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1903. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: SECONDARY EDUCATION. [In continuation of E.-12, 1902.]

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

SECONDARY SCHOOLS INCORPORATED OR ENDOWED.

SUMMARY OP THE ACCOUNTS OP INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR 1902 FURNISHED BY THE GOVERNING BODIES OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Credit balances on Ist January, 1902 .. 24,892 0 5 Liabilities on Ist January, 1902 .. 1,357 110 Endowment reserves sold .. .. 1,165 7 2 Expenses of management .. .. 2,692 311 Mortgage monevs repaid .. .. 2,893 13 I School salaries .. .. .. 38,034 17 4 Rent of reserves .. .. .. 24,760 13 9 Boarding-school accounts .. .. 5,575 1110 Interest on investments .. .. 1,984 16 5 Examination expenses .. .. 575 310 Reserves Commissioners' payments .. 2,864 3 5 Scholarships and prizes .. ... 2,419 15 0 Government payments for technical in- Printing, stationery, fuel, light, &c. .. 3,643 11 10 struction .. .. .. .. 85 11 10 Buildings, furniture, insurance, rent, School fees (tuition) .. .. .. 29,24113 6 and rates .. .. .. .. 11,441 1 9 Boarding-school fees .. .. .. 7,445 18 0 Expenditure on endowments .. .. 2,566 2 4 Books, &c, sold, and refunds .. .. 198 13 7 Capital invested .. .. .. 17 10 0 Sundries not classified .. .. 2,588 5 2 Interest .. .. .. .. 1,557 14 4 Debit balances, 31st December, 1902 .. 3,299 0 9 Sundries .. .. .. .. 3,238 17 9 Credit balances, 31st December, 1902 .. 28,300 5 4 £101,419 17 1 £101,419 17 1

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Name. Act of Incorporation or Institution. Remarks. Whangarei High School 1878, No. 63, Local .. Act may be repealed by Gazette notice under Act of 1885, No. 30. Auckland Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School 1899, No. 11, Local. 1878, No. 55, Local .. Under management of Education Board. Not in operation in 1902. Thames High School New Plymouth High School Wanganui Girls' College Wanganui Collegiate School 1878, No. 54, Local. 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 Gis-borne High School Marlborough High Sohool Nelson College 1887, No. 17, Local. 1882, No. 11, Local. 1885, No. 8, Local .. 1899, No. 27, Local. 1858, No. 38, and 1882, No. 15, Local. 1883, No. 21, Local .. 1883, No. 7, Local .. Canterbury Ordinance, 1855 1878, No. 30, Local .. [Nil] Not in operation in 1902. Greymouth High School Hokitika High School Christ's College Grammar School Not in operation in 1902. Not in operation in 1902. A department of Christ's College, Canterbury. Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School Under management of Canterbury College. Under management of Canterbury College, Endowment, Gazette, 1878, Vol. 1, p. 131. Bangiora High School .. Akaroa High School Ashburton High School Timaru High School Waimate High School Waitaki High School Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Southland Boys' and Girls' High Schools 1881, No. 15, Local. 1881, No. 16, Local .. 1878, No. 49, Local. 1878, No. 26, Local. 1883, No. 19, Local .. 1878, No. 18, Local. 1877, No. 52, Local. 1877, No. 82, Local. Not in operation in 1902. Not in operation in 1902.

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Income of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1902.

a Includes £ISS from sale of old buildings. •> Grant from Government. c Grant for new girls' school. a Includes £83 6s. Bd., subsidy for gymnasium.

From Endowments. From Government. Stationery and Books sold, and Refunds. Schools. Cr. Balances on 1st Jan., 1902. Mortgage moneys repaid. Rents. Interest on Moneys invested. Paid by School Commissioners. Technical Fees. School Fees. Boardingschool Fees. Sundries unclassified. Dr. Balances, 31st Dec, 1902. Totals. Sales. £ s. A. 135 1 7 £ s. A. £ s. a. £ s. d. 38 10 6 4,286 11 6 £ s. A. £ a. A. 150 0 0 150 0 0 £ s. d. £ s. A. 202 13 0 3,328 8 6 £ s. d. £ a. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 526 5 1 8,693 3 0 10,8S3 7 10 2,405 15 5 2,133 9 4 6,792 6 6 3,901 3 3 7,822 7 2 Whangarei High School Auckland Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School .. Thames High School New Plymouth High School .. Wanganui Girls' College Wanganui Collegiate School .. Wellington College and Girls' High School Napier High Schools Gisborne High School Marlborough High School Nelson College Greymouth High School Hokitika High School Rangiora High School Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School Christ's College Grammar School Akaroa High School Ashburton High School Timaru High School Waimate High School Waitaki High School Otago High Schools Southland High Schools 10,060 1 4 479 16 5 1,024 10 2 969 3 0 16 8 3 163 17 6 5,060 2 1 217 9 3 206 16 10 98 7 10 1,011 2 6 1,531 11 0 139 14 2 123 19 0 82 0 2 423*6 6 6"5 0 4313 1 515 19 7 538 10 4 320 0 0 1,029 18 2 2,122 9 8 1,115 15 6 80 0 0 962 4 1 11 12 0 71 0 0 157 5 6 3,203 15 1 288 7 2 2,679 2 7 88 8 6 612 0 8 1,806 0 2 211 2 4 1,481 6 0 2,345 i 2 795 10 3 200 0 0 400 0 0 4 0 10 46 7 8 140 0 0 130 13 11 157 5 0 326 19 11 39 4 2 39 10 0 150 0 0 201 19 8 281 18 4 680"7 2 24 18 11 179 5 2 120 0 0 56 5 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 16 17 0 - 11 16 6 214 9 0 318 4 0 2,033 9 8 2,126 0 0 4,779 8 7 1,192 2 6 558' 0 4 3,169 2 6 2,23811 4 572 0 0 355 6 8 4,015 13 4 41 9 7 7"9 0 89 9 2 2 °2 8 19 0 "155 5 6 b l,000 0 0 3 17 6 30 16 0 149 7 10 59 7 3 5 9 1 2 14 6 *>400 0 0 572 17 6 778 8 2 •• I 1,70716 8 7,973 17 10 636 13 11 1,293 4 10 10,393 7 11 1,211 18 8 1,802 1 0 609 15 2 5,155 0 6 2,309 16 10 6,076 17 9 252 12 11 1,055 18 4 4,634 9 7 1,955 3 4 2,950 10 10 6,884 3 3 3,066 6 10 312 15 6 1,779 6 6 1,662 18 6 2,861 9 11 10 0 0 •• •■ 6 15 0 17 8 4 • ... 12 6 10 13 17 4 18 11 3 28 18 1 •• •• 245' 5 4 161* 0 0 46o'*0 0 57 14 0 15*'o 0 34 5 30'l8 8 828 15 5 2,000 'o 0 850 0 0 92 10 0 65 5 7 7 0 0 48 14 7 38 15 0 8 10 0 24 5 0 178 10 0 650 10 0 1 18 9 00 6 30 5 9 | 239 18 5 •• 1,202" 19 8 1,348 5 7 260 15 8 - 72 1 6 367 0 10 130 6 10 814 3 4 2,395 1 8 665 0 0 264' 6 8 <=576 0 0 •• 188 9 2 Totals 24,892 0 5 !l,165 7 2 24,760 13 9 1,984 16 5 2,864 3 5 85 11 10 29,241 13 6 7,445 18 0 198 13 7 2,588 5 2 3,299 0 9 , 101,419 17 1 |2,893 13 1

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a Interest paid over to Grammar School Board. b Including £149 lis. paid over to Napier Education Board. e Paid over to Education Board. <• Paid to North Canterbury Education Board. e Including £60 paid over to South Canterbury Education Board.

Expenditure of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1902.

Schools. Liabilities o-n 1st Jan., 1902. Expense of Boards' Management: Office and Salaries. School Salaries. Boardingschool Account. Examiners' Fees and Expenses. Printing, Land, Scholar- Stationery, Buildings, ships, Advertising, Furniture, Exhibitions, Cleaning, Insurance, Prizes. Fuel, Light, Rent, &c Rates. Expenditure on Capital Endow- invested. ments. Cr. Tntoroot Sundries Balances, interest. unc laBBitied. 31st Dec, 1902. Totals. £ s. d. £ s. d. 15 1 5 352 13 11 0 10 0 26 0 0 63 8 4 104 8 4 106 8 8 231 0 0 £ s. d. 317 18 0 4,260 7 0 £ s. A. £ s. d.j £ s. a. 8 18 6| 70 10 9, £ s. d. 15 18 3 480 17 4 £ s. d. 51 10 7 2,760 13 6 17 9 2 40 13 11 63 12 5 1,415 19 6 454 8 5 503 7 6 £ S. d.: £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 116 18 4 £ s. d. 526 5 1 8,693 3 0 10,883 7 10 2,405 15 5 2,133 9 4 6,792 6 6 3,901 3 3 7,822 7 2 Whangarei High School .. Auckland Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School Thames High School New Plymouth High School Wanganui Girls' College .. Wanganui Collegiate School Wellington College and Girls' High School Napier High Schools Gisborne High School Marlborough High School Nelson College Greymouth High School .. Hokitika High School B&ngiora High School Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School Christ's College Grammar School Akaroa High School Ashburton High School .. Timaru High School Waimate High School Waitaki High School Otago High Schools Southland High Schools .. 320 5 8 86 17 11 25 0 0 338 6 0 8 8 6 13 13 6 4 10 2 125 14 2 600 0 0 873 10 0 1,801 0 4 2,466 11 8 4,659 1 8 1,766 11 2 629' 3 4 2,782 14 0 364' 11 8 3,837 1 10 - ■■ 2,208'l9 0 50 1 4 " 2,907 "9 3 2"2 0 76 9 9 121 12 2 146 14 9 23 9 1 4 '4 0 8 "8 0 53 4 0 23 3 llj 40 14 10| 41 11 0 61 11 5! 367 19 6 78 19 0 7 13 6 619 9 2 8 "6 6 25 19 6 45 10 3 71 19 11 168 18 9 79 3 5 464 12 6 245 7 5 14 0 78 13 2 409 17 5 26"8 9 205 19 7 333 9 0 201 14 10 3,114 1 11 0 12 7 2 12 0 38 17 11 99 14 1 .. 7**7 6 850 0 0 ■1,268 18 9 •• 15 15 0 419 "2 7 .. 0 5 6 15 0 18 0 662 9 3 117 6 44 16 0 0 19 0 28 12 3 a 400 0 0 1,022 7 6 30 15 4 124 11 0 179 6 0 150 1 4 22 10 0 b 157 12 0 6 14 3 156 15 2 °100 0 0 175 0 0 4 2 6 173 3 7 10,465 8 8 661 14 3 1,006 13 11 400 12 7 943 8 9 3,858 15 0 398 18 11 342 8 3 1,102 17 7 1,609 16 6 154 9 8 101 9 3 7,973 17 10 636 13 11 1,293 4 10 10,393 7 11 1,211 18 8 1,802 1 0 609 15 2 5,155 0 6 50 0 0 282 14 6 •• 200 0 0; 67 1 7 1,513 17 1 50 0 0 1 36 19 0 263 1 6! 68 19 10 38 1 0 . 36 4 9 235 12 1 2,309 16 10 ■• 209 5 4 257 0 0 3,149 5 10 60 17 1 684 6 10 328 5 6 312 7' 10 112 8 2 13 2 7 199 18 3 750 0 4 6,076 17 9 239' 9 9 588' 1 1 1 12 0 30 18 11 366 8 8 19 6 6 120 2 1 242 19 6 84 13 9 595 0 0 1,626 0 0 " 2818 0 4 4 0 6 19 0 22 18 6 26 7 0 5 5 0 33 14 7 22 5 0 6 10 70 16 5 179 10 9 12 10 4 145 16 6 337 3 3 199 17 6 64' 17 7 47 11 4 650 15 8 270 14 9 957 16 3 3 3 0 8 3 3 19 "7 8 0 9 0 31 2 3 157 10 0 4 0 0 "100 0 0 20 5 9 46 4 8 e 61 2 0 17 5 5 141 16 Hi 2,316 17 8 1,831 4 6 65 17 10 1,330 16 4 464 8 0 252 12 11 1,055 18 4 4,634 9 7 1,955 3 4 2,950 10 10 6,884 3 3 3,066 6 10 1,326 5 0 4,167 0 5 1,298 18 4 309 "2 3 17 ia 2 17 10 0 8 2 0 26 "6 0 -• Totals 1,357 1 10 2,692 3 11 2,419 15 0 3,643 11 10 17 10 0 1,557 14 4 3,238 17 9 28,300 5 4 ! 101,419 17 1 38,034 17 41 5,575 11 10 575 3 10| '11,441 1 9 2,566 2 4|

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EXTEACT FEOM THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL EEPOET OF THE MINISTEE OF EDUCATION.

The income for 1902 of the secondary schools subsidised or endowed by Government from school fees, not including fees for boarding, was about £29,242; from rents and interest, about £26,746; from endowments administered by the School Commissioners, about £2,864. The total number of pupils on the rolls in the last term or quarter of the year was 1,903 boys and 1,169 girls.

a Headmaster receives £15 and fees, and pays all expenses of assistants and school stationery. t> Headmaster has residence, c Five masters board at the sohool. & Six teachers have board and residence, e Two masters have residence, and one board and residence, f Headmaster receives house allowance; first assistant's place vacant, s Principal and five masters have board and residence, h Principal and four assistants have board and residence, j Headmaster and five others have houses; three others get residence, k Two masters have board and residence. * Where the rates shown in 8.-128 differ from those in this column, the former represent the full fees chargeable. The latter, which have been subsequently obtained, represent the fees charged after deducting the discount in all cases where it is allowed.

In December, 1902, regulations were published offering to the governing bodies of secondary schools on certain conditions as to age and other qualifica.tions grants at the rate of £6 a head for pupils admitted without payment of

Schools. Stl bfC. Attendance for Last Term or Quarter of 1902. a> S to —' CJD *-S II H II i o pq d Sh o> a For For Board, Ordinary exclusive of Day-school Day-school Course. Tuition. Annual Rates of Fees. Salaries at Rates paid at End of Year. a I I i 5* id O 2 oc o Kegular Staff. Part-time Teachers. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Whangarei High School Auckland Grammar School a 17 2 .6... Is---(6.15 t<7- 9 ib... \g. i J6... 12 4 147 42 8 8 15 15 12 6 79 73 10 13 15 14 1 3 4 24 11 244 128 18 22 30 32 I 32 I 333 I 40 I 57 8 8 0 j 10 10 0 (880 I - a 4,055 0 0i "500 0 0 110 0 0 Thames High School .. •880 New Plymouth High ) School Wanganui Collegiate ) School J 4 10 1 166 6 6 0 j 12 0 0 \ 9 0 0 j 11 0 0 I 8 18 0 I 11 17 9 1 9 11 0 ( 11 17 9] " 9 11 01 (10 4 0i 1 8 15 6| 10 4 0 1 8 15 6 •• I 45 0 0 I 40 0 0 I 42 0 0 ) - I 40 0 0 I 40 0 0 "815 0 0 =2,350 0 0 61 0 0 200 0 0 1 56 139 12 208 203 Wanganui Girls' College 10 12 52 78 7 149 135 55 d 1,440 0 0 290 0 0 Wellington College (Boys') 13 7 81 168 15 271 238 64 3,070 0 0 60 0 0 Wellington Girls' High ) School J 7 12 45 95 8 160 140 1,160 0 0 135 0 0 Napier Boys' High School ] 2 26 33 1 62 59 17 e 845 0 0 30 0 0 Napier Girls' High School 7 28 33 1 69 65 10 800 0 0 25 0 0 Marlborough High School Ib. 4 t<7. 1 10 12 17 20 4 3 41 36 1 - 8 11 0 '525 0 0 Fees. Nelson College (Boys') .. Nelson Girls' College Christ's College Gram- ) mar School J 11 15 10 27 57 25 87 66 86 78 13 12 163 113 206 160 76 197 75 32 60 j 10 10 0 (880 ( 10 10 0 I 8 8 0 14 3 6 11 0 6 I 7 17 6 ( 10 10 0 I 7 10 0 f 12 12 0 (990 (990 16 6 0 I 40 0 0 I 40 0 0 {45 0 0 j 42 0 0 I 40 19 0 1 • I 40 0 0 81,310 0 0 »855 0 0 1 i 3,003 6 8 40 0 0 40 0 0 282 0 0 Christchurch Boys' High 1 School ) Christchurch Girls'High) School J 10 4 71 120 10 205 198 3,275 0 0 437 9 0 7 6 66 65 3 140 132 1,245 0 0 160 4 0 Rangiora High School .. Ashburton High School.. \b. 4 t<7. 1 Ib... Is , --- 7 1.1 e 9 7 18 12 25 15 29 17 I 39 ) « b 390 0 0 595 0 0 6 6 0 Timaru Boys' High I School Timaru Girls' High) School j Waitaki Boys' High School 17 25 24 25 7 48 56 46 54 ( 10 0 0 1 8 0 0 ( 10 0 0 18 0 0 ( 10 10 0 I 4 10 0 j 10 10 0 I 4 10 0 10 0 0 I 42 18 0 I 865 0 0 645 0 0 17 10 0 93 0 0 4 37 67 108 103 62 * 900 0 0 Pees. Waitaki Girls' High Sohool 2 18 26 5 44 42 420 0 0 35 0 0 Otago Boys' High School 7 3 53 103 4 161 156 7 43 10 0 l>2.299 14 0 105 0.0 f 45 0 0 {and fees. Otago Girls' High School 8 3 2 36 76 8 122J 107 10 0 0 40 0 0 1,396 6 0 Southland High School.. K ib... 22 31 31 1 2 60 55 I 110 (10 0 0 (500 1 1 •■ 1,180 0 0 150 0 0 Totals 155 59 (6.84 l<7.63 734 405 1009 740 76 (51 1,903 1,169 j 2,836 ')59 33,939 6 8 2,316 3

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fees for tuition, provided that one free place was already given for each £50 of the net income from endowments. Fifteen out of the twenty-five secondary schools have so far accepted the conditions, and up to May of the present year (1903) 588 pupils were thus receiving free secondary education in these schools; out of this number grants were being paid for 400, the remainder being those admitted at the rate of one for each £50 of such net income.

Number of Pupils receiving Secondary Education at District High Schools at 31st December, 1902.

At the end of 1902 there were 1,426 pupils in the district high schools who, having passed Standard VI., were receiving free instruction in secondary subjects. The number of such schools, which during 1901 had increased from thirteen to twenty-one, rose to thirty-eight at the end of 1902. The following table shows the number of Education Board scholarships held in December, 1902, with their tenure and annual value. The total expenditure of the Boards under this head amounted to £8,395 lis. 5d.; the total paid to the Boards for scholarship purposes by the Department was £8,197 9s. 7d.

With the increase of free places in secondary schools, the necessity of making direct provision by scholarships for enabling pupils to pay the fees for instruction will gradually disappear, and the money thus set free might very reasonably be used by the Boards to increase the number of boarding scholarships, in order that more scholars from country districts may have the advantages of secondary education. • *

I =W \°»s o o Education District. S3 o RS3 9 ° i Sod Numl Passed Standard VI. ber of Pupils. Others. Amount paid by Government to EdueaI Total ti on Boards during the Year. Number of m , , Pupils, Total. 190I . Capitation , Grants in M. F. Total. M. F. Total. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury .. South Canterbury .. Otago Southland 7 ! 1 I i S 88 22 169 31 25 82 10 158 49 24 170 32 327 80 49 1 38 1 13 1 51 170 59 34 1 32 378 i 168 80 .. 49 26 £ a. d. 306 10 0 127 10 0 1,133 0 0 115 13 4 158 10 0 £ s. d. 82 10 0 30 0 0 147 10 0 17 10 0 30 0 0 £ s. d. 389 0 0 157 10 0 1,280 10 0 133 3 4 188 10 0 3 1 1 1 3 9 3 65 22 13 12 71 172 55 59 20 21 18 53 143 44 124 42 34 30 124 315 99 124 ' 33 42 22 34 22 30 • 19 124 i 70 315 196 99 15 320 0 0 186 5 0 131 0 0 113 10 0 502 5 4 1,177 0 0 111 0 0 52 10 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 82 10 0 240 0 0 45 0 0 372 10 0 216 5 0 161 0 0 143 10 0 584 15 4 1,417 0 0 156 0 0 Totals for the colony Totals for 1901 38 I 21 I 745 324 681 281 1,426 605 39 44 14 13 53 57 1,479 662 662 4,382 3 8 1,261 0 0 817 10 0 300 0 0 5,199 13 8 1,561 0 0

Education Districts. Number p„ in = Boards held in „ , , Expenditure Dec BoyS - Gl1 ' 18 ' ™ 0f on Scholarships 1902. Tenure. in 1902 J Annual Value, &c Auckland # . Taranaki 1'ears. £ s. d. 83 59 24 3 1,747 4 0 14 9 5 2 278 13 10 4 at £30; 21 at £25 ; 24 at £20; 34 at £15. 4 at £35; 2 at £14; 6 at £10; 1 at £4 13s. 4d.; 1 at £3 6s. 8d. 13 at £40; 1 at £32 10s.; 1 at £32 ; 1 at £15 ; 2 at £5. 12 at £35 ; 27 at £15. 8 at £30 4s. ; 2 at £16 4s. ; 15 at £10 4s. 3 at £35 ; 9 at £10. 7 at £50 10s. ; 1 at £25 ; 1 at £10. £25. I at £23 ; 2 at £17 10s.; 4 at £8. 19 at £40; 17 at £20. II at £22 10s. ; 1 at £8 ; 2 at £6 ; 17 at £2 10s. Wanganui; 18 11 7 Varies 635 18 3 Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury 39 20 19 | 2 929 3 6 25 11 14 2 499 7 1 12 3 9 2 163 0 0 9 5 4 2 371 17 6 4 3 1 2 100 0 0 7 3 4 2 101 11 0 36 18 18 2 1,183 11 7 31 13 18 2 335 9 8 Otago 54 36 18 { j } 1,383 7 2 23 15 8 | | 666 7 10 13 at £40 ; 4 at £35 ; 1 at £24 ; 2 at £22 ; 17 at £20; 17 at £15. 13 at £35 ; 1 at £20 ; 1 at £18 ; 8 at £15. Southland "Totals, 1902.. "Totals, 1901.. 355 358 206 201 149 157 8,395 11 5 8,331 10 5

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Eepokt of the Insi'ectoh-Geneiul of Schools.

Right Hon. Minister of Education. I have the honour to present my report upon the secondary schools and upon certain other matters connected with secondary education. Since the period to which the last report (8.-12, 1902) refers, all the secondary schools except two have been inspected; but I regret that constant pressure of work has prevented in most cases the carrying-out of the intention to forward to the governing bodies and the principals of the schools copies of the reports thereon. I am glad to say that I see signs of progress in nearly all, perhaps in all, of the secondary schools. Much more attention is being devoted to methods of teaching than formerly, and although in some cases the interest in new methods has not passed the stage of inquiry and thought, yet even that is of value as influencing the character of the instruction that is given; in fact, anything that gives life and energy to the lessons must increase their educational effect. In many of the schools earnest efforts are being made by the staff to bring the teaching into accordance with modern ideas and modern requirements. This is seen in the improvement of the language-teaching, more stress being laid on an actual knowledge of the languages taught, whether it be by a careful treatment of the translation lessons, as those who have been trained themselves in the old ways seem often to prefer, or by conversation lessons leading up to reading and composition in the foreign language, followed later by translation, according to the new or natural system, as it is called. I think, indeed, that before long, whichever be the method adopted by the language-teachers in the colony, the old or the new, all of them will come to realise more fully the great educational value of a large amount of oral work in every language taught. I would again express my opinion that it is, comparatively speaking, a waste of time, or, more precisely perhaps, that it is not making the best use of the time for which the average boy or girl remains at a secondary school, to attempt to teach two foreign languages to the great majority of the pupils in the secondary schools. One language acquired up to the point at which it can be used in speech, in reading, and in writing, or even in translation alone, is worth ten times as much educationally —that is, as an intellectual training—as any number of languages of which there is acquired merely a smattering of accidence and syntax, a certain facility in translating stock detached sentences, and the knowledge of a small portion of some author. I state this strongly, it may be dogmatically, in spite of the fact that I am well aware that teachers whose literary scholarship is far higher than anything I can lay claim to, and whose opinions therefore I am bound to treat with a due amount of professional courtesy, still cling to the old ways and old ideas. Trained myself probably in the same way as they, I feel that I have been convinced by the force of facts that the real training afforded by a language consists in its use as a vehicle for the expression of human thought, and not in mere grammar drill; indeed, that to attempt to teach the grammar of a language —that is, the science and the philosophy of it—before teaching the language itself is a veritable putting of the cart before the horse. In short, for the average boy or girl attending a New Zealand secondary school, with a stay thereat of two or three years, there cannot properly be spared time for more than one language ; and, although I do not expect all to agree with me (indeed, it is of rare occurrence to find doctors—that is, teachers —all agreed), yet I do unhesitatingly affirm that, if one language only is to be taught, it must in general, nay, almost inevitably, be a modern language. Ido not for one moment believe that classical learning in the old sense —that is, Latin and Greek learning—will suffer in any essential particular from the fact that all those who take it up do so with the intention of pursuing it as a serious study, and that others who have no such intention give up Latin and Greek altogether. Neither do I admit that the literature of England, France, and Germany is in any sense inferior to that of two ancient nations, however enlightened they may have been in their time. The modern literature has at all events this advantage for the average boy : that in thought and feeling it appeals to his interest and attention, and can really affect his sympathy and train his taste and intelligence, and not remain a mere lesson and nothing else, like the Latin or Greek that a boy learns at school. Of course, much still depends upon the personality of the teacher : it is because the best teachers have in the past given their attention to Latin and Greek that these languages have been the means of discipline for many minds; but there is no reason why equal skill should not be employed in the teaching of modern languages —indeed, this is to a large extent already being done. If such be the case, the reason for a differential treatment of ancient and modern languages by the universities largely disappears. The following extract from the School World of May, 1903, is to the point in this connection :— A meeting of the Modern Languages Association was held in Glasgow on the 15th April, when Professor Kirkpatrick, LL.D., of Edinburgh University, in his presidential address, referred to the conflict between the advocates of the study of classical and of modern languages, and contended that the University Commissioners, by assigning double marks to classical subjects as against modern subjects in the bursary competition, had intensified the controversy. It was maintained that the classical languages were more efficient instruments of education than the modern, but this contention was largely based on the fallacy that, because more time and attention were devoted in most countries to classics than to modern languages, the former were therefore more educative than the latter. He urged classical supporters to study carefully the Frankfort system, under which it was found more natural and rational to begin linguistic study with a modern than with an ancient language. The following motion was afterwards agreed to : — That absolute equality of status be accorded to ancient and to modern languages, both in school and university ; that, wherever possible, the Erankfort principle of basing classical study on a thorough training in one modern language be brought into practice, and that that principle, so successful in Germany, and so beneficial both to classical study and to general education, be strongly recommended to the notice of the Scottish Education Department and of the public generally. 4

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Improvement is manifest in the teaching of science ; but it is still scarcely recognised that a well-equipped (but not necessarily expensive) laboratory is an essential for every secondary school. It can hardly be said yet that the teaching of science is founded upon the only true basis— namely, individual experiment and observation by the pupils themselves. In a few of the schools, it is true, this method is adopted, and in some is carried out in an excellent manner ; but one still now and then meets with such anomalies in science lessons as the setting of boys and girls to learn from a book certain information on a scientific subject, the setting of questions so as to enable them to put such information into the best form for reproduction at an examination, and then, finally, as a kind of plum, the exhibition by the teacher of what is called an experiment, presumably to try or test whether, after all, what is stated in the book is approximately true, for measurement and preciseness are in such cases usually not thought of as elements in the question. So extreme a case is, of course, rare, but it will serve as an example to illustrate how science should not be taught, but yet is, unfortunately, sometimes treated. Geometry and other branches of mathematics are taught for the most part on the old formal lines, and although consequently the most has not been made of these subjects, yet by their very nature the educational effect of so treating them has been less harmful than the conservatism that has prevailed in the teaching of languages and science. Indeed, the plea that is often put forward as an excuse for the non-adoption of new methods in mathematical teaching derives a good deal of force from the fact that in the examinations of the University of New Zealand any movement in that direction has hitherto been distinctly discouraged, if not rendered almost impossible. But it is satisfactory to note that recent changes in the syllabus prescribed for the entrance examinations of the University indicate a tendency to move—even though but a little way at present —in the direction of reform. I trust, however, that the example set by the University of Cambridge in the adoption of a more modern programme of mathematics in its " Previous Examination " may soon be followed by our own University. The above remarks suggest one difficulty that all the authorities of the secondary schools feel in regard to their work—namely, the necessity (supposed or real) of subordinating it in a large degree to the Matriculation and Junior Scholarship examinations. These examinations are held by the University presumably as tests for those who are about to enter its doors as students in one or other of its University colleges ; they are not necessarily suited to be leaving-examinations for the pupils of secondary schools, nine-tenths of whom never intend to enter the University at all. The secondary schools exist quite as much for the nine-tenths who do not go to the University as for the one-tenth (or, perhaps, hardly more than one-twentieth) who do ; and their programmes should be drawn up, therefore, otherwise than on the assumption that they are merely feeders of the University. Possibly, governing bodies and parents need education in regard to this aspect of the question quite as much as the staffs of the schools, for there is certainly an impression among the latter that the public demand from every school a respectable number of passes in the University entrance examinations, and measure the school almost solely by its performances thereat. The harmful effect of the dominating influence that these examinations exercise over the curriculum of the secondary schools is intensified by the fact that the questions set do not always encourage the most modern or enlightened ways of teaching the various subjects, but in some cases even give a distinct handicap to those taught upon methods that are generally considered to be out of date. The proportion of time given to the various subjects of the school course does not vary quite so much perhaps as one would expect in secondary schools so different in size, in management, and in organization; but the details are so diverse that it is almost impossible to give a synopsis of the time-tables in vogue at the several schools. Omitting one or two of the very smallest schools, it will be found, however, that the following table shows with a fair degree of accuracy the amount of time devoted to the most prominent subjects in the upper, middle, and lower classes of a course which may be taken roughly as a five-years' course : —

District High Schools. It is doubtful whether any district high school should be established where there is not a prospect of the attendance of at least twenty pupils. When that number is reached it becomes possible, with the grants given in accordance with the regulations under the Public School Teachers' Salaries Act, to staff and organize the secondary classes. Considerable difference exists in various parts of the colony as regards the staffing of such schools. With the same grants some schools seem to secure sufficient staffing, while others have certainly not made such an increase to the staff of an ordinary public school as the circumstances demand.

Subject. Time (mean fo: all Schools), in Hi mrs per Week. English (25 schools) Latin (25 schools) ... French (25 schools) Upper Classes. 4-68 5-00 3-56 Middle Classes. 4-25 3-86 3-04 Lower Classes. 6-14 3-25 (12 schools) 2-74 (24 schools) 1-63 5-45 1-25 (18 schools) German (4 schools) Mathematics (25 schools) Science (23 schools) ' 2-67 6-68 ■ 3-64 2-38 5-86 2-39

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The number of district high schools in operation at the end of 1902 was thirty-eight, with 1.479 pupils, of whom 1,426, having passed S6, were receiving free secondary education. The number of such schools has now (October, 1903) increased to fifty. In country districts a very considerable part of the secondary education of the colony is carried out by means of the district high schools. I would therefore venture to repeat here, as it appears still to be necessary, some of the remarks and warnings given in last year's report on the subject of district high schools : — It seems to be necessary to utter a note of warning with regard to the syllabus of work that is being taken up in the district high schools. It may be safely laid down that the secondary instruction given in these schools should have a bearing on the future life of the pupils. It is now tolerably well recognised that it is no reason in favour of choosing a subject for the school curriculum to say that it has no practical or utilitarian value, but rather the contrary • " bread-and-butter studies," as they have been called, are not necessarily to be condemned because the knowledge gained is afterwards useful, but are rather to be preferred if they are pursued in such a way as to train the intelligence of the pupil, and to lead him to think about those things that he will have to handle in the future. There is too much tendency at present in the district high schools to give the secondary pupils a little Latin or French and a little elementary algebra or Euclid, and to avoid science and manual and commercial training. The aim in view in establishing district high schools will probably be gained if these schools give the pupils a good taste for standard English literature, a thorough training in ordinary English composition and in arithmetic and mensuration and such knowledge of history and geographv as will enable them to understand better their duties as citizens of the Empire ; adding thereto a course in elementary science in which the observations and experiments are carried out by every pupil for himself, and a suitable course of manual work or of commercial work where local conditions demand it. These essentials being secured, other subjects may be taken up if room can be found for them; and if among these subjects a foreign language is included, by all means let it be a modern one, and let it be studied so far thoroughly that some real knowledge of the language, not merely of its grammatical forms, is acquired. The grants for manual instruction (including practical science) under the Manual and Technical Instruction Act are payable to school classes in addition to the special district high school grant, so that there is no excuse on the ground of expense for the comparative neglect of these subjects. There is no reason why any of our district high schools, or, indeed, any of our secondary schools, should take as their model the lower forms of an old English grammar-school. It is true that the newer subjects require greater skill and a larger amount of preparation on the part of the teacher ; but it cannot be supposed that the teachers of the colony are not as skilful as those of other countries, or are less willing to devote themselves with energy to a task whose realisation may enable their pupils " to travel throughout life by day instead of by night." Scholarships and Free Secondary Education. Some reference should be made to the regulations for free secondary education that came into force at the end of last year (1902). The acceptance of the scheme was optional with the governing bodies of secondary schools. Every school that accepted the scheme had first to provide a free place or scholarship for each £50 of its net annual income derived from endowments ; and, secondly, to give free secondary education to those who had gained a certificate of proficiency under the Public School syllabus, and were not over fourteen years of age on the 31st December preceding their admission to the school; for each of these latter free places a grant of £6 per annum was paid to the secondary school. Some of the schools, for financial and other reasons, have so far (October, 1903) not seen their way to adopt the scheme; but it has been taken up by 15 out of the 23 schools that might come under it, ,and the number of pupils admitted in accordance with it is, up to the present date, 781, for 584 of whom grants are being paid. _ As a consequence of the policy of granting free secondary education to qualified pupils, the scholarships given bv Education Boards may now be more and more devoted to the maintenance of scholars from country schools who have to board away from home in order to obtain secondary education. Such scholarships will be supplemented by the institution of the proposed " National Scholarships," and in eight districts of the colony by the Queen's Scholarships already established. Again, the new syllabus for S7 provides some degree of instruction in secondary subjects in town schools and country schools for those not proceeding to a secondary school. Finally, continuation classes will afford to those who leave school early some opportunity of gaining secondary education, including technical education, and the best of them will be able to do so without payment of fees, as the junior and senior technical scholarships are open, without reference to age, to all who gain a certificate of proficiency. Mention should be made of the Bhodes Scholarships, which almost complete, so to speak, the edifice whose lower stories consist of Board scholarships, free places at secondary schools, Queen's Scholarships, National Scholarships, senior and junior technical scholarships, University junior and senior scholarships, and the like. They will give each year an opportunity for one of the best of our students to go to reside for three years at the University of Oxford. It is hoped that arrangements may be completed in time to admit of the election of the first New Zealand Bhodes Scholar next year (1904). From what has been said, it will be seen that the several changes that have recently been introduced are not unconnected, but are parts of a general scheme that is gradually approaching that degree of co-ordination at which it can claim to be called a national system of education. G. Hogbbn, Inspector-General of Schools.

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Pupils attending District High Schools, 31st December, 1902.

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Number >f Pupils on Roll. Districts. Schools. Passed Standard VI. Others. Totals for Districts. M. ) F. Total, Totals. M. F. Total. Auckland Aratapu Cambridge Coromandel Opotiki Paeroa Tauranga Waihi .. 9 15 5 10 23 7 19 17 9 8 6 18 7 17 26 24 13 16 41 14 ' 36 26 24 13 16 41 14 36 Taranaki Stratford 22 10 32 1 1 2 34 170 34 ■ I Eltham Feilding Hawera Marton College Street (P.N.) Patea Wanganui Boys 10 21 31 21 49 11 26 9 20 30 15 50 12 22 19 41 61 36 99 23 48 2 j 6 1 1 8 1 1 5 11 2 23 27 42 62 41 110 25 71 Wanganui .. .. 4 "5 8 3 2 23 Wellington Masterton 31 49 80 80 378 80 Hawke's Bay Gisborne 25 24 49 49 49 Nelson .. .. .. j Motueka Westport Reefton ■m 23 25 17 20 28 11 43 53 28 43 53 28 124 Grey .. Greymouth 22 20 42 42 34 42 Westland Hokitika 13 21 34 34 North Canterbury Akaroa 12 18 30 30 Geraldine Temuka Waimate 15 32 24 13 18 22 28 50 46 28 . 50 46 30 South Canterbury .. -j 124 Otago .. .. .. < Balclutha Hampden Lawrence Mosgiel Naseby.. Palmerston Port Chalmers .. Tapanui Tokomairiro 31 20 32 17 6 13 18 11 24 23 13 21 13 9 10 18 8 28 54 33 53 30 15 23 36 19 52 54 33 53 30 15 23 36 19 52 Southland .. .. \ Riverton Win ton Gore 12 9 34 13 5 26 25 14 60 25 14 60 315 99 Totals for tl ie colony 745 681 1,426 39 14 53 1,479

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EEPOETS OF GOVERNING BODIES, SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

WHANGABEI HIGH SCHOOL.

Staff. Mr. Roger Lupton, Miss A. L. Gavey, and Mr. T. Cameion. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ h. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 135 1 7 Office salary .. .. .. 12 710 Current income from reserves .. .. 38 10 6 Other office expenses .. .. .. 213 7 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 150 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. .. 317 18 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 202 13 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 818 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 7 8 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. .. 8 10 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 10 4 6 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 11 2 1 Addition to High School .. .. .. 30 4 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 116 18 4 £526 5 1 £526 5 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.— Mathematics—Algebra, Hall and Knight (all); Euclid, Books 1.-VI., Layng's; trigonometry, Hall and Knight; arithmetic, general; mechanics, Tutorial Series. Science—Heat, Stewart's. English—Chaucer, The Prologue, The Knightes Tale ; Spenser, Faerie Queen ; Book 1., Seeley's Expansion of England; Shakespeare's Hamlet, Henry V. ; Nesfield's Past and Present. Latin—Virgil, iEneid, Book V.; Caesar, Books 11. and III.; Horace, Epistles (selected); Allcroft's Cupos ; history, and antiquities. French—Chardenal's French Course, Book II.; unseen translation from selected authors. Loioest. —English—West's English Grammar; Laing's English Literature as reading-book; Goldsmith's Deserted Village; History, Saxon and Norman periods ; Geography, the colonies. Mathematics —Euclid, Book 1., 1-15; arithmetic, higher rules. Latin —Principia, Book I. to verbs. French —Chardenal's First Course (part) ; and easy translation. Science —Elementary physiology. Drawing —Freehand, and elementary perspective.

3. Arrangements por Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Two hours a week are devoted to drawing—freehand, geometrical, and elementary perspective : those pupils in the upper classes doing special work are not required to take drawing. A gymnasium building has been erected, but it still remains to be fitted with apparatus. Swimming is indulged in throughout the summer months ; no regular instruction is given ; all boys who have been at the school for a year can swim ; at the present time five boys failed to qualify oyer a 75-yards course : no arrangements have been made to teach the girls swimming. Instruction in drill was given by the headmaster once a week. Advantage has not yet been taken of " The Manual and Technical Instruction Act, 1900."

4. Scholarships. The Governors gave free tuition to three scholars, and one senior and four junior Education Board scholarships were held at the school.

AUCKLAND GBAMMAB SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. W. Tibbs, M.A. ; Mr. W. J. Morrell, M.A. ; Mr. J. H. Howell, 8.A.,8.5c.; Mr. J. F. Sloman, B.A. ; Mr. J. G. Trevithick; Mr. J. H. Turner, M.A. ; Mr. H. J. D. Mahon, B.A. ; Mr. J. P. Dakin, B.A. ; Rev. J. King Davis, M.A. ; Mr. R. A. McCullough, M.A. ; Mr. P. Drummond, B.A. ; Mr. E. Clarke, M.A. ; Miss E. G. Wallace; Miss F. A. Haultain; Miss A. C. Morrison, M.A.; Miss B. Blades; Miss W. Picken, M.A. ; Mr. Kenneth Watkins ; Mr. W. M. Carrollo. 1. Report op the Governors. Experimental Science. —To meet the growing demand for practical work in science, the Board has completely equipped the temporary laboratory with apparatus imported from England, so that the means of teaching chemistry and physics is now reasonably complete. In selecting Mr. E. Clarke as an extra assistant master, his qualifications for teaching botany had considerable weight with the Board. The botanical laboratory on the girls' side has been furnished with models imported from Germany, and with simple apparatus locally made. Distinctions. —Three pupils of the school won junior foundation scholarships, and eight others passed the examination "with credit." Twenty-two passed Matriculation. Two passed the Civil Service Senior Examination, and eighteen the Junior, of whom four obtained cadetships. The Sinclair Scholarship for Biology, tenable at the Auckland University College, was won by a pupil

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on the girls' side. At the University of New Zealand six senior scholarships were won by five former pupils of the school. At the University of London S. A. Bull graduated M.D., and B. W. Allen won a gold medal at the intermediate examination for M.B. At Edinburgh W. J. Barclay was elected F.8.C.5., and obtained the Leckie-Mactier Fellowship. Free Pupils. —There were during the year thirty-nine pupils receiving free education at the school. Education Board Scholars. —The number of Board of Education scholars at the school in 1902 was eighty-two. Prizes. —The usual distribution of prizes took place on the 18th December, 1902. One hundred books were presented to the boys and girls, the cost of which amounted to £50 10s. 9d. Primary-school Pupils. —An important letter was addressed to the Board by the Minister of Education on the 11th December, 1902, requesting the admission to the school at about half fees of all those who " have obtained a certificate of proficiency " as defined by regulations under " The Education Act, 1877," and are " not over fourteen years of age on the 31st December preceding the date of admission." On this subject a committee was appointed by the Board to consider and report on the matter, and. their report, which was as follows, was adopted by the Board, and forwarded to the Minister of Education ;— 1. The committee appointed to consider the proposal of the Government for granting free education at the Grammar School regrets that the Board of Governors was not consulted before the scheme was propounded. It appears that this Board is called on, in the first place, to grant free tuition for every £50 of net income from endowments the Board holds. This means that this Board must, in the first instance, admit forty-four pupils without charge. Secondly, the Board is required to admit at about half fees, or £6 per annum, all pupils of primary schools who have obtained " certificates of proficiency" and were not over fourteen on 31st December last. Those eligible in the Auckland Education District, the committee is informed, would amount to about five hundred per annum, of whom two hundred and fifty might claim the privilege of free education. The school, with 380 boys and girls, is now about full, so the Government will perceive the difficulty the Auckland Grammar School Board would be placed in if it now accepted the scheme. 2. The committee therefore regrets that, from want of accommodation, it does not see its way to at once recommend the Board to accept the proposals of the Minister of Education with regard to the admission to the school of boys and girls who have obtained certificates of proficiency at about half the present fees, or £6 for each boy and girl under fourteen years of age on the 31st December last. Your committee recommends the Board to co-operate with the Government as far as their means permit in extending the benefits of secondary education to pupils of primary schools, provided the Government (1) will grant the Board funds to enlarge the school for the accommodation of boys and girls who become qualified in the primary schools of the Auckland District, and (2) are prepared to grant the Board £10 for each pupil sent under the Government scheme. The committee thinks it might be right to state that a sum of £6 is inadequate to cover the cost of secondary education. It is estimated to cost at the Grammar School £14 per head, but the committee, being averse to having two scales of fees, recommends the Board to have a uniform fee of £10 for boys and girls over thirteen years of age. It would be manifestly undesirable to have varying fees for tuition in the school—one for the regular pupils and another for the pupils from the primary schools. The committee is strongly of opinion that if free education be granted it should be granted to those who obtained "certificates of proficiency" at the Scholarship Examination of the Auckland Board of Education, instead of to those who obtained such certificates at the Inspectors' examination of Sixth Standard pupils. The committee thinks that every reasonable encouragement should be given to pupils of the primary schools advancing to secondary education, as has for many years been done by the Board of Education scholarships, from which they in many cases proceed to university education; but it is the duty of the Board also to take care that their zeal for spreading secondary education does not involve the Board in serious financial difficulties, and therefore it is that the committee advises the Board to ascertain precisely what would be the loss to the Board if the Government scheme were accepted, and what would be the loss on the scheme if modified as is suggested. G. Maurice O'Borke, Chairman.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Current income from reserves— Balance at beginning of year .. .. 320 5 8 Ground-rents .. .. .. 2,608 8 6 Management— Weekly rents .. .. .. 1,678 3 0 Salary of Secretary .. .. .. 120 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. 150 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 43 15 11 School fees .. .. .. •• 3,328 8 6: Commission, &c, to collector .. .. 188 18 0 From Education Board under section 23, Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 4,260 7 0 " Auckland Grammar School Act, 1899" 200 0 0 School requisites .. .. .. 161 13 8 Sale of old buildings .. .. .. 155 0 0 Election expenses .. .. .. 214 4 Refund, Agent-General (Street and Co.'s I Legal expenses.. .. .. .. 8 6 5 account) .. .. •• •• 050: Scholarship expenses .. .. .. 20 0 0 Sale of a school roll .. .. .. 0 0 6 Prizes.. .. .. .. .. 50 10 9 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 572 17 6 Printing and advertising .. .. 121 18 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c.— School .. .. .. .. 21 12 6 Other property .. .. .. 42 5 9 Stationery allowance .. .. .. 133 6 8 Site and buildings, from current revenue— New buildings .. .. .. 525 1 0 Fencing, repairs, &c.— School .. .. .. .. 123 13 0 Other property .. .. .. 1,648 18 3 Insurance and taxes— School .. .. .. .. 60 16 9 Other property .. .. .. 402 4 6 Interest on ourrent account .. .. 19 4 4 Interest on loans .. .. .. 399 18 3 Athletic sports.. .. .. •• 12 11 6 Swimming sports .. .. .. 5 0 0 £87693 3 0 | - £8,693 3 0 G. Maurice O'Borke, Chairman. W. Wallace Kidd, 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 (Boys' and Girls' Sides). —English—Nesfield's English Grammar, Past and Present; Nichol, Primer of English Composition, with exercises on same ; Macaulay, Essay on Horace Walpole; Tennyson, selections ; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Chaucer, Prologue and selections from Man of Lawes and Squire's Tales ; Oman, England in Nineteenth Century. Latin—Cicero, Pro Milone ; Horace, Satires and Epistles; Virgil, iEneid, II.; Sallust, Jugurtha; Tod and Longworth's Passages for Latin Unseen Translation ; Crestweli and Banton's Specimens of Latin Literature, Part II.; Bevised Latin Primer; Stedman's Latin Grammar Papers; North and Hillard's Latin Prose Composition; Sargent's Easy Passages for Latin Prose; Smith's Smaller History of Bome. French—Tartarin de Tarascon, Daudet; Modern French Poetry, Berthon ; Wellington College French Grammar, with exercises on same ; Hamonet's Extracts. Mathematics—Todhunter and Loney's Algebra; Hall and Stevens's Euclid ; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry; Ward's Trigonometrical Exercises. Science : Boys—Boscoe and Harden's Chemistry; Larden's Heat : Girls—■ C. M. Jessop, Elements of Applied Mechanics ; Miss Aitken's Botany. Lowest. —Boys—Fourth Imperial Beader ; English Grammar ; easy composition ; Symes's English History ; Southern Cross Geography, IV.; Dent's First French Book. Girls—Fourth Imperial Beader; English Grammar; easy composition; Symes's English History; Southern Cross Geography, IV.; Dent's First French Book; Elementa Latina.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commeecial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing: Boys' side—The upper forms take plane and solid geometry, followed by workingdrawings from actual machinery; the lower forms are taught model and freehand drawing, brushwork, drawing from memory, and the conventional treatment of subjects with a view to originality of design. Girls' side —Outline from the flat and from model ; shading from the flat and from model; drawing and shading from the antique. Instruction is given on the boys' side in carpentry, joinery, and turning in the school workshop; one class on the girls' side takes wood-carving. On the boys' side encouragement is given to the study of book-keeping and commercial arithmetic, mensuration, and shorthand ; and a class for shorthand is held on the girls' side. All boys and girls below the Fifth Form are expected to attend the classes in the gymnasium. There is a cadet corps, over sixty strong, under the command of one of the masters. Swimming sports are held on both sides in the first term of the year ; the Board makes a special grant to the prize funds; for the summer term the boys are taken twice a week to the Albert Street Baths.

5. Scholarships. The school gave free education to 21 foundation scholars, 13 holders of certificates from the Education Board, 1 Native scholar, and 4 daughters of members of the staff. Other scholarships held at the school were 7 John Williamson, 6 Bawlings, 12 Auckland Girls' High School, and 70 district (Education Board) scholarships.

AUCKLAND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902.

Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 10,060 1 4 Management—Bank commission .. 010 0 Endowments—Capital Account—Price of Interest paid over to Auckland Grammar timber sold .. .. .. .. 423 6 6 School .. .. .. .. 400 0 0 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 400 0 0 Rates on endowment, Hobson County .. 17 9 2 Balance at end of year— On mortgage .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 In debentures .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 On fixed deposit .. .. .. 300 0 0 On current acoount .'. .; .. 165 8 8 £10,883 7 10 £10,883 7 10 James Muir, Chairman. Vincent E. Bice, Secretary and Treasurer.

Expenditure. £ s. d. Management—Bank commission .. 0 10 0 Interest paid over to Auckland Grammar School .. .. .. .. 400 0 0 Bates on endowment, Hobson County .. 17 9 2 Balance at end of year— On mortgage .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 In debentures .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 On fixed deposit .. .. .. 300 0 0 On current acoount .. .; .. 165 8 8 £10,883 7 10 Jambs Muib, Chairman. Vincent E. Bice, Secretary and Treasurer.

Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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THAMES BOYS' AND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. James Adams, B.A. ; Miss Mary R. Foy. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s . d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 479 16 5 Office salary .. .. .. .. 20 0 0 Government grant-in-aid .. .. 1,000 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 6 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 464 19 2 Teachers' salaries and allowances.. .. 600 0 0 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 51 0 5 Examiners' fees.. .. .. .. 2 2 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 150 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 10 19 6 School fees .. .. .. 214 9 0 I Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. .. 34 10 9 Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 4 010 I Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 18 2 3 Refunds rates, insurance, &c, on Endow- Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 32 11 8 ment Account .. .. .. 41 9 7 Endowments—Expe nses of management, &c. 7 7 6 School requisites .. .. .. 21 5 3 Legal expenses .. .. .. .. 14 16 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 2 18 6 Expenses incurred by maturity of endowment leases, and reletting same .. 983 7 9 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 661 14 3 £2,405 15 5 £2,405 15 5 Frank Trembath, Chairman. Jas Kernick, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.— Mathematics—Euclid (Hall and Stevens), Books 1.-VI. and riders; trigonometry (Lock's Elementary) to solution of plane triangles ; algebra to permutations (Hall and Knight) ; arithmetic, general. Science—Chemistry (Boscoe and Harden) ; electricity (Sylvanus Thompson); practical chemistry (Tilden). French—Fasnacht, Part 111. ; translations at sight. English— Nesfield's English Grammar; Nichol's English Composition ; Shakespeare's Henry V. ; Chaucer's Knight's Tale. Latin—First Steps in Latin Prose (Walters) ; Latin at Sight; Caesar, Book II.; Virgil, Book 11. ; Boman History and Antiquities. Lowes*.—-Arithmetic—Compound rules, weights and measures, fractions. History—l6o3-1714, Epochs of History (Mrs. Gardiner). Geography—Australia, New Zealand, England. English grammar—Parts of speech, easy parsing, and analysis. Drawing and needlework.

3. Scholarships. The Governors gave free tuition to nine scholars, and two senior and four junior district scholarships were also held at the school.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr Ernest Pridham, M.A. ; Miss C. D. Grant, M.A. ; Mr. H. H. Ward; Miss G. Drew, 8.A.; Mrs. Hooker; Miss Smith. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ B. d. j Expenditure. £ p. d. Balance at beginning of year .. ..1,024 10 2 I ManagementEndowments— Office salaries.. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 538 10 4 i Other office expenses .. .. .. 315 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 201 19 8 Other expenses of management.. .. 912 10 School fees .. .. .. .. 318 4 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances.. .. 873 10 0 Transfer fees '.'. .. .. .. 10 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 23 311 Interest on deposits .. .. .. 46 7 8 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 16 12 8 Sale of stove .. .. .. .. 217 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c.. .. .. 55 7 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 39 2 5 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 24 TO 0 Interest on current account .. .. 0 5 6 Furniture and appliances .. .. 17 1 6 Valuation and law expenses .. .. 13 13 10 Balances — On deposit, Bank of New Zealand .. .. .. 200 0 0 At Post-Office Savings-Bank 716 19 9 At New Plymouth Savingsbank .. .. .. 108 0 0 1,024 19 9 Overdraft ourrent account .. 18 5 10 — 1,006 13 11 £2,133 9 4 £2,133 9 4 N. K. MacDiarmid, Chairman. Walter Bewtley, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —-J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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2. Woek op the Highest and Lowest Classes.

Highest. —Latin—Via Latina, exercises 1-90 ; Csesar, De Bello Gallico, Book I. (part); Livy, extracts ; Cicero, In Catilinam, Orations I. and 11. to chapter 5. French—Chardenal, Advanced Course, exercises 1-42, rules 1-76 ; Methode Naturelle, lessons 83-103 inclusive, verbs pages 230-53; Eeader, Extracts from French Authors (Blouet), pages 1-30. Arithmetic—Hamblin Smith, matriculation standard. Algebra —Hall and Knight, exercises 1-31b. Euclid —Hall and Stevens, Books 1., 11., 111., and deductions on Books I. and 11. (one pupil, Books IV. and VI.). Geography—Chisholm, matriculation standard. History— : Only one pupil, matriculation standard. Grammar—Mason, Text-book, paragraphs 17-296, parsing and analysis. Literature—Shakespeare, Henry V. Composition —Abbott, How to Write Clearly, exercises 1-85; correction of sentences, paraphrasing, punctuation, and essay-writing. Science—Wright's Physics, pages 1-54 and 131-200. Trigonometry —Only one pupil. The above was the programme up to the examination in November; since then the various subjects have been continued further. Lowest. —Latin—Via Latina, exercises 1-27 (also two or three beginners, Elementa Latina, exercises 1-16d). French—Methode Naturelle, lessons I—4l. Arithmetic—Hamblin Smith, pages 37-59 and 110-130, simple rules, and compound applied to money. Algebra—Hall and Knight, exercises 1-7a. Euclid —Hall and Stevens, Book 1., propositions 1-26 (one beginner, six propositions). Geography—Petrie, pages 50-74. History—Primary History, chapters 1 and 2 ; Henry VII., VIII., and Elizabeth to end of James 11. Grammar—Mason's First Notions, pages 1-74. Literature —Lay of the Last Minstrel; Morte d'Arthur ; Lady of Shalott. Composition—Correction of sentences, punctuation, and essay-writing. Science—Grieve's Mechanics, chapters 1-6. All these have been continued further since the annual examination held early in November.

3. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing : Arrangements were made at the beginning of the year with a visiting teacher (Miss Percy Smith), who gives two hours aweek instruction in model and freehand drawing. All the pupils in the school attend these classes. Higher sewing : Dressmaking has been taught during the year by a professional dressmaker to about two-thirds of the girls ; the junior girls have regular instruction in plain sewing given by one of the regular teachers.

4. Scholarships. Eleven district scholarships and one Victoria College scholarship are held at the school, and to thirteen others the Governors give free tuition.

WANGANUI GIBLS' COLLEGE.

Staff. Miss Mary I. Fraser, M.A.; Miss S. E. Gilford, M.A. ; Miss L. C. Fenwick, 8.A.; Miss J. R. Currie, M.A. ; Miss Jessie Knapp, 8.A.; Miss A. Blennerhassett, 8.A.; Miss K, Browning ; Miss I. MoKellar, B.A. ; Miss Blanche Richmond ; Miss F. G. Sealy ; Miss Clara Maling; Miss E. Gurr; Mr. D. E. Hutton ; Miss G. E. Browne; Miss L. Reiohert. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balanoe at beginning of year .. .. 969 3 0 Management— Endowments— Offioe salary .. .. .. .. 65 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 320 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 30 15 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 140 0 0 Other expenses of management .. 8 13 4 Paid by School Commissioners ... 28118 4 Teaohers'salaries and allowances .. 1,801 0 i School fees .. .. .. .. 2,033 9 8 Boarding-school account .. .. 2,208 19 0 Boarding-school fees .. .. .. 2,238 11 4 Examinations — Church sittings .. .. .. 30 16 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 70 15 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 778 8 2 Other expenses .. .. .. 514 9 Prizes.. .. .. .. .. 40 14 10 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 113 17 9 Site and buildings, from ourrent revenue— Purchases and new works .. .. 1,170 2 6 Fencing, repairs, &c.. .. .. 162 19 3 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 82 17 9 Interest on current account and bank charge .. .. .. .. 15 0 Endowments Account —Expended on buildings .. .. .. .. 850 0 0 Caretaker .. .. .. .. 55 1 0 Churoh sittings .. .. .. 23 12 0 Furniture— Sohool .. .. .. .. 67 12 6 House .. .. .. .. 33 6 6 £6,792 6 6 £6,792 6 6 Geo. S. Bridge, Chairman. W. J. Carson, Secretary.

Examined and found correct,—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —To University junior scholarship standard in English, French, Latin, mathematics, and science (botany and heat) or German. Loivest. —Approximately Standard 111., with the addition of French. English is more advanced than for Standard 111. Arithmetic practically Standard 111.

3. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Nearly all pupils learn drawing, including freehand, model, and geometrical drawing, shading from the cast, and brushwork. A very few pupils receive slight assistance in studying bookkeeping. A shorthand class is held. Very great attention is paid to gymnastics. Nearly every pupil can swim. A mistress is in future to devote her whole time to the physical training of pupils. The work is at present divided between two part-time teachers.

4. Scholarships. The Board of Governors gives free tuition to sixteen scholars, six of whom hold, in addition, district scholarships.

WANGANUI COLLEGIATE SCHOOL.

Staff. Mr. W. Empson, B.A. ; Mr. F. G. Shields, M.A.; Rev. T. M. Marshall, M.A.; Mr. J. R. Orford, M.A. ; Mr. J. Harold ; Mr. R. Dunn ; Mr. H. B. Watson, M.A.; Mr. J. E. Bannister, M.A. ; Mr. W. B. Taylor, M.A. ; Mr. E. Jardine; Mrs. Atkinson. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year, ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 16 8 3 Management— Current income from reserves .. .. 1,029 18 2 1 Secretary's commission .. .. 49 16 8 Lease fees collected .. .. .. 17 12 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 26 12 0 Sohool fees .. .. .. .. 2,126 0 0 Other expenses of management .. 30 0 0 Boarding-school fees .. .. .. 572 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,466 11 8 Prize funds .. .. .. .. 126 14 0 Boarding-school account .. .. 50 1 4 Interest on prize funds .. .. .. 5 1 10 Examinations— Insurances refunded .. .. .. 7 9 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 70 2 6 Other expenses .. .. .. 51 3 8 Prizes .. .. .. .. 41 11 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 20 19 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 58 4 5 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 320 14 0 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 133 14 5 Interest on current account and bank charge acoount .. .. .. .. 180 Lease fees paid solicitor .. .. .. 52 12 0 Prize funds invested .. .. .. 126 14 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 400 12 7 £3,901 3 3 £3,901 3 3 Thomas Fancourt, Chairman. Ed. N. Lipfiton, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —A. C. Bitchie, Auditor.

2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Greek, Latin, French, English, mathematics, science (chemistry and botany), and divinity. As for junior University scholarships. Lowest. —English—Equivalent to Standard IV. Latin—Grammar (declensions, adjectives, numerals, pronouns) ; easy translation ; rendering of short sentences into Latin. Arithmetic— Standard IV. (with exception of practice). Geography —Standard IV. Drawing—Elementary.

3. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing is taught as a school subject up to the Fourth Form. Carpentry is regularly taught to those who wish to learn; there is a workshop attached to the school. Gymnastics take the form of Sandow's exercises, which are practised about twenty minutes daily. There are two regular drills every week, in which the whole school takes part. Swimming is taught in the school swimming-bath. About twenty boys have gardens, which they cultivate.

4. Scholarships. Five district scholarships were held at the school, eleven boys were granted free tuition by the Trustees, and ten had half their fees remitted.

WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Coilege.-Mr. J. P. Firth, 8.A.; Mr. A. Heine, 8.A.; Mr. J. Bee, M.A.; Mr. W. F. Ward, M.A.; Mr. A. C. Gifford, M.A. ; Mr. G. G. S. Robison, M.A. ; Mr. P. G. Hutohinson, F.I.A. (N.Z.); Mr. T. Brodie, 8.A.; Mr. T. Jordan, 8.A.; Mr. F. Renner, M.A.; Mr. R. E. Rudman, B.A. ; Mr. H. O. Stuckey, M.A. ; Mr. D. Matheson. Girls' High School.— Miss M. MoLean, M.A.; Miss M. Morrah, M.A.; Miss M. N. Gellatly, M.A.; Miss I. Ecclesfield, M.A.; Miss W. Fraser, B.A. ; Miss Batham, 8.A.; Miss Newman, B.A. ; Mr. R. Parker; Mr. Harrison.

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1. Beport of the Governors. The Board of Governors have to report the continued success of the Wellington College. The boarding accommodation as reported last year is insufficient, but the Board have not been able owing to want of funds to take any steps for increasing such accommodation. At the last University examinations one pupil gained a junior University scholarship; three others passed the Junior University Scholarship Examination with credit, seven qualified for matriculation on the same papers, twelve passed the Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge Examination, and eight the Matriculation Examination. Three passed the Medical Preliminary Examination. One passed the Senior and fifteen the Junior Civil Service Examination, and nine passed the Students' Examination of the Institute of Accountants of New Zealand. The Board has every reason to be satisfied with the progress and work of the Girls' High School. Here again the want of boarding accommodation is much felt, but funds cannot be obtained for building a house for boarders. The attention of the Government is again called to the burden imposed upon the Board by having to pay a very large sum annually in interest on the cost of the Girls' High School buildings. Of the pupils at the Girls' High School two passed the Junior Scholarship Examination with credit, three qualified for matriculation on the junior scholarship papers ; ten passed the Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge Examination, and two the Matriculation Examination. Six passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning j Office salary or salaries .. .. .. 200 0 0 of year .. .. .. .. 163 17 6 i Other office expenses • .. .. .. 31 0 0 Grant from vote of the General Assembly Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 4,659 1 8 for technical education .. .. 16 17 0 Examinations— Endowments— Examiners'fees .. .. .. 98 14 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 2,122 9 8 ; Other expenses .. .. .. 48 0 9 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 680 7 2 Prizes .. .. .. .. 61 11 5 Sohool fees .. .. .. .. 4,779 8 7 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 305 10 2 Prizes —Donations .. .. .. 615 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 159 2 4 Discount .. .. .. .. 0 2 3 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Rents from buildings .. .. .. 52 10 0 New works .. .. .. .. 15 9 3 Grounds .. .. .. .. 257 15 4 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 53 19 0 Interest .. .. .. 557 2 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 74 19 6 Furniture and apparatus .. .. 100 3 7 Interest on current account .. .. 0 12 9 Endowments— Interest on cost of reclaimed land .. 104 14 6 Bates .. .. .. .. 1 0 10 Tuition fees refunded or paid over to Technical School .. .. .. .. 45 2 6 Legal expenses .. .. .. .. 500 Grant to games fund .. .. .. 99 18 10 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 943 8 9 £7,822 7 2 £7,822 7 2 A. de B. Brandon, Chairman. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. College. Highest. —Latin — Livy, Book I.; Virgil, iEneid, II.; Horace, Odes, I.; Cicero, Catiline, I.; Bradley's Arnold; Bradley's Aids; Shucksburgh's Eoman History; sight translation ; Allen's Latin Grammar. English—Shakespeare, Tempest; Hales, Longer English Poems ; Skeat's Chaucer, Prologue to Canterbury Tales ; Thackeray, Esmond ; Nesfield, Historical English and Derivation ; Meiklejohn, Art of Writing English. French—Moliere, Le Malade Imaginaire; Selections from Prose Authors; Fasnacht's Third Course; Eve and de Baudiss, Grammar, Part I.; Duhamel, French Composition. Mathematics—Hall and Stevens, Euclid, Books 1.-VI., with riders; Hall and Knight, Elementary Algebra, and Advanced Algebra to combinations; Loney's Plane Trigonometry, Part I. ; arithmetic, general. Science —Jago's Advanced Chemistry ; Wright's Advanced Heat; qualitative analysis. Lowest. —English —Beading, spelling, dictation, &c, Imperial Beader No. 4, Longmans' Beader No. 4; writing; composition ; grammar, parts of speech ; geography, Zealandia, Standard IV. ; history, Southern Cross No. 1. Arithmetic—Southern Cross, Standard IV. Science— Object-lessons. Drawing—Elementary freehand. Music—Elementary tonic sol-fa. Girls' High School. Highest. —English — Chaucer's Prologue; the Warwick Shakespeare, Hamlet; Macaulay's Essay on Milton ; Longmans' Handbook of English Literature, Part V.; Nesfield's Grammar, Past and Present; Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Nichol's English Composition and Exercises. Latin—Tacitus, Germania; Horace, Odes, Book 11. ; Ovid, Tristia, Book I.; Bivington's Latin Unseens; Bryan's Latin Prose Exercises; Bradley's Latin Prose Composition ; Stedman's Latin

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Exaininacion Papers ; Horton's History of Eomans ; Wilkins's Primer of Antiquities. French— Le Cid, Hachette's French Classics ; Moliere's Tartuffe ; Macmillan's French Composition ; Selections from the Correspondence of Madame de Sevigne ; Wellington College Grammar and Exercises. Mathematics—Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid ; Pendlebury's Arithmetic ; Pendlebury's Elementary Trigonometry. Botany —Dendy and Lucas's Botany ; Thomson's Handbook of Botany. Physics—Draper's Heat. Lowest. —Nesfield's Parts of Speech ; Junior Temple Eeader ; Laureate Poetry-book, Part IV. ; French Nursery Ehymes ; Southern Cross Arithmetic ; Longmans' Ship Historical Eeader, Stories and Biographies ; Longmans' First Book of Geography ; Youmans's First Book of Botany ; Civil Service Copybooks; elementary design and brushwork.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. College. Drawing : Form 111. (two hours weekly) and the Bemove Form (one and one-third hours) receive instruction in drawing in outline and elementary design (these classes are held in ordinary school hours) ; a special drawing class is held by Mr. J. Herdman Smith of Wellington Technical School (two lessons of three-quarters of an hour each, out of school hours). Woodwork: Mr. Bastings, of Wellington Technical School, gives instruction in woodwork for an hour and a half after school hours. Photography: Class held once a week (three-quarters of an hour) for demonstration ; all facilities for practice provided by Camera Club. Book-keeping and commercial technology : Four classes receive instruction in above for three and one-third hours weekly in ordinary school hours ; the instruction given to the highest class covers the ground necessary for the Student's Grade of the Institute of Accountants, New Zealand. Shorthand: Classes held twice a week for three-quarters of an hour out of school hours—Pitman's system. Drill: Two companies of cadets are drilled for an hour and a half weekly out of school hours by the company officers, assisted by Staff-Sergeant Colclough ; all boys not in cadet corps receive instruction in physical drill three-quarters of an hour weekly. Gymnastics: All day boys not in cadet corps are instructed for three-quarters of an hour weekly; boarders' classes are held daily by Mr. J. Harrison. Swimming : There is a large swimming-bath in the College-grounds, and all boys are taught to swim by two of the members of the staff out of school hours. Girls' High School. Drawing is taught as a regular class-subject for two afternoons a week. All pupils of the school, with the exception of the Sixth Form, attend the classes. The lessons are given by Mr. Bastings and. Mr. Herdman Smith of the Technical School, assisted in each class by two teachers of the regular staff. The work of the three classes comprises free-arm and blackboard drawing, with drawing from memory, elementary design, and brush work, and model-drawing, with light and shade from casts, &c. These classes have been recognised by the Education Department under the Manual and Technical Instruction Act. Needlework, cutting-out, darning, and knitting are taught to all pupils of the Middle and Lower Forms of the school. Bhysical-drill exercises are given to the whole school two hours a week in half-hour lessons ; the four classes are taken by Mr. Harrison, Director of the School of Physical Culture. Dancing is taught as an extra after school hours by two visiting teachers. Swimming-races are held annually during the first term of the year, and the number of entries is fairly satisfactory. The pupils make' use of the Thorndon Swimming-baths, which are conveniently near the school. Shorthand is taught as an extra for two hours a week, from 4to 5 p.m. About twenty attend this class, and several gained theory certificates (Pitman's) last year. Class singing is taught for two periods a week to almost the whole school. The two classes are conducted by Mr. Parker.

5. Scholarships. College. —Twenty-one district (Education Board) and four Queen's scholarships were held at the school, and the Governors also gave free tuition to six boys. In addition, the following scholarships were provided from funds given by private benefactors : Bhodes, one £20, one £15 ; Moore, one £20, one £15 ; Turn bull, one £15, one £10, three £5 ; and Levin, one £10. Girls' High School. —Twenty-one district and five Queen's scholarships were held at the school, and seventeen girls received free tuition.

NAPIEB HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School—Mr. A. S. M. Poison, B.A. ; Mr. E. W. Andrews; Mr. J. Kinder, B.A. ; Mr. J. H. Goulding ; Mr. R. N. Anderson. Girls' School.— Miss A. E. J. Spencer, 8.A.; Miss C. R. Kirk, 8.A.; Miss F. J. W. Hodges, M.A. ; Miss H. Veillard ; Miss J. Gillies ; Miss J. E. Page ; Mrs. Macfarlane ; Mrs. Stuart; Miss Loudon. 1. Beport of the Governors. The Board of Governors have the honour to report that they have reason to be well satisfied with the work of the institutions under their control. Owing to the illness and death of the late headmaster (Mr. Wood), and the changes following thereon, the boys' school was carried on with some difficulty during the early portion of the year. Notwithstanding this, the work of the year proved, satisfactory at the examination. The girls' school had also a successful year,

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The following is a summary of candidates from the schools who were sent up for the public examination in December and January :—Boys : Matriculation, eight (all passed —one a junior scholarship paper); Solicitors' General'Knowledge, seven (all passed); Medical Preliminary, two (one passed); Junior Civil Service, nine (all passed, seven securing places in the first hundred) ; Senior Civil Service, one (passed whole examination); Junior Scholarship, one (securing first scholarship with a record number of marks. Girls : Matriculation, four (three passed) ; Solicitors' General Knowledge, one (passed); Junior Civil Service, two (passed), one being placed within the first hundred). The schools were examined by Mr. T. W. Bowe, M.A., and passed a satisfactory examination. H. A. Cornford, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 5,060 2 1 ManagementEndowments— Office salary or salaries .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 297 0 6 Other office expenses .. .. .. 9 5 3 From property not a reserve .. .. 818 15 0 Other expenses of management .. 11 13 2 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Legal expenses .. .. .. 5 19 6 paid purchase-money .. .. 130 13 11 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,693 6 8 Paid by Hawke's Bay School Commis- Music fees .. .. .. .. 73 4 6 sioners (Examiners' fees and expenses) 23 2 1 Examinations — Sohool fees .. .. .. .. 1,192 2 6 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 20 0 0 Boarding scholarship children, and coach Other expenses .. .. .. 3 9 1 fares (paid by School Commissioners) .. 355 6 8 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 353 10 0 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 86 2 6 Prizes . .. .. .. • • 14 9 6 Wellington School Commissioners .. 116 10 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 35 18 6 Building-deposit .. .. .. 50 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 118 3 5 Refund on insurance .. .. .. 3 6 8 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and Discount on purchases .. .. .. 0 9 1 other temporary advances .. .. 91 5 6 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Purchases and new works .. .. 136 10 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 115 6 6 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 81 12 3 Endowments aocount —Expended on site or buildings .. .. .. .. 1,268 18 9 Exchange of pianos .. .. .. 22 10 0 Balances — Advanced on mortgage .. .. 3,050 0 0 On fixed deposit .. .. .. 457 10 0 In bank (current account) .. .. 351 5 0 17 10 £7,973 17 10 H. A. Cornford, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —Form VI.: Euclid—Books I. to VI., inclusive, Hall and Stevens; algebra—To binomial theorem, Hall and Knight ; arithmetic—General, Longmans' ; trigonometry—To solution of triangles, Pendlebury ; mechanics—Pinkerton. English Language—Hewitt's Manual of our Mother Tongue; Nesfield, English Past and Present. Literature —Shakespeare, Hamlet; Chaucer, Prologue. Latin—Cicero, De Amicitia ; Virgil, iEneid I. ; Bradley, Arnold's Latin Prose Compositions; Millington, Prose Composition; Kennedy, Bevised Latin Primer ; Shuckburgh, Sight Translation ; Horton, History of the Bomans ; Creighton, Borne ; Gow, Companion to the Classics. French—Wellington College French Grammar ; Brachet's French Grammar ; Stedman, Grammatical Questions; translation, Coeurs Busses (de Vogiie) ; prose and sight translation, general. Science—Physics, heat (Deschanel). All the above to junior scholarship standard. History—(British) 1688-1837, Bansome, &c. ; and geography—Gill; Longmans' New Series, No. 3 ; Hudley's Physiography ; Masturk's Physical Geography : to matriculation standard. Lowest.— "Arithmetic—StandardlV. (Southern Cross Series). English Grammar—Standard IV. (Lower Grade English, Nelson). History —1216-1485, Bise of the People (Epochs). Geography —New Zealand and Australia in detail, Europe in outline (Southern Cross Series). Science— Elementary, Hurley's Introductory Primer. Beading, spelling, recitation —From Standard IV. Crown Beader. Writing—Bold Writing Series (Vere Foster). Girls. Highest. —Arithmetic—Whole subject to matriculation standard; no special text-book. Algebra—Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra, to end of chapter 30, theory of indices. Trigonometry—Pendlebury's Elementary Trigonometry, to page 95. Euclid —Books I. to 111. ; riders ; Hall and Knight's Euclid. English Literature—Hamlet; Chaucer's Prologue. English History —Period 1688-1837 ; Gardiner's Students' History. English Grammar—Language and composition ; Outlines of Historical Grammar; text-book, Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present.

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Geography—The World, political and physical ; Gill's Geography. Latin Grammar—Via Latina ; Public School Primer. Latin Translation —Virgil, Book 1., line 373 to end ; Cicero's De Amicitia, chapters 13-24. French Grammar—Brachet's Elementary French Grammar ; easy prose. French Translation —Coeurs Busses. Botany —Matriculation syllabus ;no text-book. Statics—Loney's Elements of Statics, to friction. Lowest. —Geography—Definitions ; capes, bays, rivers, provinces, and chief towns of New Zealand. History—Notes, William I. to Edward 111. Grammar —Nesfield's Parts of Speech ; easy parsing and analysis. Poetry —Selections from Wood's First Poetry Book. Composition— Essays on object-lessons, &c. Dictation and Spelling—Extracts from Tregear's Beader. Beading —Tregear's New Zealand Beader, lessons 1-16 ; also Alice in Wonderland. Writing—Copybooks. Object-lessons—Tables, water, milk, flour, silk, sun, moon, &c. (notes). Arithmetic — First four rules, simple and compound. French—Bue's First French Course, lessons 1-7 ; and miscellaneous words, phrases, and exercises. Scripture History—To Joseph in Egypt. Drawing —Free-arm drawing on blackboard ; simple model.

4. Arrangements for Drawing; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Boys' School. Drawing: One lesson weekly (forty-five minutes) —by Mr. B. N. Anderson, Director, Napier Technical School, assisted by a member of regular staff—in perspective or model (from models made by the boys themselves), or isometrical projection (the last-named beiug in accordance with the scheme of manual training carried out in workshop); freehand drawing, taught by a member of the regular staff, one lesson weekly (forty-five minutes). Woodwork: One lesson weekly (one hour) to each of two classes of boys by Mr. Anderson, assisted by a member of the regular staff; specially constructed workshop (containing bench accommodation for thirteen boys) fitted with vices, planes, saws, braces and bits, grindstone, &c.; each boy provides his own set of smaller tools. Book-keeping and shorthand: Systematic instruction by member of the regular staff; two lessons weekly, of forty minutes each, in each subject. Science : Laboratory for instruction in physical science—two lessons weekly (forty minutes and sixty minutes) ; physiology—elementary as for matriculation, with microscopic work and elementary dissection—two lessons weekly (forty minutes and sixty minutes). Gymnastics : Systematic physical training by all members of the regular staff to all boys not incapacitated —two hours weekly during winter term; the gymnasium is a specially constructed building (63 ft. by 32 ft.) fitted with good modern apparatus; a public display of gymnastics is given annually. Drill: Instruction one hour weekly by the regular staff, assisted by the District Staff Sergeant-major in military drill ; all boys over thirteen belong to the cadet corps which is under the new regulations for Defence Department Cadets; the two masters in charge as captain and lieutenant have both passed the examination (held by the School of Military Instruction) with special mention in all subjects ; rifle practice is held on the local rifle range ; boys under thirteen are drilled one hour weekly as recruits by another member of the staff. Swimming : No arrangements, because of local disadvantages ; there are no suitable public baths in the town, and surf bathing is, for obvious reasons, not encouraged. Girls' School. Drawing : Free-arm and model taught one hour per week by visiting teacher; brushwork and design taught one hour per week by visiting teacher. Physical drill : Exercises for ten minutes every morning in interval of lessons ; exercises for one hour once a week. Needlework : One hour once a week. Laundry-work : Small class for boarders for an. hour and a half once a week.

5. Scholarships. Boys' School. —The scholarships held at the school were : 9 Education Board, 12 School Commissioners', 1 Queen's and Education Board combined, and 3 School Commissioners'combined with free tuition given by the Governors. Four received free tuition only. Girls' School. —The scholarships held were : 7 Education Board, 12 School Commissioners', and 1 School Commissioners' combined with free tuition given by the Governors. Three received free tuition.

GISBOBNE HIGH SCHOOL. 1 Beport op the Governors. I have to report that secondary education in the northern portion of the Education District of Hawke's Bay is as heretofore carried on at Gisborne in the District High School. In March, 1902, after conference with the Education Board, it was decided by the Board of Governors, who are responsible for the maintenance of the secondary classes, to offer free secondary education to all pupils who pass the Sixth Standard in the primary schools. The new system has worked satisfactorily. There has not been an increase in the number of pupils attending the free classes. Parents either are not yet aware of the value of secondary education, or perhaps the subjects

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taught do not Offer a practical result commensurate with the sacrifice the parents make in depriving themselves of their children's labour after attaining fourteen years. The Governors have indicated their wish that the secondary education taught in the District High School should comprise subjects of a commercial character, and those which the circumstances of the district point to as being of the best ultimate value to' the scholars. Such subjects would include agricultural chemistry, botany (as relating to grasses), and forestry. The Governors are also desirous of aiding the establishment of a Technical School or College at Gisborne. Such an institution would be of great value to the District High School, and would materially aid the teachers and past pupils of this portion of the educational district. Negotiations are proceeding between the School Committee and the Department, which it is hoped will result in a Technical School being shortly established. The Governors are prepared to contribute to the cost of the building. W. Morgan, Chairman.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. dBalance at beginning of year .. .. 217 9 3 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 20 0 0 Endowments— Scholarships .. .. .. .. 75 9 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 80 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 310 0 Interest on moneys invested and on un- j Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 14 0 paid purchase-money .. .. 157 5 0 | Refund School Committee .. ~ 3 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. 179 5 2 ; Expenses, delegate to Napier .. .. 411 0 Interest on current account .. .. 2 14 6 j Bank charge, keeping account .. .. 0 10 0 Refund of principal (Wong King) .. 100 0 0 ' Balance Hawke's Bay Education Board .. 129 11 0 Investment—Wong King .. .. 100 0 0 Balance at end of year — In Post-Office Savings-Bank .. .. 311 10 5 In Union Bank .. .. .. 44 12 3 In hand .. .. .. .. 42 16 3 £736 13 11 £736 13 11 W. Morgan, Chairman. C. A. de Lautour, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

MABLBOBOUGH HIGH SCHOOL, Staff. Mr. John D. Innes, M.A., LL.D. ; Miss L. A. N. Downes, B.A. ; Mr. C. V. Goulter; Miss G. Huddlestott. 1. Beport of the Governors. The Governors held twelve meetings during the year, and the average attendance at these meetings was seven. The school continues to increase in popularity and usefulness. The number of scholars attending was, for the first term, 41 boys, 34 girls, 75 total; second term, 41 boys, 36 girls, 77 total; third term, 41 boys, 36 girls, 77 total. The number of pupils admitted during the year was 21 boys, 21 girls, 42 total. The number of pupils who left during the year was 5 boys, 3 girls, 8 total. The number of scholars receiving free education at the High School during the last term of 1902 was twenty-two, of which number twelve were holders of the Education Board's scholarships. The large influx of scholars entitled to free places that may be expected to avail themselves of the regulations issued in December cannot be accommodated in the existing building, not merely for want of sufficient room, but also on account of the strength of the present staff; and if these free scholars are to be admitted a considerable addition must be made to the former and at least another assistant teacher must be added to the latter. It is also to be expected that the number of paying scholars will be considerably diminished now that all that pass Standard VI. in the primary schools and are otherwise qualified can claim admission to the High School; and this, while materially reducing the income of the Board, will render it impossible to provide sufficient accommodation for the increasing number of these free scholars, especially as in all probability a considerable proportion will qualify for a second year's attendance by passing the Inspector-General's examination at 'the end of their first year. The Board therefore earnestly hopes that the Minister will obtain a grant sufficient to enable the Governors to complete the building on the original design, and to enable them to establish some approved branch of manual and technical instruction in connection with the High School. The Governors believe that the usefulness of the institution would be greatly increased if a commodious residence were provided which would enable the Principal to undertake the charge of scholars from a distance as boarders ; but this, though in their opinion a most desirable object, is quite beyond their power, unless assisted in some way by the Government. The school has been visited during the year by the Inspector-General, but no official report has yet been received by the Governors, though they believe that he was satisfied with the general condition of the school. A. P. Seymour, Chairman.

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. e. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 206 16 10 Salary of secretary .. .. • ■ J5 0 0 Grant under section 17 of ,: The Marl- Teachers' salaries and allowance*, .. 629 3 4 borough High School Act, 1899" .. 400 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. •■ Id 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 120 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 28 10 1 School fees .. .. .. ... 558 0 4 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 42 lb Sale of firewood .. .. .. 6 5 0 Furniture and apparatus .. • • 137 11 11 Refunds .. .. . ■ 2 2 8 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. • ■ 48 9 5 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. • ■ 7 16 0 Plans and supervision .. .. .. 7 17 6 Interest on current aocount .. .. 117 6 j Books.. .. .. ••■ •■ 8 17 | Ironing class .. .. • • • • 110 0 Freight and cartage .. . • • ■ 19 10 Stamps .. .. ■ • • • 018 6 Cheque-book .. .. .. • ■ 0 10 0 Bank fee .. .. • • • • 010 0 Refund (half school fee) .. . ■ 110 0 Sundries .. • • • ■ • ■ 0 5 11 Balance at end of year .. .. . • .342 8 3 £1,298_4_10 i a,298_4 10 A. P. Seymour, Chairman. John Smith, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest —English, pure mathematics, mechanics, and heat—As for University junior scholarship. Latin—Virgil's iEneid, Book I. ; Cassar, Gallic War, Book I. ; sight translation, grammar, and composition as for University junior scholarship. French—Brachet's Grammar; Voyage de M Perichon ; Tartarin de Tarascon ; composition in French based on above. Lowest.— Arithmetic—Southern Cross, V. Geography—Southern Cross, IV. Writing—Vere Foster's Bold Writing. Boetrv—Several pieces committed to memory from Henley's Lyra Heroica. Beading—Boval Crown Beaders, V. and VI. Latin—Via Latina, to page 39. FrenchDent's First French Book, to exercise 56. History—Gardiner's Outline, to end of Henry VII. English grammar—Nesfield, adapted to Standards V. and VI. Composition—Beproduction of stories read ; composition on simple themes. 4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing: A class is conducted one afternoon a week for two hours during school time ;_ a small charge is made. Book-keeping : Two lessons a week (forty minutes each) are given in Forms IV. and V. for both girls and boys. Gymnastics, &c. : The girls once a week have free exercises, and also with wands and clubs ; the boys have half an hour's Indian-club exercise once a week, and half an hour's drill.

5. Scholarships. Twelve district scholarships were held at the school, and the Governors gave free tuition to ten other scholars.

NELSON COLLEGE. Staff. Bom' College -Mr. W. S. Littlejohn, M.A. ; Mr. C. T. Major, M.A., B.Sc, D.S.O. ; Mr. F. Milner, M.A.; Mr. C H Broad, 8.A.; Mr. G. T. Palmer, M.A.; Mr. R. McSporran, 8.A.; Mr. F. C. C. Huddleston. Girls' College -Miss A. C. Tendall, M.A.; Miss E. Gribbon, B.A. ; Miss E. Gibson, M.A. ; Miss C. E. Macgregor, M.A.; Miss E. M. Jacobson, M.A. ; Miss F. E. Livesay, B.A. ; Miss Huddleston ; the staff of the Nelson School of Music. 1. Beport op the Governors. The Hon. Mr. Barnicoat, one of the original Governors of the College, resigned in September, much to the regret of his colleagues on the Council, by whom his long and valuable services were highly esteemed : the vacancv 'thus caused was filled by the appointment of Major Franklyn, of Wakefield. Mr. J. Holloway"resigned the office of Secretary early in the year, to the regret of the Governors, by whom his services during his six years' tenure of office were much appreciated ; Mr. James Blair was appointed as his successor. Boys' College. The number of pupils on the roll was the largest in the annals of the institution ; the number of boarders, too, exceeded all previous records, giving an average of seventy-one for the three terms of the year. These numbers show that the reputation of the College is steadily rising m the estimation of the people of New Zealand. The increased house accommodation proved insufficient to cope with the rapidly increasing number of boarders, and the Council of Governors have decided to take a new departure by erecting a house in the College-grounds, with bed, dining, and work rooms, and all necessary and modern outfit, to accommodate forty boys, who will be under the charge of a resident master and assistant. The plans for this building are now under con-

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sideration, and tenders are also being invited for the erection of two additional class-rooms at the College itself. The rapid increase in the number of pupils is mainly due to the recognition throughout New Zealand of the able management of the College under the Principal and his assistant masters, and the present admirable conduct of the boarding establishment. There has been, however, at both colleges a considerable influx of State-school Sixth Standard pupils, the result of the inauguration of the new system, which will make the past year for ever memorable in the annals of the College, and which system, first proposed to the Government by the Council of Governors, has, with some slight alterations, been accepted by many similar institutions throughout the colony. The Governors therefore believe themselves to be entitled to some credit for the efforts now being made throughout the colony, and which bid fair to be most successful in Nelson, to bring the advantages of secondary education more easily within the reach of all classes. The pupils continue to acquit themselves creditably in the public examinations, though work was a good deal interfered with by the outbreak of measles which occurred in the later part of the year, and which was only prevented from spreading through the whole of the school by the thorough isolation of patients, now easily carried out by means of the new sanatorium. Two kept University terms, and one passed the first section of the B.A. degree. One gained a University junior scholarship, and two obtained credit in the competition for these scholarships. Two passed the Medical Preliminary, and eleven the Matriculation Examination, while the names of seven others appear on the Civil Service lists. Generally the life of the school, both in the class-room and in the playing-field, has been marked by energy and enthusiasm and a wholesome moral atmosphere. Among the distinctions gained by old boys of the College special mention should be made of the appointment of Dr. W. P. Evans, M.A., to the professorship of chemistry and physical science in Canterbury College. The scholastic successes of old boys have been duly chronicled on the Honours Board, and the admirable school paper, the Nelsonian, records their doings in the various walks of life. Girls' College. During the year 1902 the roll of the Girls' College showed again an increase on that of previous years, standing in December at 112. The boarding department was taxed to the utmost throughout the year, and the reference already made to the increase of the numbers at the Boys' College applies also to the Girls'. The Governors have now caused plans to be prepared for large additions to the existing buildings, including three class-rooms, a cooking-class room, a studio, fifteen bedrooms, new kitchen, and many conveniences, as well as a gymnasium. From an examination point of view the school was as successful as ever. Of ex-pupils, Misses E. Kershaw and Ida Crump succeeded in passing the final section of the B.A. degree, the latter gaining the John Tinline scholarship for English. Miss Nettie Child kept first year's terms from the College itself. Thirteen girls entered for matriculation, of whom twelve passed, one being on the credit list in the junior scholarship results. Very little sickness has to be reported. Only three cases of English and four of German measels occurred amongst the boarders during the year. The usual classes were held for swimming, singing, drawing, shorthand, and cookery ; and pupils were individually instructed in the pianoforte, violin, singing, and theory by visiting teachers from the School of Music.

2. Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Endowment Account. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Rents .. .. .. ■ • 962 4 1 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 6 5 7 Interests .. .. . ■ • • 326 19 11 Law costs .. .. . - .. 4 4 0 School Commissioners' subsidy .. .. 56 5 0 Insurance .. .. .. ... 10 19 0 Refund . • ■ • • • 0 9 0 Printing and advertising .. .. 13 2 9 Stationery .. • .. .. .. 113 3 Repairs .. .. .. •. 0 3 4 Governors' and auditors' fees .. .. 35 16 8 Office-rent .. .. .. .. 25 0 0 Office-cleaning and gas .. .. 10 6 0 Interest on bank overdraft .. .. 44 16 0 Clearing properties .. .. •. 15 15 0 Contractors'deposits refunded .. .. 91 10 0 Secretary .. .. .. .. 52 1 6 Petty cash, postage, and sundries .. 31 17 8 Boys' College. Boarding fees .. .. •• 2,801 3 4 House expenses .. .. .. 1,879 18 1 Tuition fees .. .. .. ■• 1,769 17 0 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 1,592 15 6 Refund .. .. • • • • 10 0 Scholarships—Foundation, endowed, free tuition .. .. .. .. 365 10 0 Governors' and auditors' fees .. .. 37 6 8 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 2 2 0 Stationery .. .. .. .. 75 19 9 Prizes .. .. .. .. 21 1 0 Printing and advertising .. .. 56 1 6 Chemicals .. .. 35 10 4 Gas " .. .. 92 10 0 S Rates and taxes .. .. .. 15 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. ■. 55 18 9 Repairs .. .. .. .. 143 8 6 Furniture .. .. .. .. 514 6 9 Subscriptions to sports and magazines .. 25 5 0 Secretary .. .. .. •. 52 1 9 Forming and improving grounds .. 24 8 0 Sundries . .. .. .. 23 3 8

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Girls' College. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. rl. Boarding fees .. .. .. 1,214 10 0 House expenses .. .. .. 1,027 11 2 Tuition fees .. .. .. .. 1,399 5 6 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 1,189 18 6 Education Department, grant for cookery Scholarships—Foundation, endowed, free classes .. .. .. .. 11 16 6 tuition .. .. .. .. 220 18 0 Governors'and auditors'fees .. .. 37 6 8 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 2 2 0 Stationery .. .. .. .. 43 16 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 12 0 2 Printing and advertising .. .. 64 7 6 Gas .. .. .. .. .. 62 6 2 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 15 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 31 9 6 Repairs .. .. .. .. 271 14 9 Furniture .. .. .. .. 112 9 1 Subscription to magazine .. .. 3 3 0 Secretary .. .. .. .. 52 1 9 ' Sundries .. .. .. .. 13 13 6 Capital Account. Repayment on account of mortgages .. 43 13 1 Enlargement of Boys'College .. .. 1,877 11 8 Bank balance from previous year .. 98 7 10 Bank overdraft, 31st December, 1902 .. 1,696 7 0 Unpaid cheques .. .. .. 11 9 8£10,393 7 11 £10,393 7 11 Jas. Blair, Secretary. We hereby certify that we have examined the foregoing accounts and compared them with the several vouchers relating thereto, and have found them correct. —John King, Ambrose E. Moore, Auditors.

3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes, Boys' College. Highest. —English—Burke's Befiections on the French Bevolution ; Macaulay's Essays on Bacon and Walpole ; Hamlet, Borneo and Juliet; Nesfield's English Grammar; Sweet's AngloSaxon Primer; Second Middle English Primer; Nicol's English Composition. Latin—«Boby's School Latin Grammar ; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose ; Bryan's Caesar's Latin Prose ; Bamsay's Antiquities ; Horton's Bome; Horace, Odes, I. and II.; Caesar, VII.; Livy, XXI.; Cicero, 1., Virrem, IV. French—Wellington College French Grammar ; Duhamel's Advanced French Prose Composition ; Bue's French Idioms ; Michand's La Premiere Croisade ; De Bernard's L'Anneau d'Urgent; Berthon's Selections from Modern French Verse. Mathematics—Hall and Stevens's Euclid; Hall and Knight's Higher Algebra, to binomial theorem ; Hall and Knight's Elementary Trigonometry. Science—Newth's Inorganic Chemistry; Tilden's Practical Chemistry ; Loney's Statics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics. Lowest. —English—Nesfield's Uses of the Parts of Speech ; Junior Temple Beader ; Longmans' No. 1 Geography; Longmans' English History Beader, Standard IV.; Graphic Copybooks. Arithmetic—Pendlebury's Shilling Arithmetic, to weights and measures. Oral lessons in German. Object-lessons in nature-study. Physical drill and gymnastics. Girls' College. Highest. —Form VI. —English, Latin, French, and mathematics as for B.A. degree ; heat and light as for junior scholarship. English —Burke on French Bevolution ; Macaulay on Bacon and Walpole ; Hamlet, and Borneo and Juliet ;■ Mason's Grammar ; Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer; Sweet's First and Middle English Primer; Abbott's How to Write Clearly. Latin—Cicero, In Verrem, IV. ; Horace, Odes, I. and 11. ; Arnold's Prose Composition ; Simpson's Cassariani Prose ; Merivale and Puller's History. French—De Tocqueville, L'Ancien Begime ;Le Joueur, and Le Verre d'Eau ; Wellington College Grammar ; Bue's Idioms ; Blouet's Prose. Mathematics—Todhunter's Algebra ; Lock's Trigonometry ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid. Loioest. —Latin —Via Latina. French—Chardenal, I. Mathematics —Pendlebury's Shilling Arithmetic ; Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid. English—Mason's First Notions of English Grammar; Children's Treasury of Lyrical Poetry; Ship Beader, VI.; Bansome's Elementary History; Longmans' Geography, I.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Boys' College. Drawing (three-quarters of an hour per week): Form V., geometry and model as for matriculation; Form IV., scale-drawing and freehand : the forms below these two were taught in four divisions by the form masters —Division A, freehand ; Division B, geometry ; Division C, geometry, freehand ; Division D (an hour and a half a week), freehand. Commercial instruction: One form took book-keeping (Thornton's Brimer), shorthand (Pitman's), and precis instead of Latin. Technical instruction: Forms Lower VI., V., Upper Shell, IV., Lower Shell, three-quarters of an hour a week in the chemical laboratory, principally quantitative work. The same forms three-quarters

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of an hour a week in physical laboratory, principally measurements in electricity. Gymnastics : All boarders twenty minutes six days a week ; boys of Forms 111. and 11., three-quarters of an hour once a week, and another three-quarters of an hour once a week at cricket or football. Drill: Cadet corps drills twice a week, each drill lasting forty minutes. Swimming, athletic sports : A competition is held annually. football : The organization in these games covers practically the whole school, there being 150 players in each department. Manual training : :\n extensive workshop has been built, and should be in use next year. Girls' College. Drawing : Freehand, one hour per week to all pupils, except those attending Model Class of one hour per week. Swimming : A town club is open to members of the College. Calisthenics : Half an hour per week is given to club drill. Shorthand : Two hours per week to those who choose to attend classes.

5. Scholarships. At the Boys' College were held five foundation scholarships (supplemented by free tuition given by the Governors), six scholarships given by the Governors, three district scholarships, one district scholarship supplemented by the Governors, and free tuition was granted to twelve other scholars. At the Girls' College three foundation scholarships, three district, five granted by the School Commissioners, and thirteen by the Governors were held, and the Governors gave free tuition to nine other scholars.

GBEYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. j Expenditure. £ s. d. Cash balance, 31st December, 1901 .. 911 2 6 Rates .. .. .. .. .. 012 7 Cash balance on mortgage .. .. 100 0 0 Grant to Grey Education Board .. .. 100 0 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 39 4 2 Secretary's salary .. .. .. 5 0 0 Westland School Commissioners.. .. 50 0 0 Law costs .. .. .. .. 2 4 6 Ditto .. .. .. .. .. 100 0 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 14 0 Rent .. .. .. .. .. 11 12 0 Balance at bank on 31st December, 1902 .. 66 011 Balance at Post-Office Savings-Bank .. 806 16 8 Cash in hand .. .. .. .. 5 0 0 ; Loans on mortgage .. .. .. 725 0 0 £1,211 18 8 £1,211 18 8 F. W. Biemenschneider, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

HOKITIKA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,531 11 0 Office salary .. .. .. .. 10 10 0 Interest on moneys invested .. 39 10 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 3 3 6 Paid by School Commissioners . . .. 150 0 0 ! Teachers' salaries and allowances (grant to Rent of house and grounds .. .. 71 0 0 Westland Education Board) .. .. 175 0 0 Refund deposit included with Kumara Insurance .. .. .. .. 2 12 0 Borough debentures .. .. .. 10 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 019 0 Balance at end of year — Fixed deposits, Bank of New Zealand .. .. £750 0 0 Hokitika Borough debentures .. .. .. 700 0 0 Kumara Borough debentures .. .. .. 200 0 0 1,650 0 0 Less Dr. balance, current acoount .. .. 40 3 6 . 1,609 16 6 £1,802 1 0 £1,802 1 0 H. L. Michel, Chairman, Chas. Kirk, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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BANGIOBA HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. T. R. Cresswell, M.A. ; Miss C. S. Howard, M.A. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 139 14 2 Stamps, &o. .. .. .. .. 311 8 Current income from reserves .. .. 157 5 6 Bank charges .. .. .. .. 018 6 School fees .. .. .. .. 312 15 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances—Headmaster, £255 ; mistress, £109 lis. Bd. .. 364 11 8 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 8 8 0 Prizes—Books, £3 6s. 6d.; Sports Fund, £5 8 6 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 10 4 7 Cleaning, £12; fuel, £2 15s. 6d.; light, 3s. 9d.; chimney, 10s.; towelling, 14s. lid... .. .. .. .. 16 4 2 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 34 19 2 Insurance .. .. .. .. 318 9 Clubs, £2 3s. 6d.; cartage, 6s. .. .. 2 9 6 Sanitation .. .. .. .. 113 0 Bank .. .. .. £154 10 9 Less overbanked .. 0 11 Balance at end of year .. 154 9 8 £609 15 2 £609 15 2 J. Johnston, Chairman and Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Chardenal's Manual; Shakespeare's Tempest; Scott's Marmion ; elementary historical grammar and philology. Latin—Via Latina ; Kennedy's Shorter Primer ; Caesar, Books 11. and 111. ; unseen translation. French —Chardenal, Books I. and II.; unseen translation. Arithmetic—Goyen and Pendlebury. Algebra—Hall and Knight; and Tutorial Series. Euclid— Hall and Stevens, and Layng, Books 1.-IV., with exercises. Botany—Murche. History— British history, 1688-1900, Meiklejohn and Bansome. Geography—Meiklejohn and Longmans', Book 11., the World. Lowest. — Arithmetic — Longmans' Junior Arithmetic as for Standard 111. English grammar—Longmans' School Grammar, the parts of speech ; simple composition ; punctuation. Latin — Macmillan's First Course, two declensions. French—French without Tears, Part I. Drawing—Freehand and scale. Algebra—First four rules and brackets.

3. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Book-keeping : Nearly all the boys receive instruction during an hour and a half per week. Drawing: Freehand and scale throughout the lower classes. Drill, &c. : Club drill throughout the school; boys' squad has also done a little skirmishing drill.

4. Scholarships. There were two district scholarships, four granted by the Governors, and one given by the Masonic Lodges of the District held at the school.

CHBIST'S COLLEGE GBAMMAE SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. C. F. Bourne, M.A. ; Rev. F. A. Hare, M.A. ; Mr. C. C. Corfe ; Mr. W. P. Evans, M.A., Ph.D.; Mr. W. D. Andrews, B.A. ; Mr. C. Harling; Mr. J. U. Collins, B.A. ; Mr. A. E. Flower, M.A., B.Sc; Mr. E. Jenkins, B.A. ; Rev. F. G. Brittan, M.A. ; Mr. G. H. Merton, B.A. ; Mr. C. L. Wiggins ; Mr. A. J. Merton; Mr. J. M. Madden; Sergeant-major F. Farthing. 1. 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 a preference is to be given ceteris paribus to the kin of the foundress. Mrs. Maria Somes, or of her husband, the late Joseph Somes ; and 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. —Four 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.

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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 on 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 and Somes scholarships. Butler 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.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 15th May, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Endowments— Balance at beginning of year .. .. 209 5 4 Capital Account —Price of land sold .. 460 0 0 Management expenses .. .. .. 244 11 6 Current income from land .. .. 1,970 12 10 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,149 510 Current income from scholarship endow- Examination expenses .. .. .. 60 17 1 ments .. .. .. .. 708 9 9 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 615 17 4 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,861 9 11 Prizes .. .. .. .. 68 9 6 Repayment on account of buildings .. 18 11 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 65 2 6 Sinking fund, transferred from income .. 50 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 263 3 0 Sundries unclassified .. .. .. 7 14 0 Site and buildings, from current revenue— New works .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Fencing,'repairs, &c. .. .. .. 197 10 4 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 64 17 6 Interest on current acoount .. .. 13 2 7 Endowments Sales Account—Expended on purchase of other lands .. .. 53 12 3 Boys'Games Fund .. .. .. 60 18 6 Boys' Cadet Fund .. .. .. 22 6 3 Royal visit expenses .. .. .. 15 8 0 Law costs .. .. .. .. 12 8 6 Sundries unclassified .. ~ .. 15 6 Expenses in connection with land estate .. 58 15 11 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 750 0 4 £6,076 17 9 £6,076 17 9 •■• • C. Christchurch, Warden. W. G. Brittan, Bursar. The above is a summary of accounts, audited by Mr. A. A. M. McKellar.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin, French, English or Greek, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, arithmetic, chemistry, heat, as for Junior University Scholarship Examination. Divinity—Book of Genesis ; St. Matthew i.-xvii.; Outts's Turning-points of Church History, to the time of Becket. Lowest. —History —Bfackwood's Stories (whole); Dates of Sovereigns, William I. to Bichard 111. Geography —Zealandia for Standards 11. and 111. (whole). Grammar and composition— Distinguishing parts of speech ; construction of easy sentences; simple punctuation; short narratives, letters, &c. Arithmetic—Simple rules and compound rules (money only), to long division. Divinity —The principal things recorded in St. Matthew i.-xviii.; catechism (Francis's edition), text to the end of the Desire; meanings of words; small print on the Creed.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing is taught to all boys in the Lower School, and to all who desire it in the Upper School, classes being held both in and outside ordinary school hours without extra fee. In the Lower School the branches taught are freehand, mechanical, and plan drawing, and the use of mechanical instruments and scales, and, for certain boys, geometrical drawing—all, of course, elementary. In the Upper School the subjects are, according to taste and ability, freehand, geometrical, and mechanical drawing (including scales), map-drawing and elementary design, perspective and water-colour work. A few boys who do not learn Latin take book-keeping in school hours. For others there is a class outside these. There is no fee. Carpentry is an optional subject, taken outside school hours at a fee of ss. a term. Forge-work is taken in the same way. As far as possible the carpentry is connected with the work in drawing; there is an elementary class for the boys of the Lower School. There is no boy at present learning shorthand at the school; but when there is a sufficient demand a class is taken by a visiting master, who makes his own arrangements as to fees. There is a flourishing cadet corps, which is inspected by the Commandant of the District; the officers are boys. All boys take drill and gymnastics, unless exempted by the headmaster on special grounds. All boys in the Lower School who are willing to learn swimming are regularly instructed, in school hours, by one of the masters. The boys, especially the boarders, are very eager to use the swimming-bath outside school hours. There is a subscription of 2s. 6d. a term to the uniform fund of the cadet corps; but, except for carpentry and shorthand, there are no extra fees.

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CHBISTCHUBCH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. C. E. Bevan-Brown, M.A. ; Mr. B. K. S. Lawrence, B.A. ; Mr. W. Walton, B.A. ; Mr. R. M. Laing, M.A., B.Sc.; Mr. R. Speight, M.A., B.So. ; Mr. O.T. J. Alpers, M.A. ; Mr. A. Merton ; Mr. T. H. Jackson, B.A. ; Mr. J. H. Smith, M.A.; Mr. T. W. Cane, M.A.; Mr. S. H. Seager, A.R.1.8.A. ; Sergeant-major F. Farthing; Mr. E. Thompson ; Mr. W. S. Malaquin; Mr. W. H. Gundry; Mr. T. S. Tankard; Miss E. E. Digby. 1. Beport. This year is the twenty-first anniversary of the foundation of the school. The changes in organization and methods indicated a year ago have been found on trial to work satisfactorily. The modified form system, with a reclassification for mathematics and science, has made the work more compact. The correlation of history and geography with the portion of literature studied has been fruitful. A great impetus has been given to oral French. Some senior boys at the recent examinations, besides replying in French, were able to write down in French the substance of a short address given them by Professor Blunt, one of them without mistake. The appointment of a Frenchman, M. Malaquin, has greatly helped the French work. The art and manual training of the school has been put on a sounder basis; it has been better graded both as regards artistic and geometrical drawing, and the workshop classes have been placed under the sole direction of the drawing-master, Mr. E. Thompson. Mr. S. Hurst Seager, who takes the geometrical drawing and design, wrote a short report on the art-work, and a display of work done was given at the school in December. The physical training of the boys is now under Mr. T. S. Tankard ; each boy gets two halfhours a week, unless specially exempted. There has been a great development of gymnastic training this year, and it is evident the boys are keen about it. Mr. Tankard examines every boy once a year. A great impetus has been given to shooting this year among the cadets, and it has been made compulsory. About forty-three boys have been doing commercial work, ancient history, and workshop in place, of Latin; and seventeen others have been doing the same substituting, however, extra French for commercial work. Mr. W. H. Gundry, the accountant, has taught book-keeping, including the principles of double entry as compared with single entry ; journalising, posting, balancing, profit and loss, assets and liabilities, solvency and insolvency, &c, bills of exchange, some short methods of calculation, and the rudiments of finance. Five boys entered for the Students' Accountancy Examination, but the results were not known when this report was written. The commercial work has also included precis and correspondence, commercial arithmetic, and geography. In the subjects above indicated there is an undoubted intellectual training, besides a preparation for commerce for those boys destined to leave early for business ; and these subjects, together with workshop and ancient history, seize on the interest of some boys who would never make headway in Latin. Another new feature of the year has been the introduction of "nature-study," in place of ordinary science, for the Lower School. This has consisted of the study—not from text-books alone, but by actual sight and handling, or, if this is impossible, by pictures of the objects concerned —of common animals and plants, the native birds of New Zealand, the geology of the Port Hills, &c, and visits have been paid to the Museum, Lyttelton Harbour, the Port Hills, and the fish-hatcheries. Dr. Chilton conducted an interesting oral examination on this part of the work in December. A feature of the annual examination was that as far as possible the examiners and boys were brought face to face. Professor Blunt conducted an oral examination in French throughout the school, Frofessor Wall an oral examination of the English of the Lower School, and Dr. Chilton a practical examination of chemistry and physics in the Upper School and an oral examination of nature-study in the Lower. About an acre of land purchased by the College at the back of the school has this year been added to the playground. The school took a proper part in celebrating the great national events of the year—the proclamation of peace and the coronation of the King. Several special prizes have been given this year. Mrs. Miller, the widow of the late headmaster, has given £100, the interest on which is to be devoted to a prize in books for the best essay and examination on some book or books of standard English authors. The books appointed this year are Chaucer's " Prologue," " Westward Ho ! " and Macaulay's essay on " Burleigh and his Times." The prize is to be called the Thomas Miller prize. Professor Blunt has given a prize for oral French, and Mr. T. S. Weston a prize for woodwork. Professor Wall has offered a " newspaper " prize for the best examinee on a " general knowledge " paper. The distinctions gained during the year are as follows : T. McLennan won a junior University scholarship, seven boys were placed on the credit list, three passed the Medical Preliminary, and ten passed the Matriculation Examination. Two boys won senior scholarships given by the Board of Education. Mr. A. Sims, an old boy, obtained the degree of M.A., with first-class honours in chemistry ; and A. E. Currie, T. Curnow, and T. McLennan won exhibitions at Canterbury College. Mr. A. O'Brien, a student of Guy's Hospital, greatly distinguished himself, coming out first in his year at the London University medical examinations, and winning several scholarships. *

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. [ Expenditure. £ a. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 123 19 0 ' Offioe salaries .. .. .. 100 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 3,203 15 1 Teachers'salaries .. .. .. 3,837 110 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,779 6 6 Boarding-sohool account (grant in aid of Interest on current account .. .. 217 9 boardinghouse) .. .. .. 50 0 0 Government subsidy for technical classes 6 15 0 Examinations — Sale of timber to workshop pupils .. 013 1 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 44 18 0 Surplus handed over from Workshop Ao- Other expenses .. .. .. 8 6 0 count .. .. .. .. 26 0 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 25 19 6 Sale of parsing notes .. .. .. 313 9 Printing, stationery, advertising, and books 153 16 11 Black, J.—Balance of payment towards Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 52 2 8 cost of putting Reserve 916b in order .. 8 0 0; Repairs, &c. .. .. .. .. 52 710 Insurance .. .. .. .. 30 19 1 Fittings, cupboards, pictures, &c. .. 11 0 4 Endowments—Fenoing, clearing, protective works, &o. .. .. .. .. 140 8 8 Chemicals and apparatus .. .. 5 6 10 Inspecting and advertising reserves .. 142 5 10 Interest on Loan Account, £5,000 at 4 per cent. .. .. .. .. 200 0 0 Annual grants to Sports Fund and cadet corps .. .. .. .. 70 0 0 Legal expenses.. .. .. .. 5 14 2 Workshop tools, timber, models, &c. .. 15 18 6 Typewriter .. .. .. .. 20 0 0 Rent of playground (Hereford Street) five months .. .. .. .. 41 13 4 Clearing seotion (Hereford Street) for playground .. .. .. .. 10 10 0 Sundry expenses .. .. .. 35 1 9 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 101 9 3 £5,155 0 6 £5,155 0 6 Arthur E. G. Bhodes, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Registrar. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin—Livy, Book VI., with retranslations; Virgil, Georgics, II.; Tacitus Agricola; Selections from Satires and Epistles of Horace; Smith's Smaller History of Bome ; Hints and Helps in Continuous Latin Prose; Kennedy's Be vised Latin Brimer; Gepp and Haigh's Latin Dictionary. English —Hamlet; Esmond; Tennyson, Part III.; Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Book IV.; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition ; Nesfield's Historical English • and Derivation; Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Stopford Brooke's Literature Primer (Period, reign of Queen Anne); essays and composition. History—Lodge's Modern Europe (pp. 216-66, reign of Louis XIV.); Bansome's Short History (reigns of William 111. and Queen Anne) ; Smith's Smaller History of Bome (chapter 16 to end); Creighton's Boman History Primer (chapter 9to end, Augustus to end of Eastern Empire). French—Le Boi des Montagnes ; Les Boulenards (Vol. X., Theatre Francais) ; Specimens of Modern French Verse; Materials for French Translations ; Wellington College French Grammar ; Eve and Mathew's Exercises on Wellington College Grammar; oral French. Mathematics—Ward's Examination Papers on Trigonometry ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Books 111.-VI.; Loney's Trigonometry, Part I.; Hall and Knight's Algebraical Exercises ; Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Loney's Mechanics. Science—Draper's Heat; chemistry, ■ Jago's Inorganic Chemistry. Work done as for junior University scholarship. Lowest (Form II.). —English—Lyra Heroica (The Bevenge, &c.) ; Westward Ho ! (abridged edition); English grammar, Hall; parsing notes ; dictation, composition, reading, simple analysis, parts of speech, spelling; reproduction of stories from Westward Ho 1; writing twice a week. History —Warner's Brief Survey of British History (pages 93-177, from Henry VII. to 1.745) ; special period, The Beformation and Elizabeth. Geography —Zealandia Geography, Standard V. ; general geography of the World; geography of New Zealand and Australia, and of West Indies. French —First French Beader and Writer, Sonneuschein; Wellington College French Grammar, accidence; oral French, with Mons. Malaquin. Mathematics: Lower Division—Simple and compound rules; easy examples in simple practice : Upper Division—As for Lower Division; also weights and measures, practice, factors, G.C.M., L.C.M., addition of fractions. Science—Naturestudy, Object-lessons from Nature, Vol. i., by L. C. Maill.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing: The art-work has been put on a new basis this year; more time has been given to it, more classes formed, and it has been well graduated throughout. Each class below the Sixth receives instruction at least two periods a week in art, one of them for freehand and model drawing or modelling, and the other for geometrical drawing ; the latter work is taken by Mr. S. H. Seager, the former by Mr. E. Thompson, both instructors at the School of Art. In the lowest form the boys have elementary design and plasticine modelling. Geometry is commenced in a concrete way in the Lower Third by cutting out plane forms, and then truths are demonstrated by folding; drawings are then made of the folded shapes. In the Lower Fourth solid geometrical forms are dealt with in the same practical manner ; cardboard models are made,

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and the solids so produced form models from which the plans and elevations of them are made. The pupils pass on to more advanced geometry, and elementary perspective in the Fifth Forms, reaching the standard of the South Kensington Second Grade. Elementary freehand follows elementary design in the lower classes. Model-drawing begins in the Remove; more difficult model-drawing, shaded either in chalk or sepia, is done in the Fifths. Manual and Technical Instruction : Much of the drawing would come under this head, though not available for a grant, (a.) Woodwork :We had sixty-four boys doing woodwork this year ; last year there were only some twenty-five. A systematic course of exercises in the use of ordinary carpentry tools according to the English sloyd system is gone through, and proper drawings to scale are made. A special prize was given for woodwork by the late Chairman, Mr. T. S. Weston. Each boy receives two hours a week, including half an hour's instruction in the special drawing required, (b.) Two classes—one of nine, the other of thirteen boys—did practical chemistry ; only the first, however, fulfilled the conditions of the Government regulations. Many of the junior forms also did a certain amount of practical chemistry, (c.) A class of twenty-one boys did practical physics, measurement of length, area, cubic contents, determination of weight and volume, &c, as in Eentoul's Physics ; instruction, eighty minutes weekly. Commercial Work : Two classes of eleven and thirty-two boys respectively, or forty-three in all, have done commercial work. Mr. W. H. Gundry, the accountant, has instructed them in book-keeping, some short methods of calculation, and the rudiments of finance. Five boys entered for the Students' Accountancy Examination ; the results not yet to hand. The same boys have also had from other masters commercial arithmetic, mensuration, tots, precis and correspondence, and commercial geography ; but we have not found it possible to comply with the Government Eegulations 111., (e), for a grant. Some six boys have been learning typewriting and shorthand for extra payment out of school hours. Gymnastics: The gymnasium has been placed on a different footing; a special qualified instructor, Mr. T. 8. Tankard, has been appointed, and the. exercises are adapted for health and physical training. Every boy now receives about one hour a week physical training, unless specially exempted. Drill: There is a cadet corps under Staff Sergeant-major Farthing, who has succeeded Major Richards. A great impetus has been given to shooting this year, which has been made compulsory on all cadets. The Government have increased the amount of ammunition, and have provided the corps with twenty Martini-Enfield carbines for shooting practice. Each boy goes to the range four times in the year, and some are allowed to go eight or ten times. Sergeant-major Farthing also drills in physical and marching exercises a junior squad. Swimming : This is taught by one of the masters in the summer months. Singing is taught by one of the masters to a class of about forty boys.

5. Scholarships. There were held at the school four senior and three junior district scholarships, three of the latter being supplemented by free tuition given by the Governors ; and thirty-five boys were granted free tuition by the Governors.

CHRISTCHURCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Miss M. V. Gresson, M.A. ; Miss C. K. Henderson, M.A.; Mr. G. J. Lancaster, M.A. ; Miss F. Sheard, M.A. ; Miss E. Low, M.A. ; Miss L. Bing, B.A. ; Miss K. Gresson, M.A. ; Mrs. S. Hervey; Miss N. Gard'ner; Miss E. Easterbrook; Miss M. M. Cook ; Mrs. E. Gard'ner ; and Sergeant-major Farthing. 1. Report of the Governors. This school, which was first opened on the 13th September, 1877, has this year completed its first quarter-century, and during this time over 1,400 girls have been entered on the books. The average length of a pupil's stay at school is about two years and a half; the record of continuous attendance is seven years. The highest roll number was attained in the first term of the year 1891, when 152 pupils attended ; the same year has also the highest roll for the third term, 144 ; while this year (1902) takes second place, with a roll of 140 for the third term. The present building will not accommodate more than 150 pupils, and even during this year the need of additional class-rooms has caused some inconvenience, and necessitated the frequent use of the lunch-room as a class-room, though it is not well suited for the purpose. The regular staff, which consists of the lady principal, five full-time and one part-time assistants, has also been taxed to its utmost capacity, the smallness of two of the class-rooms, and the numerous examinations on slightly different lines for which pupils have to be prepared in small groups, adding to the difficulty of organization where space and teaching-power are limited. The general health of the scholars during the year has been excellent, and this is especially gratifying as many other schools both in Christchurch and in other centres have suffered severely this year from the prevalence of epidemics. The two classes in conversational French which were begun this year have made very fair progress, and the senior class will be able to obtain a considerably higher standard of proficiency next year. As a blue ensign had been presented to the school by the New Zealand Government, the Governors erected a flagpole, and the flag was hoisted for the first time on Coronation Day, on which day a fine young oak-tree was also planted in the playground. The authorised boardinghouse is now quite close to the school. The house is a particularly suitable one for its purpose, the accommodation is ample, the drainage and water-supply are good, and the girls have the use of a pleasant garden. Though not yet so well patronised as

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it deserves to be, the boardinghouse is doing good service. Six pupils have resided there during the year, and the fact that four of these were prize-winners this year may be regarded as satisfactory evidence of the benefit afforded by a boardinghouse where the supervision of the pupils during preparation hours is made a special care, and where outside attractions do not prevent regular attendance at school. In the December University examinations one pupil won a junior scholarship, taking third place on the list. Four were placed among those in the credit list, one being awarded aGaminack scholarship on the results. Nine pupils also passed the Matriculation Examination, and three won senior Board of Education scholarships. The extensive programme of set books prescribed as compulsory under the new regulations for the Senior Civil Service Examinations make it very difficult to prepare candidates for this examination in the regular school classes, and consequently no pupils were entered this year for the senior grade. In the Junior Civil Service Examinations, one took the first place on the list for all New Zealand, and one fifteenth ; two others also passed. Noteworthy success of past pupils during the year are one gaining the degree of M.A., with second-class honours in natural science; one the degree of M.A., with second-class honours in English and French; one the degree of M.A., with third-class honours in Latin and English ; one the degree of M.B. and Ch.B., Edinburgh ; and one that of M.B. and Ch.B., New Zealand. This year thirty-seven pupils in all have held scholarships, exhibitions, or free places at the school. Of these, nineteen received scholarships from the North Canterbury Board of Education, and eighteen held scholarships, free places, or exhibitions from the Board of Governors.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. • Expenditure. £ a. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 82 0 2 Office salary or salaries .. .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 288 7 2 Teachers'salaries .. .. .. 1,513 17 1 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 245 5 4 Grant in aid to boardinghouse .. .. 50 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,662 18 6 Examinations— Prooeeds from cooking classes .. .. 13 17 4 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 28 13 0 Government subsidy for technical classes.. 17 8 4 Other expenses .. .. .. 8 6 0 Scholarships and exhibitions .. .. 240 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 21 1 0 Printing, stationery, advertising, and books 54 0 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 14 19 3 Repairs, fittings, &c, including flagpole .. 27 8 6 Insurance .. .. .. .. 10 12 6 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 7 17 Expenses of cooking class .. .. 13 8 9 Emily Foster memorial ptize .. .. 2 0 6 Sundry expenses .. .. .. 22 16 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 235 12 1 £2,309 16 10 £2,309 16 10 Arthur E. G. Bhodes, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Begistrar. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —All work to junior University scholarship standard. Text-books: Mathematics— Loney's Trigonometry; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Stevens's Euclid: English— Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition ; Longmans' Handbook of English Literature, Part 111. ; Chaucer, Selections by Bilderdeck; Shakespeare, Borneo and Juliet; Tennyson's Holy Grail; Bertha Skeat's Specimens of English Prose : Latin—Bradley's Latin Prose Composition ; Kennedy's Latin Primer ; Bryan's Caesarian Prose ; Stedman's Latin Examination Papers ; Cicero, Select Speeches (Bell) ; Virgil, iEneid, Book XL ; Ovid, Tristia, Book I. ; Tacitus, Agricola; Horace, Odes, Book II.; Horton's Boman History ; Wilkins's Roman Antiquities : French —Chardenal's Advanced Course; iibout, La Fille du Chanoine ; Sand, La Mare du Diable; Moliere, Le Misanthrope ; Miscellaneous Proses : Natural Science—Botany, Dendy and Lucas : Physical Science —Heat, Wright's Heat and Glazebrook's Heat. Lowest. —Arithmetic—Simple and compound rules, practice, bills of parcels, and easy problems. English—Nesfield's Uses of Parts of Speech ; Stronach's English Literature ; Set Books Victoria the Great (Nelson), David Copperfield's Boyhood (Nelson), Laureate Poetry-book No. VI., Mrs. Overtheway's Bemembrances (Gatty). Geography—Longmans' Geography, Book I. English History—Bansome's Elementary History. French —Dent's First French Book (Alge and Bippmann). Science—Botany, elementary, without text-book. Writing—Southern Cross Copybook No. 10.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing is taught throughout the school, except in Form VI. There is a specially appointed Art Mistress, holding both the South Kensington and the Wellington Technical School Artteachers' Certificate, and she is assisted by one of the regular assistant mistresses who holds

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Certificates of proficiency, Grade 11., in freehand and model drawing from the Christchuroh School of Arc. There are four classes. The highest class does drawing in light and shade (charcoal or sepia, &o.) from flat examples of rigid forms, models, casts, and objects of still life, and painting from nature of flowers and still life (Manual and Technical Act Eegulations, 1902, 22, Nos. 7 and 9) ; the second class does elementary design and brushwork (Manual and Technical Act Eegulations, 1902, 22, No. 8); the third class, freehand and elementary design and brushwork; the fourth class, the same but of a more elementary character. Each class has two hours' drawing per week throughout the school year. Manual, commercial, and technical instruction : Plain sewing is taught throughout the Lower and Middle School by the regular staff. There is a special class for dress-cutting and dressmaking on Saturday mornings; this is taught by a specially appointed teacher. The instruction includes theoretical drafting of patterns by aid of the Anglo-Parisian chart ; practical measuring and cutting from patterns; the cutting-out, fitting, making, trimming, and finishing of a dress (bodice and skirt) ; the use of the sewing-machine. Instruction is given for two hours per week throughout the school year. The class is free. Cooking is taught by a specially appointed and certificated teacher of cookery. The school has a class-room fitted up with two gas-stoves, and a pantry, with a sink, &c. Two hours' instruction is given in cookery on Saturday mornings, the lessons being alternately demonstration and practice lessons. A fee of 3s. per term is charged for this class. Shorthand is taught for one hour per week before morning school by one of the teachers of the regular staff. A class in book-keeping is now being formed under a specially appointed teacher. Gymnastics, drill, swimming : Drill is compulsory, except under special circumstances. Instruction is given by a specially appointed drill-instructor, who gives each drill squad two lessons per week (weather permitting), each lesson being of half an hour's duration. The newest forms of physical exercises for girls are in use. In addition, a class of sixty-five pupils from the school attended a gymnasium (Mr. Tankard's) during the winter term one afternoon a week, immediately after school hours. A small extra fee of 4s. was charged for this. The lesson was of one and a half hours' duration. Swimming is taught by a specially appointed lady teacher during the summer months (October to March). The girls have the use of the bath at the Boys' High School on two afternoons (Wednesday and Saturday) a week, when a lesson of forty minutes' duration is given (weather permitting). Life-saving practice is included in the instruction.

5. Sholarships. The scholarships held at the school were four exhibition and six senior and six junior entrance scholarships granted by the Governors of Canterbury College, five senior and thirteen junior scholarships granted by the North Canterbury Education Board, and one scholarship granted by the Caledonian Society.

AKABOA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. A. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 161 0 0 Office expenses .. .. .. 110 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 88 8 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 110 Interest .. .. .. .. 3 4 5 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and other temporary advances .. .. 5 0 0 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &o. 3 3 0 Bank charges .. .. .. ..020 North Canterbury Board of Eduoation .. 100 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 141 16 11 £252 12 11 £252 12 11 H. C. Jacobson, Chairman and Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. S. Tennant, M.A., 8.50.; Mr. C. F. Salmond, M.A. ; Miss A. Bauchop, M.A. 1. Report of the Governors. I have the honour to report that during the current year the attendance has been maintained, though the school has refused to admit pupils who have not attained the Fifth Standard. Nine pupils were sent up for various public examinations, and all passed. The school staff remains the same. A woodwork class under Mr. F. W. Sandford of Christchurch was inaugurated, and has proved eminently successful. Sir William Stewart resigned his position on the Board, and his place has been filled by Mr. D. Thomas. Andrew Orr, Chairman.

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Current income from reserves .. .. 612 0 8 Balance at beginning of year .. .. 239 9 9 School fees .. .. .. .. 178 10 0 Office salary or salaries .. .. .. 26 6 0 Sale of shed on Reserve 1120 .. .. 15 0 0 Other office expenses— Capitation—Technical classes .. .. 810 0 Postage .. .. .. .. 2 5 5 Refund —Amount overpaid on fuel account 1 18 9 Exchange on cheques .. .. .. 0 2 6 Exchange on cheque .. .. .. 0 0 6 Bank oharge .. .. .. .. 010 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 239 18 5 Cheque-book .. .. .. ~ 015 0 Cab-hire .. .. .. .. 10 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 595 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 6 19 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 30 7 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. .. 40 9 3 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Purchases and new works .. .. 58 3 10 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 13 3 Grounds .. .. .. .. 8 3 3 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 510 6 Interest on current account .. .. 19 7 8 Flag, £3; requisites, £1 9s. 3d. .. .. 4 9 3 Asphalting footpath (paid Borough Council) 2 10 0 Sohool library .. .. .. .. 6 3 0 Technical classes .. .. .. 5 0 0 Rent cricket-ground .. .. .. 2 0 0 Postage—Reports, &c. .. .. .. 0 3 6 £1,055 18 4 £1,055 18 4 Andrew Orr, Chairman. Charles Braddell, Secretary Examined and found correct —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Nesfield's Grammar, Parts 1., 11., and 111. ; King Lear ; Paradise Lost, I. and 11., L'Allegro and II Penseroso ; higher-grade English, Stopford Brooke's Primer. Latin— Via Latina ; Bradley's Arnold, to exercise 46 ; iEneid, Book I. ; Ovid's Metamorphoses ; Caesar's Gallic War, Books 111., IV., and VI. French—Wellington College Grammar, to page 181; Chardenal's Advanced Course, to page 276; Paul et Virginie (St. Pierre). Arithmetic (Pendlebury), Algebra (Hamblin Smith), Euclid (Brent), Trigonometry (Lock) —As for junior University scholarship. Botany —As for junior University scholarship. Chemistry—Jago, to page 100. Lowest. —English—Writing, as for Sixth Standard ; Nesfield's Grammar, to page 120 ; Selections from Modern Authors, Fights for the Flag (Fitchett). Latin—Principia Latina, to deponent verbs. French —Methode Naturelle, to page 90; Chardenal's Stories, pages 175-82. Arithmetic— Sixth Standard syllabus. Algebra—Hamblin Smith, to simple equations. Geometry—Euclid, propositions 1-36. Geography —Mill's Commercial Geography. History—Beadings from English History (Green); Primer of Roman History (Creighton's). Botany —A general description of a flowering plant. Shorthand —Pitman's Primer. Book-keeping —Cash-book and ledger ; com-mercial-letter writing. Woodwork (boys).—Sandford's first twelve exercises. Sewing (girls).

3. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing: Two hours a week, covering matriculation syllabus; geometrical drawing, covering the important problems of Euclid, Books 1., 111., and IV. Manual instruction : A school class for boys meets one a week for two hours under Mr. F. W. Sandford of Christchurch for woodwork, taking his first twelve exercises; the girls take sewing. Commercial: Shorthand (Pitman's Primer) is taken for half an hour twice a week ; book-keeping (cash-book and ledger and commercial-letter writing) twice a week for forty-five minutes each time. Physical drill is taken once a week for forty-five minutes. (The class was discontinued during the winter term). Swimming-lessons are given once a week as weather permits during December and February.

4. Scholarships. The Board of Governors gave free tuition to fourteen scholars, and one district scholarship was held at the school.

TIMAEU HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School.—Mr. G. A. Simmers, M.A.; Mr. T. A. H. Wing, M.A. ; Mr. R. T. Wood, B.A. ; Sergeant-major T. Jones. Girls' School.— Miss B. M. Watt, M.A.; Miss J. Mulholland, M.A. ; Miss C. M. Cruickshank, M.A., B.Sc.; Mr. S. Wolf; Mr. W. Greene; Sergeant-major T. Jones; Miss K. O'Brien; Miss M. Fyfe. 1. Beport of Governors. In compliance with a circular from the Education Department dated the 4th December, 1902, I have the honour to report that the work of the schools has been carried on during the year in a highly satisfactory manner, the attendance being well maintained, and the successes of pupils in outside examinations being very gratifying.

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At the end of 1901 Mr. A. J. Mayne, M.A., resigned his position as first assistant in the boys' school, and Mr. T. A. H. Wing, M.A., was appointed in his place. The woodwork classes in connection with the boys' school, which had been discontinued on account of the small number of boys desirous of taking this subject, were resumed under the direct control of the headmaster, the fee formerly charged for this class being abolished. Possibly owing to the abolition of this fee the class was largely attended, forty boys attending it. In the girls' school the class for cookery, under Miss O'Brien, was continued with a roll of twenty; and a new class for dressmaking, with Miss Fyfe as teacher, was begun. Only about ten pupils attended this class. An extra fee was charged for dressmaking; but the Board has decided to make both classes free in future. Swimming classes were started in connection with both schools, but, owing to the phenomenal inclemency of the weather during the swimming season, only four or five lessons were given. The following examination results are to hand: Three pupils entered for University junior scholarships ; one, a boy, gained a scholarship, and two girls passed with credit. Thirteen pupils (five girls and eight boys) passed the Matriculation Examination. One boy gained an exhibition in the Canterbury School of Engineering. Ten pupils (two girls and eight boys) passed the Junior Civil Service Examination, and two boys gained partial success in the Senior Civil Service Examination. Two boys passed the University Terms Examination from the school, and kept terms. The number of ex-pupils in attendance at various Universities is extremely gratifying to the school authorities. While on the subject of examinations the Board wishes to express the hope that the Department will soon see its way to undertake the examination of the high schools of the colony. During the year Messrs. Howell and McCahon retired by effluxion of time, and were re-elected. Mr. 1 , . H. Smith resigned his position on the Board, and Mr. J. D. Hamilton was elected in his place. The Board now consists of Mr. W. B. Howell (Chairman), the Rev. George Barclay, Mr. J. S. Gibson, Mr. John Talbot, Mr. B. E. Macdonald, Mr. J. D. Hamilton, Dr. H. Barclay, Mr. James McCahon, Mr. E. H. Bowie, and the Venerable Archdeacon Harper. The damage caused by the flood in March of last year necessitated a considerable expenditure for protective works, and these protective works have proved very satisfactory so far, the willows growing well and striking readily. Wμ. B. Howell, Chairman.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ a. A. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 30 18 8 Management— Grant from vote of the General Assembly— Office salary or salaries .. .. 70 0 0 Technical work .. .. .. 24 5 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 12 14 4 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,806 0 2 Other expenses of management .. 283 14 4 Interest .. .. .. .. 92 10 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,626 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 650 10 0 Examinations — Interest on current account, Post-Office Examiners' fees .. .. .. 24 2 0 Savings-Bank .. .. .. 4 5 9 Other expenses .. .. .. 4 16 0 Girls'contribution to tennis-court .. 20 0 0 Prizes.. .. .. .. .. 22 18 6 Dressmaking class .. .. .. 6 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 92 4 4 Mortgage renewed .. .. .. 1,000 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 87 6 5 Mortgage granted for five years .. .. 1,000 0 0 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Purchases and new works .. .. 21 5 4 Fenoing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 21 18 6 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 4 7 6 Workshop and material.. .. .. 36 5 8 Rent of hall and piano .. .. .. 4 19 0 Grant to Boys' Sports Club .. .. 5 0 0 Balanoe at end of year— On hand and in bank .. £342 3 5 Invested on mortgage .. 2,000 0 0 2,342 3 5 Less unpresented oheques.. 25 5 9 2,316 17 8 £4,634 9 7 £4,634 9 7 Wm. B. Howell, Chairman. J. H. Bamfield, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —English—Junior scholarship work; Nesfield's Historical English; Trench's Study of Words; Chaucer's Prologue; Spenser's Faerie Queene, and miscellaneous selections from English writers. Latin—Bradley's Composition; Bradley's Aid to Latin Prose ; Cicero, In Verrem, IV. ; miscellaneous translations from Livy, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Horace; grammar, from Stedman's papers. French—Wellington College Grammar; Stedman's papers; Bue's Idioms; Macmillan's Prose Composition, Second Course; original composition; Le Verre d'Eau, Le Joneur, and miscellaneous translations in prose and verse. Mathematics—Junior scholarship work, with binomial theorem for University Terms Examination. Mechanics—Junior scholarship work; Loney's Elements of Statics and Dynamics; Sanderson's Hydrostatics; Besant's Hydrostatics. Electricity—S. P. Thompson's Electricity and Magnetism; Stewart's Tutorial Magnetism

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and Electricity. Geography —Matriculation and Civil Service work; Longmans' Geographical Series No. 3, The World. Drawing —Matriculation work ; freehand and geometrical; Bawle's Plane and Solid Geometry ; Hall and Baxendale's Solid Geometry. Lowest. —English—Nesfield's Manual of Grammar and Composition, to page 106; As You Like It; Little Nell; Talisman ; parsing, analysis, correction of sentences, composition. Latin— Via Latina, to the relative pronoun. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle, to page 120. Mathematics —Euclid, Book 1., propositions 1-16 ; Hall and Knight's Algebra, to end of chapter 18. Arithmetic—Pendlebury's Arithmetic, decimals, practice, proportion, profit and loss, area of walls, &c, cubic contents, proportional parts. History—Arabella Buckley's History, from 1688 to 1815. Geography—Work set down for Standards V. and VI. on Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Australia, with more detail as to mountains and river-basins; physical geography as in Standards V. and VI., but with more detail. Book-keeping—Thornton's Primer of Book-keeping and Easy Exercises. Elementary Science —A lecture-course based on Chambers's Primers of (1) magnetism, (2) frictional electricity, (3) galvanic electricity. Drawing—Freehand and model. Girls' School. Highest. —English —Nesfield's Historical English Grammar; Manual of English Grammar ; Great Authors, Part 111. ; Henry IV., Part 11. ; Midsummer Night's Dream ; Chaucer's Prologue ; Tennyson's Princess. Latin—Bradley Arnold's Latin Prose; Bryan's Latin Prose Exercises; Bomau History ; Cicero, Verres, Book IV. ; Horace, Ode, Book II.; Virgil, Georgics, Book 11. French—Macmillan's French Composition ; Wellington College Grammar and Exercises to accompany Wellington College Grammar; Bue's Idioms; Scribe's Le Verre d'Eau; Boielle, French Poetry ; Casimir Delavigne, Les Enfants d'Edouard. Mathematics—Arithmetic, algebra, Euclid, and trigonometry as for junior University scholarship. Botany and mechanics—To junior University scholarship standard. Lowest.- —English—Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar ; Little Nell; Great Authors, Part 111. ; Arabella Buckley's History of England; Longmans' Geographical Reader No. VI. Latin—Via Latina, pages 1-53 ; Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle, pages 1-60; Mrs. Fraser's Scenes of Child-life. Arithmetic—Southern Cross, Standard IV. Botany—Youmans's First Book of Botany. Magnetism —Poyser's Magnetism. 4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Boys' School. Drawing: Freehand, model, and geometrical drawing was taught by the second assistant; the drawing in connection with the woodwork class was taken by Mr. Simmers assisted by Mr. Wing. Woodwork : There is a properly equipped workshop to accommodate twenty pupils. Mr. Simmers took this subject, and divided the pupils into two classes, with twenty in each. Thirtyfour earned the Government grant. Commercial instruction : Mr. Wood took a class of about twenty pupils in book-keeping. Gymnastics : This subject is taught by Sergeant-major Jones. Drill : There is a fully equipped cadet corps in connection with the school—all the pupils of the school belonged to the corps; Mr. Wood took the drill, and the shooting, to which a good deal of attention is paid, was supervised by Mr. Wood and Mr. Simmers. Swimming : There are large fresh-water baths quite near the school which are open free to school-children at all times. We began a regular course of instruction in swimming and life-saving in February, 1902, but the coldness of the autumn and early summer put a stop to these lessons. The swimming was supervised by Sergeant-major Jones and the assistants of the school. Girls' School. A drawing-teacher comes one afternoon each week to teach freehand and model drawing ; he also took classes in painting and in plasticine modelling. Cookery and dressmaking were also taught by visiting teachers, who came one afternoon each week for twenty weeks. A visiting teacher also teaches drill and gymnastics for one afternoon a week. During the summer months swimminglessons are often given instead of gymnastics.

5. Scholarships. To nine boys and twelve girls holding district scholarships the Governors gave free tuition. The.Governors also gave free tuition to fifteen others (ten boys and five girls).

WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of Governors. In accordance with the statutory requirements the Governors of the Waimate High School beg to submit the following as referring to the year 1902 : — The Board has continued to contribute through the Education Board the sum of £80 per annum in aid of the staff of the local District High School. Moreover, the Board has paid the fees of fifteen pupils, who, though not having reached the Sixth Standard, are permitted to enter the secondary department of the school. (The selection is made on the basis of competitive examination.) In addition to this outlay the Board of Governors grant two money scholarships—open to all South Canterbury, one junior and one senior—to be competed for annually, and whose advantages in each case extend to two years ; the attainments, age, and other conditions of examination are the same as those of the Education Board. Both have just been awarded—won by two girls from the country. The Board cherishes the conviction that all its measures on behalf of secondary

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education in this neighbourhood, and, with such funds as it has, are of a judicious and helpful character. The annual financial statement, forwarded a few weeks ago by the Secretary, will, of course, show the state of our funds. George Barclay, Chairman.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ a. A. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 828 15 5 Management— Endowments — Salary of Secretary .. .. .. 12 12 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 211 2 4 Other office expenses .. .. .. 3 0 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 42 10 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 60 0 0 Bank interest on fixed deposits ".. .. 22 15 7 Examinations—Examiners'fees .. .. 4 4 0 Loans on mortgage prior to 1902.. .. 850 0 0 High Sohool fees .. .. .. 19 5 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 7 2 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 12 10 4 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 12 0 Members' travelling-expenses .. .. 3 0 0 Exohange .. .. .. .. 0 4 6 Bank oharges, 10s. ; bank interest, 9s. .. 019 0 Balance at end of year (inoluding investments on mortgage) .. .. .. 1,831 4 6 £1,955 3 4 . £1,955 3 4 Geo. Barclay, Chairman. G. H. Graham, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOLS. Staff. Boys' School.—Dt. J. R. Don, M.A., D.Sc, F.C.S., F.G.S.; Mr. W. G. Grave, 8.A.; Mr. Thomas A. Hunter, M.A.; Mr. Robert J. Thompson, B.A. ; Sergeant-major Kebblewhite ; Mr. V. Booth; Mr. J. Hardeman; Mr. R. F. Meldrum ; Mr. F. Jones ; Miss Dawson. Girls' School.— Miss C. Ferguson, M.A. ; Miss V. M. Greig, M.A.; Miss M. O. Cunninghame, B.A. ; Miss McCaw; Sergeant-major McPherson. 1. Beport of the Governors. The Board of Governors have to report for the year ending the 31st December, 1902, that during the year they advertised freely in order to ascertain how many pupils would be likely to take advantage of the free education offered, as per circular "Free Places in Secondary Schools," receiving in response only three eligible notices of acceptance. Therefore the Board regret they could not see their way to come under the scheme. Girls' school: The Board have to heartily thank the Minister of Education for the grant of £3,000 to be devoted to the purchase of site and erection of new girls' school. Two acres and a quarter in the town have been secured, the site being considered in every way suitable. The building is now well advanced, and is expected to be ready for occupation in a few months. Both girls' and boys' schools are progressing. At the boys' school the class-room accommodation is quite inadequate to the requirements. Each term the Bector has to refuse admittance to boarders, owing to the shortage of room. As an evidence, the class-room accommodation now available is equal to seventy pupils, whereas the attendance is about one hundred. Therefore in the near future it is clear that further provision will have to be made. Donald Borrie, Chairman.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand, grant from vote of the Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 588 1 1 General Assembly, new girls' school .. 576 0 0 ManagementEndowments— Offioe salary.. .. .. .. 75 0 0 Current revenue from reserves .. 1,481 6 0 Petty cash .. .. .. .. 17 4 5 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 7 0 0 Other expenses of management—Ranger, Paid by School Commissioners .. 72 1 6 £7 10s. ; law fees, £7 Is. ; drill-instruc-School Fees— tors, £13 6s. Bd. .. .. .. 27 17 8 Boys' .. •• •• •• 617 10 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances—Boys, Girls' .. .. • • • • 196 13 4 £887 103.; girls, £438 15s. .. .. 1,326 5 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 5 5 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 55 4 0 Cleaning, fuel, and light .. .. 90 12 6 Site and buildings— Purchase of land .. .. .. 430 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 183 11 11 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 25 2 3 Interest on current account .. .. 31 2 3 School appliances .. .. .. 12 1 6 Incidentals .. .. .. .. 7 5 5 Chairman's expenses, two trips to Wellington .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 65 17 10 £2,950 10 10 £2,950 10 10 ~ Donald Borrie, Chairman. A. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that the payment of £10 is without authority of law, and is therefore disallowed. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest: —English—Nesfield's English Grammar and Composition ; Nesfield's Oral Composition ; Stead's Penny Poets, Spenser, Milton, Keats, Shelby, Coleridge, Byron, Burns, Longfellow ; Macmillan's Reader, Book V.; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature; Taine's History of English Literature (selections); Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Tempest, Hamlet, King Lear. Chemistry—lnorganic chemistry for advanced students. Physics (Heat) —Glazebrook on Heat (Roscoe and Harden). Geology—Geikie's Text-book, practical geology, field and museum work. Latin—Bradley's Arnold (whole); Simpson's Caesarian Prose (first half); Kennedy's Bevised Primer (whole); Caesar, Books I. and 11. (whole); Livy, Hannibalian War (whole); Virgil, iEneid, V. (whole); Horace, Odes, 1., 11., 111., IV. (whole); Cicero, Catiline, I. (half); Boman History, Puller (whole); Bes Bomanae, Coleridge (whole). French—Chardenal, Advanced Course (whole); Macmillan's Second Course (whole); Blouet, French Composition (whole) ; Wellington College Grammar (whole); Colbeck, Beadings from Roman History; Voltaire, Charles XII.; Sand, La Mare au Diable (Russell); Dumas, Un Drame de Mer; Malot, Sans Famille; Regnard, Le Joueur ; Scribe, Le Verre d'Eau ; De Maistre, Les Prisonniers du Caucase ; Corneille, Le Lutrin. Arithmetic—Goyen's and Capel's. Algebra—Hall and Knight's Elementary, to binomial theorem. Trigonometry—Lock's Elementary ; Hall and Knight's; and Wade's Examination Papers. Euclid—Hall and Stevens, I. to VI. Lowest. —English—Yoxall's Speller ; New Royal Reader, No. IV.; Dunlop's Grammar ; spelling, poetry, reading and the comprehension of the substance of the lessons, easy composition, dictation, &c. Arithmetic—Layng's Arithmetic, Part I. Writing—The formation of the letters, &c.; easy words followed by more difficult words and joinings ; no text-book or copybook used. Geography—Longmans' Geography, Part II.; Nature-study—No text-book used. Girls' School. Highest. —English—Macaulay's Essay on Clive ; Shakespeare's Richard II.; Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale; Tennyson's Princess and other selections ; Morell's Literature; Higher Grade English; Nesfield's Past and Present Grammar; essays and other exercises. Latin—Caesar's Gallic War, Books 11. to VII.; Cicero's De Amicitia and Selected Letters ; Virgil's iEneid, VI.; Horace's Odes, III.; Bradley's Arnold; Bryan's Caesar (Latin Prose). French— Madame Therese (Erckmann-Chatrian) ; Les Femmes Savantes (Moliere); Boielle's Poetry; Stedman's Examination Papers ; Chardenal's Advanced Course ; Wellington College Grammar; Oxford and Cambridge Grammar ; Blouet's Composition. Mathematics—As for junior University scholarship. Mechanics — Loney's Statics and Dynamics; Briggs and Bryan's Hydrostatics. Botany—As for junior University scholarship. Scripture —Lessons from Exodus, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel. Lowest. —English—Bowen's English ; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar ; composition and exercises. Latin—Lessons from blackboard, and Principia, 1., up to exercise 27. French— Chardenal's First French Course, up to exercise 73. Arithmetic—Hamblin Smith, up to mensuration. Algebra —Hall and Knight, up to simple equations. Euclid—Hall and Stevens, twenty propositions. Science—Lessons in Physiology and Practical Botany. History—Miss Buckley's, Tudor and Stuart periods and part of Brunswick. Geography—Longmans' 11., up to page 188. Scripture—History of the Israelites from Exodus to Judges.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc, Boys' School. Drawing: Freehand. Commercial: Commercial arithmetic, three hours weekly; bookkeeping, two hours weekly; commercial geography, two hours weekly. Gymnastics : Two hours weekly ; gymnasium, 50 ft. by 25 ft., filled with necessary apparatus ; Sandow's system also taught regularly to boarders. Drill: Waitaki High School Naval Cadets (number, sixty) instructed one hour weekly by Captain Grave and Sergeant-major Kebblewhite, the Government Instructor. Swimming: Swimming-bath, 50ft. by 25ft., always available; supplied from Oamaru mains; beginners get one hour's instruction weekly from Mr. Grave, first assistant. Girls' School. Drawing is taught by a visiting teacher who attends forty minutes each day ; model-drawing is taught from geometric and other models; freehand from Blackie's drawing-sheets; landscape, heads, &c, from copies. Drill and deportment is taught for one hour a week by a visiting teacher; there is no gymnasium.

5. Scholarships. Boys' School. —Six scholarships granted by the Otago Education Board and one by the Governors were held at the school. Girls' School. —Three senior scholarships granted by the Otago Education Board were held at the school, and the Governors granted free tuition to two scholars.

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OTAGO BOYS' AND GIELS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School.—Mr. A. Wilson, M.A.; Mr. J. S. S. Cooper, M.A. ; Mr. M. Watson, M.A. ; Mr. G. M. Thomson, F.L.S. ; Mr. T. D. Pearce, M.A. ; Mr. J. MacPherson, F.E.I.S. ; Mr. F. H. Campbell, M.A. ; Mr. J. Hanna; Mr. D. Sherrifi ; Mr. G. E. Butler. Girls' School.— Mits M. E. A. Marchant, M.A.; Miss F. M. Allan, M.A.; Miss H. Alexander, B.A. ; Miss E. E. Little; Mias M. W. Alves ; Mias F. M. Wimperis; Miss F. Campbell, M.A.; Mr. G. M. Thomson, F.L.S. Mr. J. Hanna; Mr. W. E. Taylor, F.R.C.O. ; Miss J. C. Longford. 1. Beport of the Governors. I have the honour to forward report of the Board of Governors for the year ended the 31st December, 1902. I am pleased to state that the general work of the schools, and the various organizations connected therewith, have been carried on satisfactorily during the year, and that the results of the competitive examinations show that the usual standard of efficiency is being maintained. During the year twenty-one boys and twenty girls received free education, owing to their having obtained the requisite number of marks in the Otago Education Board Senior and Junior Scholarships Examinations. As you are aware, the Board in January last decided to accept your offer of £6 per capita for free places in the schools to all pupils under fourteen years of age who passed the Sixth Standard in the primary schools. During the first terms of the current year sixty-three boys and fifty-one girls have availed themselves of this offer, and, although the short time allowed prior to the commencement of the school year necessarily caused some dislocation of existing arrangements, the experiment promises to be successful as far as the pupils are concerned. I desire to take this opportunity of referring to the following points in the regulations for free places which, in the opinion of the Board, require consideration, and also to express a hope that you will see your way to amend the regulations in the direction indicated. The Board desires to point out —That since the endowments of the various secondary schools vary in value relatively to the demands made upon them, and since the revenue from the endowments of the same school varies from time to time, any capitation grant which ignores this inequality and proceeds on the assumption that all secondary schools have endowments of equal value must be inequitable. That the Board, whilst willing to give the scheme proposed by the Government a fair trial, is convinced that the financial assistance offered is, owing to the restrictions imposed, totally inadequate to enable the Board to meet the cost of carrying on the Dunedin High School. That the conditions offered by the Department are materially different from those suggested in the first place to the Minister of Education by the Board in July last. The Dunedin High Schools are staffed only for present requirements. In order to receive its present revenue under the new conditions the schools will be required to educate 66 per cent, more pupils, besides some fifty free pupils stipulated by the Department under Begulation 2, (a) —viz., one free place for each £50 of net revenue derived from endowments. It is obvious that the added numbers will require an increased staff, and consequently lead to increase of expenditure. That by Begulation 4, which limits the age of pupils entitled to the £6 capitation, a much smaller influx of pupils must take place than was anticipated by the Board when it made its proposals to the Department, and that in consequence the anticipated income is still further reduced. That by the proposed regulations injustice is done to such pupils in the primary schools as obtain the certificate of proficiency at a more advanced age than fourteen. There seems no good reason for excluding such pupils from the benefits of secondary education, and such exclusion will necessitate an X standard for their benefit in the primary schools. This regulation (4) bears with special hardship on country pupils, the great majority of whom, whilst able to pass the education test, are excluded by the age test. That Regulation 11, which excludes from the privilege of free education all pupils on the books of a secondary school for any part of the year 1902, though such pupils may have obtained their certificate of proficiency within the prescribed limit of age, appears to this Board to be unreasonable and unjust. It is a further injustice to these pupils that by the terms of the regulation they would also be excluded from the second examination two years hence provided for the other pupils by Begulation 6. That four years is not a sufficiently long course to provide for pupils at secondary schools. Provided a pupil makes satisfactory progress, a superior limit of age should alone determine the time that a pupil may pass at a secondary school; and this superior limit should be the maximum age at which candidates may compete for a University junior scholarship—viz., nineteen. That the test proposed is not in itself sufficient to insure the highest work being done in secondary schools, fourteen being too advanced an age to begin secondary work with any hope of reaching the best results. To secure the best material for secondary schools it is necessary to maintain and even to extend the present system of scholarships, so that promising pupils who are able to pass the Sixth Standard at an earlier age than that prescribed by clause 4, or Fifth Standard pupils who are able to win such scholarships by public competition, may receive the full benefits of secondary education. That pupils of exceptional ability who pass the Fifth Standard at an early age—say twelve—and therefore give the best promise of profiting by secondary education, should be admitted on payment by Government of the same capitation as Sixth Standard pupils. That, to make the proposed scheme practicable, pupils should enter the secondary school at the beginning of the school year—in February. It is difficult to see how this can be arranged, except by holding the Inspectors' examinations in city schools towards the end of the school year. In the case of country pupils it might perhaps be arranged that they remain in the Sixth Standard of the primary school till the end of the year in which they pass the Sixth Standard. That Begulation 5, which provides that " payment on account of any pupil shall cease after two years from the 31st of December preceding the date of his admission," offers to pupils entering the secondary schools late in the year a period of free education considerably less than two years.

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The question of finance is the one that more particularly affects the schools, and before making the offer of free education the Board went very fully into its financial position, and it estimated £8 per head for the first year and £6 for subsequent years to all pupils who passed the Sixth Standard as a basis upon which it could see its way to carry on the schools efficiently. In making this calculation the Board anticipated a large entry of pupils, but it did not contemplate the obligation of having to provide free education to nearly fifty pupils as imposed by clause 2 of the regulations; in the meantime the reception of free pupils has not seriously affected the entry of pupils paying the full fee, so that for the current year the Board does not anticipate any difficulty in meeting its engagements, but in future the supply of paying pupils will naturally be reduced by reason of the facilities offered under the free-place regulations, and a reduction of fees to a uniform rate will be inevitable. In view of the foregoing facts, I would respectfully urge that if possible the terms of capitation allowance be made more liberal. Wm. Brown, Chairman.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ a. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,202 19 8 Offioe salary or salaries .. .. .. 165 0 0 Endowments—Capital Account—Prioe of Other office expenses— reserves sold.. .. .. .. 260 15 8 Rent .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Endowments— Stamps and telegrams, &c. .. .. 22 17 6 Current income from reserves.. .. 2,345 4 2 Printing and stationery .. .. 7 3 6 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Teachers' salaries and allowances— paid purchase-money .. .. 48 14 7 Boys'school.. .. .. .. 2,582 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. 367 010 Girls'school.. .. .. .. 1,585 0 5 School fees— Boarding-school Account— Boys' school .. .. .. 1,477 13 0 Boys' .. .. .. .. 43 7 6 Girls' school .. .. .. 917 8 8 Girls' .. .. .. .. 265 14 9 Boarding-school fees (girls') .. .. 264 6 8 Advertising .. .. .. .. 36 1 6 Sundries and incidentals, members' tra-velling-expenses .. .. .-. 45 2 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 33 14 7 Printing and stationery (schools) .. 53 8 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, including wages of two janitors (£150) .. .. 240 9 7 Laboratories .. .. .. .. 40 13 2 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Repairs and furnishing .. .. 89 8 10 Insurance .. .. .. .. 52 19 5 Interest on debentures .. .. .. 157 10 0 Water-rates, &o. .. .. .. 87 13 4 Amount transferred to sinking fund .. 17 10 0 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. 17 12 2 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 1,330 16 4 £6,884 3 3 £6,884' 3 3 Wm. Brown, Chairman. C. Macandrew, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —English—Chaucer, Knight's Tale ; Wordsworth, selections ; Burke, Conciliation with America; Shakespeare, Julius Caesar; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11. (part); Historical English Grammar; composition, &c. Latin—Livy, Book XXIII. (thirty-three chapters); Horace, Odes, Books I. and III.; Virgil, iEneid, Book II.; sight translation from various authors ; prose composition ; Boman history. French—Selections from various authors ; 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—Poet's Walk; Ship Literary Beader No. 6; grammar and composition. English history—l6o3-1820. Geography—United Kingdom, British possessions, Europe, and Asia; physical and mathematical geography. Latin—Caesar, Invasion of Britain; composition and grammar. French —Chardenal; composition and grammar. Mathematics : Arithmetic— vulgar and decimal fractions, practice, proportion, interest; algebra—to equations; First Division, Euclid, Book I.; Second Division, Bradshaw's Euclid. Book-keeping —Cash-book, day-book, invoice-book, &c. Drawing—Geometrical, with easy problems. Science—Elementary physics. Girls' School. Highest. —English— Chaucer, The Knight's Tale ; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Spenser, Faerie Queene; Tennyson's Coming and Passing of Arthur ; Historical English Grammar ; composition, &c. ; literature of the Victorian period. Latin —Livy, Book XXII., chapters 15 to 29; Horace, Odes, Book I.; Book 11., three odes; Middleton's Latin Verse, Unseens; composition, grammar, &c; Boman history. French—Chardenal's Advanced Exercises; Wellington College Beader; Boielle, Poetry; Barlet and Mason, Advanced French Reader; grammar, composition, &c.;

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Berthon, Specimens of Modern French Verse. German (upper)—Macmillan, Part II.; Schiller, Wilhelm Tell; Bucheim, Composition. German (lower)—Macmillan, Part I. 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 non-metallic elements ; the Senior Division have revised the whole of inorganic chemistry. Lowest. —English—Macmillan's New Zealand Eeader, No. VI.; English history, James 1. to George II.; geography, Asia, North America, Australia; grammar, composition, &c, Nesfield's School Grammar, parsing and analysis. French —Chardenal, Part I. Arithmetic : Division I.— decimals, problems, proportion, simple and compound interest; Division ll.—compound rules, practice, vulgar fractions. Science—Elements of physiology.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Boys' School. Drawing : Mechanical drawing one hour per week (optional); drawing from round two hours per week (optional). Commercial and technical instruction : Book-keeping, Lower Fourth and Remove Forms ; shorthand, Upper Fourth and Lower Fourth ; commercial arithmetic and mental arithmetic; chemistry and botany in the two highest forms; chemistry in Lower Fifth, elementary physics to the other forms. Drill and gymnastics : Once a week for the whole school. Swimming: Special class under instructor (optional). Girls' School. Drawing : Drawing is included in the school course, and the pupils receive one, two, or more lessons weekly in freehand, model, light and shade, drawing from the cast, &c.; there are also classes for advanced pupils for which models are engaged, and the pupils make life-studies in chalk and oils ; these pupils also learn the painting of still life and of flowers. The studios are well equipped with casts, easels, &c. Manual instruction: The usual school teaching of sewing is carried on in the four lower classes of the school. Gymnastics : There is a thoroughly equipped gymnasium, and every girl in the school is drilled by an expert drill-master in calisthenics and gymnastics. Swimming: A course of lessons is given for those who wish it by the Gymnastic Master.

5. Scholarships. Eighteen pupils at the boys' school and nineteen at the girls' school received free tuition as having obtained 50 per cent, of the obtainable marks at the Senior, or 60 per cent, at the Junior District Scholarship Examinations.

SOUTHLAND HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. H. L. Fowler, M.A. ; Rev. Wm. White, M.A.; Mr. J. G. McKay; Miss E. Stevenson, M.A.; Miss E L Brown, M.A.; Mr. J. V. Hanna. 1. Report of the Board. I have the honour to present the following general report by the Board of the schools under its control: — At the beginning of the year the Board comprised the following Governors : Messrs. J. L. McG. Watson and A. F. Hawke, nominated by His Excellency the Governor; Messrs. W. Macalister and J. C. Thomson, elected by.the Southland Education Board ; and Mr. C. S. Longuet, the Mayor of Invercargill. Mr. Macalister was appointed chairman. The school still maintains an excellent position in the University examinations. Technical classes for cookery and dressmaking were formed, and very satisfactory results have been attained. The special feature of the year was the building and opening of a well-equipped gymnasium. In the last annual report the Board referred to efforts which were being made to erect a building of the kind; this year has seen the gymnasium erected, with superior fittings and first-class apparatus. It was formally opened on the 28th November. Mr. J. V. Hanna, an efficient instructor in gymnastics, was appointed to the charge of this department. The Education Board kindly offered the services of their architect, Mr. W. McCaw, who prepared plans and specifications for the building and supervised its erection. The gymnasium is now one of the most suitably designed and best-equipped in the colony. Both sides of the school get full advantage of this institution. The Education Board bears a share of the annual financial burden, and in return a liberal arrangement is made for instruction being given to pupils of the primary schools. The ensign presented to the school in June was appreciated. The design of the school buildings, however, was such that a second was necessary. The Board therefore procured one, and on all suitable occasions these ensigns are hoisted. The proposal in the circular issued by the Education Department on the 11th December, offering £6 to the Board for each pupil passing Standard VI. of the primary school course admitted free to the high schools, was accepted by this Board, and a large increase in attendance resulted. W. Macalister, Chairman,

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. A. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,348 5 7 Offioe salary or salaries .. .. 60 0 0 Endowments— Other expenses of management .. .. " » Current income from reserves .. .. 720 3 7 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,189 1b i Interest on moneys invested and on un- Instructor gymnasium school—Salary and paid purchase-money .. .. 38 15 0 other expenses .. .. • • 109 3 U Paid by School Commissioners .. 130 610 Examinations— School fees .. .. .. • • 665 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. • ■ 2 2 u Rents from freeholds .. .. .. 75 6 8 Other expenses .. .. .. b (J u Donations for prizes .. 5 4 0 Prizes .. .. .. •■ 2' 9 u Gymnasium Entertainment Account .. 52 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 64 2 J Subsidy on account gymnasium .. .. 83 6 8 Cleaning, fuel, and light, &c. .. .. 109 14 11 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and other temporary advances .. .. 25 19 10 Site and building, from current revenue — Purchases and new works .. .. 795 3 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 60 17 10 Rates, insuranoe, and taxes .. .. 14 18 6 Interest on current account .. .. 4 0 0 Chemicals and appliances .. . • 51 8 11 Furniture and fittings .. .. .. 35 7 6 Technical classes .. .. • • 26 6 0 Balance at end of year .. £474 18 0 Less outstanding oheque 10 10 0 464 8 0 £3,071 10 10 £3,071 10 10 Wm. Macalister, Chairman. Charles Bout, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —English, Chaucer, selections; Hales's Longer English Poems; Shakespeare's Hamlet; Bain's Bhetoric and Composition ; English Lessons for English People; essays. LatinCicero, Brackenbury's Selections, Part 11. ; selections from Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius; prose composition ; Arnold's Exercises; unseen passages. French —Macmillan's First Beader, and selected passages ; Brachet's Grammar; Blouet's Composition, Part HI.; Perini's Questions and Answers. Mathematics : Arithmetic—the subject; algebra—to the binomial theorem ; Euclid— Books 1.-VI., with exercises; trigonometry—to solution of triangles. Science —Heat and chemistry, as for junior scholarships. Lowest. —English—Scott's Lady of the Lake; Mason's Grammar; parsing, syntax, analysis; Longmans'Composition. Latin—Via Latina, to the end of verbs ; Gradatim. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle, 100 pages. Mathematics: Arithmetic —to equations; algebra —to factors; Euclid —Book 1., with deductions ; mensuration—elementary. Science —General (Gregory and Simmons). Book-keeping —Easy exercises. Shorthand —Pitman's Teacher. History —To Elizabeth. Geography —Africa and Europe ; physical. Girls' School. Highest. —English—Tennyson's Holy Grail; Shakespeare's Hamlet; Seeley's Expansion of England; composition, analysis; English literature, to 1603. Latin—Via Latina; Caesar, De Bello Gallico, 111. ; Ovid, selections. French —Macmillan's Second Beader and exercises. Mathematics : Arithmetic ; algebra—to quadratic equations; Euclid—Books I. and 11. Science—■ Botany and physiology as for matriculation. Geography —America, West Indies, Pacific Islands, Africa, Bussian Asia. History—William 111. to Victoria. Needlework, dress-cutting, cooking. Lowest. —English —Scott's Lady of the Lake ; Mason's Grammar; parsing, &c.; literature, to 1603; composition. History—Henry VII. to William 111. Geography—New Zealand and Europe. Latin— Via Latina, to end of verbs; Gradatim. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle, seventy lessons. Mathematics : Arithmetic—To compound interest; algebra—to factors; Euclid Book 1., to proposition 29. Science —Botany and physiology, elementary. Drawing—Freehand and model. Needlework, dress-cutting, cooking. 4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. The following classes were held under the provisions of the Manual and Technical Instruction Act: (1.) Chemistry : Advanced class, meeting four times a week ; (2.) junior class, meeting three times a week. (3*.) Cookery (girls) : General, plain. (4.) Dress-cutting (girls): Drafting and cutting. (5.) Woodwork (boys) :On Saturdays, for half the year. Shorthand, two-lessons a week, to boys and a few girls. Girls received instruction in drawing—designs, and from models and casts. Boys who did not take Latin or French did extra work in mathematics and English. In the last term of the year boys and girls received regular training in drill and gymnastics from a qualified instructor; before that the girls were drilled by their mistresses. The boys are formed into a cadet corps, and receive the usual training and practice. A completely equipped gymnasuim was opened during the last term, and is the property of the High Schools.

5. Scholarships. Sixteen boys and eight girls held district scholarships, and sixteen boys and twelve girls received free tuition at the school.

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INSPECTOES' EEPOETS ON DISTEICT HIGH SCHOOLS.

EDUCATION DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND. Aratapu District High School (opened 7th July, 1902).

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(Number of scholars on roll:—Passed Standard VI. : M., 9; P., 17 : total, 26.) Number of Pupils in Subject taught. Class. Class during Work done during the Year. Last Quarter: of Year. I Arithmetic ... X. 26 I Advanced; including examples in square and cube root, mensuration, and stocks. English ... „ 26 ; Literature—As You Like It, to end of Act iii., with notes on the more difficult passages ; grammar —Mason's English Grammar, to page 104; spelling and dictation—as for Junior Civil Service ; composition. Latin ... „ 10 Abbott's Via Latina, to page 39, including the five declensions of nouns, declension and comparison of adjectives, with exercises. Algebra ... „ 14 i The definitions and symbols, substitutions, addition, subtraction, brackets, and multiplication. Euclid ... „ 6 j The definitions, postulates, and axioms; propositions 1 to 10, with easy exercises. Shorthand ... „ 18 I Pitman's Phonetic Teacher, to exercise 44. Book-keeping „ 21 i The various books. Geography ... „ 7 , Mathematical and physical; Australasia and Great Britain. History ... „ 4 j The House of Hanover, to 1820. Science .... „ 2 j Miall's Object-lessons, chapters 1 to 6, inclusive (for candidates' examination). Drawing ... „ 10 Freehand and mechanical. Cambridge District High School (opened 6th October, 1902). (Number of scholars on roll:—Passed Standard VI. : M., 15 ; P., 9 : total, 24.) Euclid ... VII.(a) 14 1 Book I., to proposition 12. (b) 3 Book I., to proposition 6. Algebra ... VII.(a) 14 To multiplication. (b) 3 To addition. Arithmetic ... VII.(a) U) t, ■ ■ c ? i ? • n i W o I Eevision of four rules ; fractions; miscellaneous examples on ) I „ I Standard VI. work. [G) 11 French ... VII.(a) 14 I. Chardenal, to exercise 70. } I 7 \ I. Chardenal, to exercise 45. English ... VII.(a) 14) Brandram's As You Like It, to page 22 ; grammar—full parsing (b) 3 >- and analysis; essay-writing. Class VII. (c) also did Eng(c) l) lish as prescribed for Junior Scholarship (district) for 1902. History and VII. (c) 7 As prescribed for Junior Civil Service for 1902. geography Book-keeping VII. 7 Entering up day-book, invoice-book, and cash-book. OOROMANDBL DISTRICT HlGH SCHOOL. (Number of scholars on roll:—Passed Standard VI. : M., 5; F., 8 : total, 13.) Chemistry (in- I. 13 Roscoe and Lunt's, lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, and 12. organic) Latin ... I. 13 Abbott's Via Latina, to end of exercise 41. English litera- I. 13 Shakespeare's As You Like It. tufe English gram- I. 13 Nesfield's, to page 135. mar and composition English his- I. 13 Cyril Eansome's, to end of Plantagenet Period. tory Spelling and I. 13 As for Junior Civil Service. dictation Euclid ... I. 13 j Book I., to proposition 33. Algebra ... I. 13 To end of H.C.F., Hall and Wood's, Parts I. and II. Geography ... I. 13 Longmans' School Geography for Australasia—Physical geography ; geography of Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Arithmetic ... I. 13 Civil Service and Matriculation standards.

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Opotiki District High School (opened 1st September, 1902).

(Number of scholars on roll : —Passed Standard VI. : M., 1 : tota' • j Number of Pupils in Subject taught. Class. Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Arithmetic ... Algebra Book-keeping I. II. I. I. 14 2 16 16 Cube root : more difficult examples in stocks ; mensuration ; interest; miscellaneous examples from the Arithmetics by Hamblin Smith and Goyen. Work prescribed in syllabus for Standard VI. —Present worth and discount, compound interest, profit and loss, stock, and miscellaneous examples. Longmans' Junior School Algebra, to page 37, inclusive —Signs, symbols, notation, addition, subtraction, brackets, multiplication. Meaning of " Book-keeping " ; names and uses of the different books ; entries for January from Chambers' Book-keeping by Inglis, in books for single entry ruled by Upton and Co. Inorganic Chemistry for Beginners, by Roscoe and Lunt, to page 65, inclusive—Solids, liquids, gases ; the air, water ; mechanical mixture and chemical combination; elements and compounds ; symbols and formulae ; Dalton's atomic theory ; atomic and molecular weights ; physical measurements ; the thermometer ; measures of temperature ; physical properties of gases. Text-book by Hall and Stevens, to proposition 26, inclusive. Chemistry I. 16 Euclid ... I. English— Composition I. I. 16 I. 16 Essays on selected subjects ; correction of sentences ; combination of sentences. As You Like It, by Brandram, to page 23 —Acts i. and ii. Selected passages and difficult words. Shakespeare I. Dictation and I. spelling Grammar ... I. I. I. 16 16 Geography ... I. I. 16 16 1 Manual of English Grammar and Composition, by Nesfield — Analysis in outline; parts of speech in outline; nouns, adjectives, pronouns; part of the chapter on verbs ; analysis and parsing ; prefixes and suffixes ; a part of the chapter on the Origin and Growth of English has also been taken. The trade winds, anti-trades, monsoons, land and sea breezes, climate, the seasons, tides; the geography of Asia and of Canada and the United States has been studied. Via Latina, by Abbott, to page 50 —Nouns, adjectives, and pronouns (exclusive of relative pronouns). Latin ... I. 16 Pabj BOA DlSTBK ZT High School (opened 7th July, 1902). .1:—Passed Standard VI. : M., 23; F., 18: total 41.) (Number of soh Arithmetic ... A and B iolars on rol English ... A and B 41 41 41 Decimals, decimal coinage, metric system, simple and compound interest as for Junior Civil Service. Gray's Elegy; Shakespeare's As You Like It, two acts; Nesfield's Grammar, forty pages. Air, water; preparation and properties of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon-dioxide. Thornton's Primer, to end of section iii. Chemistry ... A and B Book-keeping A and B Shorthand ... A and B French ... A andB 36 I 20 1 1 18 j ( 17 I I 14 I ( 13 \ 1 12 J Pitman's Teacher, as far as exercise 14. Chardenal's First Course, to exercise 60. Algebra ... A and B Substitutions, addition, brackets, subtraction, multiplication. Euclid ... A and B Definitions, postulates, axioms, and twelve propositions. Taubai >TGA DlSTBK 3T High School (opened 1st October, 1902). oil:—Passed Standard VI.: M., 7 ; F., 7 : total, 14.) (Number of sc Standard French ... VII. English gram- ; „ . mar Literature ... i „ Geography ... „ History ... „ Euclid Algebra ... „ molars on ri 14 14 14 14 10 14 14 i Chardenal's French Course, thirty-four exercises. West's Grammar, sixty-eight pages. As You Like It, by Brandram—notes on eighteen pages. (Longmans') Australia, Physical Geography, fifty-one pages. George I. and George II. Up to and including proposition 8, Book I. Up to and including the removal of brackets (Longmans' Junior School Algebra). i

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Waihi District High School.

Report op Inspector. I have the honour to submit a short statement relating to the lately established district high schools. Of these, there were seven in operation at the close of the year. I regret that I had no opportunity of inspecting them, owing to the unusual amount of work thrown on me through the absence for a time of one of the Inspectors and the extra holidays granted in connection with the coronation festivities. I have, however, examined the results of their last quarterly examination, where such was held, and feel satisfied that they have made a creditable start. Quite a large number of subjects has been taken up for study, including shorthand, which might well be omitted as being too special and technical. Latin is being studied at four of them, and French at three. At Cambridge and Tauranga no science subject has been taken up as yet; and at Aratapu the work in this department is of the nature of object-lessons rather than science. It is the desire to pass pupils at the Junior Civil Service and Matriculation Examinations that has led to the takingup of so many subjects —a step of doubtful wisdom. Several of the schools have been provided with a considerable equipment of science apparatus, but provision has not yet been made for a practical training in laboratory work. This should be arranged for as soon as possible, and will involve some outlay ; but a considerable part of it can be earned back from the Department, as these science classes will be "school classes" under the Manual and Technical Instruction Act. For the success of the district high schools two conditions seem to me of the greatest importance —one is that a special class-room with desks and furniture adapted for practical scienceteaching should be provided in each school ; and the second is that the teachers of these special classes shall be duly qualified for the wor,k they have to do, and be adequately remunerated. To each a minimum salary of £200 a year should, I think, be paid ; and the Minister might be asked, if needful, to make special provision for maintaining the salary at this figure. Copies of the work done in each of the schools are attached hereto. Several of the text-books in use seem to me scarcely suitable, and have not been approved bv the Board. D. Petrie, M.A., Chief Inspector,

um ier o: sc. ars on ro assei itani an .: A , oi Subject taught. Class. Number of Pupils in Glass during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. jatin I. II. I. II. I. I. 31 5 31 5 31 31 Work of Via Latina, to the end of fourth conjugation. Various exercises—5, 15, 24, &c. Up to quadratics (not inclusive). Signs, symbols, and notation. Book I., and Book II. to proposition 7. Outline of world, mathematical and physical geography ; maps of Europe and Colonies as for Junior Civil Service. Australasia (recently admitted). Period 1688 to 1900, as required for Junior Civil Service. The whole of the play " As You Like It " read and copiously commented on ; Brandram's text-book used. Parts I., II., and III., Literature Primer, by Professor Nichol, LL.D. Covered the ground as per West's Grammar. Entered High School a few weeks (three) before close of 1902. Llgebra lluolid xeography ... listory .literature ... II. I. I. 5 31 31 English composition Irammat I. 31 Lrithmetic ... it I. II. I. 31 5 31 1 5) 31 Advanced work equal to Junior Civil Service requirements. 'hemistry Experiments illustrative of the three states of matter; indestructibility of matter; physical changes compared with chemical changes ; difference between mechanical mixtures and chemical compounds; phenomena of chemical action ; the properties of air and water ; solution and crystallization ; production and properties of oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen ; definitions and general properties of oxides, acids, and bases; production and properties of chlorine, hydrochloric acid, ammonia, and nitric acid; general properties of metals and non-metals : the work being taken on the lines of the requirements for Junior Civil Service Examination.

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EDUCATION DISTRICT OF TARANAKI. Stratford District High School.

Report of Inspector. Owing to the schools being closed at the usual time for examination, I could subsequently devote only one day to the examination of the secondary subjects, and tested English and arithmetic, as to these subjects district high schools are required to pay special attention in order to obtain grants for pupils receiving free tuition. The other subjects were examined by the head teacher. In the matriculation class (senior pupils) there were twelve pupils. One had met with an accident, and attended neither the headmaster's examination nor mine; and from my examination nine others who were attending the Matriculation Examination were absent. Of the two examined in arithmetic, the work of one was excellent, of the other moderate. In English the work of one was very good, of the other satisfactory. In the middle division (four pupils) all were present. In English one paper was excellent, one was fair, and two were moderate. In arithmetic one was excellent, one good, one satisfactory, and one fair. In the modern division— i.e., those not taking Latin—there were fourteen pupils, but only ten were present. Of the four absent, two are pupils receiving free tuition, and satisfactory reasons for their absence should be required. Of the ten examined in English, one paper was good, two satisfactory, three fair, and four moderate. In arithmetic one was good, three fair, two moderate, and four poor. In the junior division (four pupils) three were present. In English one did moderate work, and two poor work. In arithmetic one did good work, and two very poor work. The above remarks refer to the results of my examination. In the matriculation class those absent at matriculation would be the strongest, and, taking the results of the headmaster's examination in conjunction with mine, I look upon the general results as very good. In the modern division, considering the time the pupils have been on the secondary registers, the work was satisfactory. In the middle and junior divisions the work in English was not so strong as I expected, and arithmetic was very disappointing. During the year a change in the curriculum has been made —Latin is optional, and shorthand and book-keeping have been introduced. Eleven pupils have taken the last two subjects, and the headmaster's results show that the progress has b#en good. This commercial course, as it may be termed, is at the option of the parents, and, I am pleased to see, has met with their approval. Next year I hope to see some branch of science included among the secondary subjects. My thanks are due to Mr. Tyrer for the manner in which he has carried out the extra work thrown upon him in examining the secondary subjects, and for the clear and concise way in which his results were placed before me. W. E. Spencer, Inspector.

(Number of scholars on. roll:—Passed Standard VI. —M. 22, F. 10, M. 1, F. 1, total 2 : totals—M. 28, F. 11, total 34.) 32; ot .ers — i 11 i * i i ii' i , r\f N umber oi Pupils in Subject taught. Class. J Class during Work done during the Year. Subject taught. Subject taught. Number of Pupils in Class. ! Class during Last Quarter of Year. Latin English ... i French Arithmetic ... Euclid Algebra ... Book-keeping ; Shorthand ... I. 13 II. 4 III. 4 I. 18 II. 17 I. 11 II. 7 III. 11 I. 20 II. 14 I. 20 II. 14 I. 20 II. 14 I. 11 I. 11 Via Latina; Principia, Pare II., pages 39 to 51; Csesar, Book II., chapters 1 to 20. Via Latina, to exercise 70. Via Latina, to exercise 33. Nesfield's Grammar and Composition, to page 200; Lady of Shallot; Morte d'Arthur ; Sir Eoger de Coverley. Advanced Standard VI. work and English as for Class I. Chardenal's, Book I. and Book II., to exercise 60. Chardenal's, Book I. Chardenal's, Book I., to exercise 148. As for Matriculation. Advanced Standard VL work. Books I. and II., and exercises. Book I., to proposition 26. As to Matriculation. To easy simple equations. Single entry ; use of day-book, invoice-book, cash-book, ledger. Pitman's Phonographic Teacher, to exercise 45.

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EDUCATION DISTRICT OF WANGANUI. Eltham District High School.

Number of s> jholars in roll : — ] F. 6, tot. 'assed Standard VI.—M. 10, F. 9, totai 1 8 : totals—M. 12, F. 15, total 27.) ; Ot ;ers — Subject taught. Glass. Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Latin ... V. 3 Latin Division A—Macmillan, exercises 91 to 99; translation, sections xv. and xvi. Division B—Exercises 35 to 48 ; translation, sections v. and vi.. Division C —To exercise 19. Division A—Propositions 18 to 23, with exercises. Division B— Definitions, postulates, axioms, propositions 1, 2, 3. Division A —Longmans', exercises 70, 71, 72. Division B — Longmans', exercises 1 to 20. Miscellaneous exercises from Pendlebury's Arithmetic. To exercise 14 (Pitman's). Ghardenal, I., to exercise 26. Nesfield, figures of speech, nouns ; Kenilworch, to chapter 5 ; dictation and spelling from Kenilworth; Deserted Village, to line 74; Traveller, to line 73; parsing and analysis; Citizen Eeader, to page 49 ; essays, four. Euclid VI. 2 X. 19 Euclid ... X. 19 Algebra ... X. 19 Algebra Arithmetic ... Shorthand ... French English Arithmetic ... X. 19 Shorthand ... X. 16 French ... X. 3 English ... X. 19 Book-keeping VI. 3 ) X. 19 f Science ... X. 19 Book-keeping Thornton, lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, to page 37. Science Agricultural chemistry ; structure of seed and plant; germination. As for New Zealand Volunteers. Club and dumb-bell exercises. Drill Drill ... X. 10 9 H (Number of scholars on roll: —P F. 1, to iWBEA District High School. assed Standard VI.—M. 31, F. 30, total 61 ; others—M. 0, tal 1 : totals—M. 31, P. 31, totals 62.) Latin ... I. -I 25 II. 25 III. 11 English ... I. 62 Arithmetic ... I. 62 Algebra ... I. 25 II. 25 III. 11 IV. 1 Euclid ... I. 28 II. 18 III. 9 Science ... ! I. 62 Drill ... I. 62 Commercial I. 62 geography Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, page 24. Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, page 63. Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, page 103. Ivanhoe ; Westward Ho!; Julius Caesar, Acts i., ii., iii. ; Anthony and Cleopatra, Acts i., ii., iii., iv. ; Kenilworth, to chapter 12 ; Nesfield's Grammar, pages 1 to 74, 118 to 141 ; spelling and dictation (special passages). Pendlebury's Arithmetic, pages 192 to 298, 336 n-m, 337 to 360. Longmans' Junior Scholarship Algebra, page 37. Longmans' Junior Scholarship Algebra, page 70. Longmans' Junior Scholarship Algebra, page 117. Longmans' Junior Scholarship Algebra, page 158. To proposition 7. To proposition 23. To proposition 48. j Elementary, magnetism and electricity, and elementary botany. Military for boys ; physical for girls. Trade relations with Empire; trading centres ; great railways ; canals ; irrigated countries ; shipping. 'atba Distbict High School. X (Number of scholars on roll: —Pa; total ised Standard VI.—M. 11, F. 12, total 23 ; others—M. 0, F. 2, 2 : totals—M. 11, F. 14, total 25.) Julius Csesar, Act i'., Scenes 1 and 2 ; Kenilworth, to chapter 15 ; Nesfield's Grammar, to chapter 3; Meiklejohn's Spellingbook, co page 31; composition, parsing, and analysis. Pendlebury's Arithmetic, Part II., to exercise 165. Chardenal's First French Course, to exercise 60. To multiplication. To proposition 5. Thornton, chapters 1, 2, and 3. Pitman's Teacher, to page 16. Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, exercises 1 to 32. English ... Junior 27 Arithmetic ... „ 27 French 27 Algebra ... „ 27 Euclid 27 Book-keeping „ 20 Shorthand 20 Latin ... „ 7

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Wanganui Boys' District High School.

Marton District High School.

urn ier o 8C ars in roll :— t F. 0, tot; 'assed Standard VI.—M. 26, P. 22, total, 48; others—M. 23, il 23 : totals—M. 49, F. 22, total 71.) ; of tiers — Subject taught, j Glass. Number of Pupils in Glass during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Latin .. j Senior Junior Euclid ... Senior Junior Algebra ... ! Senior Junior English ... Whole Arithmetic ... Whole 9 23 5 42 7 37 48 48 Macmillan's Course, Book I., Book II. to exercise 22. Macmillan's Course, Book I., to 77. Book I., Book II. to proposition 7, exercises. Book I., to proposition 32, exercises. To the end of factors, fractions, simultaneous equations. j To the end of simple equations (Hall and Knight). I Nesfield's Grammar, Parts I. and II.; Julius Csesar ; Ivanhoe. Advanced Standard VI.—Mensuration, long tots, commercial arithmetic. Chemistry—Principles; nature of chemical action ; study of common acids, alkalies, &c. Commercial, physical, and political geography of Europe; British Isles; mathematical and physical geography generally. Book I. (Chardenal) ; conversational French. Book I., to exercise 104; conversational- French. Simple perspective problems. To page 104, Thornton's First Lessons. Science ... Whole 48 Geography ... Whole 48 French ... : Senior Junior Drawing ... Whole Book-keeping Whole 3 25 48 48

(Number of s< lolars on roll :—Ps F. 0, tot isserl Standard VI.—M. 21, F. 15, total 36 ; others—M. 5, ,al 5: totals—M. 26, F. 15, total 11.) ; ot: iers—ft ■ Subject taught. I Number of Pupils in Class. Glass during Ijast Quartei of Year. Work done during the Year. English I. 24 Julius Csesar ; Traveller, lines 1 to 280 ; grammar and composition. Traveller, lines 1 to 280 ; grammar and composition. As far as surds and elementary mensuration. As far as metric system. Finishing Standard IV. book. To exercise 96, Macmillan's Shorter Course, II. To exercise 146, Macmillan's Shorter Course, I. To exercise 68, Macmillan's Shorter Course, I. To exercise 30. Chardenal, II. ; to page 46, French without Tears, III. To exercise 176, Chardenal, I.; to page 46, French without Teats, III. To exercise 66, Chardenal, I. ; to page 25, French without Tears, I. Book I. Book I., 1 to 8. To addition and multiplication of fractions. Xo easy factors and equations. To multiplication. To ledger J in Thornton's First Lessons. To personal accounts, Thornton's First Lessons. Stems, leaves, roots, &c. (changed last quarter to chemistry). First notions ; oxygen, hydrogen, carbonic acid. Kapid revision for Civil Service (last quarter only). Furneaux, to ear. To inscribed circles. Simple problems on lines and angles. Arithmetic ... Latin II. 17 I. 20 II. 18 III. 3 I. 16 II. 7 III. 9 I. 13 French II. 4 Euclid III. 13 Algebra . ... Book-keeping I. 9 II. 13 I. 17 II. 5 III. 13 I. 12 II. 16 I. 28 I. 39 I. 5 I. 3 I. 10 II. 13 Botany Chemistry ... Geography ... Physiology ... Geometrical drawing

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Feilding District High School.

College Street (Palmerston North) District High School.

um ier o: sc ars on ro. :— Pa: total ] ised Standard VI.—M. 21, F. 20, tota! : totals—M. 21, F. 21, total 42.) ; ot Lers —A 8CU kJDOillU.ctlU. V X. l\J_, AS., _L' . ZJU, UUUdil *± J. , UU11CJ. O iYX . \J, JJ . X , : totals—M. 21. P. 21. total 42.) . UUlc*l& XTJ.. il, X'. ZJJ_, UtJLOjl -iLZi.j Subject taught. : Class. Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. • Latin I. 3 Principia, page 89 to end ; -Allen's Latin Grammar, all; Via Latina, exercise 67 to end; Caesar's Invasion of Britain. Principia, page 37 to end; Gradatim, exercises 1 to 70. Principia, page 94. Nesfield's Grammar, with Mason's English Grammar and Composition. Books read—Ivanhoe, Westward Ho !, Julius CiBsar. Nesfield, to page 316 (Part IV. omitted). Books read, as in I. Nesfield, to page 83. Books read, as in I. Chardenal, I. and II. ; French without Tears, I., II., and III. Chardenal, I. ; French without Tears, I., II., and III. Chardenal, I., to page 57 ; French without Tears, I. and II. Book II. and Book I. revised. Book I., proposition 27 to end, and revision. Book I., to proposition 25. Hall and Knight, up to quadratics. Blackie's Text-book; and miscellaneous. Blackie's Text-book, to exercise 16. General, matriculation standard. General, of standard higher than VI. Furneaux, matriculation. Furneaux, all. Furneaux, to lesson 32. Primer, Dendy and Lucas, page 166. Pitman's Teacher. Thornton's First Lessons. Civil Service. English II. III. I. 15 8 3 French Euclid ... i II. III. I. II. III. I. II. III. I. II. III. I. II.&III. I. II. III. 20 19 3 20 17 3 19 19 3 19 18 3 39 3 19 19 1 6 13 7 Algebra Arithmetic Physiology ... Botany Shorthand ... Book-keeping Geography ...

Number oi scholars >n roll:—P F. 3, tota 'assed Standard VI.—M. 49, F. 50, total 99; others—M. 8, ,1 11: totals—M. 57, F. 53, total 110.) Subject taught. | Class. Number of Pupils in Glass during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. latin ... III. (A) III.(b) II. (A) II. (B) ?rench ... II. (b) II. (A) English ... III. II. 7 23 25 29 12 2 44 66 Via Latina, to exercise 86; Caesar, Book I., thirty-five chapters. Via Latina, to deponent verbs ; Gradatim, to exercise 40. Via Latina, to exercise 60 ; Gradatim, to exercise 70. Via Latina, to exercise 38. Chardenal, to exercise 80 ; Janau's Elementary Eeader, seven exercises; conversation. Chardenal, exercises 120 to 178 ; Malot's Bemi et ses Amis, seven pages. Julius Csesar; Ivanhoe; Nesfield, Parts II., III., and V. ; essays; miscellaneous work. Nesfield, to chapter 12 ; analysis, parsing, syntax ; Lays of Ancient Eome, Macaulay ; Ivanhoe. Longmans' Book II., The World; Notes on Physical and Mathematical Geography and on Current Events. Europe, Africa, and Asia ; Longmans' Book II., The World From Henry VII. to present time, Bansome, Bansome, from beginning to 1485. Pitman's Teacher. Pitman's Teacher, to exercise 60. To page 121, Thornton's First Lessons in Book-keeping; opening, entering, and proving. Thornton's First Lessons in Book-keeping, to chapter 9. Geography ... III. 44 II. 3istorv ... III. II. Shorthand ... II. II. (B) 3ook-keeping II. 66 44 66 67 28 66 II. (B) 32

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EDUCATION DISTRICT OF WELLINGTON. Masterton District High School.

EDUCATION DISTRICT OF HAWKE'S BAY. Gisborne District High School.

Subject taught. Ciass. I Number of Pupils in ! Class during , Work done during the Year. Laet Quarter] of Year. • Algebra Euclid Arithmetic ... III. II. (A) II.(b) I. III. II. (A) II.iB) III. II. (A) II.(B) II. II. 17 To quadratics, Hall and Knight. . 32 To addition of fractions, Longmans' Junior. 36 To simple equations, Longmans' Junior. 25 i To exercise 80, Longmans' Junior. 17 Books I. and II., Hall and Stevens. 32 Book I., Hall and Stevens. 36 Propositions 1 to 34 inclusive, Hall and Stevens. 25 Propositions 1 to 24 inclusive, Hall and Stevens. 17 Goyen—the book, and miscellaneous. 32 Goyen, to square root. 36 Goyen, to square root. 25 Goyen, to Alligation. 104 Elementary lessons in botany, agriculture, and electricity. 104 Freehand ; model; lettering. 2 I Farnie's School Method. Science Drawing School Method

(Number o: so ars on ro asse. itan ard t '., 49: tota >■) Subject taught. Glass. Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Arithmetic ... I. II. I. 39 ) 41 j 39 General, as for Junior Civil Service. Algebra From beginning of subject to simultaneous equations, in Hall and Knight's Algebra for Beginners. First four rules ; brackets. Book I., 1 to 34. Book I., 1 to 15, inclusive. Macmillan's Latin Course, I., to page 77. Macmillan's Latin Course, I., sections 1 to 15. Sir Boger de Coverley ; Westward Ho !, chapters 1 to 16 ; parsing, analysis, composition. Westward Ho !, chapters 1 to 16 ; parsing, analysis, paraphrasing, and composition. Magnetism and frictional electricity. Light and sound. 1820-37, 1689-1820. Stuart period. Asia, America, Africa, Australasia; physical. Physical and mathematical. Euclid Latin II. I. II. I. II. I. 41 39 41 39 41 39 English II. 41 Science Physics History I. II. I. II. I. II. 39 41 39 41 39 41 Geography ...

(Num >er of sc iolars on ro. [1 : —Passed itan Lari :5; '.,24: tota: , 49.) Subject taught. Class. Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the year. iatin A B C II is Cassar, Book V.; Anglice Reddenda; Via Latina; Allen's Grammar. Via Latina; Gradatim. Via Latina, to exercise 20.

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Gisborne District High School—continued.

Report op Inspector. The syllabus is somewhat different from that of former years. Drawing has replaced French, and physiology is now taken instead of physics. Although the High School classes are free to pupils who have passed Standard VI., the increase in the class attendance is small. I do not know whether there is a regulation requiring pupils who seek for free admittance to the secondary classes to attend at such classes for a definite period—say of twelve months or two years—but if the classes are to be of value such regulation will become necessary. Eighteen pupils were examined, but four of them were absent from one or more papers during the progress of the examination. In those cases the results are low and do not represent the actual efficiency of the pupils. The marks of the pupils, as usual, show wide variations in the efficiencv of the candidates. Taken as a whole the arithmetic presents the worst results, and no pupil gained even two-thirds of the possible marks in the subject. I suggest that provision be made in the time-table for mental arithmetic, as it is evident to me that the time given to practical arithmetic is too short. Much of the algebra was excellently done. The two test papers in English showed some careful preparation, No. 1 paper being particularly well done by a majority of the pupils. Some of the answers were excellent. The play " Julius Caesar " was not equal in merit to the general paper on Goldsmith, Coleridge, and Tennyson. Latin was of uneven merit, some being very good and some very poor. Several of the translations were capitally done. Euclid had been well prepared. The tests varied considerably from those of previous years, and were based in a large measure upon the new proposals dealing with Euclid's elements. Most of the candidates gained satisfactorv marks, and six obtained marks varying between "Very good " and " Excellent." The science papers do not yet please me, as few of the candidates illustrate their answers by means of a diagram. With a text-book like that used by the class every step should be illustrated. Simple memory preparation by pupils is undesirable in this subject. The drawing promises well. The subject has not been taken very long, but good progress has been made by the majority of those examined. Taking the class as a whole it is not a strong one, although a large amount of work has been attempted. 0 The absence of pupils from examination is hardly fair to the teaching staff, as the work done is not fairly represented by three or four subjects. The strong pupils are mostly girls, and I shall watch with interest whether the girls will be able to hold their position in the class during the coming year. The style of the paperwork shows improvement, the best arranged paper being English No. I. H, Hill, 8.A., F.G.S., Inspector of Schools.

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Subject taught. Class. Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. English Physiology ... A B C A B C A B C A B C A B C A B 11 20 18 11 20 18 11 20 18 11 20 18 11 20 18 11 20 I I | Nesfield's English Grammar ; Abbott's How to Write Clearly ; Longmans' Composition ; Higher-grade English. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Goldsmith's Deserted Village; Selections from Tennyson; English Grammar. English Grammar. Furneaux's Human Physiology. Furneaux's Human Physiology, to page 173. Murche —Animal Physiology, Book I. Arithmetic ... General revision of rules. Euclid Hall and Stevens, Books I. and II. Hall and Stevens, Book I. Hall and Stevens, Book I., to proposition 5. Hall and Knight, to quadratics. Hall and Knight, to simple equations. Hall and Knight, first four simple rules. Algebra Geography ... Meiklejohn's New Geography.

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EDUCATION DISTRICT OF NELSON. Motueka District High School.

(Num ier of scholars on roll : —Passed Standan VI.: > : total • j Subject taught. ■ Number of Pupils in Class. Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Latin Latin .. I. 2 II. 10 III. 15 IV. 15 Euclid ... I. 2 II. 26 III. 14 Algebra ... I. 2 II. 27 III. 14 Chemistry ... ! I. 40 Geography ... I. 43 Arithmetic ... ! I. 43 English ... I. 28 Euclid Algebra To exercise 77 in Via Latina. To exercise 47 in Via Latina. To exercise 28 in Via Latina. To exercise 12 in Macmillan's Primer. Books I. and II. Book I. Book I., to proposition 9. Hall and Knight's, to quadratics. To simultaneous equations. To division. Eoscoe's Primer. Physical and political. Lock's (subject generally). Grammar, spelling, composition; set books—Ivanhoe, Morte d'Arthur, Julius Csesar. Grammar, spelling, composition ; set book—Julius Caesar. Chemistry ... Geography ... Arithmetic ... English II. 15 WE! STPOET DlSTBICT HlGH SCHOOL. (Number of scholars on rol (Num \ : _Passed Standard VI. : M., 25 ; F., 28 : total, 53.) JKnglish — 1. Literature I.—III. 53 English — 1. Literature Shakespeare's Julius Cassar, Acts i. to iv.; and Macmillan's Advanced Reader—selected lessons (prose). As prescribed for Matriculation and Junior Civil Service. The parts of speech, analysis, parsing—text-book, Smith's English Grammar. Standard VI., English Grammar, Southern Cross. Professor Meiklejohn's Spelling list. Principia Latina, Part II., pages 1 to 12, and 39 to 42; Caesar, Book VII., selected passages; Professor Eamsay's Latin Composition, Vol. I., Part II.; Latin Grammar as for Matriculation and Junior Civil Service. Principia Latina, Part I., to end of passive voice of the four conjugations. Principia Latina, Part I., to end of the five declensions. As prescribed for Matriculation and Junior Civil Service. As prescribed for Standard VI., with harder examples, Lock's Arithmetic. As prescribed for Matriculation and Junior Civil Service. To simultaneous equations, Hall and Knight's Algebra. To end of multiplication, Hall and Knight's Algebra. Books I. and II., with deductions, Hall and Stevens's Euclid. Book I., propositions 1 to 34, Hall and Stevens's Euclid. Book I., propositions 1 to 6, Hall and Stevens's Euclid. As prescribed for Matriculation and Junior Civil Service. Europe and British possessions; mathematical and physical geography; Longmans' The World, No. 3. Arabella Buckley's History, 1688-1820. Chardenal's First French Course, to exercise 44. Furneaux's Physiology (Longmans'), chapters 1 to 12. 2. Grammar I. 13 II. 18 2. Grammar III. 22 3. Spelling I.-III. 53 Latin ... I. 13 3. Spelling jatin II. 18 III. 22 Arithmetic ... I. 13 II. 40 Algebra ... I. 14 II. 17 III. 22 Euclid ... I. 13 II. 15 III. 25 Geographv ... I. 13 II. 40 History ... I. 48 French ... I. 40 Physiology ... I.-III. 53 Eβ: epton District High School. (Number of scholars on re >11:—Passed Standard VI.: M., 17 ; F., 11: total, 28.) English ... I. 28 Latin ... I. 28 Euclid ... I. 28 Algebra ... I. 28 Arithmetic ... I. 28 General; no work of literature available. Principia, exercise 14. Proposition 5. Simple equations. General, cube root, alligation.

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EDUCATION DISTRICT OF GREY. Greymouth District High School.

EDUCATION DISTRICT OF WESTLAND. Hokitika District High School.

Num' ier o KG lars on ro :—Passei Stan rlard VI. : M., 22; F., 20 I : totai ii, tt^j.y Subject taught. Glass. Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Latin I. 1 Tacitus—Germania ; Cicero — First Oration against Verres, De Imperio Pompeii, Pro Archia, Ninth Philippic Oration, De Officiis, Book III. ; Virgil—Georgic II.; Kennedy's Primer; Bradley's Arnold. Principia Latina, history, Books I. to V., inclusive; Csesa.r, Book VI. ; Principia Latina, Book IV. ; Kennedy's Primer. Principia Latina, Book II.; fables, anecdotes, and mythology; Principia Latina, Book I. Principia Latina, Book 1., to exercise 40. French Prose Eeader, Barlet and Masom ; Bue, II.; Brachet's Grammar, r Prose of Macmillan's French Eeader, first year; Bue, I. Bue, I., to lesson 40, but not the conversation ; the four regular verbs. Gardiner's Vol. III., 1689-1837. Europe, Africa, North America, and part of South America; physical; subject generally. Nichol and Meiklejohn's Compositions ; Campbell's Higher English; Nesfield's English Grammar; Henry V. (Blackie's Junior). Nichol's Composition; Nesfield's Grammar, to the beginning of the Third Part; Henry V. (Blackie's Junior). I Smith's Grammar, to end of Part III. ; Longmans' Composition, exercises 76 to 95; Henry V. (Blackie's Junior). Matriculation or Civil Service work. Commercial rules (harder than Standard VI.). To permutations and combinations. To simple equations (Civil Service work). Four rules, brackets, equations, and easy factors. Books I. to VI., and exercises. Books I. and II. Book I., to proposition 31. To solution of triangles. Elements of statics, dynamics, and hydrostatics. II. 1 III. 6 French IV. I. 13 2 II. III. 6 26 History Geography ...] I. I. 2 42 English ... I. 1 II. 11 III. 30 Arithmetic ... Algebra ... Euclid Trigonometry Mechanics ... I. II. I. II. III. I. II. III. I. I. 12 80 1 11 29 1 11 27 1 1

(Number o: sc lars on ro. asse< itan ar : tota! 14.) • j • j Number of Pupils in Subject taught. Class. Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Inglish ■ I. 19 Smith's Grammar and Goyen's Composition ; Shakespeare' Julius Caesar. .rithmetic ... Jgebra II. III. I. II. III. I. II. III. I. II. 9 6 19 9 6 20 9 6 16 8 ) I Same as first year, and Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur. General. General, including mensuration. luclid Four simple rules and factors. H.C.F., L.C.M., factors, and simple equations. Involution, evolution, and simple and quadratic equations. Book I., to proposition 26. Book I., and exercises. Bonks T. fi.nd T .. with fixarcisfis.

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Hokitika District High School — continued.

Report of Inspector. The class at the time of the examination consisted of thirty-one pupils. Two of these had joined late in the year, and had consequently prepared a limited course. Of the remaining twenty-nine, four pupils were in the third year, eight in the second, and seventeen in the first. Seven of the pupils hold scholarships under the Westland Board. During the course of the examination no weak paper was presented by any of the pupils, the lowest award being " Fair," and even this was recorded only in a few instances. On the other hand, a very large number of strong papers were received in all the important subjects. The answers in general were full, accurate, and neatly set out. The past school year is notable not only for the excellence of the work presented but also for the initiation of free secondary education. This change should extend the sphere of usefulness of the class ; and the strengthening of the staff by the appointment of a master to give instruction in secondary subjects provides for the maintenance of a high standard of efficiency. The following is a reference to the work presented in each subject of the course of instruction : — (1.) English : This subject was prepared by all the pupils ; and the course consisted of grammar and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, with the addition for the second year of Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur and a study of figures of speech. The results are highly commendable, and the papers on the studies in literature referred to were of exceptional merit, the awards in the second test being ten " Very good " and twelve "Good," with none below "Satisfactory." (2.) Latin : First year, Via Latina, to page 55 ; second year, to page 123 ; third year, the whole book, with Book I. of Caesar's Commentaries. Of the twenty pupils prepared in this subject all recorded at least the mark " Good " —a very creditable result. (3.) Algebra : All the pupils of the class prepared a course of study in this subject, that for the senior pupils including quadratic equations. The result equals in value that of the preceding subjects, the lowest number of marks obtained being 60 per cent., and of thirteen the record is from 90 to 100 per cent. (4.) Euclid : The course for the senior pupils includes two books with the exercises; and of the twenty-three studying the subject the papers of eighteen were at least good, the remainder being satisfactory. (5.) Arithmetic : All the pupils were presented in arithmetic, the senior pupils preparing more advanced work, including mensuration. The individual results varied from 46 to 100 per cent., and were in nearly all cases commendable. (6.) Science : A somewhat limited course in chemistry was taken by fifteen pupils, with satisfactory results. Half the class presented good papers. Arrangements have been made for the adoption during the ensuing year of an extended experimental course in physics and chemistry. (7.) Book-keeping : A very suitable course in book-keeping was prepared intelligently and accurately by eleven pupils. (8.) Geography: Eleven pupils were presented in this subject, the pupils of the second and third years including a study of physical geography. The result was satisfactory. A. J. Morton, 8.A., Inspector.

Subject taught. Number of Pupils in Class. Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Ihemistry ... jatin I. II. I. II. III. 9 8 14 3 3 ! Jago's Chemistry, to page 120. Via Latina, to page 55. Via Latina, to page 123 ; and Scalse Primee, to page 32. Via Latina, the whole book; with Book I. of Caesar's Com mentaries. General (Longmans'). reography ... I. II. III. I. II. 2 7 4 8 5 i Longmans', including physical geography. 5ook-keeping Thornton's Primer, to page 52. Thornton's Primer, with exercises.

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EDUCATION DISTRICT OF NORTH CANTERBURY. Akaroa District High School.

EDUCATION DISTRICT OF SOUTH CANTERBURY. Geraldine District High School.

lO lars on roll:—Passed Standard VI. : M., 12; P., U : total (Num ier of sa Subject taught. Class. Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Arithmetic ... English . . I. I. 30 30 General arithmetic. Nesfield's Grammar, 117 pages; Macaulay's Lord Olive; bii Walter Scott's Marmion. Chardenal's First French Course, to exercise 110. Chardenal, to exercise 190; translation, Macmillan's French Eeader, to page 24. . Chardenal's Second French Course, to exercise 90; Mac millan's French Eeader, to page 80. . Abbott's Via Latina, to exercise 32. Via Latina, to exercise 55. Via Latina, all; translation, Caesar, Book I., to chapter 25. To simple equations. Matriculation algebra. To proposition 26, Book I. Book I., with exercises. Elementary (Jago). Elementary (Murche). French I. II. 12 15 Latin III. 3 Algebra I. II. III. I. II. I. II. I. I. 11 12 4 12 18 12 18 12 18 Euclid Chemistry Botany

(Number of sc. olars on ro' .1 :_p a ssed Standard VI.: M., 15 ; P., 13 : total Subject taught. Class. Number of Pupils in Glass during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Latin French English Arithmetic ... Book-keeping I. II. III. I. II. I. II. I. II. I. II. I. II. 1 5 1 1 7 28 28 13 9 12 7 20 2 21 6 9 Via Latina ; Csesar's Invasion of Britain, selected exercises in translation. Via Latina, to exercise 46. Via Latina, to exercise 13. Chardenal's Book I., and Book II. to exercise 106. Chardenal's Book I., to exercise 110. Nesfield's Grammar and Composition, to end of Verb ; reading and explanation of King Lear, Acts i. and ii. As for Standard VI., with Goyen's Arithmetic to page 116. Thornton's Primer, to chapter 9, with exercises. Thornton's Primer, to chapter 3. Pitman's Manual, to page 71. Pitman's Manual, to page 18. Book I., with easy exercises. Book I., to proposition 26; definitions, &c. Factors, H.C.F., L.G.M., simple equations. Four simple rules, with easy equations.. Solid geometrical as for Standard VI.; practical plane geometrical (Morris). The structure of the body, the positions and functions of the principal organs. Shorthand ... Euclid Algebra Mechanical drawing Physiology ... 1

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Temuka District High School.

urn ier o: sc. ars on ro. 'assei Stanc lard VI. : M., 32; F., 18: : totai Subject taught. Class. Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. English English I. 38 (1) Nesfield's Grammar and Composition, Part I.; (2) essaywriting, correction of sentences ; (3) Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, Cantos II. and III.; Scott's Ivanhoe (abridged edition). 12 (1) Nesfield, Part I. ; (2) Essays; correction as in Nesfield, Part I. ; (3) Historical English as in Nesfield ; (4) Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, Cantos I. and II. ; Scott's Ivanhoe (abridged edition). 38 As for Standard VI., but more advanced. 12 Commercial arithmetic. 36 To the end of simple equations. 5 Factors, L.C.M., G.C.M., simple equations. 7 Fractions, equations of first degree, and problems. 2 Quadratic equations (including problems), evolution, surds. 30 Book I., to proposition 26, with easy exercises. 6 Book I., with exercises. • 6 Books I. and II., with exercises. 2 Books I., II., III., IV., with exercises. 7 Via Latina, to page 40. 5 Via Latina, to page 83; Caesar's Invasion of Britain, twenty chapters. 1 Via Latina, to page 142 ; Appendix I. of irregular verbs ; Invasion of Britain. 2 (1) Via Latina; (2) Caesar's Gallic War, Book I., chapters 30 to end ; (3) Virgil's I., to line 361 ; (4) Public School Latin Grammar ; (5) Retranslation of Caesar. 30 Chardenal's First French Course, 100 exercises. 5 (1) Chardenal's First French Course, exercises 80 to 150 ; (2) Scenes from Child Life, eight chapters. 2 (1) Chardenal's Second French Course, fifty exercises ; (2) Au Pole en Ballon. 50 Macmillan's Primer. Thornton's First Lessons, to end of exercises in proving. 50 Thoroughgood. II. Arithmetic ... Algebra Euclid Arithmetic ... Algebra Euclid Latin I. II.. I. II. III. IV. I. II. III. IV. I. II. Latin III. IV. French I. II. III. Physics Book-keeping Brush work ... (Number r of schola: Waimate Distbict High School. ■s on roll:—Passed Standard VI. : M., 24; F., 22 : total, 46.) Algebra I., Sec. 1 I., Sec. 2 II. III. 23 Definitions, brackets, four simple rules. 13 Factors, H.C.F., L.C.M., simple equations. 7 Fractions, equations of first degree, problems. 3 Quadratic equations, problems, evolution, indices, and surds. 1 University Junior Scholarship algebra. 21 Book I., to proposition 26; definitions, &c. 12 Book I., with easy deductions. 7 Books I. and II., deductions on Book I. 3 Books III. and IV., deductions on Book III. 1 Books I. to VI., with deductions,, &c. 13 Chardenal's Book I., to exercise 82. 7 I Chardenal's Book I., to exercise 136, and pages 143 to 167 ; Macmillan's French Eeader, to page 29. 3 Chardenal's Book L, to page 167 ; Macmillan's French Reader, to page 29. 1 University Junior Scholarship French. 31 Sound, light, and heat, elementary. 4 Elementary Heat, Tutorial Series. ■1 Dniversity Junior Scholarship heat. 23 Nesfield's Grammar and Composition, to page 117; Enoch Arden. 25 Nesfield's Grammar and Composition; Higher-grade English ; Enoch Arden ; The Brook ; Aylmer's Field. 1 University Junior Scholarship English. Euclid Advanced I., Sec. 1 I., Sec. 2 II. III. French Advanced I., Sec. 1 I., Sec. 2 II. Physics English 'hysics III. I. II. III. I. Inglish II. III.

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Waimate District High School— continued.

Beport of Inspectors. We have the honour to submit the following report on the higher work of the district high schools. The tabular statements above show the subjects taught, the number of pupils examined, and the amount of work done in each subject. Geraldine. English.— Two papers were very good, four satisfactory, three fair, four moderate, and six inferior. The questions in grammar were poorly answered. The answering on the characters and incidents of the play (" King Lear ") was good. Latin.— The only pupil of the senior class wrote an excellent paper. Of five papers in the junior class four ranged from 80 to 89 per cent., and one was marked at 69 per cent. The general result was exceedingly creditable. _ French.— The only paper in the senior class was good. In the junior class four papers were satisfactory, one was fair, and two were moderate. Arithmetic. —On the whole very satisfactory papers were presented in this subject. Algebra. —One paper was excellent, one was good, six were satisfactory, one was moderate, seven were weak, three were very weak. Euclid.—The work in this subject was on the whole well prepared. Eleven papers were either good or excellent, and five failed to reach the " satisfactory " level. Book-keeping, shorthand, and physiology were also taught. Tcmuka. English.— -The senior class in English was a very good one, several of the pupils gaining excellent marks, and all showing careful preparation of the work professed. The junior class made a satisfactory appearance. Latin.— Very good work was done by the pupils of the higher classes. In the upper section of Course I. the papers ranged from moderate to excellent, the general result being very satisfactory ; and m the lower section the only paper submitted was satisfactory. French.—ln the highest class one paper was very good, and one was satisfactory. In the panior classes the quality of the work varied very much, the high merit of several papers contrasting with the weakness shown in the papers of the less industrious pupils. Arithmetic—Those pupils that were examined in this subject presented highly creditable papers. Algebra.— The results in this subject varied a good deal. The pupils in the two sections of the first course did well, those in the higher classes fairly so. Euclid.— One paper was excellent, three were good, four were satisfactory, three were moderate, three were weak. Book-keeping, brush drawing, physics, and geography were also taught. Waimate. English.— There were several papers of high merit from pupils of both classes, and the average marks obtained were quite satisfactory. Most of the scholars showed readiness and intelligence in vivd voce examination on the language and incidents of " Enoch Arden." Latin. —ln the highest class one paper was excellent, and two were satisfactory. In Course 11. one paper was satisfactory, one fair, and two were moderate. In the higher division of Course I. two papers were good, two fair, four moderate, and three inferior; in the lower division two papers were excellent, four very good, two satisfactory, three moderate, and one was inferior. _ French.— Twenty-three papers were examined in the four grades, and the general result was satisfactory. One paper in the highest class was of very high merit, and there were two very good papers in the lowest class, *

Subject taught. Class. Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Ye,ar. Work done during the Year. Latin ... I., Sec. 1 I., Sec. 2 II. III. 15 9 3 3 1 22 20 17 36 10 Via Latina, to page 40. Via Latina, to page 80 ; Easy Latin Stories (Beresford). Via Latina, to page 142 ; Cassar, Book I. ; Latin Stories. Via Latina; Tutorial Latin Beader (I. to IV.) ; Caesar Book I.; Easy Prose (Simpson). Via Latina ; Tutorial Latin Beader ; Horace, Odes, Book I. : Livy, XXII. ; Continuous Prose. Evan's Botany, chapters 1 to 7. Elementary Botany, as for Junior Civil Service. Single Entry (Ingiis). Commercial arithmetic. Arithmetic and mensuration. IV. Botany ... I. II. D—l, l : >otany Book-keeping Arithmetic ... I. II. >ook-keeping .rithmetic ...

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Arithmetic. —The general result in arithmetic was good. Only four scholars out of thirty-nine failed to present satisfactory papers. Algebra.— -The results in this subject were excellent, no paper falling below the " satisfactory level Euclid. —The propositions weie very well prepared, and the deductions were attacked with commendable success. Botany. Thirty-nine pupils were subjected to an oral examination in botany ; and there was ample proof that this subject had been treated in the right way. Book-keeping, physics, and physiology were also taught. Jas. Gibson Gow, M.A.,| B £ A. Bell, M.A., 1

EDUCATION DISTRICT OF OTAGO. Naseby District High School.

Hampden District High School.

(Number of scholars on i roll:—Passed Standard VI.: M., 6; F., 9: total, 1 .5.) Subject taught. Number of Pupils in Glass. Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. English Latin French Euclid Algebra I. I. II. III. I. II. III. I. II. I. II. I. I. II. III. I. 13 3 4 2 1 3 1 3 8 5 6 13 3 3 5 12 Macmillan's Advanced Eeader, pages 1 to 79; Smith's Grammar (accidence); Goyen's Composition, page 82. Principia Latina, Pare I., to page 87 ; Part II., Fables. Principia Latina, Part I., exercise 25f. Principia Latina, Part I., exercise 18. Chardenal, Pare I., whole book. Chardenal, Part I., exercise 160. Chardenal, Part I., exercise 80. Book I. (with exercises). Book I., proposition 26. Hall and Knight, page 97. Hall and Knight, page 60. Thornton's Primer, page 52. Finished Manual. Finished Teacher and iEsop's Fables. Exercise 40. General morphology of flowering plants; practical work done by pupils on bean, pea, gourd-seed, Indian corn, mustardseed, the broom, the whin, crocus, daffodil, violet, pansy, willow, hazel, and primrose. Book-keeping Shorthand ... Botany

(Nunx ier of Si olars on roll:—Passed Standard VI. : M., 20; ; tota! •» Subject taught. Class. Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Latin I. II. III. IV. 1 8 12 2 27 (5 just started) Principia, Part II., Eoman History ; Books I., II., and III. Principia, Pare I., to page 87. Via Latina, to page 52. Just started. The Deserted Village — Blackie's English Classics; Essay on Lord Olive (Macaulay), to the Death of Surajah Dowlah ; Smith's English Grammar ; Goyen's Composition (First Part). Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Book I., with deductions to proposition 32. Book I., to proposition 26, with deductions. Beginners. Hall and Knight's, 97 pages. Hall and Knight's, 73 pages. Beginners. Preparing for Junior Civil Service test. Pitman's Teacher, 37 exercises. Thornton's Primer, to page 38. Goyen's Arithmetic. English Euclid I. 14 Algebra II. III. I. II. III. I. II. 10 2 12 13 2 1 U 12 Shorthand ... Book-keeping Arithmetic ...

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Palmerston District High School.

B—E. 12.

(Number of scholars on ro oil:—Passed Standard VI. : M., 13 ; R, 10 : total, 23.) Number of Pupils in Subject taught, j Glass. | Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. Latin ... I. 4 II. 2 III. 8 Euclid ... I. 4 II. 4 III. 10 English ... I. 8 Cassar, Book I.; composition on same. Via Latina, pages 1 to 143. Via Latina, pages 1 to 63. Books I. to III.; easy exercises on Books I. and II. Books I. and II.; easy exercises, Book I. Book I., propositions 1 to 26. Deserted Village (Goldsmith); Essay on Glive (Macaulay); West's Grammar. Same reading as Class I.; Goyen's Composition; and Grammar as for Standard VI., maintained and extended, To end of quadratics (Hall and Knight). To end of simultaneous equations (Hall and Knight). To end of simple equations (Hall and Knight). Thornton's Primer, pages 1 to 52. Life-history of a flowering plant. II. 10 Algebra ... I. 4 II. 4 III. I 10 Book-keeping I. * 4 Science ... ! I. 18 POKT C jHAlmees Distkict High School. (Number of scholars on r< Latin ... I. 10 II. 2 French ... I. 3 II. 13 III. 1 Euclid ... I. 1 II. 21 III. 1 IV. 1 Book-keeping ... 6 Science ... ■■■ I English ... ! ... 24 roll:—Passed Standard VI. : M., 18 ; P., 18 : total, 36.) i Principia Latina, Part I., to page 46; translation of simple sentences only. Principia Latina, Part I., to page 17. Chardenal, Part II., to page 21. Chardenal, Part I., to page 47. A beginner. Book I., and exercises ; Book II. (1-7). Book r., propositions 1 to 26; exercises on twenty-three propositions. Definitions. Just entered. Thornton's Primer, to page 52. Science of Standards V., VI., VII. Poems of England, Nos. I., II., V., VI., XVIII., XIX., XXIV., XXXII.; Warren Hastings (Macaulay); Goyen's Principles of Composition, 123 pages. 12 pages, Hall and Knight. 30 pages, Hall and Knight. 47 pages, Hall and Knight. 73 pages, Hall and Knight. Pitman's Shorthand Instructor, to page 53. Pitman's Shorthand Instructor, to page 36. Pitman's Shorthand Instructor, to page 27. Algebra ... I. 2 II. 3 III. 4 IV. 15 Shorthand ... I. 4 II. 2 I III. 2 Mosi SGiBL District High School. (Number of scholars on roll Latin ... I. 1 II. 2 III. 2 IV. ; 6 Euclid ... I. 5 ii. 6 : .1:— Passed Standard VI. : M., 17 ; P., 13: total, 30.) Abbott's Via Latina, from verb, page 53, to exercise 67a, page 121 ; Caesar's Invasion of Britain, to page 116. Abbotts Via Latina, from page 45 to exercise 45, page 78. Abbott's Via Latina, from beginning to exercise 32, page 52. Abbott's Via Latina, to exercise 20, page 26. Hall and Stevens, Book I., propositions 27 to 48; and easy exercises. Book I., propositions 1 to 25 ; easy exercises on propositions 1 to 12. Propositions 1 to 14; easy exercises on propositions 1 to 4. Hall and Knight, to page 145, exercise 20a. Hall and Knight, to page 137, exercise 19a, omitting simultaneous equations. Hall and Knight, to page 103, exercise 16a, omitting simultaneous equations. Hall and Knight, to page 48, exercise 7b. in. 3 : Algebra ... I. 3 II. J 3 in. 5 ; IV. 4 ]

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Mosgiel District High School — continued.

Subject taught. Number of Pupils in Class, i Glass during I Last Quarter of Year. 1 Work done during the Year. English ... I. 15 Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings, to page 57. Composition I. 15 Goyen's Composition, to page 123 ; correction of sentences. History ... I. 1 Meiklejohn's History—James I. to end of George II. Grammar ... 1. 15 Analysis, parsing, syntax. Arithmetic ... | I. ! 15 Commercial rules. Lawrence District High School. (Number of scholars on roll :—Passed Standard VI. : M., 32 ; F., 21 : total, 53.) I English ... I I. 10 | Shakespeare's Tempest; Goyen's Composition and Dr. Smith's Grammar; Macaulay's Warren Hastings (last half). II. 20 Same as above. III. 7 Shakespeare's Tempest; Goyen's Composition and Dr. Smith's Grammar. Arithmetic ... I. 8 Civil Service or E certificate papers. II. 29 ' Sixth Standard papers. French ... j I. 4 Chardenal's Book II. (exercises and extracts). II. 9 Chardenal's Book I. (136 exercises and extracts). III. 9 Chardenal's Book I. (ninety exercises). Latin ... I. 6 Dr. Smith's Principia Latina, Part II.; History, Books II., III., IV. ; Allen's Grammar. II. 6 Dr. Smith's Principia Latina, Part I., from exercise 25 to the end; Principia Latina, Part II., fables, anecdotes, and mythology. III. 12 Dr. Smith's Principia Latina, Part I., to exercise 25. Algebra ... I. 5 To end of quadratic equations. II. 15 To end of simultaneous equations. III. 17 To page 133, fractions and simple problems—Hamblin Smith. Euclid ... I. 6 Books I. and II.; deductions on Book I. II. 7 Book I., with easy deductions. III. 15 Book I., up to proposition 24. Shorthand 15 For six months. Wood-carving ... 12 For four months. Typewriting ... 37 , For six months. Fancy work... J ... 6 | For four months. Tapanui District High School. (Number of scholars on roll:— Passed Standard VI. : M., 11; F., 8 : total, 19.) Latin ... I. 8 Via Latina, to page 62. II. 1 Via Latina, to page 152 ; Caesar, Book I., twenty chapters. French ... I. 10 Chardenal, Part I., to exercise 116. II. 1 Chardenal, Part I. ; Preceptor's French Eeader. English ... I. 19 ! Macaulay's essay on Clive; Goldsmith's Deserted Village; West's Grammar. Euclid .:. I. 17 Book I., to proposition 26, with exercises. II. 1 Books I. and II., with exercises. Algebra .. I. 17 Hall and Knight's, to page 96. II. 1 Hall and Knight's, to quadratic equations. Book-keeping I 17 Thornton's Primer, to page 38; Thornton's Exercises, to No. 38. Arithmetic ... I. 19 Subject generally, and mensuration of surfaces and solids. Drawing ... I. 17 Advanced scale, freehand, and solid geometry. Botany I. 17 Structure and function of roots, stems, leaves, and flowers.

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Balclutha District High School.

Beport of Inspectors. We have the honour to submit the following report on the higher work of the district high schools for the year 1902. The tabular statements above show the subjects taught, the number of pupils examined, and the amount of work done in each subject.

(Number of scholars on roll: —Passe* 3tam lard VI. : M., 31; F., 23: total, Number of Pupils in Subject taught. Class. Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. English ... I. II. French ... I. e II. Latin ... I. II. III. Algebra ... I. II. III. Euclid ... I. 15 J Macaulay's Clive ; The Tempest (Shakespeare) ; grammar and composition generally. 21 Macaulay's Clive ; The Prisoner of Chillon ; Goyen's Composition. 4 Chardenal's Second Course, to exercise 60; extracts from First Course ; and extracts from Second Course, 30 pages. 10 Chardenal's First Course, to exercise 164. 5 ' Via Latina, whole book ; reading—mythology and Roman history, Book I., from Smith's Principia Latina, II. 6 Via Latina, to page 156 ; Principia Latina, Part II., anecdotes and mythology. 10 Via Latina, to page 67. 8 Hamblin Smith, to page 168, end of simultaneous equations. 8 Hamblin Smith, to page 148. 15 To end of simple equations. 8 Books I., II., and twenty-four propositions of Book III. ; deductions on Book I. 9 Books I. and II. ; deductions on Book I. 16 ! Book I., to proposition 26. 5 I Thornton's Book-keeping, 100 pages. 8 \ Thornton's Book-keeping, sixty-two pages. 19 Grieve's Elementary Mechanics, chapters 4 to 13, inclusive. 36 ' Cardboard modelling and perspective. II. III. Book-keeping I. Mechanics ... ! I. Manual work ' I. (Number of sc. TOKOMAIRIBO DlSTEICT HlGH SCHOOL. lolars on roll :— Passed Standard VI. : M., 24 ; ¥., 28: total, 52.) English ... i I. II. Latin ... I. II. III. French ... ! I. US: Euclid ... I. II. III. Algebra . ... I. III! Book-keeping I. Drawing ... Girls' Boys' Science ... I. II. 19 I The Tempest; Macaulay's Warren Hastings; Goyen's Composition. 16 The Tempest; Macaulay's Warren Hastings. 1 Via Latina; Principia, II., mythology; History, Books I. and II. 13 Via Latina, to page 115; fables and anecdotes in Principia, Part II. 10 Via Latina, to page 53. 1 Chardenal's, Part II. 4 Chardenal's, Part I. 7 Chardenal's, Part I., to exercise 136. 2 Books I. and. II., with easy exercises. 16 Book I., with easy exercises. 19 <: Book I., to proposition 26, with easy exercises. 2 Hamlin Smith, to the end of simple equations. 17 To the end of simultaneous equations. 19 To the end of quadratic equations. 32 J Thornton's Primer, to page 50. 18 Shading and painting. 18 Plans and elevations of workshop articles. 16 J Agriculture ; exercises in precipitating and weighing; analysis of Clarendon rock phosphate. 38 Insect pests : Selandria cerasi, the bot-fly, the brown beetle, the crane-fly, the click beetle or wire-worm, millepede or false wire-worm, the common aphis, the woolly aphis, the scale insect, the grain-weevil, the flea.

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Naseby. The school has been open only a few months, and therefore we do not report on separate subjects. We may, however, say that it has made a quite satisfactory beginning. Note. —This district high school was established in May, and it was a month before the pupils could be properly equipped with books, supplies in Dunedin having run out. Hampden. English. —The literature work was well done ; but the pupils proved very weak in grammar and composition. They had obviously come to Mr. Paterson very poorly equipped in these departments of English. Latin. —Class I. : This pupil sent in an excellent paper. Class 11. : Three papers were good, four satisfactory, and two were weak. Class 111. : One paper was excellent, one very good, four were satisfactory, and two very weak. Euclid. —Class I. : One paper was excellent, one was very good, one was good, two were satisfactory, four were fair, three were weak, and two were very weak. Class II paper was fair, two were weak, and two were very weak. Algebra. —Class I. : Three papers were very good, seven satisfactory, and one was weak. Class 11. : Two were very good, three were satisfactory, and three very weak. Arithmetic. —Class I. : Twelve papers were very good, three were fair, and one was very weak. The class was sampled in this subject. Book-keeping. —Class I. : The work of this class was satisfactory. Shorthand. —The senior pupil sent in a very good paper. The junior class has made a satisfactory beginning. Palmerston. English. —Nearly half the papers were of merit ranging from satisfactory to excellent; but most of the rest were of poor quality. Grammar and composition were in many cases inferior, and there was a good deal of inferior penmanship. Latin. —Class I. : Three papers were good, and one was very good. Class 11. : Both papers were of very good quality. Class 111. : Three papers were excellent, one was very good, two were good, and two satisfactory. Euclid. —Class I. : Four papers were excellent. Class 11. : One paper was very good, one was good, one was satisfactory, and one was very weak. Class 111. : One paper was very good, one was satisfactory, one was weak, and seven were very weak. Algebra. —Class I. : Three papers were good, and one was satisfactory. Class 11. : One paper was excellent, two were weak, and one was very weak. Class 111. : One paper was very good, two were satisfactory, three weak, and three very weak. Book-keeping. —Class I. : Two papers were good, one was satisfactory, and one very weak. Arithmetic. —Class I. : Two papers were excellent, ten very good, three satisfactory, and two weak. Science. —The work has been conducted on sound lines. Port Chalmers. English. —A third of the papers were of fair merit, a third ranged from weak to very weak, and a third from satisfactory to excellent. Nearly half of the papers were either weak or very weak in grammar and composition. Latin. —Class I. : Three papers were excellent, one was good, one satisfactory, three were fair, and one was weak. French. —Class I. : One paper was very good, one fair, and one very weak. Class 11. : One paper was excellent, one very good, four were good, two fair, and three weak. Algebra. —Class I. : One was excellent, two were very good, one was good, four were satisfactory, one was fair, and seven were weak. Euclid. —Class I. : One paper was very weak. Class 11. : Two papers were excellent, one was very good, one good, two were satisfactory, one was fair, one weak, and six were very weak. Shorthand.— Class I. : A satisfactory beginning was made in this subject. Book-keeping. —Class I, : One paper was very good, two were good, and two weak. Mosgiel. English. —Nearly three-fourths of the papers ranged from good to excellent, and only three fell below fair. Composition was the weakest point. Latin. —Class I. : The paper of this pupil was of excellent quality. Class 11. : One paper was excellent, and one was satisfactory. Class 111. : One paper was excellent, and one very good. Euclid. —Class I. : One paper was excellent, two were very good, and one was weak. Class 11. : Three papers were excellent, one was'good, and one was fair. Algebra. —Class I. : One paper was excellent, one good, and one satisfactory. Class 11. : Both papers were weak. Class 111. : One paper was excellent, one good, and two were fair. Class IV. : One paper was excellent, one satisfactory, one fair, and one weak. Book-keeping. —Class I.: Two papers were excellent, and one was satisfactory. Arithmetic. —Class I.: Ten papers were excellent, two very good, one satisfactory, and one weak. Lawrence. English. —Five-sixths of the papers were of merit ranging from satisfactory to excellent, and of the rest three were fair, and three weak. In Classes 11. and 111. a good many marks were lost in grammar.

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Latin. —Class I. : One paper was excellent, two were very good, two were satisfactory, and one was fair. Class 11. : One paper was excellent, one very good, and four were good. Class 111. : Two papers were excellent, three very good, and two satisfactory. Euclid. —Class I. : One paper was excellent, one was very good, one was good, two were satisfactory, and one was fair. .Glass 11. : One paper was excellent, one was good, one was satisfactory, two were fair, and two were very weak. Class 111. : One was good, two were satisfactory, four were fair, seven were weak, and three were very weak. Arithmetic. —Class I. : Six papers were excellent, and three were very good. Class 11. : Twelve papers were excellent, ten very good, four satisfactory, and one was very weak. French. —Class I. : The work of this class was satisfactory. Class 11. : The work was excellent. Class 111. : One was good, and eight were excellent. Algebra. —Class I. : One was satisfactory, and four were excellent. Class 11. : One was weak, three were satisfactory, one was good, and six were excellent. Class 111. : One was fair, three were satisfactory, one was good, six were very good, and five were excellent. Note. —Some very good work was shown in chip carving and fancy needlework. A beginning has been made with shorthand and typewriting. Tapanui. English. —The class did fairly in grammar, and moderately in the literature read. It has been in existence but a year, and may be said to have made a satisfactory beginning. Latin. —Class I. : Three papers were excellent, one was very good, one good, one satisfactory, and one weak. Class 11. : The work of this pupil was satisfactory. Euclid. —Class I.: One paper was weak, and one very weak. Class 11. : Six papers were satisfactory, three fair, and five very weak. Arithmetic. —Twelve papers were excellent, two satisfactory, one was fair, and two were weak. French. —Class I.: Four papers were excellent, one was very good, one good, two were satisfactory, and one was very weak. Class 11. : The work of this pupil was weak. Algebra. —Class I. : Six papers were excellent, six good, and three fair. Class II.: The work of this pupil was very good. Science. —The work has been conducted on sound lines. Book-keeping. —Two papers were very good, three good, two satisfactory, three fair, and five weak. Note.—Some very good work was shown in fancy needlework and advanced drawing. Balclutha. English. —Most of the pupils did well in the literature read, and most of the senior class did weil in grammar and composition; but in the latter subjects the junior class did very poorly. ■Weakness in grammar in this and other high schools seems to the examiner to be due to the circumstance that a large number of pupils do not master the grammar of the standard classes before entering upon the work prescribed for the high schools. Latin. —Class I. : Two papers were satisfactory, two fair, and one was weak. Class II.: One paper was excellent, one very good, two were fair, one was weak, and one very weak. Class 111. : Two papers were good, one was satisfactory, one fair, two were weak, and two very weak. Euclid. —Class I. : One paper was very good, one good, one fair, one weak, and two were very weak. Class 11. : Three papers were good, three fair, and four very weak. Class 111 : Four papers were satisfactory, two fair, two weak, and eight very weak. Algebra. —Class I. : One paper was excellent, one satisfactory, three were fair, three weak, and five very weak. Class 11. : Two papers were excellent, one was good, one fair, and four were very weak. Class 111. : One paper was good, two were satisfactory, one was fair, one weak, and two were very weak. Book-keeping. —Five papers were excellent, two good, two satisfactory, and three weak. Arithmetic. —Six papers were excellent, seven very good, fifteen satisfactory, and four very weak. French. —Class I. : Three papers were good, and one was fair. Class 11. : Five papers were excellent, one was very good, three were good, and one was weak. Science. —This work was well done, the experiments being carefully conducted, and the pupils showing a good knowledge of the underlying principles. Tokomairiro. English. —Composition was satisfactory, and most of the children showed good knowledge of the play, and fair knowledge of the prose they had read; but they proved exceptionally weak in grammar. Latin. —Class I. : The pupil had received an appointment shortly before the date of examination. Class 11. : One paper was good, one satisfactory, four were fair, and seven were very weak. Class 111. : Two papers were excellent, one was good, three were satisfactory, one was fair, two were weak, and four were very weak. French. —Class I. : The work of this pupil was satisfactory. Class 11. : One paper was excellent, one was weak, and one very weak. Class 111. : Three papers were excellent, one was very good, one good, and two were fair.

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Euclid. —Class I. : One paper was very weak. Class 11. : Two papers were very good, two were satisfactory, two were fair, six were weak, and five were very weak. Class 111. : Two papers were satisfactory, two were fair, two were weak, and ten were very weak. Algebra. —Class I. : This pupil sent in a paper of fair quality. Class 11. : Two papers were very good, nine were satisfactory, one was fair, and five were very weak. Class 111. : Three papers were excellent, four were good, one was satisfactory, four were fair, and three weak. Book-keeping. —Class I.: Three papers were excellent, nine very good, eight good, three fair, and seven weak. Science. —Class I. : The work has been conducted on sound lines. Note. —All the pupils who were receiving secondary instruction during the December quarter had passed the Sixth Standard. P. Goyen, \ W. S. Fitzgerald, -^ r , r, T3 C. R. Richardson, C. R. Bossenck, j

EDUCATION DISTRICT OF SOUTHLAND. Gore District High School.

Winton District High School.

(Number of scholar! on ro. :—Past itau .an .: I ■4 ; : tota' '•) Subject taught. Class, i Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. I Arithmetic ... I. English ... I I. 60 60 Goyen's Miscell. Exam., 1 to 300. Etymology and Syntax (Smith) ; The Traveller, lines 1 to 392. Principia Latina, to end of the passive voice; Gradatim, twenty stories. To beginning of fourth declension. Book I., and Book II. to proposition 7 ; exercises. Book I., propositions 1 to 32. Book I., propositions 1 to 7. Eansome, pages 289 to 412. British Isles, Europe, Asia, and India (Chisholm). Hall and Knight, to page 107. Hall and Knight, to page 56, equations. Hall and Knight, to page 35, multiplication. French Principia, to page 81. French Principia, to page 59. French Principia, to page 27. Jatin ... Senior 13 Junior 3uclid ... Senior Intermediate Junior 21 3 15 22 36 48 11 16 28 8 3 10 history 3-eography ... \lgebra ... Senior Intermediate Junior French ... Senior Intermediate Junior

(Nun Lber of sc cho iholars on n )lars 'asse' itani sari • J t ■ t : total Nr llTTthf Subject taught. Class. IN I P Cla Las n Number of Pupils in Class during Last Quarter of Year. umw Pupils ass di st Qi nf Yf Work done during the Year. i 0 I ot Ye English Arithmetic ... Algebra Euclid History Geography ... Book-keeping Latin Physics Junior „ 8 8 5 1 7 7 7 2 4 Nesfield's Grammar, to page 81 —punctuation, collocation of words, paraphrasing, essay-writing, parsing, analysis; Marmion, Canto III. Standard VI. work. Longmans' Algebra, to L.C.M. Book I., propositions 1 to 42. English, 1660-1887. Physical Geography —Europe, British Isles (Longmans'). Ledger and subsidiary accounts. Via Latina, to end of pronouns. To density and specific gravity (Gregory and Simmons).

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Riverton District High School.

Reports op Inspectors. Gore. Arithmetic —Fair. English— Fair. Latin —Good. Euclid — Senior, very good ; intermediate, good to very good; junior, poor to very good. History —Satisfactory. Geography— Satisfactory. Algebra —Senior and intermediate, fair to good ; junior, very good. French —Fair to good. Winton. Junior Class.— English —Two excellent, two good, the rest fair. Arithmetic —Two excellent, two good, the rest fair. Algebra —One very good, two satisfactory, one poor. Euclid —Very good. History —Fair. Geography —Fair. Book-keeping —Fair. Latin —One very good, one satisfactory. Physics —Little appears to have been done. Riverton. English— Satisfactory. Euclid— Senior, very fair ; junior, good on the whole. AlgebraGood. Latin— Good. French— Good. Book-keeping— Has been intelligently taught. Shorthand —Fair. Arithmetic —Very fair. Geography and History —Not examined. James Hendry, i Wvum ; n „„„ ,* t>- n t Uixaminers. Geo. D. Braik, )

Approximate Gost of Paper.— Preparation, not given; printing (1,650 copies), £52 ss,

Authority: John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—l9o3.

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(Num ler of sc. iolars on roll:—Passed Standard VI. : , : to! •, ', Subject taught. Glass. I Number of Pupils in I Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. English Euclid Algebra Latin Senior Junior Senior Junior Senior Junior Senior 5 18 5 18 5 18 5 Henry V.—Act i., Prologue, Scenes 1 and 2 ; Act ii., Prologue, Scene 2, lines 1 to 150. Henry V. —Act i., lines 234 to 310 ; Act ii., Prologue, Scene 2, lines 1 to 150. Definitions, axioms, postulates—Book I., propositions 1 to 26 (with deductions). Definitions, axioms, postulates —Book I., propositions 1 to 6. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, brackets, and factors. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, brackets. Declensions, comparison of adjectives — Principia Latina, Part I., pages 1 to 26. First and second declensions — Principia Latina, Part I., pages 1 to 7. Macmillan's Progressive French Book, pages 1 to 5. Cash, day, and invoice books ; journal. Pitman's Instructor. Elementary. Goyen, pages 1 to 168. Junior Civil Service. Junior Civil Service. Junior 18 French Book-keeping Shorthand ... Senior Junior 23 23 5 18 23 1 1 Arithmetic ... Geography ... History

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EDUCATION: SECONDARY EDUCATION. [In continuation of E.-12, 1902.] Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1903 Session I, E-12

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EDUCATION: SECONDARY EDUCATION. [In continuation of E.-12, 1902.] Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1903 Session I, E-12

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