EDUCATION: SECONDARY EDUCATION. [In continuation of E.-12, 1903.]

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1904 Session I, E-12

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1904. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: SECONDARY EDUCATION. [In continuation of E.-12, 1903.]

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 1903 FURNISHED BY THE GOVERNING BODIES OP SECONDARY SCHOOLS. Receipts. £ .s. d. Expenditure. £ s . d. Credit balances on Ist January, 1903 .. 33,146 17 2 Liabilities on Ist January, 1903 .. 2,520 12 7 Endowment reserves sold .. .. 1,463 3 0 Expenses of management .. .. 5332 16 2 Mortgage moneys repaid .. .. 527 14 8 School salaries .. .. .. 401311 1 6 Rent of reserves .. .. .. 22,999 8 5 Boarding-school accounts .. .. 6)623 19 0 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 3,577 14 1 Examination expenses .. .. 478 17 4 Reserves Commissioners' payments .. 2,196 6 5 Scholarships and prizes .. .. 2,393 17 9 Government payments,— Printing, stationery, fuel, light, &c. .. 3,858 12 10 For technical instruction .. .. 645 10 0 Buildings, furniture, insurance, rent, For free places .. .. .. 1,144 13 11 and rates .. .. .. .. 10,612 7 0 School fees (tuition) .. .. .. 31,203 16 3 Expenditure on endowments .. .. 3,068 7 6 Boarding-school fees .. .. .. 8,681 9 7 Interest .. .. .. .. 877 7 9 Books, &c, sold, and refunds .. .. 207 17 0 Sundries not classified .. .. 2,273 10 10 Sundries not classified .. .. 2,520 13 9 Credit balances, 31st December, 1903 .. 32 922 10 8 Debit balances, 31st December, 1903 .. 958 16 8 £109,274 0 11 £109,274 0 11

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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 Act may be repealed by Gazette notice under Act of 1885, No. 30.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 1903. 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 Gisborne 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 .. 1881, No. 15, Local. 1878, No. 30, Local .. [Nil] .. ■ .. Not in operation in 1903. Board identical with Education Board. Greymouth High School Hokitika High School Rangiora High School Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School Not in operation in 1903. Not in operation in 1903. Under management of Canterbury College. Under management of Canterbury College, Endowment, Gazette, 1878, Vol. 1, p. 131. A department of Christ's College, Canterbury. Christ's College Grammar School Canterbury Ordinance, 1855 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. 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 Not in operation in 1903. Not in operation in 1903.

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Income of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1903.

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From Endowments. From Gi tvernment. Cr. Balances on 1st Jan., 1903. Sales and Mortgage Moneys repaid. Rents. Interest on Moneys invested. Paid by School Commissioners. Capitation for Free Places. School Fees. Boardingschool Fees. Stationery and Books sold, and Refunds. Sundries unclassified. Dr. Balances, 31st Dec, 1903. Totals. Schools. For Technical Instruction. £ s. d. 116 18 4 £ s. d. £ s. d. 106 13 6 4,432 1 2 £ s. d. £ s. d. 50 0 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. 2 0 0 £ s. d. 178 17 0 3,351 10 4 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 454 8 10 9,030 11 6 10,874 8 8 1,802 11 11 1,949 16 1 7,197 11 10 4,682 6 2 8,794 4 1 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 Christohurch Boys' High School Christohurch 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 10,465 8 8 661 14 3 1,006 13 11 *2,021 11 10 400 12 7 943 8 9 3,858 15 0 f3,223 18 11 342 8 3 1,102 17 7 1,609 16 6 154 9 8 101 9 3 235 12 1 750 0 4 141 16 11 1,04210 0 60 0 527 14 8 568 11 9 304 11 10 370 0 0 1,089 17 0 2,342 6 6 1,335 11 6 j 150 0 0 I 916 10 0 63 17 0 62 0 2 157 5 6 3,235 18 4 288 7 2 812 1 10 138 2 8 592 19 9 1,618 12 8 216 8 10 1,296 2 4 2,127 5 7 774 3 4 204 10 0 409 0 0 6 5 0 23 15 8 140 0 0 2 16 6 - 150 19 3 146 5 0 6 0 0 273 18 1 56 11 11 81 16 6 50 0 0 211 17 8 175 13 10 215 19 8 . 24 7 7 391 3 2 50 0 0 56 5 0 150 1 6 150 0 0 109 13 0 15 0 0 19 13 6 326 5 0 48"o 0 34"9 6 260 14 0 293 4 0 2,066 4 2 2,591 16 0 5,256 12 8 1,409 15 0 548 10 0 3,753 14 2 2,391 0 0 577 0 0 390 16 0 4,958 12 5 •• 63 'o 0 •• 10 0 0 I 120 1 3 33 2 0 20 4 1 10 16 6 5 4 3 {406 0 0 205 0 0 144* 6 11 I 619 12 6 7,290 5 7 3,936 4 10 1,393 7 9 11,637 11 10 1,373 8 0 1,903 13 2 691 18 2 5,355 11 0 2,336 6 10 6,571 8 10 279 19 7 1,053 1 0 4,825 12 7 2,133 16 4 3,923 2 1 7,053 15 4 2,728 18 11 228 16 2 1,627 5 6 51 1 6 35 11 2 120 0 0 259 8 0 1,956 3 0 1,535 3 0 2,933 9 5 •• 8"8 9 0 15 0 2 10 2 12 17 3 78 11 9 370 0 0 16 0 0 31 19 0 14o"o 0 175 0 0 109 4 0 603 10 0 [ I 194 17 3 2,316 17 8 1,831 4 6 65 17 10 1,330 16 4 464 8 0 76' 5 0 67 5 0 I 5 "o 0 4 8 3 18 18 0 §1,539 5 0 7 10 6 11175 11 0 2,520 13 9 - 153 8 11 323 11 4 193 17 9 868 5 0 2,191 12 3 1,036 4 3 o"s 0 44:13 0 27' 3 11 55 0 7 11 16 10 28 10 0 625*4 5 364* 1 2 14 0 Totals 33,146 17 2 1,990 17 8 22,999 8 5 3,577 14 1 2,196 6 5 645 10 0 8,681 9 7 207 17 0 958 16 8 109,274 0 11 1,144 13 11 31,203 16 3 * Including £2,800 invested on mortgage. t Including £2,825 invested on mortgage. { Including annual Government grant, £400. II Including £157 10s., subsidy in aid of gymnasium. § Including £1,449 granted by Government for a new girls' school.

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Expenditure of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1903.

Expense of Liabilities Boards' on Managelst Jan., 1903. ment: Office and Salaries. School Salaries. Boardingschool Account. Examiners' Fees and Expenses. Scholarships, Exhibitions, Prizes. Printing, Land, Stationery, Buildings, Advertising, Furniture, Cleaning, Insurance, Fuel, Light, Rent, &c. Rates. Expenditure x, 1 n Tntnrpst Sundries Endow- interest. unclassifled ments. Cr. Balances, 31st Dec, 1903. Schools. Totals £ s. d. £ S. d. 13 18 7 525 14 6 0 10 0 36 0 0 90 16 10 134 8 9 205 15 8 249 19 3 £ s. d. 266 0 0 4,318 0 0 . £ s. d. . £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 18 12 9 I 453 8 9 £ s. d. I 10 18 0 I 1,578 0 3 22 6 2 i 25 0 11 106 16 10 i 560 0 7 1 1,076 5 6 ' 1,807 4 3 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Whangarei High School Auckland Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School .. Thames High School.. New Plymouth High School Wanganui Girls' College Wanganui Collegiate Sohool Wellington College and Girls' High School Napier High Schools.. Gisborne High School Marlborough High School Nelson College Greymouth High School Hokitika High School .. * Bangiora 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 572 17 6 I 5 17 3 11,020 5 0 1 358"2 7 23 15 6 *442 0 0 £ s. d. 144 19 6 1 174 10 2 H0,409 12 6 £ s. d. I 454 8 10 ! 9,030 11 6 110,874 8 8 1,802 11 11 1 1,949 16 1 7,197 11 10 4,682 6 2 8,794 4 1 638 5 8 901 6 8 2,047 19 0 2,865 7 8 4,814 16 3 •• ! 3 3 0j 18 '9 8 30 0 0 35 0 0 61 16 3 76 4 6 I 87 5 7 I 72 4 5 I 144 7 5 ! 520 1 9 1,023 0 4 0 17 6 0 17 6 ' 42 3 6 40 14 3 12,441 11 8 ! 57 3 10 I 40 2 5 i 75 2 2 151 7 10 1 25 0 0 132 17 1 744 3 0 1,671 4 5 182 9 8 929 2 2 162 14 7 97 "l 9 90 17 0 36 17 4 28 9 2 364 19 8 26 16 0 10 10 0 6 11 1 275 0 0 60 0 0 255 17 0 25 13 9 29 17 5 161 2 8 16 12 0 137 4 11 294 19 4 254 5 3 1 1,811 1 10 i 101 8 0 i 33 18 8 404 14 7 16 11 3 6 9 6 564 14 11 ' 171 14 9 l 12 8 76 8 7 457 16 7 12 17 0 249 12 4 92 9 6 1233 2 3 2 4 6 112 11 2 {52 14 6 t200 0 0 30 3 11 67 11 1 33 18 1 193 7 3 flOO 0 0 43 16 3 42 19 11 §147 10 0 72 6 8 75 15 6 87 5 11 4,334 8 11 3,648 11 4 553 3 11 7,290 5 7 3,936 4 10 1,393 7 9 11,637 11 10 1,373 8 0 1,903 13 2 691 18 2 5,355 11 0 2,336 6 10 6,571 8 10 279 19 7 1,053 1 0 4,825 12 7 2,133 16 4 3,923 2 1 7,053 15 4 2,728 18 11 109,274 0 11 677 10 0 3,152 6 3 " 49 2 1 1,613 3 0 1,70716 8 3,602 5 4 13 2 6 12 0 0 101 0 2 4815 9 450 6 8 3,926 10 2 1,582 12 0 3,199 11 8 50 0 0 - 62 17 0 38 8 0 55 6 9 40 9 0 266 4 0 795 11 0 26 0 10 214 11 9 103 15 ll 1 281 9 0 86 15 10 94 19 10 29 13 10 226 3 10 317 9 2 7 3 1 206 0 10 1 "8 0 200 0 0 1,269 0 6 1,590 15 0 91 19 10 156 3 0 164 11 11 1,350 6 10 154 5 10 I . 7 14 8 239 18 5 625 0 0 1,853 3 4 1,438 18 1 4,261 11 6 1,480 14 9 13 6 6 5 5 0! j 15 0 36 7 0 74 5 0 4 15 0 31 8 4 52 3 2 193 3 3 16 12 9 138 9 5 490 6 3 249 15 9J 40 9 9 166 11 11 115 9 0 20 ii 0 2,243 9 0 1,873 11 7 338 1 8 684 9 0 213 10 11 371 io 2 ■■ ! 1,790 2 4 661 13 7 417 6 2 31 6 8 23 16 2 3 4 0 150 15 0 2 4 0 •■ - Totals 2,520 12 7 3,332 16 2 6,623 19 0 478 17 4 5 2,393 17 9; 3,858 12 10: 10,612 7 0; . 3,058 7 6 I I 877 7 9: 2,283 10 101 32,922 10 8: 40,311 1 6 * Paid over to Auckland Grammar School. Paid to Education Board for district high school. X Including £50 paid to Education Board for district high school, district high school. § Including £130 5s. paid to Education Board for

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I.—EXTEACT FEOM THE TWENTY - SEVENTH ANNUAL EEPOET OF THE MINISTEE OF EDUCATION. The Secondary Schools Act of last session and the regulations under it carry forward the policy which was begun by the grants made in the previous year for free places in secondary schools. All holders of Education Board Scholarships and of National or Queen s Scholarships, all who gain certificates of proficiency within the prescribed limits of age or who show proficiency in the National Scholarship examination, are eligible for free places, as are also a certain number of pupils who satisfy conditions drawn up by the secondary schools themselves, and approved by the Minister of Education. The free places are tenable for two years, at the end of which time they may be extended if the holders pass the Civil Service Junior or other approved examination. All the secondary schools named in the schedule to the Act except four have elected to come under section s—that is, to admit to free places all pupils qualified as above. The four schools that have not so far decided to adopt this course are meanwhile required by section 4 of the Act to give scholarships or free places to the total value of one-fifth of their net income derived from endowments. One high school (that at Palmerston North) has already been established under section 6 of the Act to take the place of the district high school formerly existing.* The grants payable under the Act vary from £4 to £10 15s. for each free place, according as the net income from endowments is large or small. The grants under the regulations previously in force were £6 for each free place. The increase of the grants to schools with poor endowments will enable such schools to admit qualified free pupils without fear of financial difficulties. One effect of the granting of free places, as was pointed out last year, will be to enable Boards of Education to use their scholarship funds very largely for the maintenance of scholars from country schools who have to board away from home in order to obtain secondary education. The number of these " country scholarships " has still further been increased by the National Scholarships Act, and a very small further increase of such scholarships is probably required to give promising country boys or girls an absolutely equal chance of secondary education with those in towns Indeed, how far such further provision may be required, if at all, cannot be ascertained until the Boards have adjusted their scholarship regulations to the new conditions. The number of secondary schools giving free tuition to all qualified pupils at the end of the first term of 1904 was twenty, and the number of pupils holding free places was 1,605. There were besides about 209 holders of scholarships and exhibitions given by Boards of Education, or by the four secondary schools not coming under the conditions. Further, there were 1,709 pupils receiving secondary education in the secondary classes of the district high schools, which numbered forty-nine. On the whole, therefore, the education system of the colony as lately developed affords at the present time secondary education for some 3,523 children from the primary schools. At the end of the year 1901 the number was about 963. If it should eventually appear that the concessions err on the side ol liberality the conditions for the obtaining of a free place may be made somewhat more stringent; for instance, by admitting only those who qualify at the National Scholarship or other special examination. In any case the ladder from the infant school to the door of the university is now fairly complete. The sufficiency of the University Junior Scholarships and other scholarships to carry on all clever youths who merit higher education is a question that time only will afford the means of determining. It will be seen from Table LI that the number of qualified pupils attending the district high schools of the colony at the 31st December, 1903 (2,024), was

* The scheme for the control of the high school is given as an appendix to this report.

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even higher than the figures already quoted for the first quarter of 1904. This must be explained partly by the fact of the closing of the school at Palmerston North, with 159 pupils, as a district high school, and its conversion into a high school under section 6 of the Secondary Schools Act, and partly by the number of children who generally leave school at the conclusion of the calendar year. The total amount paid to Education Boards by Government for capitation on attendance at district high schools and for grants in aid thereof amounted to £8,545 17s. 4d., and, in addition, the claims for the last quarter had to be met. The amount expended by the Boards was £10,399 10s. Bd.

Table L1.—Number of Pupils receiving Secondary Education at District High Schools at 31st December, 1903.

The following table shows the number of Education Board scholarships held in December, 1903, with their tenure and annual value. The total expenditure of the Boards under this head amounted to £8,550 45.; the total paid to the Boards for scholarship purposes by the Department was £8,914 ss. lid.

Table L2.—Number and Value of Education Board Scholarships.

The reports of the secondary schools (subsidised or endowed) and further details in regard to district high schools and Education Board scholarships are given in a separate paper (E.-12).

Number of Pupils. Amount paid by Government to Education Boards during the Year. co o * o a-3 Passed Standard VI. Others. Total Number of Education District. M. F. Total. M. Total. D upils, 1902. Capitation. Gr^ n * s in Total. F. Total. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 8 1 7 2 3 146 34 211 49 60 155 19 175 66 55 301 53 386 115 115 2 2 54 10 2 2 64 303 55 450 115 117 170 34 378 80 49 £ s. d. 912 5 0 233 0 0 1,582 0 0 356 10 0 236 12 11 £ s. d. 225 0 0 30 0 0 210 0 0 30 0 0 43 15 3 £ s. d. 1,137 5 0 263 0 0 1,792 0 0 386 10 0 280 8 2 2 -2 3 1 1 9 3 9 3 68 17 8 125 77 166 61 67 25 20 147 64 143 66 135 42 28 272 141 309 127 i l "l 1 136 42 28 273 141 309 127 124 42 34 30 124 315 99 587 0 0 240 0 0 205 15 0 370 6 8 685 10 0 1,444 10 0 453 12 6 90 0 0 30 0 0 37 10 0 92 10 0 90 0 0 270 0 0 90 0 0 677 0 0 270 0 0 243 5 0 462 16 8 775 10 0 1,714 10 0 543 12 6 Totals for 1903 .. Totals for 1902 50 38 1,022 745 1,002 681 2,024 1,426 60 39 12 14 72 53 2,096 1,479 7,307 2 1 4,382 3 8 1238 15 3 817 10 0 8,545 17 4 5,199 13 8 1,479

Education Districts. Number held in Dec, 1903. Boys. Girls. Period of Tenure. Boards' Expenditure on Scholarships in 1903. Annual Value, &c. Auckland Taranaki 90 11 66 7 24 4 Years. 3 2 £ s. d. 1,905 18 9 244 3 4 7 at £30; 24 at £25 ; 23 at £20; 36 at £15. 5 at £35; 1 at £14; 4 at £10; 1 at £4 13s. 4d. 15 at £40; 1 at £32 10s.; 7 at £15. 9 at £35 ; 32 at £15. 9 at £30 4s. ; 1 at £22 10s. ; 1 at £16 4s. 19 at £10 4s. 3 at £35 ; 5 at £10. 7 at £50 10s. ; 1 at £25 ; 1 at £10. £25 2 at £24 ; 3 at £4. 20 at £40; 1 at £30 ; 15 at £20. 12 at £22 10s. ; 1 at £17 ; 5 at £7 10s.; 4 at £2 10s. 10 at £40; 3 at £35 ; 23 at £20; 17 at £15. 12 at £35 ; 1 at £18 ; 5 at £15. Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay23 41 30 12 20 13 11 21 17 Varies 2 2 732 14 11 969 19 11 538 4 6 Marlborough Nelson 8 9 4 5 36 22 1 5 1 1 10 11 7 4 3 4 20 11 2 2 2 Varies 2 2 169 0 0 359 10 0 108 5 0 76 17 6 1,246 3 0 369 0 8 Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago 53 35 18 2 1,278 17 8 Southland 18 15 3 2 551 8 9 Totals, 1903.. Totals, 1902.. 350 355 203 206 147 149 8,550 4 0 8,395 11 5

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The income of these secondary schools for 1903 from school fees, not including fees for boarding, was about £31,204 ; from rents and interest, about £26,577 ; from endowments administered by the School Commissioners, about £2,196 ; from fees and capitation paid by Government, £1,790. The total number of pupils on the rolls in the last term or quarter of the year was 2,265 boys and 1,457 girls.

Table L3.—Staff, Attendance, Fees, and Salaries at certain Secondary Schools.

Schools. Sti Ai jtendi jnee f< juarte or Lai jrof 1 st Ten 1903. or 1 o CQ o g a Annual Rai ;es of Fees. Salaries at Bi End of ates paid at Year. U Cβ w o o5 a I 9d O CM CD 8 "o o For Ordinary Day-school Course. * For Board, exclusive of Day-school Tuition. Regular Staff. Part-time Teachers. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d_ £ s. d Whangarei High School 16... 1<7---14 9 10 6 24 15 } " 8 8 0 a Auckland Grammar J School I 17 (b. 6 t<7.16 (6... 1?... (6. 1 \g- i 128 36 97 68 8 5 239 125 I 342 f10 10 0 J 9 9 0 { 8 8 0 I" 4,065 0 0 110 0 0 Thames High School .. New Plymouth High ) School J 30 14 23 28 11 11 16 13 41 25 40 42 I 65 J 75 8 8 0 6 6 0 i>700 0 0 815 0 0 Fees. 4 Wanganui Girls' College Wanganui Collegiate ) School J Wellington College (Boys') Wellington Girls' High ) School I Napier Boys' High School 12 13 13 12 10 52 30 71 78 151 199 7 9 13 149 190 293 182 135 186 267 163 55 143 77 ( 10 10 0 { 8 8 0 ] 9 9 0 13 0 0 j 11 17 9 1 9 11 0 f 11 17 9 1 9 11 0 (990 I 8 8 0 f 9 9 0 ]880 I 40 0 0 I 45 0 0 I 42 0 0 j. .. 140 0 0 I 40 0 0 «l,670 0 0 d 2,550 0 0 3,090 0 0 425 15 0 60 0 0 135 0 0 8 9 48 120 5 1,340 0 0 8 35 49 92 85 19 e 865 0 0 30 0 0 Napier Girls' High School 10 35 44 89 82 10 780 0 0 "51 0 0 Marlborough High School 3 (6. 2 25 25 21 14 3 3 51 42 I 82 8 11 0 '620 0 0 20 0 0 Nelson College (Boys') .. 17 68 89 22 196 182 85 ( 10 10 0 1 8 8 0 j 10 10 0 { 8 8 0 I 10 10 0 I 7 10 0 I 12 12 0 J990 14 3 6 11 0 6 7 17 6 (990 16 6 0 I 40 0 0 I 40 0 0 I 40 19 0 ) - ) 45 0 0 42 0 0 e1,800 0 0 40 0 0 Nelson Girls' College .. 9 59 73 9 150 134 40 ) h 930 0 0 j and fees I 40 0 0 Christchurch Boys'High) School J Christchurch Girls' High \ School j 11 6 7 4 83 68 129 56 10 2 229 130J 214 120 3 3,240 0 0 1,125 0 0 456 17 6 335 4 0 Christ's College Gram- j mar School J 34 78 85 11 208 199 54 I i 3,015 0 0 236 0 0 11 Rangiora High School .. j 6. 2 ]6... 10... 32 24 28 29 41 10 7 8 7 28 1 44 32 36 37 72 1 « I 62 b 472 0 0 625 0 0 14 0 0 Ashburton High School.. Timaru Boys' High I School Timaru Girls' High) School j 3 1 1 3 6 6 0 J 10 0 0 [800 10 0 0 18 0 0 I 10 10 0 j 410 0 ] 10 10 0 I 4 10 0 10 0 0 } ;; I 42 18 0 "1,050 0 0 21 0 0 4 1 69 36 31 6 73 67 715 0 0 101 0 0 Waitaki Boys' High School 44 61 105 95 63 "1,015 0 0 Fees. Waitaki Girls' High Sohool 2 17 26 6 49 45 480 0 0 40 0 0 Otago Boys' High School Otago Girls' High School <j 3 1 197 97 11 306 290 24 43 10 0 "2,652 10 0 150 0 0 (295 0 0 (and fees. 150 0 0 7 7 1 142 67 12 222 213 8 10 0 0 40 0 0 "1,282 0 0 Southland High Sohool.. tb... Is , --- 64 57 31 36 4 2 99 95 I 178 I 3,455 I io o o 1 1,475 0 0 7 Totals 173 [6.88 i<7.62 991 679 1092 657 94 59 2,265 1,457 581 36,371 10 0 2,710 16 a Headmaster receives £7 c Six teachers have board ai eeOne assistant has board and residence. h Principal t master has residence; two m '5 at nd i and md liiliK id resi re foi jrs fees, ar idence. isidenct ar assiE have bi id pay a H< a. IH rtants oarda 'B all eadm leadir have ind re expei aster laster ! boa] isider ises ol absent ■ recei\ :d and tee. 11 assistai i. eTw< 'es houE residen jady pri nts j o mi se-al tee. inci] md school s isters have lowance. B ] j Headmast< )al and one stationery, residence ai Principal ai er and five i mistress ha^ l> Headmaster ha id one board anc id five masters jthers have housi r e board. j residence. residence. lave board is. k Head-

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2.—ADDITIONAL STATISTICS. District High Schools. The following table shows in detail the number of pupils who were attending the district high schools in the several education districts at the end of the year 1903 :—

The subjects of instruction in these schools are as follows, the numbers after each subject showing the number of schools in which it was taught: English, arithmetic, and algebra, 50 each ; Euclid, 48 ; Latin, 45 ; geography, 38 ; book-keeping, 35 ; French, 34 ; shorthand, 21, elementary science, 18; history, 16; botany, 13; drawing, 10; physics, 9; physiology, 7; sewing, 4; woodwork, 3; elementary chemistry, handwork, trigonometry, and typewriting, 2 each ; and ambulance and cookery, 1 each.

Districts. Schools. Number Passed Standard VI. M. F. Total. Number if Pupils on Roll. Others. Totals for Districts. Totals. M. F. Total, ' Auokland .. .. 1 Aratapu Cambridge Coromandel Hamilton West.. Onehunga Opotiki Paeroa Waihi .. 12 14 8 13 46 5 21 27 12 16 12 15 45 11 27 17 24 30 20 28 91 16 48 44 *2 "2 24 30 20 30 91 16 48 44 Taranaki Stratford 34 19 53 2 2 55 303 I Wanganui .. .. -/ Eltham Feilding Hawera Marton College Street (P.N.) Patea Wanganui Boys' 5 19 29 21 86 7 44 11 20 48 ■ 15 73 8 16 39 77 36 159 15 44 12 2 4 2 3 16 4 3 3 9 32 43 80 39 168 15 73 55 "3 8 "l 29 29 Wellington .. .. j Masterton Pahiatua 43 6 53 13 96 19 96 19 450 Hawke's Bay .. .. j Gisborne Dannevirke Woodville 10 27 23 21 21 13 31 48 36 "2 "2 31 50 36 115 Nelson .. .. .. -j Motueka Reefton Westport 16 12 40 16 14 37 32 26 77 1 1 33 26 77 117 136 Grey Greymouth 17 25 42 42 Westland ' Hokitika 8 20 28 28 42 28 North Canterbury .. < Akaroa Amberley Darfield East Oxford Kaiapoi Kaikoura Lincoln Lyttelton Southbridge 17 8 15 14 12 7 8 35 9 13 10 15 12 13 6 16 37 25 30 18 30 26 25 13 24 72 34 1 1 31 18 30 26 2.5 13 24 72 34 \ South Canterbury / Geraldine Temuka Waimate 13 30 34 10 19 35 23 49 69 23 49 69 273 141 Otago .. .. .. < Balolutha Hampden Lawrence Mosgiel Naseby.. Palmerston Port Chalmers .. Tapanui Tokomairiro 22 17 39 15 9 13 13 16 22 27 14 14 14 12 8 18 12 24 49 31 53 29 21 21 31 28 46 49 31 53 29 21 21 31 28 46 ■ Southland Gore Riverton Winton 34 17 10 27 19 20 61 36 30 61 36 30 309 127 Totals for th 16 colony 1,022 1,002 2,024 60 12 72 2,096

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Secondary Schools. The following table gives a list of the endowed secondary schools providing free places to scholars, in terms of section 5 of " The Secondary Schools Act, 1903" : —

Number of Scholars holding Free Places in Secondary Schools during the First Term, 1904.

Under section 4 of the Act, Wanganui Girls' College and Christchurch Boys' High School have awarded 16 and 50 scholarships respectively. Wellington College and Girls' High School has not made provision under either section of the Act.

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School. CO* I . c3 O Number of Scholars enrolled. Bate of Capitation for the Term. "e8 C g . a g> ■ r-1 EC o< Begulations, 1903. Tot ,al iber F 3 (a). 3(6). 3(c). 3 (d). of lohoi [ lara. 6 18 2 M. 27 P. 10 Total. 37 & B. 9 5 a. o S, 342 Whangarei High School ... 11 Auckland Grammar School... 35 68 38 96 45 141 8 0 0 1,128 Thames High School 30 6 5 26 15 41 8 0 0 328 New Plymouth High School 28 8 19 1 5 3427 61 7 0 0 427 Palmerston North High School 117 3 66 54 120 10 15 0 1,290 Napier High Schools 33 22 33 11 1 56 44 100 6 10 0 650 Marlborough High School ... 25 9 30 5 2 32 39 71 10 0 0 710 Nelson College ... 60 4 46 59 51 110 10 15 0 1,183 Eangiora High School 43 1 15 2 32 29 61 10 0 0 610 Christchurch Girls' High School 1 4 41 1 8 55 55 8 10 0 467 Ashburton High School 38 28 6 30 42 72 7 0 0 504 Timaru High Schools 54 14 62 16 76 70 146 6 10 0 949 Waitaki High Schools 4 40 14 34 24 58 8 0 0 464 Otago High Schools 227 19 70 42 196 162 358 8 0 0 2,864 Southland High Schools ... 84 2 80 2 1 91 78 169 9 5 0 1,564 Totals ... 855 745 1,600 £8 7 3* £13,480 751 128 559 20 142 *Mean :ate.

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3.—EEPOETS OF GOVEBNING BODIES, SECONDARY SCHOOLS. WHANGAEBI HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. Roger Lupton, Miss A. L. Gavey, and Miss A. L. M. Woolley. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. r . , ... Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 116 18 4 Office salary .. .. 11 17 9 Endowments— ( Other office expenses .. .. ." 20 10 Current income from reserves .. .. 106 13 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. .. 266 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 50 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertisiiio 47 9 School fees 178 17 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. .. 14 5 0 Government capitation, free-place scholar 2 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 3 6 6 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 5 112 School appliance, furniture, &c. .. .. 2 0 4 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 144 19 6 *ggl_g_. lo £454 8 10 J. M. Killen, Chairman. . J. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Warbueton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classy. Highest.— Latin—De Senectute (extracts) ; Allcroft's Composition ; Tutorial Grammar. English— Nesfield's English Past and Present; Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale ; Faerie Queen ; Samson Agomstes. Geometry—Layng's Edition of Euclid, Books 1.-VI. Algebra—Hall and Knight's Elementary. Arithmetic—Murray's Advanced. Trigonometry—Hall and Knight. French—Contanseau's Extracts, Weekley's Composition, Wellington College Grammar. Mechanics—The Tutorial. HeatStewart's. Lowest.— Latin—Via Latina to verbs; Gradatim. Book-keeping—Thornton's Elementary Irench—Oral lessons based on Hogben's Methode Naturelle. English—Deserted Village, Lays of Ancient Rome, Laing's English Literature, West's English Grammar ; Composition, mainly based on How to write English." History—Norman and Plantagenet periods. Geography—Europe, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, physical geography. Arithmetic—Higher Rules and Contracted Methods. Algebra —Hall and Knight, chapters 1-10. Geometry—Baker and Bourne, Book I. Agriculture—Wright's Elementary. Physiology—Parts I. and 11., Murche. Drawing—Freehand and elementary perspective. 3. Scholarships. The scholarships held at the school were five, granted by the Auckland Education Board. The Governors gave free tuition to six pupils, and Government free places were held by seven.

AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Staff. t i W vr Tib T bS^ M ;r A - ; X t M - A - ; m - J ' H - HoweU ' B - A - RSo - ' J - *• B.A. ; Mr. JG. Trevithiok ; Mr. J. H. Turner, M.A. ; Mr. H. J. D. Mahon, B.A. ; Mr. J. P. Dakin B A • Rev J Kins Davis M A Mr. A MoCudough, MA ; Mr. P. Drummond, B.A. ; Mr. E. Cla'rke, M.A. ; Miss E. G Wallace ; AH Jit 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. The School.— The school opened at the usual time—viz., the Bth February 1903 with 397 pupils being 260 boys and 137 girls, for the first term. The number of pupils was not quite maintained throughout the year, as it closed with 364 pupils, being 239 boys and 125 girls. A sad loss befell the Board in the month of April by the death through accident of its collector of rents and school fees. New Laboratories.—A new wing has been added to the school at a cost of £1 520 and will be completed for the opening of the first term in 1904. It consists of a large science class-room a chemical laboratory, a physical laboratory, and a dark-room, all of which are completely furnished with benches and apparatus. The former science class-room has been converted into a botanical laboratory for the girls side ; and a piece of ground has been enclosed and planted as a botanical garden. Distinctions.— Two pupils of the school won junior University scholarships, and six passed the Scholarship Examination " with credit." Sixteen passed Matriculation, three the Civil Service Senior Examination (one with distinction), and twelve the Junior Civil Service Examination of whom six were appointed to cadetships. The Gillies Scholarship for Physical Science, tenable for three years « the IT f u o ° kla nd. University College, was won by D. E. Hansen. Of former pupils of the school the Rev W. St. Clair Tisdall received the honorary degree of D.D. from the University of Edinburgh W. J. Barclay and L. Kmgsford graduated M.D. at Edinburgh, and H. D. Bamford, LL D at the University of New Zealand.

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At the end of 1902 the Board was suddenly called on to grant free education to one pupil for every £50 of net income from endowments held by the Board, and to admit at £6 per annum all pupils who obtained certificates of proficiency and were not over fourteen on the preceding 31st December. This scheme the Board declined to accept, as detailed in the previous report of 1902. Without further consultation with this Board Parliament was invited to legalise the scheme, and it was passed with some modification, and of the two branches of the scheme, that of either scholarships or free places, the Board accepted the latter. But what the effect on the school of this new legislation may be the Board will not anticipate, but must reserve its opinion till the scheme has been tested by its trial in 1904. It is, however, clear that the independence of the Board is largely encroached upon, and the tendency of'the change is to subordinate the institution to the Education Department in Wellington, and to undermine that free control and management of the school granted by Parliament throughout many years. The usual distribution of prizes was made at the Choral Hall on the 17th December, 1903, by the Chairman. Eighty-five prizes were given, and the cost of the same amounted to some £50. G. Maurice O'Rorke, Chairman. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Current income from reserves— Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 572 17 0 Ground rents 2,805 17 5 Salary of Secretary 120 0 0 Weekly rents .. .. • • 1,626 3 9 Office expenses .. .. .. 48 19 8 Schoolfees . . ■• ■■ 3,351 10 4 Commission, &c, to collectors .. .. 334 4 0 Sale of old buildings . . . . ■ • 42 10 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 4,31.8 0 0 Loan from Auckland City Council .. 1,000 0 0 School, requisites .. .. .. 148 510 Grant from Auckland Education Board (see- Election expenses .. .. .. 2 3 4 tioTi 23, " Auckland Gramma/ School Act, Legal expenses .. .. ■■ 20 7 6 1899") .. .. .. . 204 10 0 Prizes .. .. •.. .. 517 3 Printing and advertising .. .. 11l 16 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c.— School .. .. .. .. 23 12 7 Property .. .. .. .. 33 16 4 Stationery allowance . . .. .. 135 17 4 Additions to school —New chemical laboratory .. ... .. .. 1,265 6 0 Fencing, repairs, &o.— School .. .. .. .. . 259 3 6 Property .. .. .. .. 607 16 5 Rates, insurance, and taxes— ISchool .. .. .. .. 53 10 9 [(Property .. .. .. .. 412 8 7 Interest on current account .. .. 15 0 0 Interest on loans .. .. . ■ 343 2 7 Athletic sports .. .. .. 12 3 0 Swimming sports .. .. .. 5 12 6 Domain cricket-pitches .. .. 6 0 0 -:■ - . - Balance at end of year .. .. .. 174 10 2 £9,030 11 6 £9,030 11 6 G. Maurice O'Rorke, Chairman. W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest (both Sides).— Latin—North and Hillard's Latin Prose; Sargeant's Easy Passages for Latin Prose ; Primer of Roman Antiquities ; Smith's Smaller History of Rome ; Cicero, Pro Marcello ; Virgil, Georgics, 111. and IV. ; Horace, Odes, 111. ; Livy, V. French—Wellington College French Grammar, with exercises ; De Vogtie, Cceurs Russes, Berthon, Specimens of Modern French Verse ; Hamonet' Short Passages from French authors. English—Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present; Nichol's Primer of English Composition ; From Blake to Arnold ; Essays of Elia ; Selections from Chaucer. Mathematics—Todhunter and Loney's Algebra ; Jones and Cheyne's Algebraical Exercises ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid ; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry ; Ward's Trigonometry Exercises. Science : Boys' Side—Roscoe and Hardens Inorganic Chemistry for Advanced Students, Practical Chemistry, R. W. Stewarts' Advanced Heat; Girls' Side—Miss Aitken's Botany, C. M. Jessop's Lowest (both Sides).— Nesfield's The Uses of the Parts of Speech ; Longmans' New Zealand Reader, IV.; English History, Symes ; Zealandia Geography, IV. ; Longmans' Shilling Arithmetic ; Dent's First French Book. 4. Scholarships. The school gave free education to 18 foundation scholars, 16 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 6 John Williamson, 3 Rawlings, 11 Auckland Girls' High School, and 80 district (Education Board) scholarships.

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AUCKLAND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. r , , , . , Becei P ts - £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s d Balance at beginning of year .. .. 10,465 8 8 Bank commission .. 010 0 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Auckland Grammar School— purchase-money 409 0 0 Interest paid over 409 0 0 „ in advance .. .. 33 0 0 Rates on endowment, Hobson County .. 22 6 2 Balance at end of year— On mortgage .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 In debentures .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 On fixed deposit .. .... .. 400 0 0 On current account .. .. 912 6 JMWjJJ? £iq874~8~8 Richard Hobbs, Chairman. _, ~,.', Vincent E. Rice, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

THAMES HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. James Adams, B.A. ; Mr. R. J. Thompson, B.A. ; Miss Mary R. Foy. 1. Report of the Governors. This school has always severely felt the want of sufficient funds. One effect of this was that for the first term of the year the school-work had to continue to be carried on by two teachers At the commencement of the second term a third teacher entered on his duties and much better work was done in consequence. On the Ist of July thirty-three pupils who had passed the Sixth Standard were admitted in accordance with Government regulations. It may be remarked that the beginning of the year is a much more suitable time both for the school-work and also for the examinations such pupils are expected to pass alter attending the school for two years. Pupils.—The pupils of the school have done well at the Civil Service Examinations There were four candidates for the Senior Examinations ; one passed in six subjects, and thus completed the examinations ; three others passed in five or in four subjects. At the Junior Civil Service Examination seven passed, all of whom gained good places. Former Pupils.— During the year some former pupils have done remarkably well. W Donovan at Auckland University College, got a double first in science, in original research, in chemistry and geology Colin Eraser, at the same college, gained his degree of Bachelor of Science and a scholarship in geology James Henry Adams gained first-class distinction of his year at Otago University in mathematics and science, and the highest place in the first-class in organic chemistry. Leslie Andrew gained the highest marks at the local school of mines, and won the President's medal. J. W. Johnson who last year passed with credit at the Univeristy Junior Examination, succeeded this year (after three terms at the Auckland Grammar School) in gaining a University junior scholarship. These results fully bear out the excellent report that Inspector Pope gave of the school in June last. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. _ . , , . . «eee»pto. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s d Balance at beginning of year .. .. 661 14 3 Office salary on ( ] « Current income from reserves .. . . 481 8 7 Office expenses . " 60 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 50 0 0 Teachers' salaries 638 5 8 School fees .. ... . .. 260 14 0 Examiners' fees " . 30 0 Interest on fixed deposit .. .. 0 5 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising '.' 815 6 Goldfields revenue 87 3 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 29 410 Government grant, free-place scholars .. 48 0 0 Fencing, repairs &c 12 211 Refunds, namely— R ates " (i 7 fi Half costs arbitration awards .. .. 35 4 0 Insurance .. .. .. (> 10 6 Sale of crop _.. .. . 21 10 0 Interest on current account .. .. 017 6 Rates ■• •• •• ■• 319 6 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. 67 311 Insurance . . .. .. .. 14 0 Compensation claims, &c. .. . . 955 16 5 Legal expenses . . .. .. 12 6 School requisites and miscellaneous 38 4 2 Overdraft at end ot year .. .. 144 6 11 £!.802 11 11 fUsOsTTril

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Monkhouse). French —Macmillan's French Course, Third Year (Fasnaoht), Questions and exercises (Stedman), La Canne de Jonc (De Vigny), French Unseens for Upper'\Forms (Pallisier), Macmillan's Advanced French Reader (Fasnacht). Latin —Frist Steps to Latin Prose (Walters) ; Questions and Exercises (Stedman) ; Latin Unseens (Senior) ; Csesar, De Bello Gallico, Book V. ; Virgil's iEneid, Book VI. Mathematics—Arithmetic (Lock), Algebra (Hall and Knight), Euclid, 1.-VI. (Hall and Stevens), Trigonometry (Lock). Science —Chemistry (Roscoe), Inorganic Chemistry (Roscoe and Harden), Practical Chemistry (Tilden) ; Mechanics—Statics, Dynamics, and Hydrostatics (Briggs and Bryan). Senior Geography (Longmans'). Lowest. —English —Outlines of English Grammar (Mason), Exercises on Norris's English Grammar (Wetherell), Parsing and Analysis (Mason), English Grammar Exercises (Morris and Bowen), How to write clearly (Abbott), Correction of Faulty Sentences (Mason), essays on easy subjects. English History—George I. to George IV. (Gardiner), and Royal History. Latin —Via Latina (Abbott), First Latin Reader (Beresford). French—Macmillan's Series, First Year (Fasnacht) ; dictation, reading, and composition ; My First-fFrench Book (Minet). Arithmetic—Lock. Algebra—Hall and Knight. Geometry—Hall and Part I. Science —Chemistry Primer (Roscoe), Physics Primer (Balfour Stewart).

4. Scholarships. Six Education Board scholarships were held at the school and thirty-two Government free places, and the Governors gave free tuition to eleven.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. Ernest Pridham, MA. ; Miss C. D. Grant, M.A. ; Mr. H. H. Ward ; Miss G. A. Drew, M.A. ; Miss E. Smith ; Miss M. O'Connor. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,006 13 11 Office salaries .. .. .. 50 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 304 11 10 Other office expenses .. .. .. 711 10 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 211 17 8 Other expenses of management .. .. 316 6 School fees .. .. .. .. 293 4 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 901 6 8 From Government— Prizes .. .. .. .. 18 9 8 Fees for free pupils .. .. .. 86 19 11 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 31 18 1 Grant for apparatus .. .. .. 11 17 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 55 7 6 drawing and sewing classes .. 10 15 10 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Interest on deposits .. .. .. 23 15 8 Purchases and new works .. . . 26 7 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 1.3 5 7 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 25 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 017 6 Law account .. .. .. .. 18 18 6 Travelling-expenses .. .. .. 10 10 0 School furniture and appliances .. .. 42 3 9 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 744 3 0 £1,949 16 1 £1,949 16 1 W. K. MacDiarmid, Chairman. Walter Bewley, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct except as to the payment to two members for travelling-expenses to Wellington, such payment being without the authority of law. — J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Arithmetic —The subject generally. Algebra —Hall and Knight. Euclid —Hall and Stevens. Latin —Abbott's Via Latina ; Cicero In Catilinam, Books 1.-IV.; Gradatim ; Livy, sight translation ; Simpson's Caesarian Prose ; Accidence, from Tutorial Grammar. French —Chardenal, Advanced Rules ; Methode Naturelle, irregular verbs, irregular plurals of nouns, irregular females of adjectives. Geography, Grammar, and Composition —to matriculation standard. Science — Murche's Physiology and Zoology. Literature —Shakespeare's Julius Csesar. Drawing—Model, freehand, and free-arm. Dressmaking. Lowest. —Arithmetic —Haniblin Smith. Algebra —Hall and Knight. Euclid—-Hall and Stevens. Latin —Abbott's Via Latina, Via Nova. French —Methode Naturelle, " avoir," " etre," " dormer." History—Primary, Period 1485-1689. Geography —Petrie. Grammar—Mason, First Notions. Science —Grieves Mechanics. Literature —Lady of the Lake and Ivanhoe (Abridged). Composition —Essay - writing, punctuation, and correction of sentences. Drawing —Freehand and free-arm. Sewing —Plain needlework.

3. Scholarships. Eight Education Board scholarships were held at the school and twenty-five Government free places. The Governors gave free tuition to fifteen.

WANGANUI GIRLS' COLLEGE. Staff. Miss M. I. Fraser, M.A. ; Miss S. E. Gifford, M.A. ; Miss K. Browning ; Miss E. M. Mclntosh, M.A. ; Miss J. Knapp, B.A. ; Miss J. R. Currio. M.A. ; Miss A. Blennerhassett, B.A. ; Miss M. Rawson, M.A. ; Miss J. Ross ; Miss B. Richmond, B,A. ; Miss F. G. Scaly ; Miss I. S. Saker ; Miss C. M. Page ; Miss L. Reichert; Mr. D. E. Htitton, A.M. ; Miss M, L, Browne ; Miss F, Marsden ; Miss Gγ. Ashoroft; Madame Venosta,

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1. General Statement of Accounts for Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance, Ist January, 1903 (on mortgage Office salaries .. .. .. 65 0 0 £2,800; Dr. balance at bank, £778 Bs. 2d.) 2,021 11 10 Other office expenses .. .. .. 14 Id M Endowments— Teachers' salaries . . .. • ■ 2,047 1J 0 Current income from reserves . . .. 370 0 0 Boarding-school Account . . .. 4*41 11 !-. Interest on moneys invested . ... 140 0 0 Examinations— Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 175 13 10 | Examiners' fees .. ~ • • 3b 15 O School fees .. .. ' •■ •■ 2,060 4 2 Other expenses ... .. .. 3 7 o Boarding-school fees 2,391 0 0 Prizes .. .. ■ ■ • • 0 0 Church sittings 33 2 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. «4 5 Temporary advances .. .. ■ • 90 lb W Site and buildings from current revenue— New works .. .. . • .. 102 12 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. . • 50 0 10 Rates and insurance .. .. .. 57 4 0 Interest on current account and bank charges .. .. • • • • 42 3 6 Other expenditure — Caretaker .. .. .. ■• 54 15 0 Church sittings .. .. • • 33 16 0 Furniture — School 39 4 8 House 247 3 7 School fees refunded .. .. • • 8 4 4 Rent of site .. .. • • • • 41 0 0 „ cottage .. • • ••22 15 0 Improvements to endowments .. . • 25 0 0 Balance on 31st December, 1903 — £ s. d. On mortgage .. .. 2,800 0 0 Less balance at bank ... 1,128 15 7 1,671 4 5 £7,197 11 10 £7.197 11 10 Geo. S. Bridge, Chairman. W. J. Carson, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Wakbubton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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

3. Scholarships. The number of Education Board scholarship holders at the school was ten, to eight of whom the Governors gave free tuition as well. The Governors also gave a scholarship to one other and free tuition to six.

WANGANUI COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. Staff. Mr W. Empson, B.A. ; Mr. J. R. Orford, M.A. ; Mr. H. B. Watson, M.A. ; Mr. E. G. Atkinson B.A ; Mr. J. Harold ; Mr. E. Jardine ; Mr. J. E. Bannister, M.A. ; Mr. W. A. Armour, M.A. ; Mr. J. S. Lomas, B.A. ; Mr. &. O. Hardwicke, M.A. ; Mr. E. T. Norris, M.A. ; Mr.SC. F. Browne, M.A. ; the Rev. P. Williams, M.A. ; Mrs. Atkinson. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 400 12 7 Management— Current income from reserves .. .. 1,080 17 0 Office commission .. ■ • • • 59 14 I Interest on prize-moneys invested .. 6 5 7 Other office expenses .. .... 2.1 9 b School fees .. .. • ■ • • 2,591 16 0 Other expenses of management, including Boarding-schooi fees . . .. .. 577 0 0 costs inquiry 115 10 0 Interest on deposit .. .. • • 216 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances . . 2,865 7 8 Lease fees collected .. .. .. 10 10 0 Boarding-school Account .. .. 57 310 Refund of insurance premiums . . .. 3 8 6 Examinations— Examiners' fees .. • • • • oo U U Other expenses .. • • • • 20 2 2 Prizes 35 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 65 8 1 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. . . .. • • 78 19 4 Site and buildings, from current revenue— and new works .. .. 262 7 0 "Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. • • 242 17 2 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 91 510 Interest on current account, &c. .. .. 40 14 3 Law and lease fees .. • • • ■ 9 2 0 Purchase of furniture .. .. • • 479 15 6 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 182 9 8 £4,682 6 2 £4,682 6 2 Frederic Wellington, Chairman. Ed.W. Liffiton, Secretary and Treasurer. I have examined the books, rent accounts, and vouchers, and certify the balance-sheet as correct.— H. E. Dymock, Auditor.

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2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —The work is up to the standard of the University junior scholarships, and comprises Greek, Latin, English, French, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, science, and divinity. Lowest. —English language (composition, reading, writing, and spelling), English history, geography, drawing, physical geography, and arithmetic equivalent to' Standard IV. ; and also Latin,, divinity, and general knowledge.

WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. College.—Mr. J. P. Firth, B.A. ; Mr. A. Heine, B.A. ; Mr. J. Bee, M.A. ; Mr. W. F. Ward, M.A. ; Mr. A. C. Gifiord, M.A. ; Mr. G. G. S. Robison, M.A. ; Mr. T. Brodie, B.A. ; Mr. T. Jordan, B.A. ; Mr. F. Renner, M.A. ; Mr. R. E. Rudman, B.A. ; Mr. H. O. Stuckey, M.A. ; Mr. D. Matheson ; Mr. J. A. Brailsford, B.A. Girls' High School— Miss M. McLean, M.A. ; Miss M. Morrah, M.A. ; Miss M. N. Gellatly, M.A. ; Miss I. Ecolesfield, M.A. ; Miss W. Eraser, B.A. ; Miss Batham, B.A. ; Miss Newman, B.A. ; Miss M. B. Pickmere, M.A. ; Mr. R. Parker ; Mr. Harrison. 1. Report of the Governors. The Board of Governors have to report that the Wellington College and Girls' High School continue to be successfully carried on, though want of funds prevents them from increasing the accommodation at either institution, or providing accommodation for boarders, which is urgently required, especially at the Girls' High School. At the recent University examinations the passes were as follows : —Wellington College : One pupil gained a junior University scholarship, five passed the Junior Scholarship Examination with credit, one passed the Medical Preliminary, nineteen the Solicitors' General Knowledge, and six the Matriculation Examination ; twelve passed the Junior Civil Service Examination ; six passed the Students' Examination of the Institute of Accountants, two winning prizes offered to secondary schools. Girls' High School: Six pupils matriculated on the junior scholarship papers, nine passed the Matriculation Examination, one the Medical Preliminary, and fifteen the Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge Examination ; six passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning of Office salaries . . . . .. . . 210 0 0 year .. .. .. 943 8 9 Other office expenses .. .. .. 34 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 2,342 6 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 4,814 16 3 Paid by School.Commissioners . . .. 215 19 8 Examinations — School fees .. . . .. .. 5,256 12 8 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 98 14 0 Government capitation for tecl "deal cl sses 15 0 0 Other expenses . . .. .. 52 13 10 Refunds. .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. 61 16 3 Other receipts, namely— Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 336 9 1 Rents from buildings.. .. ... 210 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 183 12 8 Donations for prizes .. .. .. 8 3 6 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Discounts .. .. . . .. 0 3 0 New works .. .. .. .. 380 0 0 Grounds .. .. .. .. 531 15 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 88 16 9 Interest .. .. .. 584 2 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 78 0 0 Furniture and apparatus .. .. 144 10 0 Bank charge . . .. .. '010 0 Endowments — Interest on cost of reclaimed land .. 104 14 6 Rates .. .. .. .. 119 Expenses of survey .. .. .. 56 18 4 Legal expenses .. .. .. 5 9 3 Grant to Games Fund .. .. .. 97 1 9 Balance at end of year . . .. .. 929 2 2 £8,794 4 1 £8,794 4 1 A. de B. Brandon, Chairman. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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Book I. ; sight' translation ; composition, Bradley's Arnold, Bradley's Aids ; grammar, StednWs Examination" Papers; history, Shuckburgh's Roman History. English—Literature. Shakspeare's King Lear, Lamb'slElia, Chaucer's Prologue ; grammar, Nesfield's Historical English ; composition, Nicol and McCormick's Exercises ; essays and paraphrasing. French—Corneille, Le Cid ; Sandeau, Sacs et Parchemins jj composition, Duhamel's Advanced French Composition ; grammar, Eve and de Baudiss (Part I.), Notes on Brachet's Historical French Grammar, Vecqueray's Examination Papers. Girls' High School : English—Nesfield's Grammar, Past and Present; Spenser's Faery Queen, Book I. ; the Warwick Shakespeare, Tempest; NichoPs English Composition and Exercises ; the Essays of Elia ; Longmans' Handbook 'ol English Literature, Part IV; Milton's English Sonnets, by Blakeney. French—Wellington College Grammar and Exercises ; Sand's La Mare au Diable ; Corneille's Cinna ; Moliere's Le Misanthrope ; French Composition, Part 11. ; Contanseau's or Gasc's French Dictionary. Latin—Tacitus, Agricola ; Historical and Political Odes of Horace (Upper VI.) ; Virgil's iEneid, Book 11. ; History of the Romans (R. Horton) ; Bradley's Latin Prose Composition ; Bryan's Latin Prose Exercises ; Stedman's Latin Examination-papers ; Latin Dictionary (Gepp and Haigh) ; Primer of Roman Antiquities (Wilkins) ; Rivington's Latin Unseens, Book VIII. Mathematics—Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid ; Pendlebury's Elementary Trigonometry; Pendlebury's Arithmetic. History—Gardiner's Student's History, Part 111. Geography—Longmans' Geographical Series, Book, 111. Science—Dendy and Lucas's Botany ; Furneaux's Physiology ; Elementary Textbook of Botany, by Aitken ; Draper's Heat; Wright's Physics. Scripture—Smaller Cambridge Bible for Schools ; the Acts of the Apostles. Lowest—Boys , College : Arithmetic—Southern Cross, IV. English—Standard V. Imperial Reader, Standard IV. Southern Cross Grammar and Composition, Standard IV. Zealandia|Geography, Standard IV. Southern Cross History. Physical Geography—Geikie's. Drawing—Freehand, geometrical, and scale. Girls , High School: English— Nesfield's Parts of Speech ; Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses ; Laureate Poetry, Part IV. (Arnold). French—Methode Naturelle, Part I. ; French Nursery Rhymes. Latin—Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course. Pendlebury's Smaller Arithmetic. History—Ship Historical Reader, Book IV. Geography—Longmans' First Book of Geography. Science—Edmond's Elementary Botany ; Youmans's First Book of Botany ; Murche's Elementary Physiology.

4-. Scholarships. The scholarships held were — Boys , College: Ten foundation, five Queen's (Victoria College), and twenty-two Education Board. Four boys held free places granted by the Governors. Girls , College : One foundation, three Queen's, and twenty-seven Education Board scholarships, and fifteen free places granted by the Governors.

NAPIER HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School.— Mr. A. S. M. Poison, B.A. ; Mr. E. W. Andrews ; Mr. E. J. Parr, M.A., B.Sc. ; Mr. G, V. Bogle ; Mr. J. Drummond ; Mr. R. N. Anderson. Girls , School.—Miss A. E. J. Spencer, B.A. ; Miss C. R. Kirk, B.A. ; Miss F. J. W. Hodges, M.A. ; Miss E. M. Shand ; Miss J. Gillies ; Miss H. A. Taylor ; Miss J. E. Page. 1. Repoet op the Governors. The Board of Governors have the honour to report that there was a considerable increase in the number both of scholars and boarders attending the schools during the year. This required an increase of accommodation for teaching purposes, which has now been secured. The following is a summary of the successes of the schools in the December and January examinations : Boys : Twenty passes —Medical Preliminary, three passed (two of whom were fourteen years of age) ; Matriculation, two (one also passing Solicitors' General Knowledge) ; Senior Civil Service (partial), two ; Junior Civil Service, thirteen (four in first fifty in the colony). Girls : Fourteen passes — Junior University Scholarship, one passed with " credit " and also passed Medical Preliminary ; Matriculation, five passed (two also passing Solicitors' General Knowledge) ; Senior Civil Service, two (one pass and one partial pass) ; Junior Civil Service, five passed (one thirteenth on list and three in first seventy). In the course of his report on the annual examination of the schools the examiner, Mr. T. W. Rowe, M.A., says, " The raising of the standard of the highest work attempted should commend itself to the Board of Governors and to parents .... I have no hesitation in saying that both schools are in a thoroughly sound condition, are being managed with energy and skill, and are affording a good training both intellectual and moral to the pupils attending them .... I have again to express my pleasure at the general neatness and excellent arrangement of the work sent in." T. C. Moore, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary.

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. i Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 3,858 15 0 I ManagementCurrent income from reserves .. .. 298 1 6 Office salary .. .. .. 60 0 0 From property not a reserve ... .. 1,037 10 0 Other office expenses .. .. 18 13 6 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Legal expenses .. .. .. 12 3 6 purchase-money .. .. .. 150 19 3 j Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 1,811 110 Paid by School Commissioners (Examiner's Boarding-school Account .. .. 101 8 0 fee and expenses) .. .. .. 23 9 1 Examinations — School fees .. .. .. .. 1,409 15 0 Examiners' fees . . . . .. 30 0 0 Board and coach-fares of scholarship children 390 16 0 Other expenses .. .. .. 318 8 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 119 6 3 Scholarships .. .. .. 390 15 3 School Commissioners, Wellington, 18s. fid. ; j Prizes . . .. .. .. 13 19 4 Refund of Gas Account, 15s. .. .. 1 13 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 51 15 i Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 119 19 3 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and other temporary advances .. . . 92 9 6 I Site and buildings, from current revenuePurchases and new works .. .. 97 17 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 72 4 5 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 79 10 2 Balance at end of year— Advanced on mortgage .. .. 3,050 0 0 Fixed deposit .. .. .. 457 10 0 Cash in bank .. .. .. 826 18 11 £7,290 5 7 £7,290 5 7 T. C. Mookb, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Waebubton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : Mathematics —Geometry (Hall and Stevens) to Senior Civil Service standard ; Algebra, Hall and Knight; | Trigonometry, Pendlebury ; Arithmetic, Pendlebury. French —Bue, Book 11. ; La Premiere Croisade ; prose (based on Andersen's Fairy Tales) ; Wellington College French Grammar and Stedman's Questions. Latin—Cicero, Selections (Charles) ; Virgil iEneid, 11. ; grammar (Kennedy's Primer), and prose to matriculation standard ; sight translation, Shuckburgh's selections ; Creighton's Rome and Wilkins's Antiquities. English —Shakespeare, Henry IV. Part 1., and Henry V. ; Tennyson, Idylls of the King ; Chaucer, Prologue ; Lamb, Essays of Elia ; grammar, Nesfield's Manual; essay-writing and paraphrasing ; precis-writing, abstracting, &c. History—Ransome, A.D. 1688-1837. Geography —Gill, Longmans' (New No. 3) to matriculation or Civil Service standard. Physiography — Macturk, Huxley, &c. Science—Physiology, Furneaux ; physics (electricity and magnetism), Wright to Civil Service standard. Girls : English Grammar —Nesfield's Past and Present; junior scholarship syllabus. English Literature —Idylls of the King (Tennyson) ; Henry IV. Part I. (Shakespeare) ; Essays of Elia (Lamb). English History —Junior scholarship syllabus ; Gardiner and Ransome. Geography —The World, Gill's Geography. Latin —Junior scholarship syllabus ; Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose ; Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom ; Via Latina (Abbott) ; Cicero, Tacitus, &c. French —Junior scholarship syllabus ; Brachet's Elementary Grammar ; Wellington College Grammar; Tartufie (Moliere) ; Un Philosophe sous les Toits (Souvestre), &c. Arithmetic —Pendlebury's. Algebra —Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra. Euclid —Hall and Stevens's, Books I. to VI. Trigonometry —To Solution of Triangles (Pendlebury). Mechanics —Junior scholarship syllabus; Loney's Statics and Dynamics ; Besant's Hydrostatics. Science—Botany, junior scholarship syllabus ; Lowson's Text-book of Botany ; Oliver's Botany. Lowest. — Boys : Work equivalent generally to Standard 111. ; arithmetic, Standard 11. Girls : Arithmetic —Simple and compound rules ; Mental arithmetic. English —Nesfield's Parts of Speech ; composition ; Mrs. Wood's First Poetry-book ; Longmans' Historical Reader, Book I. Geography — New Zealand ; physical geography. Science —Object-lessons. French —Bue, Book I. Modelling in plasticine ; Easy freehand and model drawing ; Plain sewing.

: GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of the Governors. Secondary education has been satisfactorily carried on at Gisborne in the District High Schoo during the past year. The Governors defray the cost of this education under special Act, but the School Committee under the Education Board of Hawke's Bay control the school. A technical school and equipment, to cost about £2,000, is now under construction. By leave of the Education Board, the building is being placed in the District High School grounds. The Governors are providing the cost, aided by Government grant of £1 for £1. The Governors hope that this school will enable the education given in the secondary classes at Gisborne to be adapted to the actual requirements of children who for the most part look forward to careers of practical usefulness as artisans or settlers developing the products of a singularly fertile district.

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General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 398 18 11 Office expenses .. .. .. 011 4 Current income from reserves .. .. 150 0 0 Other expenses of management .. .. 012 6 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Teachers' salaries and allowances .. .. 10 0 0 purchase-money .. .. .. 146 5 0 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 12 3 3 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 391 3 2 Prizes .. .. .. .. 4 8 0 Interest on current account at Post-Office Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 12 8 Savings-Bank .. .. .. 5 4 3 Typewriter for technical classes .. .. 16 0 0 Other receipts, namely— Technical classes .. .. .. 19 13 6 Government capitation on technical classes 19 13 6 Hawke's Bay Education Board .. .. 223 2 3 Mortgages recharged .. .. .. 2,825 0 0 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year— In Union Bank .. .. .. 136 16 8 In Post-Office Savings-Bank .. .. 136 14 8 On mortgages .. .. .. 3,375 0 0 £3,936 4 10 £3,936 4 10 W. Morgan, Chairman. C. A. de Ladtour, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

MARLBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. John Innes, M.A.. LL.D. : Mr. V. White, B.A. ; Miss M. C. Ross, M.A. * 1. Report of the Governors. There has been no change in the personnel of the Board since last year, the retiring members of the Education Board having been re-elected without opposition. The Governors held sixteen meetings during the year —twelve ordinary and four special meetings. The average attendance of members at these meetings was seven. The most noteworthy event of the past year, as affecting secondary education, has been the establishment of " free places " in the high schools available for all scholars who have passed the Sixth Standard in the primary schools. This new departure has been cordially received by the Governors, although, owing to the limited accommodation at the High School at the time, they found it impossible to at once grant admission to all who were qualified. However, they admitted sixteen, or as many as it was possible to accommodate with the existing staff and the limited space at their disposal. The steady increase in the number of scholars on the roll is very satisfactory evidence of the •estimation in which the school is held by the community. The number of scholars at the close of each of the three years of its existence was 32, 55, 77, and this year 93. Of this number 42 are boys, and 51 girls. There are only two pupils under twelve years of age, and these having passed Standard VI. a year ago, there are no pupils at a stage below Standard V. —the standard now fixed by the Secondary Schools Act as that of admission to a high school. During the year under review 2 scholars sat for the University junior scholarship, 7 for matriculation, 6 for the Junior Civil Service, 1 for the Senior Civil Service, and 1 for the E certificate. The Principal, in his report to the Governors, says, with regard to the system of free places, " I am pleased to say that the system seems likely to prove a success from a teacher's point of view. The pupils are, as is to be expected from the qualifications on which they were admitted, bright and intelligent; and, though they suffer from having lost the first third of the year's work, their progress has been very satisfactory." Although confident of the continued and increasing success of the school, the Governors are temporarily placed in a somewhat difficult position through the introduction of free secondary education. It is to be expected that the influx of fee-paying pupils will be very much reduced, if not entirely stopped ; and, while it is hoped that the Government allowance for free places will ultimately be almost sufficient to compensate for the absence of paying pupils, the steps that must be taken, and have already been commenced, to cope with the number that may be expected to attend in the near future will strain the resources of the Governors to their utmost extent. An enlargement of the building has already been completed, and an additional teacher is to be added to the staff at the end of the first term of 1904. The Governors, moreover, must provide such salaries as will attract and retain the best teachers procurable in the colony. Already they have lost the services of a most competent teacher in the gentleman who filled the position of first assistant, but who accepted a more lucrative appointment elsewhere ; and, unless adequate salaries are paid, what has happened before is certain to occur again in the case of any efficient teacher who may enter the Governors' service. As regards the building, the new wing, at the time of writing, is ready for occupation, but its erection has compelled the Governors to overdraw their account at the bank, and they venture to request that the hope held out to their Chairman by the Premier will soon be made good by a grant in aid of the said building. Scholarships. —The recent changes under the Secondary Schools Act, &c, render necessary some alterations in the Governors' regulations respecting " endowment free places." A revision of these regulations is now under consideration, and will shortly be submitted for the approval of the Minister.

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. Balance at beginning of year ■.. ■• 342 8 3 Office salary (Secretary) .. .. 26 0 0 Grant from the General Assembly . . 400 0 0 Teacher's salaries and allowances .. 077 10 U Interest on moneys at fixed deposit .. 0 0 0 Prizes .. •• ■• ■■ » • •> Paid by Scliool Commissioners .. . . 50 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising . . SI JO I School fees ..' .. 46110 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. •• 44 18 t> Education .Board (scholarships) .. .. 87 00 : Fencing, repairs, &c. .. ..•• -A U » Government, for free places .. .. 34 9 6 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. ,/.'!' Sale of old shed .. . . • • 6 0 0 Furniture and appliances .. . • ID o o Rent of paddock .. . . . (> 0 0 Books (for teachers' use) .. .. 3 9 2 Sundries .. .. ■ • ■ ■ ■_ 4 l> Balance at end of year— Fixed deposit .. .. ■ • 200 0 0 Cash in bank .. .. . • 353 311 £1,393 7 9 £1,393 7 9 A. P. Seymour, Chairman. John Smith, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Wakbukton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. WOKK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest— English—Nesfield's English Past and Present; Shakespeare's Julius Csesar; Milton's Minor Poems, Lycidas ; Chaucer's Prologue ; composition. Latin—Cicero, De Officiis, Lib. 111. ; Virgil, Georgics, 11. ; sight translation; grammar and composition. French—Sandeau, Mademoiselle de la'Seigliere ; About, Le Roi dcs Montagnes ; grammar and composition; translation at sight. Mathematics, mechanics and physical science (heat) as for junior scholarship. Lowest.—English grammar—Nesfield's Outline, Part I. English history—Gardiner s Outline, to James 11. Arithmetic—Pendlebury's Shilling Arithmetic. Geography—As for Standard V. Elementary Geometry—Oral and practical. Latin—Macmillan's First Latin Course. French—Dent's First French Book.

4. Scholarships. Eight scholarships, given by the Education Board and supplemented by the School Commissioners, were held at the school. The Governors gave free tuition to ten pupils and the Government provided free places for twenty-one.

NELSON COLLEGE. Statj. Boy-/ College.—Mr. W. S. Litfcejohn, M.A. ; Mr. C. T. Major, M.A., B.Sc, D.S.O. ; Mr. F. Milner, M.A. ; Mr. CH. Broad, B. A. ; Mr. G. T. Palmer, M.A. ; Mr. M. K. M"Culloch, MA. ; Mr. E. H. Swerne, B.A. ; Mr. P. D. Mickle ; Mr. c! K. Mules, Mr. F. F. C. Huddleston. Girls' College —Miss A. C. Tendall, M.A. ; Miss E. Gribben, B.A. ; M sa E. Gibson, M.A. ; Miss F. M. Kirton, M.A. ; Miss H. Jenkins, B.A. ; M ; ss M. McEachen, MA. ; Miss F. E. Livesay, B.A. ; Mr. F. F. C. Huddleston. 1. Report of the Governors. During the year the term of office of Mr. John Sharp, Mr. C. Y. Fell, and Mr. J. H. Cock expired. Mr. Sharp, after thirty-five years' service on the Council, intimated that he did not seek reappointment. His place was filled by the appointment of Mr. F. W. Hamilton. Mr. Fell and Mr. Cock were reappointed for a further term. The resources at the disposal of the Governors have been heavily taxed during the past year to meet the rapidly increasing needs of the institution. The large addition to the numbers upon the roll of both colleges, owing partly to their established and growing reputation, and partly to the operation of the recently passed Secondary Schools Act, has involved a proportionate increase in the staff, and also additions to the College buildings, the latter, with furniture, having lately cost over £6,000, of which about £3,500 has been incurred during the past year. The Governors, however, confidently relying upon maintaining and increasing the usefulness and popularity of the institution, have decided to meet the requirements of the times, and trust that their action will prove to be justified by the greater usefulness of the colleges. Mr. W. S. Littlejohn, M.A., who has worthily and successfully filled the post ot Principal tor the past six years, and who has been a member of the College staff for the past twenty-two years, resigned his office, having been appointed Principal of the Scotch College, Melbourne. His successor is Mr. H. L. Fowler, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, who has been Rector of Invercargill High School for the past ten years. The superintendence of the domestic arrangements, so ably carried out by Mrs. Littlejohn, is being undertaken by Mrs. Fowler.

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Boys' College. —During the year the pressure in the class-rooms was relieved by the erection of two additional rooms well equipped and arranged for the Junior School. This year has witnessed the continuation of the progressive increase in the attendance. The contingent of new pupils comprised ninety-seven boys, which constitutes another record in the history of the institution. The capacity of the boarding department has been taxed to its utmost, and the Governors had to provide additional accommodation by leasing a portion of a large house adjacent to the College. They trust shortly to be in a position to proceed with the erection of the contemplated new boardinghouse. The results of the various public examinations have been creditable to the College. In the Junior scholarship examination, W. H. Pettit headed the list for the whole colony. This is the third time that this high honour has fallen to Nelson College. Seven boys passed the Medical Preliminary Examination, and thirteen matriculated. Three of the senior boys kept first year's terms, and passed the Victoria College examination very creditably. A. F. Hamilton and H. G. Grace, officers in the cadet corps, were successful in the military examinations, and have been gazetted to British regiments. They will join the First Royal Scotch, stationed in India. Many of the old alumni of the institution have distinguished themselves during the year, among whom may be named Professor Rutherford and Dr. Wollaston. The scholastic successes won by old boys have been recorded in the Nelsonian, and on the Honours Board. Girls , College. —During the year a commodious gymnasium was built on the site of the old studio, and a contract was entered into for extensive alterations and additions to the main building. These include four class-rooms, twenty bedrooms, work-room, sick-room, and bath-rooms. Entirely new kitchens have been built, and full provision has been made for the health and comfort of the inmates. The roll again shows an increase on that of the preceding year. The average number of pupils was 152, of whom forty were boarders. The examinations of the Nelson School of Music were passed by twelve girls. College boarders, as well as day girls, are permitted to join the orchestra of the Harmonic Society when sufficiently advanced. Cookery was taken up by ninety-three pupils, and the work was done with the utmost eagerness and enthusiasm. A class was also held in shorthand, and the singing class did good work under Herr Lemmer. In the Matriculation Examination nine girls passed, six of these qualifying for the solicitors' pass. Six passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. Amongst old girls Ida Crump again distinguished herself. She held the John Tinline Scholarship at Otago University, and has recently taken her M.A. degree, with first-class honours in English and German.

Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Endowment Account. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Rents.. .. .. .. •• 916 10 0 Rates and taxes .. . .. .. 10 11 1 Interests .. .. . . . . 273 18 1 Insurances .. .. . . . . 7 4 0 School Commissioners' subsidy .. . . 56 5 0 Printing and advertising . . . . 7 6 6 Miss C. A. Barnicoat for prize . . .. 3 0 0 Stationery .. .. .. .. 7 2 8 Materials sold .. .. .. .. 2 0 0 Repairs .. .. .. .. 012 6 Governors' and auditors' fees .. .. 35 16 8 Office-rent .. .. . . . . 25 0 0 Office-cleaning and gas .. . . ... 10 9 6 Interest on bank overdraft . . . . 48 15 9 Clearing properties . . . . . . 12 10 0 Telephone and letter-box . . .. 6 3 6 Secretary .. .. . . .. 55 10 8 Petty cash nostage. and sundries .. 34 210 Boys' College. Boarding fees .. .. .. • • 3,381 13 1 House expenses .. . .. .. 2,379 10 3 Tuition fees .. .. .. ■■ 2,055 0 2 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 1,828 211 Education Department— ScholarshipsGrant for buildings and fittings, science Foundation .. .. . . .. 71 13 4 classes .. .. .. •• 269 18 6 i Endowed .. .. .. .. 113 0 0 Grant for furniture and fittings, technical Free tuition .. . . .. 157 10 0 classes .. .. .. .. 31 11 6 j Governors'and auditors'fees .. .. 37 6 8 Stationery .. .. .. , . 89 9 1 Prizes .. .. . . . . . . 28 7 2 Printing and advertising .. .. 82 16 10 Gas .. .. .. .. . . 100 13 9 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 15 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 49 4 0 Repairs .. .. .. .. 95 13 1 Furniture .. .. .. .. 424 12 0 Subscriptions to sports and magazine . . 57 2 0 Chemicals .. . . . . .. 20 19 2 Telephone .. .. .. .. 600 Valuation . . . . .. .. 6 2 6 Grounds . . .. .. . . 4 0 0 Secretary .. .. . . .. 55 11 4 Sundries .. .. . . ~ 10 7 0

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4. Scholarships. Boys , College. —The number of Education Board scholarships held at the school was four, of foundation scholarships five, and of Government free places twenty-four. Free tuition was given by the Governors to seventeen. Girls' College. —There were three Education Board Scholarships held, and twenty-seven Government free places. The School Commissioners provided free tuition for six, and the Governors for thirteen.

GREYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance on 31st December, 1902 — Grant to Grey Education Board .. 50 0 0 On hand and in bank .. .. 377 17 7 Secretary's salary .. .. .. 10 0 0 On mortgage .. .. .. 725 0 0 Law costs .. .. .. 16 16 0 Westland School Commissioners .. 150 1 6 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 214 6 Rent .. .. .. .. 63 17 0 I Advertising and Auctioneer .. .. 12 17 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 56 11 11 Survey fees .. .. .. 12 0 0 ] Balance at bank on 31st December, 1903.. 502 7 1 Balance at Post-Office Savings-Bank . . 466 13 5 Loan on mortgage .. .. .. 300 0 0 £1,373 8 0 £1,373 8 0 F. W. Riemenschneider, 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, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. [ Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,609 16 6 Office salary .. .. .. 10 10 0 Endowments— ] Grant to Westland Education Board . . 200 0 0 Current income from reserve and building ,' Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 90 14 0 (rent) .. .. . . .. 62 0 2 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 10 6 2 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 81 16 6 I Interest, &c, on current account . . 18 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. 150 0 0 ! Deposit returned .. .. .. 5 0 0 Deposit on tender .. .. .. 5 0 0 Balance at end of year — Hokitika Borough debentures .. .. £600 0 0 Kumara Borough debentures .. . . 200 0 0 Fixed deposits . . 650 0 0 Hokitika Savings-bank 203 6 6 1,653 6 6 Less current account (Dr.) 62 11 6 1,590 15 0 £1,908 13 2 £1,908 13 ~2 H. L. Michel, Chairman. Chas. Kirk, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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RANGIORA HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. T. R. Creswell, M.A.; Miss C. S. Howard, M.A.; Miss G. E. Rogers. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Bilance at beginning of year .. .. 154 9 8 Office expenses .. .. .. 611 1 Current income from preserves .. .. 157 5 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances.. .. 450 6 8 School fees .. ' .. •. .. 259 8 0 Sports fund .. .. .. . . 5 0 0 Government capitation for free places (first Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 714 0 and seconl terms) .. .. .. 120 0 0 Gleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 18 6 4 Sale of old woodwork .. .. .. 015 0 Bicycle shed and pump .. .. 20 10 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. . . .. 38 4 7 Insurance . . . . ■ ■ ■ • 3 18 9 Desks and chairs . . . . .. 24 2 6 Half cost of street kerbing and channelling paid to Borough Covincil .. .. 16 10 2 Microscope, &c. .. .. .. 7 0 9 Sanitation .. .. .. .. 1 13 0 Balance in bank at end of year £94 19 10 Less unpresented cheque, £2 19s. Id. ; due to Chairman, lid. .. .. 3 0 0 91 19 10 £691 18 2 £691 18 2 J. Johnston, Chairman and Secretary. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.— English—Nesfield's Manual; Milton's Comus ; Stevenson's Treasure Island. French— Chardenal, Part 11. ; sight translation. ILatin—Via Latina ; Csesar, De Bello Gallico, Book I. ; sight translation ; Kennedy's Latin Primer. ]Arithmetic— Pendlebury. Geometry—Layng's Euclid, Books 1.-111. Algebra Hall and Knight, to Science —Botany, Murche and Edmonds. History—English, Meiklejohn, A.D., 1603-1857 ; Roman, Shuckburgh. Geography—Physical, Mathematical, and Commercial; Longmans' Geography, 111. Book-keeping—Thornton's Manual. Drawing—Freehand and Scale. Lowest. — English — Longmans' Grammar. Arithmetic to fractions. Geography — Longmans , Part I. Drawing—Freehand. History—Warner's Brief Survey. Botany—Murche. Book-keeping-Thornton's Primer.

3. Scholarships. One Education Board and one foundation scholarship were held at the school, with forty-seven Government free places, and three free places given by the Governors.

CHRISTCHURCH 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.BSc• Mr R Speight MA., B.Sc.; Mr. O. T. J. Alpers, M.A.; Mr. A. Merton; Mr. T. H. Jackson, 8.A.; Mr. J. H. Smith M A -'Mr T W. Cane, M.A.; Mr. R. E. Hall, B.A. ; Mr. G. J. Lancaster, M.A.; Sergeant-Major F. Farthing: Mr. J.'Balforir; Mr.'w. S. Malaquin; Mr. A. J. Merton; Mr. W. H. Gundry; Mr. T. S. Tankard; Miss E. E. Digby. 1. Report. The roll-number at the end of the year was 229. During the year 1903 fifty-nine pupils in all have held scholarships or free places at the Boys' High School, of whom thirteen held scholarships from the Board of Education, and forty-six held free places provided by our own Board of Governors. We had difficulty in filling up the latter, and during the year four holders of exhibitions left before their exhibitions had expired ; in two instances the exhibitions had another eighteen months to run, and in the other two more than a term. A memorial to old boys who fought in South Africa was erected in March last and unveiled by His Excellency the Governor. It contains the names of fifty-six who fought in South Africa, and underneath a brass commemorates the names of four who died in the war. Mr. A. Merton has removed to Harewood Road, Papanui, and takes boarders there ; he began the year with six boarders, but they were reduced to three by the end of the year. The house and grounds are excellently adapted for'boarders, the air being good, the grounds extensive, and the distance the house is from the streets of the town is a distinct advantage. The physical-training system was modified at the beginning of 1903 by the partial introduction of the Sandow system. Complete measurements were taken at the beginning of the year and again at the end, and it was found that the average chest-measurement for the whole school had increased, for the normal chest 1| in., and for the expanded chest 2 in. It may be added that two medical men old boys, kindly examined the boys at the beginning of the year, and specially weak boys had exercises

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prescribed them suitable for their oases. The cadet corps went into camp this year for the first time, and the experience and training was very good for the boys. About seventy boys last year omitted Latin, and took commercial work and extra French or workshop, with a certain amount of European history. The commercial work has included precis, correspondence, commercial arithmetic, bookkeeping, accountancy ; and the elements of agriculture have been taught to those intending to be farmers. Shorthand and typewriting have been taught on Saturday mornings. Another special prize has been given this year —viz., one by an old boy, Mr. A. R. Craddock, for woodwork. Distinctions gained during the year are as follows : Among former pupils, G^ J. A. Griffin obtained a Senior University Scholarship for Mathematics ; S. S. D. Robertson, his M.A. degree ; R. A. Campbell and S. Steele, the B.Sc. in Engineering ; J. G. Lancaster, G. C. Mayne, and A. E. Currie won exhibitions at Canterbury College. Of present pupils, C. A. Cotton won a Junior University Scholarship ; T. C. Smith and T. E. Guthrie passed the Medical Preliminary, and five boys passed Matriculation ; one boy obtained a Senior Board of Education Scholarship. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 101 9 3 Office salary .. .. .. 100 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 3,235 18 4 Teachers' salaries .. . . .. 3,926 10 2 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,956 3 0 Examinations — Interest on current account .. .. 0 10 11 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 52 0 6 Government grant for technical instruction 51 1 6 Other expenses .. .. .. 10 16 6 Sale of parsing notes .. .. .. 13 4 Scholarships (Leaving Exhibition) .. 15 0 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 015 11 Prizes .. .. .. .. 25 9 0 Contribution towards cost of fencing on Printing, stationery, and advertising, books Reserve 925 .. .. .. 4 10 and telegrams .. .. .. 155 5 8 Share of arbitration expenses, Reserve Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 59 6 1 1201 c (Anstey) ... .. .. 4 7 9 Repairs, renewals, fittings, &c. .. .. 63 2 9 Insurance .. .. .. .. 31 17 1 Chemicals and apparatus .. .. 34 19 0 Inspecting and advertising reserves .. 119 11 7 Interest on Loan Account, £5,000 .. 200 0 0 Grant to cadet corps and Sports Fund .. 70 0 0 Rent of section (playground) .. .. 100 0 0 Expenses on endowments .. .. 67 19 3 Grant to school library .. .. 5 0 0 Transfer to Capital Account (refund) .. 129 18 4 Timber and tools for workshop .. .. 114 8 Sundry expenses .. . . .. 21 7 5 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year 156 3 0 £5,355 11 0 £5,355 .11 0 Charles Lewis, 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 XXI. ; Virgil, Selections ; Terence, Scenes from the Andria ; Hints and Helps in Continuous Latin Prose ; Easy Latin Prose Exercises ; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer ; Gepp and Haigh's Latin Dictionary ; Wells's History of Rome. Greek —The Siege of Plataea ; Scenes from Euripides ; Alcestis ; North and Hillard's Greek Prose Composition ; Abbott and Mansfield's Greek Grammar Primer ; A Short History of Greece. English —Kingsley's Westward Ho ! Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays and Lays ; Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale ; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition ; Nesfield's Historical English and Derivation ; Abbot's How to Write Clearly ; Stopford Brooke's Literature Primer; Essays, composition, philology. History— Lodge's Modern Europe (reign of Queen Elizabeth), Ransome's Short History (reign of Queen Elizabeth), Wells's History of Rome (from Second Punic War to end), Creighton's Roman History Primer (Augustus to end of Empire). French —La Premiere Croisade, Le Gendre de M. Poirier ; Specimens of Modern French Verse, Berthon ; Materials for French Translation, Federer ; Wellington College French 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 Elementary Mechanics and Hydrostatics. Science —Chemistry, Jago's Inorganic Chemistry ; Chemical Theory, Dobbin and Walker. Lowest. —English —Lyra Heroica ; Swiss Family Robinson ; Bell's Reading-books, Standard IV. ; Arabian Nights; Bell's Reading-books, Standard VI. History—Brief History of England (Edward the Confessor to Edward 111. Dates of kings and queens). Geography—Zealandia Geography, Standard IV. (General Geography of the world, countries and capitals of the world, geography of New Zealand and Australia). French —-French without Tears, Part I. ; Oral French. Mathematics —Zealandia Arithmetic, Standard IV. ; Long and Cross Tots ; mental arithmetic. Science —Nature in New Zealand. Art—Elementary Freehand from copies on board, in outline and colour (short time each lesson pupils draw on blackboard, with ambidextrous practice) ; modelling in plasticine ; simple constructions in plane geometry with design, and scale drawing. (Memory work and teaching and practice of design are interwoven throughout with the work of all the art classes.) Writing —Twice a week. Singing— Twice a week.

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4. Scholarships. Thirteen pupils held Board of Education scholarships, and forty-six held free places granted by the Governors.

CHRISTCHURCH* GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Miss M. V. Gibson, M.A. ; Miss C. K. Henderson, B.A. ; Mr. G. J. Lancaster, M.A. ; Miss F. Sheard, M.A. ; Miss K. Gresson, M.A. ; Mrs. C. Langton, M.A. ; Miss L. L. Bing, B.A. ; Miss H. L. Smith ; Miss N. Gardner ; Miss A. Rennie ; Miss E. Easterbrook ; Miss M. Cook ; Sergeant-Major Farthing ; Mr. C. H. Gilby. 1. Report. The school year has been, on the whole, uneventful, and, in consequence, salutary for purposes of steady work. The free places given at the Rangiora and Ashburton High Schools, and the district high schools opened in other centres, such as Lyttelton, Amberley, Southbridge, Darfield, and Kaiapoi, have slightly affected the attendance, but not so much as might have been anticipated, the roll for the third term of the year being 130, as against 140 for the same term in 1902 (which was unusually high), 127 in 1901, and 119 in 1900. The health of the staff and pupils has been generally excellent, and this in spite of the prevalence of somewhat serious epidemics in the city and suburbs during the winter and spring months. Shortly after the beginning of the second term the school was visited by the Inspector-General of Schools, who expressed himself as satisfied with the general organization and arrangements. The death of Mrs. Macmillan Brown in February last has removed one who took a deep interest in the higher education of girls, and to whom the school owes a special debt of gratitude. Mrs. Brown was a member of the teaching staff for over fifteen years —that is, from January 1878 (shortly after its inception) until 1894—and for the last eleven years of this period she held the position of Lady Principal. It was under her control that the school was first properly organized as a training school for a future university career, and the main details of her organization are still in force. At the time of her death Mrs. Brown was president of the Old Girls' Association, and in other ways showed a continued interest in the welfare of the school. Thirty-nine pupils have held scholarships, exhibitions, or free places at the school. Of these, twenty have received them from the Board of Governors, eighteen from the North Canterbury Board of Education, and one from the South Canterbury Education Board. In the December University examinations, two pupils were awarded Junior University Scholarships, and two others were placed in the Credit List of the same examination, one being awarded a Gammack Scholarship. Eleven pupils were also entered for matriculation, and all were successful, one also passing the Medical Preliminary Examination. In the examination for senior Board of Education scholarships, five out of the six scholarships were gained by pupils of this school. In the Junior Civil Service Examinations one headed the list for the colony, while three other pupils who took this examination all passed successfully. Notable successes of past pupils of the school during the year are the degrees of B.A. conferred on Maude Herriott, Rachel Kain, and Wilhelmina Sievwright; while Ada O'Callaghan gained an exhibition in mathematics at Canterbury College, and in the annual examination was awarded firstclass honours in mathematics, a distinction which has not previously been gained by a lady student at Canterbury College. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 235 12 1 Office salary .. .. .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 288 7 2 Teachers' salaries .. .. .. 1,582 12 (I Interest on moaeys invested and on unpaid Grant in aid of boardinghouse .. .. 50 0 0 purchase-money .. .. • ■ 228 16 2 Examinations— School fees .. .. .. .. 1,535 3 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 30 17 0 Government grant for technical classes .. 35 11 2 Other expenses .. .. .. 711 (I Proceeds from cooking classes .. .. 12 17 3 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 245 0 (I Prizes .. .. .. .. 21 4 0 Printing, stationery, advertising, and books 85 16 11 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 17 19 0 Site and buildings, from current revenue— New works .. .. .. 9 0 0 Fencing, repairs, fittings, &c... .. 9 14 5 Insurance .. .. .. 10 19 5 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 7 3 1 Expenses of cooking class .. .. 13 2 8 Sewing-machine .. .. .. 10 2 6 Sundries .. .. .. .. 10 12 11 Balance at end of year.. .. .. 164 11 11 £2,336 6 10 £2,336 6 10 Charles Lewis, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Registrar. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Waiiisurton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Work or the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Mathematics —Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Loney's Trigonometry, Part I. ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid ; Hall and Knight's Graphic Algebra. Latin—Horace's Odes, Book III.: Virgil's iEneid, Books VI. and 111. ; Cicero's Orations in Catilinam, 1, 2, and 3 ; Livy, Book IX., chapters 1-19 ; Bradley's Prose Composition ; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer; Stedman's Examinationpapers ; Horton's Roman History ; Wilkins's Roman Antiquities Primer. English —Shakespeare, Henry IV., Part I. ; Lamb's Essays, First Series ; From Blake to Arnold ; Handbook of English Literature (Longmans'), Part IV. ; Nesfield's Grammar Past and Present and Manual of English Grammar and Composition ; Chaucer, Selections (Bilderdeck). French — Racine, Athalie ; Balzac, Eugenic Grandet; Musset, Pierre et Camille ; Chardenal's Advanced Course. Science —Draper's Heat; Evans's Botany. All work to the standard required for Junior Scholarship Examination. Lowest. —Arithmetic —As for Standard IV. English —Selections from Wordsworth ; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner ; Gatty's Parables from Nature, First Series ; Dickens's Christmas Carol (abridged) ; Nesfield's Outline of English Grammar ; Stronach's English Literature ; spelling and composition. French —Chardenal's First Course. Dent's First French Book. English History—Ransome's Elementary History (William I. to Henry VII.). Geography—Southern Cross Geography, No. VI., Asia and North America. Science —Elementary Botany (without text-book). Drawing —Brushwork. Writing —Southern Cross Copy-book No. 9, or Public Service Copy-book No. 9. 4. Scholarships. Nineteen pupils held Education Board scholarships at the school, and twenty received free tuition granted by the Board of Governors. CHRIST'S COLLEGE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. C. F. Bourne, M.A. ; Rev. F. A. Hare, M.A.; Mr. E. G. Hogg, M.A. ; 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. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 15th May, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure: £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 750 0 4 Office salary and expenses .. .. 255 17 0 Endowments — Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,199 11 8 Capital Account—Price of land sold .. 370 0 0 Examination fees and other expenses .. 55 6 9 Current income from land .. .. 1,627 5 6 Scholarships .. . . .. 733 18 5 Current income from scholarships endow- Prizes .. .. .. .. 61 12 7 ments .. . . . . .. 812 1 10 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 75 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,933 9 5 Cleaning, fuel,, light, &c. .. .. 206 9 0 Payment on account buildings .. . . 18 11 3 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Sinking fund, transferred from income .. 50 0 0 Purchases and new works .. .. 50 0 0 Sundries unclassified .. .. .. 10 0 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 11l 6 4 Overdraft at end of year .. .. 149 13 2 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 64 17 6 Interest on current account .. .. 7 14 8 Investments on mortgage .. .. 1,500 0 0 Boys' Games Fund . . .. .. 160 6 0 Boys' Cadet Fund .. .. .. 23 1 3 Coronation celebrations .. .. 10 0 0 .-,., Expenses in connection with land estate .. 206 0 10 £6,721 2 0 £6,721 2 0 C. Christchurch, Warden. W. G. Brittan, Bursar. Examined and found correct. —A. A. M. McKellar, Auditor. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin, French, English, Greek, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, arithmetic, chemistry, heat, as for Junior Scholarship Examination, together with divinity. Lowest. —Reading and Spelling — Imperial Reader 111., Southern Cross Series. Repetition — Twell's. Grammar —Public School Grammar 111., Southern Cross Series. Composition. Geography. —Zealandia 11. and 111. History—Blackwood's Stories. Divinity —Ainslie's Gospel Lessons, and the Catechism to the end of "Duty to your Neighbour" (Mrs. Francis). Arithmetic —The simple and compound rules to long division. 3. 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. In 1903 the number of scholarships held was fifty-six (foundation).

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AKAROA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 141 16 11 Expenses of management .. .. 25 13 9 Current income from reserves ■.. .. 138 2 8 Grant to North Canterbury Education Board 100 0 0 Balance at end of year — Current account .. . ■ • ■ 4 5 10 Fixed deposit . . . . .. 150 0 0 £279 19 7 £279 19 7 [H. C. Jacobson, Chairman and Secretary.

ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. S. Tennant, M.A., B.Sc. ; Miss C. E. MacGregor, M.A.; Mr. C. F. Salmond, M.A. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Current income from reserves .. .. 592 19 9 Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 239 18 5 School fees .. .. .. • • 109 4 0 Office salary .. . . .. 26 6 0 From Government — Other office expenses .. .. .. 3 115 Capitation for free places .. .. 140 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 625 0 0 Capitation for woodwork classes .. 16 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 15 0 Overdraft at end of year .. .. 194 17 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising 12 9.11 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 39 13 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 24 16 8 Grounds, &c. .. .. .. 10 2 7 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 510 6 Interest on current account .. 20 11 0 Other expenditure— Woodwork classes .. .. .. 33 8 0 Disinfecting .. .. .. 10 0 School library .. .. .. 3 0 0 Rent of cricket ground . . . . 2 0 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 4 8 3 .£1,053 1 0 £1,053 1 0 W. B. Denshire, Chairman. Charles Braddell, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English —Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition ; Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present; Higher Grade English (Dalgleish) ; English Literature (Stronach) ; Tennyson's Princess, and Shorter Poems; Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Latin —Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition ; Latin Prose from Bryan's Latin Prose Caesar, and miscellaneous; Livy, Book XXII., paragraphs 16-38; Virgil, Book II.; sight translation. French — Hogben's Meth'ode Naturelle revised; Chardenal's Second French Course; Exercises from Chardenal's Advanced French Course ; sight translation from Hachette's Reader ; Prose as for Junior University Scholarship Examination. Mathematics —As for Junior University Scholarship Examination (Brent's Euclid, Hall and Knight's Algebra and Graphic Algebra, Lock's Trigonometry, Pendlebury's Arithmetic). Geography and History—As for matriculation. Drawing —Freehand and Geometrical as for matriculation. Science —Botany as for matriculation. Lowest. —English —Nesfield's Grammar, Parts I. and 11. ; Nature in New Zealand (Drummond) ; As you like it. Latin —Principia Latina, Part 1., to end of irregular verbs. French —Methode Naturelle. Mathematics —Euclid, 1., to 32, and geometrical drawing ; algebra, to simple equations ; arithmetic, advanced Sixth Standard. Geography —Mill's Commercial Geography. History —Green's Historical Reader, Part 11., Roman History (Merivale and Pullen). Science —Botany, elementary ; physiography, advanced Sixth Standard. Book-keeping —Cash-book, day and invoice book and ledger ; commercial letter writing. Shorthand —Pitman's Teacher. Drawing —Freehand, simple studies in flowers and animals ; Geometrical, covering Euclid, I. and 111. Woodwork (Boys)—Sandford's exercises for firstand second-year students. Needlework (Girls) —First- and second-year work in plain sewing and cuttingout. 3. Scholarships. There were four Education Board scholarships held at the school and twelve free places granted by the Governors.

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TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School.—Mr. G. A. Simmers, M.A. ; Mr. T. A. H. Wing, M.A. ; Mr. A. Talbot, 8.A.; Mr. H. Amos j chool '__ Mil . s BM> M.A. ; Miss J. Mulholland, M.A. ; Miss C. M. Cruickshank, M.A., B.Sc.; Mr. W. Greene; Mr. J. Gillies; Miss Fyfe ; Miss K. O'Brien; Mr. H. Amos ; Sergeant-Major Jones. 1. Report of the Governors. Notwithsanding the numerous changes in the staff of the boys' school the work of both schools was carried out in a highly satisfactory manner. These frequent changes in the staff seem to point to the conclusion that the salaries paid to the assistant masters are not sufficient to retain their services for a reasonable length of time. The chief event of the year has been the adoption of the Department s regulations for free places in secondary schools. As a result the attendance at both schools has considerably increased : the boys' school from forty-eight to seventy-two, the girls' from fifty-six to seventy-three. The Board found it necessary at the beginning of the year to appoint an additional teacher on the boys' side to take the charge of the commercial work of the school, and at the end of the year it was decided also to appoint another teacher to the girls' side. This latter appointment will enable the regular staff to take some subiects previously taught by visiting teachers. While the Board has thus met the demand for freer access to the schools in a most liberal spirit, it is doubtful whether the extra expenditure for salaries and incidentals and the large outlay for furniture caused by the influx of new pupils will be met by the Department's grants for free places. Technical instruction continues to receive a large measure of attention in the schools. Iwentytwo girls received instruction in cookery, twenty in dressmaking, forty-five boys and sixteen girls in shorthand and book-keeping, eigthy-two boys in swimming, and forty-five boys m woodwork. The number receiving instruction in woodwork was limited by the smallness of the workshop, and many had to be excluded on that account. During the year the Board applied to the Department for a grant for a building to accommodate forty boys at one time ; and though the grant received was for a buildins to accommodate only twenty-four boys, the Board, in view of the immediate and future requirements of the school, decided to go on with the larger building which is now complete. The only change in the personnel of the Board during the year was caused by the resignation ot Mr G I Hamilton Mr Robert Gillingham being elected to fill the vacancy. At the end of the year the Board consisted of Messrs. W. B. Howell (Chairman), R. H. Bowie, J. S. Gibson, R. Gillingham, B. R. Mac Donald, and J. McCahon, the Rev. George Barclay, Dr. H. C. Barclay, and the Yen. Archdeacon arP The protective works erected in the previous year on the Board's reserves proved so effective that the Board undertook a further and larger amount of work on similar lines during the past year.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. ..2,316 17 8 ManagementCurrent income from reserves .. .. 1,618 12 8 Oihce salary.. .. <« « » Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Other office expenses .. .. 24 6 8 interest on ™""»> r 70 5 0 Other expenses of management .. 37 15 6 purchase-money .. 603 10 0 Travelling-expenses 29 0 6 ct fe o e n S Savings-bank account ." 48 3 Teachers'Jlaries and allowances .. 1,853 3 4 Refund South Canterbury Education Board 500 ExactionsReceipts from Government— jammers tees .. FitSngs for woodwork classes .. /. " Y.-A'H Capitation, . . •• •• L > " F 26 7 0 Capitation, free scholars .-. .. 175 0 0 ~ 86 4 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. • ■ 106 19 1 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and other temporary advances .. .. 14 4 Purchases and new works (tennis-court) .. 26 12 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. • • • • 88 13 6 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. • . 51 6 5 Expenses of protective works .. . • 115 9 0 Refund of fees .. • • • • 8 6 8 Apparatus, technical classes .. • • 21 411 Medical inspection . . • ■ ■ • 4 4 0 Sports Club o 0 0 Damage to crop, Milliken . • • • d 0 U Balance at end of year— Cash in hand .. • • ■ • U U » Cash in bank .. 109 7 0 Less cheques out 18 0 6 — 91 o o (76 14 8 Savings-bank account .. • • 175 7 2 Fixed deposits 1.000 0 0 On mortgage ______ ; Wμ. B. Howell, Chairman. J. H. Bamfield, Secretary and Treasurer. 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 : Latin—Cicero, De Finibus, Book III.; Virgil, Georgio 11. ; Bradley's Latin Composition ; Bryans' Latin Prose. French—Corneille's Le Cid ; Moliere's Tartuffe ; Bufion's Essai Sur le Style ; prose and translation from Macmillan's Composition, 11. ; Wellington College Grammar. German—Siepmann's Public School German Primer, to lesson 28. English—Nesfield's Grammar and Composition ; Nesfield's Historical English, to page 127 ; Shakespeare's Henry V. ; Scott's Heart of Midlothian ; Chaucer's Prologue ; Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer. Mathematics —Work for Second year University terms; Text books—Hall and Stevens's Euclid 1.-VL, Hall and Knight's Algebra, the Tutorial Algebra, Lock's Elementary Trigonometry, Loney's Trigonometry. Girls : English — Chaucer, Prologue ; Shakespeare, As you like it, Merchant of Venice ; Milton, Minor Poems ; Lamb, Selected Essays of Elia ; Wordsworth's Wanderer; Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies ; Great Authors, Part 111. ; Nesfield's Historical English Grammar. Latin—Bryans' Latin Prose Exercises ; Arnold's Latin Prose Composition ; Cicero, De Officiis, Book 111. ; Selections from Ovid ; Virgil, Mn&id V. ; Roman History. French—Macmillan's French Composition, Part 11. ; Wellington College Grammar and Exercises ; Bue's Idioms; Corneille's Le Cid; Boielle's French Poetry; Voltaire's Charles XII. Mathematics, Botany, and Mechanics, to junior University scholarship standard. Lowest. — Boys : Latin —Via Latina, to end of relative pronoun. French —Hogben's Methode Naturelle. English—Scott's Ivanhoe ; Great Authors, Part 111. ; Nesfield's Grammar and Composition, selected portions. Arithmetic —Pendlebury, to end of decimals. Algebra—Hall and Knight. Euclid— Hall and Stevens, Book 1., to proposition 24. Elementary Science —Botany, Examination of Specimens, and Notes ; Chemistry, Lecture-table experiments and notes. Geography—Longmans' Geographical Series, " The World " ; physical geography. History—Buckley's History, A.D. 1688 to 1815. Girls : English—Parables of Nature (Margaret Gatty) ; Selections from Children's Treasury of English Song ; English History, to Edward I. Geography—Pictorial Geographical Reader, Australasia and Africa. Latin—Via Latina, to beginning of verb. French —Methode Naturelle; Scenes of Child-life (Mrs. Frazer). Arithmetic —Fractions, decimals, interest, proportion. Euclid—Book 1., propositions 1-25. Algebra—End of simultaneous equations. Book-keeping. Drawing—Freehand and brush. Botany—Youmans's First Book of Botany.

4. Scholarships. Boys' School. —Seven Education Board scholarships were held at the school, nine boys were given free tuition by the Governors, and twenty-eight held Government free places. Girls' School. —Eight Education Board scholarships were held, the Governors granted free tuition to six girls, and twenty-seven held Government free places.

WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of the Governors. The secondary department of the Waimate District High School continues to be the chief object of care on the part of the Waimate High School. The Governors still keep up their payments (shown in the annual financial statement) towards the salaries of the first and second masters, exhibitions (fifteen in number) to a certain number of pupils (carefully selected by competitive examinations) who under the regulations of the Department are not entitled to " free " places, scholarships (at present six), prizes, &c. The pupils at the close of 1903 taking secondary subjects were seventy-eight. The new year, 1904, commenced with eighty-nine. In the judgment of the Governors, the secondary section of the Waimate District High School is doing excellent work. It is held in very high estimation by the Education Board's Inspectors. It is furnishing, from time to time, a good proportion of those who obtain Matriculation and qualify for the Civil Service, and, altogether, by the residents of this locality it is regarded as a very great educational boon. For a considerable number of the more advanced pupils in the surrounding ordinary primary schools it is becoming the great converging centre at which to prosecute their studies in higher English, Euclid, algebra, Latin, French, &c. The present Governors consist of Dr. Barclay, Messrs. Beckett, Coltman, Howell, Manchester Sinclair, with the Rev. Messrs. Morrison and Barclay.

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,831 4 6 Clerk's salary .. .. .. .. 12 12 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 216 810 Petty cash .. .. .. .. 10 0 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid South Canterbury Education Board .. 100 0 0 purchase-money .. .. .. 67 5 0 Physical culture .. .. .. 20 5 0 Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 18 18 0 Technical classes .. .. .. 10 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 5 5 0 Scholarships and Exhibitioners' fees .. 59 17 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 14 7 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. IS 12 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 10 0 Members' travelling-expenses .. .. 3 0 0 High School Cadets .. .. .. 16 10 0 Interest on current account, Is. ; bank charge, 10s. ; exchange, 4s. .. .. 015 0 Balance at end of year— Fixed deposit .. 407 1 1 Less overdraft .. 33 9 6 373 11 7 On mortgage .. .. .. 1,500 0 0 £2,133 16 4 £2,133 16 4 G. H. Graham, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that the payment " High School cadets, £16 10s." made for prizes to cadet corps is without authority of law. — J. K. Wabbubton, Controller and Auditor-General.

WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School.—Dr. J. R. Don, B.Sc, M.A., F.C.S., F.G.S.; Mr. W. Grave, 8.A.; Mr. T. A. Hunter, M.A.; Mr. G. A. Uttley, M.A. ; Sergeant-Major Kibblewhite. Girls , School. —MissC. Ferguson, M.A.; Miss V. M. Greig, M.A.; Miss M. 0. Cunninghame, 8.A.; Miss M. McCaw ; Sergeant-Major Kibblewhite. 1. Report of the Governors. Girls' School. —The Governors have again to thank the Minister for the liberal grant for the erection of the new Waitaki Girls' High School, and report that the building has been completed, and the school will be opened in the new building at the beginning of the new year. The contract for the erection of the school has been faithfully carried out, and the class-rooms and internal arrangements are quite up to date and are admired by all who have seen them. The laying-out of the splendid grounds is in hand, and will be completed early in the new year. Boys' School. —The class-room accommodation in the school is quite inadequate for the number of pupils who are now wishing to take advantage of secondary education in this district. In conclusion, the Governors have great pleasure in recording the continued excellent work done in both schools during the year, and it is their earnest hope that the class accommodation at the boys' school will at an early date be brought into line with that now provided at the girls' school. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 65 17 10 Office salary .. .. .. .. 75 0 0 Grant from Government for girls' new school 1,449 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 1,438 18 1 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,296 2 4 Drill-instruction .. .. .. 22 1 8 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 153 811 School appliances .. .. .. 48 11 5 School fees—Boys, £657 ss. ; girls, £211 .. 868 5 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 415 0 J. M. Brown .. .. .. .. 0 3 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 52 8 9 Contractor's deposit .. .. .. 40 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 86 0 8 Valuation for improvements .. .. 50 5 0 Purchases and new works .. .. 36 6 6 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 50 511 Interest on current account .. .. 3 4 0 Progress payments, girls' new school (including refund of deposit, £40) .. .. 1,654 18 6 Incidental expenses, £7 7s. 6d. ; Petty cash, £10; Ranger, £15; solicitor's fees, £29 17s. sd. .. .. .. 62 4 11 Valuation paid .. .. .. 50 5 0 Balance in bank at end of year, 31st December, 1903 .. .. .. .. 338 1 8 £3,923 2 1 £3,923 2 1 Donald Borrie, Chairman. A. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Hinhest-Boys: English-Taine's History of English Literature, Vol. 11. ; Macauky, Essays (selected) Lamb Essays of Elia ; George Eliot, Romola ; Stead's Penny Poets, Keats, Shelley, ColeJ LSl "'Grammar Past and Present; NichoPs English Composition and Rhetonc. Latvia Latina ■ Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose ; Virgil, Book V. ; Horace, Odes ; Livy, Book I. , fesar Roman History, Book 11. French-Hogben's Methode Naturelle ; Moliere's Le Misanthrope and Les F— SavLtes. Arithmetic-Goyen's Higher Arithmetic •Algebra-Hall an Kmght s Advanced Text-book ; Hall and Knight's Graphical Algebra. Trigonometry-Lock s, Hall and Kmght s. EuS-Hall and Stevens's, Books 1.-IV., and Book VI. Physics-Glazebrook's Heat Deschanel s Heat Chemistry-Roscoe and Hardens Inorganic Chemistry; Newth's Inorganic Chemistry. Geology SS Geikie's Field Geology. Girls : English-Nesfield's Past and Present; Morell s Literature Essay on Warren Hastings; Shakespeare's Hamlet; Chaucer's Prologue, Kng£ Tale &c. \ kats's Specimens of Early English (selections) ; and Miscellaneous Selections Lm Standard Authors. Latin-Bradley's Arnold; Bryans's Caesar (exercises m prose); Readmgs from Virgil tear, Horace, Livy, Cicero, Ovid ; Roman History (Menvale) French-Blouet s Lorn Son Part II; Saintine's Picciola, Book I. ; Chardenal's Advanced Course; Bue s Idioms Stedman's Examination-papers; Wellington College French Grammar. Arithmetic, algebra, Euclid, ; Bowen's Studies in EngHsh ; d t^:^= ; s a f rcSardis p. French—Chardenal's First Course, to exercise 80.

4. Scholarships. Three Education Board scholarships and one free place granted by the Governors were held at the boys' school, and two Education Board scholarships and one free place granted by the Governors at the girl's school.

OTAGO BOYS' AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. JJKt s£££■ Si" I iSt* a mS, M, 3. itoS, *. W. 1. T.yl«, ».E.0.b., Mi- ~ 0. Longford. 1. Report of the Governors. It is gratifying to find that the acceptance of the Government's offer to provide free places at the hieh cho£ under the regulations of last year has, notwithstanding disabilities incidental to the Nidation of such an important scheme, been fully justified by the large increase m the attendance at both schol, whicl are P now enabled to give the full benefits of a secondary education to all classes ° f th Wh"™ing satisfaction with the scheme generally, with the scale of grants under "The Serondarv Schools Act 1903," which will enable it to maintain the efficiency of the teaching staff, the Board is strongly of opinion that the age qualification should be removed, as it bears very hardly on f Treat num be g r y o f pupils, especially from the country districts, many of whom, whilst able to pass test are excluded by the age test. The Board is also of opinion that the umform examinareferred "to in section 12 of the regulations governing free places is tion test tor an 1 maiority of pupils, but that it is undesirable as tending to perpetuate th hTe woried InjuSly in the primary schools. The Board suggests that the fitneTfor continuance should be determined bythe Minister from the results of examination-papers Sbt the several principals of the schools in conjunction with examiners appointed by the Minister. The Board w 0 P u r ld bri ng under your notice the hardship which is the parents of .umls from country districts who have to travel daily by rail past district high schools on their way to P the Schools, through the refusal of the Railway Department to grant them passes and to SectMly urge that steps be taken to remove the disability. We may be permitted to point out that f restrictiol is unreasonable, inasmuch as some of the pupils in question are offered free education under the Government regulations, but are refused the privilege conceded to other children education under th {or readjustmen t of th scnoo l course with a view to suit the requirements of boys who propose to follow commercial or industrial pursuits, and also of those whr, rlpqire to proceed to the University without taking Latin. In the girls' school three classes of forty pupils each received instruction in cookery, the work being arranged so g a to make a two-years course of thoroughly practical work. In addition to cookery, a fu ly g aded course of technical training has been provided in the sewing and dressmaking classes.

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In consequence of the increased attendance it has been found absolutely necessary to appoint seven additional teachers, and it is proposed to strengthen the teaching of modern languages in the boys' school by the appointment of a qualified master to teach according to modern methods French and German. The staff of the girls' school already possesses such a teacher of French. The Board desires to take this opportunity of again calling attention to the unsuitable condition of the building occupied by the Girls' High School and boarding establishment. The main portion of this building was erected over forty years ago for a boys' high school and Rector's residence ; and the internal arrangements of class-rooms and boardinghouse alike are incapable of being adapted to the altered requirements. The Board feels it therefore to be its duty to request the Minister to make provision for erecting new school buildings. Although the Board's income is sufficient to cover its working-expenses, it has no money available for building purposes. The Hon/the Minister of Justice recently went over the building and knows its condition.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d Balance at beginning of year . . .. 1,330 16 4 Office salaries .. .. .. 165 0 0 Price of reserves sold .. .. .. 44 13 0 Office rent .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 2,127 5 7 Printing and stationery .. .. 16 3 9 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Teachers' salaries and alowances — purchase-money 27 311 Boys .. .. .. .. 2,703 9 8 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 323 11 4 Girls .. .. .. .. 1,558 110 School fees (including £625 4s. sd. paid by Boarding-school account — Government for free pupils)— Boys .. .. .. .. 43 7 6 Boys .. .. .. ■■ 1,789 18 1 Girls .. .. .. .. 328 2 8 Girls .. .. • ■ ■ • 1,026 18 7 Stamps, telegrams, and telephone . . 24 17 6 Boarding-school fees (girls) . . .. 364 1 2 Sundries and incidentals .. .. 55 10 4 Interest on fixed deposit (Prize Fund) .. 113 6 Prizes ' .. .. . . . . 318 4 Grant from Treasury for technical classes .. 11 16 10 Printing, stationery, and advertising schools 156 14 2 Sale proceeds, cooking classes .. .. 517 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, including wages of two janitors (£233 14s. Bd.) .. 333 12 1 Expenditure on laboratories .. .. 57 11 1 Water rates .. .. .. 83 10 0 Repairs .. .. . . .. 268 13 9 Insurance .. .. . . .. 52 19 5 Interest on debentures .. . . 150 15 0 Furnishing .. .. .. .. 198 19 4 Expended on cookery classes . . .. 58 5 6 Travelling-expenses .. ■ . . .. 23 7 9 Expenses of sales, management, &c. .. 31 6 8 Amount transferred to Sinking Fund .. 17 10 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 684 9 0 £7,053 15 4 £7,053 15 4 J. R. Sinclair, Chairman. C. Macandrew, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct, except that the payment of £16 7s. lid. for expenses of a visit to Wellington of a member and the secretary is without the authority of law, and is therefore disallowed.— J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : English —Chaucer, Prologue ; Tennyson, Selections ; Lamb, select essay ; Shakespeare, Macbeth ; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11. ; Historical English Grammar, Composition, &c. Latin —Livy, Book XXI. ; Horace, Satires ; Virgil, iEneid, Book VI. ; Sight translation from various authors ; Prose composition ; Roman 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. Girls : English —Chaucer, The Nonne Preestes Tale ; Shakespeare, As you like it; Spenser, Faerie Queen (part) ; Milton's L'Allegro and other Poems ; Historical English Grammar ; Composition, &c. ; Literature of the Victorian Period. Latin — Livy, Book XXII., 23 chapters ; Horace, Odes, Book 11. ; Book 111., 12 odes ; Middleton's Latin Verse ; Composition, grammar, &c. ; Roman History. French —Chardenal's Advanced Exercises ; Wellington College Reader ; Boiielle, Poetry ; Barlet and Mason, Higher French Reader ; Grammar, composition, &c. ; Berthon, Specimens of Modern French Verse. German —Otto's German Grammar ; Macmillan, Part 11. ; Schiller, Wilhelm Tell; Buchheim, Composition. Mathematics —Arithmetic, The whole subject. Algebra —To permutations and combinations, inclusive. Geometry—Euclid, Books 1., 11., 111., IV., VI. Trigonometry —Lock's Trigonometry, to solution of triangles. Lowest. — Boys : English —Ship Literary Reader, No, 6 ; grammar and composition. English History —1714-1820. Geography —Asia and New Zealand. Latin —Welch and Duffield's Accidence. French —Chardenal's First French Course ; Grammar and composition, to page 25. Mathematics— Arithmetic (whole subject) ; Algebra, to division; Geometry —Book I. to proposition 10, Baker and Bourne. Science —Elementary heat and sound, elementary chemistry. Book-keeping —Thornton's Easy Exercises. Girls : English —Reader, Longmans' New Zealand, No. 6 ; Grammar and Composition, Meiklejohn's to page 56 ; Geography, New Zealand ; History. French —Chardenal, Part 1., to exercise 50. Mathematics. —Arithmetic, Reduction, practice, fractions, decimals. Science—Elementary lessons in science.

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4. Scholarships. Boys' School. —There were twenty-eight Education Board scholarships held at the school, twentyone free places granted by the Governors, and 153 Government free places. Girls' School. —The number of Education Board scholarships was fifteen, free places granted by the Governors twenty-nine, and 114 Government free places.

SOUTHLAND HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. H. L. Fowler, M.A.; Mr. F. W. Hilgendorf, M.A., B.Sc.; Mr. J. McKinnon; Mr. J. G. Mackay ; Miss E. Stevenson, M.A.; Miss J. R. Barr, M.A.; Miss B. Ayton, A.A.; Mr. J. Hanna. 1. Report of the Governors. At the commencement of the year the Governors comprised Messrs. J. L. McG. Watson and A. F. Hawke, appointed by His Excellency the Governor ; Messrs. W. Macalister and J. C. Thomson, elected by the' Southland Board of Education; and Mr. G. Froggatt, Mayor of Invercargill. Mr. Macalister was re-elected Chairman. Owing to the large increase of pupils, which rose from 112 in December, 1902, to 188 in January, 1903, it was necessary to increase the school accommodation, as the school buildings were already taxed to the utmost. The only course open was to utilise a large room in the Rector's residence, which was very inconvenient, and interfered very considerably with the comfort and ease in the changing of the classes for the different lessons. It involved also additional work on the part of the teachers. This difficulty has since seriously increased with the additional number of pupils which are now in attendance. The use of a hall at a little distance from the school was secured, as the pupils now attending could not possibly be taught in the school buildings. The arrangement is exceedingly inconvenient, and it is absolutely indispensable that the school accommodation be extended. The schools were separated at the end of the year, the Rector having charge of the boys only, and a Lady Principal being appointed for the girls' school. At the beginning of the year 1903 Miss Brown resigned, her place being filled by Miss J. R. Barr, M.A. (N.Z.). It was also found necessary to appoint another assistant mistress, and in March Miss B. Ayton, A.A. (Tasmania), received the appointment. At the end of the year Mr. Fowler resigned the rectorship ; Mr. T. D. Pearce, M.A., was appointed Rector of the Boys' School. Mr. J. McKinnon was appointed assistant master of the boys' side in March. The cadet corps is still maintaining the state of efficiency that has characterized it for the past two or three years. The Board, in conjunction with the Southland Board of Education and the Southland Farmers' Union, inaugurated for last winter a series of lectures on agricultural science ; Mr. Hilgendorf delivered the lectures on agricultural chemistry, which were much appreciated. The gymnasium erected by the Board a year or two since is supplying a felt need, and is being satisfactorily availed of by all the schools for which it was specially built and also by the citizens of Invercargill.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 464 8 0 Office salary .. .. ..75 0 0 Endowments— Other office expenses .. .. .. 9 5 3 Current income from reserves .. .. 774 3 4 Other expenses of management .. .. 20 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 193 17 9 Teachers' salaries and allowances . . 1,480 14 9 School fees .. .. ■ • • • 1,036 4 3 Instructor, gymnasium school, salary .. 150 0 0 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 14 0 Athletics .. .. .. .. 910 6 Interest on current account .. .. 12 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 98 13 10 Rent? from freeholds .. .. •• 55 0 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 151 111 Donations for prizes .. . • • ■ 6 10 Site and buildings, from current revenue — Subsidies in aid of gymnasium .. .. 157 10 0 Purchases and new works .. .. 190 10 8 Technical school and fees .. .. 28 10 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 98 3 7 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 33 5 2 Interest on current account .. .. 2 4 0 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. 23 16 2 Chemicals and appliances .. .. 18 0 9 Technical classes ffl ■ • ■ • • • 59 14 8 Furniture and fittings] .. .. .. 95 6 9 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 213 10 11 £2,728 18 11 £2,728 18 11 W. Macalister, Chairman. Charles Rout, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that the expenditure " Other expenses of management, £20 " is the allowance which has been made to two members of the Board for their expenses of visiting Wellington, but for which there is no authority of law.— J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. WOEK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest.—Boys : English—Shakespeare's Henry IV., Part I. ; Hales's Longer English Poems ; Bain's Rhetoric and Composition ; English Lessons for English People ; historical grammar ; essays. Latin—Tacitus, Agricola ; Horace, Selections ; Cicero, In Catilinam ; unseen translations ; prose composition. French —Gautier's Scenes of Travel; Macmillan's Second Reader ; Brachet's Grammar, Blouet's Composition. Mathematics—Arithmetic, the subject; algebra, to the binomial theorem ; Euclid, Books 1.-IV., with exercises ; trigonometry, to solution of triangles. Science—Heat and chemistry, to junior scholarship standard. Girls : English—Tennyson's Coming of Arthur and Passing of Arthur ; Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice ; Skeat's Specimens of English Prose ; Nesfield's English Grammar and Composition ; composition, parsing, analysis, &c. ; a sketch of English literature from 1603 to 1800. Latin —Via Latina ; Csesar, Gallic War, IV. ; Ovid, selections. French —Hogben's Methode Naturelle. Mathematics —Arithmetic, the subject; algebra, to quadratic equations ; Euclid, Books I. and 11. Science —Botany and physiology as for matriculation. Lowest.—Boys : English—Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel; parsing, analysis, composition, correction of sentences. Latin—Via Latina, to end of verbs ; Gradatim. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle. Mathematics —Arithmetic, fractions, decimals, practice, time-work, irregular distribution, equations ; Algebra, up to equations ; Euclid, Book 1., with deductions. Science—General course! History —To end of Tudor period. Geography—Africa and Europe, political and commercial; physical; mapping. Shorthand —Pitman's Teacher. Bookkeeping—Thornton's Primer. Commercial —Mental arithmetic; long tots; Letter-writing, bills, &c. Girls: English (A)—Downie's Extracts from Modern Authors ; Macmillan's Advanced Reader ; selections. English (B) —Nature in New Zealand, edited by Captain Hutton ; Nesfield's English Grammar and Composition; composition, parsing, analysis, &c. ; a sketch of English literature to 1660. Latin—Via Latina, to the end of passive verbs ; Gradatim. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle, first 60 lessons. Mathematics—Arithmetic, to interest; algebra, to factors ; Euclid, Book I. to proposition 34. Science—Physiology and botany, preparatory. All Classes, Girls.— Drawing—Junior freehand ; senior freehand and perspective. Needlework, Dress-cutting, and Cooking. 4. SCHOLARSHIPS. The number of Education Board scholarships held at the school was eighteen, Government free places ninety-four, and free places granted by the Governors, seventeen.

APPENDIX. SCHEME FOR THE CONTROL OF PALMERSTON NORTH HIGH SCHOOL (Established 1904, under Section 6 of " The Secondary Schools Act, 1903 "). In accordance with the provisions of " The Secondary Schools Act, 1903 " (hereinafter called " the Act"), and with the powers thereunder, the following shall be the scheme for the Palmerston North High School (hereinafter called " the school "), which is established under section 6 of the Act. 1. The school shall be controlled by a Board of Governors under the name of " The Board of Governors of the Palmerston North High School " (hereinafter called " the Board "). The Board shall be a body corporate, shall have a perpetual succession and a common seal, and may acquire and hold lands, and sue and be sued, and may do and suffer all such things as corporate bodies may do and suffer. 2. There shall be nine Governors, of whom a group of three shall be appointed by His Excellency the Governor, a group of three by the Wanganui Education Board, and a group of three shall be elected by the parents of the pupils. 3. The Governors appointed by the Wanganui Education Board shall be appointed by a resolution of such Board, and the first appointment shall be made not later than thirty days after the first publication of this scheme in the New Zealand Gazette. 4. In regard to the election of Governors by the parents of the pupils the following provisions shall apply :— (1.) The first election shall be held on a date to be appointed by the Minister, and thereafter every such election shall be held on a date to be fixed by the Board in accordance with this scheme. (2.) The Returning Officer shall, in the case of the first election, be a person appointed by the Minister, but thereafter the Secretary to the Board of Governors shall be the Returning Officer. (3.) For the purposes of the election of Governors by the parents of the pupils the Returning Officer shall prepare a roll, and shall enter therein the name, occupation, and address of every person qualified to be enrolled as a parent of a pupil of the school. " Parent " means the father, if he be living, or, if not, the mother, or, if neither the father nor the mother be living, the guardian, of a pupil of the school. A " pupil of the school " means, in the case of the first election, a pupil as referred to in subsection (1) of section 6 of the Act, and thereafter a pupil whose name is on the school roll, and who has been in actual attendance at the school at any time within the three months immediately preceding the closing of the roll. The roll shall be closed at 5 o'clock on the fourteenth day next before the day on which any election is to be held, and shall continue to be closed until the election is completed. (4.) The Returning Officer shall, by advertisement in a newspaper circulating in the district, publicly notify, not less than fourteen days before each election— (a.) The day and hour for the closing of the election ; (6.) The total number of candidates to be elected ; (c.) The day and hour for the closing of nominations. 5—E. 12.

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(5.) Every candidate shall be nominated in writing by one or more parents entitled to vote for his election. Each such parent may nominate any number of candidates not exceeding the number to be elected. (6.) Every nomination-paper shall be in the form or to the effect following : — I, [Name and address], being a parent duly entered on the roll, do hereby nominate [Name and address] as a candidate for election to the Board of Governors of the Palmerston North High School at the election to be held on the day of Dated this day of Candidate's Consent, to be subscribed at Foot of Nomination-paper. I hereby consent to my nomination. [Signature of candidate nominated.] (7.) If the nomination-paper does not bear the written consent of the candidate nominated such consent may be given by him to the Returning Officer before the nominations are closed, and every nomination-paper shall be void in so far as concerns any candidate whose consent is not duly given as aforesaid. (8.) Nominations shall close at noon on the tenth day before the day of the election. (9.) Forthwith after the nominations are closed the Returning Officer shall prepare and post to each elector at his address as appearing on the roll a printed voting-paper containing in alphabetical order of surnames a list of all the duly nominated candidates for whom such parent is entitled to vote ; and such voting-paper shall be in the form or to the effect following : — Voting-paper for use at Election to be held on the day of , 19 , of Governor of the Palmerston North High School. Candidates. [Set out in alphabetical order of surnames the full name of every duly nominated candidate.] Directions. The number of candidates to be elected is [Specify the number]. The voter may draw a line through the name of every candidate for whom he does not intend to vote ; and the number of candidates whose names are left uncancelled must not exceed the total number of candidates for whom the voter is entitled to vote. This voting-paper must be signed by the voter and enclosed in a sealed envelope, and if. posted to the Returning Officer must be posted on or before the day of election, or not later than 5 o'clock in the afternoon of that day. The vote of [Name of voter] is hereby recorded as above, this day of 19 . [Signature of voter.] (10.) The voting-paper if delivered to the Returning Officer must be delivered in a sealed envelope before the day of election, or not later than 5 o'clock of the afternoon of that day, and if posted to him must be posted in a sealed envelope on or before that day. (11.) The poll shall close at 5 o'clock on the afternoon of the day of election ; but all votingpapers shall be included and counted which are received by the Returning Officer in due course of post before the close of the sixth day after the day of the election. (12.) A voting-paper shall be informal in any of the following cases, that is to say, — (a.) If it is not duly signed by the parent; or (b.) If the candidates whose names are left uncancelled exceed in number the total number of candidates for whom the parent is entitled to vote ; or (c.) If, being delivered to the Returning Officer, the sealed envelope containing the voting-paper is not delivered at his office before the close of the poll; or (d.) If, having been forwarded by post, the sealed envelope containing the votingpaper is not received at the office of the Returning Officer before the seventh day after the day of election, or if, from the post-mark on the envelope or otherwise, the Returning Officer is satisfied that it was not posted until after the day of, the election. (13.) On the seventh day after the day of the election the Returning Officer shall open and examine all voting-papers duly delivered to him or received by him through the post as aforesaid, and, after rejecting all informal voting-papers, shall ascertain the candidates (not exceeding the total number to be elected) who have received the greatest number of votes of such parents, and shall declare such candidates to be elected. (14.) If, by reason of an equality of votes given for two or more candidates, the election is not complete, the Returning Officer shall decide by lot, in the presence of the Chairman of the Board, which candidate or candidates shall be elected, and thereby conclude the election. (15.) Forthwith after the completion of the election the Returning Officer shall notify to the Board and to the Minister the names of the persons elected. (16.) If any dispute or question shall arise touching the regularity of any election, such dispute or question shall be determined by a Stipendiary Magistrate in manner provided by " The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876," all the provisions of which shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in so far as the same are applicable. 5. The Governors appointed or elected in the year 1904 shall take office immediately on their appointment. 6. One Governor out of each group shall retire on the 31st December in each year, beginning with the year 1904. 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shall retire, but, with these exceptions, the ordinary term of office of each Governor shall be three years, or until the appointment or election of his successor. Retiring Governors shall be eligible for reappointment. 7. (1.) If any Governor — (a.) Dies, or, by letter to the Board of Governors, resigns his seat; or (b.) Becomes bankrupt or of unsound mind ; or (c.) Fails, without leave of absence previously granted, to attend at three consecutive ordinary meetings of the Governors — he shall thereupon cease to be a Governor, and the vacancy thereby occurring shall be deemed to be a casual vacancy. . . . (2.) Every casual vacancy shall be filled up in the same manner and by the same appointing authority as in the case of the vacating Governor : Provided that the member appointed shall hold office only for the residue of the term of the vacating member. (3.) Whenever a casual vacancy occurs it shall be the duty of the Board forthwith to report the fact to the Minister of Education if the vacancy is to be filled by the Governor, or to the Secretary to the Wanganui Education Board if the vacancy is to be filled by such Board. 8. (1.) The appointment of a Governor to fill up a vacancy caused by the expiry of the ordinary term of office shall be made in the first week of the month of December next preceding such expiry, or as soon thereafter as may be convenient, but shall not take effect until such expiry. (2.) The appointment of a Governor to fill up a casual vacancy shall be made not later than sixty days after the vacancy occurs. " 9. The Board shall hold an annual meeting in the month of February or March m each year, at such time and place as the Board shall direct. 10. At its first meeting, and from time to time thereafter as may be necessary, the Board shall appoint a Secretary, and shall appoint him or some other person with authority to receive and to pay moneys on its account. The Board shall in each case forthwith inform the Minister of such appointment. 11. (1.) The Board shall hold its first meeting at such time-and place as the Minister shall appoint. (2.) At such meeting, and thereafter at the annual meeting, and at such other times as may be necessary, the Board shall elect a Chairman. (3.) During the first election of Chairman a person appointed by the Minister shall preside, and during' every subsequent election of Chairman the Secretary to the Board of Governors shall preside. The person presiding shall have no vote ; ties shall be decided by lot. (4.) The Chairman's ordinary term of office shall be one year, and he shall be eligible for re-election. (5.) If the Chairman shall from any cause cease to be a member of the Board.or resign the office of Chairman, the Board shall as soon thereafter as conveniently may be elect another member of the Board to be Chairman in his stead, who shall hold office only until the next annual election of a Chairman as hereinbefore provided. 12. At all meetings of the Board the Chairman, or m his absence such member of the Board as tne majority of the members assembled shall choose, shall preside, and such Chairman or presiding member shall have a deliberative vote, and in all cases of equality of votes shall also have a casting vote. At all meetings of the Board a majority of all the Governors then in office shall constitute a quorum. 13 Subject to the provisions of this scheme, there shall be vested in the Board the whole control and management of the Palmerston North High School, and also the entire superintendence over all the affairs, concerns, and property thereof, with full power to appoint and dismiss all masters, teachers, lecturers, examiners, and other necessary officers and servants ; and in all cases unprovided for by the Act and 'the regulations thereunder, or by this scheme, it shall be lawful for the Board to act in such manner as shall appear to it best calculated to further the purposes intended to be served by the establishment of such school; and the Board shall, subject to the Act and the regulations thereunder, and to this scheme, have full power from time to time to make, alter, and rescind by-laws and regulations for defining the course of study and education in the school, and also for regulating the discipline and examination of the same, the conditions upon which the scholars shall be admitted, and the fees to be paid in respect of such admission, and, in general, touching all other matters, purposes, and things regarding the school. 14. (1.) The curriculum shall be framed so as to provide suitable secondary education tor pupils intended for professional, agricultural, commercial, technical, and domestic occupations, and may include, subject to clause 15 hereof, with the sanction of the Board, any or all of the subjects named in the regulations under the Act, and such other subjects as the Minister may from time to time approve. (2.) The programme of each pupil shall be determined by the headmaster of the school after consultation with the parents or guardian of the pupil; but no pupil shall be compelled to take Latin or to take more than one language besides English. (3.) The net fees to be charged to those who are not holders of scholarships or free places shall be £10 per annum. (4.) The school year shall consist of three terms of about thirteen weeks each. (5.) The headmaster shall examine the school at the end of each term, provided that it shall not be necessary for him to examine the school in any term in which it is examined by some other person appointed by the Minister or the Board. 15. Subject to the general direction of the Governors — (1.) The headmaster shall have control of the school buildings and premises and of the apparatus and furniture thereof. (2.) He shall have the power to recommend the appointment or dismissal of assistant teachers or of other officers of the school, and to allot their several duties ; and no assistant teacher or other officer, of the school shall be appointed until the headmaster has been consulted. (3.) He shall have the power in case of grave neglect of duty or of gross misbehaviour to suspend any assistant teacher or other officer, but shall forthwith report his action to the Chairman, who shall thereupon confirm or overrule his action until the next meeting of the Board, when the matter may be determined; but the action of the headmaster shall hold good until the Chairman or the Board has determined the matter.

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(4.) He shall be supreme over the discipline, and may suspend any pupil, reporting his action to the Board at their next meeting, and the action of the headmaster shall hold good until the Board has come to some determination in regard to the matter. He shall not expel any pupil without the sanction of the Board. (5.) He shall regulate all text-books, methods, and organization in accordance with clause--14 hereof, and, subject to the same clause and to the regulations under the Act, shall determine the course of study for each pupil. No prize shall be awarded without his approval. 16. The Board may license hostels or boardinghouses for the accommodation of pupils that have to live away from home, and may place such hostels or boardinghouses under the charge of teachers of the school or other suitable persons, and may provide for the inspection of such hostels or boardinghouses by any person appointed by the Board. 17. The Board may appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and define the duties attached to such positions. Subject to the provisions of this scheme, the Board shall make, and may from time to time revoke, vary, and make fresh regulations for the conduct of business at its meetings, for determining how meetings shall be convened, and for such other like matters as may be requisite for the conduct of the business of the Board. 18. Minutes of the proceedings of the Board shall be regularly entered in a proper book to be kept for that purpose, and at every meeting of the Board the minutes of the previous meeting shall be read over and signed by the Chairman of the meeting at which the same shall be read, and the minutes when so signed shall be held to be a true statement and record of the proceedings of the Board for all purposes whatever. 19. The Board shall keep full and accurate accounts of all its receipts, disbursements, assets, liabilities, and engagements, and shall, on or before the 31st day of January of each year, cause the same to be audited by such person as His Excellency the Governor appoints ; and copies of such accounts, when audited, shall be forwarded to the Minister of Education, together with a report of the proceedings of the Board during the previous year. 20. All things required by the Act or this scheme to be done by the Board shall be done in accordance with and in pursuance of a resolution passed at a meeting of the Board, and no act of the Board shall be invalid or liable to be questioned on the ground that one or more than one of the members thereof was or were incapacitated, or had ceased to hold office, or on the ground that the seat of any member was vacant. 21. The rents, profits, and income of all real and personal estate which may be vested in the Board, or granted or acquired as a site or sites or otherwise for the benefit of the school, or given, devised, or bequeathed to the Board for the benefit of the school without any trusts or powers of a different nature being expressed in the instrument so giving, devising, or bequeathing to the Board, and all reserves of land that may be hereafter made for the benefit of the school, shall be held and dealt with by the Board under and subject to the provisions of " The High School Reserves Act, 1880." 22. The rents, profits, and annual income of all real and personal estate that may be vested in the Board, together with all funds which may from time to time be derived from fees or payments made in respect of pupils attending the school, together with any annual or other allowance that may be made by the General Assembly or the Government of New Zealand, shall be applied by the Board for the maintenance of the school, and the payment of the salaries and expenses connected therewith, and for prizes, exhibitions, and scholarships for the pupils therein : Provided that the Board shall have power to set apart, if it see fit, out of the said rents, profits, and annual income such part as it considers advisable, either as an addition to the capital fund, which shall then be invested in the manner hereinafter mentioned and dealt with as part of such capital fund, or as reserve fund to meet extraordinary expenses, which shall be invested and dealt with in such manner as the Board directs. 23. With respect to any moneys bequeathed or given to the Board for the school, and with respect also to all rent, profit, and annual income set apart under the preceding section, the Board shall have power to invest the same in the purchase or upon first mortgages of freehold land in New Zealand, or upon the stocks, bonds, bills, or debentures of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, or issued by any local authority therein under any Act of the General Assembly, and may from time to time vary such investments. 24. The Board may, out of such moneys as may come into its hands by virtue of this Act or otherwise for the benefit of the school, expend any sum or sums in purchasing land and erecting and maintaining suitable buildings and premises thereon for use as school buildings, and may, subject to the approval of the Minister, expend any sum or sums in purchasing land and erecting and maintaining suitable buildings thereon for use as boardinghouses, or residences for the masters, teachers, or other officers employed in connection with the school 25. (1.) The school shall be open at all times to inspection by the Inspector-General of Schools, and by any other person directed by the Minister to inspect the same. (2.) Such inspection may include examination of the pupils in the subjects of instruction taught in the school. Approved. R. J. SEDDON, Minister of Education.

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