EDUCATION: SECONDARY EDUCATION. [In continuation of E.-12, 1904.]

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1905 Session I, E-12

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1905. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: SECONDARY EDUCATION. [In continuation of E.-12, 1904.]

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

1. EXTRACT FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION. The number of endowed secondary schools giving free tuition to all qualified pupils at the end of 1904 was twenty, and the number of pupils holding free places was 1,595. There were besides about 387 holders of scholarships and exhibitions given by these schools, or by Boards of Education, or by the four endowed secondary schools not coming under the conditions. Further, there were 2,291 qualified pupils receiving secondary education in the secondary classes of the district high schools, which numbered fifty-two. On the whole, therefore, the effect of recent legislation and the regulations thereunder has been to afford free secondary education for some 4,273 children from the primary schools, whereas at the end of the year 1901 the number was about 963. Scholarships. The following table shows the number of Education Board scholarships held in December, 1904, with their tenure and annual value. The total expenditure of the Boards under this head amounted to £8,260 ls. 9d. The total paid to the Boards for scholarship purposes by the Department was £8,034 lis.

Number and Value of Education Board Scholarships.

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Number Period Boards' Education Districts. h S} d ln Boys. Girls. of Expenditure «&• Tenure. on bcholgrthip. . I Annual Value, &c. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington 85 11 25 38 66 3 14 15 I 19 8 11 23 Years. 3 Varies Varies 2 £ s. d. 1,841 7 11 283 2 0 757 13 3 910 12 0 10 at £30; 22 at £25 ; 17 at £20; 36 at £15 6 at £35; 1 at £22 10s.; 4 at £10 14 at £40; 11 at £15. 8 at £35 ; 2 at £18 18s.; 1 at £17; 27 at 2 at £40 ; 4 at £30 4s. ; 7 at £30 ■ 1 at £22 10s.; 1 at £12 ; 5 at £10 4s.; 1 at £10 ; 4 at £8 8s.; 5 at £2 2s 3 at £35 ; 5 at £10. 3 at £50 10s.; 3 at £40; 2 at £25 ; 9 at £1 5s. 1 at £26 ; 2 at £25 ; 1 at £8. 2 at £24 ; 1 at £12; 2 at £4. 22 at £40; 14 at £20. 9 at £22 10s.; 1 at £13 10s.; 14 at £7 10s 5 at £40; 1 at £35 ; 5 at £30 ; 2 at £25 • 14 at £20 ; 8 at £15 ; 5 at £12 10s.; 11 at £7 10s. 15 at £35; 5 at £15. Hawke's Bay 80 14 16 2 498 1 2 Marlborough Nelson 8 17 2 10 I 6 7 2 2 155 0 0 377 5 0 Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago 4 5 30 24 51 1 3 17 16 33 3 2 19 8 18 Varies 2 2 2 Varies 64 10 0 69 0 0 1,236 10 6 836 19 10 1,114 8 4 Southland 20 16 4 2 615 11 9 Totals, 1904.. Totals, 1903.. 354 350 210 203 144 147 8,260 1 9 8,550 4 0

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District High Schools. 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 £10,130 19s. 2d., and, in addition, the claims for the last quarter had to be met. The amount expended by Boards was £12,257 lis. 2d.

Staff, Salaries, Attendance, and Payments at District High Schools.

Secondary Schools. 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 the Appendix. Summary of the Accounts of Income and Expenditure for 1904, furnished by the Governing Bodies of Secondary Schools.

Receipts. £ s. d. Credit balances on lst January, 1904 .. 31,572 310 Endowment reserves sold and mortgage moneys repaid .. .. .. 3,993 6 3 Rents of reserves .. .. .. 23,381 15 4 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 3,959 810 Reserves Commissioners' payments .. 4,710 13 11 Government payments, — For teohnioal instruction .. .. 449 7 7 For free plaoes .. .. .. 10,005 15 8 School fees (tuition) .. .. .. 27,463 12 8 Boarding-school fees .. .. .. 7,80117 10 Books, &c, sold, and refunds .. .. 247 13 6 Sundries not classified .. .. 5,706 7 5 Debit balances, 31st December, 1904 .. 2,153 6 8

Expenditure. £ s. d. Liabilities on lst January, 1904 .. 1, 108 910 Expenses of management .. .. 2,987 7 0 School salaries .. .. .. 44,485 18 6 Boarding-school accounts .. .. 7,056 18 6 Examination expenses.. .. .. 396 15 0 Scholarships and prizes .. .. 2,200 12 7 Printing, stationery, fuel, light, &c. .. 3,774 7 1 Buildings, furniture, insurance, rent, and rates .. .. .. •• 17,050 15 10 Expenditure on endowments .. .. 5,283 11 0 Interest 896 17 4 Sundries not classified.. .. .. 2,767 7 5 Credit balances, 31st December, 1904 .. 33,486 9 5

£121,445 9 6 £121,445 9 6 The income of these secondary schools for 1904 from school fees, not including fees for £28,595 ; from rents and interest, about £27,337 ; from by the School Commissioners, about £4,711 ; and from fees and capitation paid by Government, about £9,323.* The principal item of expenditure was for salaries—about £43,317. As the Mosely Commission reported, in regard to the secondary schools of the United States, that, though a marvellous amount of money is being spent on buildings and equipment, yet adequate salaries are not being paid to those who are giving the instruction, it may be of interest to make a comparison between the salaries paid in the two countries. In Indiana and New York States the average salary ot a high-school teacher is £145; in New Zealand, principals—men, £452 ; women, £335; assistants—men, £226; women, £137. In twenty-eight large cities of the Union, where the schools are also very large, the salaries of principals range from £350 to £800. In the four chief towns in this colony, from £500 to £750 for men, and £375 to £450 for women. the total number of pupils on the rolls in the last term or quarter of the year was 2,443 boys and 1,595 boys and 1,457 girls at the end of 1903.

* Since this was in type it has been found that £1,132, received from Government for capitation, had been wrongly entered by the Auckland Grammar School Board as fees. The correct figures are given in the above table.

Education District. o O BQ Number of Pupils. Annual Rate of Salary. M. P. Total. Amount paid by Government to Education Boards during the Year. Grants in Aid. Total. Capitation. t Auckland ?aranaki .. Wellington . ■ lawke's Bay kelson 9 1 5 2 4 8 1 1 10 3 10 3 16 4 10 8 7 4 2 5 15 8 81 7 £ a. d. 1,594 3 4 360 0 0 1,003 10 10 I 648 17 9 1,130 0 0 635 0 0 338 6 8 360 0 0 1,902 0 0 795 15 0 1,730 16 4 535 0 0 193 85 157 55 83 44 18 12 299 84 176 51 192 26 84 71 100 55 17 21 237 65 181 74 385* 61* 241f 126{ 183J 99 35 33 536' 149 357 125 £ s. d. 1,375 5 0 297 5 0 1,261 0 0 583 10 0 613 11 5 431 12 6 227 0 0 138 10 0 1,245 0 0 705 15 0 1,301 15 0 495 0 0 £ s. d. 240 0 0 30 0 0 172 10 0 60 0 0 90 15 3 90 0 0 30 0 0 22 10 0 262 10 0 90 0 0 277 10 0 90 0 0 £ s. d. 1,615 5 0 327 5 0 1,433 10 0 643 10 0 704 6 8 521 12 6 257 0 0 161 0 0 1,507 10 0 795 15 0 1,579 5 0 585 0 0 Jrey (Vestland Jorth Canterbury South Canterbury )tago Southland .. Totals for 1904 1903 52 50 117 11,033 9 11 1,207 ! 1,082 1,123 1,014 2,330 2,096 8,675 3 11 7,307 2 1 1,455 15 3 1,238 15 3 10,130 19 2 8,545 17 4 * Including one boy who had ni i Including two girls who had not i )t pass* lassert ! id Standard VI. Standard VI. tl icluding 28 boys and four girls who had not passed Standard VI.

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

Sohools. Staff. § Attendance for Last Term or ® Quarter of 1903. g o 05 « . ! . „ m o o k ™ rt I ri ™ S «= a e « ® Sβ O i O fe Cβ -£75 S'Q J^ |S |! US SI || I Annual Kai For Ordinary Day-school Course. * tes of Fees. Salaries at Ki End of ites paid at STear. For Board, exclusive of Day-school Tuition. Kegnlar Staff. Part-time Teachers. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 16... Is , --- ]b. 5 \g- 7 (6... \g... 6... 16 10 138 69| 16 10 26 16 18 5 116 50 14 7 21 28 1 35 15 264 131i 30 18 47 44 I 33 ) ) 13} I 252 1 1 1 124f I 28 J 16 1 1 44 1 f 39 J 8 8 0 .. 370 0 0 Whangarei High School 8 5 5 Auckland Grammar 1 School ) j 17 ■■{V°s °o) ■ ; Mio o o 60 0 0 Thames High School 3 1 8 8 0 .. '700. 0 0 New Plymouth High \, School / 6 6 0 .. "815 0 0 66 10 0 Wanganui Girls' College : Wanganui Collegiate ) School Palmerston North High) Sohool ' I 10 13 8 48 39 75 116 23 18 154 175 141 171 62 132 62 I X 8 1 8 Of 40 ° ° n ' 460 ° ° 132 J X | ° q 1 45 0 0 «2,960 0 0 389 2 0 2 6 (6 1 \g---61 43 26 15 1 89| 58j 81) 54} .. 10 0 0 .. ! i>1.095 0 0 85 0 0 Wellington College (Boys') 13 4 69 204 16 293 266 80 I 10 12 o} 42 ° ° 3 ' 105 ° ° f 13 4 0 1 , , 1K „ n •• 110 12 Of •■ 1,41S ° ° 25 10 4 0 40 0 0 "1,169 0 0 80 60 0 0 Wellington Girls' High ) School Napier Boys' High School Napier Girls' High School 1) 6 48 120 9 183; i 165 135 0 0 6 1 11 50 53 114 104 25 35 0 0 f*26 0 0 { and fees. 6 11 52 35 5 103 99 16 10 4 0 43 3 0 '1,010 0 0 16 Marlborough High School ■2 (6... \g---21 33 29 18 3 1 53 52 IS} 8 11 0 .. 760 0 0 30 0 0 Nelson College (Boys') .. 8 07 lOOi j 15 190i ■ 181 77 { 1 8 X 8 ol 40 ° ° h1 ' 905 ° ° 33 -f 1 Q X a n \ 40 ° ° J 1,010 0 0 f 7 10 01 e 270 n n ■■ 1 io io of •• 3 ' 2m ° ° ••{Jij 0°} - *.«« » o 80JI 11 0 6 ?5 ° ° 1 "3,240 0 0 1 7 17 6 4J U U ' 7T 90 0 0 Nelson Girls' College .. 9 60| 77| 12 158 144 33 40 0 0 8 Christehurch Boys'High ) School Christshurch Girls'High) School } 11 3 97 110 9 219 210 (355 0 0 1 a.nd fees. 9 1 74 69 1 145 135 160 0 0 Christ's College Gram- ) mar School 12 29 94 901 14 227 211 234 2 6 Rangiora High School .. Ashburton High School.. (6.1 Iff---l<7... 30 22 34 34 58 9 13 14 19 35 1 40 36 48 53 93 I 39 l J 34} I 45) I 50} 85 .. 9 9 0 .. »614 0 0 ..660 .. 650 0 0 (20 0 0 1 and fees. 21 0 0 ;; Timaru Boys' High School Timaru Girls' High School Waitaki Boys' High School Waitaki Girls' High Sohool Otago Boys' High School 4 ..■ 9 0 0 .. d 1,140 0 0 44 44 7 95 89 ..900 .. 815 0 0 43 10 0 4 3 10 1 2 4 1 41 20 163 70 21 129 2 J 6 113 45 1 298 105 42 289 63 7 10 0 42 8 0 '985 0 0 I .. 7 10 0 .. 480 0 O^ 24 10 0 0 43 10 0 "2,792 10 0 9 0 0 40 0 0 208 0 0 (460 0 0 I land fees. 75 0 0 Otago Girls' High School 7 8 93 108 3 204 179 9 10 0 0 40 0 0'"1,410 0 0 Southland Boys' High School Southland Girls' High School 5 1 67 48 115 111 I ..I 10 0 0 .. 1,144 0 ol 59 40 2 101 .. 10 0 0 .. 670 0 0 105 0 0 (6.65 lgr.42 1202 744 I 2,443 1,595 2,302) 1,462} Totals 189 (Hi 1087 735 89 74 601 .. .. 40,569 10 0 2,747 4 6 * In six cases no secondary High School, Greymouth Hiau funds are applied, in whole c secondary schools. a Headmaster has resident for headmaster, c Including £ have board, f Principal has residence, i Principal and flvi residence, and two assistants h Be >r i hoo jlioi in 1 >1 is mi ol, Hoi mrt, t< aintai kitika o the ined b l High 1 establ )y th« . Sch. Iishn 3 gover ool, A! aent o :ning boi saroa Hi if^schola dy: these are the Auckland Girls' High School, Gisborne igh School, VVaimate High School; but in all cases the irships or in aid of local district high schools or other ce. !881 res S at ia,vi hoi ;ide sflis o bi Five at ase all< mce. itants oard. ssista: owan< RPar have m Lai tnts ha ce for :'t-time reside idy prii ive b secoi ! tea' sace. ncipf ioard. ad mai cher t kHei il has 1 « Seven ster; ale ias boa: admaste board. 1 masters have board, d Including £80 house allowance 30 headmaster has residence, and two assistant masters rd. h Headmaster and six assistants have board and »• and five assistants have residence. 1 Headmaster has

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2. EEPOET OF INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF SCHOOLS.

The Eight Hon. the Minister of Education. I have the honour to present ray report upon matters connected with secondary education in the colony. I regret that owing to ill health I was able to inspect during the year 1904 only a few of the secondary schools and district high schools ; but in any case the work of inspection has grown so much during the last five or six years that it is quite impossible for one man. within the limits of the calendar year, to visit all the secondary schools and district high schools, to say nothing of the chief technical schools, whose work, although somewhat different in character, should be regarded as forming part of the system of secondary education. During the present year (1905) I have visited about a third of the secondary schools and district high schools. The expansion that has taken place and the consequent need for thorough inspection may be to some extent gauged by the large increase of public money that is annually devoted to the purposes of secondary education. Five years ago, in 1900, the scholarship grants to Education Boards, which amounted to £8,424, represented practically the total expenditure out of the consolidated revenue upon secondary education, though perhaps we may add thereto £272 expended by the Victoria College Council, out of its statutory grant, upon Queen's Scholarships. In the present financial year, although the amount of the scholarship grants to Education Boards has not increased, yet the capitation paid to the governing bodies of secondary schools on account of free pupils will reach at least £16,000 ; the special grants paid to Education Boards for free pupils in the secondary departments of district high schools will probably exceed £16,000; the total cost of Junior National Scholarships (exclusive of examination expenses) will be about £1,200; so that the total annual expenditure on these items alone will be not less than, say, £42,000 during the current year. In addition, Victoria College now spends upon Junior Queen's Scholarships about £760 a year ; classes for manual instruction in secondary schools and district high schools receive capitation grants; special grants are being given for additional buildiugs rendered necessary by the large influx of free pupils and for science laboratories and school workshops. The question naturally arises: "Is the country getting an adequate return for all this money ? " Of course, it is difficult to measure the results of either primary or higher education by a money standard, but it is safe to say that the money that is being spent is by no means wasted —it would not be wasted if it served no other purpose than to give "an open career for talents," to train the best men for the service of the State ; to give an equal chance to the clever child of the poor man and the rich. But it would be idle to imagine that we are yet getting all that we might get in return for this expenditure in the direction of raising the general standard of education for the average boy or girl : it must even, I fear, be confessed that in some instances the grants given are being used in ways that are not calculated to produce any appreciable benefit to the community. Much strenuous effort must be put forth, many defects must be remedied, before the colony can say assuredly that it is getting the full value for its money. Without going into detail upon all of them, I shall endeavour to point out what appear to me to be some of the defects that mar our system of secondary education. First, in regard to scholarships : Although the number of scholarships has been greatly increased by the establishment of the National Scholarships and of the Queen's Scholarships (the latter of which are open to the pupils of eight education districts), and though the number of district high schools is four or five times what it was a few years ago, yet it can hardly be said that the clever child in a remote country district has the same chance of obtaining free secondary education as his more fortunate cousin in the town. This is due partly to the amount available for scholarships, but principally to the fact that the grant for each district is based in each year upon the average attendance, without taking any account of the possibility that there may, in any given year, be twice as many children qualifying for scholarships from country schools, and requiring therefore allowance for board in addition to the ordinary scholarship allowance, as there were in the previous year. The Boards of Education are doing all they can to meet the difficulty by allotting as much as possible of the scholarship grants to country candidates ; but it is out of their power to overcome the difficulty altogether so long as the grants are given on the fixed basis of average attendance. I estimate that to place country children in a position of equal opportunity with those children who live within reach of secondary schools or district high schools it would be necessary to give about forty or fifty more country scholarships than the Boards are able to give at present; this would involve an additional expenditure of about £2,000. But it would also be necessary to recast the system on which scholarship grants are made ; to give, somewhat in the manner in which the Junior National Scholarships are allotted, a certain number of scholarships to each district, according to its size, and to pay to the Boards the amounts required accordingly, which would be greater or less as the scholarships gained by country candidates were many or few in number. The Boards of Education should draw up regulations to be approved, as at present, by the Minister, and should award the scholarships, having power to modify the conditions to suit the circumstances of the several education districts; it would not, I think, be difficult to devise safeguards to prevent an undue increase in the total expenditure.

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Secondly, it is doubtful whether the conditions on which free places are granted do not err on the easy side. In the course of inspection I have seen pupils that have qualified for free places by gaining certificates of proficiency, who seem unable to cope with the work of the secondary school, and are accordingly deriving very little benefit from it. To a slight extent this may be due to the fact that the secondary schools have not all quite accommodated themselves to the new conditions ; but in most cases it is probable that the boys or girls referred to would be better employed in learning a trade, or in training themselves for domestic life, extending their general education and beginning the special preparation for their life work by attending continuation and technical classes in the evening. It does not appear to be sufficiently known that any one who has gained a certificate of proficiency may hold a Junior Technical Scholarship, entitling him to free technical education without any limit as to age ; in other words, he may substitute for a free place at a secondary school a free place at a technical school. It would probably be more satisfactory if free places and scholarships all over the colony were awarded on the results of one examination, say, the Junior National Scholarship Examination, all who passed being entitled to free places, and the best candidates being allotted scholarships in the several education districts. This examination is already being used for the purpose, and large numbers now hold free places gained in this way ; its general adoption would tend to simplification in other ways, and would remove certain apparent anomalies in respect to the age-limit. A similar system is working extremely well in the Ontario Province of Canada. Another matter referred to in a former report is the great mistake that is being made in the secondary schools, and even to some extent in the district high schools, of attempting to teach to pupils, who will in general spend only a year or two in the schools, the elements of two foreign languages ; if a foreign language is taught to such pupils at all, attention should certainly be confined to one language, which pupils could then attack in such a way as to leave some lasting result in mental discipline or knowledge acquired. It should not be forgotten, moreover, that the same effort and the same time and skill devoted to the teaching of English would produce far more valuable results in the development of the pupil's literary tastes and of his power of expressing his thoughts clearly and easily in his own language. Our own literature is one of the grandest in the world, and no English-speaking youth should grow up without learning to know and love its treasures. In these days of good and cheap translations the best thoughts of ancient and modern authors can be brought within the reach of those who know no other language but their own—if they know that thoroughly. Considerable advance is being made in the practical teaching of science ; but I regret to sa.y that there are still secondary schools where adequate provision, in the form of laboratories and apparatus, does not exist for teaching science practically to all the pupils; and this defect is at least as marked in one or two of the largest schools as it is in the smaller schools, where more excuse might be made for it. All our efforts to secure sound technical education will be rendered futile if boys and girls do not receive while at school a training in elementary scientific method by means of individual experiment and observation with their own hands and eyes. It should be obvious, moreover, that the science subjects chosen should as far as possible have relation to the surroundings or future life of the pupil; in every country district high school, for instance, rural science—particularly plant-life, elementary physiology, and physics and chemistry so far as they touch the common facts of country life and of rural pursuits—should form the main basis for scientific training. The safest and best guide to a true co-ordination of studies is secured by bringing the instruction into close relation with the facts of life that immediately surround the pupil; and the instruction will gain in force and interest by such a natural co-ordination. For this reason, if for no other, the recent reform in the teaching of elementary mathematics, particularly of elementary geometry is a matter for rejoicing, It makes geometry iv the school— what it really is in fact —a branch of physical science, and breaks down the artificial barrier that has been erected by schoolmasters between arithmetic and drawing on the one hand, and algebra and geometry on the other. As there are still some teachers who apparently have misgivings in regard to the effect of the reform upon the standard of mathematical knowledge that it is possible to reach in the secondary school, I will conclude by quoting the opinions of three eminent Frenchmen on the question. One of them, M. Tannery, is the head of the mathematical department of one of the leading higher institutions of France ; the second, M. Laisant, is a well-known mathematician and worker in the pedagogy of mathematics; the third, M. Le Bon, is a general writer on a wide range of topics. M. Tannery says, — "Is it credible that children thirteen or fourteen years old have a natural taste for logical abstractions, for empty ratiocinations, for demonstrations which seem much less evident to them than the things to be demonstrated? Without doubt, they must be trained to reason correctly, but to reason about realities, or at least to reason about models or images which appi-oximate reality, which are simplifications of what they see, of what they touch. They must be made to experience how, according to Descartes, geometry facilitates all the arts. How shall I make this drawing? How measure this field?" After an illustration of how theory and practice can be made to go hand in hand (triangle and the determination of the distance of an inaccessible object), he proceeds to add, " They " [the pupils] " will have to reason about things ; they must be trained to regard things, to eliminate this or that characteristic which is of no geometric import; to see things in their geometric aspect; to reproduce them by drawing; to gain more exact knowledge of them by measurement. Far from teaching pupils to despise intuition, this very intuition must be developed ; they must be shown that they have it, and made little by little to gain confidence in themselves."

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M. Laisant sets out with the assertion that even mathematics is an experimental science, that consequently the beginnings of mathematics should be concrete, to be followed later by abstractions, and deplores the fact that the reverse order is at present followed. "I hold that all the sciences without exception are experimental, at least to a certain extent; in spite of certain theories which attempt to treat mathematics as a sequence of operations of pure logic based upon pure ideas, it can be asserted that in mathematics, as in all other scientific domains, there exists no notion, no idea, which could penetrate into our brain without the previous contemplation of the exterior world and of the facts which this world presents to our observation From this exterior world the first mathematical notions must be obtained, to be succeeded later by abstractions .... Now, how are things done to-day? Primary instruction, so far as it relates to the first notions of arithmetic, seems modelled on that of grammar; and one might just as well say that the latter is modelled on the teaching of arithmetic. That is to say, in the one as in the other the child is taught a number of abstract and confused definitions which he cannot comprehend; under pretext of giving him good practical directions, he is burdened with a set of rules ; and these rules he learns and retains by dint of memory only, and applies them thereafter well or ill, as may be." After some discussions, relating more particularly to French conditions, comes the following pregnant passage : " The elementary acquisitions in mathematics—and they are of considerable extent—are no less useful, no less indispensable, than the knowledge of reading and writing. I will even add—and this may perhaps seem paradoxical —that these first elements can be assimilated with much less fatigue than the first notions of reading and writing; on one condition always : that is, instead of persevering in the present system of primary teaching, instead of giving an instruction bristling with rules and formulas, appealing to the memory, causing fatigue and producing only disgust, the teaching should be inspired by the philosophic fact that it is necessary in the first place to produce images in the child's brain by means of objects presented to his senses." M. Le Bon takes up some interesting phases of the agitation in France which culminated in the new curricula of 1902. Only the chapter on the teaching of mathematics is of direct interest here, and its tenor is sufficiently exemplified by the following quotation : " Mathematics is a language, and acquaintance with it no more develops the intelligence than that of other languages. One does not learn a language to exercise the intelligence, but because it is useful to know. Now, the habit of writing the simplest things in mathematical language is to-day so widespread that it is necessary for the pupils to learn this language, just as it would be necessary for them to learn Japanese or Sanskrit if all the books of science were written in these languages. The only important thing is to know how one can learn rapidly to comprehend and then to speak this special language of mathematicians, Like those of all languages, the beginnings only of this study are difficult. They must be made in the most tender infancy, at the same time as reading and writing, but by a method diametrically opposed to that which is used to-day. The teaching must be by experiences, substituting direct observation of quantities that can be seen and touched for reasoning about symbols. What makes the mathematical instruction of the child so difficult is the ineradicable habit of the Latin race always to begin with the abstract without first passing through the concrete. If ignorance of the psychology of the child were not so widespread and so profound all the pedagogues would know that the child cannot comprehend the abstract definitions of grammar, arithmetic, and geometry, and that he recites them as he would the words of an unknown language. Only the concrete is accessible to him. When the concrete instances have been sufficiently multiplied he will unconsciously deduce from them the abstract generalities. Mathematics ought therefore to be taught experimentally, especially at first, for, contrary to current opinion, it is an experimental science." G. Hogben, 14th October, 1905. Inspector-General of Schools.

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3. APPENDIX.

A. DETAILS RELATING TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS. Number of Scholars holding Scholarships and Free Places in Secondary Schools during the Last Term, 1904.

(1.) Sohool. I 3|! N imber of Holders of Free Places. Kegulations, 1903. (3.) (4) (5.) (6) 3(0.) 3(6.) 3(c.) B[d.) N Si (8.) Annual Kate of Capitation for the Term. (9.) Approximate Annual Payment. (10.) ,,, , Included „ < u -> amongst als <\ Free-place Holders of Holders *j ree (Column 7). plac es. Scholarship Holders. (12.) Scholars receiving Kree Tuition but not Holders of Government Free Places. (7). Tote uml of oholi Wltt'S. A. ENI iNDOWB] DOW] n»E SCH< 0H( ools i: [CliUl )ED IN TH: D ED IGHTH [ SCHEDULE TO THE EDUCATION ACT. (i-) Pra tiding Free Pit aces u nder section I 67. Whangarei High School Auckland Grammar School Thames High school New Plymouth High School Palmerston Nortb ! High School Napier High Schools Marlborough High School Nelson Colleges .. i Bangiora High Sohool Chri st ohuroh Girls' High School Ashburton High School Timaru High Schools W a i t a k i High Sohools Otago High Sohools Southland High Schools 9 9 23 23 101 28 20 56 32 1 35 49 175 60 6 6 17 M. I 2 24! F. 10 Total. 34 £ a. d. 8 10 0 £ 289 6 1 34 34 93 19 101 45 146 8 0 0 1,168 29 57 17 23 10 5 26; 6 32 12 38 8 0 0 304 3 23 8 8 22 1 28 60 7 0 0 420 8 101 29 .. 73 1 63 57 130 10 15 0 1,398 5 28 21 i\ 54 10 51 114 7 0 0 798 20 6 1 20 9 9 31 4 2 27 39 66 10 0 0 660J 10 1 56 32 4 1 4 1 45 21 .. ! 55 2 28 50 28 105 56 10 15 0 10 0 0 1,129 3 560 9 24 1 1 5 5 38 1 8 .. 53 53 8 10 0 451 12 19 1 35 39 6 35 45 80 45 7 10 0 600 5 49 14 14 81 14 83 12 35 75 158 75 6 10 0 1,027 15 1 2 2 43 22 57 22 8 0 0 456 2 2 175 19 19 124 39 198 159 357 159 8 0 0 2,856 20 24 60 2 2 78 1 71 70 141 70 9 5 0 1,304 2 21 (ii.) T ot p, widing F Vee Places i under secti ion 67. 11 6 Wanganui Girls' College Wellington College and Girls' High School Christchuroh Boys' High School 57 27 14 42 B. ICLUDED I [N THE EIGl HTH SCHEDULE. 7 END' IWED ichoo: ■S N(y Wanganui Collegiate School Christ's College Grammar Sohool 14 15 44 Totals 612 125 725 1(1 117 851 7441,595 £8 8 3* £13,420 132 250 180 'Mean rate.

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Income of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1904.

From From Endowments. l Endowments. From Government. Schools. Cr. Balances on Sales and 1st Jan., 1904. Mortgage Moneys repaid. Bents. J Interest on Moneys invested. Paid by Fol . Capitation School I Technical for Commis- instruction. Free Places, sioners. School Fees. ' Boardingschool Fees. Stationery and Books sold, and Refunds. Sundries unclassified. Dr. Balances, 31st nee, 1904. Totals. £ s. d. 144 19 6 174 10 2 10,409 12 6 £ s. a. £ s. d. 52 0 2 I 4,449 9 11 £ s. d. £ s. d. 49 15 10 424 15 4 £ s. d. £ s. d. 229 5 2 1,131 11 1 £ s. d. £ s. d. 168 14 0 2,478 0 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ a. d. 644 14 8 9,386 11 0 10,833 2 6 1.032 15 2 3,743 0 5 7,032 0 1 3,954 8 11 1,411 0 1 9,364 19 2 Whangarei High School Auckland Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School .. Thames High School New Plymouth High School .. Wanganui Girls' College Wanganui Collegiate School .. Palmerston North High School Wellington College and Girls' High School Napier High Schools Gisborne High School Marlborough High School Nelson College Greymouth High School Hokifcika High School Rangiora High School Christchurch Boys' High School Christchureh 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 744 3 0 1,671 4 5 182 9 8 929 2 2 4,334 8 11 3,648 11 4 553 3 11 1,269 0 6 1,590 15 0 91 19 10 156 3 0 164 11 11 520 0 0 11 10 0 .. ■• 25 0 0 2,596 9 0 41 18 0 544 8 3 692 12 2 369 0 0 1,198 19 0 I 2,534' 0 7 1,179 10 0 150 0 0 903 18 2 25 10 0 57 0 0 157 5 6 3,368 5 5 227 4 5 743 9 7 160 4 9 588 11 3 1,762 17 2 205 16 4 1,091 6 0 1,985 13 9 934 12 11 206 0 0 412 0 0 12' 9 3 158 11 6 30 0 0 137 9 2 161 9 6 302 15 1 34 11 4 56 12 0 75 8 10 188 5 8 203 4 2 191 9 4 542 6 7 1,889 5 0 217 1 9 40 0 0 97 14 10 50 1 6 50 0 0 16 4 10 29 0 0 33 i 0 53 4 3 274 0 0 338 6 6 959 8 9 456 13 ' 4 498 5 1 135 14 0 I 250 19 0 ! 2,178 19 11 j 2,318 1 4 1,956 12 0 516 0 0 174 1 4 I 5,232 16 10 734 2 6 J 225 0 4 301 7 0 3,986 16 4 4,742 16 2 2 4 6 '.'. 2* 3 6 *l,500 0 0 100 4 9 32 14 0 55 4 10 86 0 8 25 0 0 17 13 0 122 8 9 3 18 6 3 6 11 f603 3 0 1877 10 9 l"o 7 45's 5 436 0 11 9,082 16 6 4,213 10 6 1,995 19 0 13,997 5 6 1,421 1 -t 1,754 7 0 1,373 10 2 5,444 15 6 2,233 8 9 8,159 H 11 319 0 7 1,119 3 7 5,305 14 8 2,171 12 6 3,801 0 9 7,278 1 5 4,371 14 10 .. 10 0 1 231 8 11 1,941 0 11 4 10 0 673 15 4 150 9 6 1,843 17 9 1,244 10 6 2,949 14 0 §300 0 0 14 9 0 20 8 0 84 8 8 17 io 3 34 IO 0 33 11 8 770 0 0 311 13 4 154 5 10 1,671 1 9 2,243 9 0 1,873 11 7 338 1 8 684 9 0 213 10 11 95 0 0 92 4 7 28 13 4 47 0 0 403 5 0 726 1 1 9713 0; '.'. 352 15 4 '.'. 1 1 0 78 12 1 16'l9 2 56 7 4 146 1 11 347 19 2 197 4 0 120 15 0 53 7 6445 6 8 2,389 18 6 1,168 5 10 792 5 0 1,721 17 4 712 7 4 ||987 19 6 10 9 6 Hl,025 0 0 247 13 6 5,706 7 5 10 19 0 Totals I 31,572 3 10 j 3,993 6 3J 23,381 15 4 3,959 8 10 4,710 13 11 449 7 7 2,153 6 8 121,445 9 6 10,005 15 8 27,463 12 8 [ 7,801 17 10 * Government grant in aid ot I subsidy there* layment to tenants for impro>n £400. § Government f 'ements. t Including Government annuc ;rant for site, &c. II Including Governmei 1 grant of £400, and special grant of £200 towards site. J Including voluntary donatioi it grant of £975 for site and buildings. V Including Government grant of £850 for sch< 1 £400 and Government 10I buildings.

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Schools. Expense of Liabilities Boards' on Mariagelst Jan., 1904. ment: Office and Salaries. School Salaries. Boardingschool Account. Examiners' Fees and Expenses. Printing, Land, Scholar- Stationery, Buildings, Expenditure ships, Advertising, Furniture, on Exhibitions, Cleaning, Insurance, Endow- Interest. Prizes. Fuel, Light, Bent, raents. &c. Rates. i Cr. Sundries Balances, unclassified. 31st Dec., 1904. Totals. I £ s. d. £ s. d. 4 6 6 39 17 9 111 13 11 313 17 1 46 16 3 24 7 8 35 17 4 28 3 9 66 6 6 45 3 6 146 14 7 30 18 6 67 2 5 506 17 9 Whangarei High School Auckland Grammar School Auckland Girls' Hish School .. Thames High School.. New Plymouth High School Wanganui Girls' College Wangarmi Collegiate School Palmerston Norih High School Wellington College and Girls' High School Napier High Schools.. Gisborne High School Marlborougn High School Nelson College Greymouth High School Hokitika High School Bingiora High School Christchurch Boys' High School Ghristchurch 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 School Southland High Schools £ s. d. £ s. d. 33 14 0 445 11 8 1 10 0 144 6 11 26 10 0 70 IS 4 148 11 6 145 11 10 80 19 9 244 0 6 £ s. a. 484 3 9 4,367 1 0 700 0 0 947 16 8 1,841 3 10 3,110 16 8 842 5 0 4,894 16 8 . £ S. d. £ s. d. 3 .. 2 2 0 ) 115 0 0 ) .. 2 2 0 H s. d. 44 16 0 1,748 7 6 28 15 0 37 8 8 574 4 2 367 3 9 348 13 4 201 18 6 1,539 15 10 . £ s. d. ! 782 2 3 I 7 5 6 ! 70 19 i i1,874 19 0 S s. d. £ s. d.| £ s. d. 35 14 8 383 15 5 41 2 0 1,078 0 2 421 0 010,374 12 0 4 12 0 2 6 0 .. 212 11 3 48 8 6 38 16 0 2,230 8 11 1 0 0 156 9 0 254 lri 4 14 6; 88 19 8 1,764 16 8 £ s. d. ! 644 14 8 ! 9,386 11 0 » 10,833 2 6 1,032 15 2 : 3,743 0 5 7,032 0 1 3,954 8 11 1,411 0 1 9,364 19 2 i ) 2,232 4 0 30 18 4 I ! •• i .. : 151 4 li 106 0 3 [ 114 4 11 15 12 9 27 1 10 619 12 6 387 3 11 17 14 0 19 18 0 3 11 3 100 0 0 60 0 0 •149 13 2 253 8 9 0 10 0 194 17 3 46 3 8 124 6 5 1 32 16 0 140 1 0 328 7 1 119 0 3 2,255 3 0 750 15 2 3,667 1 10594 7 6 4,014 12 0 1,618 15 6 3,621 19 4 I .. 34 7 0 J - 14,169 19 2 2 2 0 .. 1 „ _ J 1 .. 72 5 9 50 0 0 42 9 3 59 8 9 247 8 9 195 19 9 4 3 0 6 0 0 24 19 10 88 10 0 492 11 0 511 7 4 48 8 2 36 2 8 195 15 0 195 0 3 97 2 5 718 9 3 291 16 5 2 10 0 6 10 5 5 0 60 4 3 46 13 11 209 18 6 70 12 6 8 12 6j 5 10 0 127 10 2 31 16 4 457 17 6 38 12 41 281 18 4 1,690 18 8 944 5 3 457 19 2 3,977 3 8 22 7 4 522 5 9 310 15 9 49 9 0 564 3 4 5 12 6 0 .. 115 12 6 7 13 2,267 18 11 92 16 1 4,439 12 4 404 14 0 2,838 15 6 0 3 0 43 10 3 602 19 9 58 16 2 111 7 11 100 0 0 1,303 7 4 205 0 0 1,507 1 8 10 6 20 0 0 183 17 0 200 0 0 108 11 0 291 0 10 27 2 6 86 8 7 19 17 3 213 4 9 309 19 7 13 7 0 48 13 4 51 8 2 334 14 7 2,308 1 6 0 4 o! 80 0 0 1,979 7 6 47 1 6 339 17 3 157 10 0 53 2 8 531 12 1 4 13 0 131 2 2 711 18 4 9,082 16 6 4,213 10 6 1,995 19 0 13,997 5 6 1,421 1 4 1,754 7 0 1,373 10 2 5,444 15 6 2,233 8 9 8,159 14 11 319 0 7 1,119 3 7 5,305 14 8 2,171 12 6 3,801 0 9 7,278 1 5 4,371 14 10 636 5 0 2,008 4 1 63* 0 4 257 12 2 16 3 6 .. 1,468 6 8 4,741 4 10 1,921 0 0 489 15 4 '.'. 7,056 18 6 396 15 0 2 1,672 14 2 463 8 1 1,163 10 5 23 7 6 • • Totals 1,108 9 10 [2,987 7 0 44,485 18 6 ,200 12 7 3,774 7 1 121,445 9 6 17,050 15 10 5,283 11 0 896 17 4 2,767 7 5| 33,436 9 5 £1,500 invested on mortj re, shown last ■ear as a credit,

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REPORTS OF GOVERNING BODIES. WHANGAREI 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, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginniig of year .. .. 144 19 6 Government capitation for free places .. 229 5 2 Endowments — Current income from reserves .. .. 52 0 2 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 49 15 10 Sohool fees .. •■ •• .. 168 14 0 £644 14 8

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salary or salaries .. .. .. 27 10 9 Other office expenses .. .. .. 6 3 3 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. .. 184 3 9 Examiners' fees .. .. .. .. 2 2 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. ■• 466 Piinting, stationery, and advertising .. 26 19 5 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. .. 12 18 4 School appliances and furniture .. .. 33 15 2 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 3 2 6 Miscellaneous (rates, &c).. .. .. 7 18 4 Bab nee in hand and in bank at end of year.. 35 14 g £644 14 8

J. M. Killen, Chairman. J. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General,

Name of School. Number of Pupils. Proportion of Annual Rate of Salary of Teachers. Total Fees received for Year. Auckland Grammar School Napier Boys' High School vfapier Girls' High School )hristchurch Boys' High School ... Jhristchurch Girls' High School ... kelson Boys'College kelson Girls'College 27 23 16 19 5 28 22 £ s. a. 154 0 0 86 19 0 109 10 0 145 0 0 89 6 8 82 16 3 105 4 2 £ B. 213 10 191 16 110 12 159 0 74 0 289 16 284 14 d. 0 1 9 0 6 0 0 Totals 140 772 16 1 1,323 9 4 List of Seco: IDARY Sc: :ools iNconpo: ;ATED OR ENDOWED. Name. Act of Ii or Ir acorporation istitution. Bern arks. 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 1904. 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. Scheme of control, Gazette, 1904, Vol. 1, p. 903. Palmerston North High School Wellington College and Girls' High School Napier High Schools Gisborne High School Marlborough High Soh ol Nelson College 1904, No. 20, section 88 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 1904. Board identical with Education Board. Not in operation in 1904. Not in operation in 1904. Greymouth High School Hokitika High School Rangiora High School Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School Under management of Canterbury College. Under management of Canterbury College, Endowment, Gazette, 1878, Vol. 1, p. 131. A department of Christ's College, Canterbury. Christ's College Grammar School Akaroa High School Ashburton High School Timaru High School Waimate High School Waitaki High School Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Southland Boys' and Girls' High Schools Canterbury Ordinance, 1855 188.1, No. 16, Local .. 1878, No. 49, Local. 1878, No. 26, Local. 1883, No. 19, Local .. 1878, No. 18, Local. 1877, No. 52, Local. 1877, No. 82, Local. Not in operation in 1904. Not in operation in 1904.

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2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin—Bradley's Arnold ; Primer of Roman Antiquities ; Smith's Smaller History of Rome ; Unseens (Rivington's) ; Tacitus, Agricola: Cicero, De Senectute. French—Wellington College Grammar, with Exercises ; Specimens of Modern French Verse ; Voltaire, Charles XII.; Moliere, Le Misanthrope. English—Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present ; Carpenter's Rhetoric, Advanced Course ; Selections from Chaucer ; Ward's Poets, Vol. iii. Mathematics— Hall and Knight's Algebra, Layng's Euclid, Hall and Knight's Trigonometry, Ward's Trigonometrical Examples ; Bryan's Mechanics. Science—Wright's Advanced Heat. Lowest. —.English—Wood's Composition ; West's Grammar ; selections from Wordsworth ; dictation and spelling ; English History (Ransome) to a.d. 1399. Mathematics—Arithmetic; revision of Standards V. and VI. syllabus, introducing shortened methods and approximations ; Elementary Geometry, Baker and Bourne, Book I.; Algebra, to equations. Latin —Ora Maritima; or Book-keeping—Thornton's First Lessons. French—Siepmann's First Year. Physiology —Murche, Parts I. and 11. Drawing—-Freehand and elementary perspective. AUCKLAND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. To balance at beginning of year .. .. 10,409 12 6 Endowments — Price of timber sold .. .. .. 11 10 0 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 412 0 0 £10,833 2 6

Expenditure. £ a. d. Bank charges for commission and safe custody of debentures .. .. 1 10 0 Auckland Grammar School — Interest paid over .. . . .. 412 0 0 „ in advance .. .. .. 9 0 0 Rates on endowment, Hobson County .. 28 15 0 Lands and Survey Department for valuation of timber .. .. .. 7 5 6 Balance at end of year— On mortgage .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 In debentures .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 In bank .. .. .. .. 374 12 0 £10,833 2 6

Samuel Luke, Chairman. Vincent E. Rice, Secretary and Treasurer. AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL Staff. Mr. J. W. Tibbs, M.A.; Mr. W. J. Morrell, M.A.; Mr. J. H. Howell, 8.A., B.Sc. ; Mr. J. F. Sloman, 8.A.; Mr. J. G. Trevithick, N.A.; Mr. J. H. Turner, M.A. ; Mr. H. J. D. Mahon, B.A. ; Mr. J. Drummond, M.A. ; Rev. J. King Davis, M.A. ; Mr. R. A. McCullough, M.A. ; Mr. P. Drummond, B.A. ; Mr. E. Clarke, M.A.; Miss E. G. Wallace; Miss F. A. Haultain ; Miss A. C. Morrison, M.A. ; Miss B. Blades ; Miss W. Picken, M.A.; Mr. Kenneth Watkins. 1. Report of the Governors. The School. —At the beginning of the first term the school admitted 141 free and 269 paying pupils, and the Government has paid £8 a head for the tuition of the free pupils for the three terms. In consequence of giving these free places, the Board has discontinued granting Senior and Junior Foundation Scholarships, and has decided to use the income from the John Williamson Endowment in giving scholarships of the annual value of £10 a year, tenable with District or National Scholarships to those who pass " with credit " the Junior Scholarship Examination of the University of New Zealand in order of merit, so far as the funds will allow. The Board has also decided to print clauses 3a and 3b of the Regulations under " The Secondary Schools Act, 1903," in the school prospectus, and to insert such clauses in the advertisements. Eric Hooton Prize. —One of the boys, Eric Hooton, a Junior District Scholar, was accidentally drowned in the Kaipara. A tablet was erected by his schoolfellows to his memory in the Mount Eden Congregational Church, and Mr. J. P. Hooton, the boy's father, has invested a sum of money to annually provide an income of £2 2s. for an English essay prize on the boy's side of the school. Distinctions.-— Four pupils of the school gained University Junior Scholarships—three boys and one girl—and six others passed " with credit." Twenty-nine passed Matriculation, two the Civil Service Senior Examination, and twenty-one the Junior. Of former pupils, two, R. T. G. Aickin and D. N. W. Murray, graduated M.D. at Edinburgh; and C. C. Choyce, F.R.C.S. England. The Gull Studentship at Guy's Hospital was gained by R. W. Allen. The usual distribution of prizes was made at the Choral Hall on the 15th December, 1904, by the chairman. Ninety-one prizes were given, and their cost was about £55. G. Maurice O'Rorke, M.A., Chairman.

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 174 10 2 Government Capitation for free places .. 1,131 11 1 Ground-rents.. .. .. .. 2,762 0 7 Weekly rents .. .. .. .. 1,687 9 4 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 424 15 4 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,478 0 0 Eric Hooton prize .. .. .. 2 2 0 Sale of old buildings .. .. .. 20 0 0 M' rtgage-money repaid .. .. 500 0 0 Sale of school lists .. .. .. 0 2 6 Grant from Auckland Education Board under sec ion 23 of " The Auckland Grammar School Act, 1899 ".. .. 206 0 0 £9,386 11 0

Expenditure. £ s. d. Salary of Secretary .. .. .. 120 0 0 Office expenses .. .. .. 55 2 5 Commission, &c, to Collector .. .. 264 14 3 Teachers'salaries .. .. .. 4,367 1 0 Boarding-school account .. .. 115 0 0 School requisites .. .. .. 144 7 8 Election expenses .. .. .. 3 13 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 2 2 0 Prizes, 1903 and 1904 .. .. .. 11l 13 11 Printing and advertising .. .. 97 4 10 Chaning, fuel, light, &c.— School 21 6 9 Property .. .. .. .. 32 10 2 Stationery allowance .. .. .. 162 15 4 Fencing, repairs, &o.— School .. .. .. . ■ 318 11 2 Property .. .. .. .. 793 11 5 Miscellaneous rates, &o. — School .. .. .. .. 60 19 9 Property .. .. .. .. 430 17 6 Interest on current account .. .. 0 2 6 Interest on loans .. .. .. 383 12 11 Comp nsations .. .. .. 38 3 0 New Buildings .. .. .. 602 19 3 Refund for surrendered lease .. .. 141 0 0 Eric Hooton prize .. .. .. 2 2 0 Sports 38 0 0 Cab hire, Mr. Corrollo's funeral .. 10 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 1,078 0 2 £9,386 11 0

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 Divisions. Highest. —English —Nesfield, English Grammar Past and Present; Nichol, Primer of English Composition ; From Blake to Arnold ; Addison, Sir Roger de Coverley ; Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice ; Chaucer, Corson's Selections. Latin —Tod and Longworth, Passages for Latin Unseens ; North and Hillard, Latin Prose Composition; Revised Latin Primer; Stedman, Latin Grammar Papers ; Virgil, Georgics, I. ; Livy, Book IX.; Cicero, Pro Roscio Amerino ; Horace, Epodes and Ars Poetica ; Smith, Smaller History of Rome. French— Sandeau, Sacs et Parchemins; Berthon, Selection of French Verse; Hamone't, Passages from French Authors ; Wellington College French Grammar; Eve and Matthews' Exercises. Euclid —Hall and Stevens. Algebra—Todhunter and Loney ; Jones and Cheyne, Algebraical Exercises. Trigonometry —Hall and Knight; Ward, Trigonometrical Exercises. Science : Boys' Side—Roscoe and Hardens Inorganic Chemistry; Tilden's Practical Chemistry; R. W. Stewart, Advanced Heat. Girls' Side—Miss Aitken, Botany ; Jessop, Elements of Applied Mathematics. Lowest.— English—Nesfield, Outlines of English Grammar ; Temple Reader ; Symes, English History; Macmillan's Short Geography of the World. Latin—Elementa Latina; Scalae Primse. French—Macmillan's French Course,"First-year ; Dent's First French Book. Mathematics — Baker and Bourne's Geometry; Longmans' Shilling Arithmetic; Rivington's Algebra, Part I. Science —Elementary Physics, Theoretical and Practical. Geometrical Drawing. THAMES HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. James Adams, 8.A.; Mr. R. J. Thompson, B.A. ; Miss Mary R. Foy. 1. General Statement of the Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Government capitation for free places .. 274 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 492 8 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 75 8 10 School fees .. .. •• •• 135 14 0 Goldfields revenue .. .. • • 51 19 9 Refunds (endowment) .. .. .. 2 3 6 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 10 7 £1,032 15 2

Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 144 6 11 Office salary .. .. .. .. 20 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 6 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 700 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 2 2 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 615 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 26 13 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 5 18 2 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 31 10 6 Interest on ourrent account .. .. 4 12 0 Endowments — Management .. .. .. 35 5 0 Law costs .. .. .. .. 35 14 4 Bank fee .. .. .. .. 0 10 0 School requisites .. .. .. 13 7 3 £1,032 15 2

Frank Trembath, Chairman. Jas. Kernick, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—English Grammar Past and Present (Nesfield) ; English Composition (Nichol); English Questions and Exercises (Nichol); Marmion (Scott) ; The Knight's Tale (Chaucer) ; How to Write Clearly (Abbot). French—Macmillan's French Course, Third Year (Fasnacht) ; Questions and Exercises (Stedman) ; Colomba (Merimee) ; French Unseens for Higher Forms (Pallisier) ; Macmillan's French Reader (Fasnacht). Latin —First Steps to Latin Prose (Walters) ; Questions and Exercises (Stedman) ; Latin Unseens, Senior; De Bello Gallico, Book vi. (Caesar) ; Metamorphosis (Ovid). Mathematics —Arithmetic (Lock) ; Elementary Algebra (Hall and Knight) ; Geometry (Hall and Stevens) ; Trigonometry (Lock). Science— Electricity (Thompson); Elementary Chemistry (Roscoe) ; Advanced Chemistry (Roscoe and Harden); Practical Chemistry (Tilden). Lowest. —English—Outlines of English Grammar (Mason) ; Exercises on Morris's English Grammar (Wetherell) ; English Grammar Exercises (Morris and Bowen) ; English Composition ; How to Write Clearly (Abbot) ; Essays on Easy Subjects; English History, Reign of Queen Elizabeth (Gardner). Latin—Via Latina (Abbott), Exercises to No. 32 ; Grammar to the end of the four regular conjugations; First Latin Reader (Beresford) Parts I and 11. French—First Year (Fasnacht); Grammar bearing on exercises and translations and including four regular conjugations; French Dictation, reading and composition; My First French Book (Ninet). Arithmetic—General (Lock). Algebra —Up to and including simultaneous equations. Geometry—Hall and Stevens, Book I. NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. Ernest Pridham, M.A. ; Miss C. D. Grant, M.A. ; Miss G. A. Drew, M.A. ; Mr. H. H. Ward. 1. General Statement of the Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 744 3 0 Capitation— For free places .. .. .. 338 6 6 Under Manual and Technical Instruction Act .. .. .. .. 16 4 10 Current income from reserves .. .. 692 12 2 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 188 5 8 School fees .. .. .. .. 250 19 0 Interest on deposits .. .. .. 12 9 3 Government grant—Assistance to Board re pa}ment to Messrs. Hughes and Newing for improvements under clause 18 of " The Reserves and other Lands, &c, Act, 1901 " 1,500 0 0 £3,743 0 5

Expenditure. £ s. d Office salary .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Expenses .. .. .. .. 20 18 4 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 947 16 8 Piizes .. .. .. .. 24 7 8 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 29 811 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 6 8 5 Purchases and new books .. • .. 467 4 0 Furniture aud apparatus .. .. 24 15 5 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 57 4 9 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 25 0 0 Interest on ourrent account .. .. 2 6 0 Waimale leases— Compensation to tenants .. .. 1,579 1 6 Legal expenses .. .. .. 243 2 6 Valuations .. .. .. .. 34 18 0 Travelling-expenses .. .. .. 17 17 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 212 11 3 £3,743 0 5

W. K. MacDiarmid, Chairman. E. Griffiths, Secretary ana Treasurer. Examined aud found correct, except that the expenditure, "Travelling-expenses, £17 175.," is without authority of law.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Arithmetic—Hamblin Smith, the whole. Algebra—Hall and Knight, Exercises Ito 31. Euclid —Subject-matter of Euclid, Books 1., 11., 111., and Deductions on Books 1., 11., and 111. of Hall and Stevens's New Geometry. Latin—Abbott's Via Latina; Caesar, Book I. ; Via Nova to No. 15 of Part III.; Accidence. French —Graminaire dcs Grammaires ; Chardenal's Advanced Course, with exercises Ito 71; Pellissier's Unseens, 1 to 50, and Miscellaneous. Geography —Chisholm's Geography ; Lawson's Physiography. English—Mason's English Grammar; Prologue to Canterbury Tales; Goyen's Composition ; Abbott's Composition; Samson Agonistes. Science —Murche's Physiology ; Macahster's Vertebrata. Drawing—Model, Sepia and Charcoal. Lowest. —Latin —Abbott's Via Latina, Examples Ito 11. Arithmetic—Southern Cross, Fifth Standard. Algebra —Hall and Knight, Examples Ito Bb. History—Primary History, 1485-1689, and Victoria. Geography—Southern Cross, Fifth Standard. English—Mason's First Notions of Grammar; Composition ; Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth. Science —Murche's Physiology, to page 54.—Drawing—Model and free-arm. WANGANUI GIRLS' COLLEGE. Staff. Miss M. I. Fraser, M.A.; Miss S. E. Gifiord, M.A. ; Miss M. Rawson, M.A.; Miss J. Knapp, B.A. ; Miss J. R. Currie, M.A.; Miss A. Blennerhaasett, B.A. ; Miss E. M. Mcintosh, M.A.; Miss M. B. Richmond, 8.A.; Miss H. Fraser ; Miss I. S. Baker ; Miss L. Reichert; Mr. D. E. Hutton, A.M. ; Miss M. L. Browne; Madame Venosta; Miss F. Marsden ; Mr. C. W. Naylor.

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1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year— £ s. d. On mortgage .. .. 2,800 0 0 Dr. balance .. .. 1,128 15 7 1,671 4 5 Current income from reserves .. .. 345 0 0 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid purchase-money .. .. .. 158 11 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 203 4 2 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,178 19 11 Boarding-sohool fees .. .. .. 2,318 1 4 Sales .. .. .. .. .. 980 Advance repaid .. .. .. .. 90 16 9 Church sittings .. .. .. 32 14 0 Rent of cottage .. .. .. 24 0 0

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salaries .. .. .. .. 65 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 15 14 5 Caretaker .. .. .. .. 54 18 0 Other expenses of management .. .. 12 19 1 Teachers' salaries and aliowan-es .. 1,841 3 10 Boarding-school account .. .. 2,232 4 0 Examinations— Examiners' fees .. .. .. 26 5 0 Other expenses .. .. .. 4 8 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 28 3 9 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 66 6 6 Furniture — House .. .. .. .. 46 7 6 School .. .. .. .. 56 1 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 11l 9 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 72 10 9 Interest on current account, £47 18s. 6d. ; bank charge, 10s. .. .. .. 48 8 6 Rent of coti age and site .. .. 80 15 0 Fees refunded .. .. .. .. 3 8 0 Church sittings .. .. .. 35 8 0 Balance at end of year— On mortgage .. .. .. .. 1,600 0 0 Cr. balance .. .. .. 630 811

£7,032 0 1 £7,032 0 1 Geo. S. Bridge, Chairman. W. J. Carson, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —As prescribed by the New Zealand University for the Degree of B.A. in English, Mathematics, Latin, French, Mechanics ; with a somewhat abreviated B.A. course in German. Lowest. —English and Geography similar to Standard IV in public schools. History— Primary History, 60 pages. French—Conversation lessons ; writing of original sentences ; considerable vocabulary of common words. No text-book. Arithmetic—Similar to public-school Standard 111. Drawing—Freehand, brushwork, and model. Singing —Class singing. Scripture —Life of Christ. Gymnastics—General. WANGANUI COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. W. Empson, 8.A.; Mr. J. R. Orford, M.A. ; Rev. A. W. N. Compton, M.A.; Mr. H. B. Watson, M.A.; Mr. E. G. Atkinson, B.A. ; Mr. J. Harold; Mr. J. E. Bannister, M.A. ; Mr. W. A. Armour, M.A. ; Mr. J. S. Lomas, 8.A.; Mr. E. C. Hardwicke, M.A. ; Mr. F. L. Peck ; Mrs. Atkinson ; Mr. R. Dunn. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To balance at beginning of year .. .. 182 9 8 Office salaries (commission) .. .. 57 1 3 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,198 19 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 53 5 0 Interest on prize-moneys invested .. 8 12 6 Other expenses of management .. .. 35 5 7 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,895 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,110 16 8 Boarding-school fees .. .. .. 516 0 0 Prizes.. .. .. .. .. 45 3 6 Music fees .. .. .. .. 61 12 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 50 12 5 Lease fees .. .. .. .. 35 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 96 2 2 Refund of insurances .. .. .. 612 4 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 252 9 7 Donation re spectroscope .. .. 5 0 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 96 3 9 Cheques outstanding .. £62 10 0 Interest on current account .. .. 10 0 Less baiance at bank .. 17 6 7 Refund of tuition fees received in excess, ■ 45 3 5 1903 .. .. .. .. 44 0 0 Architect and auction expenses .. .. 36 1 6 Chemicals and spectroscope .. .. 24 4 6 Law costs and lease fees .. .. 52 3 0 £3,954 8 11 £3,954 8 11 T. B. Maclean, Acting-Chairman. Ed. N. Liffiton, Treasurer. Aubrey Gualter, Secretary to Trustees. I certify that the above balance-sheet is a correct summary of the receipts and expenditure of the Wanganui Collegiate School for the year ending 31st December, 1904.—John Notman, Auditor. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Work as for Junior University Scholarships. Lowest. —Latin, reading, writing, composition, arithmetic, drawing. PALMERSTON NORTH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. E. Vernon, M.A., B.Sc. ; Mr. F. Foote, B.A. ; Miss E. M. Rowley, B.A. ; Mr. J. Ritchie; Miss G. Wyatt; Mr. L. J. Watkin ; Mr. R. Grant; Miss B. Mollison.

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1. Report of the Governors. The returns for the year asked for <by the Department have all been supplied, and the accounts have been passed as correct by the Auditor-General. The headmaster reports favourably on the school's progress during the year. The success which has followed the establishment of the Palmerston North High School must be very gratifying to the inhabitants of the district, who have by it been supplied with a long-felt want. Thanks are due to the Board who have devoted their time and energy to the administration of its affairs—to the staff, to whom the success of the school is akin to the breath of life—and also to the Right Hon. the Minister of Education, the author of " The Secondary Schools Act, 1903," by means of which the establishment of this school became a possibility. Our high school has the distinction of being the first high school established under that Act. Let us hope that it will thrive, and under divine blessing help to make good men and women of our boys and girls. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Government capitation for free places .. 959 8 9 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 191 9 4 School fees.. .. .. .. .. 149 3 4 Donations — Voluntary contributions from persons not on the Board, &c. (section 13, (i), " The Secondary Schools Act, 1903 ") 51 3 0 Technical School fees and material .. 20 18 0 TypewrhVr-class fees .. .. .. 4 0 0 Receipts from Wanganui Education Board .. 34 17 8

Expenditure. £ s. dExpenses of management.. .. .. 5 7 5 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. .. 842 5 0 Caretaker's wages .. .. .. 78 0 0 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus .. .. 74 8 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 16 1 7 Fuel, light, &c. .. .. .. 12 9 3 Sheds and additions .. .. .. 91 9 0 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 7 0 0 Fire and accident insurance .. .. 11 1 0 Piano, part payment, hire-purchase .. 18 0 0 £ s. d. Balance in bank at end of year .. 381 9 9 Less outstanding cheques .. 126 11 5 254 18 4

£1,411 0 1 £1,411 0 1 W. T. Wood, Chairman. G. Hirsch, F.1.A.N.Z., Hon. Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highest, and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Manual of English Grammar and Composition (Nesfield) ; Carlyle's French Revolution; Thackeray's Esmond ; Julius Cißsar; Merchant of Venice. Geography—The World; (Longman, Book II.); Elementary Physiography (Morgan). Latin—Latin Prose (Ramsay), Part I.; Virgil's ißneid, Book XII. Grammar. Arithmetic (Goyen). Algebra —To the progressions (Hall and Knight). Euclid—Books 111., IV., VI. (1-20), (Hall and Stevens). Trigonometry —To solution of triangles (Pendlebury). Science — Physiology (Furneaux). Mechanics — Kinetics, statics, hydrostatics (Loney). French — Chardenal's second course; Chardenal's advanced course to Exercise 64; Wellington College Grammar; " Le Cid " (4 acts). Woodwork and Cookery. Lowest. —English —English Grammar and Composition, Parts I. and 11. (Nesfield); Ivanhoe (Scott); Marmion (Scott). Geography —Europe, Africa, and Physical (Longmans' The World, Book II.). History—To A.D. 1485 (Ransome). Latin —Via Latina, pages 1-100 (Abbott). Arithmetic —Goyen, chapters 1-16. Algebra—Longmans' Junior, chapters 1-11. Geometry— Baker and Bourne, Books I. and 11. Science —Elementary Botany; Elementary Agriculture. French—Chardenal's First Course, to Exercise 100; Huit Comtes (Rivington). Shorthand— Pitman's Teacher. Book-keeping, drawing, woodwork, cookery. WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. College.—Mi. J. P. Firth, B.A. ; Mr. A. Heine, 8.A.; Mr. J. Bee, M.A.; Mr. W. F. Ward, M.A.; Mr. A. C. Gifford, M.A.; Mr. G. G. S. Robison, M.A. ; Mr. T. Brodie, B.A. ; Mr. T. Jordan, 8.A.; Mr. F. Renner, M.A. ; Mr. R. E. Rudman, 8.A.; Mr. D. Matheson ; Mr. J. H. Goulding ; Mr. C. T. Wild, B.A. ; Instructor in drawing from Technical School. Girls' High School. —Miss M. McLean, M.A. ; Miss M. Morrah, M.A.; Miss M. N. Gellatly, M.A.; Miss I. Ecclesfield, M.A.; Miss W. Fraser, 8.A.; Miss Batham, B.A. ; Miss Newman, 8.A.; Miss Jack ; Miss England; Mr. R. Parker ; Mr. Harrison ; Instructor in drawing from Technical School. 1. Report of the Governors. The Board of Governors have to report that the Wellington College and Girls' High School are still carried on with success, though the Board are unable through want of funds to increase the accommodation or to provide accommodation for boarders, as is required in the Girls' High School. The Board regrets to report that representations made to the Minister of Education on these matters in August last year have up to the present time evoked no reply. The results of the University examinations as affecting the two institutions under charge of the Board of Governors are as follows :— Wellington College.—-Seventeen pupils passed the Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge Examination, one the Matriculation Examination, eight the Medical Preliminary, and three passed the Junior Scholarship Examination with credit,

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Girls' High School. —Seventeen pupils passed the Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge Examination, three the Matriculation Examination*, eight matriculated on the Junior Scholarship papers, four passed the Junior Scholarship Examination with credit, and one passed the Medical Preliminary Examination. Ten pupils passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 929 2 2 Government capitation for Manual and Technical Instruction .. .. 29 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 2,381 10 7; Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 542 6 7 School fees .. .. .. .. 5,232 16 10 Refunds .. .. .. .. 25 0 0 Donations for prizes .. .. .. 17 13 0 Interest on deposit .. .. .. 30 0 0 Rents from buildings .. .. .. 152 10 0 Sale of clay .. .. .. .. 25 0 0 £9,364 19 2

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salaries .. .. .. 210 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 34 0 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 4,894 16 8 ExaminationsExaminers' fees .. .. .. 98 14 0 Oiher expenses .. .. .. 52 10 11 Prizes .. .. .. .. 67 2 5 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 352 18 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 153 19 6 Furniture and apparatus .. .. 114 12 5 Buildings .. .. .. 348 3 3 Fencing, repairs, grounds, &c. .. .. 443 10 11 Interest .. .. .. 557 2 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 76 7 3 Interest on current acoount .. .. 14 6 Interest on cost of reclaimed land .. 104 14 6 Rates .. .. .. .. 15 9 Fees refunded .. .. .. .. 5 16 4 Legal expenses .. .. .. .. 8 3 4 Grant to Games Fund .. .. .. 75 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 1,764 16 8 £9,364 19 2

A. de B. Brandon, Chairman. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest — Boys' College: Mathematics (Junior University Scholarship Standard) —Algebra, Hall and Knight's Elementary and Hall and Knight's Advanced; Euclid, Hall and Stevens, I. to VI.; Trigonometry, Loney's Plane, Part I.; arithmetic, general. Science (Junior Scholarship Standard) —Chemistry, Jago's Advanced, Practical, Simple Qualitative Analysis; Heat, Wright's Advanced; Electricity, Poyser's Advanced Electricity and Magnetism. Latin—Cicero, Pro Archia and De Senectute; Virgil, Georgics, IV.; Horace, Odes, III.; Bradley's Arnold, 1.-XLIV.; Bradley's Aids; Horton's History of the Romans; and Grammar. English—Shakespeare (Twelfth Night) ; Macaulay; Addison ; Chaucer (Prologue); Hales's Longer English Poems; Nesfield's Historical Grammar; Essays, &c. French—Sandeau (Madamoiselle de la Seigliere); de Vigny (Cinq Mars); Sand (La Mare au Diable); Eve and de Baudiss, Grammar I.; Macmillan's Third Course; Duhamel's Advanced Composition. Girls' High School : English—Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present; Paradise Lost, Books 111. and IV.; Chaucer's Minor Poems; Carlyle's Hero as Man of Letters; Nichol's English Composition and Exercises; Longmans' Handbook of English Literature, Part V. Latin—Ovid's Tristia, Book I.; Historical Odes of Horace; Cicero (De Amicitia) ; Horton's History of the Romans ; Bradley's Latin Prose Composition ; Bryant's Latin Prose Exercises; Stedman's Latin Examination Papers; Wilkin's Primer of Latin Antiquities; Rivington's Latin Unseens, Book IX. French—Wellington College Grammar and Exercises; French Idioms and Proverbs (De V. Payen-Payne); Macmillan's French Composition, Part II.; La Fontaine, Select Fables; Moliere's L'Avare; Tartarin de Tarascon (Shipman's French); Contanseau's French Dictionary. Mathematics —Hall and Stevens's Euclid; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Pendlebury's Elementary Trigonometry; Pendlebury's Arithmetic. Lowest. — Boys' College : Arithmetic —Southern Cross, Standard V. English—lmperial Reader V. ; reading, spelling, dictation, writing, composition, simple parsing and analysis. Geography—Zealandia, Standard IV. History—Southern Cross, Standard IV. Science —Geikie's Physical Geography. Drawing — Freehand, design with water-colour. Girls' High School: English—Nesfield's Parts of Speech; The Arabian Nights ; Laureate Poetry, Book V. French ■ —Nursery Rhymes. Arithmetic—Pendlebury's Smaller Arithmetic. Longmans' First Book of Geography. Ship Historical Reader, Book IV. NAPIER HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School.— Mr. A. S. M. Poison, B.A. ; Mr. E. W. Andrews; Mr. E. J. Parr, M.A., B.So. ; Mr. J. Stewart; Mr. G. V. Bogle ; Mr. J. Drummond; Mr. R. N. Anderson. Girls' School.— Miss A. E. J. Spencer, 8.A.; Miss C. R. Kirk, B.A. ; Miss F. J. W. Hodges, M.A.; Miss E. M. B. Lynch, M.A. ; Miss J. Gillies; Miss D. A. Gillam, M.A.; Miss H. A. Taylor, Miss J. E. Page; Mrs. Macfarlane ; Mr. Naylor ; Mr. Gregson. 1. Report of the Governors. The Board of Governors have the honour to report that there has been a further increase in the number of day-pupils and boarders during the year. A considerable addition had consequently to be made to the buildings of both schools.

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The provisions of the new Act as to free places and junior departments have been adopted with satisfactory results. The following is a list of the successes of the schools in the December examinations—Boys: Twenty-nine passes—Junior University Scholarship, one passed " with credit"; Medical Preliminary, one; Matriculation, seven, five of them also passing Solicitors' General Knowledge; Junior Civil Service, eleven, all passing "with credit," seven of them being in the first hundred for the colony; Continuation Free Place Examination, ten, four of whom are included in the number passing the Junior Civil Service ; Queen's Scholarship, three passed. Girls: Nineteen passes—Junior University Scholarship, one, second for the colony; Matriculation, six, two of them also passing Solicitors' General Knowledge; Junior Civil Service, seven, six of them " with credit," one first for the colony and three in the first fifty; Continuation Free Place Examination, four; Queen's Scholarship, one passed. In the report on the annual examination of the schools the examiner, Mr. T. W. Rowe, M.A., says, " It is my pleasing duty to report that I have found the work generally, in both schools, to be very good, quite up to the best standard of previous years." 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 4,334 8 11 Government Capitation for free plaoes .. 456 13 4 Income from reserves .. .. .. 298 5 0 „ from property not a reserve .. 881 5 0 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid purchase-money .. .. .. 137 9 2 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 1,889 5 0 School fees .. .. .. 734 2 6 Board and ooach-fare of scholarship ohildren 225 0 4 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 122 8 9 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 3 18 6 £9,082 16 6

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salaries .. .. .. .. 80 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 21 16 7 Legal expenses .. .. .. .. 12 8 4 Teachers'salaries and allowanoes .. 2,255 3 0 Examiners'fees.. .. .. .. 30 0 0 Other expenses of examinations .. .. 4 7 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 225 0 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 22 8 5 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 48 8 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &0... .. .. 147 11 3 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and other temporary advanoes .. .. 92 16 1 Sites and buildings .. .. .. 1,394 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 191 16 4 Miscellaneous (rates, &o) .. .. 105 2 4 Expenditure on endowments .. .. 12 6 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 4,439 12 4 £9,082 16 6

T. C. Moore, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys' School: Mathematics, to Junior University Scholarship standard—Geometry, Hall and Stevens; Algebra, Hall and Knight ; Arithmetic and Trigonometry, Pendlebury; Mechanics, Tutorial Series; Besant's Hydrostatics. French, to Junior Scholarship standard— Le Roi dcs Montagnes; Charles XII.; Le Phedre; Brachet's Grammar; Stedman's Questions. Latin, to Junior Scholarship standard—Scalae Tertiae ; iEneid, 11. ; sight translations from various authors; Bradley's Prose; Millington's Prose; Creighton's Rome; Horton's History of the Romans; Wilkin's Antiquities. English, to Junior Scholarship standard—Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar; Chaucer's Prologue; Nesfield's English Past and Present. History—Ransome (1688-1837). Geography and Physiography —General, Gill, Longman's, Huxley, Thornton, &c. Science —Physics (heat), to Junior Scholarship standard ; Stewart's Advanced Heat. Girls' School: Arithmetic—Whole subject. Algebra—-Hall and Knight's, Junior Scholarship standard. Euclid — Hall and Stevens, Books I. to VI., inclusive. Trigonometry—-Pendlebury, Junior Scholarship standard. English History—First-year college-work. English Grammar—Nesfield's Past and Present, Junior Scholarship work. English Literature—Merchant of Venice, general reading. Latin —Bradley's Arnold's Grammar; Bryan's Latin Prose Composition ; Abbott's Latin Prose; Allen's Latin Grammar; Horace's Epistles, Book I. ; Odes, Books 111. and VI.; Virgil's iEneid, Book IX. ; Caesar's Gallic War, Book VII., chapters 1 to 60; Tacitus's Germania, chapters Ito2o ; Cicero's De Officiis, chapters Ito 6 ; general sight translation. French—Junior Scholarship work ; Wellington College Grammar ; Corneille's Cinna, Horace ; Moliere's Le Misanthrope; Voltaire's Charles Douze. Botany—Junior Scholarship work. Mechanics—Junior Scholarship work; Loney's Statics and Dynamics; Besant's Hydrostatics ; Tutorial Hydrostatics. Lowest. — Boys' School: Standard 11., of the Public School Syllabus, together with Elementary Practical Geometry (Foster and Dobbs), and Elementary Practical Physics (Gregory). Girls' High School: Arithmetic—Pendlebury's Shilling Arithmetic, simple and compound rules, weights and measures. Geometry —Practical. French—Methode Naturelle, first ten lessons. English —Nesfield's Parts of Speech; easy parsing and analysis. Essays on object-lessons, letter-writing, &c. ; Selections from Wood's First Poetry Book, and from the Imperial Reader, Standard IV. Writing —Copybooks and transcription. Object-lessons—Lessons on Natural Science ; Elementary Botany (wheat, flax). Geography—Definitions; New Zealand; Australia; trade-routes; trading centres; countries and capitals of Europe; glaciers, and work of the sea. History—Notes, William I. to Richard 111. Scripture History—Notes, Journeyings of the Children of Israel. Drawing—Freehand, simple brushwork, simple geometrical figures.

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General Statement of Accounts for Receipts. £ s. d. Balanoe at beginning of year .. .. 3,648 11 4 Capitation from Government for manual and ttchnical instruction .. .. .. 33 1 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 150 0 0 Interest on moneys invested, and on unpaid pnrohase-money .. .. 161 9 6 Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 217 1 9 Interest on savings-bank account .. 3 6 11 £4,213 10 6

the Year ended 31st December, 1904. Expenditure. £ s. d Office expenses .. .. .. 5 4 9 Prizes .. .. .. .. 4 3 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 6 0 0 Hawkn'sßay Education Board, for Distriot High School .. .. .. .. 371 13 2 Additions to building .. .. .. 944 5 3 Insurance .. .. .. .. 10 8 0 Technical instruction classes .. .. 33 0 10 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year — Bank .. .. .. .. .. 48 13 11 Post-Office Savings-Bank: .. .. 40 1 7 Mortgages .. .. .. .. 2,750 0 0 £4,213 10 6

W. Morgan, Chairman. C. A. de Lautour, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. MARLBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. John Innes, M.A., LL.D.; Mr. R. V. White, B.A. ; Miss M. C. Ross, M.A.; Miss J. B. Reid, 8.A., Miss G. Huddlestone ; Mr. G. R. Barnett. 1. Report of the Governors. The increase in the number of pupils at the school consequent upon the system of " free places " was sufficient to make it necessary to increase the strength of the staff, and Miss Jessie Reid, 8.A., was appointed second assistant mistress. The Principal's report of the work done during the year, and of the successes achieved by the pupils at the public examinations, was considered most satisfactory. Considerable improvements have been effected in and around the school. A neat fence has been erected immediately around the building. The cricket and hockey grounds have been improved, and a much-needed dressing-room for the use of the boys before and after games of cricket and football was erected. A cadet corps was formed, and recognised by the Defence Department. At the close of the year Mr. Justice Cooper kindly undertook, for the second time, to distribute the prizes, and gave a very interesting and instructive address to pupils, parents, and teachers on the importance of their several duties and responsibilities to the institution and to one another. Building. —The Governors feel that the usefulness of the High School would be greatly enhanced if they could build a suitable dwellinghouse for the Principal, with sufficient accommodation for a few boarders; but the funds at their disposal are not sufficient to allow them to do anything in this direction. In view of the very long time during which this district was entirely unprovided with the means of secondary education, it does not appear to the Governors to be unreasonable to expect the Government to assist them in making this necessary addition to the establishment, more especially as by so doing an annual expense of £40 would be avoided. Technical Education. —An effort is being made to bring the benefits of this modern essential of a liberal education within reach of the scholars of the Marlborough High School; and an application has been recently made to the Government for assistance towards a building for use in this connection; and the Governors hope that their application will receive the favourable consideration of the Education Department. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 553 311 Government grant for building .. .. 200 0 0 Government capitation for free places .. 498 5 1 Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 40 0 0 Sohool fees .. .. .. .. 301 7 0 Government statutory grant .. .. 400 0 0 Donation for prizes .. .. .. 3 3 0 £1,995 19 0

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salary .. .. .. .. 25 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 750 15 2 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 16 13 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 8 6 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 29 6 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 59 3 5 Buildings and new works .. .. 388 13 1 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 8 3 4 Miscellaneous (rates, &o.) .. .. 7 16 0 Plans, supervision, &c. .. .. .. 24 2 9 Interest on current account .. .. 0 3 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 2 1 10 Furniture and appliances .. .. 29 4 0 Books for teachers' use .. .. .. 16 10 3 Cadet corps .. .. .. .. 15 0 0 School library .. .. .. .. 12 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 602 19 9 £1,995 19 0

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3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Nesfield's English Past and Present, and Grammar and Composition; Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice ; Milton's Minor Poems, L'Allegro and H. Penseroso ; Chaucer's Prologue; composition. Latin—Virgil, iEneid XII.; Tacitus, Agricola and Germania; Cicero. In Catilinam, I. and II.; sight translation ; grammar and composition. Mathematics —Arithmetic, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, as for Junior University Scholarship. French —Merimee's Colomba; Voltaire's Charles XII.; grammar; free composition; sight translation. History and geography, as for Junior University Scholarship. Lowest. —English grammar—Nesfield's Outline ; parsing, analysis, paraphrase, composition. Latin —Scott and Jones's First Latin Course. French —-Dent's First Course ; Wellington College Accidence, as far as third conjugation of verbs. Geometry —Sanderson's Geometry for Beginners. Algebra (elementary)— David's Algebra for Beginners. Arithmetic—Pendlebury and Beard, from fractions to the metric system ; miscellaneous examples. Reading and spelling—Standard VI., Royal Reader. Nature in New Zealand. Spelling and dictation. Recitation — Lyra Heroica. History —Gardiner s Outline, 1603-1900. Geography—Standard VI., maps of Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, Australia, the world ; British possessions, their products and the reasons for their importance. Physical—Climate, seasons, meridians, parallels, movements of the earth, distribution of land and water. Drawing—Freehand and geometrical. NELSON COLLEGE. Staff. Boys' College.—Mr. H. L. Fowler, M.A.; Mr. F. Milner, M.A. ; Mr. G. J. Lancaster, M.A. ; Mr. C. H. Broad, B.A. ; Mr. M. K. McCulloch, M.A.; Mr. W. Kerr, M.A.; Mr. E. H. Severne, B.A. ; Mr. P. D. Mickle ; Mr. A. P. Cox, M.A.; Mr. F. F. C. Huddleston ; Mr. S. W. Thornton. Girls' College.— Miss A. C. Tendall, M.A.; Miss E. Gribben, 8.A.; Miss M. Pickmere, M.A. ; Miss F. M. Kirton, M.A. ; Miss H. Jenkins, 8.A.; Miss M. McEachen, M.A.; Miss F. E. Livesay, 8.A.; Miss E. T. Chisholm ; Mr. F. F. C. Huddleston. 1. Report of the Governors. Early in the year the Hon. Albert Pitt resigned his position as a Governor, finding that the claims on his time as Attorney-General and a member of the Cabinet precluded him from sharing longer in the duties of the Council. Colonel Pitt's resignation was received with much regret, as during the many years in which he had been a member of the Council of Governors he had at all times shown a deep interest in the welfare of the College, and was always ready to aid it by every means in his power. Mr. Francis H. Richmond, an old College boy, was appointed as his successor. The year 1904 will remain a memorable one in the annals of the institution, owing to the destruction of the Boys' College by fire on the 7th December, the forty-fifth anniversary of its foundation. It was a matter of much regret that a building which had been for so long a credit and an ornament to the city should have been so ruthlessly swept out of existence in the course of a brief hour or two. Its memories are, however, imperishable, and the Governors trust that before long a new College, retaining the familiar features of the old building, but constructed of more enduring materials, will occupy the same site. Substantial assistance has been promised by the Government in aid of this. Boys' College. The high attendance of the previous year was well maintained, sixty-two new pupils being admitted, of whom thirty-four joined as free pupils under the provisions of the Secondary Schools Act. The number of boarders was eighty-six. The College was very successful in the public examinations. Four boys passed the first year's examination at Victoria College, and three the second. E. J. Wilson won the Junior University Scholarship, and two boys obtained credit. Sixteen passed the Matriculation Examination, four taking the Medical Preliminary at the same time. Four passed the Junior Civil Service Examination, and twenty-two obtained extension of their term of free education on the Civil Service papers. In the Entrance Army Examinations, G. G. Everett passed his final, and has obtained a commission as lieutenant in the Somersetshire Light Infantry, now in India, while H. Watts passed the literary section. The fire which destroyed the College buildings on the 7th December was not allowed to interrupt the school work, which was resumed the following morning in the large hall of the School of Music, and carried on until the end of the year. The boarders were accommodated by friends, and it was a source of much gratification to the Governors and Principal that the tenders of hospitality to the boys were so prompt and numerous, considerably exceeding the needs. To make temporary arrangements for the new year, it was arranged that the large house opposite the College grounds, which the Governors had acquired a few months previously, be enlarged to accommodate fifty boarders, in addition to being the temporary residence of the Principal and some of the assistant masters. Class-room accommodation was secured in the School of Music Hall, the Presbyterian Hall, and the Shelbourne Street School. The use of two class-rooms in the Central School was also granted, free of charge. It has been decided to proceed with the levelling of the College playground, an improvement which has been long desired. It is hoped that this will be completed by the time the new College is opened. The Governors are gratified to find that the accommodation provided for the new year has proved all that is necessary for the comfort of boarders and the carrying-on of the work. 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Girls' College. Extensive alterations and additions, costing about £2,000, were completed during the past year, and the College has greatly benefited by the additional accommodation afforded in both day and boarding departments. The new gymnasium was opened early in the year, and has been much appreciated. The average attendance for the year was 159, of whom thirty-six were boarders. Fifty of the pupils held free places under the Secondary Schools Act, twenty-five being in their second year. The public examinations resulted as follows : Five girls passed first year's terms ; four passed Matriculation; three passed Matriculation and Solicitors' General; four passed Junior Civil Service ; ten passed Continuation on Civil Service papers. Besides the ordinary school course the pupils have been afforded opportunities of learning cookery, bookkeeping, shorthand, and swimming. The music pupils gave recitals from time to time at the School of Music. 2. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1904. Endowment Account.

Receipts. £ a. d. Rents .. .. .. .. .. 903 18 2 Interests .. .. .. .. 294 12 7 Sohool Commissioners' subsidy .. 97 14 10 Bonus on payment of mortgage .. .. 8 2 6 Boys' ( Boarding fees .. .. .. .. 3,299 6 8 Tuition fees .. .. .. 2,168 6 8 Girls' C Boarding fees.. .. 1,(143 9 6 Tuition fees .. .. •• •• 1,818 9 8 Capitation grant, oookery olasses .. 53 4 3 Refunds 2 10 9

Expenditure. £ s. d. Rates and taxes .. .. .. .. 12 12 8 Law costs .. .. .. 14 12 6 Insurances .. .. .. ..680 Printing and advertising .. .. .. 19 15 4 Stationery .. .. .. 5 12 11 Repairs .. .. .. .. 1 10 8 Governors' and auditors' fees .. .. 35 16 8 Office-rent .. .. .. .. 25 0 0 Office cleaning and gas .. .. .. 11 18 3 Interest on bank overdraft.. .. .. 58 16 2 Furniture .. .. .. 1 10 0 Telephone and letter-box .. .. 6 2 6 Valuation and inspection of properties .. 413 0 Secretary .. .. .. .. 58 6 0 Petty oash, postage, and sundries .. .. 32 5 3 College. House expenses .. .. .. .. 2,772 4 7 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 2,247 9 6 Scholarships— Foundation .. .. .. .. 67 0 0 Endowed .. .. .. , .. 116 0 0 Free tuition .. .. .. 152 0 0 Governors' and auditors' fees .. .. 37 6 8 Examiners' fee .. .. .. .. 110 Stationery .. .. .. .. 83 11 10 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 23 5 3 Printing and advertising.. .. .. 66 6 2 Gas .. .. .. .. 116 10 5 Rates and taxes.. .. .. .. 15 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 19 5 5 Repairs .. .. .. 163 1 5 Furniture .. .. .. .. 85 1 11 Subscriptions to sports and magazine .. 35 0 0 Painting .. .. .. 189 7 0 Architects' fees .. .. .. .. 61 2 6 Tools and materials, woodwork classes .. 48 19 4 Chemicals and appliances .. .. 22 11 11 Gymnastic applianoes .. .. .. 21 0 0 Electrioal „ .. .. .. 6 17 6 Photographic „ .. .. .. 2 0 0 Telephone .. .. .. .. 6 13 Grounds .. .. .. .. 14 0 Fire brigade .. .. .. .. 5 5 0 Watchman .. .. .. .. 813 6 Seoretary .. .. .. .. 58 7 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 111 6 College. House expenses .. .. .. 1,397 14 7 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 1,419 12 4 Scholarships— Foundation.. .. .. .. 56 14 0 Endowed .. .. .. .. 23 2 0 Free Tuition .. .. .. 42 0 0 Governors' and Auditors' fees .. .. 37 6 8 Examiners' fee .. .. .. 110 Stationery .. .. .. .. 78 17 8 Prizes .. .. .. .. 12 9 9 Printing and advertising .. .. 40 11 6 Gas .. .. .. .. .. 88 3 3 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 15 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 49 17 11 Repairs .. .. .. .. 53 7 0 Furniture .. .. .. .. 213 8 6 Papering and painting .. .. 130 7 0 Gymnastic appliances.. .. .. 36 1 10 Telephone and letter-box .. .. 6 0 0 Grounds .. .. .. .. 7 17 0 Subscriptions to magazine .. .. 3 3 0 Seoretary .. .. .. .. 58 7 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 8 15 7

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Capital i Repayment of mortgage .. .. .. 1,000 0 0 Repayments on acoount of mortgages .. 49 2 4 Redemption of property .. .. .. 1,547 6 8 Donation from Old Boys' Association .. 400 0 0 Government subsidy on ditto .. .. 400 0 0 Miss C, A. Barniooat, for annual prize .. 75 0 0 Bank overdraft, 31st December, 1904 .. 432 19 11 Add upaid cheques .. .. .. 3 10 £13,997 5 6

Account. Purchase of property, College Hill .. 950 0 0 Boys' College, Fowlhouse, &o. .. .. 26 6 4 Girls' College, additions .. .. 1,893 4 6 Bank overdraft, lst January, 1904 .. 619 12 6 £13,997 5 6

Jas. Blair, Secretary. We hereby certify that we have examined the foregoing accounts, and compared them with the several vouchers relating thereto, and have found them correct.—John King and Ambrose E. Moore, Auditors. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys' College : English—Chaucer's Prologue and Clerke's Tale, Julius Caesar, Merchant of Venice; selections from Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson; Esmond; Nesfield's Grammar; Skeat's Primers of English Etymology; essays, paraphrase, &c. Latin — Virgil, .Zlilneid xi.; Cicero's Letters (selection); Tacitus, Agricola and Germania; Verse Selections (Carey's); Caesar, De Bello Gallico, vii.; Bradley's Arnold; composition. French—Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Half-hours with Modern Authors; Blouet's Composition; Eve and de Baudiss's Grammar, Mathematics — Arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, geometry ; to Junior University Scholarship standard. Science —Chemistry, mechanics ;to Junior Scholarship standard. Girls' College : Bradley's Arnold ; Virgil, iEneid vi.; Tacitus, Germania and Agricola ; standard of B.A. degree : Merivale and Puller's Roman History ; Wilkin's Antiquities. French—Wellington College Grammar; Bue's French Idioms ; Cinna ; Horace; Le Misanthrope; Charles Douze. Mathematics —Lock's Trigonometry; Todhunter's Algebra; Hall and Stevens's Euclid. English—Nesfield's Historical Grammar; Sweet's Anglo-Saxon and Middle-English Primers; Macmillan Brown's Literature; Seccombe's Age of Johnson ; Esmond; Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar. Physics— Wright's Physics. Botany—Junior University Scholarship syllabus. Lowest. — Boys' College : English—Kingsley's Heroes ; Macaulay's Horatius ; Nature in New Zealand ; composition ; dictation ; spelling ; grammar ; Nesfield's Outlines ; parsing ; easy analysis. History—Ransome's Elementary, to 1688. Geography—The British Empire; Australia and New Zealand in detail; elementary physicial. Latin—Elementa Latina, verbs, with exercises ; Scalse Primae, 1-18. Arithmetic—Weights and measures ; L.C.M.; G.C.M.; fractions. Drawing—Elementary freehand and geometrical. Plasticine, simple forms (first term only). Woodwork, management of tools, manufacture of simple articles. Girls' College : English—Royal Crown Reader, Standard III.; Imperial Reader, Standard IV.; general work as required for these standards. Arithmetic—Southern Cross 111. and IV.; Pendlebury's Examples, to supplement. Drawing—Colonial Drawing-book IV.; blank drawing-book, free and conventional copies. History—History Reader IV. Geography—Longmans' Geography, Book I. Botany—Elementary knowledge of form and structure of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruit; practical work being done at each lesson. German —Elementary object-lessons by Cran, taught entirely orally, fifty pages of book. GREYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance, 31st December, 1903 .. .. 1,269 0 6 Westland Sohool Commissioners.. .. 50 1 6 Rent .. .. .. .. .. 25 10 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 34 11 4 Sale of property, Cobden .. .. 41 18 0 £1,421 1 4

Expenditure. £ s. d. Grants to Grey Education Board .. 100 0 0 Secretary's salary .. .. .. 10 0 0 Bank interest and charges .. .. 610 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 14 0 Balance on 31st Deoember, 1904 — At National Bank .. .. .. 13 7 4 At Post-Offioe Savings-Bank .. .. 300 0 0 Debentures .. .. .. .. 900 0 0 Loan on mortgage .. .. .. 90 0 0 £1,421 1 4

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, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,590 15 0 Current inoome from reserves .. .. 57 0 0 Interest on moneys invested, &c. .. .. 56 12 0 Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 50 0 0 £1,754 7 0

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salary .. .. .. .. 18 7 6 Other office expenses .. .. .. 110 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances (grant to Westland Education Board) .. .. 200 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 4 10 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 17 17 4 Grant in aid of Hokitika woodwork class (Technical) .. .. .. .. 5 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 1,507 1 8 £1,754 7 0

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RANGIORA HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. T. R. Cresswell, M.A.; Miss C. S. Howard, M.A.; Miss B. Martin, M.A.; Sergeant-Major Hoare. 1. Report of the Governors. Buildings.—A special Government grant of £300 enabled a much-needed extension to be made. A new class-room has been built, also private rooms for the headmaster and the mistresses ; the entrance-porches have been enlarged, and existing lavatory accommodation improved. The whole interior has been painted, and a gymnasium 30 ft. by 20 ft. built. The total cost of all improvements to date is about £650. Distinctions. —Considering the smallness of the school, a large number of examination successes are to be recorded. Two pupils gained Education Board Senior Scholarships, two passed the Matriculation Examination, four the Junior Civil Service Examination, and eleven the Continuation Examination, entitling them to a further two years' tenure of free places. Cadet Corps. —A cadet corps has been formed. Uniforms, &c, costing over £130, have been paid for by subscription and the proceeds of a successful bazaar. There is no debt in connection with the corps. A week s camp of instruction was held in November. Major-General Babington, Commandant of the New Zealand Forces, who inspected the corps in December, said that it " promised to be one of the best, if not the best, cadet corps in the colony." 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 91 19 10 Government oapitation for free places (including third term, 1903) .. .. 673 15 4 Government grant for building, furniture, &c. .. .. .. .. 300 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 157 5 6 Sohool fees .. .. .. .. 150 9 6 £1,373 10 2

Expenditure. £ s. d. Offioe expenses— Stamps .. .. .. .. 2 16 3 Bank charges .. .. .. 0 15 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances— Headmaster .. .. .. .. 350 0 0 Mistress .. .. .. .. 144 0 0 Assistant mistress .. .. .. 100 7 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 12 2 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 31 7 11 Sanitation .. .. .. .. 4 18 3 Buildings— From Government grants .. .. 300 0 0 From current revenue, including furniture .. .. .. .. 190 9 7 Fenoing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 26 3 8 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c), .. 512 6 Interest on ourrent account .. .. 10 6 Contribution to Cadet Corps .. .. 20 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 183 17 0 £1,373 10 2

J. Johnston, Chairman. Robert Ball, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that the " contribution of cadet corps, £20, is without authority of law. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English — Nesfield's Grammar; Hales' Longer English poems; Hereward the Wake. Latin—ViaLatina; Stedman's exercises ; Caesar, Deßello Gallico ; Books 1., 11., and 111. French—Chardenal, parts I. and 11. ; composition; miscellaneous translation. Arithmetic—Pendlebury, to approximations and contracted methods. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to quadratics ; Tuckey ; graphs, &c. Euclid—Hall and Stevens, Books 1., 11., and-111., riders. Geometry— Baker and Bourne, Books I. and 11. Botany—Murche and Evans, to Senior Education Board Scholarship Standard. English History—l6o3-1837, Meiklejohn and Gardiner. Roman history— Shuckburgh. Geography—Longmans' Part 111. Book-keeping —Thornton's Manual. Lowest. —English —Longmans' Junior Grammar and Composition. Latin—Macmillan's First Course. French—French without Tears; Chardenal, Part I. Arithmetic—Pendlebury, to fractions and decimals. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to division. Geometry —Exercises from Baker and Bourne. Botany —Murche ; and simple experiments in plant-growth. History—Warner's Survey of British History. Geography —Longmans' Geography, Book 11. CHRISTCHURCH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. C. E. Bevan-Brown, M.A.; Mr. B. K. S. Lawrence, 8.A.; Mr. W. Walton, 8.A.; Mr. R. M. Laing, M.A. 8.50.; Mr. R. Speight, M.A., 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. T. G. Malcolm; Mr. J. Balfour; Mr. W. S. Malaquin; Mr. A. J. Merton; Mr. A. Ager ; Sergeant-Major F. Farthing; Mr. T. S. Tankard; Miss E. E. Digby. 1. Report. A preparatory department was sanctioned by the Board, and young boys below the attainments of the Fifth Standard are received in it, and when they can pass the Fifth Standard they proceed to the main school. The school roll at the end of 1904 was 219, of whom nineteen were in the Preparatory Class. The Board gave free education to forty-eight pupils last year; two, however, resigned in the first term, and two later on in the year. In addition to these there were seven scholars provided for by the Board of Education.

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The distinctions gained during the year were as follows: Among former pupils Mr. J. G. Lancaster won a Senior University Scholarship for mathematics; Mr. A. E. Currie the John Tinline Scholarship for English (receiving high praise from the examiners in England); Messrs. T. Gurney and S. S. D. Robertson obtained the degree of B.Sc. in Engineering; the Rev. T. M. Curnow obtained his M.A. with second-class honours in Latin and English; and Mr. C. T. A. Griffin his B.Sc. with second-class honours. Of present pupils, one, who is only just sixteen, won a Junior University Scholarship, winning top marks of all candidates for mathematics, three won places in the Credit List, two passed the Medical Preliminary, and sixteen passed Matriculation, of whom six qualified on the Junior Scholarship papers. Seven boys passed the Junior Civil Service Examination with credit. Mr. 0. T. J. Alpers, after fifteen years' valuable service, resigned his position at the end of the year, to the great regret of the Board and of his school. The school was examined at the end of the year, and the examiners' reports were deemed very satisfactory. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 156 3 0 Government capitation for Manual and Technical Instruction .. .. 34 10 0 Reserves sold (Capital Account) .. .. 17 10 3 Current income from reserves .. .. 3,368 5 5 School fees — Main School.. .. .. .. 1,684 17 9 Preparatory School .. .. .. 159 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 10 0 1 Royalty on sale of parsing notes.. .. 1 10 0 Share of cost of fencing on reserve .. 212 0 Share of expenses of arbitration (Reserves 1201b and 1325) .. .. .. 10 7 0

Expenditure. £ a. d. Management expenses .. .. .. 100 0 0 Teachers' salaries— Main School .. .. .. 3,869 12 0 Preparatory School .. .. .. 145 0 0 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 59 8 3 Other expenses of examinations .. .. 12 17 6 Scholarships (Leaving Exhibition) .. 15 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 21 2 8 Printing, stationery, and advertising, books, telegrams, &c. .. .. .. 133 17 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 61 17 3 Fencing, repairs, renewals, fittings, &c. .. 117 11 1 Insuranoe .. .. .. .. 31 15 11 Chemicals and apparatus .. .. 61 8 9 Inspecting and advertising reserves .. 115 12 6 Interest on Loan Account, £5,000 .. 200 0 0 Grants to sports fund, cadet corps, and school library .. .. .. 75 0 0 Rent of section (playground) .. .. 100 0 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 33 11 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 291 010

£5,444 15 6 - £5,444 15 6 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 XXII. ; Virgil, Selections ; Horace, Odes, Book III.; Hints and Helps in Continuous Latin Prose ; Easy Latin Prose Exercises ; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer; Copp and Haigh's Latin Dictionary ; Well's History of Rome; Rivington's Class-book of Latin Unseen, Book VII. English—G. Eliot's Romola ; King Lear ; Palgrave's Golden Treasury; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition; Nesfield's Historical English and Derivation ; Abbott's How to Write Clearly ; Stopford Brooke's Literature Primer ; essays, composition, philology. History—Lodge's Modern Europe; Ransome's Short History ; Wells's History of Rome. French—Cinq Mars ; Le Maitre de Forges ; Specimens of Modern French Verse; Materials for French Translations; oral French; Parallel French Grammar. Mathematics— Ward's Examination Papers on Trigonometry ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Books 111. to VI. ; Loney's Trigonometry, Part I. ; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Elements of Applied Mathematics; Short Introduction to Graphical Algebra. Science—Chemistry ; Jago's Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Theory. Lowest. —English—Scott's Ivanhoe (abridged) ; Henley's Lyra Heroica. History—Brief History of England. Geography—The Austral Geography, Class V. French—Oral French. Mathematics —Zealandia Arithmetic, Standard IV. ; Long and Cross Tots ; Mental Arithmetic. Science —Drummond's Nature in New Zealand. Art —Elementary freehand from copies on board (in outline and colour) ; (each lesson pupils draw on blackboard, with ambidextrous practice); modelling in plasticine; Simple constructions in plane geometry with design, and scale drawing. Also writing, gymnasium, and singing. CHRISTCHURCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Miss M. V. Gibson, M.A.; Misß C. K. Henderson, 8.A.; Miss M. B. Hay; Miss F. Sheard, M.A. ; Miss K. Gresson, M.A.; Mrs. C. V. Langton, M.A.; Miss E. E. T. Crosby, 8.A.; Miss E. L. Cull, 8.A.; Miss L. L. Bing, 8.A.; Miss H. L. Smith; Miss N. Gardner ; Miss A. Rennie; Miss E. Easterbrook; Miss M. Cook; Sergeant-Major Farthing. 1. Report. At the beginning of 1904 an important change was made in the working of the school, as the Governors decided to bring it under section 5 of the Secondary Schools Act of 1903. In consequence, forty-six new scholars were admitted to free places under the Act, including three girls holding Board of Education Scholarships, and one holding a Junior National Scholarship. As the qualification for free places was at that time only the pass for Standard VI. under fourteen

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years of age, the intellectual average and standard of attainments of most of the pupils admitted under the Act was not high; and, although their general conduct and diligence throughout the year has been for the most part satisfactory, very few will in all probability continue their secondary studies further than the two-years course. The higher qualification— i.e., certificate of proficiency—that will in the future be required will no doubt effect the desired improvement in this respect. The increase in numbers caused considerable difficulty in providing accommodation, and though, owing to the height and ample ventilation of the class-rooms, there has been no overcrowding that could in any way be injurious to health, yet every available foot of floor-space has been fully occupied, and even then it has been very difficult to arrange for the various classes in the limited number of class-rooms available. Small classes have had to work in the teachers' sitting-rooms, and the lunch-room has been used almost continuously as a class-room, a purpose for which it is by no means fitted, either in respect of furniture or arrangements for lighting, &c. It lias been practically impossible to assemble the whole school in any one room, and the provisions for the practical-science classes have been quite inadequate for the larger classes that now have to be taught at one time. There is urgent need of increased accommodation as soon as possible. The chief event of the year was the unveiling of the memorial tablet erected by the members of the Old Girls' Association in memory of the late Mrs. Macmillan Brown. The tablet, which is of beaten copper, has been placed in the entrance-hall, and was unveiled on the 14th April by Sir John Hall, K.C.M.G., a member of the Board of Governors at the time of the first opening of the school. The same afternoon Mr. Charles Lewis, M.H.R., Chairman of the Board of Governors, unveiled the School Honours Board. This has been erected by subscription from present and past pupils to commemorate the completion of the first twenty-five years of the school's history. As it was found necessary to increase the staff, an assistant mistress was appointed. In addition to the free-place scholars already mentioned, six girls held Senior Entrance Scholarships, four school exhibitions, four free places granted by the Board of Governors, and fourteen Board of Education Scholarships under old regulations; the total number receiving education without expense to their parents being thus seventy-four. As no candidates qualified for Junior Entrance Scholarships, these were not awarded, and it was decided later on in the year to abolish these scholarships, as the free places available more than supply the need for them. In their stead the Senior Entrance Scholarships School Exhibitions have been increased in number and value, and provision has been made for granting a boarding-allowance to country candidates. In the December University examinations, five candidates sat for the Junior University Scholarship Examination; one gained a Junior University Scholarship, and those taking second and fifth places respectively on the Credit List were awarded the two Gammack Scholarships. Another pupil matriculated in the Credit List, and eleven others passed the Matriculation Examination. In the examination for Board of Education Senior Scholarships, one pupil headed the list, and another gained a scholarship. Three passed the Junior Civil Service Examinations held in January, and four others that held in December, one taking fifth place. Three ex-pupils have received the degree of 8.A., and one was awarded an exhibition in French at Canterbury College. The pupils of the lowest form in the school, which was very small in numbers and was taught as a lower department, were examined by one of the Inspectors of the Board of Education in December, and were all passed up. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 164 11 11 Government Capitation— For free places .. .. .. 311 13 4 For manual and technical instruction .. 33 11 8 Current income from reserves .. .. 227 4 5 Interest on moneys invested, &c. .. .. 231 811 School fees (including extra fees for gymnastic class, £5) .. .. ..1,170 10 0 Ditto, preparatory sohool .. .. 74 0 6 Proceeds from oooking-class .. .. 20 8 0 £2,233 8 9

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salary .. .. .. .. 60 0 0 Teachers salaries— Main school .. .. .. .. 1,545 15 6 Preparatory school .. .. .. 73 0 0 Grant in aid to boarding-house .. .. 50 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. 33 14 9 Expenses of examinations .. .. 8 14 6 Scholarships .. .. .. 177 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 18 0 3 Printing, stationery, advertising, and books 78 10 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c... .. .. 18 12 3 Furniture, &c. .. .. .. .. 26 18 0 Fenoing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 11 13 3 Insurance .. .. .. .. 10 17 9 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 7 13 Expenses of oooking-olass .. .. 16 12 10 Sundries .. .. .. .. 10 9 8 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 86 8 7 £2,233 8 9

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(Lobban); Byron, Childe Harold, Cantos 111. and IV. ; Longmans' Handbook of Literature, Part V.; Nesfield's English Past and Present. French—Moliere, Les Femmes Savantes ; Dumas, La Tulipe Noire ; Loti, Pecheur d'lslande; Chardenal's Advanced Course; Spiers' Graduated Passages for Translation into French Prose ; miscellaneous sight translation. Mathematics —Hall and Knight's Algebra; Loney's Trigonometry, Part I.; Hall and Stevens's Euclid. Physical Science—Draper's Heat. Natural Science —Evans's Botany. Lowest. —Work to public-school Standard V. requirements. English—Kingsley's Heroes ; Laureate Poetry-book, No. IV. ; Nature in New Zealand ; Nesfield's Outlines of English Grammar ; Stronach's Literature. French—Dent's First French Course; conversational French. Arithmetic—As for Standard V. History—Mrs. Ransome's First History of England. Geography— Southern Cross Geography, No. V. Natural Science—Eyes and No Eyes Series ; Plant-life in Field and Garden. Writing— Southern Cross Copybooks Nos. 9 and 10; or Public Service Copybook No. 9. Drawing—Elementary brushwork. CHRIST'S COLLEGE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Staff. Rev. C. H. Moreland, 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, M.A. ; Rev. F. G. BritUn, M.A. ; Mr. J. Monteath, B.A. ; Mr. G. H. Merton, B.A. ; Mr. C. L. Wiggins ; Mr. A. J. Merton; Mr. J. M. Madden ; Sergeant-major, F. Farthing. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 15th May, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Price of land sold (Capital Aooount) .. 270 0 0 Mortgage repaid (Capital Account) .. 500 0 0 Current income — From lands .. .. .. .. 1,941 011 j From scholarships endowments.. .. 743 9 7 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,949 14 0 Payment on account buildings .. .. 18 11 3 Sinking funds, transfer from inoome .. 50 0 0 Sundries unclassified .. .. .. 15 17 5 Overdraft at end of year.. .. .. 1,671 1 9 £8,159 14 11

Expenditure. £ s. d. Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 149 18 2 Office expenses, cost of management .. 253 8 9 Teachers'salaries and allowances.. .. 3,621 19 4 i Examiners'fees.. .. .. .. 36 15 0 Other expenses of examinations .. .. 22 13 9 Scholarships .. .. .. 662 11 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 55 17 11 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 99 7 5 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 192 9 0 Laboratory material .. .. .. 34 12 4 Buildings and new works .. .. 129 10 0 Fenoing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 335 3 6 Miscellaneous (rateß and insurance) .. 64 17 6 Interest on ourrent account .. .. 19 17 3 Moneys invested .. .. .. 2,100 0 0 Purohase of lands .. .. .. 26 12 4 Boys' Games Fund .. .. .. 186 18 6 Boys' Cadet Fund .. .. .. 26 6 3 Expenses in connection with land estate .. 141 1 7 £8,159 14 11

Walter Harper, Subwarden. W. Guise Brittan, Bursar. Audited and found correct. —A. A. M. McKellar, Auditor. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English — Lowe's English Grammar ; Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Macbeth ; Chaucer, Knight's Tale. French—Tartarin de Tarascon ; Principia; Spiers' Drill; Bue's French Idioms ; Wellington College French Grammar. Latin—Livy, Book XXI.; Horace, Political Odes (Church). Greek—Xenophon, Anabasis ; Euripides, Hecuba. Arithmetic—All Pendlebury's Arithmetic (occasional revision and problems during the year). Geometry, Euclid—Books I. to IV. with Book VI. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to end of permutations and combinations. Trigonometry —Loney, to end of solution of plane triangles. Science —Chemistry, Newth, Elementary Practical Chemistry; Roscoe and Harden, Inorganic Chemistry for Advanced Students; heat, Glazebrook. History (Roman) —Tutorial History of Rome. Lowest.— Reading and spelling—Longmans' "Ship" Reader 111. Repetition—Easy Selections (Twells). Grammar and Composition—Longmans' Grammar and Composition; parts of speech ; elementary analysis of easy simple sentences ; practice in forming simple sentences ; reproduction of short stories ; dictation and spelling. Geography —Zealandia, Books 11. and 111. History— Longmans' Short Stories from English History. Divinity—Ainslie's Gospel Lessons ; Catechism (Mrs. Francis's), to the end of The Desire. Arithmetic—Southern Cross Series, Books 11. and 111. AKAROA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .... 4 5 10 On fixed deposit .. .. .. '.. 150 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 160 4 9 Interest on fixed deposit.. .. .. 4 10 0 £319 0 7

Expenditure. £, a. d. Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 2 10 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 6 10 Bank charges .. .. .. .. 010 0 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year— Current account .. .. .. 155 9 7 On fixed deposit .. .. .. 154 10 0 £319 0 7

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ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. S. Tennant, M.A., B.Sc.; Mr. C. F. Salmond, M.A. ; Miss M. Connon, M.A.; Mr. T. W. Sandford; Mr. R. Meechan. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. t t. d. Government Capitation— For free places .. .. .. 403 5 0 For manual and technical instruction .. 28 13 4 Current income from reserves .. .. 588 11 3 School fees .. .. .. .. 97 13 0 [ Refund of law costs .. .. .. 110 £1,119 3 7

Expenditure. £ s. d. Overdraft at beginning o( year .. .. 194 17 3 Office salary .. .. .. .. 26 6 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 4 3 1 Other expenses of management.. .. 11 17 2 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 636 5 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. •• 550 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 16 5 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c.. .. .. 43 19 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 20 15 3 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 510 6 Interest on current account .. .. 13 7 0 Woodwork classes .. .. .. 28 13 4 Instruction physical culture .. .. 20 0 0 Trap-hire .. .. .. .. 15 0 Furniture and freight .. .. .. 36 14 7 Breaking-up expenses .. .. .. 212 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 51 8 2 £1,119 3 7

Geo. B. Inglis, Chairman. John Davison, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English — King Lear; L'Allegro ; II Penseroso ; Lycidas; Nesfield's Grammar. Latin—Principia Latina; Sight Translations; Gallic War, Books I. and 111. ; iEneid, Book 11. French—Chardenal, Book II.; Hachette's French Reader ; Hachette's French Prose. Arithmetic The subject as for Junior University Scholarship Examination. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to page 317 ; graphs. Geometry—Baker and Bourne, Books I. to IV. Roman History —Merivale and Puller. Geography—As for Matriculation Examination. Trigonometry—Pendlebury, to page 94. Drawing—Freehand, model, and geometrical, as for matriculation. Science—Botany as for matriculation. Lowest. —English—Nature in New Zealand (Drummond) ; The Globe Poetry-book (Macmillan); Nesfield's Grammar. Latin—Principia Latina. French—Methode Naturelle (Hogben). Arithmetic—As for Junior Civil Service Examination. Algebra—To simple equations. Geometry Baker and Bourne, Books I. and 11. Geography—Standard VI. ; South America. History— History of British Colonial Empire. Botany—Root, stem, leaf, flower, and fruit. Book-keeping Elements of ordinary double entry as for Junior Civil Service Examination. Shorthand — Pitman's Teacher. Drawing—Freehand and geometrical. Woodwork—Department's programme first year. Sewing—Advanced plain needlework. TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School—Mr. G. A. Simmer.-, M.A.; Mr. R. H. Rockel, M.A.; Mr. G. T. Palmer; Mr. W. H. N. Amos Sergeant-Major T. Jones. Girls' School—Miss B. M. Watt, M A.; Miss J. Mulholland, M.A. ; Miss C. M. Cruickshank, M.A., B.Sc.; Miss E. M. Reid; Miss K. O'Biien ; Sergeant-Major Jon-s. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. The personnel of the Board is the same as for the preceding year. Again the work of the boys' school has been greatly interfered with by numerous staff changes. The Board regrets that its popular headmaster, Mr. G. A. Simmers, was so ill during the year that he was compelled to absent himself from work on several occasions, and that finally, by direction of his medical advisers, he had to ask for extended leave in order to take a trip to the Old Country. On the whole the efficiency of the Girls' school has been well maintained, and the Board has reason to be more than satisfied with the progress made, and with the results of the various examinations in which the school has been represented. The Board regrets that the Department has not yet made arrangements for a regular and systematic examination of secondary schools. The attendance at the schools has again materially increased, the numbers for the last term of the year being—boys, 93 ; girls, 95 ; showing increases of 21 and 22 respectively over those of 1903. The numbers of free pupils included in the above are —boys, 85 ; girls, 75; total, 160 ;so that the number of pupils that paid fees for the last term was only 28. The increased attendance has been such as to tax the capacity of the present buildings to the utmost, and, if there is in the future a further increase it will be necessary either to add to the present structure, or, what would be preferable, to build a new and separate institution for the girls in some other part of the town. This matter has engaged the attention of the Board during the year, and also the question of providing a boardinghouse.

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 2,243 9 0 Receipts from Government — For sites, building, furniture, &c. .. 71 2 4 Books, &c, for Maori scholar .. .. 2 17 11 Capitation for free places .. .. 720 1 1 Capitation for Manual and Technioal Instruction .. .. .. .. 47 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,762 17 2 Interest on money invested .. .. 95 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 352 15 4 Interest on current accounts .. .. 4 11 10 £5,305 14 8

Expenditure. £ s. d. Management— Office salary .. .. .. .. 76 19 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 22 1 5 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,008 4 1 Exhibition examination expenses.. .. 8 8 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 38 5 11 Printing, stationery, and advertising for schools .. .. .. .. 74 10 5 Cleaning, fuel, and light.. .. .. 135 8 1 Woodwork shop (Government grant) .. 66 0 0 Board's share of workshop .. .. 83 3 8 Furniture .. .. .. .. 44 9 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 30 16 11 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 33 110 Endowments— Members' travelling-expenses .. .. 25 6 0 Miscellaneous.. .. .. .. 16 3 6 School technical classes— Salaries .. .. .. .. 72 10 0 Apparatus .. .. .. .. 68 10 6 Material .. .. .. .. 12 6 3 School cadet uniforms .. .. .. 144 7 3 Refunds—rent overpaid and fees .. .. 37 0 7 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 2,308 1 6 £5,305 14 8

Wm. B. Howell, Chairman. A. Bell, Secretary and Treasurer. Kxamined and found correct, except that the expenditure of £144 7s. 3d. for school cadet uniforms is without authority of law.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : English—Nesfield's Historical English ; Nesfield's Manual; Abbott's How to Write Clearly ; Chaucer's Prologue; Shakespeare's Julius Csesar, Tempest; Thackeray's Esmond ; Selections from Tennyson. German—Siepmann's School Primer; Macmillan's Course, Part 11. ; Macmillan's First Reader; Buchheim's Modern Reader, Parts 1., II.; selected proses. Latin—Hayes and Watts' Matriculation; selections from authors; Kennedy's Grammar; Walter's Latin Prose ; North and Hillard's Latin Prose ; Wilkin's Primer of Antiquities ; Horton's Roman History; Abbott's Via Latina; Bell's Scalse Media?; Allen's Grammar; Wilkinson's Selections from Livy. French—Half Hours with Modern French Authors ; Wellington College Grammar ; .selected proses; Chardenal, 2; Le Tour dv Monde; Le Voyage de M. Perichon. Mathematics, to Junior University Scholarship standard—Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Stevens' Euclid ; Lock's Trigonometry ; Pendlebury's Arithmetic. Geography—Longmans' No. 3, as for Junior Civil Service Examination. Geometrical drawing, to matriculation standard. Girls: English —Nesfield's Historical English Grammar ; Great Authors, Part II.; Selections from Chaucer; Shakespeare's Julius Caasar; Macaulay's Essay on Bacon; Keats's Hyperion, Book I.; Tennyson's Coming of Arthur and Passing of Arthur; Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I. Latin— Arnold's Latin Prose ; Bryan's Latin Prose ; Cffisar, Book VII.; Selections from Ovid; Sargent's Latin Passages for "Unseen Translation. French —Macmillan's French Composition, 11. ; Wellington College Accidence ; Bue's Idioms ; Half-hours with Modern French Authors (Jules Lazare); Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ; Charles XII. Mathematics —Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Books LVI.; Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra; Lock's Elementary Trigonometry: Pendlebury's Arithmetic ; Pendlebury's Trigonometry. Botany —Aitken's Elementary Text-book of Botany; Introduction to Study of Botany by Dendy and Lucas. Science—Mechanics and Hydrostatics for Beginners, by Loney. History—Creighton's History Primer, Rome; Wilkin's Primer of Roman Antiquities. Lowest.—Boys: Latin—Via Latina and Macmillan's Shorter Course, Part I. French— Chardenal I. and Hogben's Methode Naturelle. English —Nesfield's Manual of Grammar and Composition. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to simultaneous equations and fractions. Geometry and Euclid—Euclid, Books I. and II.; Hall and Stevens's School Geometry, Book I. Arithmetic —Advanced Standard VI. and Junior Civil Service Examination ; Pendlebury. Book-keeping— Thornton's Book-keeping (Primer), to ledger and journal and bills. Shorthand — Pitman's Instructor. Drawing—Model and freehand, as for Junior Civil Service Examination. Woodwork —First-year exercises. History—As for Junior Civil Service Examination. Geography—As for Junior Civil Service Examination; Longmans' World 111. Girls : English—Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition; Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare; Globe Poetry-book. HisBuckley's History ; Henry IV. to Edward VI. Geography—Longmans' Ship Series, Europe. Latin —Via Latina, to page 53. French —Methode Naturelle, to page 40. Arithmetic— Pendlebury. Algebra—Hall and Stevens. Euclid—Theorems, 1-12; Problems, 1-12 ; Hall and Stevens's Geometry. Botany—Youman's Botany for Beginners; nature-study, without any textbook. WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of the Governors. Waimate, 19th June, 1905. With regard to the Waimate High School Board, our annual report for 1904 is very much the same as on previous occasions.

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Our contributions in the interests of the Waimate District High School amounted to close on £200, and included such items as £80 for the better staffing of the secondary department, scholarships, £40; fees for enabling promising pupils under the Sixth Standard to secure some measure of secondary education, £30 ; prizes for secondary scholars, gold medal, &c, about £10. Our opinion is that our co-operation with the Education Board and the committee of the District High School is of material advantage to those bodies, and is much appreciated. We beg to say, however, if it is proper for us to refer to the matter at all, that any attempt to raise the standard of attainment for free places in the high schools, such as substituting a more rigid certificate of proficiency for an ordinary Sixth Standard certificate of competency, would considerably—especially in the case of outside country schools—reduce the numbers of those who would gladly avail themselves of secondary education. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,873 11 7 Current income from reserves .. .. 205 16 4 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 78 0 0 Interest on fixed deposit .. .. .. 14 4 7 £2,171 12 6

Expenditure. £ s. d. Salary of Secretary .. .. .. 12 12 0 Office expenses .. .. .. .. 2 0 0 Other expenses of management .. .. 18 4 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances.. .. 80 0 0 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 40 12 6 Exhibitioners' fees .. .. .. 30 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 812 6 Interest on current acoount .. .. 0 4 0 Balanoe at end of year .. .. .. 1,979 7 6 £2,171 12 6

Geo. Barclay, Chairman. G. H. Graham, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School.— -Dr. J. R. Don, D.Sc, M.A., F.C.S., F.G.S. ; Mr. W. G. Grave, M.A.; Mr. G. Uttley, M.A. ; Mr. G. J. Park ; Sergeant-Major Kibblswhite. Girls' School. — Miss C. Ferguson, M.A. ; Miss V. M. Greig, M.A. ; Miss M. O. Cunninghame, 8.A.; Miss M. G. McCaw ; Sergeant-Major Kibblewhite. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. Boys' School. —The Board has again to thank the Minister for his liberality in granting a subsidy of pound for pound towards the erection of new class-rooms. Friends and old pupils of the school, seeing the great want of room, liberally contributed over £400 towards the cost, thus enabling the Board to provide the necessary room, and it is confidently anticipated that the three new rooms in course of erection will be ready for occupation at the beginning of the second term. Girls' School. —The new school was opened at the beginning of the year, and has met with all requirements giving entire satisfaction to the Lady Principal and her staff, and has been fully appreciated by the pupils who are enabled to pursue their studies with a greater degree of comfort and success. Excellent work continues to be done at both schools. The Governors note with pleasure the advantage that has been taken of the free places granted under " The Secondary Schools Act, 1903," and congratulate the Minister on his foresight in providing free secondary education in the colony. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 338 1 8 Government grant for buildings, &o. .. 975 0 0 Government capitation for free places .. 445 6 8 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,091 6 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 146 1 11 School fees (Boys, £608 10s.; girls, £183 155.) .. .. .. .. 792 5 0 Interest on scholarship deposit .. .. 7 0 0 Contractors' deposit .. .. .. 3 7 0 Amount recovered for cost of fenoing .. 212 6 £3,801 0 9

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salaries .. .. .. .. 87 10 0 Law costs .. .. .. .. 6 6 0 Other expenses of management .. .. 12 1 6 Ranger .. .. .. .. 22 10 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,468 6 8 Prizes.. .. .. .. .. 5 10 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 35 11 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 91 18 7 From Government grants—Girls'school .. 913 2 8 Purchases and new works .. .. 405 5 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 307 17 6 Miscellaneous (rates, &o.) .. .. 46 9 0 Drill Instruction .. .. .. 18 15 0 Refund of fees.. .. .. .. 40 0 0 Balance in bank at end of year .. .. 339 17 3 £3,801 0 9

Donald Borrie, Chairman. A. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : English—Nesfield's Grammar Past and Present; Higher-grade English (Blackie); Tutorial History of English Literature ; Penny Poets —Keats, Shelley, Burns, Coleridge, Chaucer, Spencer; Shakespeare, Tempest, Julius Csesar, King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet. Latin—Prseceptors' Latin Course (Tutorial Series) ; Bradley's Arnold; Livy, Books XXI.

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Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 684 9 0 Government capitation— For free places .. .. .. 2,389 18 6 For manual and technical instruction .. 120 15 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,985 13 9 Interest on moneys invested, &o. .. 16 19 2 , Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 347 19 2 i School fees .. .. .. .. 1,391 13 5 Boarding-school fees (girls) .. .. 330 3 11 | Price of firewood sold .. .. .. 5 0 0 Prooeeds sale from cooking-olasses .. 3 16 0 Interest on prize-fund on fixed deposit .. 113 6 £7,278 1 5

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salaries .. .. .. .. 220 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 10 0 0 Other expenses of management .. .. 121 8 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 4,741 410 Boarding-school account .. .. 489 15 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 31 16 4 Printing, stationery, and advertising (schools) .. .. .. .. 129 19 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 310 15 1 Expenditure on laboratories .. .. 107 9 10 Water-rates .. .. .. .. 83 10 0 Cooking-classes .. .. .. 53 2 8 Furnishing, repairs, &c. .. .. 219 8 10 Insurance .. .. .. .. 52 19 5 Interest on debentures .. .. .. 157 10 0 Amount transferred to sinking fund .. 17 10 0 Balance on fixed deposit in Bank of New Zealand .. .. .. .. 531 12 1 £7,278 1 5

J. R. Sinclair, Chairman. C. Macandrew, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that the amount has not been repaid to which exception was taken in the accounts for 1903, of £16 7s. lid. paid for the expenses of a visit to Wellington of a member and the secretary of the Board.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys. English — Chaucer, Prologue; Shakespeare, Tempest; Spencer, Faerie Queene; Milton, Hymn on the Nativity, Lycidas; Macaulay, Milton; Historical English Grammar, Composition, &c. Latin —Livy, Book XXII. (forty chapters) ; Horace, Epistles; Virgil, iEneid, Book I. ; 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 nonmetallic elements; physics, heat. Girls: English — Chaucer, The Nonne Preestes Tales: Shakespeare, Macbeth ; Spenser, Faerie Queene (part); Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I. ; Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (part); Historical English Grammar; Composition, &c. ; Literature, general. Latin —Livy Book XXII., twenty-three chapters; Horace, Odes, Book IV., Book 111., eight Odes ; Middleton's Latin Verse ; Reid's Translation at Sight; Composition, Grammar, fe.; Roman history. French—Chardenal's Advanced Exercises; Wellington College Reader; Boielle, Poetry: Barlet and Masom, Higher French Reader; grammar, composition, &c.; Berthon, Specimens of Modern French Verse. German—Macmillan, Part II.; Second German Reading-book. Mathematics — Arithmetic, the whole subject; Algebra, to permutations and combinations ; Geometry, Euclid, Books 1., 11., 111., IV., VI.; Trigonometry—Lock's Trigonometry, to solution of triangles. Science —Botany and Physics as specified for Junior University Scholarship. Lowest. — Boys : English—Lady of the Lake and Adventures of Ulysses; Grammar and Composition. English History—l6o3-1714. Geography —British Isles and Europe. Latin—Welch and Duffield's Accidence. French—Chardenal's First French Course ; Grammar and Composition, to page 36. Mathematics—Arithmetic (whole subject) ; algebra, to division ; geometry —Book 1., to Proposition 10 (Baker and Bourne). Science—Elementary light. Book-keeping—Thornton's Easy Exercises. Girls : English—Literature, Tennyson, The Princess; Longfellow, Miles Standish ; History, James I. to Charles II.; Grammar, Composition, &c, Nesfield's Grammar, Prefixes 33 (one term's work), spelling, parsing, analysis, composition ; Geography—Physical. French—Conversational and Oral Work—Bell's First French Course, to page 46. Mathematics —Arithmetic, Pendlebury, profit and loss, discount, and compound interest; Algebra, Hall and Knight's, to equations; Euclid (Baker and Bourne), experimental work, definitions, axioms, postulates, and four propositions. Science —Botany, structure of flowering plants. SOUTHLAND HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School.— Mr. T. D. Pearce, M.A. ; Mr. H. 0. Stuckey, M.A., B.Sc. ; Mr. J. McKinnon ; Mr. J. S. McGrath ; Mr. J. Pow ; Mr. J. Hanna. Girls' School.— Miss E. Sttvenson, M.A. ; Miss J. R. Barr, M.A.; Miss B. Ayton, A.A.; Miss H. McKibbin, 8.A.; Mrs. G. A. Turner ; Mr. J. Hanna. 1. Report. At the beginning of 1904 the Governors comprised Messrs. Watson, Hawke, Macalister, Thomson, and Froggatt. Mr. W. B. Scandrett was elected Mayor, and took his seat on the Board in April. The still-increasing attendance at both schools necessitated considerable additional accommodation. Tiie securing of the use of a large room in the Salvation Army barracks met the needs to an extent, but the arrangement is extremely inconvenient, and seriously affects the efficient control of the classes. The absolute necessity for the erection of a separate girls' school is becoming more and more apparent. The Board has been compelled to act without further delay. The architect was instructed to prepare plans and specifications, and as soon as these are completed a copy will be forwarded to your Department. The building will be erected on the land purchased by the Board with the grant made by the Government for that purpose. At the commencement of the year it was found necessary to increase the staff. With the experience of the two years since the adoption of the Government regulations the Board is satisfied that the inauguration of the principle of granting free places in the high school to pupils from the primary schools has been fully justified, as the following numbers on the roll at the beginning of each year show. During the first term of 1902, the year before the regulations came into force, there were 127 pupils in attendance : this number rose to 206 in 1903, to 248 in 1904, and in the first term of this year 1905 there are 256 on the roll. The Board recognises that a likely result of this large increase of numbers, a result to be vigilantly guarded against, is a general lowering of the standard of work in the schools. Every possible means, however, is being adopted to counteract this downward tendency, and with the increased accommodation which is so urgently needed the Board hopes to be able to maintain the high standard of efficiency which has hitherto characterized the work of the schools. The gymnasium erected by the Board is still much appreciated, and during the winter months is occupied almost every evening by various clubs, and in the daytime by pupils of the primary schools. The teachers of the country schools avail themselves of the gymnasium on Saturdays, and highly appreciate the provision. The lectures on agricultural science referred to in last annual report were continued during the winter of 1904, but were not so successful as those delivered in 1903. The farming population do not appreciate the effort to the extent that was anticipated.

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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balanoe at beginning of year .. .. 213 10 11 Government grants for buildings, &c .. 850 0 0 Government oapitation— For free places .. .. .. 1,168 510 For manual and technical instruction .. 53 7 6 Current income from reserves .. .. 934 12 11 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 197 4 0 School'fees .. .. .. .. 680 17 4 Rents from freeholds .. .. .. 56 7 4 Subsides .. .. .. .. 175 0 0 Gymnasium fees .. .. .. 31 10 0 Sale of buildings, &c. .. .. .. 10 19 0 £4,371 14 10

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salary .. .. .. .. 83 6 8 Other expenses of management .. .. 35 13 7 Teaohers'salaries and allowances .. 1,761 0 0 Instruction, gymnasium school, salary .. 160 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 38 12 4 1 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 129 3 1 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 152 15 3 Site and buildings .. .. .. 854 10 6 Purchases and new works .. .. 54 13 1 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 136 5 5 Miscellaneous (rates, &o.) .. .. 40 18 6 Interest on current aooount .. .. 4 13 0 Rent .. .. .. .. 23 10 0 Athletios .. .. .. .. 10 6 6 Chemioals and appliances .. .. 30 1 8 Technical classes .. .. .. 90 14 0 Furniture and fittings .. .. .. 53 12 11 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 711 18 4 £4,371 14 10

W. Macalister, Chairman. Charles Rout, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highkst and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : English—Chaucer, Prologue (part) ; Tennyson, selections ; Macaulay, Clive ; Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice ; Historical English Grammar ; composition ; literature. Latin —Livy, selections; Virgil, selections ; Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia ; unseens in prose and verse; grammar; prose composition; history; antiquities. French—Selections in prose and verse; grammar; prose composition. Mathematics—Arithmetic, the whole subject ; mental arithmetic ; Algebra, to binomial theorem ; Geometry, Euclid, Books I to VI; Trigonometry, to solution of triangles. Science—Chemistry, inorganic; metals and non-metals; heat, to Junior Scholarship standard. Girls : English—Shakespeare's Julius Cassar ; Macaulay's Essay on Clive ; Milton's L'Allegro, II Penseroso, and Lycidas ; Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book I, selections ; the literature of the eighteenth century; Nesfield's English Grammar and Composition; parsing, analysis, composition, and letter-writing. Latin—Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition ;De Bello Gallico, V.; Virgil's iEneid, selections ; Ovid, Stories from the Metamorphoses. French—Wellington College Grammar, Eve and Baudiss ; Hachette's Second French Reader ; selected idioms. Mathematics—Arithmetic, the subject; algebra to the end of quadratic equations ; Euclid, Books 1., 11., and III.,; trigonometry to the end of trigonometrical ratios. Science —Botany and physiology as for matriculation. History and Geography as for matriculation ; Ransome's History ; Meiklejohn's Comparative Geography. Mechanics—Loney's Statics and Dynamics, to page 176. First aid and ambulance. Lowest. — Boys ; English — Scott's Lady of the Lake ; Kingsley's Westward Ho ! ; Globe Poetry Reader; grammar, composition, and spelling. Geography—Topographical and commercial, Europe and Britain ; physical, astronomical, mathematical, political. English History— 1485 to 1689. Latin ; Welch and Duffield's Accidence ; Cassar, Invasion of Britain ; composition. French: Hogben's Methode Naturelle; grammar and composition. Non-Latin or Non-French: Book-keeping; and drawing, freehand, scale, and geometrical; commercial routine. Mathematics — Arithmetic (the whole subject) ; mental; algebra (to H.C. factor) ; Geometry, Book I. Science — Murche's Science Reader, Book VI; general elementary science. Girls: English—Kingsley's Hereward the Wake ; Macmillan's Advanced Reader; literature, selected authors: Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition ; parsing and analysis, composition and letterwriting. Latin —Via Latina, to end of passive verbs ; gradatim. French —Hogben's Methode Naturelle, first 100 pages. Arithmetic—Fractions and decimals, reductions, practice, proportion, equations, irregular distribution, time and work problems, mental arithmetic. History—Ransome's Smaller History to reign of George 11. Geography —New Zealand and Australia, Southern Cross Geographies and Notes ; Europe and physical, Miklejohn's Comparative Geography. Botany and Physiology preparatory to matriculation class. First aid and ambulance, needlework, cooking, drawing.

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School. Name of Teacher. £■0 p 3 K § Classification 'o jj or Degree. u2° lit Annual Kate of Salary of Special Assistant. Annual Rate of Addition Number of F ? made to Salary of Teacher on — Primary Staff. M. F. 'upils. Total Auckland— Aratapu Cambridge Coromandel Hamilton West Onehunga.. Lewis, Percy G. .. Brown, George Gatland, Alfred H. Wilson, Ebenezer : Mclntosh, William N.* Winter. Nathaniel A. Warren, Thomas P. Patterson, Florence I. Wilson, Henry B.* Snell, Edgar F. .. Murphy, Pranois* Dromgool, James C. Flavell, Dennis R.* Roberts, William P. Benge, Alfred* McSporran, Robert 25 B.A..B2 25 D3 25 M.A., A3 25 Dl 2 . B.A., Bl 25 C2 25 M.A. 25 CI 3 D3 1 22 Dl 2J . B.Sc, A4 25 D2 9| D3 ! 15J Dl 7 . B.A., B4 18 £ n. a. 120 0 0 150 0 0 110 0 0 120 0 0 £ s. d. 1 0 .. 15 8 0 .. 14 20 0 .. 5 8 0 .. 20 18 30 0 0 7lj 76 23 34 13 38 147 295 0 0 167 10 0 41 13 4 0 0 Opotiki i 9 12 21 120 0 0 0 5 0 0 21 23 44 Paeroa 165 0 0 Pukekohe West 0 16 10 26 120 0 0 0 22 17 39 Waihi 150 0 0 Taranaki — Stratford .. o ! Tyrer, Florence A. R.* Boyle, John* Budd, Alice M. .. Clark, Ernest H. .. Dl M.A., A2 25 M.A.. , 25 D2 40 0 0 35 26 40 0 0; .. 61 Wanganui— Eltham 130 0 0 150 0 0 0 0 Thomas, Taliesin* Chorlton, Arthur F. T. Hill, John C* .. Mills, Clara B. .. Strack, Conrad A.* Niven, James Murray, John Aitken, James* .. Varney, Arthur .. Blair, Jeannie G. El 2 f.5 23 CI 10 . M.A.. B.Sc, 25 A4 Dl 5 M.A. 23 M.A.,A4 25 B.A. 4 C3 25 B.A. 25 120 0 0 20 23 43 Peilding 0 33 17 6 21 16 87 140 0 0 Ql Hawera 200"0 0 200 0 0 22 33 55 Marton Wanganui Boys' 0 .. 0 ... 28 12 9 13 4 66 .. 40 06 200 0 0 100 0 0 0 .. Wellington— Masterton.. Jackson, William H.* Burns, Andrew N.* Thwaitea, John E.* Charters, Alex. B. Wilson, Marion K. Thomas. Joseph*.. Webb, James S.*.. Wedde, Elizabeth F. Dl 2 . B.A..B1 C2 2 . B.A., B2 25 M.A., A3 25 CI 8 , Dl 1 . j B.A., B4 21 0 45 0 0 40 46 32 10 0 .. 35 0 0 .. 86 Pahiatua 235 0 0 150 0 0! 3 3| 6 16 8 15 25 4 11 1 .. 40 Hawke's Bay— Dannevirke South .. 140 0 0 D Simmers, James M. Spence, Mary W.* Mann, Edward H. Kinder, John Smith, John A.* .. Pegler Francis Robson, Henry .. , ! M.A., A2 25 C4 25 B.A., Bl 25 B.A.,B3 25 . ' B.A., Bl 2 , j CI 25 C3 25 250 0 0 3 .. 21 32 53 Giaborne 300 0 0 200 0 0 0 '20 25 45 Hastings 0 19 24 43 Woodville Nelson — Motueka Reefton Westport 180"0 0 200 0 0 0 e .. 23 19 42 Wilkes, Frederick J. Ainsworth, Emma E. Gifford, Arthur .. McElwee, May .. M.A., B4 25 B.A., B2 25 , I MA., A2 25 25 175 0 0 175 0 0 225 0 0 60 0 0 0 .. 13 14 0 .. 13 16 0 .. 18 25 27 29 43 Grey— Gieymouth 0 Cromie, George .. Lewis, Annie B.A., B2 25 D4 25 230 0 0 108 6 8 0 .. 18 17 35 Westland — Hokiiika 8 Wake, Hugh Godfrey* Low, Benjamin H. Williams, Henry* Moore, Marguerite D.* Brown, Jane R. .. . B.A., Bl 20 . I B.A., Bl 25 Dl E3 225 0 0 50 0 0 12 21 33 3 45 0 0 .. 10 0 0 .. r> North Canterbury— Akaroa 300 0 3 .. I .. Gray, Alexander.. Alley, Frederick J.* Peebles, Madeline G. Hardie, Charles D.* Waller, Francis D. Chaplin, Emily A. Denham, Henry G. Prosser, Janet M. Mayne, Arthur J. Smith, William C. Gibson, Glorianna P. Just, Emile U.* .. Burley, William E. Martin, Barbara .. .Glanville, Gertrude M. , M.A, B.Sc, 25 A2 01 2J 21 Bl B.A., B2 25 B.A., B2 25 . M.A., B3 25 M.A. 23 M.A. 25 C5 25 M.A. 25 Dl B.A., B3 25 M.A. 25 CI 25 172 0 0 3 .. 15 13 28 Amberley 110 0 0 5 0 0: 10 11 21 Christohuroh West 114 63 177 Darfield Kaiapoi Kaikoura Lincoln Lyttelton 250 0 0 150 0 0 175 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 130 0 0 110 0 0 3 .. .. J .. D 0 0 .. 17 16 0 .. 15 14 0 5 8 9 .. 8 21 25 0 0 90 55 n 33 29 13 29 145 Oxford East Southbridge 200 0 0 130 0 0 145 0 0 3 3 6 8 3 .. 19 28 14 47

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Staff and Pupils of District High Schools- continued.

Notes.—ln the above list are included pupils not duly qualified in the following numbers : Waihi, Stratford, and Kaikoura, 1 male each; Eltham, 4 males and 8 females; Feilding, 1 female; Wanganui Boys, 24; Pahiatua and Dannevirke, 2 females each. Teachers whose names are followed by an asterisk arc on the primary staff of the school.

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School. Name of Teacher. Vi ™X" l&t Si o-** fit \ ii'iual Rate of Salary of Special Assistant. Annual Kate Number of of Addition DiHde to Salary of Teacher on Primary „ „ Staff. M F - 'upile. Total. South Canterbury — Geraldine .. Temuka .. Waimate .. . . Montgomery, John R.* .. B2 10 Clark, Sydney A.* .. j D5 14 Hughes, Alice .. .. C2 .. ' McLeod, Murdoch* .. B.A., Bl 12 McCaskill, Donald , .. ! B.A. 25 Hintz, Alfred A. .. .. D3 .. Pitcaithly, George* .. B.A., Bl ! 12J : Lang, Thomas M. M. .. B.A., B2 ! 25 £ s. d. 8o"o 0 130 0 0 224 10 0 £ s. d. 8o"o 0 £ s. a. 18 2 6 18 2 6 105 0 0 85 0 0 18 29 9 26 27 55 130 0 0! 224 10 0 185 0 0 37 30J 67 Otago— Balolutha .. Hampden . . Lawrence .. Mosgiel Naseby Normal Palmeiston Port Chalmers Tapanui .. Tokomairiro .. McElrea, William ♦ .. Bl 17J Turner, William W.* • • CI 8 Allan, Mary K. , .. .. El 3 Gallowav, Agnes J.* .. D4 1Q| Murray, Florence .. D4 .. ! Patterson, Thomas A.* .. Bl : 12 Meehaelis, William R.* .. D3 | 15 I Watt, Margaret Mrs.* .. El 1 Chalmer, Clara E. .. 1)2 . . Stenhouse, John* .. CI 32£ Darton, Henry L.* . . Dl 5 Fowler, Jane B.* .. El 1 Hay, Isabella C. .. .. D3 32$ .. ! Pinder, Edward* .. M.A., Al 21 McArthur, Graoe C. .. CI 4 .. Will, Louisa M.* .. B.A., B3 25 Brown, Isabel E. .. D4 .. Hardy, James* .. .. D2 25 .. Ferguson, Daniel* .. M.A., Bl 17J Grant, James* .. .. B.A , Bl 6' McGregor, Isabella .. D4 .. Kennie, James* .. .. B.A., B.Sc , 9J Bl Grav, James H.« .. B.A.. Bl 12 Orkney, Eva M.* .. C2 6 Graham, Amy S. de L. .. D3 .. Eudey, Walter* .. .. CI 20 Howat, Helen C. .. D3 2 .. Reid, James* .. .. CI 27 Coutts, Thomas R.* .. Bl 4 McLaren, Mary* .. El 8 Taylor, Lillias O. .. 1)3 85 0 0 85 0 0 85 0 0 96 12 0 85 0 0 85 0 0 85 0 0 85 0 0 85 0 C 85 0 0 96 12 0 88 0 0 85 0 0 85 0 0 72 12 0 39 12 0 19 16 0! 4 10 0 33 4 2 112 17 8 61 11 G 30 15 10 4U 8 0 20 0 0 24 10 46 14 4 22 7 83 ■ • I 14 'l5 46 17 7!) *28 19 200 0 0 26 3 4 17 3 10 15 13 '25 7 40 20 85 0 0 51 8 6 19 18 37 28 1 0 14 0 6 85 0 0 57 10 0 11 11 22 85 0 0 29 49 65 3 6 35 11 0 17 15 6 20 85 0 0 Southland— Gore Biverton .. Winton .. Brunton, John .. .. B.A., B2 25 Thompson, Marion .. D2 23 J .. Hewat, Ebenezer C* .. Bl 25 Robertson, George E.* .. Dl Acheson, Edith .. .. D4 .. Wyllie, Alexander L.* .. M.A. 11J Wilson, James Reid .. Ji2 12J 200 0 C 100 0 0 80 0 C 130 0 C . 200 0 0 100 0 0 1 80 0 0 •• 12 10 0 12 10 0 38 10 33 29 71 39 Q 12 15 130 0 0| • i 9,275 12 o! 9.275 12 0 |l,757 17 11 1,207 1,123 2,330 v,zto iz u