing good fruit, although, through circumstances over which the Board has had no control, the usefulness which it was contemplated would result has been somewhat curtailed. The desire of the Board is to introduce pupils into the school before they are fourteen years of age. Under the plan inaugurated at the end of the year 1893, twenty pupils received the concession of free education at the High School for three years from the Ist January, 1894; of these sixteen are still in attendance, the term expiring at the end of 1896. In January, 1895, there was a further addition of seven pupils, of whom six still attend. Their term will not expire until the end of 1897. At the end of 1895 fifteen were granted free education for one year from Ist January, 1896, under special conditions. The Board has again to express its appreciation of the valuable services rendered in connection with this matter by Mr. James Hendry, 8.A., and Mr. G. D. Braik, M.A., Inspectors under the Southland Board of Education. Early in the year the Board received from the Government a copy of the Pair Eent Bill, inviting an expression of opinion. The Board, while acknowledging that they did not need such a Bill, thought, however, that the provisions met a much-felt public want. The school has received instruction in drill, and towards the end of the year steps were taken with the view of forming a cadet corps in the Boys' School. It was decided to arrange for the introduction of shorthand into the school curriculum, and steps were taken towards the end of the year with this object. In evidence of the good work done in the school, the Board would direct attention to the fact that in the examinations at the end of 1895 twelve pupils passed matriculation, and two passed with credit the junior scholarship examination of the University. One boy passed the Junior Civil Service Examination.

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Physical aining is not neglected, the Board having gone to considerable expense in preparing cricket and focball grounds, which has had the effect of considerably increasing the interest of the boys in these salthful games. There haibeen a satisfactory increase in the paying pupils during the year, which is a very encouraging feture, in view of the additions that have been made in the attendance through the concession of fee education. H. Stockeb, Chairman.

2. Gebeal Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ .8 d. To Balance ~ .. .. .. 2,088 15 11 ,By Management—Office salary .. .. 75 0 0 Reserves sold .. .. .. 67 8 1 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,163 1 8 Current incorj from reserves .. 663 19 9 Boarding-school Account .. .. 18 12 0 Interest on rmeys invested and on un- Examination expenses .. .. 3 18 4 paid purcase-money .. .. 157 19 4 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 35 6■ 7 Paid by Schoc Commissioners .. 149 2 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 72 1 3 School fees.. .. .. .. 619 10 4 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works .. .. 89 9 6 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. 29 7 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. 24 15 0 Reserves, rates, cost of leasing, &c. .. 11 2 8 Chemicals and appliances .. .. 5 19 8 Sundries, stamps, telegrams, &c. .. 514 9 Playground.. .. .. ... 3 15 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 2,819 12 6 £4,357 15 11 J £4,357 15 11 Harry Stockeb, Chairman, Chaeles Eout, Secretary and Treasurer. Exami-necand found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Forms. Highest. —pnglish: Merchant of Venice; L'Allegro and II Penseroso; Faerie Queene, Book I.; Abbott and Seley's English Lessons for English People; French's English, Past and Present ; Stopford Brook's Literature Primer; Morris's Historical Grammar; composition, paraphrase, &c. Latin : Tacitra, Agricola ; Horace, Odes I. ; Virgil, iEneid, IX.; Horace, Epistles (part) ; Cicero, Pro Leje Manilia; Bradley's Arnold ; translation at sight; prose; history; and antiquities. French : Selectons from Dumas' Impressions de Voyage; Macmillan's Second Reader ; Blouet's Prose ; Brachej's Grammar. Mathematics : Arithmetic ; algebra, to binomial theorem; Euclid, Books 1.-IV. tnd VI. ; trigonometry, to solution of triangles. Science : Inorganic chemistry ; simple qualitatye analysis ; heat. Lowest. —lnglish: Goldsmith's Traveller; Scott's Marmion, Canto III.; recitation; Mason's Grammar; anaysis; composition; geography; Longmans' History, 1603-1837. Latin: Principia, gradatim. Freich: Principia; Macmillan's First Eeader. Arithmetic: Fractions, interest, profit and loss. Scieice : Elementary physics. Book-keeping. Drawing : Geometrical and freehand.

4. Scholaeships. The schoolgave free education to twenty-two pupils.

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