EDUCATION: SECONDARY EDUCATION. [In continuation of E.—l2, 1905.]

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1906 Session II, E-12

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Session 11. 1906. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: SECONDARY EDUCATION. [In continuation of E.—l2, 1905.]

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

1. EXTRACT FROM THE TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION.

General. At the end of 1905 there were twenty-one endowed secondary schools giving free tuition, and the number of free pupils attending these schools was 1,949, as against 1,595 for the previous year. There were in addition about 428 holders of scholarships and exhibitions given by these schools by Boards of Education, or by the endowed secondary schools not coming under the conditions. There were also 2,872 qualified pupils receiving instruction in the secondary classes of the district high schools. It will thus be seen that there has been a considerable increase in the total number of pupils receiving free secondary education—namely 5,249 in 1905, as against 4,273 in the previous year. At the end of 1901, before the Secondary Schools Act and the regulations made thereunder came into force, the number of free pupils was only 963. Under the Regulations for Free Places at Secondary Schools and District High Schools, gazetted in October last, free places in such schools were divided into two series, Junior and Senior, the former being tenable for two years or till the age of seventeen, the latter till the age of nineteen. Boys and girls who qualify for scholarships, whether they obtain scholarships or not, are entitled to Junior Free Places, and all who pass the special examination for Free Places, whether they are under fourteen years of age or not, are also participants in the privilege. With respect to such candidates the age-limit is thus practically abolished. Junior Free Places may again be obtained, not only by all those who gain certificates of proficiency and satisfy the conditions of age, but also by those who gain certificates of proficiency and are over fourteen, provided that the number of the last-named admitted to any secondary school does not exceed 10 per cent, of the whole number of pupils. In like manner all who pass the Matriculation Examination of the University, or who gain credit at the Civil Service Junior Examination are admitted to Senior Free Places whether they are over sixteen or not, while the same privilege is granted to those who qualify for Senior Scholarships of the Education Boards, and to those who secure a bare pass in the Civil Service Junior Examination, if their age does not exceed sixteen. There is no age-limit for admission to a Junior Free Place in a District High School or a Technical School. Scholarships. The following table shows the number of Education Board scholarships held in December, 1905, with their tenure and annual value. The total expenditure of the Boards under this head amounted to £8,013 6s. 6d. The total paid to the Board for scholarship purposes by the Department was £7,897 13s. Bd. I—E. 12,

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Table K1.—Number and Value of Education Board Scholarships.

District High Schools. There has been a very considerable increase in the attendance of pupils at district high schools. In 1905 there was an increase of 561 qualified pupils, or, to put it in other words, the attendance at the secondary departments of these schools increased by 25 per cent. The amount paid by the Government on this account during the year exceeded that for 1904 by £3,284 ss. 2d. Fifty-nine district high schools were in operation, as compared with 52 for the previous year.

Table K2.—Staff, Salaries, Attendance, and Payments at District High Schools.

Secondary Schools. The income of the subsidised or endowed secondary schools for 1905 from school fees, not including fees for boarding, was about £23,291; from rents and interest, about £28,168; from endowments administered by the School Commissioners, about £3,952; and from payments made by Government, about £14,138. The principal item of expenditure was for salaries—£4s,Bls. As the Moseley 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 of a high-school teacher is £145; in New Zealand, principals—men, £468; women, £354 ; assistants —men, £236; women, £138. 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 £800 for men, and £300 to £450 for women.

Number Period Boards' Education Districts. ™*£ Boys. Girls. of 1905. i enure. m lg06 I j j Annual Value, &c. Auckland Taranaki 85 16 64 8 21 8 Years. 3 2 £ s. d. 1,823 1 10 307 15 6 9 at £30; 25 at £25; 15 at £20; 36 at £15. 4 at £35; 1 at £33 13s.; 1 at £22 10--.; 1 at £14 ; 9 at £10. 12 at £40; 9 at £15 ; 2 at £10. 10 at £35 ; 3 at £18 18s.; 35 at £15. 12 at £30: 1 at £16; 1 at £15 ; 1 at £10; 2 at £8 8s.; 1 at £7 10s.; 8 at £2 10s.; 3 at £2 2s. 2 at £35 ; 1 at £25; 3 at £10. 6 at £40; 1 at £25 ; 3 at £7; 20 at £1 5s. 1 at £26 ; 2 at £8. 2 at £24 ; 1 at £12; 2 at £4. 21 at £40; 17 at £20. 4 at £25; 4 at £22 10s.; 1 at £13 10s.; 8 at £7 10s.; 11 at £5. 4 at £40 ; 9 at £30 ; 8 at £25 ; 6 at £20 ; 3 at £12 10s.; 11 at £10: 21 at £7 10s. 8 at £35; 9 at £30 ; 1 at £15 ; 3 at £5. Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay 23 48 29 10 24 15 13 24 14 Varies 2 2 641 17 6 966 3 4 490 13 0 Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury 6 30 3 5 38 2,8 3 17 2 3 20 20 3 13 1 . 2 18 8 2 2 2 2 2 2 125 0 0 345 8 6 62 4 6 68 0 0 1,121 9 5 328 18 1 Otago 62 41 21 Varies 1,130 5 6 Southland 21 1ft 6 Varies 602 9 4 Totals, 1905.. Totals 1904.. 394 354 242 210 152 144 8,013 6 6 8,260 1 9

Education District. So a-3 O oi 4 in Salaries. Paii Number of Pupils. Capitation. Amount paid by Government to F.ducation Boards during the Year. Grants in Aid. Total. M. F. Total. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui .. Wellington Hawke's Bay Nelson 9 1 5 9 4 8 1 1 9 4 10 3 16 4 11 21 6 4 3 6 20 11 28 7 £ s. d. 2,019 15 0 412 15 4 • 1,197 17 0 2,119 6 4 1,024 0 0 604 7 0 276 14 5 375 0 0 2,389 5 11 986 0 0 1,829 0 6 620 2 1 187 38 176 295 107 49 9 19 282 94 209 44 181 24 117 291 125 59 8 20 188 101 182 67 368 62 293* 586f 232 108 17 39 470 195 391 111 £ s. d. 1,693 0 0 322 5 0 946 15 0 1,908 0 0 890 0 0 389 10 0 143 10 0 208 5 0 2,127 18 4 834 10 0 1,633 15 0 471 15 0 £ s. d. 262 10 0 30 0 0 184 0 0 306 3 0 120 0 0 90 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 290 18 0 112 10 0 300 0 0 90 0 0 £ s. d. 1,955 10 0 352 5 0 1,130 ia 0 2,214 3 0 1,010 0 0 479 10 0 173 10 0 238 5 0 2,418 16 4 947 0 0 1,933 15 0 561 15 0 Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland .. Totals for 1905 1904 59 52 137 117 13,854 3 7 11,033 9 11 1,509 1,207 1,363 1,123 2,872 2,330 11,569 3 4 8,675 3 11 1,846 1 0 1,455 15 3 13,415 4 4 10,130 19 2 * Including 21 boys and 7 girls who had not passed Standard VI. t Including 1 boy and 5 girls who had not passed Standard VI.

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SUMMARY OF THE ACCOUNTS OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOB 1905 FURNISHED BY THE GOVERNING BODIES OF" Secondary Schools. Receipts £ s- <*• Expenditure. & s. d Credit balances on Ist January, 1905 ..' 33,436 9 5 Liabilities on Ist January, 1905.. .. 2,153 6 8 Endowment reserves sold and mortgage- Expenses of management .. .. 3,129 13 5 moneys repaid 3,506 13 2 School salaries .. .. .. 45,814 15 2 Bents of reserves .. .. .. 24,284 6 3 Boarding-school accounts .. .. 5,883 18 7 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 3,884 15 0 Examination expenses 369 19 6 Reserves Commissioners' payments! .. 3,95115 1 Scholarships and prizes .. .. 2,027 2 5 Government payments— Printing, stationery, fuel, light, &c .. 3,987 Jll For technical instruction .. .. 898 16 1 Buildings, furniture, insurance, rent, and For free places 13,238 14 3 rates ..' 19 Af X l I School fees (tuition) 23,291 12 4 Expenditure on endowments .. .. 3,165 2 8 Boarding-school fees 6,283 17 7 Interest •• 4 10 Books, &c, sold, and refunds 1,128 15 9 Sundries not classified.. .. .. 3,210 4 6 Sundries not classified.. .. .. 14,756.11 4 Credit balances, 31st December, 1905 .. 38,797 13 9 Debit balanoes, 31st December, 1905 .. 480 3 4 j £129,142 9 7.| £129,142 9 7 It will also be noticed from the above table that the finances of the High School Boards are in a much better condition than in 1904. The debit balances had decreased from £2,153 to £480, while the credit balances had increased from £33,436 to £38,798. The total number of pupils on the rolls in the last term or quarter of the year was 2,467 boys and 1,593 girls, as against 2,265 boys and 1,457 girls at the end of 1904.

Table K3.—Staff, Attendance, Fees, and Salaries at certain Secondary Schools.*

Schools. Staff. 6 * I 3 -? H Oi Atte: idance for Li Quarter of CQ ist Term or © 1905. g o « O U & I 15 Annual Rai tes of Fees. For Board, exclusive of Day-school Tuition. Salaries at Ri End of ates paid at Year. CO u u » ta T3 CD S|H I o o +3 -W CM *0 For Ordinary Day-school Course. * Regular Staff. Part-time Teachers. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1 £ s. d. £ s. d. Whangarei High School Auckland Grammar j School ) 3 17 3 lb... Iff---lb... \g---(b. 1 Aib... (?•■■ 24 15 155 84 14 11 21 18 11 4 121 52 13 8 22 25 4 11 1 1 1 35 19 280 147 28 20 44 44 8 8 0 f10 10 0 18 8 0 I ■■ 380 0 0 4,155 0 0 »700 0 0 110 0 0 Thames High School 8 8 0 New Plymouth High ) School J 5 6 6 0 1,025 0 0 65 0 0 Wanganui Girls' College 11 12 59 69 18 158 55 ( 10 10 0 (880 | 40 0 0 b l,590 0 0 364 8 0 Wanganui Collegiate 1 School Palmerston North High) Sohool I 13 2 38 130 12 182 126 12 0 0 45 0 0 "2,960 0 0 6 A47 28 58 25 6 1 111 54 10 0 0 «1,320 0 0 Wellington College (Boys') 14 3 81 204 20 308 82 11 17 9 42 0 0 3,205 0 0 Wellington Girls' High ) School Napier Boys' High School Napier Girls' High School 9 5 48 111 4 168 ( 13 4 0 ( 10 12 0 10 4 0 ) - 1,465 0 0 6 1 11 50 50 2 113 31 40 0 0 d l,229 0 0 35 0 0 6 2 13 23 66 1 103 16 10 4 0 40 0 0 "1,010 0 0 60 0 0 Marlborough High School 2 16... 32 20 20 25 4 1 56 46 8 11 0 1 846 5 0 30 0 0 Nelson College (Boys') .. Nelson Girls' College Christchurch Boys' High) School J Christchurch Girls'High) School J 12 5 13 4 56 57 81 105 56 96 13 9 9 179 135 190 54 19 ( 10 10 0 (880 ( 10 10 0 j 8 8 0 j 10 10 0 j 7 10 0 I 12 12 0 (990 14 3 6 11 0 6 I 7 17 6 I 40 0 0 | 40 0 Oi ) •• 1 •■ ) 45 0 0 42 0 0 sl,920 0 0 h 1,050 0 0 3,440 0 0 90 0 0 40 0 0 (185 0 0 { and fees. 327 16 0 8 1 89 73 3 166 1,405 0 0 Christ's College Gram- ) mar School j 12 38 84 81 6 209 69 1 13,230 0 0 233 10 0 Rangiora High School .. lb... Iff--6... \g---19 21 28 25 16 16 15 15 35 37 43 41 9 9 0 6 6 0 "614 0 0 780 0 0 Ashburton High School.. 1 Timaru Boys' High ) School I Timaru Girls' High ) School I Waitaki Boys' High School Waitaki Girls' High School Otago Boys' High School 41 50 2 93 J 9 0 0 (700 J 9 0 0 (700 7 10 0 7 10 0 10 0 0 ) - "1,160 0 0 46 0 0 30 43 5 78 835 0 0 43 10 0 4 2 4 3 9 1 1 4 54 27 159 56 22 141 4 4 11 114 53 311 64 42 18 0 '1,060 0 0 520 0 0 "2,747 10 0 9 0 0 60 0 0 208 0 0 (240 0 0 {and fees. 75 0 0 21 43 10 0 Otago Girls' High School 9 3 94 94 6 194 10 0 0 1,680 0 0 Southland Boys' High Sohool Southland Girls' High School 5 1 i 80 54 1 136 10 0 0 1,175 0 0 63 63 4 130 10 0 0 825 0 0 115 0 0 Totals 195 51 16.65 \ g.ii 1064 712 1243 767 95 70 2,467 1,593 537 42,326 15 0 2,337 4 0 * In six cases no secondary High School, Greymouth High funds are applied, in whole 01 secondary schools. a Headmaster has residenc house allowance for second m residence. f Including £40 h< five assistants have board am two assistants have board. ' Pi schi LSch >r in LOOl tiool i pa I is mail ,1, Hokit art, to 1 ntainei tika Hi the est d by th igh Set sablishi he gove hool, A Lment srning b Ikaroa I of.schol >ody High larsl : these are the Auckland l School, Waimate High bips or in aid of local di Girls' High Sehi School; but in istrict high schi DOl, Gisborne all cases the DOls or other ee. iast< ouse bSi ,er; e al eesi< -tin) !ix mas also h llowanc idence. je teact iters hi leadmt 36. SB i Heai aer has ave boi ister hi leadma dmaste i board. >ard. o las resi aster a er and ' Includi idence, md thr* five asi ing i and ee ai eista £50 house allowance for ] two assistant masters Y ssistants have board and t,nts have residence, fc H* headmaster, a] lave board, e ] . residence. h I iadmaster has n deluding £39 Principal has 'rincipal and ssidence, and tl't-

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Table K4.—Net Income and Cost per Head of Roll.

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School. p o & . g 5 a» sgj a a 2 > o ■3a§g" aogs Total Ex] for: jenditure 1905. Net Income from Endowments per Head of Roll. Cos! per Heai On Salaries of School Staff. On Management and Office Expenses. For Salaries of School Staff. For Management. Total. Whangarei High School Auckland Grammar Sohool Thames High School New Plymouth High School Wanganui Girls' College Wanganui Collegiate School Palmerston North High Schooi .. Wellington College (Boys' and Girls') Napier High School Marlborough High School Nelson College (Boys' and Girls') Rangiora High School Christchurch Boys' High School .. Christchurch Girls' High School .. Christ's College Grammar School Ashburton High School Timaru High School Waitaki High School Otago High Schools Southland High Sohools 54 404 48 88 129 182 165 476 £ 107 2,183 440 438 £ 415 4,500 700 1,015 2,012 2,969 1,338 5,025 £ 28 517 26 61 141 147 144 242 £ 1-98 5-40 5-0 3-40 £ 7-69 11-14 14-58 11-53 1560 16-31 8-11 10-56 £ 0-52 1-28 0-54 0-69 1-09 0-81 0-87 0-51 8-21 12-42 15-12 12-22 16-69 17-12 8-98 1107 "91 1,061 6-55 2-23 174 102 272 72 177 166 171 84 171 167 505 266 1,235 309 31 2,813 416 2,197 858 3,472 604 8,938 1,726 3,558 750 2,184 1,661 4,772 2,123 110 36 429 3 100 60 268 40 89 154 305 145 7-10 3-03 043 15-89 2-51 12-63 8-41 12-76 8-39 22-25 10-40 20-81 8-93 12-77 9-95 9-45 7-98 0-63 0-35 1-58 0-04 0-56 0-36 1-57 0-48 0-52 0-92 0-60 0-55 13-26 8-76 14-34 8-43 22-81 10-76 22-38 9-41 13-29 10-87 10-05 8-53 398 1,523 636 1,896 912 4-74 8-91 3-81 3-76 3-43 Totals 0-79 12-62 3,873 14,489 45,817 3,045 3-74 11-83

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2, REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF SCHOOLS.

The Inspector-General of Schools to the Minister of Education. As will be seen from the tables published in this report, the numbers of pupils being instructed in district high schools and in secondary schools showed marked increase last year,, the increase in the case of the former being 542, and in the latter 874. The increase in the number of free pupils during the year was —in secondary schools, 311; in district high schools, 543: total, 854. If to these figures we add the increase in the number of holders of free places in technical schools, 443, we have a total of 1,297 more pupils receiving free secondary education in one form or another during 1905 than there were in 1904. It has been said that the vast increase of our free-place system in this colony has led to an increase of "cram," and of "overpressure," the two terms being often used as if they were synonymous, which, of course, they are not: '' cram " is a term which seems to have reference to a method of instruction in which too great a reliance is placed upon the powers of memory, and too little is done to develop the intelligence of the pupils; "cramming" is the mistake of the unskilled teacher, but it is often fostered by such examinations as lay stress upon mere book-know-ledge in preference to evidence of mental training. Careful inspection of the methods of instruction adopted in our secondary schools does not show an increase of " cram," but, on the contrary, a very marked advance in the direction of the improvement of the teaching in nearly all the schools: languages are being taught, generally speaking, in a more rational manner ; in mathematics the teaching is somewhat more practical than it was, the complicated algebraical formula and the geometrical conundrum are slowly (all too slowly) disappearing in favour of problems more closely akin to the boys' or girls' experience and powers; the science text-book is gradually being relegated to its proper position, and the work of observation and experiment done by each pupil with his own hands and eyes is now a feature of the science-teaching in nearly every school, although there are still one or two large schools whose equipment for such work is seriously inadequate. It is true that in very few instances has the principle been adopted of choosing a branch of science in accordance with a pupil's surroundings, or with his probable future wants —to wit, in country districts, elementary agricultural instruction, the study of plant-life, elementarj' -dairying. Neglect of the same principle is to some extent answerable for the persistence of a course of study resembling very closely what would have been found some years ago in a small grammar school in England. Indeed, some of the authorities seem to think or to fear that secondary education would disappear if Latin grammar, algebra, and Euclid no longer found a place in the work of every pupil of a secondary school; they probably forget that secondary education is more a question of method than of matter, that almost any subject may be made the vehicle of secondary education if it is one that leaves room for teaching which will promote the natural mental development of the youth from, say, fourteen to eighteen years of age. The Matriculation Examination and the University Junior Scholarship Examination still exert too large an influence upon the curriculum of the secondary schools, although a comparatively small number of the pupils ever see the inside of the walls of a university college. Unfortunately the University of New Zealand can scarcely be said to be keeping pace with modern reforms in education, perhaps least of all in its entrance examinations. It is chiefly due to the influence of the University that in most of the secondary schools the mistake is still made of teaching, or, rather, attempting to teach, the elements of two foreign languages to the majority of the pupils. I have pointed out this mistake in previous reports; the results of thus giving a pupil, whose secondary-school life may not extend over more than three or four years, the task of learning two" foreign languages are (1) that he learns neither of them well enough to be able to use it—that is, to read, write, or speak it; (2) that, therefore, he does not gain the best intellectual advantage the acquirement of a new language should give him —namely, the extension of his thought, and of his power of expressing that- thought; and (3) possibly, although not necessarily, overpressure. One foreign language should surely suffice for all but a few of the brightest pupils in our secondary schools. Another circumstance that may lead to overpressure is the prescription of excessive "home work." As far as my inquiries have gone, the practice in this regard differs somewhat in the various secondary schools of the colony; but I think there can be little doubt that the average amount of home work set is excessive. The average time required for home work is probably about two hours; in some cases it reaches three hours. I may be prejudiced—in fact, Igo so far as to profess a profound disbelief in the utility of setting growing boys and girls any serious intellectual work to do at all in the hours when body and brain are tired, as they naturally are after some five hours of strenuous work in school. Ido not think anything is gained by it; indeed, the testing of home work in school the next day seriously curtails the time that might be available for real teaching—" hearing lessons " is not teaching, as every one knows. The habit of working independently should be cultivated in the schoolroom; I doubt whether home lessons secure the formation of such a habit. It is certainly good, again, to encourage the habit of reading good books for recreation; by all means let us encourage the habit, but let the books be books that will attract

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and recreate the mind (not school text-books), and let them not be set as formal tasks, to be reproduced in school. Still less can be said in favour of home lessons in primary schools. Our faithful adhesion to home work is probably due to the force of habit upon us all—parents as well as teachers. However, in any case, whether principals of schools and others entirely agree with me or not, I think that a few minutes' consideration will convince any one that three hours' home work, even for a boy or girl in the highest class of a secondary school, is altogether excessive. lam not aware that the amount of home work now set is greater that it was some years ago; what evidence I have had seems to show that in some schools, at all events, the amount is slightly less than it was formerly. We next come to the system of free places itself. It has been in force only some three or four years, and has been modified once or twice, each modification tending to make the conditions easier for the pupil. It may be as well to review briefly the whole position in regard to the educational facilities which the State of New Zealand grants to its citizens gratis: — (1.) For all up to the age of fourteen or fifteen it provides primary education. (2.) To a certain number who show ability somewhat above the average it gives either—(a.) Free secondary education for two years; or (b.) Free technical education for two years. (These receive what are called junior free places.) (3.) To a smaller number, who show sufficient ability to justify further expenditure of State funds, it gives three years more of secondary or technical training (senior free places). (4.) To a smaller nuniber, again, it gives three or four years of university or higher technical training. [This enumeration takes account only of those to whom free education is given in such a way as to occupy, presumably, the whole of their time. To others the State gives, or should give, opportunities for continuing their education concurrently with the work of their trade or profession.] As the number for whom free education is provided is less at each successive stage it is obvious that some selection must be made. It is not for the benefit either of the State or of the individual that any attempt should be made to carry him on through a stage which physically or intellectually he is unsuited to undertake. The selection must be made by the parent, the teacher, or the State. Selection by parents is out of the question; it is not by any means certain that parents would make a really wise selection, even from the point of view of their children's own interests. Such a method of selection would, if not altogether haphazard, probably have the result that the children of those who were in comparatively good circumstances would stay at- school or college longest, without any special reference to their ability or to the benefit the countr}' might expect to derive from training them. Selection by the teacher would undoubtedly be the best method, but I fear that for the present this is out of the question. To begin with, it is a matter of simple justice that the standard according to which the selection is made should be the same in the various parts of the colony. Even with the assistance of the Inspectors of Schools, it is notorious that, owing to various causes, it is very difficult to make, by means of the ordinary Sixth Standard examinations, a selection of children for admission to free places with an}'thing approaching uniformity, and consequently those who gain free places through the certificate of proficiency exhibit degrees of mental capacity much more varied than would be the case were it possible to make the standard a uniform one. I have no hesitation, after careful inspection of the classes in which such pupils are being taught, in saying that many of those now receiving free secondary education are not likely to benefit much by it. It would be far more satisfactory if all gained their qualification, as many do now, by passing the special examination held in December of each year. [In that case, too, the difficulty about the age-limit would disappear.] If the State makes the selection, as it does for the senior free 'places, the examination ought to be, firstly, such that it suits any reasonable school programme; secondly, hard enough to exclude those whom the State is not prepared to carry to the next stage, but not so hard that those who should be taken farther cannot without undue strain do the work required. It should be clearly understood that one great advance has been made in the free-place examinations, as against the scholarship examinations. Neither of the special examinations for free places, senior or junior, is in any sense whatever a competitive examination ; both are simply " pass " examinations--any pupil that passes gains a free place. The choice of subjects is so wide that I know of no school whose programme it does not suit. In fact, the syllabus of subjects and the scale of marks assigned to each subject were drawn up with special reference to the work actually being attempted in the secondary schools and district high schools of the colony. A hundred marks is given for each hour per week, devoted to the subject in the schools in those classes in which the junior free pupils are found. For instance, the average time given to English is six hours per week, so English is assigned a maximum of 600 marks; the time given to mathematics or a foreign language is four hours a week, so each of these subjects is allotted 400 marks, and so on. The aggregate maximum (2,000) accordingly implies a supposed total per week of twenty hours. As the school week generally consists of twenty-five hours, this arrangement leaves five hours free for physical education and other purposes. A junior free pupil is required to take some subject of handwork, practical science being counted as handwork. It must be regarded as an omission in the syllabus of the examination, however, that those who take cookery or woodwork do not under the present regulations receive credit for those subjects when the senior free places are awarded. I suggest that this omission should be put right in the next revision of the programme; but there are other proposals made that will also require con-

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sideration. It has been suggested, for instance, that the junior free places should be tenable for three years, instead of two; this would, of course, imply a larger expenditure by one-half (or nearly so) on junior free places. On the other hand, there would be a somewhat smaller expenditure on senior free places, but the total expenditure would probably be increased by at least £5,000 or £6,000. As time goes on it will probably be possible to depend more and more upon inspection, and less upon examination in making the selection for senior free places. In order that the method of selection may not lead to overpressure, it is necessary that the teachers should co-operate with the State in making the selection. The subjects should be chosen to suit the actual needs of the several pupils; there should be no special preparation of pupils for the examination ; pupils whose physical or mental powers are not such as to fit them for the next stage should be discouraged from attempting the examination. If there are. any teachers of the secondary schools who feel that they are not yet able to take up this attitude, and who accordingly allow pressure from ambitious parents or the glamour of examination results to dominate the work of their schools, then the time has certainly not yet arrived for giving the selection of senior free pupils into their hands. But I have every confidence that, when it is made clear to the principals of secondary schools how much they can do towards securing a proper selection without undue strain—nay, how much of the responsibility really rests with them —they will have sufficient oourage to carry out what seems to be their share in the work of selection. In fact, if every teacher, primary or secondary, would do his best to select as candidates for scholarships or free places those only who had a reasonable chance of succeeding on the results of their ordinary school work we should hear very little of overpressure— in the schools, at all events. But if candidates who have no reasonable chance unless they overwork are allowed to enter, then some of the weaker ones are bound to suffer in the process. It must not be understood from the foregoing that there has been of late any increase or overstrain in the secondary schools of the colony; in fact, I think the opposite is the fact. Individual cases of overstrain undoubtedly exist, but these are probably due very largely to undetected physical weakness, or to outside interests which high school pupils attempt vainly to reconcile with their school work—it is necessary to refer only to such things as musical studies, social amusements, heavy household duties —while they are trying to keep pace with their school comrades whose spare time is given to healthy outdoor exercise. We must beware of the danger of mistaking strenuous effort for overstrain. Strenuous effort is the proper condition of every healthy human life, except perhaps of that of the savage who lives in a fertile tropical island; but, unfortunatety, it is doubtful whether strenuous effort on the part of the healthy and strong is not almost inevitably accompanied by a tendency to overstrain in a few of the weaker ones, who try to imitate them or to compete with them. One of the teacher's most serious responsibilities is to check this tendency; the parents in most cases will not do it; the State cannot do it. I should be sorry to close this report without expressing my appreciation of the readiness with which the secondary teachers welcome criticism and adopt any suggestions that may be made. I hope that it may be found possible in future to make, regularly every year, a fairly complete inspection of all the secondary schools. The appointment of an Assistant Inspector-General of Schools is a considerable step in this direction; but from the rapidly growing demands of departmental office work further help will probably be required very soon. G. HOGBEN, Inspector-General of Schools.

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3. DETAILS BELATING TO SEOONDAKY SCHOOLS.

Number of Scholars holding Scholarships and Free Places in Secondary Schools during the Last Term, 1905.

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School. CO fl 3.2 g £ a N imbei- of Holders of Free Places. (8.) Annual Rate of Capitation for the Term. (9.) Approximate Annual Payment. (10.) Included amongst Free-place Holders (Column 7). Scholarsh: ip Holders. (11.) Not also Holders of Free Places. (12.) Scholars receiving Free Tuition but not Holders of Government Free Places. Regulations, 1903. (7). Total umber of :holars. (3.) (4.) (5.) (6.) 3 (a.) 3(b.) 3(c) 8 (<J.) A. E Indowe: SCHl 1OI1S II !CIiUl IED IN th: E E: IGHTH i Schedule TO THE Eduoatio] IN i Act. (*•) Pra iding . Fret ePU aces u mder section 87. Whangarei High School Auckland Grammar School Thames High School New Plymouth High School Palmerstqn North High School Napier High Sohools Marlborough High School Nelson College .. Rangiora. High Sohool Christohurch Girls' High School Ashburton High School Timaru High Schools Waitaki High Sohools Otago High Sohools Southland High Schools 41 3 3 M. 33 F. 18 Total. 51 . £ a. d. .950 £ 472 4 4 45 185 10 16 160 96 256 ; 8 10 o 2,177! 46 53 15 1 24 1 2 19 9 28 18 0 0 2241 4 2 10 39 4 8 33 28 61 8 0 0 488; 11 40 5 81 4 84 46 130 i 10 15 0 1,398 5 23 76 10 6 70 45 115 8 0 0 920 25 1 1 8 48 8 3 35 32 67 9 5 0 620 12 1 11 3 95 44 27 7 1 I 2 I 77 26 57 32 134 58! 10 15 0 10 15 0 1,440 624 13 3 10 12 11 80 4 8 ! 103 103! ! 9 5 0 963 22 9 - 1 58 5 11 37 38 75 i 7 0 0 525 2 2 19 105 23 i 81 66 147 6 0 0 882 19 8 64 12 | 47 37 84 8 0 0 672 9 1 45 286 39 33 il65 238 403 8 0 0 3,224 45 9 16 154 15 I 9 100 94J 194 9 5 0 1,795 16 9 (ii.) i i 'ot prt midi; D laces under sectii m87. 14 6 Wanganui Girls' College Wellington College and Girls' High Sohool Christchuroh Boys' High Sohool ■ee " 63 29 16 41 B. 'JS THE ElGI ith Sch: 1DULE. ft Wanganui Collegiate School Christ's College Grammar Sohool Endowed Schooi LS NOT INCLO IDED 210 1,380 137 ft 12 43 Totals 42 137 967 939 1,906 £8 14 4* £16,414 236 206 153 * Meai rate,

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Cr. Balances on ! Sales and 1st Jan., 1905. : Mortgage Moneys repaid. From E: idowments. From Government. School Fees. Boardingschool Fees. Stationery and Books sold, and Refunds. Sundries unclassified. Dr. Balances, 31st Dec, 1905. Schools. Rents. Interest on Moneys invested. Paid by School Commissioners. For Technical Instruction. Capitation for Free Places. Totals. Whangarei High School Auckland Grammar School Auckland Girls' High Sohool .. 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 Schools Marlborough High School Nelson College Greymouth High School Hokitika High School Rangiora High School Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School Christ's College Grammar School Akaroa High School Ashburton High School Timaru High School Waimate High School Waitaki High School Otago High Schools Southland High Schools £ s. d. 35 14 8 1,078 0 2 10,374 12 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. 82 10 6 4,734 16 4 £ s. d. 206 15 6 412 0 0 2 2 6 9 5 0 80 0 0 £ s. d. 21 15 1 428 18 1 £ s. d. £ s. d. 386 3 3 2,246 1 8 £ s. d. 56 0 0 2,068 6 6 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 150 18 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. 733 1 6 10,762 18 3 10,959 4 8 1,740 9 0 1,873 12 5 8,144 6 11 3,817 15 1 2,369 0 7 9,953 0 6 130 12 8 42 0 0 *995 0 0 32 5 0 +845 9 2 15 13 10 72 3 9 19 5 2 212 11 3 2,230 8 11 415 19 8 918 11 8 454 12 11 1,162 19 6 42 16 10 100 0 0 183 17 4 17 3 4 214 0 0 459 6 8 70 10 0 124 9 6 2,160 7 8 561 0 0 .. •• .. 2,169 4 1 1,925 17 6 354 10 0 5,443 1 8 20 6 10 •• 152 4 3 254 18 4 1,764 16 8 •■ 36' 0 0 152 5 0 463 18 8 81 10 0 32 8 6 1,435 "2 6 - 1811 0 2,199 9 10 4,439 12 4 2,838 15 6 602 19 9 1,164 0 0 150 0 0 13 0 0 954 8 6 168 17 0 135 1 0 925 0 0 457 0 6 50 0 0 304 7 6 75 0 0 75 0 0 75 4 3 811 6 8 679 8 4 136 1 6 10 13 7 +199 16 10 §400 0 0 P.210 2 10 8,334 19 5 3,855 18 1 1,969 8 10 17,647 9 3 1,436 1 8 1,669 11 8 859 2 6 5,340 0 5 2,166 14 7 8,669 13 3 429 8 7 2,593 8 3 5,485 0 11 2,289 1 7 4,286 1 5 7,198 9 2 4,558 11 1 846 11 6 202 7 0 57 14 4 61 10 0 86 11 8 669 3 4 1,395 14 2 234' 3 0 2,209 5 8 3,438' 0 5 o"2 9 1,303 7 4 1,507 1 8 183 17 0 291 0 10 86 8 7 26 0 0 189 3 10 3,531 17 10 288 7 2 774 11 5 119 9 0 645 2 2 1,754 14 4 211 2 1 1,253 19 4 2,041 11 10 1,197 18 4 32 16 10 48 13 2 355 19 2 " 130 0 0 1,474 4 9 726 19 0 3,234 15 6 •■ .. 0 2 6 10 0 2 28 6 8 42 0 6 188 15 10 1,980 14 8 799 4 2 2,52710 0 " 110 "l 2 309 19 7 51 8 2 2,308 1 6 1,979 7 6 339 17 3 531 12 1 711 18 4 0 "9 0 1 10 0 107 10 0 98 12 0 40 10 0 81 5 0 568 15 0 925 1 8 69 6 0 226 8 0 765 12 6 178 11 0 9 10 2 1(1,000 0 80 10 5 **800 0 0 67 5 3 tfl734 17 8 217' 17 11 26 18 2 116 12 0 111 12 4 391 5 10 168 17 11 402 13 4 2,897 "6 8 75 9 4 612 6 8 1,063 18 4 543 7 4 ■• • Totals 33,436 9 5 3,506 13 2 24,284 6 3 3,884 15 0 3,951 15 1 898 16 1 13,238 14 3 23,291 12 4 j : j 6,283 17 7 1,128 15 9 14,756 11 4 480 3 4 129,142 9 7 * Including special loan, £700. il Including £7,961 5s. 3d. insurance. t Including Goven 11 Government grant iment grant, £400, subsidy on voluntary contribution. X Including Government grant, £119 8s. 4d., for furniture, &c. § Government annual grant of £400. for building. ** Government grant of £800 for site and buildings. it Including Government grant of £1,584 17s. 8d. for site, building, furniture, &c.

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Expenditure of certain Secondary Schools for the Year 1905.

Expense of Liabilities Boards' on Managelst Jan., 1905. ment: Office and Salaries. School Salaries. Boardingschool Account Examiners' Fees and Expenses. Scholarships, Exhibitions, Prizes. Printing, Stationery, Advertising, Cleaning, Fuel, Light, &c. Laud, Buildings, Furniture, Insurance, Rent, Rates. Expenditure on Endowments. Interest. Cr. Sundries Balances, unclassified. 31st Dec, 1905. Schools. Totals. £ s. d. £ s. a. 28 0 1 516 14 1 1 10 0 26 0 0 61 6 10 141 9 9 146 16 5 144 4 7i 242 0 0 £ s. d. 415 1 8 4,499 13 2 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 5 14 6 39 9 4 £ s. d. 29 18 1 327 14 10 £ s. d. 210 3 6 2,027 8 6 £ s. d. 3 16 6 330 3 0 382 0 3 31 19 11 104 6 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. 5 12 0 40 10 0i 411 9 oJ: 20 0 0 3 3 0 25 1 1 26 13 Hi 67 7 9 102 16 7 £ s. d. 34 15 2 2,565 0 4 10,163 14 8 360 10 1 419 7 11 2,316 7 0 £ s. d. 733 1 6 10,762 18 3 10,959 4 8 1,740 9 0 1,873 12 5 8,144 6 11 3,817 15 1 2,369 0 7 9,953 0 6 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 Hokitika High School Bangiora High School Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School Christ's College Grammar School Akaroa High School Ashburton High School Timaru High School Waimate High School Waitaki High School Otago High Schools Southland High Schools •• i' 0 7 45' 3 5! - 436 0 11 109 16 5 39 4 10 36 5 0 429 9 1 10 12 0 16 6 6 3 13 100 0 0 60 0 0 267 15 9 1 12 0 39 16 9 89 4 2 14 4 9 153 17 9 305 8 11 144 16 6 700 0 0 1,015 5 7 2,012 4 4 2,969 1 0 1,337 11 3 5,025 1 1 2,196 15 2 857 10 0 3,471 15 2 .. 2,111 10 10 3,593 14 4 2"2 0 4913 9 12 12 0 156 11 3 48 4 6 8 "8 0 '• 21 2 6 30 6 1 53 13 3 48 16 6 88 10 4 114 2 7 60 14 7 515 14 11 49 13 1 102 0 1 290 10 9 155 3 0 68 10 7 589 5 1 189 0 7 3 10 4 77 18 10 446 19 9 549 0 10 144 15 9 1,166 9 4 418 4 2 326 14 0 1,723 15 8 1,396 3 1 296 5 0 111 11 9 6,047 7 5 •• 105 16 1 " i i 416 5 0 0 10 9 0 2 6 2 4 9 0 14 0 3 0 0 0 10 oi 12"o 6 3 17 4 491 11 0 16 16 10 373 8 5 81 8 2 205 0 0 0 3 0 110 8 1 43 9 10 310 16 9 250 0 0 126 6 0 71 18 11 90 0 0 70 0 5 255 16 6 6 10 0 363 3 11 1,918 14 5 4,276 19 9 3,025 6 11 808 11 10 2,312 10 9 1,344 1 6 1,427 0 3 41 1 9 204 1 0 14 2 4 8,334 19 5 3,855 18 1 1,969 8 10 17,647 9 3 1,436 1 8 1,669 11 8 859 2 6 5,340 0 5 2,166 14 7 8,669 13 3 429 8 7 2,593 8 3 5,485 0 11 2,289 1 7 4,286 1 5 7,198 9 2 4,558 11 1 • '• 21 4 11 146 7 6 410 7 8 80 12 2 438 4 6 .. 604 0 0 3,938 0 2 1,726 2 4 3,557 12 0 " 53 19 2 143 2 6 57 2 11 340 0 0 2 9 0 79 6 8 153 14 9 8 13 6 135 6 9 437 15 9 245 13 11 10 9 10 191 0 11 7 15 4 1,215 18 8 I .. 16 0 0 12 15 0 63 13 0 27 0 1 114 14 8 745 16 0 2 2 0 15 0 39 16 0 77 7 3 5 5 0 35 11 10 200 0 0 50 "0 0 1,671 1 9 58 14 10] 173 5 7 749 15 0 2,183 13 2 1,594 15 4 105 0 3 2 5 6 1,535 18 1 729 4 2 261 19 6 34 15 8 1 12 0 693 7 0 52 1 1 - 2":3 6 - 1,661 0 0 4,771 13 2 2,123 0 11 45,814 15 2 ! ! 0 19 0 2,806 18 0 2,093 19 7 31 6 5 320 4 4 1,776 10 3 128 13 5 162 "0 0 • •• Totals 2,153 6 8 3,129 13 5 5,883 18 7 369 19 6, ,2,027 2 5 3,987 9 11 19,743 18 7 3,165 2 3 859 4 10 3,210 4 6; 38,797 13 9 129,142 9 7

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List of Secondary Schools incorporated or endowed.

Name of Sohool. Number of Pupils. Proportion of Annual Rate of Salary of Teachers. Total Pees reoeived for Year. Auckland Grammar School iVanganui Girls' College Napier Boys'High School sfapier Girls' High School ... kelson Boys' College sfelson Girls' College Christchurch Boys' High School ... Christ's College Grammar School... 23 29 18 24 19 23 13 38 £ s. d. 125 0 0 86 1 1 113 8 5 127 7 0 150 0 0 145 0 0 110 10 0 395 0 0 £ s. 200 11 229 10 158 17 166 16 184 16 209 13 110 10 349 7 d. 0 0 9 ' 7 0 0 0 9 Totals 187 1,252 6 6 1,610 2 1

Name. Act of Incorporation or Institution. Remarks. Whangarei High School 1878, No. 63, Local .. Act may be repealed by Gazette notice under Act of 1885, No. 30. Auckland Grammar School Auckland Girls' High School 1899, No. 11, Local. 1878, No. 55, Local .. Under management of Education Board. Not in operation in 1905. 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. i, p. 903. Palmerston North High School Wellington College and Girls' High School Dannevirke High School Napier High Schools Gisborne High Sohool Marlborough High Sohool Nelson College .. .. 1904, No. 20, section 88 1887, No. 17, Local. 1904, No. 20, section 88 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] Scheme of control, Gazette, 1905, Vol. ii, p. 2, 407. Not in operation in 1905. Board identical with Education Board. Greymouth High School Hokitika High School Rangiora High School .. ... Christchurch Boys' High Sohool Christchurch Girls' High School Not in operation in 1905. Not in operation in 1905. Under management of Canterbury College. Under management of Canterbury College Endowment, Gazette, 1878, Vol. i, 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 1881, No. 16, Local .. 1878, No. 49, Local. 1878, No. 26, Local. 1883, No. 19, Local .. 1878, No. 18, Local. 1877, No. 52, Local. 1877, No. 82, Local. Not in operation in 1905. Not in operation in 1905.

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WHANGAREI HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. Roger Lupton, Miss A. L. Gavey, and Miss A. L. M. Wooiley. 1. Report op the Governors. A very considerable increase in the number of pupils took place at the beginning of the new year, and continued throughout the school terms. The pupils of the school were enabled to avail themselves of manual training in woodwork and cookery at the Manual and Technical School recently erected by the Auckland Education Board in Whangarei. During the year the Board of Governors made a successful sale of the school grounds, and a new site of nearly 6 acres of land has been secured. The buildings have been removed to the new grounds, completely renovated, and an extra class-room and a science room added. The resignation of Mr. J. S. Wilson, who has represented the Auckland Grammar School Board on the Board of Governors, was received with regret by the Board, his term of office having dated since 1879. Mr. A. H. Mason has been appointed in his stead. The Rev. L. L. Cubitt and Mr. W. A. Carruth were reappointed as members of the Board of Governors, in accordance with section 3 of " The Whangarei High School Act, 1878." J. McKinnon, Secretary. 2. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s . d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 35 14 8 Office salary .. .. .. 24 7 3 Government capitation for free places .. 386 3 3 Other office expenses .. .. .. 3 12 10 Endowments — Teachers' salaries and allowances .. .. 415 i 8 Current income from reserves .. .. 82 10 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 514 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 21 15 1 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 17 0 9 School fees .. .. .. 56 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. .. 12 17 4 Voluntary contributions on aocount of gene- Site, buildings, furniture, &o.— ral purposes of the school .. .. 015 0 Purohases and new works .. ~ 196 4 9 Sale school-site (part) .. .. .. 150 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 210 6 Sale of furniture .. .. .. .. 0 3 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c).. .. .. 11 8 3 Miscellaneous (surveys, &c.) ' ~ 316 6 Refund school fees paid in error .. .. 5 12 0 Balance at end of year .. .. ~ 34 15 2 £733 1 6 £733 1 6 J. M. Killen, Chairman. J. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin—Bradley's Arnold; Bivington's Unseens; Caesar, Gallic War, Books V, VI; Ovid's Tristia; Primer of Roman Antiquities; Smith's Smaller History of Rome. French —Pasnacht's Exercises for Middle Forms; Specimens of Modern French Verse, La Canne de Jonc. English —Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present; Carpenter's Rhetoric, Advanced Precis ; English History, Stuart Period; Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Mathematics —Hall and Knight's Algebra; Baker and Bourne's Geometry, I-IV; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry ; Bryan's Mechanics. Science—Shore and Foster's Physiology. Lowest. —English —Wood's English Composition, Book VII; West's English Grammar ; Temple Reader; Cowper's Task, the Sofa; English History, Ransome's, to a.d. 1399; dictation and punctuation. Mathematics —Arithmetic; General Revision of Standard VI syllabus; Algebra, Hall and Knight, to factors ; Geometry, Baker and Bourne, Book I. Latin—Ora Maritima. Book-keeping —Thornton's First Lessons. French—Siepmann's First Year. Physiology—Parts I and 11, Murche. Drawing—Freehand from the flat and from nature; elementary perspective. Woodwork, and drawing for same, for boys. Cooking, for girls.

AUCKLAND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement op Accounts for the year ended' 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s , ,3. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 10,374 12 0 Bank oharges for commission and safe Endowments— security of debentures .. .. 1 10 0 Price of timber sold .. .. ..... 130 12 8 Interest on current account .. .. 0 10 9 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 412 0 0 Miscellaneous (surveys, &c.) .. .. 382 0 3 Refund of interest advanced to Auckland Auckland Grammar School—lnterest paid Grammar Sohool .. .. .. 42 0 0 over .. .. .. .. 411 9 0 Balance at end of year— On mortgage .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 In debentures .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 On current acoount .. .. .. 163 14 8 £10,959 4 8 £10,959 4~~8 Samuel Luke, Chairman. Vincent E. Rice, Secretary and Treasurer.

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AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. W. Tibbs, M.A. ; Mr. W. J. Morrell, M.A.; Mr. J. H. Howell, 8.A., 8.50.; Mr. J. P. 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. P. Drummond, 8.A.; Mr. E. Clarke, M.A.; Mr. C. J. A. Griffin, M.A., B.Sc.; Miss E. G. Wallace ; Miss P. A. Haultain ; Miss A. C. Morrison, M.A. ; Miss W. Picken, M.A.; Miss B. Blades ; Miss P. V. J. Jacobsen, M.A. ; Mr. Kenneth Watkins ; Mr. P. Potter. 1. Report op the Board of Governors. The School, —The Board has thoroughly renovated and equipped with new benches and tools the school workshop, carpentry having formed-a part of the school curriculum for the past twenty-two years. It has also erected at a cost of £165 two brick fives-courts. These additions to the school premises have been made with a view to provide greater opportunities for instruction and recreation which have been made necessary by the increased number of boys holding free places under the Regulations under " The Secondary Schools Act, 1903." At the end of the first term there were 269 Government and 233 paying pupils at the school. The amount of fees paid by the Government for the year at £8 10s. a head was £2,246 Is. Bd. The Board has widely made known the regulations of the Education Department as to the holding of free places by having such extensively advertised in the daily and weekly Press throughout the year. Distinctions. —Two pupils of the school gained junior scholarships at the examination of December, 1904, and eight others passed " with credit." The scholars were W. G. Aldridge and Miss A. A. Welham. Twenty-eight passed matriculation and twenty-seven the Civil Service Junior Examination. Of former pupils out of the colony, M. A. Hunter has graduated D.Sc, London; P. S. Ardern, 8.A., Oxford; P. Vickerman, M.B. and Ch.B., Edinburgh; Miss A. W. Whitelaw, M.A., Dublin ; and K. F. Gordon has been admitted M.R.C.S. The usual distribution of prizes was made by His Excellency the Governor and Lady Plunket, at the Choral Hall, on the 14th December, 1905. Ninety prizes were given, and their cost was about £50. Mr. P. M. Mackay, J.P., gave three laboratory prizes—two for boys for practical chemistry, and one for girls for best collection of New Zealand wild flowers. G. Maurice O'Rorke, M.A., LL.D., Chairman. 2. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. ; Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,078 0 2 I Secretary's salary .. .. .. 135 0 0 Government capitation for free places .. 2,246 1 8 Office expenses .. .. .. 63 19 8 Current income from reserves .. .. 4,734 16 4 | Commission, &c, to oollector .. .. 315 12 1 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 428 18 1 i Teachers' salaries and allowance* .. 4,499 13 2 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,068 6 6 Election expenses .. .. .. 2 2 4 Interest, Post-Office Savings-Bank .. 110 School requisites .. .. .. 146 15 7 Grant from Auckland Education Board School library .. .. .. 3 16 under section 23 of "The Auckland Prizes .. .. .. .. 39 9 4 Grammar School Act, 1899 ".. .. 205 14 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 98 19 4 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 85 13 6 Stationery allowance .. .. .. 143 2 0 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 1,313 14 3 Rates and insurance .. .. .. 563 17 2 Interest on loans .. .. .. 416 5 0 New buildings .. .. .. 330 3 0 Advance to Girls' High School .. .. 3 0 0 Cricket coach .. .. .. 10 0 0 Swimming sports .. .. .. 5 0 0 Girls' playground .. .. .. 2 0 0 Athletic sports .. .. .. 20 0 0 Cab, Mr. Udy's funeral .. .. 0 10 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 2,565 0 4 £10,762 18 3 £10,762 18 3 W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Divisions. Highest. —Nichol, Primer of English Composition; Nesfield, English Past and Present; Samson Agonistes ; Shakespeare, The Tempest; Selections from Chaucer. Sargeant, Easy Passages for Latin Prose ; Primer of Roman Antiquities ; Smith's Smaller History of Rome; Livy, XXII; Virgil, iEneid XI; Horace, Odes, I. Wellington College French Grammar; Hamonet, Select Passages from French Authors; L'Abbe Daniel; Berthon, Specimens of Modern French Verse; Victor Hugo's Waterloo. Hall and Knight's Geometry and Trigonometry; Todhunter and Loney's Algebra; Ward's Exercises in Trigonometry. Science: Boys' Side— Roscoe and Harden, Inorganic Chemistry; -Tilden's Practical Chemistry; Advanced Heat, R. W. Stewart. Girls' Side—Miss Aitken's Elementary Botany; Scott's Flowering Plants Jessop's Applied Mathematics. Lowest. —Nesfield's Outlines of English Grammar; Temple Reader; Mill's Commercial Geography; Arabella Buckley's English History. Elementa Latina; Postgate's First Latin Primer; Scalse Primte. Maemillan's French Course, First-year; Janan, Elementary French Reader. Baker and Bourne's Geometry; Rivington's Junior School Algebra ; School Arithmetic, Workman. Science —Boys, Turpin's Elementary Practical Chemistry ; Girls, Botany.

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THAMES HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. James Ada-ms, 8.A.; Mr. R. J. Thompson, B.A. ; Miss Mary R. Poy. 1. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Sites, building, furniture, &c. .. .. 275 0 0 Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 10 7 Government capitation for free places .. 214 0 0 Office salary .. .. .. .. 20 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 341 211 Other office expenses .. .. .. 6 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 42 16 10 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 700 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 70 10 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 2 2 0 Interest on Post - Office Savings-Bank Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 6 14 0 account .. .. .. .... 2 2 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 25 16 4 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 74 16 9 Government grants .. .. .. ' 537 4 6 Special loan under section 12 of " The High Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 11 16 4 School Reserves Act, 1880 .. .. 700 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 0 2 6 Contractor's deposit .. .. .. 20 0 0 Management, &c, of endowments .. 31 19 11 School requisites .. .. .. 17 2 9 Contractor's deposit refunded .. .. 20 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 360 10 1 £1,740 9 0 £1,740 9 0 Arch. Burns, Chairman. Jas. Kerniok, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that the Board is not authorised by law to overdraw its ccount (General Account). —J. W. Poynton, Deputy Controller and Auditor. 2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Precis (Cosmo Monkhouse); English Grammar Past and Present (Nesfield); English Composition (Nichol) ; English Questions and Exercises (Nichol) ; Marmion (Scott) ; Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare) ; How to Write Clearly (Abbot) ; The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare). Latin—First Steps to Latin Prose (Walters) ; Questions and Exercises (Stedman); Latin Unseens (Senior); Csesar, Books II and III; Ovid's Selections. French—Macmillan's French Course, Third Year (Fasnacht) ; Questions and Exercises (Stedman); La Mere au Diable ; French Unseens for Upper Forms (Pallisier); Macmillan's French Reader, Second Year (Fasnacht). Arithmetic —General Arithmetic (Lock). Mathematics —Elementary Algebra (Hall and Knight) ; Geometry, I-VI (Hall and Stevens) ; Trigonometry (Lock). Science—Chemistry (Roscoe) ; Practical Chemistry (Tilden); Inorganic Chemistry (Roscoe and Harden). Mechanics— Pinkerton's Theoretical Mechanics. Lowest. —English—Outlines of English Grammar (Mason); Exercises on Morris's English Grammar (Wetherell); English Grammar Exercises (Bowen and Morris); How to Write Clearly (Abbot); the Temple Reader; correction of faulty sentences; essays on easy subjects. Latin— Via Latina (Abbott), exercises 1-32; grammar as far as and including the four regular conjugations ; First Latin Reader (Beresford), Parts I and 11. French—Macmillan's First French Book (Fasnacht) ; grammar bearing on exercises, and the four regular conjugations; My First French Book (M. Ninet). Arithmetic—General Arithmetic (Lock). Mathematics—Algebra (Hall and Knight), up to simultaneous equations; geometry (Hall and Stevens), Book I. History—Period from 1603-1660 ; The Royal History of England. Geography—Longmans' Geography, Book 11. Chemistry—Roscoe's Chemistry Primer.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. Ernest Pridham, M.A.; Miss C. D. Grant, M.A. ; Miss S. A. Drew, M.A.; Mr. H. H. Ward ; Mr. T. Blair. 1. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts, £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 212 11 3 Office salary .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Capitation— Other office expenses .. .. .. 8 6 4 For free places .. .. .. 459 6 8 Other expenses of management .. .. 3 0 6 Under Manual and Technical Instruction Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,015 5 7 Regulations .. .. .. 17 3 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 21 2 6 Current income from reserves .. .. 918 11 8 Class material .. ... .. 27 3 9 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 35 12 2 purchase-money .. .. .. 9 5 0 Gleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 66 711 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 100 0 0 Prom Government grants .. .. 18 0 Transfer fees .. .. .. .. 10 0 Purchases and new works .. .. 38 17 0 Boarding school fees .. .. .. 124 9 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. ... .. .37 911 Hire, cricket-matting .'. .. .. 15 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 14 12 6 Refund from tenants of cost of leases .. 30 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 619 3 .Interest on current account .. .. 2 4 9 Miscellaneous (surveys, &c.) .. .. 104 6 0 Law .. .. .. .. .. 330 Refund of rates to lessees .. .. 18 5 4 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 419 7 11 £1,873 12 5 £1,873 12 5 .W. K. MacDiarmid, Chairman. Walter Bewley, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Wakburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin —Victoria College Terms; Csesar, Book VII, 1-62 ; Horace, Ep., I, 1-16; Ramsay's Latin Prose and Grammar. French—Victoria College Terms ; L'Avare ; Phedre ; Voyage aux Pyrenees ; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ; Literature, 1800-1850 ; Vecqueray's Papers ; Kastner's Composition. Arithmetic—General. Algebra—Victoria College Terms; Hall and Knight, to end binomial theorem. Geometry and Trigonometry—Victoria College Terms; programme as prescribed for B.A. English —Victoria College Terms; Morris's History of the Language; Sweet's Anglo-Saxon; Skeats' Early English; Composition, essays arising out of selected works. Literature—Victoria College Terms ; period 1800-1850 ; Sartor Resartus : Prometheus Unbound ; Samson Agonistes. Geography—Physical, Political, and General of the World (matriculation). Science—Botany, programme for senior -free places; alternative questions for matriculation. Drawing—Freehand, Model, and Shading. Physical drill. Lowest. —Latin—Via Latina, exercises 1-29 ; Via Nova, Part I, 1-13. French —Methode Naturelle, Lessons 1-38. Arithmetic —Hamblin Smith, Pages 1-197 (omitting square and cube root and exercises 98 and 99). Algebra—Hall and Knight, exercises 1-10 a, inclusive. Geometry —Hall and Stevens, theorems 1-14, problems 1-7 inclusive, deductions to page 34. History— Ransome, period 1689-1837. Geography—Longmans' Geographical Series, Part 111, pages 468--522 and 61-106. Science—Botany—Ranunculacese, Cruciferaa, Violaceae, Leguminosaa, Rosaeese, Umbelliferse and Compositae; the classification of leaves. Literature —Battle of Lake Regillus; first act of Twelfth Night. Composition—Essay-writing, letter-writing, paraphrasing, and punctuation. Drawing—Blackboard. Sewing—Girls. Drill.

WANGANUI GIRLS' COLLEGE. Staff. Mips M. I. Fraser, M.A. ; Miss S. E. Gifford, M.A. ; Miss M. M. Rawson, M.A. ; Miss J. Knapp, B,A. ; Miss J. R. Currie, M.A.; Miss A. Blennerhassett, B.A. ; Miss E. Mcintosh, M.A.; Miss L. Beckingsale ; Miss I. S. Baker; Miss M. B. Richmond, B.A. ; Miss A. M. A. Maunder ; Miss L. Reichert; Madame Venosta; Mr. D. E. Hutton ; Miss M. L. Biown; Miss M. Blennerhassett. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year— Office salaries .. .. .. .. 65 0 0 On mortgage .. .. .. .. 1,600 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 17 18 0 In bank .. .. .. .. 630 8 11 Other expenses of management .. ~ 8 0 9 Subsidy on voluntary contributions—second- Teachers'salaries and allowanoes .. 2,012 4 4 ary sohools .. .. .. .. 400 0 0 Boarding-school account .. .. 2,111 10 10 Current income from reserves .. .. 450 7 2 Church sittings .. .. .. 12 3 4 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Examiners' fees.. .. .. .. 42 0 0 purchase-money .. .. .. 80 0 0 Other examination expenses .. .. 713 9 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 183 17 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 30 6 1 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,169 4 1 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 90 10 9 Boarding-sohool fees .. .. .. 2,160 7 8 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and Church sittings .. .. .. 30 4 0 other temporary advances .. .. 200 0 0 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 8 16 1 Government grants for site, buildings, furniVoluntary contributions .. .. .. 401 1 8 ture, &c. .. .. .. ~ 400 0 0 Improvements to site .. .. .. 3 0 0 Purchases and new works .. .. 484 19 5 Rent of house .. .. .. .. 4 5 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 232 19 7 Advance repaid .. .. .. .. 11 10 9 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. ... 10 0 6 Baths .. .. .. .. •. 11 3 6 Interest on current account .. .. 0 4 0 Bank oharges .. .. .. .. 010 0 Fees refunded .. .. .. ~ 12 17 9 Fire insurance .. .... .. 38 910 Caretaker .. ~ .'.'"' .. 49 10 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. .. 110 Balance at end of year— mortgage .. .. .. .. 1,600 0 0 In o bank .. .. .. .. 716 7 0 £8,144 6 11 £8,144 6 11 Fred Pirani, Chairman. W. J. Carson, Secretary. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English, Latin, French, mathematics, German, mechanics, mental science as for degree of B.A. University of New Zealand, gymnastics, swimming. Lowest. —English, French, arithmetic, history, geography, Scripture, gymnastics, swimming, sewing, class-singing.

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WANGANUI COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. W. Empson, 8.A.; Mr. J. R. Oxford, M.A. ; Rev. A. W. N. Compton, M.A.; Mr. F. L. Peok ; Mr. H.*B. Watson, M.A. ; Mr. J. E. Bannister, M.A. ; Mr. W. A. Armour, M.A. ; Mr. J. F. Lomas, M.A.; Mr. J. Harold ; Mr. E. G. Atkinson, M.A.; Mrs. Atkinson ; Mr. R. Dunn. 1. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Current inoome from reserves .. .. 1,162 19 6 Dr. balanoe at beginning of year .. 45 3 5 Interest on prize-moneys invested .. 7 7 11 Office salary .. .. .. .. 53 1 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,695 0 0 Other expenses of management .. .. 93 15 5 Boarding-school fees .. .. .. 561 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,969 1 0 Musio fees .. .. .. .. 230 17 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 53 13 3 Lease fee, insurances, &c. .. .. 8 511 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 37 8 1 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 152 4- 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 117 14 11 New works .. .. .. .. 131 4 7 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 225 12 9 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 33 6 2 Insurances .. .. .. .. 28 0 8 Interest on current account .. .. 3 0 0 Law expenses .. .. .. .. 22 18 6 Chemicals .. .. .. .. 3 15 4 £3,817 15 1 £3,817 15 1 Frederic Wellington, Chairman. Ed. N. Lipfiton, Agent. Aubrey Gualter, Secretary. I have examined the books and vouchers of the Wanganui College Board of Trustees for the twelve months ended the 31st December, 1905, and hereby certify that all my requirements as Auditor have been complied with, and that the above statement agrees with the books, and is a true and correct record.—John Notman, Auditor. 2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Latin, Greek, French, English, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, chemistry, botany, All as for Junior University Scholarships. Lowest. —Latin, French, English, history, geography, arithmetic, science.

PALMERSTON NORTH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. E. Vernon, M.A., B.So. ; Mr. F. Foote, 8.A.; Mr. John Murray, M.A. ; Miss Clara Mills, M.A., B.Sc. ; Miss E. M. B. Lynch, M.A. ; Miss Gladys Wyatt; Miss B. Mollison ; Mr. Ritchings Grant. 1. Report op the Governors. The work of the school for the year ending the 31st December, 1905, has been satisfactory. In December it was examined by the Chief Inspector of the Wanganui Education Board, and his report was considered by the Board to be satisfactory. The roil-number remains about the same— viz., ninety-five boys and fifty-four girls. Of these twenty-one pay fees, and eleven have been admitted by the Board without charge though not earning capitation. In December the Board determined to appoint an art master, and Mr. G. H. Elliott, of Christchurch, has since been appointed to the position. A considerable sum of money has been spent on the school grounds in improvements, but a great deal more will be required before the grounds can be made really serviceable for the scholars. The property has been handed over by the Wanganui Education Board, and it is now vested in the Board of Governors. During the year the following honours have been gained by the school: Matriculation, 2 ; Senior Civil Service, 1; Junior Civil Service, 5 ; Pupil-teachers' Entrance, 6; Education Board's Scholarship, 1; Medical Preliminary, 1. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s, d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 254 18 4 Office salary and expenses .. .. 25 12 3 Capitation for free places 1,435 2 6 Caretaker's salary, &c. .. .. .. 118 12 4 Capitation for manual and technical in- Teachers'salaries .. .. .. 1,337 11 3 struction .. .. .. .. 81 10 0 Examination expenses .. .. .. 12 12 0 Subsidy on voluntary contributions .. 51 3 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 18 16 6 From Wellington School Commissioners .. 152 5 0 Class material .. .. .. .. 53 711 School fees .. .. .. .. 354 10 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 50 1 0 Books and other refunds .. .. .. 18 11 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c . .. .. 18 9 7 Grazing fees, refunds, &o. .. .. 7 0 9 New works on grounds .. .. .. 147 5 4 Wanganui Education Board — Proportion Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 60 18 4 cleaning and firewood expenses .. .. 14 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 7 19 6 Sohool fees returned .. .. .. 2 17 9 Refund to scholarship holders .. .. 30 0 0 Piano .. .. .. .. .. 34 0 0 Refund WaDganui Eduoation Board — Technical capitation .. .. .. 64 10 0 Technical material .. .. .. 23 211 Balance in bank .. .. .. 263 3 11 Cash in transit .. .. .. .. 100 0 0 £2,369 0 7 £2,369 0 7 William Hunter, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—- J. W. Poynton, Deputy Controller and Auditor.

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3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Manual of English Grammar and Composition (Nesfield); Higher Grade English (Dalgleish); English Literature (Stronaeh) ; Samson Agonistes ; Prometheus Unbound. Latin—Grammar, Macmillan's Third Latin Course ; Horace, Epistles, Book I; Csesar, Book VII. Mathematics—Arithmetic (Goyen) ; Algebra, to progressions (Hall and Knight); Geometry, Euclid, Books I-IV and VI (Hall and Stevens); Trigonometry, to solution triangles (Pendlebury). Science —Chemistry (Remsen) ; Mechanics (Loney). French —Chardenal, Part 11. Lowest. —English—The Deserted Village ; Grammar and Composition (Nesfield), Parts I and II; Geography, The World (Longmans) ; History, to 1272 (Ransome). Mathematics—Arithmetic (Pendlebury); algebra, to simple equations (Longmans); geometry, Baker and Bourne, Book I. Latin—Macmillan's First Course. Botany—Elementary lessons. Woodwork or cookery. Geometrical drawing. Book-keeping and shorthand.

WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. College.- -Mr. J. P. Firth, 8.A.; Mr. A. Heine, B.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, 8.A.; Mr. T. Jordan, M.A.; Mr. F. M. Renner, MA. ; Mr. R. E. Rudman, B.A. ; Mr. D. Matheson ; Mr. J. H. Goulding, B.A. ; Mr. G. V. Bogle ; Mr. J. C. Pope. Girls' High School.— Miss M. McLean, M.A.; Miss M. Morrah, M.A.; Miss M. N. Gellatly, M.A. ; Miss J. Ecclesfield, M.A.; Miss W. Fraser, 8.A.; Miss Batham, 8.A.; Miss Newman, 8.A.; Miss Jack; Miss Robertson, M.A. 1. Report op the Governors. The Board of Governors have to report that the work of the Wellington College and the Wellington Girls' College has been carried on during the year ending the 31st December, 1905, with success, though under the difficulty of want of sufficient room. Representations to the Minister of Education on this and other matters affecting the well-being of the two institutions under the Board have evoked no reply. The results of the University and Civil Service Examinations were as follows :— Wellington College. —Six pupils passed the Junior University Scholarship Examination, five of them "with credit"; six passed the Medical Preliminary Examination; and eighteen the Matriculation. Fourteen passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. Girls' College. —Two pupils gained Junior University Scholarships, one passed the same examination " with credit," and one qualified for matriculation on the Junior Scholarship papers. Twenty-four passed the Matriculation Examination ; one the Solicitors' General Knowledge, and seven the Junior Civil Service Examination, all " with credit." 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,764 16 8 Office salaries .. .. .. .. 210 0 0 Capitation under Manual and Technical Other office expenses .. .. .. 32 0 0 Instruction Regulations .. .. 32 8 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 5,025 1 1 Current income from reserves .. .. 2,099 910 ExaminationsPaid by School Commissioners .. .. 463 18 8 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 97 13 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 5,443 1 8 Other expenses .. .. .. 58 18 3 Discount .. .. .. .. 0 2 8 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 20 13 4 Contract deposit .. .. .. 10 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 67 17 0 Rents from buildings .. .. .. 100 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 403 8 8 Donations for prizes .. .. .. 9 2 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 185 16 5 Interest on deposit .. .. .. 30 0 0 New works .. .. .. .. 275 11 8 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 838 0 7 Interest - .. .. .. .. 557 12 0 Miscellaneous (insurance) .. .. 52 11 5 Interest on current account .. .. 0 10 0 Interest on cost of reclaimed land .. 104 14 6 Rates .. .. .. .. 117 Fees refunded .. .. .. .. 1 19 7 Legal expenses .. .. .. .. 9 3 8 Grant to Games Fund .. .. .. 91 13 4 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 1,918 14 5 £9,953 0 6 £9,953 0 6 A. de B. Brandon, Chairman. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Standards. Highest. — Boys' College: Mathematics (Junior University Scholarship standard) — Algebra, Hall and Knight's Higher Algebra; Trigonometry, Loney's Plane Trigonometry, Part I; Geometry, Godfrey and Siddons's Plane Geometry, and Hall and Stevens, Part VI. Science (Junior University Scholarship standard) —Physics, Poyser's Advanced Electricity and Magnetism ; Chemistry, Jago's Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, Elementary Qualitative Analysis. English — Literature—Shakespeare (Winter's Tale), Chaucer (Prologue), Hales (Longer English Poems), Addison (Selections from Spectator); grammar—Nesfield's Historical English and Derivation; composition — essays, &c. Latin — Translation — Livy XXII, Virgil (ißneid XII), sight; composition —Bradley's Arnold, Bradley's Aids; 3-E. 12.

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NAPIER HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School.—Ut. A. S. M. Poison, B.A. ; Mr. E. W. Andrews, B.A. ; Mr.W. Kerr, M.A. ; Mr. J. Stewart; Mr. F. W. Gamble, 8.A.; Mr. C. F. Rockel; Mr. R. N. Anderson. Girls' School.— Miss A. E. J. Spencer, B.A. ; Miss C. R. Kirk, 8.A.; Miss F. J. W. Hodges, M.A.; Miss J. Gillies ; Miss D. Gillam, M.A.; Miss T. King ; Miss J. E. Page ; Mrs. Pearson. 1. Report op the Governors. The Board of Governors of Napier High School have the honour to report that there is a steady increase in the attendance of boarders and day pupils. The following successes were obtained at the annual public examinations :—Boys : Thirty-six passes ; Junior University Scholarship, one passed " with credit " (twelfth on the list) ; one passed in matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge ; Medical Preliminary, three; Matriculation, six, two of them also passing in Solicitors' General Knowledge; Junior Civil Service, ten, seven of them passing "with credit"; Senior Civil Service, one passed in four subjects; Senior Free Places, sixteen, five of them also qualifying for Education Board Senior Scholarships; Queen's Scholarships, two passed. Girls : Medical Registration, comprising Medical Preliminary and Matriculation, one passed; Matriculation, five passed, three of them also passing in Solicitors' General Knowledge; Junior Civil Service, seven passed, all " with credit " (one was third on the list for the whole colony); Senior Free Places, seven passed, all qualifying for Education Boards' Senior Scholarships ; Victoria Scholarship, one passed. In addition to the ordinary curriculum the Governors have added a cooking class to the Girls' School. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balanoe at beginning of year .. .. 4,439 12 4 Office salaries .. .. .. .. 80 0 0 Government capitation for free places .. 811 6 8 Other office expenses .. .. .. 20 6 3 Current income from reserves .. .. 376 10 0 Other expenses of management —■ Legal Property not a reserve .. .. .. 787 10 0 expenses .. .. .. " .. 910 2 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,129 16 8 purchase-money .. .. .. 168 17 0 Music-teachers .. .. .. .. 66 18 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 925 0 0 Examiners'fees.. .. .. .. 30 0 0 Sohool fees .. .. .. .. 603 010 Other examination expenses .. .. 18 4 6 Music fees .. .. .. .. 76 7 6 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 99 2 8 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 136 1 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 14 19 11 Refund insurance premiums .. .. 10 13 7 Class material .. .. .. .. 114 0 7 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 36 1 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c... .. .. 152 19 7 Purchases and new works, inoluding additional land, £600 .. .. .. 1,115 18 2 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 57 8 3 Miscellananeous (rates, &c.) .. .. 108 16 1 Travelling-expenses of member of Board .. 3 17 4 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 4,276 19 9 £8,334 19 5 £8,334 19 5 T. C. Moore, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary and Treasurer Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest — Boys' School: Mathematics—Geometry (Godfrey and Siddons), algebra (Hall and Knight), arithmetic (Pendlebury), trigonometry (Pendlebury), all to Junior Scholarship standard. English—Nesfield's Manual and English Past and Present; Shakespeare's King Lear; Carlyle's Sartor Resartus : Junior Scholarship standard. Latin—Livy, Hannibal's First Campaign ; Virgil, iEneid I; Prose Composition and Sight Translation (Millington); Caesarian Prose (Simpson); Bradley's Arnold ; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer; Horton's History of the Romans ; Gow's Companion to the Classics; Creighton's Rome : Junior Scholarship standard. French— Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Moli^re); Charles XII (Voltaire); Voyage de M. Perrichon; Selections from Modern French Verse (Berthon); Blouet's Prose Composition; Brachet's Grammar; Stedman's Grammar Questions ; Idioms, Phonetic Transcript, &c. : Junior Scholarship standard. Science—Mechanics and hydrostatics (Tutorial), to Junior Scholarship standard; heat (Tutorial), to Junior Scholarship standard; chemistry (Jago), to Matriculation standard; physiology (Furneaux), to Matriculation standard. History (Ransome), to Matriculation standard. Geography (Gill, &c), to Matriculation standard. Girls' School: English grammar— Junior Scholarship syllabus; text - book, Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present. English literature—Milton's Samson Agonistes; Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Book I. Latin — Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer; Bradley's Arnold, to exercise 40; Horace's Odes, Book I; Livy, Book I, to chapter 16 ; Csesar, Book 11. French—-General grammar, based on Wellington College French Grammar; Berthon's Specimens of Modern French Verse, Part I; Le Chateau de Bois Dormant (Lectures pour Tous). Mechanics—Statics and Dynamics; Text, Elements of Statics and Dynamics (Loney). Trigonometry—Pendlebury's Elementary Trigonometry, to page 218, omitting inverse rotation. Arithmetic — Whole subject, Junior University Scholarship standard. Algebra—Junior University Scholarship syllabus; Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra. Geometry—Godfrey Siddons, Books Ito IV. Botany —Junior Scholarship syllabus ; Denby and Lucas's Botany ; Notes. Lowest. — Boys' School : Reading, writing, spelling, composition, and recitation, more advanced than for Standard VI; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition; Dickens's Christmas Stories; Tennyson for the Young. Arithmetic—Southern Cross, Standard VI. Drawing—Freehand and geometrical. History—Macmillan's Intermediate Reader. Geography—■ Imperial Geography (S.C. series), Standards V and VI. Science —Elementary Physiology (Murche) and Elementary Chemistry (Jago). Girls' School : English —Grammar —Nesfield's Grammar, Standards IV, V, and VI; easy parsing and analysis ; literature—L'AUegro, II Penseroso; Ivanhoe (Nelson's Supplementary Reader); Stronach's English Literature, chapters 7to 10 inclusive ; history—The Tudor Period; Mrs. Buckley's History ; geography—Southern Cross Geography, Standards IV, V, and VI, British possessions only; physical geography—definitions, agents of change, climate. Mathematics —Arithmetic—L.C.M., H.C.F., decimals, vulgar fractions, area, proportion, simple interest; geometry —Godfrey and Siddon's Elementary Geometry, propositions 1 to 10, and very easy exercises ; practical work to exercise 165 ; algebra—Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra, to page 75. Science—Murche's Animal Physiology, Parts I, 11, and 111. Latin—Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, Part I to end of section 38. French— Hogben's Methode Naturelle, to end lesson 36. Drawing —Model drawing of simple forms ; brushwork —Simple designs from flowers, &c. Sewing —Samplers or simple garment.

GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 2,838 15 6 Office salary .. .. .. .. 25 0 0 Receipts from Government— Other expenses of management .. .. 4 17 9 Government grants for building, furni- Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 3 10 4 ture, &c. .. .. .. .. 119 8 4 Government grants for furniture and fittings 115 0 4 Capitation under Manual and Technical Purchases and new works .. .. 161 9 8 Instruction Regulations .. .. 23 12 3 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 19 15 0 Subsidy on voluntary contributions— Advanced to technical olasses .. .. 62 16 0 manual and technical instruction .. 51 12 0 Technical classes .. .. .. 153 7 3 Current income from reserves .. .. 150 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 9 7 1 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Balance Hawke's Bay Education Board .. 275 7 9 paid purchase-money .. .. 135 1 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 3,025 6 11 Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 457 0 6 Interest on current account .. .. 18 0 Voluntary contributions — manual and teohnical instruction .. .. .. 54 2 0 Grant from Hawke's Bay Education Board on account of teachers' olasses and oapitation on same .. .. .. 24 18 6 £3,855 18 1 £3,855 18 1 W. Morgan, Secretary.

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MARLBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. John Innes, M.A., LL.D. ; Mr. R. V. White, 8.A.; Miss M. 0. Ross, M.A.; Miss J. B. Reid, B.A. ; Miss G. Huddlestone; Mr. G. R. Barnett. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts, £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 602 19 9 Office salary .. .. .. .. 36 5 0 Government capitation for free places .. 669 3 4 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 857 10 0 Statutory grant .. .. .. 400 0 0 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 47 11 1 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 50 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 13 3 6 School fees .. .. .. - .. 234 3 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 30 19 8 Refunds .. .. .. .. 0 2 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 46 19 2 Rent of paddock .. .. .. 13 0 0 Furniture .. .. .. .. 19 11 6 Science fittings and apparatus .. .. 51 15 9 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 25 1 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 5 4 0 Plans, supervision, &c. .. .. .. 9 19 6 Books for teachers, &c. .. .. .. 5 10 4 Miscellaneous expenditure x.. .. 11 6 6 Balance at end of year .. .. 808 11 10 £1,969 8 10 £1,969 8 10 John Duncan, Chairman. John Smith, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. W. Poynton, Deputy Controller and Auditor. 2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Divisions. Highest. —English—Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present; Nesfield's Manual of Grammar and Composition; History of Literature; Milton's Lycidas and Samson Agonistes; Chaucer's Prologue ; Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; composition. Latin—Translation ; Csesar, Gallic War, Book VII; Virgil, iEneid, Book I; Horace, Epistles, Book I; sight work; grammar and prose composition; Roman History and Antiquities. French—Translation; Picciola; Athalie; sight work; grammar and prose composition. Pure mathematics, physics (heat), and botany —As for University Junior Scholarship. Lowest. —English—Nesfield's Outline ; parsing and analysis; spelling ; Scott's Ivanhoe (abridged) ; Lyra Heroica; composition. Arithmetic—Pendlebury's New Arithmetic, to square root. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to square root; graphs. Geometry—Hall and Steven's Geometry for Schools, theorems 1-22, and problems 1-10 with exercises. Latin—Scott and Jones's First Latin Course; the declensions of nouns and adjectives, and conjugations of regular verbs. French—Dent's New First Book; easy rules of syntax; oral conversation. History—• Ransome's Short History, James II to George 111. Geography—General geography of Europe; general geography of British Isles ; England and Wales in detail. Elementary botany—Plant-life in Australasia. Physics —Lengths, areas, volumes; Archimedes' law; density of liquid by s. g. bottle, by Archimides' law, hydrometer, balancing columns ; density of solids by s. g. bottle, by Archimedes' law, hydrometer ; law of flotation ; capillary attraction ; air-pump ; water-pump ; levers ; latent heat; specific heat; barometer ; thermometer ; boiling-point of liquids.

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. McCullooh, M.A. ; Mr. E. H. Severne, B.A. ; Mr. O. W. Williams, B.A. ; Mr. M. N. Skelton ; Mr. W. S. Hampson; Mr. F. F. C. Huddlestone. 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 N. I. McLean, M.A. ; Miss M. MoEachen, M.A.; Miss E. T. Chisbolm Mr. F. F. C. Huddlestone. 1. Report of the Governors. The foundation-stone of the new Boys' College was laid by His Excellency Lord Plunket, Governor of the Colony, on the 21st October (the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar), a date which will remain for ever memorable in the history of Nelson College. After much careful consideration, the Governors intrusted the preparation of the plans of the new building to Messrs Thomas Turnbull and Son, F.R.1.8.A., of Wellington. These, after very careful consideration and revision, were finally approved of, and tenders for the erection of the new building were invited. That of Messrs. Robertson Bros. (Limited), of Nelson, being the lowest, was accepted. The new

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College is of brick, and when completed will be a stately building, fully satisfying, it is hoped, all the purposes for which it is intended. The external features of the old College, so long an ornament to the city, have been generally retained. Inside there will be class-rooms for 250 pupils, ample bedroom accommodation for boarders, Principal's and masters' quarters, dining-hall, laboratories, library, baths, kitchens and servants' rooms, with the great assembly hall. A large gymnasium, with baths and workshop attached, has been built during the year, and is now in use. An ample swimming-bath has been designed and laid off, and will be excavated during the winter. The builders' contract price for the main building alone was £21,518, and there can now be no reasonable doubt that the whole will be finished and ready for occupation by the Ist February, 1907. The work of levelling the play-ground-is being proceeded with as rapidly as possible, but the contractors were greatly hindered by bad weather in the earlier stages. The Staff.— Boys' College: Mr. W. H. Johnston, 8.A., and Mr. H. E. G. Smith, 8.A., left during the year for other appointments. Mr. M. N. Skelton was appointed teacher of the junior department. Mr. S. W. Thornton, visiting master for commercial subjects, left on a visit to England early in the year, Mr. W. Spencer Hampson taking up his work as locum tenens. On Mr. Thornton's return be resigned his post, when Mr. Hampson was appointed as his successor. Girls' College : Miss A. C. Tendall, M.A., Lady Principal of the College since June, 1900, left at the end of the year, having accepted an appointment in Melbourne. Her successor, Miss M. Lorimer, M.A., joins the College with the highest recommendations in every respect, and the Governors feel confident of its welfare under her charge. Miss F. E. Livesey, 8.A., resigned at the end of the first term to visit England, and Miss N. I. Maclean, M.A., was appointed in her place. Miss E. Gribben, 8.A., was granted leave of absence for the second and third terms on medical certificate, and accompanied Miss Livesey to England, Miss E. M. Allen, M.A., taking her position temporarily. Miss K. Carter was appointed teacher of gymnastics during the winter months. The Governors desire to express their hearty recognition of the good work which is being done by the Old Boys' Association in keeping alive the interest which all old pupils should take in their school, and also of the substantial financial help given by them, which has made it possible to carry out the long-cherished hope of levelling the play-ground. They also, and no less heartily, thank the Old Girls' Association for similar efforts, resulting in the permanent endowment of the " Nelson College Old Girls' Scholarship," and the presentation to the College of a large number of fine pictures, which have greatly added to the appearance of the principal class rooms. Boys' College. The classes were carried on during the year in the School of Music Hall, the Presbyterian Hall, Shelbourne Street School, and the Central School, all these buildings being close together, the three first-named being rented, and the use of two rooms in the last granted free by the kindness of the Town Schools Committee. The attendance was not greatly affected by the somewhat inconvenient conditions under which the work was carried on, there being 204 names on the roll, 64 being new pupils, 39 of whom had junior free places. The total number of free pupils (senior and junior) was 88. The number of boarders during the year was 63. The results of the public examinations proved very satisfactory. A. Sandel and H. P. Kidson gained Junior Scholarships at the University, the former taking the third place. Three boys obtained credit, and one boy qualified for matriculation on the scholarship papers. Eight passed the Matriculation Examination, and one the Medical Preliminary. Three of the senior pupils passed the First-year Terms Examination at Victoria College, and two the Second Year, the two latter being also successful in the First Section of the Examination for Degrees. H. Watts passed the final examination for entrance to the army, and has now left to join his regiment in England. Twelve boys passed the Civil Service Junior, of whom five obtained credit. Twenty boys, holding junior free places, obtained an extension of their period of free education by passing the Senior Examination. The Preparatory Department was weak in numbers, but made excellent progress. Thirteen boys were granted the competency certificate after examination by the Inspector of Schools, so qualifying for promotion to a higher class. All boys, except a few of the juniors, belong to the cadet corps. In November 150 of them went under canvas for a week's training, the tents being pitched in a paddock behind the College. Girls' College. The average attendance for the year was 142, of whom twenty-four were boarders. Fiftyeight of the pupils held free places under the Secondary Schools Act. The public examinations resulted as follows: Two girls obtained the First Section of the B.A. Degree, three passed Second Year's Terms, and one First Year's Terms. One passed the Junior Civil Service Examination with credit, being twelfth on the list. Two girls passed the Junior Civil Service Examination, two the Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge, five passed Matriculation, and eight the Senior Examination for Free Places. Besides the ordinary school course, the pupils have been afforded opportunities of learning cookery, shorthand, swimming, gymnastics, and dressmaking. The music pupils gave recitals from time to time at the School of Music.

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2. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1905. Endowment Account. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Rents .. .. .. .. .. 954 8 6 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 12 5 4 Interests .. .. .. .. 182 7 0 Insurances .. .. .. '.. 627 School Commissioners' subsidy .. .. 304 7 6 Printing and advertising .. .. 12 5 6 Contractors' deposits .. ' .. .. 244 10 0 Stationery .. .. .. .. 48 9 Rebate insurance premium .. .. 0 13 Governors'and auditors'fees .. .. 35 16 8 Office-rent .. .. .. .. 25 0 0 Office-cleaning and gas .. .. 10 19 1 Interest on bank overdraft .. .. 12 0 6 Telephone and letter-box .. .. 6 3 0 Valuation of property .. .. .. 2 2 0 Contractors'deposits .. .. .. 244 10 0 Secretary .. .. .. .. 66 13 0 Petty oash, postage, and sundries .. 32 13 6 Boys' College. Boarding fees .. .. .. .. 2,556 6 9 House expenses .. .. .. 2,419 9 6 Tuition fees .. .. .. .. 1,248 7 8 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 2,141 1 6 Government capitation for free places *.. 795 10 0 Scholarships— GovernmentTcapitation for chemistry and Foundation.. .. .. .. 113 0 0 woodwork olasses .. .. .. 16 16 8 Endowed. .. .. .. .. 46 0 0 Rebate insurance premium .. .. 0 3 4 Free tuition .. .. .. 61 0 0 Governors' and auditors' fees .. .. 37 6 8. Examiners' ftes .. .. .. 6 6 0 Stationery .. .. .. .. 75 7 7 Prizes .. .. .. .. 42 6 8 Printing and advertising .. .. 66 8 6 Gas .. .. .. .. .. 78 11 1 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 14 7 9 Insurance ... .. .. .. 25 9 3 Legal expenses .. .. .. 14 6 4 Repairs .. ... .. .. 121 5 3 Subscriptions to sports and magazine .. 40 0 0 Chemicals and appliances .. .. 86 10 6 Inspector of painting .. .. .. 10 0 0 Class-rooms — Rents .. .. .. .. 143 5 6 Fittings .. .. .. .. 51 16 5 Fuel, cleaning, and sundries .. .. 14 9 2 Laying foundation-stone—platforms, flags, &c. .. .. .. .. 20 14 8 Freights, cartage, and storage .. .. 65 1 8 Valuation of furniture.. .. .. 26 5 6 Domestic staff— Losses by fire .. .. .. 20 13 9 Telephone .. .. 606 Grounds .. .. .. .. 10 15 0 Secretary .. .. .. .. 66 14 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 9 7 4 Girls' College. Boarding fees .. .. .. .. 881 13 8 House expenses .. .. .. 1,174 410 Tuition fees .. .. .. .. 960 18 0 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 1,330 13 8 Government capitation for free places .. 600 4 2 Scholarships — Government capitation for oookery classes 69 15 0 Foundation.. .. .. .. 73 12 0 Hockey club .. .. .. .. 13 0 Endowed .. .. .. .. 58 16 0 Free tuition .. .. .. 101 0 0 Governors' and auditors' fees .. ".. 37 6 8 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 2 2 0 Stationery .. .. .. .. 50 14 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 20 0 3 Printing and advertising .. .. 45 13 9 Gas .. .. .. .. .. 99 1 5 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 15 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 32 12 8 Repairs .. .. .. .. 42 19 1 Painting .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Telephone and ietter-box .. .. 6 0 0 Subscription to magazine .. .. 3 3 0 Valuation .. .. .. .. 220 Seoretary .. .. .. .. 66 13 0 Sundries .. .. .. " ... 8 9 4 Capital Account. Repayments on account of mortgages .. 830 11 6 New Boys' College .. .. .. 3,310 17 5 Insurances paid on Boys' College .. 6,600 0 0 New laundry .. .. .. .. 228 10 4 Insurances paid on furniture .. .. 1,292 11 3 Repairs to sanatorium.. .. .. 11 14 0 Insurances paid on sanatorium .. .. 11 14 0 College House, additions .. .. 1,331 12 7 Insurances paid on furniture in boarding- Levelling playground .. .. .. 135 2 0 house .. . • • • • • 60 0 0 Gymnasium-site .. .. .. 2 8 0 Materials sold .. .. - .. 16 0 0 Furniture, Boys' College .. .. 321 1 8 Interest on fixed deposit .. .. 20 0 0 Furniture, Girls' College .. .. 32 711 Bank overdraft, 31st December, 1904 .. 436 011 In bank, fixed deposit .. 4,000 0 0 Less overdraft, current aocount .. .. 1,687 9 3 2,312 10 9 £17,647 9 3 . £17,647 9 3 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.

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3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys' College : To the standard of the University Junior Scholarship Examination ; by a portion of the class, the work required in English, Latin, French, mathematics, jurisprudence, and constitutional history for the first part of the B.A. and LL.B. examinations. English— Selections from Chaucer, Tennyson, Wordsworth; King Lear, Tempest, Romola; Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present, Skeat's Primer of Etymology; Hales' Longer English Poems ; essays, paraphrasing. Latin—Horace, Selections from Satires and Epistles ; Cicero, In Verrem I, Pro Lege Manilia; Ovid, Tristia I; Bradley's Arnold; prose and unseens; Roman History (Horton) and Antiquities. French—Half-hours with Modern Authors, Le Barbier de S6ville; Blouet's Composition; Eve and de-Baudiss's Grammar; Clapim's Primer of French Philology. German—Whitney's German Reader ; Macmillan's Composition ; Eve's Grammar. Mathematics —Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, to Junior Scholarship standard. Science—Heat, chemistry, mechanics, to Junior Scholarship standard. Girls' College : Form VI, B.A. degree standard of work. Books the same as are set by University Senate for B.A. degree in English, Latin, mathematics, and French. Lowest. — Boys' College : English—The Talisman; Crown Reader, Standard VI; Nesfield's Outlines of English Grammar, and Junior Course of English Composition; Ransome's Shorter History, Stuart period; geography, Southern Cross Geography, Standard VI. Mathematics — Arithmetic; algebra, to simple equations; geometry, Eggar's practical exercises. Science — Geology, elementary. Latin—Elementa Latina, Scalse Primse. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle. Drawing—Freehand, copybooks. Commercial —Book-keeping, commercial correspondence. Girls' College : Arithmetic—Southern Cross Series, Standard 111 and Standard IV, also Pendlebury. English—Southern Cross Grammar, Standard IV ; Royal Crown, IV, History —Blackie's No. IV (William 111 to Edward VII). Geography —Zealandia, Standard IV ; physical (Gill), elementary. Botany—Murehe's Primer; general work on root, stein, leaves, flower, fruit, made as simple as possible, with practical examination of plants. Drawing—Freehand. Writing —Collins's No. 8. Needlework—Child's pinafore.

GREYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,303 7 4 Grant to Grey Education Board .. 75 0 0 Westland School Commissioners.. .. 75 0 0 Secretary's salary .. .. .. 10 0 0 Interest - .. .. .. .. 57 14 4 Interest on Grey Borough debentures purchased .. .. .. .. 6 8 2 Bank charges .. .. .. .. 0 12 0 Balance at end of year— At National Bank .. .. .. 30 0 4 At Post-Office Savings-Bank .. .. 34 1 2 Debentures, Grey Borough .. .. 1,190 0 0 Loan on mortgage .. .. .. 90 0 0 £1,436 1 8 £1,436 1 8 F. W. Riemenschneider, Secretary. W. R. Kettle, Chairman. Examined and found correct—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. HOKITIKA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,507 1 8 Office salary .. .. .. .. 15 15 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 26 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 011 6 Interest on moneys invested, &c. .. .. 61 10 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances (grant to Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 75 0 0 Westland Education Board) .. .. 200 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 317 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 17 711 Grant in aid of Hokitika woodwork class (Technical) .. .. .. .. 500 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 1,427 0 3 £1,669 11 8 £1,669 11 8 H. L. Michel, Chairman. Chas. Kirk, Secretary. Examined and found correct, subject to the remark that the Hokitika Borough debentures and the Kumara Borough debentures, in which school funds not set apart as a reserve fund are invested, are not securities in which the Governors are authorised by law to invest such school funds. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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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. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 183 17 0 Expenses of management .. .. 3 13 Government capitation for free plaoes .. 355 19 2 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 604 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 189 310 Class material .. .. .. .. 13 15 1 School fees .. .. .. .. 130 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 819 6 Exchange on cheque .. .. .. 0 2 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 31 4 7 Buildings— Purchases and new works .. .. 129 9 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 12 17 0 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c.) .. 4 13 Endowments— Inspection of reserves .. .. 4 10 Advertising tenderß and lease .. .. 2 4 3 Legal expenses .. .. .. 4 4 7 Exchange on cheques .. .. .. 0 3 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 41 1 9 £859 2 6 £859 2 6 J. Johnston, Chairman. C. J. Jennings, Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —All work as for Junior University Scholarship. English—Grammar and history of the language; composition; figures of speech; Nesfield's Manual; selections from Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, Gray, Addison, Pope, Tennyson, &c. Latin —Bradley's Arnold; Livy, Book XXI; Cicero, De Senectute ; Csesar, Book VII; selections from Cicero. French— Huguenet; Pecheur d'Hande ; Monte Cristo ; selections. Arithmetic—Miscellaneous. AlgebraQuadratic equations, graphical solutions, progressions, surds, permutations and combinations; Baker and Bourne. Geometry—Baker and Bourne, Books I-V; graphical solutions. Trigonometry —Hall and Knight; and Lock, to logarithms and solution of triangles. Botany—Tutorial Series, and Evans. Heat—Glazebrook. Lowest. —English—Simple analysis and composition ; correction of sentences, &c.; Nesfield's Outlines; Ivanhoe ; Prisoner of Chillon. French—Chardenal, and conversational. Arithmetic— Fractions, decimals. Algebra—Simple equations, graphs. Geometry—lntroduction to Baker and Bourne. Botany—Murche. Book-keeping —Thornton's Manual; cash and goods accounts. Geography—Forster's This World of Ours. History —1688-1837, Meiklejohn.

CHRISTCHURCH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. C. E. Bevan-Brown, M.A. ; Mr. B. K. S. Lawrence, B.A. ; Mr. W. Walton, B.A. ; Mr. R. M. Laing, M.A., 8.50.; Mr. A. Merton ; Mr. R. Speight, M.A., B.Sc.; Mr. T. H. Jackson, B.A. ; Mr. J. H. Smith, M.A. ; Mr. T. W. Cane, M.A. ; Mr. A. G. Johnson, B.Sc; Mr. J. Cook; Mr. S. A. Clark; Mr. W. S. Malaquin; Sergeant-major Farthing; Mr. A. Merton ; Mr. T. S. Tankard; Miss E. E. Digby. 1. Report op the Board op Governors. In 1905 the Board of Governors gave free education to fifty pupils, of whom eight were Board of Education scholars and three National scholars, and there were in addition six Board scholars and one National scholar paying fees. At the end of the year the Government issued new regulations, which removed the Board's previous objections to clause 87 and practically met the Board's wishes. The Board decided, therefore, to give free places in accordance with clause 87, and to extend the benefits to all qualified boys in the school. In future all scholars and all boys under fourteen years on the Ist December preceding date of admission, who have obtained qualifying marks at the Junior National Scholarship and Free Place Examinations or at the Education Board Scholarship Examination, will be entitled to junior free places, and they may qualify at these examinations coming from any school, secondary, private, or public. Senior free places, tenable until the holder reaches his nineteenth birthday, will be given to any boy who passes Matriculation Examination or the Junior Civil Service Examination with credit; also to any boy who, being under sixteen, passes the Junior Civil Service Examination or qualifies for a Senior Education Board Scholarship. M. Malaquin was granted leave of absence from the end of August for six months in order to visit Europe. The distinctions won during the year were as follows : Among former pupils Mr. J. G Lancaster obtained his B.Sc, with double first-class honours in mathematics and electricity; Mr. A. E. Currie obtained his M.A., with second-class honours in English and French; and Mr. H. G. Denham, M.A., with first-class honours in chemistry. Mr. F. Kissell obtained his B.Sc. in engineering, and Mr. J. R. Cunningham his LL.B. Messrs. C. M. Stubbs and L. H. Harrison

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won exhibitions at, Canterbury College for mathematics and chemistry respectively ; Mr. R. W. McCullough won the Sir George Grey Scholarship at Ota.go University ; Mr. A. B. Webster obtained his M.A. at Edinburgh with first-class honours, and was appointed Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University. Of present pupils, D. B. MacLeod won a Junior University Scholarship ; D. L. Sinclair, C. M. Bevan-Brown, and A. H. Amess were placed on the credit list; eight boys passed Matriculation or Medical Preliminary ; four passed the Junior Civil Service Examination with credit; and, out of the nine Senior Scholarships given by the Board of Education, six were won by pupils of the school. It is right to mention, among the distinctions of the year, that the school won the President's Cup at football, and the Secondary Schools Cup at the amateur athletic meeting. It is also a pleasure to record the fact that three of the New Zealand football team who have recently been visiting England were old pupils of the school—viz., Mr. R. G. Deans, Mr. E. Harper, and Mr. H. G. Thompson. The school-roll at the end of the year was 190, of whom thirteen were in the Preparatory Class. This class is doing excellent work under Mr. Sidney Clark. Mr. A. G. Johnson, who was appointed temporarily, left at the end of the year, and it was decided that the vacancy should not be filled up for the present. The Board asked the Inspector-General to conduct an examination of the school at the end of 1905 ; at the last moment he sent word that he would be unable to do so, and the school was examined by the staff. The three upper forms, most of whose members were in for the University Examinations, were judged by the examinations of the first and second terms and the class marks of the second and third terms, but were not examined at the end of the third term in order to avoid the strain of a school examination coming immediately before the Matriculation and Junior Scholarship Examinations. The bulk of the school, however, were examined in the third term, and had their work assessed by combining the results of the examinations and class marks of the second and third terms. Special examinations were held by Professor Wall for the Miller Prize in English Literature, by Professor Blunt for oral French, and by Mr. C. F. Bourne (who spoke favourably of the work done), for the Newspaper Prize. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s d Balance at beginning of year .. .. 291 010 Office salaries .. .. .. .. 100 0 0 Capitation under Manual and Technical Teachers' salaries— Instruction Rgulations .. .. 32 16 10 Main School .. .. .. 3,827 10 2 Current income from reserves .. .. 3,531 17 10 Preparatory School .. .. .. 110 10 0 School fees— Examiners'fees .. .. .. 4 4 0 Main School.. .. .. .. 1,363 14 9 Other examination expenses .. .. 11 16 0 Preparatory School .. .. .. 110 10 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 27 0 1 Interest on current account .. .. 10 0 2 Class material .. .. .. .. 69 11 10 Printing, stationery, advertising, and boobs .. .. .. .. 85 7 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 57 14 9 Buildings, &c.— Purchases and new works .. .. 165 18 8 Renewals, fittings, &c. .. .. 43 10 11 Miscellaneous (insurance, &c).. .. 27 15 1 Inspecting and advertising reserves .. 127 16 8 Interest on Loan Account, £5,000 .. 200 0 0 Grants to sports fund, cadet corps, and library .. .. .. .. 77 10 0 Rent of section for playground .. .. 103 11 2 Expenses connected with endowments .. 63 4 8 Sundry expenses .. .. .. 32 18 1 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 204 1 0 £5,340 0 5 £5,340 0 5 A. Cracroft Wilson, Registrar. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin—Livy, Book XXII; Cicero, Stories from Roman History; Horace, Odes, Book III; selections from Ovid in elegiac verse ; Hints and Helps in Continuous Latin Prose (Walters); Bradley's Arnold; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer; Gepp and Haigh's Latin Dictionary; Robinson's First History of the Romans ; Rivingtons' Class-book of Latin Unseen, Book V. English —Lamb's Essays of Elia; Tempest (Warwick, Shakespeare); Palgrave's Golden Treasury; Chaucer's Prologue; Macaulay's Boswell's Life of Johnson; Storr (Longmans) ; Nesfield's Manual; Nesfield's Historical English; Abbott's How to Write clearly; Stopford Brooke's Literature Primer. French—Advanced French Composition ; Duhamel, Ma Tante ; Greville ; Vol. VI; Picciola, Saintine ; L'Abbe Daniel; Parallel French Grammar. Mathematics— Ward's Examination Papers on Trigonometry ; Hall and Steven's Euclid, Books I-IV; Loney's Trigonometry, Part I; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Elements of Applied Mathematics; Short Introduction' to Graphical Algebra; Hall and Steven's School Geometry, Parts V and VI. Science —Chemical Theory ; Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (Theoretical). Gymnastics, Scripture, Greek. -;--■ 4—E. 12.

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Lowest. —Latin —Elementa Latina (to end of active verbs); Scalae Primae; Shorter Latin Primer (for revision of verbs). English — Westward Ho! Lyra Heroica, The Revenge, &c. ; English Grammar (Hall); parsing notes; dictation, composition, parsing, analysis (four forms of predicate and easy subordinate clauses) ; also one of sixpenny editions in Lower IV list to be read at home per term. History — Oxford and Cambridge English History, Richard I to Henry VIII. Geography —Longmans' Geographical Series, Book II; mathematical and physical geography. French—First French Course; French Tales for Beginners; orai French. Mathematics—Pendlebury's Arithmetic ; Tots and Mental Arithmetic; Practical Exercises in Geometry. Science—Object-lessons from Nature, Vol. 11. Art—Same as Lower 111, but more advanced, and with addition of elementary model drawing. Writing—Twice a week. Gymnasium—Two lessons a week. Singing—Twice a week. Scripture.

CHRISTCHURCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Miss M. V. Gibson, M.A.; Miss C. K. Henderson, B.A. ; Miss M. B. Hay; Miss F. Sheard, M.A.; Miss K. Gresson, M.A. ; Mrs. C. V. Langton, M.A.; Mis? E. T. Crosby, B.A. ; Miss E. L. Cull, B.A. ; Miss L. E. Bing, B.A. ; Miss N. Gardner; Miss A. Rennie ; Miss H. L. Smith; Miss E. Easterbrook; Miss M. Cook; Mr. C. H. Gilby; Sergeant-Major Farthing. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. The general working of this school was carried on during the year on almost entirely the same lines as in former years, as, owing to the want of more class-rooms, it was quite impossible to introduce new features, or even to make the most urgently needed changes such as the subdivision of classes too large or too unequal in attainments to be taught to the best advantage by one teacher. The roll-number for the first term was 169, for the second term 170, and for the third term 166, with an average attendance of 153. It is certain that these numbers will be fully maintained during 1906, and there is every probability that, if increased accommodation could be provided, they would rise still further. Owing to the lack of room no applicants were admitted into the Lower Department. For various reasons the Governors decided not to appoint outside examiners to examine the year's work at its close, but no less than fifty-eight pupils were entered for various public examinations held during the month of December, the respective numbers and results being as follows : Junior University Scholarship Examination : Seven entered ; one gained a Junior University Scholarship, and the remaining six matriculated in the credit list, two of these being awarded the two Gammack Scholarships for the highest Canterbury candidates in the credit list. Matriculation Examination : Thirteen entered, and ten passed. North Canterbury Education Board Senior Scholarship Examination : Four entered ; three won scholarships, and the fourth qualified for a senior free place on the examination. Junior Civil Service Examination : Thirteen entered, and nine passed, seven being classed in the credit list. Senior Free Place Examination : Twenty-one entered, and twelve passed. The general health, conduct, and discipline of the pupils during the year has been very good. The working of the Government free-place system has been on the whole satisfactory, and will be further improved when the new regulations of October, 1905, come into force ; but what seems too large a proportion of the free-place scholars have resigned their privilege before the expiration of the two years allowed. The actual numbers are : Admitted during 1904, 46; resigned during 1904, 8 ; resigned during 1805, 6. Completed the two-years course, but did not sit for continuation examination, 7 ; admitted during 1905, 63 ; resigned during 1905, 5. The plan of subsidising an approved school boardinghouse on certain conditions is working well, the number of girls in residence there showing an increase. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ b. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 86 8 7 Office salaries .. .. .. .. 60 0 0 Capiiation for free places .. .. 799 4 2 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. .. 1,726 2 4 Capitation under Manual and Technical In- Grant in aid to boardinghouse .. .. 50 0 0 struction Regulations .. .. .. 48 13 2 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 3 4 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 288 7 2 Other examination expenses .. .. 911 0 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Scholarships .. .. .. .. 93 6 8 purchase-money .. .. .. 188 15 10 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 21 8 0 School fees (including extra fees for gym- Class material .. .. .. .. 13 11 1 nastic class, £5 125.) .. .. .. 726 19 0 Printing, stationery, advertising, and books 37 14 2 Proceeds from cooking class .. .. 22 16 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c.. .. .. 19 8 9 Sundries .. .. .. .. 510 0 Buildings, &c.— Purchases and new works .. .. 20 12 0 . . Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 37 1 11 Miscellaneous—lnsurance .. .. 9 7 2 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 7 15 4 Expei-ses of cooking class .. .. 23 0 10 Legil expenses .. .. .. .. 15 10 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 4 19 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 14 2 4 £2,166 14 7 £2,166 14 7 A. Cracroft Wilson, Registrar. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —All work to the standard of the Junior University Scholarship Examination. Mathematics—Hall and Knight's Algebra; Loney's Trigonometry ; Hall and Steven's Geometry, Parts I to VI; Hall and Knight's Graphical Algebra. English—Chaucer's Prologue; Shakespeare's King Lear; Lobban's English Essays; Nesfield's Past and Present; L'Allegro, II Penseroso; Lycidas, Arcades and Sonnets; Longmans' Handbook, Part 11. French— Les Precieuses Ridicules, Hachette; Picciola, Saintine; Le Violin de Faience, Rivington's Advanced Texts; Spiers's Graduated Course of Translation into French Prose ; Spiers's Practical French Grammar; Spiers's Rapid French Exercises. Latin—Horace's Odes, Book IV; Virgil's iEneid, Books II and IV ; Cicero's Epistolse Selectae ; Tacitus's Agricola ; Stedman's Examination Series ; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer; Walter's Hints and Helps in Continuous Latin Prose ; Bradley's Latin Prose Composition ; Roman History. Science—Draper's Heat; Evans's Botany. German (alternative to Science.) Lowest. —All work above Standard V and all but arithmetic above Standard VI. Mathematics—Arithmetic without text-book. English—Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; Wordsworth's Selections from Shorter Poems; Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare; Nesfield's Outline of English Grammar; Stronach's Handbook of English Literature. French and Latin (not compulsory). Natural Science—Plant-life, and trees and shrubs. Book-keeping and Shorthand (alternatives to Latin). Geography —Southern Cross Geography, Nos. IV and VI. History—Mrs. Ransome's First History of England. Writing—Southern Cross Copybooks, Nos. 9 and 10, Public Service Copybook, No. 9. Sewing, singing, drill, cooking, or dressmaking.

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. A. E. Flower, M.A., B.Sc; Mr. J. N. Collins, 8.A.; Mr. E. Jenkins, M.A.; Mr. J. Monteath, 8.A.; Mr. A. P. Cox, M.A. ; Mr. J. E. 8. Dudding, M.A.; Mr. A. L. Nairn, M.A. ; Mr. G. H. Merton, 8.A.; Mr. 0. L. Wiggins; Mr. A. J. Merton; Mr. S. Smith ; Sergeant-major Farthing. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 15th May, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Price of land sold (Capital Account) .. 1,427 10 0 Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 1,671 1 9 Mortgage repaid (Capital Account) .. 1,100 0 0 Cost of management .. .. .. 267 15 9 Current income from land .. .. 1,980 14 8 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. .. 3,557 12 0 Current income from scholarships endow- Examiners' fees and other expenses .. 63 13 0 ments .. .. .. 774 11 5 Scholarships .. .. .. 696 15 3 School fees .. .. .. .. 3,234 15 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 49 0 9 Repayment on account building .. .. 18 11 8 Class material .. .. .. .. 6 16 Sundries unclassified .. .. .. 23 9 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 93 811 Overdraft at end of year .. .. .. 110 1 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 246 11 1 Buildings, &c. — Purchases and new works .. .. 74 5 0 Fenoing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 247 7 0 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c.) .. 69 16 0 Interest on ourrent account .. .. 58 14 10 Proceeds from sales invested .. .. 1,100 0 0 Expenses in connection with land estate .. 115 18 8 Law costs .. .. .. .. 10 10 0 School chapel .. .. .. .. 40 15 0 Boys' Games Fund .. .. .. 273 18 0 Boys' Cadet Fund .. .. .. 26 8 9 £8,669 13 3 £8,669 13 3 C. Christchurch, Warden. W. Guise Brittan, Bursar. Audited and found correct.—A. A. M. McKellar, Auditor. 2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Work as for Junior Scholarships at the University of New Zealand. Lowest--Reading and Spelling—lmperial Reader No. 3; Longmans' New Zealand Reader No. 3, to page 101. Repetition —Loss of the Royal George, Lord Ullin's Daughter, Casabianca, Mariners of England, Alexander Selkirk. Geography —Standard 111, Southern Cross Series. Divinity—Ainslie's Lessons on the Gospels; catechism, the text of the Church Catechism up to the end of the " Desire," and explanations. History—Meiklejohn's Stories from English History, to page 123. Writing—Whitcombe's Public Service Copybooks, Nos. 3, 4, and 5. Arithmetic— Southern Cross Arithmetic No. 2 ; Easy addition and subtraction of money.

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AKAROA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ a. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year ... .. 155 9 7 Office expenses .. .. .. .. 1 12 0 On fixed deposit .. .. .. .. 154 10 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 220 Current income from reserves .. .. 119 9 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 2 9 0 Grant in aid, Akaroa District High School, paid to North Canterbury Board of Education .. .. .. .. .. 175 0 0 Placed in bank on fixed deposit .. .. 75 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 173 5 7 £429 8 7 £429 8 7 H. Jacobson, Chairman and Secretary.

ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. W. F. Watters, 8.A.; Mr. C. F. Salmond, M.A.; Miss F. E. Kershaw, M.A. ; Miss M. Stevens, 8.A., B.Sc. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. dBalance at beginning of year .. .. 51 8 2 Office salary .. .. .. .. 26 0 0 Government capitation for free places .. 568 15 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 7 19 6 Government capitation for manual and Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 749 15 0 technical instruction .. .. .. 40 10 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 150 Current income from reserves .. .. 645 2 2 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 37 211 School fees .. .. .. .. 69 6 0 Cleaning, fuel, light .. .. .. 42 3 9 Trees sold .. .. .. .. 0 9 0 New building .. .. .. .. 1,540 0 0 Governmeni grant towards building new Fencing and repairs .. .. .. 30 14 8 High School .. .. .. .. 1,000 0 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 7 11 8 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 217 17 11 Interest on current account .. .. 2 3 6 Sports Association .. .. ..600 Legal costs .. ..' .. .. '... 5 17 3 Furniture and freight .. .. ~.''.. 16 9 0 Technical classes .. .. .. 32 0 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 9 13 0 Cash in hand late Seoretary (now deoeased), written off by resolution of Board, being irrecoverable .. .. .. .. 78 13 0 £2,593 8 3 £2,593 8 3 Geo. B. Inglis, Chairman. John Davison, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except as to the item of £78 135., stated to be written off as irrecoverable, there being no authority of law to write off the amount.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English.—King Lear; Tennyson's Princess ; Nesfield's Grammar and Composition ; paraphrasing and essay-writing. Latin—Via Latina; First Latin Translation Book (Thomas) ; Shuckburgh's Sight Translation; Bradley Arnold's Prose Composition; Wilson's First Latin Sentences and Prose ; Csesar, Books II and V ; ißneid, Book II; Ovid's Metamorphoses (White's Selections); Livy, Book XXII, chapters 1-10 ; Roman History (Creighton's Primer and Merivale and Puller). French—Chardenal, Book II; Le Cid; and subject generally as for Junior University Scholarship and Matriculation. Arithmetic—The whole subject as for Junior University Scholarship and Matriculation. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to permutations and combinations ; graphs. Geometry—Baker and Bourne, I-VI and II and deductions. Trigonometry—To solution of triangles. Geography —As for Matriculation and Junior Civil Service. Drawing —Freehand, model, and geometrical as for Matriculation and Junior Civil Service. Botany—As for Junior University Scholarship and Matriculation. Electricity—As for Junior University Scholarship and Matriculation. Lowest. —English—Globe Poetry-book; Nature in New Zealand (Drummond); parsing, analysis, essays, paraphrasing. Latin—Bell's Latin Course, Parts I and 11. French—Chardenal, Book I, to exercise 156. Arithmetic—Subject generally as for Junior Civil Service. Algebra— Hall and Knight, to problems in simple equations. Geometry—Baker and Bourne, Books I and II; exercises on Book I. Geography—New Zealand, Australia, Oceania, and physical geography (Imperial Geography, Course Ato p. 74). History—English as a Colonising Nation, to p. 140. Drawing—Freehand and model. Botany—Murche, to p. 130. Book-keeping—Thornton's First Lessons. Woodwork —Department's First-year Exercises. Sewing—Advanced Plain Needlework.

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TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL. - Staff. Boys' School—Mr. G. A. Simmers, M.A.; Mr. R. H. Rockel, M.A.; Mr. G. T. Palmer, M.A. ; Mr. W. H. N. Amos ; Sargeam-majnr T. Jones ; Mr. F. Cameron. Girls' School.— Miss B. M. Watt, M.A.; Miss J. Mulhollan*, M.A.; Miss C. M. Cruickshank, M.A., B.Sc.; Miss Emilie M. Reid ; Sergeant-major T. Jones ; Mr. F. Cameron ; Miss E. K. O'Brien. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. The personnel of the Board is the same as for the preceding year—viz., Messrs W. B. Howell (Chairman), R. H. Bowie, J. S. Gibson, -Robert Gillingham, B. R. Macdonald, James McCahon, John Talbot, the Rev. George Barclay, Dr. H. C. Barclay, and the Yen. Archdeacon Harper. The Board held six meetings, the average attendance of members being six. During the year the work of both schools has been carried on very satisfactorily, and that notwithstanding the absence of the headmaster during the first and second terms on a trip to the Old Country in search of health. The results of the various public examinations in which pupils took part at the end of the year indicate that the schools are fully maintaining their standard of efficiency. In November Miss C. M. Cruickshank, M.A., B.Sc, resigned her position on the staff of the Girls' School in order to take up the position of Principal of the Invercargill Girls' High School. The Board regrets the loss of a popular and efficient teacher, and congratulates the Southland Board on its choice. The publication of amended regulations for secondary schools opening still wider the doors of these schools to free pupils was received with satisfaction by the Board, and it is hoped that with little further amendment these regulations will enable all deserving pupils from the primary schools to gain free secondary education. The Board again regrets that no provision has been made for the proper and systematic examination of secondary schools by officers of the Department. 2. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 2,308 1 6 Office salary .. .. .. .. 66 14 0 Receipts from Government — Other office expenses .. .. .. 22 10 2 For sites, building, furniture, &o. .. - 44 10 2 Other expenses of management— Capitation for free places .. .. 925 1 8 Endowments .. .. ~ 22 4 2 Capitation under Manual and Technical Members' travelling expenses .. .. 12 11 6 Instruction Regulations .. .. 81 5 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,183 13 2 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,754 14 4 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 4 4 0 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Prizes .. .. .. .. 35 12 0 purchase-money .. .. .. 97 10 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 52 17 11 School fees .. .. .. .. 226 8 0 Cleaning, fuel, and light .. .. 100 16 10 Interest on current account— Purchases and new works .. . . 6 3 3 Kingsbury's loan .. .. .. 10 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 76 811 Post-office .. .. .. .. 593 Miscellaneous .. .. ... .. 22 8 1 Contributions to Uniform Fund .. .. 30 11 0 Refund of fees .. .. .. ... 300 Sale of trees .. .. .. .. 110 0 Sohool Technical Classes— Salaries .. .. .-. r.. 47 10 0 Apparatus .. .. .. • • 414 6 Material .. .. .. .. 16 14 5 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 2,806 18 0 £5,485 0 11 £5,485 (At Wm. B. Howell, Chairman. A. Bell, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that the amount of £144 7s. 3d., to which exception was taken in accounts of the year ended the 31st December, 1904, as spent without authority of law, has not been refunded to the Board Fund.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Nesfield's Historical English ; Nesfield's Manual; Nichol's Questions and Exercises ; Chaucer's Prologue ; Milton's Samson Agonistes ; George Eliot's Silas Marner ; Stopford Brooke's Literature Primer. Latin—Hayes and Watt's Matriculation Selections ; Livy, XXII; Kennedy's Grammar; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose; North and Hillard's Latin Prose; Wilkin's Primer of Antiquities; Horton's Roman Antiquities ; unseens. French—Waterloo ; L'Avare; Half-hours with Modern French Authors ; Tutorial French Composition ; Wellington College Grammar; Selected Proses; unseens. German—Eve's Grammar; Buckheim's Prose Composition; Macmillan's Course, Part II; Selections from Heine; Goethe's Egmont. Mathematics—University Junior Scholarship work; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Steven's Geometry; Pendlebury's Trigonometry ; Pendlebury's Arithmetic. Lowest. —English-—Great Authors, 111, Julius Csesar; Nesfield's Manual of Grammar and Composition, to page 117. Latin—Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, I. French—Chardenal Part I; French without Tears, I and 11. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to simultaneous equations Geometry—Hall and Steven's Geometry, Book I. Arithmetic—Pendlebury. Book-keeping— Thornton's First Lessons in Book-keeping, to page 161. Shorthand—Pitman's Phonographic Teacher, Geography—Longmans' No. 2. Woodwork—First-year work. Drawing—Freehand and model; Advanced Standard work.

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WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of op Governors. The Board still devotes a portion of its revenue to the teaching-interests of the Waimate District High School. The annual balance-sheet will, of course, show the various amounts and their specific objects—subsidies to teaching staff, prizes, &c. During the year 1905 there were five scholarship-holders (including Junior and Senior), all of whom, according to the reports of the Inspectors, were making satisfactory progress. The School Committee, with the Education Board and general public, continues to appreciate the interest this Board takes in the advancement of secondary education. 2. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,979 7 6 Office salary .. .. .. .. 12 12 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 211 2 1 Other office expenses .. .. .. 10 0 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 86 15 0 Grant towards salaries and allowances of Interest on bank deposit .. .. .. 11 17 0 teaohers at District High School .. 80 0 0 Examination expenses .. .. .. 10 0 0 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 35 0 0 Exhibitioners' fees paid by Board .. .. 30 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 750 Class material .. .. .. .. 5 2 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 7 13 6 Cleaning .. .. .. .. 10 0 Interest on current account .. .. 0 19 0 Bank charge and exohange .. .. 012 9 Insurance premium .. .. .. 2 5 6 Members' travelling-expenses .. .. 112 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 2,093 19 7 £2,289 1 7 £2,289 1 7 G. H. Graham, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. W. Poynton, Deputy Controller and Auditor-General.

WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. ■ Boys' School.—3. R. Don, M.A., D.Sc, F.C.S., F.G.S.; W. G. Grave, M.A.; G. H. Uttley, M.A. ; G. J. Park; Sergeant-major Kibblewhite. Girls' School— Miss C. Ferguson, M.A. ; Miss V. M. Greig, M.A., B.Sc. ; Miss A. C. Finlayson, M.A.; Miss M. McCaw ; Sergeant-major Kibblewhite. 1. Report op the Board op Governors. The Board of Governors have pleasure in reporting that the new class-rooms at the Boys' School, under construction last year, have been opened, and are giving entire satisfaction to pupils and teachers. Excellent work continues to be done at both schools. The facilities for free education are largely availed of in the district, and are evidently duly appreciated by parents. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 339 17 3 Office salaries .. .. .. .. 100 0 0 Government grant for buildings .. 800 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 20 0 0 Government capitation for free places .. 402 13 4 Other expenses of management .. .. 38 17 9 Cu'ient income from reserves .. .. 1,253 19 4 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. .. 1,646 10 0 Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 11l 12 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 5 5 0 Sohool fees .. .. .. 612 6 8 Class material .. .. .. .. 41 3 8 Valuation received from incoming tenants .. 764 15 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 45 0 0 Refund insurance premium .. .. 0 17 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 90 6 9 From Government grants for building .. 1,159 19 5 Purchases and new works .. .. 91 4 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 197 17 5 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 45 12 10 Refund contractor's deposit .. .. 3 7 0 Valuations paid .. .. .. 693 7 0 Drill-instructor .. .. .. 18 10 0 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 57 13 5 Balanoe at end of year .. .. .. 31 6 5 * J - 4 ' 286 1 5 £4,286 1 5 Donald Borrie, Chairman. A. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. W. Poynton, Deputy Controller and Auditor-General.

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3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys' School: Latin—Arnold ; Kennedy, Revised Primer; Virgil, Georgics IV, iEneid V ; Csesar, Gallic War, VII; Horace, Epistles, I. French—Chardenal, Advanced Course; Siepmann, I; Wellington College Grammar ; Racine, Phedre ; Moliere, Le Bourgeois Gentiihomme, Le Mesanthrope, L'Avare; Tame, Voyage aux Pyrenees. Mathematics —Algebra, Hall and Knight; Geometry, Hall and Steven, I-VI ; Arithmetic, Goyen ; Trigonometry, Lock. English— Shakespeare's King Lear ; Chaucer's Prologue ; Carlyle's Sartor Resartus ; Holmes's Professor at the Breakfast-table; Milton's Samson Agonistes; Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present; Nesfield's Composition. Science — Physics (Heat), Glazebrook's and Deschanel's; Chemistry, Jago's Inorganic Chemistry, Newth's Inorganic Chemistry. Geology—Watts's Geology. Girls' School: English—Seeley's Colonial Expansion-; Tennyson's Princess and Maud; Shakespeare's Julius Csesar; Carlyle's Sartor Resartus; Holmes's Professor at the Breakfast-table; Nesfield's Past and Present. Latin-—Bradley's Arnold, 40 exercises ; Selections from Ovid, De Amicitia. French—Advanced Chardenal; Wellington College Grammar; Bue's Idioms; Le Bourgeois Gentiihomme; Vecqueray's Examination-papers; Half-hours with Modern Authors. History—Ransome's, Matriculation period. Geography—Longmans' 111. Zoology—Furneaux. Scripture—Old Testament Characters. Arithmetic-—Pendlebury ; Goyen, whole subject. Algebra —Hall and Knight's, up to binomial theorem. Euclid—As for Matriculation. Lowest. — -Boys : Latin—Morris's Elementa Latina. Commercial Work—Thornton's Primer and Manual of Book-keeping; Chisholm's Commercial Geography ; Commercial Correspondence. English—Yoxall's Word Builder and Speller; Dunlop's English Grammar; Kingsley's Heroes; Robertson's Prose, Part I; Jennings's Poems, Part 11. French—Chardenal, Part I ; Siepmann's, Part I. Arithmetic —Layng's Arithmetic, Part I. Geometry —Hall and Steven's New Geometry Book, I. Drawing—Freehand, model, and geometrical (no text-book used). Girls : English— Bowen's Selections ; Nesfield's Manual. Latin—Natural Method. French—Chardenal, Part I, to exercise 174. History—Miss Buckley's, pages 1-93, end of Henry VIII. Geography— Longmans' II; Mac Donald's New Zealand Geography. Physiography—Earthquakes, volcanoes, icebergs, denudation, glaciers, springs, rivers, &c. Science—Botany (practical) ; Physiology, Murche. Scripture—Lessons from Genesis and Exodus. Arithmetic —Goyen's Higher Arithmetic, up to percentages. Algebra—Hall and Knight, up to simple equations. Geometry—Practical work, and propositions 15, 13, 4, and 1.

OTAGO BOYS' AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS. Staff. Boys' School— Mr. A. Wilson, M.A.; Mr. M. Watson, M.A.; Mr. J. Macpherson, F.E.T.S. ; Mr. F.H.Campbell, M.A.; Mr. It. A. McGullouah, M.A.; Mr. E. J. Parr, M.A., B.Sc; Mr. John Reid, 8.A.; Mr. J. G. Fullarton, B.A. ; Mr. H. Cnapman ; Mr. J. Hanna; Mr. J. F. Scott ; Mr. D. Sherr ff; Mr. T. D. Adams. Girls' School— Miss M. E. A. Marchant, M.A. ; Miss F. M. Allan, M.A. ; Miss H. Alexander, 8.4. ; Miss S. C. C. McKmght, M.A. ; Miss E. E. Little; Miss F. Campbell, M.A. ; Miss L. A. N. Dowms, 8.A.; Miss F. M. Wimpens ; Miss M. W. Alves ; Miss M. Salmond ; Miss S. E. Albert; Mr. John Hanna ; Mr. W. E. Taylor, F.R.C.0.; MioS J. C. Longford. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 531 12 1 Office salaries .. .. .. .. 225 0 0 Government capitation for free places .. 2,897 6 8 Other office expenses .. .. .. 11 7 6 Current income from reserves .. .. 2,041 11 10 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 4,771 13 2 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Boarding pchool account .. .. 128 13 5 purchase money .. .. .. 26 18 2 Stamps, telegrams, telephone .. .. 26 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 391 5 10 Sundries and incidentals .. .. 43 1 5 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,063 18 4 Water-rates .. .. .. .. 82 0 0 Donation from Otago High Schools War Prizes .. .. .. .. 35 11 10 Memorial Committee for uniforms .. 59 11 10 Insurance .. .. .. .. 43 1 6 Proceeds sale from cookery classes .. 515 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 104 3 7 Interest on Prize Fund, on fixed deposit .. 1 18 5 Light and wages of two janitors .. .. 333 12 2 Valuation for improvements from inooming Laboratories .. .. .. .. 12 9 4 tenants .. .. .. .. 178 11 0 Site, buildings, furniture, &o. .. .. 591 13 4 Cooking classes .. .. .. 13 0 4 Debentures interest .. .. .. 162 0 0 Expenditure on endowments (including travelling-expenses) .. .. .. 34 11 1 Sinking Fund .. .. .. ~ 17 10 0 Uniform for Cadet corps .. .. 59 11 10 Refund capitation, Waitaki High School Board .. .. .. .. 16 8 Refund school fee, A. Wilkinson .. 3 6 8 Valuation for improvements to outgoing tenants .. .. .. .. 178 11 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 320 4 4 £7,198 9 2 £7,198 9 2 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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SOUTHLAND HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School— -Mr. T. D. Pearoe, M.A.; Mr. H. 0. Stuckey, M.A.,8.5c.; Mr. J. McKinnon; Mr. J. S. McGrath ; Mr. J. Pow; Mr. J. V. Hanna. Girls' School— Miss E. Stevenson, M.A.; Miss M. 0. Cunningham, 8.A.; Miss B. Ayton, A.A. ; Miss H. McKibbin, B.A. ; Miss M. L. Wilkinson, 8.A.; Mrs. G. A. Turner; Mr. J. Hanna. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of yt-ar .. .. 711 18 4 Office salary .. .. .. .. 75 0 0 Receipts from Government— Other office expenses .. .. .. 216 6 For sites, building, furniture, &o. .. 1,584 17 8 Other expenses of management .. .. 48 10 0 Capitation for free places .. .. 75 9 4 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,973 011 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,197 18 4 Gymnastic instructor's salary .. .. 150 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 168 17 11 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 91 5 3 School'fees .. .. .. .. 500 7 4 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 154 8 8 Rents from freeholds .. .. .. 116 12 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 27 17 1 Gymnasium fees .. .. .. 43 0 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 42 10 2 Technical class refunds .. .. 910 2 Rent temporary premises .. .. 32 0 0 Subsidies, Education Board .. .. 150 0 0 Athletics .. .. .. .. 5 4 0 Chemical apparatus .. .. .. 41 0 4 Gymnasium .. .. .. .. 6 10 0 Technical classes .. .. .. 80 13 8 Furuiture and fittings .. .. .. 32 14 3 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 1,776 10 3 £4,558 11 1 £4,558 11 1 W. Macalister, Chairman. Jno. Neill, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. W. Poynton, Deputy Controller and Auditor-General.

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2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.—Boys: English—Chaucer, Milton, Coleridge (selections); Shakespeare, Julius Csesar; Historical English Grammar; composition ; literature. Latin —Livy, Virgil, Horace (selections); 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; algebra, to binomial theorem (Form V), to surds (Form IV); Geometry, Godfrey and Siddons, Books I-IV; Hall and Knight, Book VI (Form V); Godfrey and Siddons, Books I-IV (Form IV); trigonometry, to solution of triangles (Form V), to sin S + sin T formulae (Form IV). Science—Chemistry, inorganic ; metals and non-metals ; magnetism and electricity, to Junior Scholarship standard (Form V), to Matriculation standard (Form IV). Girls: English — Shakespeare's Twelfth Night; Tennyson's Holy Grail; Spenser's Faerie Queen, selections; selected prose, the Temple Reader; literature ; Nesfield's English Grammar and composition; parsing, analysis, composition, letter-writing, precis-writing. Latin—-Bradley Arnold's Latin Prose ; Composition ; North and Hillard's Prose ; Cicero's De Senectute ; Virgil's iEneid, selections; unseens in prose and verse; history, Horton's History of the Romans; Via Latina. French —Wellington College Grammar, Eve and Baudiss ; prose composition ; Selected Idioms, Bue ; the Wellington College Reader: and Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentiihomme. Mathematics—Arithmetic, the subject; Euclid, I, 11, and III; Algebra (VI), to the progressions ; (V) to easy quadratics; trigonometry (VI) to solution of triangles. Science —Botany and physiology as for Matriculation ; Denby and Lucas's Botany ; Furneaux' Physiology. Heat —Wright and Glazebrook. First Aid—Ambulance. Lowest. — Boys : English—Scott's Quentin Durward ; Blackmore's Lorna Doone ; Globe Poetry Reader ; grammar, composition, and spelling. Geography—Topographical and commercial, Europe and Britain ; physical, astronomical, mathematical, political. English History—Elementary course. Latin—Welch and Duffield's Accidence ; Beresford's First Latin Reader; composition-; Well's Latin Prose. French —Beuzemaker's First French Course ;■ grammar and composition. Non-Latin and Non-French—Book-keeping and commercial arithmetic ; drawing, freehand, scale, and geometrical; European history. Mathematics —Arithmetic (the whole subject), mental; algebra (to H.C. factor); geometry, Godfrey and Siddons, Books I and 11. Science—Wright's Physics ; elementary chemistry. 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 letter-writing, spelling and punctuation. French —Hogben's Methode Naturelle, first 115 pages, with grammar and composition. Arithmetic—Fractions and decimals, reductions, practice, proportion, equations, irregular distributions, time and work problems, mental arithmetic. History—Ransome's Smaller History, to 1625. Geography—New Zealand and Australia; Europe, physical; Meiklejohn's Comparative Geography. Physiology: —Preparatory to Matriculation Class. First Aid and Ambulance—Fractures and bandaging; haemorrhage and its treatment; asphyxiation and its treatment. Botany —Root, stem, leaves, flowers, seeds; Gillies's Plant-life in Australia.

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5. DETAILS RELATING: TO DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS.

Staff and Pupils of District High Schools, 31st December, 1905.

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School. Name of Teacher. ! s a o o BS . i Classification o -^ ' or Degree. u -2,? a|& p eccs _ j g Amounts paid in Salaries to Special Assistants. Amounts paid in Addition to Salaries of Teachers on Primary Staffs.' Number of 'upils. M. I F. Total. Auckland— Aratapu .. Cambridge Coromandel Hamilton West Onehunga.. Opotiki Lewis, Percy (i. .. Brown, George Kenny, Arthur Walker, William R. C * Gatland, Alfred H. Wilson, Ebenezer Roper, Robert N. Hendry, George Mel. Winter, Nathaniel A. Warren, Thomas P. Patterson, Florence I. Robb, James* Mcintosh, William N,* .. Snell, Edgar P. .. Fletcher, William J. N. Woods, Erancis D. Dromgool, James Brown, George Shanahan, Edward W. Murphy, Francis* McCallum, Adina* Roberts, William P. Fiavell, Dennis R.* Gatland, Arthur R. Benge, Alfred* 25 '. B.A.', B2 25 D2 25 B.A., Bl 2 D3 25 M.A., A2 23f B.A. 23§ 23f B.A., Bl 25 C2 25 M.A. 25 Dl 1 Dl 2 D3 25 25 Dl 25 . B.Sc, A4 25 B.A., B2 25 D4 25 Dl 12£ E3 12* D3 17£ D2 5 B.A. 18 Dl B.A., B2 D2 B.A., Bl D3 M.A., A2 B.A. B.A., Bl C2 M.A. Dl Dl D3 25 25 25 2 25 23f 233 23f 25 25 25 1 2 25 25 25 25 25 25 12£ 12J m 5 18 £ s. d.: 140 0 0 75 0 0 75 0 0' 120 0 0, 123 11 0 55 0 0 25 0 0 320 0 0 216 13 4 125 0 0 10 0 0 70 0 0 40 0 0 73 6 8 80 0 0 21 4 0 £ s. d. 10 0 0 15' 0 0 40 0 0 8 16 8 22 59 8 19 6 22 68 16 35 14 44 127 7 2 "9 Paeroa Pukekohe West Dl B.Sc, A4 B.A., B2 D4 Dl E3 D3 D2 B.A. Dl 30 0 0 10 0 0 31 20 51 170 'o 0 18 17 35 150 0 0 25 0 0 Waihi 18 19 37 Taranaki — Stratford .. Dromgool, James Mackay, 0. M.* .. Budd, Alice M. .. Tyrer, Florence A. R.* Clark, Ernest H. .. Hogg, Susan Johnston, W. H. Thomas, Joseph W.* Campbell, Elsie*.. Boyle, John* Browne, Robert A. S.* B.Sc, A4 25 M.A. 25 Dl 10 D2 El 1 B.A. 5 D4 M.A. A2, B.A. D3 B.Sc, A4 25 133 6 8 2 10 0 38 24 62 M.A. Dl D2 El B.A. D4 M.A. A2, B.A. D3 25 10 105 "5 2 31 5 7 1 5 98 3 3 3 6 8 5 2 5 31 5 7 2 10 0 Wanganui— Eltham .. Thomas, Taliesin* Chorlton, Arthur F. T. Gould, Arthur M.* Mills, Clara B. .. Inkster, Annie Grant, James Hill, John O* .. Strack, Conrad A.* Niven, James Richardson, James E.* Murray, John ... Wilkes, Frederick J. Dudding, J. E. S. Aitken, James* Rutherford, John R. Blair, Jeanie G. ■> .. Varney, Arthur Gould, Arthur M.* Armstrong, Norman G.* .. Marshall, George* Maule, William L.* El 2 C5 25 D4 . M.A., B.Sc. 25 B.A. 25 B.A., Bl 25 CI 10 Dl M.A., A2 22 M.A., A4 25 M.A., B3 25 25 B.A., Bl 4J M.A., Al 26§ B.A., B3- 26J C3 D4 C3 C3 El El C5 D4 M.A., B.Sc. B.A. B.A.,B1 CI Dl M.A., A2 2 25 128 0 0 8 11 19 15 1 34 8 "0 0 .. 1 Feilding .. 25 25 25 10 67 17 7 30 0 0 100 0 0 29 29 58 Hawera .. 48 6 8 33 6 8 * 22 288 6 8 '29 39 68 Marton 25 25 25 4i 264; 26£ 50 0 0 133 6 8 16 13 4 10 0 0 M.A., A4 M.A., B3 37 22 59 Wanganui B.A., Bl M.A., Al B.A., B3C3 D4 C3 C3 El 100 0 0 .104 0 0 70 13 4 1812 8 62 12 74 26 13 4 3 13 0 3 13 0 3 13 0 Wellington— Carterton .. Haslam, Charles* Ward, Edward* Broadbent, Mary* Cromie, Geoige Petrie, Alice* McFarlane, Olive* Parkinson, Henry A.* Lyne, Christopher J. Hyams. Label Yeats, Duncan M.* Latham, Robert Stevem-on, Annie Mclntyre, James* Burns, John C* .. McKinnon, Jessie C2 D3 El B.A., B2 20 E4 '. j M.A.', Bl *5 B.A. 25 25 Dl D4 '. f>i !! C2 . I D4 C2 D3 El B.A., B2 E4 23 19 42 Greytown .. 20 116 13 4 22 20 42 M.A.', Bl B.A. 5 25 25 26 13 4 6 13 4 20 0 0 Hutt 102 1 8 32 3 4 40 30 70 Levin Dl D4 11 6 8 33 6 8 21 19 40 Dl C2 D4 10 6 4 5 3 2 12 "4 6

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School. Name of Teacher. 05 ri u a co Amounts _ T . ,, [3 § Amounts pa ifl i n Number of I /-ii.o=i«„ *•„„ paid in Addition Classification o 0 | Salaries to to Salaries of or Degree. g-»| Special TeaehersoI1 - o Assistants. Primary !■££■ Staffs. M. F. !5 Pupils. Total. Wellington— continued. Masterton.. Jaokson, William H.* Charters, Alexander B. Wilson, Marion K. Burns, Andrew N.* Thwaites, John E." Cowles, Jabez A. .. Rowley, Elizabeth Rigg, Maude Tait, Margaret Wedde, Elizabeth F. Thomas, Joseph* Webb, James S.*.. Jennings, Edward J.* McCaul, Enid* Petrie, Flora* King, Eustace £ s. d. £ s. d. Dl 2 .. 32 10 0 49 48 B.A., B2 25 257 10 0 M.A..A2 25 170 0 0 B.A., Bl .. .. 15 0 0 .. - C2 1 .. 14 11 8 .... B.A., Bl 25 100 16 8 .. 31 35 M.A.,A1 25 135 0 0 M.A. 25 60 0 0 25 22 10 0 B.A.,B3 14J 150 0 0 .. 22 26 CI 54 .. 50 10 0 Dl 1 .. 30 6 8 .. .. E2 .. .. 5 3 4.. E3 2 .. 5 0 0.... Dl 2 .. 10 0 0 .. .. M.A.,B.Sc, 25 73 6 8 .. 43 39 R1 Dl B.A., B2 M.A., A2 B.A., Bl - C2 B.A., Bl M.A., Al M.A. 2 25 25 £ s. d. 257 10 0 170 0 0 £ s. d. 32 10 0 49 48 97 Newtown .. 1 25 25 25 25 "4 54 1 15 0 0 14 11 8 100 16 8 135 0 0 60 0 0 22 10 0 150 0 0 31 35 66 Pahiatua B.A., B3 CI Dl E2 E3 Dl M.A.,B.Sc, Bl CI B.A., B2 50 10 0 30 6 8 5 3 4 5 0 0 10 0 0 22 26 48 Petone 2 2 25 73 0 8 43 39 82 Terrace Lynskey, James Myers, Pbcebe Castle, John King, Eustace m CI 25 140 0 0 B.A., B2 25 43 6 8 25 4 13 7 .. .... M.A., B.Sc, 25 140 0 0 .. 44 55 B1 25 25 25 25 140 0 0 43 6 8 4 13 7 140 0 0 M.A., B.Sc, Bl M.A., A3 D3 Dl 44 55 99 Brown, Edith L... Wilkinson, Dorothea MacMorran, George* Erskine, Albert* Bl M.A., A3 25 135 0 0 D3 25 77 8 9 .. .... Dl .. .. 40 0 0 .. 25 .. 30 0 0 .. 25 25 135 0 0 77 8 9 lawke's Bay — Dannevirke South .. 25 40 0 0 30 0 0 Simmers, James M. Spence, Mary W.* Mann, Edward H. Kinder, John Pegler, Francis Hodgson, Ruth* Gamble, Frank W.* Robson, Harry M.A., A2 25 250 0 0 .. 26 36 C4 25 .. .. .... B.A.,B1 26 155 8 0 .. 17 20 B.A., B2 26 103 12 0 CI 25 275 0 0 .. 51 56 25 8 4 .. B.A. .. .. 14 11 8 .. 08 25 200 0 0 .. 13 13 M.A., A2 C4 B.A., Bl B.A., B2 CI 25 25 26 26 25 250 0 0 26 36 62 GiBborne 155 8 0 103 12 0 275 0 0 17 20 37 Hastings 25 8 4 14 11 8 51 56 107 Woodville .. kelson — Motueka B.A. 08 25 200 0 0 13 13 26 Stoddart, Frances Harris, Thomas A.* Ainsworth, Emma Florenoe Gifford, Arthur McElwee, Marion B.A., B3 25 144 7 0 .. 7 15 A2 .. .. .. .... B.A., B2 25 175 0 0 .. 19 22 M.A..A2 25 255 0 0 .. 23 22 25 60 0 0 B.A., B3 A2 B.A., B2 M.A., A2 25 144 7 0 7 15 22 Reefton Westport .. 25 25 25 175 0 0 255 0 0 60 0 0 19 23 '22 22 41 45 4rey— Greymouth Adams, Allan A.* Gromie, Georee Lewis, Annie M. L. Wood, Robert Taylor Dl .. .. 25 0 0 9 8 B.A., B2 25 75 0 C D4 25 86 13 4 B.A., LL.B., 25 90 1 1 R1 Dl B.A., B2 D4 B.A., LL.B., Bl B.A., Bl B.A., Bl Dl E3 25 25 25 75 0 C 86 13 4 90 1 1 25 0 0 9 8 17 Vestland — Hokitika .. Wake, Hugh G.* Low, Benjamin H. Williams, Henry* Moore, Marguerite D.* Dixon, Ellenor Willetts, Elizabeth Ul B.A., Bl 20 .. 50 0 0 19 20 B.A., Bl 25. 225 0 0 Dl .. .. 45 0 0 .. E3 .. .. 10 0 0 .. .. 30 0 0 15 0 0 .. 20 25. 225 0 0 50 0 0 19 20 39 45 "o 0 10 0 0 tforth Canterbury— Akaroa 30 0 0 15. 0 0 Gray, Alexander.. M.A., B.Sc, 25 175 10 0 .. 14 10 A I M.A., B.Sc, Al 25 175 10 0 14 10 24 Amberley Peebles, Madeline G. Allev, Frederick* Hardieo, Charles D.* Waller, Francis D. Denham, Henry G. Al 20 110 0 0 .. 13 14 01 .. .. .. .... B.A., Bl 6 .. 33 14 0 119 63 B.A., Bl 25 273 19 6 M.A. M.Sc, 25 214 15 10 A 9. CI B.A., Bl B.A., Bl M.A. M.Sc, A2 B.A., B2 CI 02 M.A., Al D3 M.A. B.A , B5 M.A. M.A. B.A., B3 B.A., Bl B5 M.A., Al Dl 20 110 0 0 13 14 27 Christchurch West 6 25 25 273 19 6 214 15 10 33'14 0 119 63 182 Darfield Chaplin, Emily A. Malcolm, Thornton G. Smith, Rose Bourne, Charles F. Hunter, Margaret Prosser, Janet Opie, Louie Mayne, Arthur J. Gibson, Glorianna F. Burley, WilliamjE. Waller, Fiancis D. Osborne, Mabel Edith Bourne, Guarles F. Just, Emile U.* Dyer, Henrietta E.* Wood, Elizabeth A.* Shrimptou, Arnold W. Glanville, Gertrude M. Hicks, Charles AX B.A., B2 25 187 2 4 CI 25 116 13 4 02 25 54 17 0 M.A., Al 25 41 2 11 D3 25 20 3 0 M.A. 23 37 10 0 .. 9 8 B.A , B5 23 112 10 0 M.A. 25 150 0 0 .. 16 . 11 M.A. ■ 25 120 0 0 .. 14 . 8 B.A., B3 25 210 0 0 .. 55 24 B.A., Bl .. 45 0 0 B5 10 8 14 .. .... M.A., Al .. 5 0 0 Dl 10 .. 50 0 0 .. .. 10 0 0 .. D4 .. .. 10 0 0 .. M.A., A2 25 210 16 8 .. 15 17 CI 25 149 3 4 .. 27 33 CI 25 43 6 8 .. .... 25 25 25 25 25 23 23 25 25 25 187 2 4 116 13 4 54 17 0 41 2 11 20 3 0 37 10 0 112 10 0 150 0 0 120 0 0 210 0 0 45 0 0 8 14 5 0 0 9 "s 17 Kaiapoi Lincoln Lyttelton 16 14 55 . 11 . 8 24 27 22 79 10 Normal Southbridge 10 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 D4 M.A., A2 CI CI 25 25 25 210 16 8 149 3 4 43 6 8 15 27 17 33 32 60

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Staff and Pupils of District High Schools— continued.

Notes.—ln the above list are included pupils not duly qualified as follows: Eltham, 2 males and 2 females' Feilding, 3 males and 5 females ; Wanganui Boysj 16; Levin, 1 male and 1 female ; Newtown, 1 female ; Petone--3 females. \ << • Teachers whose names are followed by an asterisk are on the primary staff of the school. Approxtuutta Oont of Paprr. —Preparation, not given printing (2,000 copies), £30 ss. 6d.

John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—l9oG. Price, Is.]

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School. Name of Teacher. Is Classification o 0 g or Degree. t. ** > Amounts paid in Salaries to Special Assistants. Amounts paid in Addition to Salaries of Teachers on Primary Staffs. Numl >er of 'upils. I M. P, iTotal. South Canterbury— Geraldine .. £ s. d. £ s. d. 24 10 0 24 10 0 Montgomery, John R.* Doubleday, William A.* .. Hughes, Edith Dalglish, Gilbert* Irwin, Major George* Ray, Mabel McLeod, Murdoch* McOaskill, Donald* Hintz, Alfred A. Pitcaithly, George* Laing, Thomas M. M. M.A., Bl 9 14 10 13 23 Pleasant Point 80 0 0 44 8 4 44 8 4 i6 i7 33 ' B.A,' Bl D4 '74 174 Temuka .. 76 13 4 111 0 0 37 0 0 *27 30 57 B.A., Bl B.A,, B2 D3 B.A., Bl B.A., B2 10 25 ia 15 130 0 0 187 13 4 41 41 82 Waimate .. 225 i6 8 Otago— Balclutha .. McElrea, William * Turner, William W.* Allan, Mary K.* .. Murray, Fbrence Patterson, Thomas A.* Mechaelis, William R.* .. Chalmer, Clara E. Stenhouse, John* Darton, Henry L.* Fowier, Jane B.* Hay, Isabella 0. .. Pinder, Edward* McArthur, Graoe C* Will, Louisa* Brown, Isabel E. Hardy, Jame-i W. Fergus m, Dmiel* Harrison, Wilkinson L.* .. McGregor, Isabella Rennie, James* .. Bl 01 El D4 Bl D3 D2 CI Dl El D3 M.A., Al 01 B.A., B3 D4 D2 M.A., Bl M.A., A4 D3 B.A., B.Sc, Bl B.A., Bl 01 D3 01 D3 01 Bl El D4 134 24 2 10 92 2 6 50 5 0 25 2 C 35 18 53 Hampden .. 85 0 0 7 13 4 55 0 0 18 5 23 25 9 "7 2 Lawrence .. 105 16 4 90 9 0 45 4 8 41 29 70 Mosgiel 24J 2 32J 20 4 25 85 "0 0 51 0 0 97 10 0 20 0 0 20 "8 28 Naseby "5 'i4 i9 Normal Palmerston 25 14 84 85 "0 0 200 0 0 38 13 44 11 82 24 34 13 4 17 6 8 Port Chalmers 85 0 0 40 i4 0 'ie 'i7 33 'sj Grav, James H.* Orkn-y, Eva M.* Graham, Amy S. de L. Eudey, Walter* .. Howat, Helen C. Reid, James* Coutis, Thomas R.* McLaren, Mary* Keys, May* llf 5 22 4 0 11 2 0 85 0 0 59 0 0 8 i2 20 Tapanui .. - Tokomairiro 18 ii 21 4 4 85 0 0 76 14 6 41 17 0 20 18 6 85 0 0 'is '24 39 Southland — Gore Brunton, John Thompson, Marion Golding, Jonathan* Macgibbon, Eve* Hewat, Ebenezer O* Acheson, Editn A. Robertson, George* Wyllie, Alexander L.* Wilson, James Reid McKay, James George B.A., B2 D2 B A., Bl D4 B.A., Bl D4 Dl M.A. D2 04 25 234 5 212 10 0 110 0 0 20 0 0 7 10 0 20 0 0 39 35 74 Riverton .. 25 90 0 0 3 22 24 Winton 20 "0 0 "s io i3 15 10 10 125 5 11 14 16 2 1,363 2,872 11,257 18 9 2,596 4 10 1,509