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1898. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: REPORTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. [In continuation of E.-9, Sess. II., 1897.]

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 1897 FURNISHED BY THE GOVERNING BODIES OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. Receipts. £ s. d. i Expenditure. £ s. d. To Credit balances on Ist January, 1897 .. 11,965 %9j By Liabilities on Ist January, 1897 .. 6,988 17 9 Endowment reserves sold .. .. 10,552 4 1 | Office management and expenses .. 2,071 5 8 Rents of reserves .. .. .. 23,010 8 8 Teachers'salaries .. .. .. 31,598 6 0 Interest on investments .. .. 1,451 7 7 Boarding-school accounts .. .. 3,513 14 0 Reserves Commissioners .. .. 2,303 011 Examination fees and expenses .. 544 9 4 School fees.. .. .. .. 23,770 5 1 Scholarships and prizes .. .. 2,841 18 2 Boarding-school fees .. .. 3,882 3 8 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 1,638 19 7 Books, &c, sold, and refunds .. 104 9 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 9,330 811 Sundries not classified .. .. 3,229 8 4 Buildings, furniture, rent, insurance, Interest on Current Account .. 87 5 10 rates, &c. .. .. .. 1,472 8 7 Debit balances, 31st December, 1897 .. 4,147 18 11 Interest .. .. .. .. 1,814 0 1 Sundries not classified .. .. 1,872 16 11 Credit balances, 31st December, 1897.. 20,816 4 4 £84,503 15 4 £84,503 15 1

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Name. Act ol 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 1897. Phames High School Afhangarei High School.. 1878, No. 54, Local. 1878, No. 63, Local .. Act may be repealed by Gazette notice under Act of 1885, No. 30. tfew Plymouth High School Yanganui Girls' College /Vanganui 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 Jisborne High School kelson College Ireymouth High School.. Jokitika High School Christ's College Grammar School 1887, No. 17, Local. 1882, No. 11, Local. 1885, No. 8, Local. 1858, No. 38, and 1882, No. 15, Local 1883, No. 21, Local .. 1883, No. 7, LScal .. Canterbury Ordinance, 1855 1878, No. 30, Local .. [Nil] Not in operation in 1897. Not in operation in 1897. A department of Christ's College, Canterbury. jhristchurch Boys' High School .. Jhristchurch Girls' High School .. Under management of Canterbury College. Under management of Canterbury College. Endowment, Gazette, 1878, Vol. 1, p. 181. langiora High School .. Lkaroa High School Lshburton High School .. Limaru High School /Vaimate High School .. iVaitaki High School )tago 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 1897.

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Income of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1897.

! I Schools. Cr. Balances on 1st Jan., 1897. I Sales. I Pro Bents. Prom E: idowments. Interest on Moneys invested. Paid by School Commissioners. School Fees. Boardingschool Fees. Stationery and Books sold, and Refunds. Sundries unclassified. Interest -p.. Current i Balances, Account. ! 31st Dec, 1897. Totals. £ s. A. 626 18 8 & s. a. £ s. d. 3,507 4 9 £ s. a. ■£ s. a. £ s. a. 3,100 7 8 & s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. ; £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. 7,234 11 1 4,713 17 11 1,383 19 6 507 6 1 1,210 12 7 4,151 17 6 1,321 15 9 8,126 18 11 Auckland College and Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School Thames High School Whangarei High School New Plymouth High School -.. . Wanganui Girls' College 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 Kangiora High School. Akaroa High School Ashburton High School Timaru High School Waimate High School ... Waitaki High School Otago High Schools Southland High Schools 194 17 8 80 3 11 61 12 10 1,029 18 5 222 1 10 188 18 0 .509 9 2 383 19 7 962 19 0 4,71116 7 " 126"o 0 .. 2,100 0 0 "■ 57 0 0 636 13 10 61 14 2 489 12 6 231 0 0 835 14 6 1,942 17 4 1,185 13 0 80 0 0 995 19 7 8 18 0 63 15 0 3,179 11 9 313 13 10 2,757 2 1 93 6 6 119 0 10 512 4 9 1,438 16 3 209 5 1 1,212 2 2 2,348 7 5 787 15 4 •• • ■ ■• 272 10 0 97 11 3 490 13 11 29 2 6 35 0 0 175 0 0 175 0 0 371 13 3 268 17 9 59 9 0 18 15 0 223 19 8 225 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 J 377 8 0 190 8 0 287 14 0 1,167 10 0 4,275 17 10 1,213 5 4 2,658'l2 4 1,181 1 4 265 16 0 2,049 16 0 i I 3 13 3 17 6 93 5 9 2 14 ■■ 10 0 33 17 9 ■ 20 0 25 0 0 4 11 6 134 6 2 1,813 9 6 ■■ ■• 5,085 13 1 915 11 7 6,422 1 1C 507 0 1 1,178 14 C 5,298 1 11 3,270 16 2 6,949 4 6 876 13 3 359 18 0 802 6 0 6,310 16 6 1,740 9 1 2,569 11 1 9,617 0 11 4,468 18 0 I 84,503 15 4 1,154 15 7 •■ 224 4 1 2,034 7 6 1,517 15 6 I 2,093 12 3 141 4 6 138 6 6 187 5 0 556 3 0 ■ 61 19 1 24 12 8 16 6 0 I s'is 9 35 14 6 16 4 10 j 142 2 3 99 3 6 .. 2,082 4 2 j 12 0 5 10 3 7 2 1,220 12 7 1,480 6 0 800 7 5 74 15 9 50 18 0 22 8 0 56 7 6 97 16 7 37 13 11 101 14 3 *2,977 14 0 .. •• 59 7 8 425 15 4 180 3 3 425 5 10 2,843 12 10 561 9 0 I - 50 0 0 2,806 16 4 3,557 7 6 385 10 4 I 34 17 6 •• •• Totals til, 965 2 9 10,552 4 1 23,010 8 8 1,451 7 7 2,303 0 11 23,770 5 1 3,882 3 8 104 9 6 3,-229 8 4 j ! 4,147 18 11 87 5 10 I * Insurance t The Nelson accounts show only the income and expenditure for the year.

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Expenditure of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1897.

Schools. Expense of Liabilities Boards' on Managers* Jan., 1897. i ment: Office i and Salaries. J School Salaries. { Boardingschool Account. Examiners' Pees and Expenses. Scholarships, Exhibitions, Prizes. Printing, Stationery, Advertising, &c. Land, Buildings, Furniture, B ijS Sundries Insurance, i Fuel Light, Interest. unclassified. Rent, ; &0 - Bates. Cr. Balances, 31st Dec, 1897. Totals. Auckland College and Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School Thames High School Whangarei High School New Plymouth High School Wanganui Girls' College Wanganui Coilegiate 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 iFLvngiora High School Akaroa High School Ashburcon High School Timaru High School Waimate High School Waitaki Hign School Otago Higli Sclioois Southland High Schools .. £ s. a. £ s. d. 385 5 6 £ s. d. 3,918 17 2 £ s. d. & s. a. £ s. d. 62 8 6 £ s. d. 197 3 5 a s. a. 1,660 13 2 62 10 0 234 4 0 173 6 8 220 19 0 187 16 11 1,118 12 9 1,078 19 1 £ s. d. 59 13 11 £ s. a.) 250 8 8 £ s. a. 204 11 4 £ s. a. £ s. a. 495 9 5 7,234 11 1 4,651 7 11 4,713 17 11 493 2 10' 1,383 19 6 83 5 7 507 6 1 92 18 s! 1,210 12 7 1,460 15 4! 4,151 17 6 1,321 15 9 ] 8,126 18 11 "' 45 10 5 11 1 10 27 18 4 90 15 1 84 10 4 196 3 4 566 13 4 233 14 0 766 17 11 1,135 12 11 •• 16 19 3 3 0 0 25 12 1 55 5 3 27 9 8 2 18 0 17 4 6 54 3 10 47 14 0 . ■ i 418 81 : 1,173 18 01 i 118 12 a 821 17 5 69 14 10 1,615 8 11 3,400 8 4 93 7 3 237"7 10 382 1 10 231 10 1 80 10 2 1,608 1 4 131 14 0 22 13 4 272 6 3 142 6 6 686 18 10 106 0 6 14 7 141 14 •1 282 9 0 124 13 9 25a 14 1 105 12 3 110 0 oj 0 10 0 250 0 0 59 9 10 0 2 0! 0 7 0j •61 12 0 141 6 6 1 1 0 *513 14 6 109 2 3 f62 16 6 95 4 7 61 1 18 5 +395 11 1 4 10 0 22 0 02 13 6 §270 10 6 15 7 9 2,455 5 8 5,065 13 1 133 12 3! 915 11 7 599 8 7 6,422 1 10 i432 17 7 507 0 1 1,095 2 6 1,178 14 0 5,298 I'll 283 4 7 3,270 16 2 6,949 4 6 86 10 11 376 13 3 110 10 2 359 18 0 802 6 0 3,755 16 3 : 6,310 16 6 946 6 0! 1,740 9 1 405 0 0 2,569 11 1 427 4 0 9,617 0 11 2,808 6 6 4,468 18 0 249 8 6 11 6 0 5 7 0 90 0 0 60 0 0 203 0 3 10 9 2,321 7 6 1,693-14 10 131 12 6 126 0 8 33 6 6 2,009 12 3 52 - 13 8 36 11 4 132 19 6 26 5 0 105 2 4 i 161 0 0 67 10 0 72 10 0 4,001 17 6 1,497 17 0 i 2,634 7 6 222 2 0 200 0 0 602 12 8 I 1,525 0 0 150 0 0 1,273 16 10 4,269 9 6 1,197 0 6 31,598 6 0 89 6 9 66 15 0 53 6 6 9 2 0 52 18 10 271 17 3 884 12 0 15 0 2 13 0 9 14 6 52 0 0 33 16 0 2 2 0 100 12 9 8 16 5 0 6 0 182 17 8 63 1 3 78 1 9 5 19 1 0 14 6 16 18 6 91 19 5 11 2 8 76 9 3 105 14 7 76 13 11 4 18 6 447 2 9 949 7 9 419 0 3 32 9 9 36 15 0 50 0 10 651 12 6 500 10 6 281 2 1 364 18 11 195 11 8 55 7 4 17 14 11 212 3 1 13 13 9 9 3 4 31 12 6 101 8 10 10 0 93 16 1 212 16 10 71 7 6 ■■ 8"'s 0 •■ •• 3,277 16 6 486 3 5 28 3 9 69 18 0 •• Totals .. 6,988 17 9 2,071 5 8 3,513 14 0 1,814 6 ll 1,872 16 11 544 9 4 2,841 18 2 1,638 19 7 9,330 8 11 1,472 8 7 20; 816 4 4 84,503 15 * Includes £184 4s. 6d. paid to Education Board, and £325 loan. t Includes £60, grant to Education Board. t Includes £284 8s. 4d. transferred from Chapel Account. § Includes £250 loan.

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

EEPOETS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. AUCKLAND COLLEGE AND GEAMMAB SCHOOL. 1. EePOET OF THE BOAED. Distinctions.— The school gained one Junior University Scholarship at the examination held m December, 1896, while four other pupils passed the examination "with credit," and nineteen passed the matriculation examination. In the Civil Service examination, five passed the Senior examination, and twenty passed the Junior examination, of whom M. A. Hunter was first on the list.

Schools. Staff. Dtendi nice fi Juarte ii II Dr Last Term or >r of 1897. a a > cj i I o W o u a 5 Annual Eai ;es of Pees. Salaries at Bates paid at End of Year. u 5? t> CM It a> S!>i s at CO s For Ordinary Day-school Course. ! For Board, 'exclusive of Day-school Tuition. Kegular Staff. ™« £ s. d. I 10 10 0 I S 8 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Auckland College and | Grammar School 10 22 141 178 11 16184 1 fir 168 (6.15 I 6.29 l<7.22 (6.38 t<7.24 } 332 I 25 i « J 58 ) - 3,695 0 0 110 0 0 Wharigarei High School 2 2 16 8| 1 8 8 0 233 14 0 Thames High School 22 20 [880 17 7 0 ) "700 0 0 New Plymouth High | School Wanganui Collegiate | School Wanganui (Girls') High ) School 2 6 26 58 34 108 10 182 179 142 6 6 0 f 12 0 0 J900 ( 10 10 0 (880 ( 13 4 0 I 10 12 0 ] 13 4 0 1 10 12 0 (990 18 8 0 I 45 0 0 I 40 0 0 I 42 0 0 ) - I 40 0 0 »775 0 0 "1,625 0 0 Fees. 5 7 25 44 4 80 73 30 "730 0 0 (160 0 0 land fees. Wellington College 10 14 68 147 21 250 240 69 2,125 0 0 Wellington Girls' High I School ) 6 9 27 80 8 124 113 1,125 0 0 Napier Boys' High School 4 14 37 1 56 54 20 d 790 0 0 Napier Girls' High School 5 8 29 33 71 66 15 9 9 0 40 0 0 "740 0 0 146 8 0 Nelson College 7 16 57 89 86 20 12 12 0 40 0 0 '1,230 0 0 9 Nelson Girls' College .. 17 63 5 94 89 28 12 12 0 I 14* 3 6 11 0 6 I 7 17 6 (990 16 6 0 f 12 12 0 (990 40 0 0 '705 0 0 Christ's College Gram- ) mar School 10 40 68 63 177 173 55 ) 52 10 0 42 0 0 ) - U 2,590 0 0 226 7 6 Christchurch Boys'High j School J Ohristohureh Girls'High) School ] 12 9 125 109 4 247 237 3,530 0 0 285 0 0 7 10 50 69 i 133 115 1,100 0 0 217 16 0 Rangiora High School .. Akaroa High School 2 12 5 (6.16 t<7. 3 (6.11 t<7- 1 ) » 9 9 0 f 10 10 0 19 9 0 (880 (990 16 6 0 J 10 0 0 18 0 0 j h 10 10 0 18 8 0 f h 8 0 0 (600 ] 12 0 0 1 10 0 0 12 0 0 (10 0 0 40 0 0 I" 1 •• J 43 10 0 ) ■ I 43 10 0 1 40 0 0 220 0 0 No salary. 7 I ' 6 215 15 0 Ashburton High School.. 20 22 \ 6.281 lgr.14 I6.54J t<7.461 J 39 I 96 610 0 0 Timaru High School Waitaki High Schools— Boys' 4 46 47 3 1,483 0 0 56 0 0 22 20 1 43 40 7 740 0 0 12 0 0 Girls' 13 36 2 51 48 410 0 0 31 0 0 Otago Boys' High School 110 1 67 133 9 210 200 10 2,611 7 1 Otago Girls' High School 19 43 78 20 144 137 11 1,625 6 0 Pees. Southland High School.. 5 25 57 (6.57 t<7.30 1 « 10 0 0 1,175 0 0 Totals 143 41 166 957 1457 129 61686 01023 2,565 407 30,784 2 1 1244 11 0 a Headmaster has residen house, and the teachers resid< has house. f Principal reBi who have passed Standard I\> ice. e at ides ;1h at t>Hea e schc Bchoi l?wo re tdmaster r< )0l. ii H. ol. 8 Hei lasters tea( iceives no Si sadmaster 1 idmaster a] ih in both s< ilary; s> ias houi id five c ;hools. even b se; esi ithers nasters resid sistant mastc have houses. [e at the schoi or has resider h f410s. 1 ol. o The pri nee. o The 1 for pupil of prii incipal has a leadrrjistress nary schools

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By former pupils the following distinctions were gained during the year : Mr. W. S. La Trobe, first class in Part 11., Mechanical Science Tripos, at Cambridge, and Assistant Demonstratorship at St. John's College; Mr. D. H. Jackson, Demonstratorship in Chemistry at University College, Bristol; Mr. W. J. Barclay, Assistant Demonstratorship in Anatomy, and Mr. W. H. Goldie, Assistant Professorship in the Maternity Ward, in the University of Edinburgh. Mr. B. C. Maclaurin having previously obtained a Wranglership in 1895, gained the second Smith's Prize in 1897 at the University of Cambridge. The Girls' High School Endowments. —When the Girls' High School was closed in 1888, the Grammar School Board undertook the education of girls as well as boys, and the mistresses and pupils of the closed school were transferred to the Grammar School in Symonds Street, on the understanding that the endowments set apart for the Girls' High School should also be transferred to the Grammar School; but that understanding was not carried out. Last year an arrangement was come to between the Board of Education and the Grammar School Board, subject to the approval of Government, with regard to' these endowments, and the "matter was submitted to the Minister of Education with a view to his getting Parliament to deal with the subject. The measure submitted to Parliament was to the effect that the £10,000 realised by the sale of timber on the endowments should be invested by the Board of Education, and the interest paid over to the Grammar School Board, on condition that one-half should be devoted to founding scholarships in the Grammar School for girls attending the Auckland Board of Education schools; and the other half devoted to paying interest on the debt on the Grammar School, and in the maintenance of the girls' side of the Grammar School. This arrangement to hold good until such time as the Board of Education should establish a separate High School for girls under " The Auckland Girls' High School Act, 1878." This scheme was accepted by the Grammar School Board, although it practically devoted to the primary schools one-half of the endowment set apart for secondary education in the Auckland Girls' High School. The scheme did not become law, as it was embodied in a measure dealing with a great number of other subjects, which being introduced late in the session, the House declined to pass. It is intended to bring the matter before Parliament as a separate measure in the next session; and it is to be hoped that the settlement of the matter will be no further delayed, as the Grammar School Board has now for ten years borne the cost of the girls' education without any contribution from the Girls' School endowments. Renovations, and Extensions. —During the year the quarters formerly occupied by the janitor have been converted into two new class-rooms. The whole of the interior has been cleaned, repaired, repainted, and several of the rooms relined, at a cost of £214 13s. Bd. The Board has imported from Messrs. Brucciani and Co. a new set of casts and plaster busts for the use of the Art classes on the girls' side. G. Maurice O'Borke, Chairman.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 626 18 8 By Management— Ground-rents .. .. .. 2,127 12 6 Office salary .. .. .. 100 0 0 Weekly rents .. .. .. 1,379 12 3 Other office expenses .. .. 47 16 8 School fees .. .. .. .. 3,100 7 8 Commission, &c, to collector .. 234 10 6 Teachers'salaries .. .. .. 3,918 17 2 School requisites .. .. .. 116 14 4 Election expenses .. .. .. 218 4 Legal expenses .. .. .. 514 6 Scholarship expenses .. .. 14 17 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 47 11 0 Printing and advertising .. .. 110 7 5 Cleaning, fuel, and light— School .. .. .. .. 23 3 3 Property .. .. .. 36 10 8 Stationery allowance .. .. 86 16 0 Fencing, repairs, &c.— School .. .. .. .. 165 4 '5 Property .. .. .. 351 1 10 Insurance and taxes— School .. .. .. .. 52 13 6 Property .. .. .. 255 1 0 Interest on loans .. .. .. 250 0 0 Interest on overdraft .. .. 0 8 8 Compensation .. .. .. 77 0 0 Contribution to swimming sports .. 3 3 0 „ domain wicket .. 3 0 0 „ athletic sports .. 10 0 0 New buildings .. .. .. 714 3 7 W.J. Morrell (passage from London, &o.) 11l 8 4 Balance at end of year .. .. 495 9 5 £7,234 11 1 £7,234 11 1 W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : Up to standard required for Junior University Scholarships : Latin—Bevised Latin Primer; Steadman's Latin Grammar Papers; Arnold's Latin Prose Composition; Sargeant's Passages for Latin Translation ; Livy, Book XXI. ; Horace, Odes, Book I, ; Cicero, Pro Boscio Amerino; Cruttwell and Bauton's Specimens of Latin Literature; Wilkins's Primer of Boman

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Antiquities; Smith's History of Borne. English —Mason's Larger English Grammar; Nichol's Primer of English Composition, with exercises on the same; Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People ; Skeat's Primer of English Etymology; Spenser, Faerie Queen, Book I. ; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Chaucer, Man of Lawes Tale ; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature. French—Wellington College French Grammar; Fasnacht's Synthetic French Grammar; Chardenal's Advanced French Exercises ; Brachet's Historical Grammar; About, Le Boi dcs Montagnes, and Contes Choisis ; Turrell, Lecons Francaises, Prose et Vers. Mathematics—Arithmetic; Algebra, Hall and Knight; Jones and Cheyne's Algebraical Exercises; Euclid, Books 1.-VI.; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry, and Ward's Trigonometry Exercises. Science—Silvanus Thompson's Electricity and Magnetism ; Boscoe's Chemistry ; Tilden's Practical Chemistry. Carpentering is taught under the direction of Mr. J. G. Trevithick ; and German is an optional subject on both sides. Lowest. — Boys : Latin—Elementa Latina (Morris). French —Chardenal's First Course. English —Mason's First Notions of Grammar, with easy parsing and analysis ; reading and repetition from Longmans' Fifth Beader, and Tennyson ; Longmans' Historical Beader. Geography —Longmans' Shilling. English composition. Arithmetic —Longmans' Shilling, as far as vulgar fractions, inclusive. Highest. — Girls : Up to standard required for Junior University Scholarships. In Latin, English, French, and mathematics the work undertaken is the same as on the boys' side. Science —Miss Aitken's Botany ; Lock's Statics and Dynamics ; Sanderson's Hydrostatics. Lowest. — Girls : Same as boys, except that Latin is not taught. Classes in practical cookery were held under the direction of Miss Millington during the winter term. 4. Scholarships. The College gave free education to twenty-two foundation scholars, seventeen holders of certificates of proficiency from the Education Board, four children of members of the teaching staff, and two Maori pupils. Seven Bawlings, four Williamson, and seventy-six Education Board scholarships were held at the College.

AUCKLAND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. S, s. d, To Timber sold .. .. .. 4,711 16 7 By Bates on endowment for year ending3lst Other receipts, namely— March, 1898 .. " .. .. 62 10 0 Sale of old materials .. .. 2 14 Balance .. .. .. .. 4,651 711 £4,713 17 11 £4,713 17 11 Samuel Luke, Chairman. Vincent E. Bice, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warbueton, Controller and Auditor-General.

WHANGABEI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 80 311 By Office salary .. ... .. .. 500 Current income from reserve .. .. 61 14 2 Other office expenses .. .. .. 0 14 4 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 175 0 0 Other expenses of management.. .. 5 7 6 School fees .. .. .. .. 190 8 0 Teacher's salary and allowances .. 233 14 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 218 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising . . 3 0 0 Site and buildings .. .. .. 150 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .... 10 16 3 Bents, insurance, and taxes .. . . 6 8 5 Furniture .. .. .. .. 6 2 0 Balance .. .. .. 83 5 7 £507 6 1 v £507 6 1 J. M. Killen, Chairman. J. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —That required for Matriculation and Civil Service examinations. Lowest. —Latin—Principia Latina, Part I. to XXXIX. Erench—Chardenal's First Course, to exercises 93. Euclid—l., 1 to 26. Algebra—Elementary rules. Arithmetic—Southern Cross Series, Standards IV and V. English grammar —Trotter. History —E. Thompson's, to 1485. Geography (general outlines) —Longmans'. Beading—Boyal, IV. Composition, spelling, and drawing. Gymnastics—Whole school. 3. Scholarships. The Governors during the year have granted two free-tuition scholarships, tenable for three years at the discretion of the Board. The scholars are selected from the public schools by competitive examinations.

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THAMES HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. It is satisfactory to be able to report that the Thames High School increased so much in numbers during the past year that during the last term an assistant master (Mr. B. H. Low, 8.A., New Zealand University), was appointed. A further increase in the number of pupils this year makes the total fifty-six, which is an increase of twenty-one on the number reported last year. At the public examinations this year two candidates from this school were placed in the third division at the University Junior Scholarship examination ; one matriculated ; one gained a Senior District Scholarship, and one passed the Junior Civil Service examination. S. Carter, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 194 17"8 jßy Office salary .. .. .. .. 30 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 312 811 Other office expenses .. .. .. 515 1 Paid by School Commissioners .. 175 0 0 Other expenses of management .. 9 15 4 School fees .. .. .. .. 377 8 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 566 13 4 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 324 4 11 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 16 19 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 27 9 8 Fencing, repairs, &a. .. .. .. 191 18 9 Bents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 10 2 0 Bepairs to furniture .. .. .. 214 6 School requisites .. .. .. 23 0 3 Legal expenses .. .. .. 6 8 6 Balance .. .. .. 493 2 10 £1,383 19 6 £1,383 19 6 S. Carter, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest for University Junior Scholarship Examination—Latin, French, English, mathematics, science, chemistry, and mechanics. Lowest Form. —Latin —Via Latina (Morris). French—Macmillan's Progressive Erench Course, Parti. Mason's English Grammar. Abbott's " How to Write Clearly." Arithmetic—Fractions, Harnblin Smith. English History—The Boyal History of England (Nelson).

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d, Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 61 12 10 By Office salary .. .. .. .. 25 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 489 12 6 Other office expenses .. .. .. 218 4 Paid by School Commissioners.. .. 371 13 3 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 766 17 11 School foes .. .. .. .. 287 14 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 17 4 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 25 12 1 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, .. .. 54 3 10 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 202 11 6 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 18 7 6 Hire of piano, chairs, &c. .. .. 4 18 8 Balance .. .. .. .. 92 18 3 £1,210 12 7 £1,210 12 7 J. M. Boy, Chairman. E. Veale, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct, —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin—Via Latina, exercises 1-80; Cassar, Book 11., chapters 1-24. French— Chardenal's Advanced Course, exercises 26-50; De Fiva's Grammar, irregular nouns, adjectives, and verbs; About ("Modern Authors"), pages 1-36. Arithmetic—General work ; matriculation. Algebra —Hall and Knight, pages 1-225. Euclid—Hall and Stevens, Books 1., 11., 111., part of IV., and Deductions, pages 1-114. History—Bansome, period 1688-1837. Geography—Chisholm, pages 122-319, and physical. Grammar —Mason, pages 1-125; parsing and analysis. Literature — Coriofanus (Clarendon Press), Preface, and Acts 1., 11., 111. Science — Part of Silvanus Thompson's Electricity. Lowest. —Latin—Elementa Latina, pages 1-55. French—Dejardin, exercises 1-98. Arithmetic —Simple and compound rules, and vulgar fractions. Algebra—Hall and Knight, pages 1-38. Euclid —Hall and Stevens, Book 1., propositions 1-26. History—Primary, period 1066-1603. Geography —Petrie, pages 50-124. Grammar—First Notions, pages 1-74; simple analysis and parsing. Literature —King John (Dalgleish) Science—Harrison's Mechanics. Composition in all classes.

3. Scholarships. The Board gave free tuition to one scholar. Seven Education Board scholarships were held at the school.

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WANGANUI COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. A. To Balance .. .. .. .. 222 110 By Office salary .. .. .. 53 14 0 Current income from reserves .. 835 14 6 Other office expenses .. .. 16 6 4 Mr. Empson— re buildings .. .. 126 0 0 Other expenses of management .. 14 10 0 Insurances refunded .. .. .. 313 3 Site and buildings .. ... .. 933 13 5 Balance .. .. .. .. 134 6 2 Fencing, repairs, &0... .. .. 9119 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 93 17 7 Interest .. .. .. .. 118 12 8 £1,321 15 9 £1,321 15 9 Edward N. Liffiton, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—A. C. Bitchie, Auditor.

2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin, Greek, French, English, mathematics, science—all up to junior scholarship standard; also divinity. Lowest.— Latin, English, grammar, history, geography, arithmetic, drawing, divinity. There is a large carpenter's shop, erected by the boys, where they receive instruction from one of the staff.

3. Scholarships. Eight Education Board scholarships were held at the school. To the holders of three of these, and to twelve others, the head-master gave free tuition.

WANGANUI GIBLS' COLLEGE. 1. Bevenue Account. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance from 1896 .. .. .. 1,029 18 5 By Office staffInterest on mortgages, £237 10s.; fixed Secretary .. .. £20 0 0 deposit, £35 .. .. .. 272 10 0 Clerk .. .. . 20 0 0 Rents from endowments leased .. 231 0 0 40 0 0 School Commissioners— General expenses .. .. .. 50 15 1 Taranaki .. .. £228 6 9 Teachers'salaries and fees .. .. 1,135 12 11 Wellington .. 40 11 0 Caretaker .. .. .. .. 47 14 0 268 17 9 School-books and stationery .. .. 55 5 3 School fees, tuition .. .. .. 1,167 10 0 Furnishing Account .. .. .. 54 14 1 boarding .. .. 1,181 1 4 Fire insurance .. .. .. 16 13 0 Donation .. .. .. .. 10 0 School requisites .. .. .. 6 17 6 Contractor's deposit .. .. .. 17 0 0 Borough rates .. .. .. 13 10 0 Boarding fees .. .. .. 1,173 18 0 Building .. .. .. .. 12 7 8 Telephone .. .. .. .. 6 0 0 Repairs .. .. .. .. 38 14 10 Site 11 17 6 Tennis court .. .. .. 25 8 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 114 4 Balance .. .. .. .. 1,477 15 4 £4,168 17 6 £4,168 17 6 Investment Account. £ s. d. I £ s. d. Balance at 31st December, 1896 .. .. 3,650 0 0 | Balance on mortgage, 31st December, 1897 3,650 0 0 A. W. Browne, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English, French, mathematics, mechanics—as prescribed for degree of 8.A., University of New Zealand. Latin—Bradley's Arnold, 140 pages; Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom, pages 1-58, and 109-122 ; Virgil's Books 4 and 5; Cicero, De Amicitia. Scripture —Life of Christ, and history of Bible translation. Lowest. —English—Longmans' Fifth Beader; Mason's First Notions of English Grammar. Geography of Australasia. History—Tales from English History. Arithmetic—Weights and measures. French—Chardenal's First Course, seventy exercises. Scripture —Life of Christ. Arrangements for Manual and Technical Instruction. —During the winter term practical lessons are given in cookery. Sewing is taught to all pupils not learning Latin. Most pupils receive instruction in drawing twice weekly. 3. Scholarships. Three Education Board scholarships were held at the school. To the holder of one of these, and to three others, the Board gave free tuition.

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WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. The Governors of Wellington College and Girls' High School have the pleasure of reporting that both their institutions have, during the year 1897, been carried on very efficiently : the number of pupils on the rolls for the last term of the year being—at the College, 250, and at the Girls' High School, 124. There are now many schools for girls in the city, which have a considerable effect on the attendance at the Girls' High School; otherwise there is no doubt it would be larger. The result of the University and Civil Service examinations at the end of the year was as follows:— Wellington College. —Sixteen pupils passed the Matriculation Examination ; one the Medical Preliminary; four the Junior Scholarship Examination, three of them " with credit " ; ten passed the Junior Civil Service Examination ; for the Senior there were no candidates. Girls' High School. —Three pupils passed the Junior Scholarship Examination with credit, one matriculated in the Junior Scholarship papers; thirteen passed the Matriculation Examination ; two the Senior Civil Service, one of them " with distinction," gaining the highest marks in the colony; seven passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. It will be necessary almost at once to provide further class-rooms at the College, the number of pupils now attending having increased to 272. This would be a comparatively easy matter were not the Governors (as has been pointed out to the Government year after year) so hampered by the burden of interest on moneys borrowed for erection of buildings: a position in which they would never have been placed had previous Governments done for Wellington as much as they did for other centres. A very handsome and valuable addition has been made during the year to the appliances for the physical training of the boys at the College by the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Bell, who have had made in the College grounds a swimming-bath, 75 ft. long by a width of 33 ft., built in concrete and lined with glazed tiles. This will no doubt be much appreciated by the boys: the value of a knowledge of the art of swimming is unquestionable. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves.. .. 1,942 3 0 By Balance .. .. .. .. 1,615 811 Paid by School Commissioners .. 59 9 0 Office salary .. .. .. 165 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 4,275 17 10 Other office expenses .. .. 31 3 4 Levin Scholarship .. .. .. 20 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,400 8 4 Turnbull Scholarship refund .. .. 5 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 93 7 3 Refunds and discounts .. .. 2 110 Scholarships .. .. .. 51 5 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 210 0 Transferred to Scholarship .Account .. 140 6 4 Legal expenses recovered .. .. 6 7 9 Prizes .. .. .. .. 45 16 6 Balance .. .. .. .. 1,813 9 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 382 1 10 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 231 10 1 Painting .. .. .. .. 309 2 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 153 5 6 Play-grounds .. .. .. 134 10 0 Insurance and taxes .. .. .. 65 1 10 Furniture and apparatus .. .. 106 19 9 Interest on Current Account .. .. 90 5 4 Endowments— Rates .. .. .. .. 76 13 0 Interest on cost of reclaimed land .. 136 2 8 Fencing .. .. .. .. 19 10 0 Expenses of survey .. .. 175 0 0 Tuition-fees refunded or paid over to Technical School .. .. .. 69 14 10 Legal expenses .. .. .. 38 16 9 Interest on cost of buildings .. .. 595 9 5 £8,126 18 11 £8,126 18 11 J. B. Blair, Chairman and Treasurer. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. College. Highest. —Mathematics—Euclid, Books 1.-VI., and riders in all; trigonometry, to solution of equations (Lock's Elementary); algebra, to permutations (Hall and Knight's) ; arithmetic, general. Science —Chemistry, Jago's Advanced Chemistry ; heat, Wright's ; practical chemistry, testing for base and acid in salts. French—Brachet's Elementary School Grammar (all); questions from Vecqueray's Erench Examination-papers; prose to junior scholarship standard; translation, Moliere, Misanthrope; Merimee, Colomba. English—Dalgleish's Higher Grade English ; Morris's Elementary Historical Grammar; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Lamb, Essays of Elia; Chaucer, Knight's Tale ; composition, essays, paraphrasing. Latin—Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom, and exercises; Virgil, selections; Caasar, Book I. ; Cicero, Pro Milone; grammar; antiquities. Lowest.- —Beading, spelling, dictation—several books, Third and Fourth Standard; geography, history —to match above ; arithmetic, Southern Cross books, Standards 11. and 111.

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There is a well-fitted carpenter's shop, with six benches, that accommodate four boys each. The building is thoroughly lighted from both sides, and supplied with a number of gas-jets. Lessons are given twice a week by Mr. W. H. Barrett, an instructor of the Technical School, for one hour on Mondays and for two hours on Fridays. The boys all work to scale, making their own drawings of the work before it is undertaken. Some of them are taking up wood-carving with success. Girls' School. Highest. —Latin, mathematics, French, heat, and botany, as for junior scholarship examination. Lowest. —Grammar, parsing, analysis of simple sentences, Longmans' Grammar, to page 60; geography, Europe; history, Gardiner's Outlines (part); composition; dictation and spelling; reading and poetry; arithmetic, four simple and four compound rules. 4. Scholarships. College. College scholarships : Free education, five. Nine scholarships arising from funds given by private benefactors, and ten Education Board scholarships, were held at the College. Girls' School. College scholarships: Free education, eight. Izard scholarship, £25, one. Nine Education Board scholarships were held at the Girls' School.

NAPIEB HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. The schools were examined by Mr. T. W. Bowe, M.A., who sums up his detailed report as follows : "It will be seen that the examination has been on the whole most satisfactory, and it has confirmed me in the good opinion of the work done at the schools which my examination last year led me to form." Twelve pupils from the schools passed the Matriculation and Civil Service Examinations. H. A. Cornford, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. [ Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 188 18 0j By Office salary .. .. .. 60 0 0 Mortgages repaid .. .. .. 2,100 0 0; Other office expenses.. .. .. 12 12 2 Current income from reserves.. .. 346 15 6 Other expenses of management .. 7 18 0 From property not a reserve .. .. 683 15 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,608 1 4 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Boarding-school account .. .. 131 14 0 paid purchase-money .. .. 155 2 6 Examinations—Examiners'fees .. 20 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners— „ Other expenses .. 2 13 4 Examiner's fee .. .. .. 18 15 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 267 1 9 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,213 5 4 1 Prizes .. .. .. .. 5 4 6 Board of scholarship children, rail and Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 26 6 4 coach fares .. .. .. 265 16 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 105 12 3 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 81 13 9 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, Refund cadet corps .. .. .. 10 0 0 and other temporary advances .. 79 14 2 „ gas, gymnasium .. .. 010 0 Site and buildings—Purchases and new Excess of school fee paid .. .. 110 works .. .. .. .. 70 19 2 Excess of cheque .. .. .. 0 10 Ditto —Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 128 17 9 Amount lent on mortgage, as shown in „ Rents, insurance, and taxes .. 82 12 1 previous year's expenditure.. .. 900 0 0 Returned fee .. .. .. 110 Mortgages .. .. .. .. 1,350 0 0 Deposit .. .. .. .. 1,500 0 0 Cash in bank .. .. .. 505 5 3 £5,965 13 1 ; £5,965 13~1 H. A. Cornford, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest —Mathematics—Geometry, Euclid, Books I. to VI., with exercises ; algebra, to permutations and combinations ; trigonometry, to solution of triangles; arithmetic, general. English —Shakespeare's Hamlet; Macaulay's Essays on Walpole and Warren Hastings; grammar and history of language and composition. Latin—Livy, Hannibalian War; Virgil, iEneid V. ; grammar and composition. Greek —Smith's Initia (Part I.). French—La Verre d'Eau, Scribe; grammar and continuous prose. Science—Elementary physiology and botany. Loivest. —The syllabus of Standard 111., Elementary Code. Latin—To the regular verbs. Science—Elementary chemistry.

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A carpenter's shop was provided some years ago, and a competent instructor at a fee of ss. a term, boys providing their own tools and materials. For the first two years after its establishment eight boys or thereabouts attended, with favourable results. Very little, if any, advantage of it has. been taken for some years. Some parents objected to pay the cost of tools and materials, and it must also be added that the boys grew to look on it as irksome. During school hours instruction is given in botany and agricultural science, freehand, geometrical and mechanical drawing, shorthand, and book-keeping. If desired, practical surveying may be taken out of school hours, and from time to time boys have availed themselves of the opportunity. Girls. Highest. —Arithmetic—■ Whole subject. Algebra, including theory of quadratics, ratio, proportion, and variation. Geometry —Books I. to VI. Trigonometry to solution of triangles. Latin— Livy, Hannibalian War ; Kennedy's Grammar. French—Brachet, Grammar; L'Ancien Begime et la Bevolution; easy pieces into French. History —William 111. to Victoria. Geography —General. Grammar, to standard of junior scholarship ; text-books, Morris and Mason's. Botany—Matriculation standard. Theory of Music —Matriculation standard. Lowest. —Arithmetic—Compound rules, weights and measures, simple practice, bills of parcels, reduction. History—Gardiner, 1603 to 1670. Geography—New Zealand, Australia, England. Grammar —Parts of speech, easy parsing and analysis. Object lessons on plant-life chiefly ; reading, spelling, drawing (freehand), needlework, and drill. Classes are held in drawing (freehand and model), botany, and needlework. 4. Scholarships. The schools gave free education to thirty holders of scholarships given by the School Commissioners and twenty given by the Education Board.

GISBOBNE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. Sir, Gisborne, 18th May, 1898. I have the honour to transmit the accounts of the Gisborne High School Board of Governors. Secondary education in the Gisborne and Poverty Bay District is still admirably supplied by the Gisborne District High School. As you are aware, the Education Board are guaranteed against loss in supplying secondary education in the upper standards of the school. The Governors have much pleasure in reporting to you their entire satisfaction with the arrangement made. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister for Education, Wellington. C. A. de Lautour, Hon. Sec.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. 509 9 9 By Scholarships.. .. .. .. 139 8 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 80 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 2 18 6 Interest on investments .. .. 97 11 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 14 7 Paid by School Commissioners.. .. 223 19 8 Fees paid for pupils'instruction in techniInterest on deposit account .. .. 411 6 cal cookery .. .. .. 410 0 Renewal portion of Grayson's loan received as insurance money .. .. 124 13 9 Subsidy to Education Board .. .. 184 4 6 Mortgage—J". Parker.. .. .. 325 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 133 12 3 £915 U 7 £915 11 7 W. Morgan, Chairman. C. A. de Lautour, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

NELSON COLLEGES. 1. Beport of the Governors. During the year the term of office of three members of the Council expired—namely, the Hon. Mr. Barnicoat, Mr. Sclanders, and Colonel Pitt. His Excellency the Governor has reappointed the former and latter, while Mr. T. H. Bannehr takes the place of Mr. Sclanders. The annual reports of the Examiners again refer very highly to the work, as a whole, at both colleges. The Boys' College. The average number on the roll has continued satisfactory during the past year, while at the present time the number both of boarders and day pupils is largely increased. Four boys passed their University Terms Examinations, and the present year shows a large increase in the number of students keeping terms at the college. Three boys entered for the University Junior Scholarship Examination, and, although they failed to obtain scholarships, all of them got into the " Pass with credit " list.

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It is with pleasure that the Governors can again refer to the success achieved by an old college boy. Mr. E. Butherford has obtained the " Coutts Trotter " Scholarship, value £250, for original investigation in electricity. The Staff. —The following new appointments have been made: Mr. Frank Milner, M.A., to the mastership vacated by Mr. C. Broad, 8.A., and the Bey. E. C. Isaac to the post of Drawing Master and Technical Instructor. (It is intended to carry on a more systematic study of technical work so soon as arrangements are completed.) Some important improvements have been effected at the college. A handsome and commodious gymnasium has been erected, partly by subscriptions of the headmaster, Mr. Joynt, present and former pupils and private friends, supplemented by a grant from the Governors. The new gymnasium will doubtless add greatly to the pleasure and profit of the students in their health exercises. It certainly does so to the appearance to the college buildings. To the internal decorations a handsome addition has been made by the introduction of an Honours Board, designed by, and erected under the supervision of, the Bey. E. C. Isaac. The list of names of former students who have gained distinction in their several departments is a long one, and reflects credit alike on themselves and on the college where they received the foundation on which their present honourable position stands. The Principal is to be much congratulated on the success to his efforts in connection with these works. The Girls' College. It is satisfactory to record a considerable increase in the number of pupils, both boarders and day scholars. The capacity of the boarding part of the establishment has been used to its fullest extent. The past year has been successful in examination honours. Four students have passed their First Year's Terms Examination. One passed the Third Year's, and sat for the final section of the B.A. degree, the result of which is not yet known. Five have passed the Matriculation Examination of 1897 ; one the Junior and one the Senior Civil Service Examination of the previous year. A cookery class held during the winter term was well attended. A gas stove and other necessary appliances were erected, in one of the large rooms of the college. Dancing and gymnasium classes were also well attended. The Staff. —Miss E. H. Pearce, M.A., was appointed as an extra teacher, and has since succeeded to the post vacated by Miss Watt, M.A., Miss M. E. Lawrell, M.A., taking Miss Pearce's former post. Average Attendances. 1895. 1896. 1897. Boys' College ... ... ... 90 95 95 Girls' College ... ... ... 83 87 99

2. Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for Year ending 31st December, 1897. Endowment Account. Receipts. £ s. d. i Expenditure. £ s. d. To Rents .. .. .. .. 995 19 7 By Law costs .. .. .. .. 2 8 8 Interest .. .. .. .. 490 13 11 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 6 6 8 School Commissioners' subsidy .. 225 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 515 6 Sundry .. .. .. ... 200 Printing and advertising .. .. 5 7 6 Stationery .. .. .. .. 849 Repairs .. .. .. .. 912 6 Governors' fees, &c. .. .. .. 33 6 6 Office rent .. .. .. .. 32 10 0 Office cleaning and gas .. .. 9 2 7 Office furniture .. .. .. 5 12 0 Secretary .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Interest on Girls' College mortgage .. 110 0 0 Petty cash—postages and sundries .. 28 0 0 Boys' College. To Boarding-fees .. .. .. 834 1 8i By Boarding expenses .. .. .. 778 15 1 Tuition-fees .. .. .. 1,196 7 9- Tuition expenses .. .. .. 1,345 10 1 Scholarships— Foundation .. .. .. 72 12 0 Endowed .. .. .. .. 116 12 0 Free tuition .. .. .. 138 12 0 . • Governors', Examiners', and Auditors' fees .. .. .. .. 66 17 3 Stationery and prizes .. .. 87 11 4 Printing and advertising .. .. 18 10 11 Gas .. .. .. .. 58 13 5 Rents and taxes .. .. .. 15 0 0 Law costs .. .. .. .. 15 9 Insurance .. .. .. .. 22 10 0 Repairs .. .. .. .. 2 13 6 Furniture .. .. .. .. 44 7 8 Telephone .. .. .. .. 6 0 0 Subscriptions to sports and magazine .. 23 3 0 Gymnasium.. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Secretary .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Sundries .. .. ~ .. 18 2 3

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Girls' College. To Boarding-fees .. .. .. 1,215 14 4 By Boarding expenses .. .. .. 914 19 9 Tuition-fees .. .. .. 1,462 5 2 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 975 17 5 Scholarships— Foundation .. .. .. 60 4 0 Endowed .. .. .. .. 82 12 0 Free tuition .. .. .. 126 0 0 Governors', Examiners', and Auditors' fees .. .. .. .. 64 15 3 Stationery and prizes .. .. 93 2 4 Printing and advertising .. .. 19 4 1 Gas .. .. .. .. 58 4 8 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 15 0 0 Law costs .. .. .. .. 15 9 Insurance .. .. .. .. 28 3 9 Repairs .. .. .. .. 30 9 1 Furniture .. .. . I .. 61 15 3 Secretary .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 17 15 0 5,822 13 3 Balance .. .. .. 599 8 7 £6,422 1 10 £6,422 1 10 J. Hollo way, Secretary. We certify that we have examined the above accounts, and compared them with the several vouchers relating thereto, and have found them correct. John King, ) . ~, A. A. ScAiFE,| Audltors -

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —Latin—Virgil, iEneid, Book IX. ; Cicero, Pro Milone; sight translation from Horace, Virgil, Cicero, and Livy. Soman History —Horton. Grammar and composition— Miscellaneous. Greek—Plato, Apologia Socratis; Homer, Odyssey, Book IX. Mathematics— Euclid, I. to VI., with deductions, Hall and Stevens ; algebra, to bionomial theorem, Hall and Knight's Higher Algebra; trignometry, Lock; dynamics, Lock; statics, Hamblin Smith; hydrostatics, Hamblin Smith. English —Grammar, Mason (the whole book); composition, Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11. ; Burke, Beflections on the French Bevolution; Chaucer, Clerk's Tale; Stopford. Brooke, Primer of English Literature; Scott and Dalgleish, Higher Grade English. Science—Sound and light; Ganot's Physics; Chemistry, Jago's Advanced. French—De Tocqueville, L'Ancien Begime et la Bevolution ; Dumas, Les Demoiselles de St. Cyr; French literature, Saintsbury; Grammar and Composition, Eve and De Baudiss, Blouet. Lowest. —Grammar—Hall's Primary. History—Gardiner's Outlines. Geography—Longmans' Series 1., British Isles and British possessions. Beading—Longmans' Geographical Beaders. Object-lessons. Latin—Morris, Elementa Latina. French—Chardenal, First French Course, &c, Ex. Ito 90. Arithmetic—As for third and fourth standards. For manual work an instructor has been appointed and a workshop is in contemplation. Girls. Highest. —Mathematics—Todhunter's Larger Algebra to binomial theorem; Lock's Trigonometry ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Books I. to IV. ; Definitions of Books V. and VI. Latin— Grammar, Bradley's Arnold's; Abbott's Latin Prose Composition; Latin Prose at sight and prepared. Translation, Cicero, Pro Milone; Virgil, iEneid, Book IX.; Georgics, 11. French— Grammar: Brachet's Historical Grammar ; Wellington College Grammar ; Bue's Idioms ; Blouet's French Prose. Translation :De Tocqueville's French Bevolution; Scribe's Le Verre d'Eau; Dumas's Les Demoiselles de St. Cyr. Science—Electricity, heat, and sound. English—Morris's Historical Grammar ; Mason's Grammar; Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for the English People; Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Anglo-Saxon Primer; First and Second Middle English Primers ; Lectures on the Literature of Period; Beadings from Authors of the Period ; Shakespeare's Borneo and. Juliet and Hamlet. History—Lectures on Period. Political Economy— Walker and Jevons. Loivest. —Arithmetic, Simple and compound rules. English—Beading ; writing ; spelling ; composition; parts of speech ; easy parsing; Phoebe's Tales from Shakespeare. Geography— The chief divisions of the world (Europe and New Zealand more particularly). Gardiner's History, Part I. Object-lessons and elementary botany. Sewing is taught in the middle and lower school. A cooking class was held during the winter months. Freehand drawing is taught in all the forms. Model drawing is taught in the middle and upper school.

4. Scholarships. Boys' College. Endowed: Tinline, £52 125.; Newcome, £24; Bichmond, £24; Stafford, £20; Fell, £16. College : One at £32 12s. ; one at £16 ; one at £14 ; one at £12 ; one at £6 ; one at £5 ; one at £4; one at £3.

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Girls' College. Tinline : £52 12s. Governor's Fees: Two at £15. -College : Two at £15 ; two at £12 12s. ; one at £5. School Commissioners : Seven at £12 12s. Fourteen scholarships of the Nelson Education Board and three of the Marlborough Education Board were held at the Boys' College; and eleven of the Nelson Education Board and one of the Marlborough Education Board were held at the Girls' College. To many of these the Governors granted free tuition.

GBEYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 383 19 7 By Exchange .. .. .. .. 0 16 Interest .. .. .. 29 2 6 Grant to Grey Education Board .. 60 0 0 Rent .. .. .. .. .. 8 18 0 Fire insurance, cottage at Cobden .. 0 10 0 Repayment of loan .. .. .. 25 0 0 Travelling expenses .. .. .. 6 6 0 Grant, Westland School Commissioners .. 60 0 0 Law costs .. .. .. .. 2 5 0 Salary, Secretary, for 1897 .. .. 5 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 432 17 7 £507 0 1 £507 0 1 Greymouth, 25th January, 1898. Bichard Nancarrow, Chairman. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

HOKITIKA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts.. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 962 19 0 By Office salary .. .. .. .. 5 5 0 Interest .. .. .. 35 0 0 Cheque-book .. .. .. .. 0 2 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 60 0 0 Grant from Westland Education Board .. 72 10 0 Rent of dwelling-house... .. .. 63 15 0 Stationery .. .. .. .. 0 6 0 Compensation for land taken from reserve Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 2 6 6 for railway purposes .. .. .. 57 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 2 12 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 0 10 0 Balance .. .. .. ..1,095 2 6 £1,178 14 0 £1,178 14 0 John McWhirter, Chairman. Charles Kirk, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

* CHBIST'S COLLEGE GBAMMAB SCHOOL. 1. Beport. The Governing Body beg to report: — Increase in the Number of Pupils.— The year 1897 opened with an entry of new boys which has been exceeded on only two occasions in the history of the school. The net result was an addition to the number on the school roll of twenty-five. Further small increases in the second and third terms brought up the total gain of the year to thirty-five, the number on the roll for the last term of 1897 being 177. The Governing Body regards with special satisfaction the very considerable increase in the number of boys residing in the school houses, the total being fifty-five for three boarding-houses. Staff. —In view of the increase in numbers mentioned above, the Governing Body felt itself justified in authorising the headmaster to appoint an additional assistant master. The new master, Mr. A. E. Flower, M.A. (with second-class honours in Mathematics), sometime Junior and Senior Scholar of the University of New Zealand, an " old boy " of the school, entered upon his duties at the beginning of the second term. At the same time, on the resignation of Mr. B. M. Hamilton, A.8.1.8.A., Mr. J. M. Madden returned to his former post of visiting master for drawing. University Scholarships. —At the beginning of the year, L. H. Greenwood and W. L. Scott obtained respectively the third and the twelfth of the Junior Scholarships given by the University of New Zealand, while C. H. Weston took a place in the list of those who passed the same examination "with credit." Scott subsequently resigned his scholarship, and he and Weston returned to school. At the end of the year Greenwood obtained first-class honours in classics, with an exhibition, at Canterbury College. Other doings of both present and "old" boys (in the case of the latter in Great Britain as well as in New Zealand) are recorded in the School List. Scholarships tenable at the School. —Good use continues to be made of the Somes and other scholarships, as shown by the detailed statement of scholarships forwarded herewith. These scholarships are open to boys from any part of the colony, and a substantial extra allowance is made to holders of scholarships residing in the school houses. Exhibitions conferring free education

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were granted to four boys during the year, making a total of twenty-eight boys receiving free education at the school. Physical Education. —The subject of physical education is not covered by the questions sent to the Governing Body by the Education Department, but deserves a brief mention. Continued attention has been paid during the year, with good results, to drill under Major W. V. Bichards, and to gymnastics under Mr. C. Hailing, assisted by Mr. A. E. Flower. Both of these subjects are compulsory. Swimming has been taught to the boys of the lower school by the Chief Master, Mr. G. H. Merton, in school hours ; and Dr. W. P. Evans has kindly attended at the swimmingbath in the grounds at certain times outside school hours, to assist beginners from all parts of the school. The Cadet Corps, officered by boys, and instructed by Major Bichards, has more than maintained its numbers and efficiency. In the third term it was inspected by His Excellency the Governor of the Colony, and by Colonel Pole Penton, who were pleased to express favourable opinions, thereby confirming the remarks made by Colonel Gordon, the officer commanding the district, at his quarterly inspections. C. Christchurch, Warden.

2. Scholarships and Exhibitions. There are many scholarships, so arranged that, taken in succession, they cover the whole period of school life from an early age until the higher limit of age for Junior University Scholarships has been reached. The entrance scholarships are open to all boys who have not already entered the school; the others both to boys already attending it and to those from other schools. For Somes Scholarships candidates must be members of the Church of England or of some Church in communion with it. This restriction does not apply to entrance scholarships or to the special grants of free education sometimes made by the Governing Body to meet special cases. Entrance Scholarships. —Six are to be offered, if funds permit, in each year. The scholarships are tenable for two years, and cover the ordinary school fees for tuition. Somes Junior Scholarships. —Five are to be offered, if funds permit, in each year. The scholarships are tenable for two years, and of the value of £18 per annum, with the addition of £15 per annum in the case of boarders in one of the school houses. Somes Senior Scholarships. —Four are to be offered, if funds permit, in each year. The scholarships are tenable for one year, and of the value of £25, with the addition of £20 in the case of boarders in one of the school houses. 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. Tenure depends upon the satisfactory performance of duty both in the school and in the choir. The Junior and Senior Scholarships given by the Board of Education are tenable in the school, and may be held together with Entrance or Somes Scholarships. Buller 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 are awarded at the end of each term to members of the chapel choir, and two of £12 a year for two years to specially deserving boys on leaving the Cathedral choir.

3. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 15th May, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from land .. .. 1,849 211 By Balance .. .. .. .. 2,009 12 3 Income from scholarship endowments 907 19 2 Management—Office salary .. .. 185 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,093 12 3 Other office expenses .. .. 18 0 3 Sundry incidental receipts not classified 16 6 0 Teachers salaries and allowances .. 2,634 7 6 Balance .. .. .. .. 2,082 4 2 Scholarships .. .. .. 828 1 10 Examiners' fees and other expenses .. 53 6 6 Prizes .. .. ~.. .. 56 10 2 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 78 1 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, caretakers, &c. .. 212 3 1 Fittings and school material .. .. 22 16 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 223 18 9 Insurance .. .. .. .. 49 5 10 Interest on current account .. .. 59 9 10 Boys' Games Fund .. .. .. 1112 9 Expenses in connection with land estate 122 19 5 Dr. balance transferred from Chapel Account .. .. .. .. 284 8 4 £6,949 4 6 £6,949 4 6 C. Christchurch, Warden. W. G. Brittan, Bursar. The accounts (from which the above are extracts), were audited by Mr. A. A. M. McKellar.

4. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest Form. —Latin, French, English (for part of which one boy substituted Greek), mathematics, chemistry, heat, to standard of examination for Junior University Scholarships. Lowest Form (of lower or preparatory department).—Beading and spelling—Ship Beader No. 111. and Belfe's No. IV. to p. 60. Grammar and composition. History of England—Brief, to

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p. 44. Geography—Zealandia, Part I. Bepetition—Mullins's Selections. Arithmetic—Upper Division: Simple and compound rules to long division of money. Lower Division: Quite elementary. Drawing is an optional subject, but is taught in school hours and without extra fee. Special attention is given to mechanical and geometrical drawing. Carpentry, turning, and use of a forge are taught outside school hours at a fee of ss. per term. Work is done to scale from drawings made in the drawing school. Useful work about the premises, including the making of a large ornamental window for the boys' reading-room, has been done. There is an elementary class for the youngest boys, in which the work is somewhat in the nature of Sloyd. The following subjects, not strictly technical, are often mentioned in returns of technical work : —Chemistry and heat, taught to all boys in the higher forms; elementary physics, taught as an alternative subject in the lower middle forms ; book-keeping, also as an alternative subject; and elementary mensuration and land-surveying, in which a special class was held during part of the year.

BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL, CHBISTCHUECH. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To current income from reserves.. .. 3,179 11 9 By Balance .. .. .. .. 33 6 6 School fees.. .. .. .. 2,034 7 6 Office salary .. .. .. 90 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 5 18 9 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 4,001 17 6 Sale of parsing notes.. .. .. 3 4 2 Examinations —Examiners'fees .. 77 14 0 Interest on promissory note for rent .. 014 11 Other expenses .. .. .. 11 12 9 Payment for fencing on Reserve 2011 .. 58 0 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 15 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 16 4 10 Prizes .. .. .. .. 37 18 10 Printing, stationery, advertising, books, stamps, and telegrams .. .. 182 17 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 55 7 4 Site and buildings .. .. .. 57 11 2 Fencing, repairs, &c... .. .. 51 17 11 Insurance .. .. .. .. 30 4 9 Road and fencing .. .. .. 101 5 5 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. .. .. .. .. 19 2 Transfer to Buildings Account .. 31 7 5 Grants to Cricket Club and Cadet Corps 60 0 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 22 211 Grant to School Library .. .. 5 0 0 Chemicals and apparatus .. .. 27 5 9 Inspecting reserves and advertising .. 123 18 3 Interest on Loan Account .. .. 250 0 0 Sundries .. .. 30 4 7 £5,298 1 11 I £5,298 1 11 H. B. Webb, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Begistrar, Canterbury College.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.- —Latin—Page's Horace, Selections from Satires and Epistles; Virgil's .ZEneid IV.; Cicero; Pro Lege Manilia; Smith's Smaller History of Eome; Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose; Kennedy's Eevised Latin Primer. English—Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Longmans' Handbook of English Literature; Chaucer's Man of Lawe's Tale, Pardoner's Tale, &c.; Scott's Old Mortality; Browning's Strafford; Morris's Historical English Grammar. French—L'Avare, Moliere; Dumas' Monte Christo; Third French Beader and Writer ; Moriarty's French Grammar. Mathematics —Ward's Examination Papers on Trigonometry ; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Steven's Euclid, Part 11. (Books 111. to VI.); Loney's Trigonometry ; Hall and Knight's Algebraical Exercises. Geography—Meiklejohn's New Comparative Geography. Science—Chemistry—Jago's Inorganic Chemistry (Longmans' Advanced Series); physics (advanced), Wright's Heat. Lowest. —Latin —Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course (Part I.); Shorter Latin Primer. English —Chambers's Fluent Eeaders (No. 4); Palgrave's Children's Treasury of English Songs (Part I.); Nelson's Brief History ; Longmans' Junior School Grammar. French—First French Beader and Writer. Mathematics—Nelson's Boyal Arithmetic, No. 4b. Geography—Hill's First Lessons in Geography. Science—Chemistry—Boscoe's Chemistry Primer'; elementary science, no text-book used. 3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to thirty-four scholars. Fourteen scholarships of the North Canterbury Education Board and one of the Wanganui Education Board were held at the school, and also one given by the Christchurch Caledonian Society.

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GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL, CHEISTCHUECH. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. m - Receipts.. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 1,154 15 7By Office salary .. .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves.. .. 313 13 10 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,497 17 0 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Examinations—Examiners' fees .. 55 7 0 paid purchase-money .. 224 4 1 „ Other expenses .. 11 8 0 School fees.. .. .. .. 1,517 15 6 Scholarships .. .. .. 240 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 35 14 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 31 17 3 Proceeds from cooking class .. .. 24 12 8 Printing, stationery, advertising, stamps, and telegrams .. .. .. 63 1 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 17 14 11 Site and buildings .. .. .. 19 18 6 Fencing, repairs, &c.. .. .. 14 10 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 919 3 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 5 0 0 Expenses of cooking class .. .. 43 13 4 Transfer to Investment Account .. 900 0 0 Music .. .. .. .. 2 2 6 Sundries .. .. .. .. 15 2 7 Balance .. .. .. .. 283 4 7 £3,270 16 2 £3,270 16 2 H. B. Webb, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Eegistrar, Canterbury College.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Mathematics—Algebra, Euclid, trigonometry, as for Junior University Scholarship. Text Books—Algebra, Hamblin Smith, Hall and Knight; Euclid, Hall and Stevens; trigonometry, Loney, Part I. Latin, translation—Horace, Odes, Book IV. ; Virgil, iEneid, Books I. and VI. ; Cicero, Catiline Orations; Tacitus, Agricola. History, prose, &c.—Horton's Soman History; Bradley's Arnold; Simpson's Caesarian Prose; Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom. English — Shakespeare, Tempest; Chaucer, Knyghte's Tale; Tennyson, Selections; Mason's Grammar; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature. French—Chardenal's Advanced Erench Course. Translation, Pour une Epingle; Le Gendre de M. Poirier; L'Abbe Constantin. Science — Heat, as required for Junior University Scholarship; textbook, Glazebrook's Heat. Botany, as above; textbook, Dendy and Lucas. Lowest. —English—Beading, Southern Cross Eeader, No. 4; grammar, Longmans' School Grammar; history of literature, Stronach's English Literature; composition, on subjects from reading-books. French—Exercises from Chardenal's First French Course. Arithmetic—Elementary rules, without textbook. Geography—Knowledge of principal features of continents, and of the more important towns; textbook, Petrie's Geography for Schools of N.Z. History—Period from 1066 to 1485; textbook, Bansome's Elementary History. Botany—Elementary work, without textbook. 3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to nineteen pupils. Eleven scholarships of the Education Board were held at the school.

BANGIOEA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. The year opened and closed with nineteen pupils on the roll. Three received free education, being admitted as scholarship pupils from the Bangiora and Saltwater Creek State schools. Steady work was done during the year, and in December Mr. F. Wake, 8.A., conducted an examination. In his report he stated that, on the whole, the results were satisfactory. C. I. Jennings, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for ihe Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 142 2 3 By Office expenses .. .. .. 10 9 Current income from reserves .. 93 6 6 Teacher's salary .. .. .. 222 2 0 School fees .. .. .. ~ 141 ■( 4 6 Examiner's fee .. .. .. 9 2 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 15 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 5 19 1 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 13 13 9 Fencing, repairs, &c... .. .. 26 1 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 3 18 9 Expenses of surveys, sales, management, &o. .. .. .. .. 2 10 0 Rail fares for scholars .. .. 4 10 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 86 10 11 £376 13 3 £376 13 3 E. E. Good, Chairman. C. I. Jennings, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.— Latin—Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose; Abbott's Via Latina; Livy, Book I. Euclid—Hall and Stevens, Books I. to IV. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to simple equations. English—Longmans'Grammar; Goldsmith's Deserted Village; Shakespeare's Borneo and Juliet; Longmans' Composition; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature. Geography—Meiklejohn's New Geography, British Empire, Europe and Asia. History—Meiklejohn's, from William and Mary to Victoria. Arithmetic—Hamblin Smith's, whole subject. French—Henri Bue's First French Book. Art Needlework—Girls' division. Writing—Vere Foster's Civil Service series. Drawing—Blair's drawing books. t Lowest—Latin—Morris's Elementa Latina. Geography—Zealandia. Grammar—Longmans' Junior. Arithmetic—Southern Cross. History—Boyal School series ; Brief History of England. English—Beading, Eoyal series Standard V. Beading Book and Bound the Empire. Writing— Vere Foster's Civil Service series. Art Needlework—Girls' division. Drawing—The New Zealand drawing-book and Blair's drawing-book. 4. Scholarships. The school gave free education to three pupils.

ASHBUETON HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. To Current income from reserves.. ' .. 512 4 9 By Balance .. .. .. .. 52 13 8 School fees .. .. .. .. 187 5 0 Office salary .. .. .. 20 0 0 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 12 0 Other office expenses.. .. .. 419 6 Balance .. .. .. 101 14 3 Other expenses of management .. 11 11 10 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 602 12 8 Prizes .. .. .. .. 9 14 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 16 18 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 31 12 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 32 3 10 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 219 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 5 19 0 Inspecting properties .. .. 4 4 0 Refund fees .. .. .. 2 2 0 Trees .. .. .. .. 4 15 0 £802 6 0 £802 6 0 Andrew Orr, Chairman. Charles Braddell, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.— Latin, Erench, English—Matriculation work. Arithmetic, Euclid, algebra, trigonometry, statics, physics (sound and light) — University Junior Scholarship work. Botany— Huxley's Primer and notes. Eoman History—Creighton's Borne and notes. Lowest. —English —Eoyal Beader, No. VI.; Southern Cross Grammar, Standard V. History —Bansome's History, 1688 to 1837. Arithmetic —Southern Cross, Standard IV. Latin —Via Latina, to page 39. French —Chardenal's First French Course, to page 78. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to page 96. Euclid—Book 1., to prop. 26. 3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to twelve pupils. Four scholarships of the North Canterbury Education Board were held at the school.

AKABOA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. Sic, — Akaroa, Ist January, 1898. The school has progressed most favourably during the year 1897, under the able management of Mr. J. B. Harrison, M.A. The attendance of pupils has exceeded that of former years, and several pupils have matriculated, the school having thus thoroughly fulfilled its mission as a link between the primary school and the University. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister for Education. H. C. Jacobson, Chairman. 2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Arithmetic—Algebra (for Matriculation); Euclid, Books I. to 111. Via Latina ; Bradley's Latin Prose Composition, pp. 1-165 ; Cassar. English—Hewitt and Beath's Manual; Longmans' School Composition; Shakespeare, Julius Caesar. French—Macmillan's Course, Book 11., Ex. Ito 29. History—Bansome's; William 111. to William IV. Geography— Mac Turk's Physical Geography, and Nelson's, Book V.

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Lowest. —Arithmetic—Elementary. Latin —Declensions. English—Various, and grammar. Erench—Macmillan's Course, Book I. History — Gardiner's Outlines. Geography—Nelson's Eoyal Eeader, Book V. Beading ; writing ; dictation ; elementary drawing, &c. 3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to two pupils. 4. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 99 3 6 By Stamps and cheque-book .. .. 0 7 6 Current income from reserves .. 119 0 10 Teacher's salary .. .. .. 200 0 0 School fees.. .. .. .. 138 6 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 2 13 0 Interest on fixed deposit .. .. 2 3 9 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 0 7 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &a. .. .. 9 3 4 Fencing, repairs, &c.. .. .. 12 6 Ren,ts, insurance, and taxes .. .. 35 12 6 Interest .. .. .. .. 0 2 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 109 6 9 £358J4_7 £358 14 7 H. C. Jacobson, Chairman and Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

TIMABU HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. Four pupils passed the matriculation examination held in December, 1897, two others passed for matriculation on the University Junior Scholarship examination, and in the latter examination one other pupil, Leonard Talbot, gained fourth place on the credit list. One boy passed the Junior Civil Service examination. Several former pupils also distinguished themselves in the College and University examinations: I may mention particularly Miss Maud Lawrell, M.A. degree with honours in Greek and French ; Mr. Alexander Bell, M.A. degree, with first-class honours in mathematics; Mr. E. J. Parr, first section B.A. degree, Somes' studentship, Christ's College University department, and exhibition for experimental science, Canterbury College ; Mr. J. S. Cooper, first section B.A. degree. During the year a disastrous fire almost completely destroyed the school buildings and- most of the furniture and apparatus. The Board has taken advantage of the opportunity thus given to separate the boys and girls. These are now quite distinct, and in the new buildings each sex will have its own staff and its own school premises. The separation of the two schools has rendered necessary a re-organisation of the staff. Mr. George Hogben, M.A., formerly headmaster of the combined school, has been made headmaster of the Boys' High School, with Mr. A. J. Mayne, M.A., and Mr. M. H. Browne (intermediate M.8., London University), as assistant masters. Miss Mary Jane McLean, M.A., has been appointed headmistress of the Girls' High School, with Miss B. Watt, M.A. (formerly of Nelson Girls' College), and Mrs. E. J. Pearson (certificate Victoria) as assistant mistresses. This arrangement has involved the displacement of one master, Mr. E. T. Norris, M.A., whose loss is much regretted, as he was captain of the cadet corps, and took a very active interest in all the out-door amusements of the boys. He has been appointed to a post m the Otago Boys' High School. Wi. B. Howell, Chairman.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 1,220 12 7 By Office salary .. .. .. 70 0 0 Current income from reserves.. .. 1,438 16 3 Other office expenses.. .. .. 10 1110 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 74 15 9 Other expenses of managementSchool fees .. .. .. .. 556 3 0 Legal .. .. .. .. 23 9 8 Sale of tanks .. .. .. 5 0 0 Steward .. .. .. .. 10 10 0 Exchange .. .. .. .. 0 10 Travelling members .. .. 18 8 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 2,977 14 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,525 0 0 Interest .. .. .. •• 37 13 11 Scholarships .. .. .. 34 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 18 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 91 19 5 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 101 810 Fencing, repairs, &c... .. .. 51 9 7 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 32 7 0 Endowments, architect's fees, and protective works .. .. .. 19 15 6 Bebuilding and restoration .. .. 548 0 5 Balance .. .. .. .. 3,755 16 3 £6,310 16 6 . £6,810 16 6 Wm. B. Howell, Chairman. J. H. Bamfield, Secretary, Examined and found correct—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Mason's Grammar ; Morris's Historical Outlines; Shakespeare's Eichard II.; Lamb's Elia; Bacon's Essays; selections from Morris and Skeat's Specimens of Early English; Abbott and Seeley's Lessons for English People; Great Authors, Part I. ; Peile's Philology. Latin—Ovid, selections from Fasti and Epistles ; Sallust, Catilina ; unseen translation, various, from Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Livy ; Via Latina ; Smith's Smaller Latin Grammar; Bryan's Prose Exercises on Cassar; Horton's History of the Eomans. French—Xavier de Maistre, Voyage autour de ma Chambre; About, Modern French Authors, I. ; Fontaine, Fables; unseen, various; Brachet-Dussouchet, Grammaire Superieur; Macmillan's Composition, I. and II.; Vecqueray's Coniposition Papers. Mathematics—Pendlebury's Arithmetic; Hall and Knight's Algebra to binomial theorem ; Euclid, Hall and Stevens's, I. to VI. ; Lock's Trigonometry, to solution of triangles. Science —Botany and electricity to Junior Scholarship Standard; text-books used, Thome and Bennett's Structural and Physiological Botany, Aitken's Botany. Geography —British Empire; astronomical geography, physical geography, and commercial geography. History— General sketch of the History of the British Constitution; Political and Social Progress in the Victorian Era; Gardiner's Student's History, Part 111., especially 1689-1815. Commercial Class— Book-keeping ; Pitman's shorthand; tots ; correspondence and indexing of letters. Lowest. —Longmans'Junior Composition; Gatty's Parables from Nature; Macaulay's Lays; Bowen's Simple British Poems, Part II.; Masterman Beady (Bell) ; Longmans' Historical Beader, No. V.; Longmans' Geographical Beader, VI. ; Myall's Object-lessons from Nature ; Southern Cross Arithmetics, IV. and V. 4. Manual and Technical Instruction. Besides the technical instruction referred to above (commercial classes), instruction was given in mensuration, drawing (freehand, geometrical, model, and mechanical), sloyd (cardboard), and carpentry. In regard to the latter, a new departure was made by placing the work under the direction of the drawing-master, Mr. M. H. Browne, and so securing better co-ordination between the mechanical drawing and the work done in the workshop. In all the practical work the object aimed at is the training of hand and eye, not the teaching of a trade. The instruction gives manual training, a.nd bears only an indirect relation to what is more strictly called technical education. The practical work done in physics and geography and in some other subjects bears in the same direction. All the work done in the practical physics class is individual work, and the geography includes elementary surveying and the drawing of plans and the construction of models. The carpentry workshop has been built for eight years, It is fitted with a circular saw and lathe, with benches, tools, and cupboards. In the new buildings one room, available for both schools, is fitted up with tables, stools, sinks, balances, cupboards, drying-furnace, gas-burners, and other appliances necessary for a physical laboratory ; two other rooms (one in the Girls' High School and one in the Boys' High School) are provided with tables, stools, and microscopes for practical work in botany. The construction of cardboard models has a direct bearing on drawing to scale, and on the lessons in geometry, and an indirect influence on other parts of the school curriculum. The charge for carpentry is ss. per term. The articles made are the property of the school, but generally boys are allowed to take away at the end of the year any article of their own making, the cost of material, if appreciable, being paid. All the work is done in the ordinary school hours. The number in attendance at the classes named above were, during 1897 : Freehand drawing— Boys, 21; girls, 44: total, 65. Model drawing—Boys, 21; girls, 33 : total, 54. Geometrical drawing—Boys, 14 ; girls, 9 : total, 23. Mechanical drawing—Boys, 20. Sloyd (cardboard) —Boys, 16 ; girls, 21: total, 37. Carpentry—Boys, 20. Mensuration —Boys, 22; girls, 8: total, 30. Needlework and cutting-out—Girls, 23. Physiology and domestic economy—Girls, 19. Practical physics—Boys, 13; girls, 6 : total, 19. Botany—Boys, 28; girls, 38 : total, 66. Electricity and magnetism—Boys, 11; girls, 7 : total, 18. Elementary physics—Boys, 18 ; girls, 9 : total, 27. Book-keeping—Boys, 19 ; girls, 6 : total, 25. Shorthand —Boys, 9 ; girls, 8 : total, 17. 5. Scholarships. The Board gave free education to seventeen holders of Education Board's scholarships; nineteen holders of High School exhibitions, granted to those not gaining scholarships, though obtaining more than half marks at the scholarship examination; three holders of upper school exhibitions, awarded on the results of the Timaru High School annual examination ; one junior scholar, who is paid £34 in addition to school fees.

WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. The number of pupils taking secondary education in Waimate District High School during last quarter of 1897, and whose fees for education were paid by this Board of Governors, was 18. Although this number is one less than the number returned for the same term in 1896, the Governors are well satisfied with the results of the work done in the District School during 1897 ; with plan of examination for free exhibitioners whose fees are to be paid by this Board, as commenced at close of year 1896; and also with the work done by the Headmaster and his assistant in secondary education. The Governors have reason to expect a considerable increase in the number of pupils taking secondary education, and good progress by the pupils in the different subjects during the year 1898, W. Coltman, Chairman,

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 1,480 6 0 By Office salary .. .. .. 15 15 0 Current income from reserves .. 209 5 1 Postages, &c. .. .. .. 2 2 0 Interest on moneys invested and on un- South Canterbury Education Board, for paid purchase-money .. .. 12 10 0 teachers' salaries .. .. .. 150 0 0 Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 38 8 0 Examinations—Examiners' fees .. 5 5 0 Other expenses .. 3 3 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 25 0 0 Prizes " .. .. .. .. 816 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 11 2 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 10 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 0 7 0 Endowments —Proceeds invested .. 500 0 0 High School pupils' fees and railway passes paid by Board .. .. 62 10 0 Members'travelling-expenses.. .. 8 10 0 Solicitor .. .. .. .. 0 10 6 Exchanges .. .. .. .. 0 3 6 Balance .. .. .. 946 6 5 £1,740 9 1 £1,740 9 1 W. Coltman, Chairman. G. H. Graham, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. It is pleasing to note that the attendance at both schools shows a satisfactory increase. There have been some changes in the teaching staff of the Boys' School. Mr. W. G. Grave was promoted to the position of first assistant vice Mr. D. A. Watt, who was appointed pro tempore in 1896. Mr. B. L. Mcllroy, M.A., was chosen out of several applicants as second assistant. The Board decided to appoint a visiting sewing- and drawing-mistress at the Girls' School, and Miss McCaw was the successful applicant. Sergeant-major MePherson was also appointed drill-instructor. The schools and outbuildings have undergone considerable repair. The gymnasium was fitted with additional appliances, and the floor covered with several loads of logwood. The grounds surrounding the schools have been carefully attended to, the gorse and plantations having been grubbed and thoroughly cleaned. The Eector, with the assistance of the Governors, has during the past year fitted up a chemical laboratory at some considerable cost, and appliances for same were imported from England. The swimming-baths were thoroughly cleaned, the bottom paved with shingle, and fresh water laid on from the Oamaru mains. A substantial fence was erected round them. The Mayor and several citizens of Oamaru, with Mr. John Eeid, of Elderslie, presented a set of meteorological instruments, including one maximum and two minimum wet- and dry-bulb hygrometers, a Tortin barometer, a Snowdon rain-gauge, and an anemometer. These have been placed in position at the Boys' School, and observations are taken by the scholars themselves, under Dr. Don's supervision, and monthly reports thereon supplied to the local newspapers for publication. At the University examinations nine pupils of the school—five boys and four girls —qualified for matriculation, and one boy for the medical preliminary. Four boys passed the Junior Civil Service examination. Two scholarships have been awarded, one to a boy and one to a girl, on the result of the last Junior Scholarship examinations. The amount of £250 has been paid off the mortgage, which now stands at £750. George E. Hislop, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ a. d. Expenditure. £ a. d' To Balance .. .. .. .. 800 5 7 By Secretary .. .. .. .. 57 1 0 Current income from reserves.. .. 1,212 2 2 Valuator .. .. .. .. 19 19 6 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Incidentals.. .. .. .. 28 1 10 paid purchase money .. .. 13 8 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,273 16 10 Paid by School Commissioners .. 59 7 8 Prizes .. .. .. .. 2 2 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 425 510 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 76 9 3 Donation, laboratory .. .. 50 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 93 16 1 Interest, Macandrew Scholarship Fund 9 0 0 Site and buildings .. .. .. 171 18 6 Fencing, repairs, &c... .. .. 44 13 9 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 26 2 6 Interest .. .. .. .. 61 12 0 Solicitors' fees .. .. .. 23 18 8 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. .. ~ .. .. 14 8 8 Loan .. .. .. .. 250 0 0 Petty cash .. .. .. .. 18 10 6 Rent overpaid .. .. .. 2 0 0 Balance .. ~ .. .. 405 0 0 £2,569 11 1 £2,569 11 1 Donald Borrie, Chairman. George E. Hislop, Secretary, Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General,

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3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —English —(Matriculation and Junior University Scholarship); Higher Grade English (Nelson and Sons) ; Chaucer, Prologue and Knight's Tale; Goyen's English composition ; Shakespeare, Julius Caasar, Tempest, Hamlet; Dr. William Smith's English Grammar ; Professor Meiklejohn's Spelling-book. Arithmetic — The more difficult parts of the subject; Text-books— Goyen's Higher Arithmetic and Elementary Mensuration ; Capel's Catch Questions in Arithmetic and Mensuration. Euclid—First four books with deductions : Text-book, Hall and Stevens's Euclid. Algebra—Equations, simple and quadratic ; ratio; indices; arithmetical and geometrical progression, surds. Trigonometry, including use of logarithms and simpler cases of solution of triangles. Latin.—Grammar ; Allan's Latin Grammar, and Kennedy's Bevised Latin Primer ; Translation ; Eutropius, Historia Bomana ; Heatley and Kingdon, Facilia Excerpta ; Livy, Siege of Syracuse ; Caasar, De Bello Galileo, Book 11. (Brown); Virgil, iEneid, Book V. Geology —Physical geology ; elementary petrology and palaaontology. Chemistry —The theory of chemical action; non-metallic elements. French—Chardenal's French Course, Books 11. and III; Moliere, Le Misanthrope. Loivest. —English—Beading, Longmans' Ship Beader No. 6. Grammar—Dr. W. Smith's English Grammar. Composition —Longmans' School Composition. Spelling —The Word-Builder and Speller, by Yoxall. Latin—Dr. W. Smith's Principia Latina, to the end of the deponent verb. French —Chardenal's French Course, Book I. Arithmetic—Vulgar fractions ; decimals ; commercial rules ; interest; discount; stocks. Euclid—Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Book I. to proposition 35. Algebra—To end of simple equations. Geography—Longmans' Geography, Part 2 ; The World, with details of Europe, Asia, and New Zealand. Book-keeping—Thornton's First Lessons in Book-keeping. Drawing —Freehand and geometrical. All experiments in chemistry are conducted by the boys themselves. Geology is illustrated by a lantern and about 600 specially prepared slides. Girls. Highest. — English—Shakespeare, The Tempest; selections from Tennyson; Mason's Grammar; Composition, Nichol; Essays. History and Geography as for matriculation. Latin— Bradley's Arnold; Excerpta Facilia (at sight) ; Caasar's Gallic War, Book I. (at sight) ; selections from prose and poetry ; Cicero, De Senectute; Virgil, iEneid, Book IV. French —Wellington College Grammar ; Oxford and Cambridge Beader ; Advanced Chardenal; Le Conscrit; Voyages en Zigzag. Arithmetic—Whole subject. Algebra—Hall and Knight, whole except chapters 38 to 41. Euclid —Books 1., 11., 111., IV., Vl. Trigonometry—Lock, whole. Mechanics—Lock's Dynamics ; Goodwin's Statics; Besant's Hydrostatics. Botany—Morphology and physiology of various botanical types. Physiology —Furneaux, whole. Scripture—The Books of Joshua, Judges, and 2nd Chronicles. Loioest. —English—Ealfe's Beader, No. V. ; Derivations ; Grammar (Syntax, analysis of easy sentences); composition lessons and essay-writing ; recitation of prose and poetry. History—Miss Buckley's English History, up to Edward I. Geography—Longmans' Junior School Geography, up to France. Latin—Principia Latina, Part 1., up to Exercise 22. French —Chardenel's First French Course, up to 144. Arithmetic —Compound rules ; practice ; highest common factor; simple problems. Science —Paul Bert's Text-book ; the sections on animals and plants. Scripture—Matthew's Gospel, up to chapter 13. Drawing—Model and freehand. Sewing—Plain and fancy work. Drill—Physical exercises with and without rods. 4. Scholarships. Free education was given to two pupils.

OTAGO BOYS' AND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest.— English—Authors : Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Macaulay ; selections from prose writers, 1490 to 1684; historical English grammar, composition, &c. Latin—Authors : Cicero, Virgil, Livy, Horace; prose composition, Boman history. French.—Saintine's Picciola, composition, grammar, &c. Mathematics—Arithmetic, whole subject. Euclid—Six books. Algebra—■ Trigonometry. Science —Botany, the morphology and physiology of botanical types. Chemistry— The metallic elements; revision of non-metallic elements, Lowest.- —English—Longmans' Sixth Eeader, composition, grammar, &c. English History— 1066 to 1547. Geography—British Isles and Continent of Europe; simple physical and mathematical geography. Latin—Grammar and easy translation. French—Grammar and easy translation. Mathematics — Arithmetic, Vulgar fractions, simple and compound proportion, simple interest, practice, &c. Euclid—Book 1., Ito 12, with exercises. Algebra—Simple rules. Book-keeping—Cash-book, day-book, invoice-book, &c. Drawing—Geometrical. Girls' School. Highest.—English —Chaucer, The Knyghte's Tale; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book 1., Canto IV. to VI.; Tennyson, The Princess; Soman History, from B.C. 200 to Augustus; historical English grammar, composition, &c. Latin. —Virgil, iEneid, Book X.; Livy, Book 11., 25 chapters; Horace, Selected Odes, Book 111. and Epistles; Caesar, Gallic War, Book

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II.; Cicero De Officiis, Book I.; Eeid's Translation at Sight, selections; composition, grammar, &c. French—Chardenal's Advanced Exercises ; Erckmann-Chatrian, Waterloo; Boielle, Poetry; grammar, composition, &c. ; Ninet's Beadings for Middle and Upper Forms. German—Schiller, Wilhelm Tell; Macmillan, Part II.; Poetry, selected; Der Neffe als Onkel; Buchheim's German Prose Composition. Mathematics —Arithmetic, the whole subject; Algebra, to permutations and combinations, inclusive; Geometry, Euclid, 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 nonmetallic elements. (The senior division have revised the whole of inorganic chemistry.) Lowest. —English —Macmillan's Literary Beader, No. 5; English History, William I. to Charles 11. ; Geography, New Zealand; Grammar and composition. French—Chardenal's French Course (part); vocabulary. Arithmetic—Compound rules in all tables and mental arithmetic. Science—Lessons in the elements of botany. 2. Scholarships. The Gray-Bussell Scholarship of £40 per annum, tenable for three years, is attached to the school. Free education was given to forty-six pupils, who made 50 per cent, of the total attainable marks at the scholarships examination.

3. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. To Endowments— By Dr. balance.. ' .. .. .. 3,277 16 5 Capital Account —Price of reserves sold 57 7 6 Management—Office salary or salaries.. 130 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 2,348 7 5 Other office expenses—Petty cash, Interest on moneys invested and on £1 55.; stamps, telegrams, and teleunpaid purchase money .. .. 56 7 6 phone, £20 ss. .. .. .. 21 10 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. 425 15 4 Other expenses of management —Office School fees— stationery and printing .. .. 9 10 0 Boys' School .. .. .. 1,833 9 9 Teachers'salaries and allowances — Girls' School .. .. .. 1,010 3 1 Boys' School .. .. .. 2,613 8 1 Boarding-school fees—Girls .. .. 385 10 4 Girls' School .. .. .. 1,656 1 5 Proceeds of sale of debentures .. 3,500 0 0 Boarding-school Account— Boys .. .. .. .. 57 14 8 Girls ... .. .. .. 428 8 9 Examinations .. .. .. 69 18 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 40 0 0 Prizes (two years) .. .. .. 60 12 9 Printing and stationery .. .. 73 12 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, including wages of two janitors .. .. 212 16 10 Advertising .. .. .. .. 32 2 0 Laboratory requisites .. .. 12 2 5 Fencing, repairs, furnishing, &c.— Boys .. .. .. .. 61 3 0 Girls .. .. .. •.. 44 15 8 Insurance .. .. .. .. 58 12 5 Interest— Overdraft.. .. .. .. 51 16 3 Richardson Cadet Corps Fund .. 211 3 Gray Russell Scholarship Fund .. 11 5 3 Coupons on debentures .. .. 75 13 9 Waterrates.. .. .. .. 179 5 0 Inspecting endowments .. .. 9 0 5 Balance .. .. .. .. 427 4 0 £9,617 0 11 £9,617 0 11 John F. M. Fraser, Chairman. C. Macandrew, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

SOUTHLAND HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. Sir,— Invercargill, 28th March, 1898. The Board of Governors of the Southland High Schools have the honour to present the following report for the year 1897 :— At the opening of the year the following gentlemen comprised the Board: Messrs. W. Macalister and W. Boss, appointed by His Excellency the Governor ; Yen. Archdeacon Stocker and Mr. E. Woodward, elected by the Southland Board of Education; and Mr. J. A. Hanan, the Mayor of Invercargill. The Yen. Archdeacon Stocker was elected Chairman. No change occurred during the year in the personnel of the Board of Governors. Teaching Staff. —There was no change in the teaching staff until the end of the year, when Miss Tindall resigned. Miss Kate Isherwood, M.A., of Christchurch, was appointed to succeed Miss Tindall. At the expiration of the first term the Board decided to dispense with the services of the visiting shorthand teacher, and arranged with Mr. George to take this subject.

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Examination. —That good work has been done at the school is evidenced by the fact that at the examination held in December last one pupil (E. M. Erskine) won a University Junior Scholarship, and one gained " credit " in the same examination ; fifteen pupils passed matriculation examination (being all but one of those from Invercargill who passed). Two passed the medical preliminary, eleven the Junior and five the Senior Civil Service Examination. Free Education Scholarships. —Fifteen pupils from the primary schools were admitted at the beginning of the year, who received free education for two years, with the prospect that if exceptionally good progress be made the Board will grant an additional year. Boarding Establishment. —After a fair trial for several years it has been found that the boarding establishment for boys did not result in an advantage to the school that was commensurate with the cost of maintaining the institution. It was therefore decided to close the establishment, which was done at the end of the first term of 1897. The Board has offered the property for sale, but a purchaser has not yet been found. Site for Boys' School. —The Governors have kept before them the importance of obtaining a site for a boys' school, with the view of allowing the girls only to have the building at present used for boys and girls. A suitable site within the means of the Board has not yet been met with. Improvements of School Property. —A substantial stone, concrete, and iron fence has been erected on the street lines of the boundary of the school grounds. The property in other ways also has been greatly improved during the past year. I have, &c, Harry Stocker, Chairman.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 2,806 16 4 By Management .. .. .. 67 10 0 Current income from reserves.. .. 787 15 4 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,197 0 6 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Boarding-school account .. .. 28 3 9 paid purchase-money .. .. 97 16 7 Prizes .. .. .. ■ .. 816 5 Paid by School Commissioners .. 180 3 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 76 13 11 School fees.. .. .. .. 561 9 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 71 7 6 Sale of Furniture .. .. .. 34 17 6 Fencing, repairs, &o .. 18 8 2 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 33 6 0 Expended on site or buildings .. 143 17 6 Chemicals, appliances, and sundries .. 15 7 9 Balance.. .. .. .. .. 2,808 6 6 Total .. .. .. £4,468 18 0 Total .. .. .. £4,468 18 0 H. Stocker, Chairman. Charles Eout, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—As You Like It; Henry V.; Chaucer, Prologue ; Selections from Tennyson ; Bowen's Studies in English; S. Brooke's Literature ; English Lessons for English People; composition, &c. Latin—Virgil, iEneid VII.; Pliny's Letters (selections); Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius (selections); translation at sight; prose ; history and antiquities. French—Gautier's Scenes of Travel; Blouet's Composition ; Brachet's Grammar. Mathematics—Arithmetic; Algebra, to binomial theorem; Euclid, Books I. to IV., VI., with exercises; trigonometry, to solution of triangles. Applied Mathematics—Dynamics. Science—Electricity and magnetism. Lowest. —English—The Lady of the Lake ; Mason's Grammar; composition, &c.; geography; history. Latin—Principia ; Gradatim. French—Principia : Macmillan's First Beader. Arithmetic—Algebra, to simple equations (without fractions); Euclid, Book I. to proposition 34, with exercises. Science —Physics (as in Primer); elements of chemistry (boys); physiology (girls). Shorthand. Drawing—Freehand (girls).

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