EDUCATION: SECONDARY EDUCATION. [In continuation of E.—6, 1917.]

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1918 Session I-II, E-06

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Session 11. 1918. NEW ZEALAND

EDUCATION: SECONDARY EDUCATION. [In continuation of E.—6, 1917.]

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

CONTENTS. Page Page 1. Extract from the Forty-first Annual Report of 4. Detailed Tables— continued. the Minister of Education. (E.-l) .. .. 2 District High Schools— continued. , , _ . T , - , L3. Subieots taken by Pupils in Secondary 2. Eeport of the Senior Inspector of Secondary Departments of District High Schools 35 Schools .. .. .. .. .. J-i L4. Staff, Classification, &c, in Detail .. 30 3. District High Schools :— Secondary Schools and District High Schools,— Extracts from Beports of Education Boards, L5. "National Scholarships .. ..38 Inspectors of Schools, Di teotor9 oi Manual Instruction, &c. .. .. .. ..18 5. Statements op Accounts op Governing Bodies 4. Detailed Tables, etc. :— op Secondary Schools : — Secondary Schools,- Whangarei High School Board ..38 " Auckland Grammar Schools Board .. , . 39 Personnel of Staffs of Secondary Sohools .. 21 Hamilton High School Board .. .. 39 Kl. Roll, Average Attendance, and Pees of Thames High School Board .. ..40 Seoondary Schools .. .. .. 23 New Plymouth High Schools Board .. .. 40 K2. Pupils on the Roll, exclusive of Lower Wanganui Girls'College Board .. ..41 Departments .. .. .. 24 Wanganui Collegiate School Board .. .. 42 K3. Years of Attendance of Pupils .. 25 Palmerston North High School Board .. 42 K4. Staffs of Secondary Schools and Gisborne High School Board .. .. 43 Teachers'Salaries .. .. ..26 Napier High Schools Board .. ..44 K5. Holders of Scholarships and Free Places 27 Dannovirke High School Board .. .. 44 K6. Net Income from Endowments, and Ex- Wollington College and Girls' High School penditure on Salaries and Incidentals 28. Board .. .. .. .. ..45 K.7. Income of Secondary Sohools.. .. 29 Marlborough High School Board .. ..46 KB. Expenditure of Secondary Schools .. 30 Nelson College Board .. .. .. 46 K9. Balances and other Monetary Assets and Greymouth High School Board .. .. 48 Liabilities .. .. .. 31 Hokitika High School Board .. .. 48 KlO. Distribution of Reserves Revenue .. 32 Rangiora High School Board .. .. 48 Kll. Lower Departments .. ..32 Canterbury College Board— Kl2. List or Secondary Schools, incorporated Christchuroh Boys'High School .. ..49 or endowed .. .. .. 32 Chrißtchurch Girls' High Sohool .. .. 50 IQ3. Number taking various Subjects of In- Christ's College Grammar School Board .. 50 Btruction .. .. .. .. 33 Akaroa High School Board .. .. .. 51 Kl4. Classes approved under Regulations for Ashburton High School Board .. .. 52 Manual Instruction .. .. 34 Timaru High Schools Board .. .. 52 . „ , Waimate High School Board .. .. 53 District High Schools,— Waitaki High Schools Board .. .. 54 LI. Attendance, Staffs, &c. .. .. 34 Otago High Schools Board .. .. .54 L2. School Attendance at Seoondary Depart- Gore High School Board .. .. .. 55 ments of District High Schools .. 35 Southland High Schools Board ~ ..56

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i. EXTRACT FROM THE FORTY-FIRST REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION. SECONDAKY EDUCATION. Number op Schools. (Table Kl.) Schools affording education of a secondary nature are established in every centre of any importance in the Dominion, and are of the following types : Secondary schools, technical high schools, district high schools, private secondary schools, and Maori secondary schools. The majority of the district high schools are in the country centres, the secondary schools and technical high schools being in the larger towns and cities. The secondary schools, which are under the control of twentyseven separate controlling authorities, may be classed as follows :— (a.) Endowed secondary schools included in the Ninth Schedule to the Education Act, 1914 '.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 32 (It.) Secondary schools without endowments established in the manner provided by section 88 of the Education Act, 191.4 .. .. .. ..4 (c.) Endowed secondary schools within the meaning of the Act, but not included above .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 Total .. .. .. .. .. .. ..38 Of the thirty-eight schools, twelve are for boys, twelve for girls, and ten are mixed schools. Four of the schools under (a) are not in operation—namely, Akaroa, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Waimate. At these places secondary education is carried on in the secondary departments of district high schools, to which the High School Boards supply some financial assistance. The number of district high schools in .1917 was sixty, technical, high schools eight, Maori secondary schools ten, and private secondary schools registered under the Education Act, 1914, twenty, making a total of 132 schools affording secondary education. Roll and Attendance. (Tables Kl, K2, K3, LI, and L2.) The total number of pupils attending the thirty-four secondary schools included under (a), (b), and (c) above at the end of 1916 and 1917 respectively was- , —1916. -, 1917. , Boys. Girls. Totals. Boys. Girls. Totals. Roll (exclusive of lower departments).. 4,025 3.027 7,052 4,203 3.387 7,590 Number in lower departments .. 296 170 466 365 215 580 Totals .. .. ..4,321 3,197 7,518 4.568 3,602 8,170 The roll number, excluding the lower departments, shows an increase in 1917 of 7-6 per cent, over the roll for the previous year, the increase being greater in the case of the girls than of the boys. The number of girls increased by 360, or 11-9 per cent, of the 1916 roll, and the number of boys increased by 178, or 4-4 per cent. The number of first-year boys shows an actual decrease of 77, as compared with the previous year, while the number of first-year girls shows an increase of 59. There is no ready explanation of the disparity in these figures. The following are some of the figures in connection witli the roll and attendance of schools in which secondary education is given : — (a.) Shcon.dary Schools (Lower Departments excluded). Number on the roll at the end of 1917 .. . . . . . . 7,590 Average attendance for the year 1917 .. ;-. .. .. .. 7,464 Number of new entrants, 1917 .. .. .. .. .. 3.544 Number of these who left the public primary schools in 1916 .. .. 2,871 Number who left secondary schools during 1917 .. .. .. 943 /Number of first-year pupils .. .. .. .. .. .. 2.953 I Number of second-year pupils .. .. .. .. .. 2.345 Number of third-year pupils .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,304 (Number of fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-year pupils., ~ .. .. 988,

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(b.) Secondary Departments of District Hiuh Schools. Number on roll at end of 1917 .. .. .. .. .. 2,180 Mean of average weekly roll: Boys, 1,131; girls, 1,27.4 : total .. .. 2,405 Average attendance .. .. .. .. .. ..2,201 Number of new entrants from public primary schools .. .. .. 1,392 (Number of first-year pupils .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,1521 j Number of seoond-year pupils .. .. .. .. .. 638,---l Number of third-year pupils .. .. .. .. .. .. 390) (c.) Technical High Schools. Number on roll at end of 1917 : Boys, 1,11.0; girls, 1,237: total.. .. 2,.347 (»/.) Registered Private Secondary Schools. Number on"roll at end of 1917: Roys, 394 ; girls, 812: total .. .. 1,206 (Number under twelve years of age .. .. .. .. .. 26) i Number between twelve and fifteen years of age .. •.. .. 343 j(Number over fifteen years of age .. .. .. .. .. 837 J ■ Number of teachers . . .. .. .. .. .. .. 71 (e.) ShcoN-DAry Schools for Maoris. Number on roll at end of 1917 .. .. .. .. .. 487 Average attendance, 1917 .. .. .. .. .. .. 454 The total number of children, therefore, receiving secondary education at the end of 1917 was 13,810, an increase of 6-2 per cent, over the corresponding figure for the previous year. Of 9,517 children who left the primary schools having passed S6 in 1916, 1,392 entered the secondary departments of district high schools, 2,871 secondary schools, and 1,226 technical high schools ; hence a total of 5,489 children, or 58 per cent, of those who left the primary schools having passed S6, in 1916, or 37 per cent, of the whole number that left school in that year, entered upon an education of a secondary nature at one of the types of school mentioned. In addition to those enumerated, 2,276 children proceeded from the primary schools to evening technical classes. Of these, 1,584 had passed S6 and 692 had not done so. The average length of stay of boys at secondary schools (group (a) above) is two years and nine months, and of girls two years and eight months. The following figures show the percentage of children leaving the secondary schools at the stages indicated : — Boys. Girls. (a.) Percentage leaving at end of first year or during second year .. 22 20 (b.) ~ second ~ third ~ .. 28 35 (c.) „ third „ fourth „ ..24 17 (d.) „ fourth „ fifth „ .. 14 18 (e.) „ fifth ~ sixth ~ .. 9 6 (/.) Percentage remaining at end of sixth year .. .. .. 3 4 The fact that over 20 per cent, of the pupils leave at the end of the first or during the second year is a matter for regret, as very little good can be gained from spending so short a time in the study of secondary subjects. The evil is mitigated if such pupils take what is termed a short course, in which, instead of commencing the study of a number of new subjects, including languages, they devote the time, more or less, to pursuing further subjects already begun in the primary school, or to the study of simpler subjects bearing upon the vocations they intend following. The length of time spent by pupils at the secondary departments of district high schools is for the most part short, only about one-sixth of the pupils remaining after the second year. In the case of these schools, it is recognized that pupils often attend merely with the object of finishing off their primary education, and that the number preparing for higher education or for the learned professions is small. Curriculum of Secondary Schools and District High Schools. (Tables Kl3 and LB.) Although there are no departmental regulations directly governing the curriculum of secondary schools, the regulations defining the subjects of instruction to be taught to free-place holders and the prescribed syllabuses of the various public examinations to a large extent control the character of the courses of work undertaken. Amended regulations issued during the year made it compulsory

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for all junior free pupils to receive instruction in history and civics preparatory to a course in the elementary principles of economics to be taken at a later stage. The regulations also provided for girls to be instructed in home science, together with one or more of the subjects cookery, laundry-work, needlework, home nursing ; while boys attending district high schools must, unless the school has been specially exempted, receive instruction in practical agriculture and dairy science, if equivalent instruction of a vocational nature is not otherwise provided for. The courses taken in secondary schools may be roughly classified as follows: (1) General or professional, (2) non-Latin, (3) non-French, (4) commercial, (5) agricultural, (6) domestic. From returns received it appears that the following percentages of pupils tools: the various courses: Boys—Professional or general, 55 per cent.; non-Latin, 11 per cent. ; non-French, 2 per cent. ; commercial, 24 per cent.; agricultural, 8 per cent. Girls-—Professional or general, 44 per cent.; non-Latin, 32 per cent.; commercial, 18 per cent.; domestic, 6 per cent, including those taking a full agricultural course, 529 boys, or about 14 per cent., receive instruction in agriculture, 106 boys learn dairy science, and 420 take woodwork. Similarly, including the girls taking a full domestic course, 1,347, or 39 per cent., are instructed in home science, 893 learn needlework, 423 cookery, and 68 home nursing. The number of pupils taking book-keeping is 1,779, or 24 per cent, of the whole number of students. The diminishing number of secondary-school pupils studying Latin is noticeable, only 55 per cent, of the boys and 44 per cent, of the girls including it in their course in 1917, while French was taken by 83 per cent, of the boys and by 92 per cent, of the girls. In the case of district high schools the courses taken are of a more vocational nature, and. to a large extent have a bearing upon rural pursuits. It appears that 48 per cent, of the pupils take agriculture, and 29 per cent, dairy-work ; 52 per cent, of the boys take woodwork, .and 13 per cent, surveying and mensuration ; while 54 per cent, of the girls learn needlework and cookery. The various branches of science receive adequate attention, 66 per cent, of the pupils studying chemistry and physics, 46 per cent, botany, 26 per cent, hygiene, 14 per cent, physiology and zoology, and 12 per cent, of the girls domestic science. Only 40 per cent, of the pupils in these schools learn Latin, and 30 per cent. French. Commercial work, frequently forming part of a rural course, is taken by 29 per cent, of the pupils. Information respecting the curriculum of technical high schools may be found in the section " Technical Instruction." Free Secondary Education. (Table K6.) I'ree places are divided into two classes—junior and senior—both being tenable at secondary schools and district high schools, or, under somewhat different conditions, at technical schools. Generally speaking, junior free places are tenable for two years, with a possible extension in certain cases to three years. In the case of their being held at district high schools they are tenable to the age of seventeen. The means of qualification are — (I.) For entrance to secondary schools and district high schools — (a) Special examinations for Junior National Scholarships, (b) the certificate of proficiency. (2.) For entrance to technical high schools the means of qualification named in (1), or the certificate of competency in S6, with a special endorsement of merit in handwork and elementary science, which for the purposes of technical schools is deemed to be equivalent to a certificate of proficiency. (3.) For entrance to technical classes other than technical high schools the means of qualification named in (1) or (2), or, under special conditions applicable to industrial courses only, a recommendation by the Inspector of Schools if a pupil is over fourteen years and has been in regular attendance at a public school up to a date not more than six months prior to the date of admission to the technical classes.

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Senior free places are tenable at secondary schools, district high schools, and technical high schools up to the age of nineteen, and at technical classes other than technical high schools for three or in some cases four years. The means of qualification for senior free places are the Intermediate or other equivalent examinations, or the recommendation of the Principal or Director of the school or classes attended based on the school records and examination results, or the recommendation of an Inspector of Secondary Schools, or in the case of district high schools of the Senior Inspector of the district, or in part on such a recommendation and in. part on the results of a special examination. The provision for qualification for senior free places on the recommendation of the Principals of secondary schools, which was partially suspended in 1916, was again reverted to in 1917, and 1,047 pupils were thus granted senior free places, twenty-two, in addition, receiving partial exemption from, examination, and being required to submit to a test in English and arithmetic only. The following are some of the figures for 1916 and 1917 in regard to free places in secondary schools : — 1910. 1917. Number of secondary schools giving free tuition . . 31 .32 Poll number of these schools .. .. .. 6,585 7,106 Number of free-place holders at end of year .. .. 5,826 6,231 Average number of free-place holders during year .. 6,045 6.468 Pree- place holders as a percentage of roll number .. 92 percent. 91 percent. Total annual payment by Government for free places .. £74,380 ■ £78,567 Cost to Government per free pupil .. .. .. £12 6s. Iod. £12 2s. lid. In order to arrive at the total number of pupils in New Zealand receiving free secondary instruction it will be necessary, however, to include also 104 holders of scholarships or exhibitions carrying free instruction not otherwise enumerated, which are granted by the secondary schools included above or by endowed secondary schools not coming under the conditions for free places, 2,044 free-place holders at district high schools, 96 Maori pupils receiving free education in Maori secondary schools, and 2,150 holders of free places in technical high schools. Consequently, there were approximately 10,625 pupils receiving free secondary education in the Dominion, exclusive of those holders of free places in technical schools (mostly evening students), who, while not taking full-day courses, were nevertheless receiving free education of secondary grade. ' The following table gives a summary of the various secondary free places in 1916 and 1917 for which payment was made by Government: — Free Places in December, 19.16 and 1917. 1916. --, 191.7. (i.) Secondary schools— B °y s - Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. (a.) Junior free pupils .. 2.283 2,013 4,296 2,327 2.257 4.584 (b.) Senior free pupils .. 818 712 1,530 910 737 1,647 Totals .. ..3,101 2,725 5,826 3,237 2,994 6,231 (ii.) District high schools— (a.) Junior free pupils .. 873 909 1,782 836 971 1,807 (b.) Senior free pupils .. 80 121 201 103 134 237 Totals .. .. 953 1,030 1,983 939 1,105 2,044 (iii.) Maori secondary schools .. 43 58 101 41 55 96 (iv.) Technical high schools — (a.) Junior free pupils .. 798 897 1,695 906 1,005 J,911 (b.) Senior free pupils .. 81 139 220 102 137 239 Totals .. .. 879 1,036 1,915 1,008 1,142 2,150 Grand totals .. 4,976 4,849 9,825 5,225 5,296 10,521

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Scholarships held at Secondary Schools and District High Schools. (See also Tables K5 and L5.) These scholarships are of four kinds, — (i.) National Scholarships ; (ii.) Education Board Scholarships ; (iii.) Foundation (or Governors') Scholarships, given by the governing bodies of secondary schools ; (iv.) Private scholarships, endowed by private owners. (i.) National Scholarships. Junior and Senior National Scholarships in the proportion of 9 to 5 are awarded on the results of annual examinations, the junior examination being of a standard somewhat higher than that of the certificate of proficiency, and the senior examination being of a standard comparable with the standard of the Public; Service Entrance Examination. Scholarships are awarded to all candidates reaching a certain standard, the standard of award being determined so as approximately to provide one scholarship for every 500 children in attendance at all public schools. In the case of pupils from sole-teacher schools— i.e., schools with an average attendance of under 36—the standard of award is made 10 per cent, lower than the general sta,ndard. The standards of qualification fixed for the 1917 examinations were 63-g- per cent, for junior scholarships (general standard) and 63 per cent, for senior scholarships. The results of the examination were as follows : 240 candidates qualified for Junior National Scholarships, of which number 17 were pupils of sole-teacher schools, and 62, or 26 per cent., were pupils of secondary schools. The number of successful candidates from sole-teacher schools was slightly lower than in the previous year, and, as has been stated before, represents too small a proportion of the number of scholarships being won by pupils of small schools. The number of successful candidates from secondary schools, on the other hand, was greater than in the previous year. The number of candidates qualifying for Senior National Scholarships was 127, of which number 8 qualified on the alternative programme provided specially to suit the needs of those taking a rural or domestic course. Junior and Senior National Scholarships are tenable at secondary schools and district high schools, each for three years, provided that the total tenure of the'two scholarships in the case of one person must not exceed five years. In addition to tuition fees, the holder receives £5 per annum if a junior scholar, or £10 per annum if a senior scholar, with a further sum of £35 per annum in each case if obliged to live away from home. The figures below indicate the number and the value of scholarships current in December, 1916, and December, 1917, respectively. The number of scholarshipholders is, of course, included in the number of free-place holders shown in the preceding section. Number of scholarship-holders— 1816. 1917. Boys .. .. .. .. .. .. 252 403 Girls .. .. .. .. .. .. 130 235 Totals .. .. .. .. 382 638 Number receiving boarding-allowance (included in the above total) .. .. .. .. .. .. 143 211 Number receiving travelling-allowance (similarly included) .. 12 29 Number held at public secondary schools .. .. .. 334 542 Number held at other registered secondary schools .. .. , .. 19 Number held at district high schools .. .. .. |48 f77 Total annual rate of payment .. .. .. .. £7,748 £11,677 (ii.) Education Board Scholarships. The number of Education Board Scholarships current in 1917 was small, and will, in accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1914, gradually be entirely replaced by Junior and Senior National Scholarships.

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(iii.) Foundation (or Governors') Scholarships. These are of two kinds, those afforded by the Governors of secondary schools not granting free places under the Act, and those offered as additional scholarships by the Governors of schools providing free places. (iv.) Private Scholarships. These are derived from funds provided by private donors at certain schools, by bequest or otherwise. The number of foundation and private scholarships in the last term of 1917 was 165. Of the holders sixty-three were also Government free pupils under'the regulations. The total annual value of the scholarships in cash was £1,234. In addition, free tuition was given by the schools to holders of foundation and private scholarships to the value of £967, the value of the Government free places already mentioned not being included in this amount. Secondary-school Certificates. Three classes of certificates may be issued to free-place holders taking a secondary course of instruction. The intermediate certificate may be granted to junior-free-place holders who have satisfactorily completed under certain conditions a two-years course at a secondary school, district high school, or technical high school, and who in general are qualified in attainment to receive a senior free place. The lower leaving-certificate may be issued to pupils who have satisfactorily completed a three-years course of secondary instruction, including not less than one year of a senior course in which the standard of work is sufficiently advanced in character to meet the requirements of the examination for a teacher's certificate of Class D, or of the Matriculation Examination. Likewise the higher leavingcertificate may be granted to pupils having satisfactorily completed at least a fouryears course of secondary instruction and having satisfied the requirements of the lower leaving-certificate, and, in addition, having completed to good advantage and under certain conditions a further secondary course of not less than, one year. Staffs of Secondary Schools. (Tables K4.) The number of teachers on the staffs of secondary schools, excluding lower departments, in the years 1916 and 1917 was as follows : — , 191 (i. , , 1917. , Males. Females, Total. Males. Females. -Total. Regular staff .. .. 175 148 323 174 175 349 Part time .'. .. .. 41 45 86 37 43 80 Included in the regular staff of 349 teachers were 34 Principals and 315 assistants. The influence of the war is seen in the fact that since 1915 the number of female teachers has increased from 126 to 175, while the number of male teachers has remained stationary. Women teachers are now employed to teach the junior classes in many of the boys' schools —positions which were previously held by men. The Education. Act of 1914 provides that the number of assistants in a secondary school shall not be less than one for every 25 pupils, and taking all the schools together the average number of pupils per assistant in .1917 was 24. War conditions "have made it impossible in some cases to comply with this provision of the Act, with the result that in individual schools the number ranged from 15 to 31. Including the Principals, the average number of pupils per teacher in all schools was 21, the number ranging in individual schools from 15 to 29. The head teacher of a district high school generally takes some part in the secondary instruction, and receives from the Government the sum of £30 in addition to the salary he would receive as head teacher of a primary school of the same size. In 1917 there were in the secondary departments of district high schools 97 special secondary assistants—23 men and 74 women. Leaving out of consideration the head teachers, the average number of pupils per teacher was 23. This comparatively low average is dominated by the influence of the smaller schools of this type ; where the number in the secondary department is large the staff provided falls considerably short, and the amelioration of the position in this respect in the case of secondary departments of larger size is urgently necessary.

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Salaries and Status of Secondary Teachers. (Table K4.) The total annual amount of salaries (including war bonus when paid) of teachers in secondary schools as at the rate payable in December, 1917, was £97,923, to which sum should be added the value of board and residence, when provided by the Boards for teachers, amounting in 1917 to £1,536, thus making a total of £99,459. This figure exceeds the corresponding amount for the previous year by £8,626. Including the value of board and residence the annual value of salaries averages £13-3 per head of the average attendance, ranging in individual schools from £9-8 to £22-86, or, excluding Wanganui Collegiate and Christ's College Grammar Schools, from £9-8 to £18-57. In twenty out of thirty-four schools the range is from £9-8 to £13-88. Comparing the salaries of full-time teachers in boys' and girls' schools in cases where the controlling authorities have separate schools and staffs for boys and girls, it appears that in the boys' schools the salaries per head of average attendance average £13-1, the corresponding figure in the girls' schools being £11-2. Full particulars relating to individual schools may be found in Table K4. Salaries or allowances paid to teachers on active service have not been included in the figures. t By the provisions of the Education Act, 1914, certain minimum salaries and minimum average salaries are payable to secondary-school teachers. The following figures indicate the average rates prevailing in 1916 and 1917 : — Average Salaries of Full-time Teachers in Secondary Schools. , 191 (1. , , 1917. , M. F. All. M. F. All. £ £ £ £ £ £ Principals .. ..593 431 539 603 428 541 Assistants .. ..266 186 228 284 193 237 Whole staff .. .. 306 204 260 325 210 267 In the secondary departments of district high schools salaries arc uniform, in accordance with the schedule to the Act. The average salaries actually paid to secondary assistants, exclusive of the sums paid to head teachers by way of extra salary, were, in December, 1916 and 1917, as follows :— 1916. 1917. £ £ Male assistants .. .. .. • • • ■ .. 250 257 Female assistants .. .. .. .. • • .. 208 206 All seoondary assistants . . .. .. • • ■ • 220 218 The seale of salaries is the same lor men and women. The total annual rate of salaries paid to teachers in secondary departments of district high schools, including the special payments to head teachers, was £22,975, as against £22,957 for 1916. The amount paid as a war bonus is not included. The problem of the training of secondary-school teachers is one that still awaits complete solution. University graduates may attend teachers' training colleges for one year to acquire training and experience in the art of teaching, but up to the present the number availing themselves of this opportunity has been small. Controlling authorities were circularized during the year and urged to secure, as far as possible, trained teachers for the junior forms, the pupils of which are at a difficult and critical stage of their education. Replies were to the effect that efforts are made to secure the services of trained teachers, but the opinion was expressed that the training afforded at the training colleges was not altogether suitable for secondary-school teachers, and the necessity for some special provision for their training was dwelt upon. The Department concurs in this view and recognizes that more ample provision for the training of secondary-school teachers will require to be made. The following table shows the University examination status of teachers in secondary schools and in|the secondary departments of district high schools. It is clear "that with respect to the academic status of secondary-schools teachers there is no complaint to be made. The percentage of assistants neither having

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Status of Secondary Teachers (Regular Staff only), December, 1916.

Finances of Sfajondary Schools. (K6-K.9.) The income of secondary schools is derived from the following sources:— (i.) Rents from special reserves allocated to them, by statute : (ii.) Statutory grant given in lieu of special reserves (in one case) : (iii.) Interest upon moneys derivedlfrom the sale of reserves and invested in accordance with the Education Reserves Act : (iv.) Income from the secondary-school reserves controlled by the Land Boards, divided among the secondary schools in the several land districts in proportion to the number of pupils in average attendance, lower departments excluded : (v.) Government payments — (a) Statutory capitation upon free pupils under the Act ; (b) subsidies on voluntary contributions ; (c) capitation for manual-instruction classes : (vi.) Special Government grants for buildings and apparatus : (vii.) Tuition fees of pupils : (viii.) Boarding-fees of pupils : (ix.) Miscellaneous sources, such as interest on moneys (other than those obtained by the sale of reserves), donations, and income from special endowments (for scholarships, prizes, &c), rent of premises, &c. The revenue derived from the sources (i) to (iv) is the income derived from endowments, and the " net annual income derived from endowments " is the average of this revenue for the three preceding years, less the expenditure upon the endowments and investments, upon buildings approved by the Minister, and less mortgage and other charges. Capitation payments on free pupils were (until the end of 1917) made on a specially defined sliding scale according to the net annual income from endowments, the maximum payment being £13 10s. per annum per head of the number of free pupils. By the provisions of the Statute Law Amendment Act, 1917, the scale was altered so that the capitation payment will in future be equal to the deficiency of the net annual income per head below £1.3 10s. per annum. In addition, where the total annual income from, endowments is less than £2 per head an annual grant of £200 is paid, and in all other cases a grant of £.1.00. Certain conditions as to staffing and salaries of teachers have to be fulfilled before full rates of payment on account of the attendance of free pupils can be claimed. The total income from endowments of the various schools in 1917 ranged from £0-61 to £26-01 per head of the roll number, while the net annual income from endowments, as defined above, was nil in eight cases, and ranged from £0-37 to

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Secondary Schools District High Schools (Secondary Department). i I ! Percentage. Number. Percentage. 68 ' 21 35 29 3 39 65 Principals— Graduates, also holders of teacher's certificate Graduates (not included above) Holders of teacher's certificate only .. . Number. 23 10 1 Totals .. 34 100 60 60 100 100 Assistants — Graduates, also holders of teacher's certificate Graduates (not included above) Holders of teacher's certificate only Uncertificated 107 138 23 47 34 44 7 15 56 2 29 10 58 2 30 10 Totals 315 100 97 100

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£7-145 per head in the remaining schools. This difference was adjusted, as previously stated, by the Government's paying capitation on a sliding scale, which varied in 191.7 from £7-391 to £13-5 per free pupil, the result being that the total income per free pupil from the two sources named ranged from £13-5 to £14-536. Tn future the amount will be £13-5 in every case, unless a Board's net income from endowments alone exceeds that figure. The following is a summary of the receipts and expenditure of all secondary schools (lower departments included, Wanganui Collegiate and Christ's College Grammar Schools excluded) for the year 1917 : — Summary of the Statements of Receipts and Expenditure fob the Year 1917, furnished by the Governing Bodies of Secondary Schools. (Wanganui Collegiate and Christ's College Grammar Schools not included.) Receipts. Wxpendituri. Endowments — £ s. d. £ ,s. d. Sales and mortgage-money repaid .. 933 -4 31 Endowments, (including proportion of Lands vested in High School Boards .. 40,999 4 0 office expenses) .. .. .. 6,231 2 5 Seoondary-education reserves .. 7,866 17 7 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 90,5314 4 8 Interest on moneys invested .. 70S I II Incidental expenses of seoondary departUovemment grants — ments Grants for buildings, sites, rent, appa- Office expenses and salaries (excluding ratus, &c. .. .. .. 953! 19 8 endowments) .. .. .. 2,707 131 7 Capitation for free places and subsidies 79,505 810 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 2,327 (i 9 Capitation and subsidies for manual in- Cleaning, heating, lighting, and cans of struction .. .. .. 2,150 1 4 school-grounds .. .. .. 0,828 (i 10 School fees .. .. .. .. 10,175 4 (i Material, examinations, prizes, games, Lower Department Account .. .. 3,754 0 2 and other incidentals .. .. 2,884 9 I Boarding-school Account .. .. 20,875 13 2 Manual instruction (excluding buildings, Loans, transfers from Capital Account, &c.) .. .. .. .. 1,721 4 10 interest, c&c. .. .. .. 007 12 8 Sites, buildings, furniture, apparatus, Technical Classes Account .. .. 2,780 5 9 taxes, &e. ' .. .. .. 30,208 II 31 Voluntary contributions, income from Lower 'Department Account .. .. 3,037 0 2 property not reserves, refunds, and Boarding-school Account .. .. 27,018 15 5 sundries .. .. .. .. 7,539 I :i Loans repaid and interest .. .. .10,502 9 4 Technical Classes Account .. .. 2,525 10 0 Scholarships, advances to pupils, and miscellaneous .. .. .. 0,095 7 10 13184,908 15 i ,1193,282 2 2 As will be observed, the total expenditure exceeded the income by £8,373. It should be stated, however, that two Boards repaid loans amounting to £5,300, and in the case of the other eight. Boards whose expenditure exceeded the income by any appreciable amount the excess was owing to expenditure on buildings. The very small amount raised in loans, &c,—i.e., £608 —should also be compared with the corresponding figure for the previous year, which was £34,016. The total expenditure on salaries (excluding lower departments) was £90,534 and on incidentals (which, include office administration, caretaking, school material, &c.) £14,808, as compared with £81,999 and £14,961 respectively for the previous year. The expenditure per head of roll number on salaries amounted to £11-81 and on incidental expenses to £l - 93, the latter figure ranging in the various schools from. £]/39 to £4-1. The expenditure on buildings, &c, was £30,209, as compared with £62,561 in the previous year. The income from endowments did not differ materially from that of 1916 ; the Government grants for buildings, &c, on the other hand, amounted to only £954, as compared with £9,097 in the previous year. The free place capitation receipts were also £9,536 less than in 1,916, the decrease being largely due to the inclusion in the payments for 1916 of capitation for the last term of 1915, no corresponding amount for 1916 being paid in the year 1917. The Education Act stipulates that the total expenditure on staff salaries and incidental expense's must not be less than the total amount calculated at the rate of £13 10s. per free pupil, together with the amount of tuition fees received. As the latter sum in 1917 amounted to £97,491, and the expenditure on the items named was £105,343, it will be seen that, taking all the schools together, the conditions of the Act were complied with. A few of the Boards, however, did not carry out this condition.- —owing in most cases to the impossibility of obtaining the required number of suitable teachers—and in all such cases refunds have been made to the Department. Taking into account all the assets and liabilities of the various Boards, it appears that the total debit balance at the. end of 1917 was £25,613, eleven Boards

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having a debit, and fifteen, a credit balance. The debit balances are for the most part due to loans raised or overdrafts incurred on account of the erection of necessary buildings. The following is a summary of the monetary assets and liabilities at the end of the year :— Monetary Assets. £ Liabilities. £ Bank balances .. .. .. 44,805 Overdrafts'and loans .. .. 72,203 Other assets .. .. .. 13,861. Other liabilities .. .. .. 12,076 £58,666 £84,279 Debit balance .. .. £25.613 It should be stated that the debit balance is far exceeded by the value of the Boards' buildings, and that, with one possible exception, all Boards are in a position to discharge their liabilities within a reasonable time. Further details of the income and expenditure of individual secondary schools will be found in Tables K6-K9. Secondary Education Reserves Revenue. The total amount received by High School Boards from this fund amounted in 1.917 to £8,561. Details of the distribution are shown in Table KlO. Lower Departments op Secondary Schools. (Table KII.) The Education Act provides that pupils, who have not obtained a certificate of competency in the subjects of Standard V or a higher standard of the public-school syllabus may be admitted to a lower department of a secondary school if they are taught in a separate building or class-room, and if no part of the actual cost of their instruction or maintenance of the department is met out of the endowments of the secondary school or out of any moneys granted by the Government. There were lower departments in. fourteen secondary schools during 1917 ; the total number of pupils in these departments was 530 —365 boys and 215 girls ; the total expenditure on salaries of teachers and incidental expenses was £4,556 ; the total income from fees, &c, was £4,680. Taken as a whole these departments were therefore self-supporting ; in a few cases, however, the expenditure exceeded the income, and controlling authorities are warned against the illegality of using secondary-school funds for the upkeep of such institutions.

2. ANNUAL REPORT OF 'JM!L SENIOR INSPECTOR OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. Sir,— Wellington, 31st March, 1918. During the latter hall' of the year I visited nearly all the secondary schools of the Dominion in company with Mr. R. E. Rudman, M.A., 15.50., who was acting as temporary Inspector. Mr. Rudman's notes have been freely used, but lie is not responsible for the report as a whole. The time allotted to each school (lid not usually permit of any very exhaustive inspection, especially as in most cases our work included a certain amount, of examination for various continuation and leaving certificates. It is hoped that in future it may be possible to carry out the inspection less hurriedly, so that a more ordered judgment may be formed concerning the special conditions under which each school is working and the particular objects towards which the teachers are directing their main efforts. This is all the more necessary because, in spite of restrictions imposed by departmental regulations, each school rightly aims at a certain individuality, conditioned partly by its environment and partly by (he ideals that animate the Principal and the staff. Training or Teaohebs. It is quite evident that the teachers in secondary schools are, in (he main, capable and enthusiastic, and that the .more experienced of them are keeping in dose touch with modern methods, but the question of the proper nature of preliminary training for young secondary teachers- appears one of considerable urgency. These junior teachers are for the most part University graduates who have had. little training in technique', though a fair and increasing proportion (perhaps 25 per cent.) have been through a pupil-teacher's course in the primary

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schools, or have had a term in one of the training colleges. Opinions differ widely as to the result of this short training. Some Principals, in fact, prefer teachers who have not been so trained, and say that the best of their material consists of young graduates fresh from a Universitycollege; while others with equal confidence assert the value of primary-school training. The Principal of one of the largest of our boys' schools says: "We have but rarely, even in the difficult circumstances of the war, appointed teachers without previous experience, but it is a noteworthy fact that the most efficient of our young teachers during the past ten years have been, in the main, the men thus exceptionally selected." The head of a. large girls' school says: "It is certainly desirable that all teachers appointed to secondary schools should have had some training in method and some experience in teaching, but neither of these tilings will make a person a good teacher. There are teachers of twenty years' experience who cannot teach, and there are young men and women who, without anytraining or experience at all, have yet the faculty of imparting knowledge. Training and experience are only two factors, and these by no means the most important, in the composition of a good teacher. What 1. consider the essentials are personality, natural ability, scholarship, and a real love for the work. For a secondary-school teacher 1 would add education for four or five years in a high school." The headmaster of one of the smaller schools remarks : " Every one will recognize that, other things being equal, preference should be given to the trained teacher. At the same time teachers are born, not made. Training is important, but character and personality are'more important. Our two most successful teachers during the past seventeen years were untrained. The next in order was trained; all the others but two had had primary training." The truth seems to be that no amount of training will make a good teacher out of unsatisfactory material, but that, given a young person with a natural aptitude for teaching, technical training will certainly "speed up" the process of evolution of the accomplished teacher. What form should that technical training take.' The following are suggestions from various sources : — (1.) While the degree course is in progress the student should take a pupil-teacher's course of two years and attend the training college for one year. Many of our young teachers have done so. The objection to it is the excessive strain on the system, and the likelihood of the degree course suffering, even if health is not permanently impaired. (2.) One year should be spent in the training college after graduation. But it is objected that a graduate has usually earned nothing up to the age of twenty-one or twenty-two, and cannot afford to spend another unproductive year. It is also asserted that the experience gained at the training college is not the particular experience required by secondary-school teachers. (o.) Fuller advantage should be taken of the Regulations for Training Colleges (sec section 4, subsection (2), and section 7, subsection (5), of those regulations. " For the purposes of the wider observation by students of teaching methods, the Hoard, after consultation with the Committee of Advice, may appoint, subject to the approval of the Minister, selected teachers of public schools, secondary schools, or technical high schools ... to supervise and report upon the work of such .students as are sent by the Principal of the training college ... to observe the classes under the charge of (he said teachers. Teachers so appointed shall be recognized as associated normal teachers. . . . Every associated normal teacher shall . . . receive by way of salary under these regulations such sum not exceeding ,£3O per annum as the Minister shall approve.") We do not know of any secondary teachers who have been recognized as "associated normal teachers" under those regulations. Such recognition would give students intending to take secondary-school work an opportunity of observing the work of our most capable secondary specialists. (4.) Another suggestion is that a separate training college should be established for secondaryschool teachers. (5.) But the best course of all seems to be to free the Principals of large schools from ordinary class-work (at present under war conditions most of them are teaching full time), and make it the most important of their duties to train, in a formal way, the young members of the staff by watching their lessons, taking classes in their presence, giving specimen and criticism lessons, ive. Full notes of such training should be kept by the Principal and be submitted to the Inspectors at the time of their visit. All teachers on first appointment to a secondary school might be classed as student-teachers, and might, on the completion of a satisfactory course of study, be granted a certificate signed by (he Principal and endorsed by an Inspector of Secondary Schools, and no permanent appointment should be given to any teacher who has not been granted this certificate. '• Dioautio " Teaching. Beyond doubt the besetting weakness of many young graduate-teachers is " telling." They have the knowledge which they desire to find in their pupils, and they cannot help expressing it, and endeavouring to pass it on to those who need it, " like wealthy men who care not how they give." But true teaching is "causing to learn," and it is seldom that "didactic" teaching has this effect. Rousseau saw this clearly: "1 like no explanations given in long discourses of words," says he; "young people pay little attention to them and retain little from them. The things themselves I The things themselves! I shall never repeat often enough that we are attaching too much importance to words; with our chattering education we make nothing but chatterers." The editor of Education expresses the same thought somewhat quaintly but forcibly : "Psychologists tell us that impressions carried to the brain by the afferent nerves cause there cellular excitations or explosions which are harmful unless the forces generated are carried off

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by the corresponding efferent, nerves in overt expressions or actions. This brief statement means a great deal in education. Too much school-work has for its chief or sole aim impression; not enough of it is adapted to give opportunity for expression or execution. Since no one doubts that the teacher knows a great deal more than the class, why spend so much time and effort, as many teachers do, in showing off how much they themselves know 2 It is far better to get the pupil to make an ever-so-inadequate demonstration of a problem than for the teacher to rattle glibly off a perfect demonstration which is not comprehended by the pupil. The teacher's knowledge has been made clear, and the process has also made plain to the pupil his own disheartening slowness and ignorance, and there is little gained; the .discouragement not infrequently means his intellectual and scholarly doom. The lesson is, then, that it is better to emphasize the pupil's effort at expression, no matter how faulty that may at first be. The pupil must learn by doing, not simply by listening. Teachers who are more anxious always to get their pupils to express themselves than they are to show their own learning are the successful teachers. A recognition of this truth would revolutionize the work in many a class-room." English. There is much complaint among secondary-school teachers that pupils come to them from the primary schools with no knowledge of formal grammar, which makes the task of beginning a, foreign language a very difficult one. One Principal, seeing a slight improvement lately in this respect, remarks, " I have recently found quite a number of pupils who know a noun from a verb." At the same time it must be remembered, as was clearly stated by the Director of Education at the Secondary Schools Conference of 1915, that the primary-school syllabus is not framed with a view solely or even mainly to the requirements of those pupils who propose to continue their education at a secondary school, but rather of that large number who complete their formal education at the primary school. The secondary-school course in English will, therefore, naturally commence with a systematic study of the elementary formal grammar necessary for the beginner in French or Latin. As regards the teaching of literature, there is a commendable appreciation of the fact that such teaching should be extensive rather than intensive, and that a taste for good literature is fostered rather by wide reading than by the microscopic dissection of literary fragments. For the young teacher of English we recommend a careful study of the excellent pamphlet on " The Teaching of English in Secondary Schools," issued by the English Board of Education, and reprinted by the New Zealand Education Department as No. 10 of the Special Reports on Educational Subjects, a copy of which was forwarded some years ago to each secondary school. We give one quotation from the pamphlet: ' Two classes of books should be excluded from every syllabus of English literature: (1) Abridgments as distinct from selections; (2) handbooks and histories of literature, if treated as equivalent to the study of originals to which they refer and a knowledge of which they pre-suppose, if they are to be of any value. Side by side with interpretation of the author's meaning wall naturally go some study of his style. The topics which may be rightly dealt with under that comprehensive head clearly vary with the work studied, but the teaching should always arise from and be applied to definite passages of the text before the class. Abstract generalizations, for instance, about the classicism of Milton's language are by themselves mere catchwords; they have meaning only if the class lias collected and analysed under guidance from the teacher numerous phrases or passages in which Milton's diction is directly framed on classical models." Yet we saw cases where pupils who had not yet reached matriculation standard were studying a, history of English literature containing 400 pages of biography and learned criticism almost without quotation; we heard pupils asked to criticize Kingsley's poetry in terms of a text-book, and afterwards to prove the justice of the criticism by reading extracts from Kiugsley (truly a preposterous method); and we listened to an admirable criticism of Tennyson's "Idylls" by a, girl who afterwards confessed that she had never read any part of the poem ! These were, however, exceptional cases, and generally a wide range of good reading was covered, in many schools extensive use is made of the school library, the teachers selecting suitable books for each pupil to read at home during vacation or week-ends. A written or oral precis of each book should be asked for when the book is returned. It is beginning to be recognized by teachers that the art of speaking and writing good English is best learnt bj r imitation, and that the study of composition should therefore always be closely connected with the study of literature. Reading. Heading is not, usually a, strong feature, partly because pupils are not always asked to stand up and are allowed to lean over the book in a careless attitude; partly because the reading is taken at too fast a rate. Simultaneous reading aloud may occasionally (but only occasionally) be taken as a, cheek on the pace, and in many schools elocution and singing lessons give valuable exercise in correcting a tendency to false pronunciation of vowel sounds and to the slurring of final consonants. Latin. The teaching of Latin undergoes little change. The language does not lend itself to conversational treatment, and even in those schools where some years ago attempts were being made by highly qualified masters to introduce this method the attempts seem to have been abandoned. Yet we believe that much more oral work might usually be done, especially in the earlj' stages. The chief advantages of such work are that it can be made more interesting than written work, and that much more ground can be covered in a given time. In the highest classes the method of retranslation is often tried with considerable success, and is a great aid to connected composition. The number of pupils beginning Latin is steadily diminishing, partly on account

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of the introduction of new compulsory subjects, partly because of the growing conviction, even among those teachers who have taken honours in Latin, that for the average pujjils time may be more profitably spent on some other subject. It is doubtful whether half the pupils of our secondary schools now take up the study of this language, yet we occasionally hear people who ought to know better saying that all pupils of secondary schools are compelled to learn Latin. Fbenoh. The teaching of French has greatly improved in the last few years, owing to the introduction of the oral methods of Siepnianu, Dent, and other text-books. The pupil of to-day probably attains a certain facility in translation more quickly than the pupil of twenty years ago, but, except in a few girls' schools, little attempt at French conversation is apparent. A few teachers have some half-dozen expressions which, interpolated amongst the English questions, give some local colour to the lesson, but in general the pupils have very little idea of connected French conversation. The method of instruction in phonetics and script appears to be of doubtful value, as most of the teachers (and the schools have some very able French teachers) introduce them in the matriculation year simply to satisfy the examiner, whereas to be of any value they should be taken almost from the commencement. Mathematics. On the treatment of mathematics we have not much criticism to offer. In general more attention might profitably be paid to the methodical setting-out of the work, and certainly many teachers fail to use the blackboard enough and to make their board-work a model of neatness and method.. More attention might also be paid to the practical and experimental aspects of the subject, a direction in which there has been much advance of recent j 7 ears. Wherever possible the problems of the text-book should be studied out-of-doors with the aid of cross-staff, sight-rule, plane-table, chain-measure, and a simple form of angle-meter. This is done in some schools, and lends a great interest to all branches of mathematics. Contracted methods and graphs should be taken fairly early and made use of throughout the course, not merely, like phonetics in French, prepared specially for examination purposes. To illustrate the mistaken attitude of some few teachers to short methods we may say that we saw a teacher giving one morning an excellent lesson on contracted multiplication of decimals, and. the same teacher in the afternoon working out, volumes with his physics class to live places of decimals by the long method, although he had in the laboratory no vessel that would measure accurately even to the second place. SoiENcn. The subject wherein education may claim to have made the greatest advance in recent years is science. All our secondary schools, both boys' and girls', have well-equipped laboratories, and most have "specialist" science teachers. Several of the boys' schools are making honest and praiseworthy attempts to teach agriculture on a more or less comprehensive plan, while the majority of the girls' schools are now offering a home-science course supplemented by cookery, laundry-work, needlework., hygiene, and first aid. One point should be carefully noted by science teachers: all pupils who sit for examinations in science must present a certificate of " individual " practical work. The Education Department, moreover, exempts from examination in science for the intermediate certificate pupils who have covered a good programme, including sufficient "individual" laboratory practice. Further, many schools are receiving capitation from the Manual and Technical Branch for classes which devote half their time to " individual " practical work. Yet the careful examination of hundreds of practical notebooks leads us to the conclusion that in an appreciable number of schools the word "individual" is overlooked. ' The notebooks in some schools contain practical- notes dictated by the teacher; the results of most of the experiments are identical, and even the calculations and figures do not differ. Evidently these are only the result of demonstration lessons performed by the teacher. The most conspicuous instance noticed by us was where the same teacher taught physics to a set of girls taking home science and to a set of boys taking agriculture; the notes in the practical book showed that every girl has individually found that the relative density of a certain soap solution was I'll, while every boy on the same day had determined the relative density of hydrochloric acid also to be I'll. We do not consider that a certificate of individual practical work based on such results as these is an honest certificate, and co-operative practical work of this kind is certainly not an ideal means of learning scientific method. Most of the boys' schools offer a course of practical physical measurements, and in the higher forms heat and. chemistry are generally studied for University scholarships, four schools making a special feature of electricity for this examination. The comparatively recent bracketing of a general physios programme with a special option of one of the sciences has had a detrimental effect on the study of chemistry. So much time has to be devoted to the general physics that chemistry is cut completely out of the syllabus in some large schools, and heat is taken as being the best mark-scoring science. Considering the immense importance of a sound knowledge of chemistry in the development, of agriculture and of industries, especially in a new country, a reduction of the time devoted to this science is a retrograde step from the educational point of view ami a. serious loss from the national point of view. It might even be contended that chemistry should once more rank as a separate subject oil the syllabus for the Public Service Entrance Examination and Matriculation. Lord Moulton, in the introduction to a recent volume of scientific essays, says, "It was inevitable that chemistry should take first place. Its growth during the last half-century has been surprisingly rapid in pure science, but even this is dwarfed by its achievement in industrial life, where in the shape of dyes, pharmaceutical and photographic products it has forced itself upon the attention, of every member of the community." A certain school that year by year is notably successful in the University Scholarship Examination devotes a great deal of time to a thorough, theoretical and practical course of chemistry.

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Without wishing to detract from the merits of science-teaching, which is generally excellent, we wish to suggest that more quantitative work of an elementary nature might with advantage be added to the programme of individual practical work, and, as is done in a few schools, special prizes might be given lo encourage minor research work, which could be carried out by enthusiastic pupils after school-hours. Agriculture. The most interesting recent developments in science have been in connection with the teaching of agriculture and home science. For some years if has been contended thai the former should be more generally studied ill New Zealand, in order that pupils may be put in closer touch with their environment ; and it seems a rational contention thai a science which has reference to a pupil's surroundings is likely to be more educative than one which is bo led by the laboratory-walls. The study of agriculture commends itself to many also as a direct assistance in gaining a livelihood, a view with which we do not care to deal except to say that, ceteris paribus, we see no objection to the study of agriculture because it may be, in the case of many pupils, a " bread-and-butter " subject. Again, it is urged that agriculture is not a pure science, but merely an application of the laws of chemistry, botany, physics. <fec., lo extra-laboratory conditions. True, much of what is known as "agriculture" is based upon the laws of the "pure" sciences, and an acquaintance with some of these laws is an absolute prerequisite lo the study of agriculture. Yet, while many of the problems of " agricultural science " can lie solved by reference to the " pure " sciences, there are many other problems outside the range of these soiences— e.g., the interaction of soils, manures, plant-life, and bacteria in any plot of ground gives results not fully explainable by either chemistry or botany. In its dependence on the more formal sciences, and in the fact that it is a complex subject, agriculture resembles economics and meteorology. Does agriculture suffer, then, as a school study on account of its imperfectly defined position among the sciences? The "pure" sciences have been systematized, the prescribed experiments come out with regularity and precision, tin 1 materials and apparatus generally permit of complete control of any action that takes place. This is all very pleasing and satisfactory, especially from the teacher's standpoint, and perhaps essential for a simple and coherent understanding of fundamental scientific principles. "Complications" may sometimes be as disturbing to a teacher as they always are to a doctor. But the very mechanical exactness of a science may rob it of that stimulating element of surprise which irregularity naturally promotes. No young student of a "pure" and "exact" science can hope for a pleasurable thrill comparable to that of " some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken." The happening of the unexpected and the consequent stimulus to inquiry seem, indeed, to be very valuable factors in education, and agriculture may, in fact, be a. valuable study in spite of and even by virtue of its unscientific inexactitude. Again, the fact that agriculture is based upon several sciences inevitably causes the interrelation of these latter to be emphasized. The result is that the student of agriculture really gets a wider scientific training than is given by the intensive study of one science, and specialization in any one science is perhaps best postponed till after the seoondary course is finished. While at a secondary school. Hie pupil should learn that correlations between the sciences are commonly met with in nature, and that one science is nol divorced from another. Agriculture early lays this broad basis for general science-training. Apart altogether from its potential economic value, there seems to be a strong ex parte argument for the adoption of agriculture as one of the main sciences in boys' schools. Unfortunately, agriculture as a secondary-school subject either inclines unduly towards vocational training or else is made subservient to botany and chemistry through being limited to laboratory practice and study of text-books. In the one case no sound scientific basis is given to the work; in the other case the instruction tenuis to be purely theoretical. Tf agriculture is to become a. useful school subject teachers must learn to steer a safe middle course. Their aim must be to turn out neither skilled farmers in the ordinary sense of the term nor pure theorists, but rather to encourage young men lo cultivate a scientific outlook upon and an intelligent interest in their environment. The following brief suggestions are given for the benefit of teachers of the subject : — (I.) The teaching-periods should be about equally divided among laboratory practice, theoretical instruction, and field-work. (2.) The laboratory course, for the first two years at least, should be mainly along general lines—properties of air and water, relative density, acids, alkalis, bases, &-c, being studied. (.'!.) The experimental area should not be 100 large. Pupils' time should not be taken up in the routine operations of digging, weeding, hoeing, Arc, except so far as is necessary for instructional purposes. If desired, boys may work in pairs, but usually each boy should have a separate plot, which should be quite small- -say, 25 ft. by 12 ft.—and which he should be required to cultivate, explaining each operation on scientific principles and observing the habit and growth of each plant. Groups of six or more may conduct co-operative experiments on depth of planting, effect of transplantation, intercultivation, &c,, and there should be some continuous experiments conducted by the teacher and running over a series of years —top-dressing of permanent pasture, lucerne tests, seed-selection. &e. Variety tests—so dear to Hie heart of Hie average farmer —should generally be avoided as having little educational value and occupying much space. In some schools there is a tendency to go in for a large experimental area (chiefly for spectacular purposes). Tf the pupils are not asked to spend an abnormal time in routine field operations, well and good ; but it should be remembered that all the essential experimental work can be carried out on quite a small plot of not more than half an acre.

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In some cases pupils have ready access to large experimental areas — e.g., in Ashburton, to the 130-acre block farmed by the Department of Agriculture; in Hamilton, to the Ruakura Farm of Instruction. In visiting such farms each group of boys should be instructed to make special inquiry into some particular branch of the work; notes should be taken on the spot, compared and written up in school. As far as we were able to judge, the most satisfactory course, from the standpoint of general education, was being carried out at two of the smaller schools, Whangarei and Rangiora. In both these schools the plots covered less than an acre, but valuable manurial and seed experiments, germination tests, &c, were being carried out and were intelligently understood by the pupils. Laboratory practice went side by side with field-work, and comparative notes were kept throughout. At Waitaki the subject was being treated perhaps more on vocational lines than elsewhere, as the boys taking agriculture spent the greater part of their time on that subject (including book-keeping, wool-classing, carpentry, &c.) with the intention of becoming farmers, and were not overburdened with other school subjects. The Agriculture Department directs field operations at Ashburton and at New Plymouth, where a fairly large area is farmed, and the results are tabulated from, the commercial standpoint. At the Marlborough High School a special feature is made of milk-testing and dairy-work. Useful work in agriculture is also done in Tiinarii and Nelson. In some schools the principle is adopted of employing one instructor for theory and laboratory work and another for field-work. This practice has arisen from the fact that the regular teacher has no experience in outdoor work, while the "practical" man is not an experienced teacher. Such a system can be at best only a makeshift. The study of agriculture should become more popular in our secondary schools, especially as it seems probable that before long it will be an ordinary subject for all examinations up to degree standard. Botany and Home Science. Tn the girls' schools botany is still the popular science for University scholarships, and is well taught; there is, however, in many of the good schools a noticeable absence of microscopic work. As the main science, botany is now being seriously challenged by home science, a subject which with intelligent treatment should help greatly in the lives of our girls. In most, of the schools good work is being done both in laboratory practice and in the various branches of applied science-— e.g., cookery, dressmaking, laundry-work, etc. Tn home science, as in agriculture, it is necessary to lay strong emphasis on the advisability of making the course a. well-balanced one. At, present there are few teachers who are competent to take both branches of the subject (a defect which will probably remed}' itself as home science becomes more widely studied), and the result often, or even generally, is that there is a marked lack of correlation between theory and laboratory work taken by one teacher and applied science taken by another. There has been a good deal of difficulty in introducing the new subject into the syllabus, and a certain amount of disorganization has sometimes resulted, especially in schools that have no provision for the teaching of cookery, <vc, and more particularly in mixed schools where previously boys and girls studied the same science. It is argued by a good number of teachers that the programme as laid down is somewhat exacting for a two-years course, and possibly there is some truth in the contention that it involves more work than the programme in natural or physical science. A simplification of the syllabus for the'Tntermediate Examination in this subject therefore seems desirable. Histobt. History is now a compulsory subject for all junior pupils. Tt is probably at present; one of the least satisfactorily taught of all subjects, owing chiefly to a. too faithful adherence to the matter and arrangement of the text-books and to the adoption of the old, discredited " Read and question "method." The successful teacher will try to group the material of each lesson around one central idea; will not demand the learning of long lists of dates; will endeavour to give to various subjects a proper perspective, devoting less attention to genealogical tables and indecisive continental campaigns, more to great social movements and Imperial topics, and will enlist all the aids he can —literary references, maps, pictures, plans, coloured diagrams on the board, <fec. —with a view to making the subject interesting and stimulating. In some schools a good attempt is made to visualize great events by throwing them into rough dramatic form. Geogbaphy. Tn a. few schools geography is treated as a science and is well taught. Some experimental and observational work is done, rough maps are drawn with the help of plane-table and sightrule, local data are often well used, and meteorological observations are taken and tabulated as a, basis of climate-study and simple weather-forecasting. All this is work of a truly educative nature, and far removed, from the old method of memorizing lists of countries, capitals, populations, and products. Commebciat, Work. Most of the schools offer a more or less comprehensive course in book-keeping, generally in place of Latin. Some of the smaller sohools make a special feature of this work, as they have to supply the place of a technical school. Tn some cases the usefulness of the course might be increased by the earlier introduction of business methods and commercial forms, but the subject is in most cases well taught, and, apart from its actual vocational value, it provides a useful training in method, neatness, and accuracy. Some schools add typewriting and shorthand to book-keeping, but the educative value of these subjects is decidedly low.

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Writing. There is a common tendency for writing to deteriorate in secondary schools. This seems to be due to the fact that the style of writing taught in the public schools is generally of too set and laboured a type, that there is usually no provision in the secondary schools for formal instruction in the subject, and that a great deal more rapid writing is done than in the primary schools. It is noted that in some districts the Inspectors of public schools seem to be giving considerable attention to the securing of greater speed combined with legibility, that less emphasis is being laid on precise conformity to a standard pattern, and more scope being allowed to the individuality of the pupil (see annual reports). If at the same time a reasonable amount of oversight is given in the secondary schools, if less written and more oral work is taken, so that muscular fatigue may cease to be the determining factor of the writing, and if the practice in "free" penmanship, which is already in vogue in some schools, is made more common, then there is hope that the writing of secondary-school pupils may cease to be a byword and a. reproach. Physical Education. Drill ami Physical Exercises.— -The time devoted to physical training is a modern feature of our secondary' education. All boys' schools have their Cadet companies. The Director of Military Training, in his latest syllabus for Senior Cadets, has very wisely incorporated the lesson'of the present war—a lesson taught long ago by Sir John Moore, at Shornelitte, in his training of Craufurd's immortal Light Division—that formal military drill must be preceded and accompanied by a sound physical training. We find, therefore, that the Cade syllabus now in force consists mainly of physical exercises intended to develop a strong and well-balanced muscular and nervous system. Most of the Cadet Corps are officered by masters, the training is excellently carried out, and the Senior Cadets attached to secondary schools are admittedly the corps d'eiite of the Territorial establishment. _ . A very pleasing feature is the marked improvement during the last few years in physical drill for ..-'iris. In several cases a highly qualified specialist is engaged full time for this work, and in nearly all schools the instructors have been through a short course of training in departmental classes. Remedial drill for minor ailments, such as slight curvature, is given by tie more skilful instructors. In the physical training of girls the following conditions should be observed :— First- The exercises should be frequent—once a day if possible. Second • They should be progressive. The junior pupils should not attempt difficult exercises" The enthusiasm which leads some inexperienced instructors to ask girls to try exercises for which, they have not been gradually prepared is a dangerous and misguided enthusiasm. _ 1 . Third • lire periods should be short. There should be no fatigue. For the sake ol the mental effect, the exercises should be performed with alacrity and discontinued with reluctance. Syllabus. The course of study in every secondary school is largely determined by University requirements. As long as men and women are aiming at the same University degree the curriculum of a -.-iris' school will tend to resemble that of a boys' school. In fact, the work is almost identical exce,7t for the science and domestic training. We cannot help thinking that there is room for reform here. The whole syllabus of work is often mapped out with a view to a degree course; and so few options are permitted that there is a monotonous sameness of work throughout the school The individuality of a Principal is restricted by a rigid syllabus to be covered in a set pei lod a class teacher "can display originality only in method and not in subject-matter. Some ot SJ X g st schools inthe Dominion are the "most conservative and offer few separate courses o instruction- they propose to prepare pupils for the University, and they do this well. But is nof thesystem carrying along in"its wake great numbers of pupils who might more wisely be studying on different lines? Tone. A fine healthy tone prevails in the secondary schools, and this is greatly promoted by the preiVt,U vogue in most of them, which, by giving a sense of responsibility to he senior , ils tend to establish a kind of civic consciousness and dignity. Tins system of devolution nm- duties a ul responsibilities should be extended to its utmost 1 nuts, so that the democratic ideal of self-government P n,ay be approximated to in our schools. This is a fine torn, ot preparation for full citizenship. Conclusion. In conclusion we may say that throughout this report we have endeavoured to offer criticism that o" whoy de true ive'in character, and we wish finally to add that the staffs of secondary slools have been seriously affected by the war; that a large number of our trained sewnduychoo tealhers Le on active service', and their places have been filled by comparatively inex scliool tc iciicis re changed over and over again during E'ml~ nd HetotinuU; o'f the work has naturally suffered; that the staffing is scale, classes being often too large and containing pupUs; of very unequal in many cases oeiow m > generally teaching full time, and have little opportunity f '"ullerv sioi I .iew of al Universe Conditions" it is indeed remarkable how little the eon schools of the Dominion have suffered during this time, of storm and stress and this secondary scaoou oi u» traceable to the loyal determination of those teachers, who, S Irugl X Sility, are prevented from going on active military service, to keep Hie Hag flying at home for the sake of their colleagues **££*»*• T. 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3. DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS.— EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS OP INSPECTORS OP SCHOOLS, EDUCATION HOARDS, DIRECTORS OP MANUAL INSTRUCTION, ETC. AUCKLAND. Report op rut; Senior Inspector or Schools. Tun following are the names of the district high schools in operation in this district at the close of 11)17, with the enrolment in the secondary departments for the last quarter of that year : Aratapu, 31; Cambridge, 23; Coromandel, IS; lluntly, 17; Normal, 22; Paeroa, 23; Pukekohe, 82; Rotorua, 20; Tauranga, 61 ;Te Kniti, 45; VVaihi, 57: total roll, 3599. There is an increase of one in the number of schools in operation since last year, and an increase of 113 in Ihe total enrolment. It is hoped that a steady expansion of roll number will follow a better understanding and a more encouraging development of district-high-schools activities in this part of the Dominion. The remarks appearing in my report of last year in regard to attainments and progress of pupils attending the secondary departments of these schools continue to apply. There is still much room for improvement in both method and results of teaching, so that, with but few exceptions the work in these departments fails to reach a level of attainments which might fairly be expected. The difficulty of securing suitable assistants is steadily becoming more pronounced, and there is no doubt that some of the pupils join Hie secondary class with no definite object in view and hence have but little incentive to strenuous effort. To some extent these may Tie contributing causes to conditions now obtaining; but when all due allowance in this connection has been made, I am still of opinion that the best possible results are not being achieved. Work in the rural course is fully taken up in the majority of schools, suitable courses in dairy science, or horticulture, or agriculture finding a place in the schemes of instruction, in most cases two and in some cases all three of these subjects being taught. The Board's instructors attend the schools at regular intervals, ami arc of considerable assistance to teachers and pupils; but the value of the training in the subjects dealt with loses much of its effectiveness in those schools where the efforts of instructor are not reinforced by those of head teacher or assistant. Extract from 'nit; Report ok the Supervisor of Manual and Technical Instruction. The full rural course was taken by the pupils of Aratapu, Cambridge, Pukekohe, Tauranga, Waihi, and Paeroa District High Schools, Each of these schools was visited regularly by an instructor in. agriculture for the purpose of giving instruction in agriculture, botany, dairy science, and physics and chemistry. It is anticipated that during 1918 all the district high schools will take the rural course. TARANAKI. Extract from the Report of the Taranaki Education Board. It, is pleasing to note the increase of interest in secondary education in this district. The attendance at the Stratford District High School and the day technical classes at New Plymouth and ITawera centres show that parents in the Taranaki Education District are becoming fully alive to the advantage of secondary education. The average attendance of the Stratford Secondary Department during the period 1910-17 has risen from 95 to 143, and at ITawera from 31 to 47. As a further indication of the interest taken in education in (his district, during the year the ITawera Borough Council offered the Board 5 acres of land, part, of the Recreation Reserve No. 36, lo be used as a site for the proposed technical high school, the sile being one of the best in the, borough; and the Stratford Borough Council, through the Board, donated fi acres of land, part of Block 69, Stratford, to be vested in the Crown for education purposes, thus showing the keen interest, taken by the citizens of those towns in secondary education. Extract from the Report of 'run Director of Agricultural Instruction. At Hawera some eighteen lads took agriculture and dairy science as for the Public Service Junior and Matriculation Examinations. There was no rural course al this school during 1917, but a full rural course is arranged for 1918. At Stratford a course in botany, agricultural chemistry, general agriculture and dairy-work, &c, was taken, all the instructors meeting there on one day per week, and instructing classes in S5 and Sfi. Good progress was made in all subjects of instruction, and especially in dairy science. A. beginning has been made in taking part of the practical work at the Stratford Model Farm, and in Hie new year this work, will be extended. Our staff will be responsible for the herd-testing work being carried out, and will also observe and record the experimental work of the farm, in conjunction with the Agricultural Department. Very important developments may confidently be anticipated in this connection at this and other centres. Harmonious interlinking of instructional work at Stratford District High School with the Model Dairy Farm Committee and with officials of the Agricultural Department has resulted in great gain from the con-elation of effort in this work. The suggested taking of agriculture as a subject of instruction throughout the whole of Stratford District High School secondary department, and also the projected entrance of New Plymouth High School to our course of instruction, are matters for congratulation.

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WANGANUI. Extract from the Report of the Director of Manual and Technical Instruction. The rural course was continued at each of the six district high schools, the number of pupils who took the course being 1.89. Tin- annual stock camp was held at Mr. Short's Ahiiadale Farm in March, fifty-live boys being in attendance. A new departure was made by excluding horses almost entirely from the programme and substituting the Southdown sheep. Sonic valuable lessons were given to the boys on the Kouinev. Southdown, and Hereford. The sum of £10 I.os. was donated by the Feilding Agricultural and Pastoral Society for prizes in connection with the examination held at the conclusion of the camp. A camp for agricultural instruction was held at the Central Development Farm at, Weraroa, for ten days in October. Thirty-four boys attended. Practical work was given groups of the boys in the milking-slied and dairy every day. The boys operated the milking-machines ami assisted in the cleaning of the shed, machines, and utensils. They also had some practise in preparing seed-potatoes for the planting-machine. The almost continuous rain prevented much outdoor work being done, but the boys gained some insight into the management of a moderately large farm (803 acres). Lessons and demonstrations on farm practice, farm buildings, silos, ensilage, pastures, insect pests, weeds, plant-selection, ami wool-classing were given. The annual shearing and wool-classing camp was held at Mount Stewart at the cud of November. Twenty boys attended, fifteen of whom had had no previous experience. 83)7 sheep and lambs were shorn. The programme of work included, in addition to shearing, the grinding and setting of shears; wool classing and pressing; branding, drafting, &c. HAWKE'S BAY. Extract from 'rut-; Report of the Education Board. As in previous years, the first- and second-year pupils of the district high schools look the rural course. As far as both work and numbers arc concerned the year was very successful. The pupils in the first two years covered the programme of work in science subjects for the Public Service Entrance Examination. In the third and fourth years natural science was taken up to Matriculation standard. The following tabic shows the average yearly attendance at the rural course classes and Matriculation science classes : — Rural Course. Matriculation ~ ■ Eta* Year. Vra| . ( , o|)njc Total. Hastings ... ... ... ...31 20 14 65 Waipawa, ... ... 23 17 9 49 Woodvillo ... ...16 6 ('» 28 71) 43 29 142 Fifty-seven pupils left during the year, of whom twenty were first-year pupils, twenty-five second-year pupils, and twelve third- and fourth year pupils: i.e., 26 per cent, of the pupils that entered at the beginning of the year did not complete a year in the secondary school, and 11. per cent, left, before completing two years. The fact is greatly to be regretted, and it is to be hoped thai in the near future the Education Department will recognize the national importance of compelling all pupils who pass Hie Sixth Standard to continue their studies for at least two at some secondary school. Extract from the KepOrt of the Inspectors of Schools. Tlie resultfs achieved in the three district high schools at the end of the year were very satisfactory. Two pupils of Waipawa District High School qualified under the regulations for higher leaving certificates. Towards the cud of the year Hie roll number of Waipawa District High School was reduced owing to the withdrawal of the children hitherto conveyed from Waipukurau, where the local authorities have arranged to form a Seventh Standard. The true solution of Hie problem of secondary instruction in the combined districts lies, in our opinion, in tin 1 establishment of a central technical high school with an agricultural bias, and we hope to see this proposal taken seriously in hand after the war. Extract from the Ueport of rut: Director of Manual and Technical Instruction. As in previous years, the first- and second-year pupils of the district high schools take the rural course. The alteration in the railway lime-table interfered considerably with the arrangements under which the manual and technical instructors had been working in previous years. The duration of some of the classes in science work had lo be curtailed, whilst in woodwork and cookery Hie amount of time devoted to these subjects had to be reduced from two hours to one hour and a half in the primary classes. The introduction of agricultural bursaries by the Education Department, tenable at certain Government demonstration farms, is a step in the right direction, and will allow senior boys in the district high schools to continue their education in agricultural subjects. Pupils who have passed the Matriculation Examination or who have lower leaving certificates arc eligible for these bursaries. It is hoped that our matriculation boys will compete for bursaries this year. The garden-work at the three centres has been satisfactory during the year. The experiments with potatoes at Hastings centre commenced in 1916 have been continued. During the year twelve fruit-trees were planted at Hastings garden. In connection with the dairy science of the rural course, the pupils of the district high schools visited the butter-factories at Dannevirke, Waipukurau, and Hastings in order to see testing and buttcrniaking carried out under modern factory conditions.

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WELLINGTON. Extract from the Report of the Inspectors of Schools. Nine district high schools, with a total roll of 354 pupils at the time of the Inspectors' visit, are in operation in this district, Of these schools, six take the Department's full rural course. The reports of Inspectors and instructors to the effect that good work, is being done are borne out by the following results taken from public examination records: Matriculation, pass 10, partial pass, 4; Public Service Entrance, pass 2(i ; Intel-mediate, pass 16; recommended for senior free place, 29; awarded Senior National Scholarships, 2. NELSON.' Extract from the Report of the Education Board. Secondary departments are in operation at Westport, Reefton. Motueka, and Takaka. With the exception of Hie Takaka District High School the roll numbers have shown increases, especially at Westport. The Board has had under consideration during the year the question of disestablishing the Westport District High School with a view to enlarging the scope of the Technical High School at Hint place. It is hoped that this proposal will be brought into effect at an early date. Considering the circumstances now prevailing and the better inducements offered to teachers in secondary schools, the Board has nevertheless been able to maintain a satisfactory staff in flic secondary departments. An effort has been made to establish a rural course at the Takaka District High School. The local School Committee has assisted the Board very materially in this matter, and approximately £200 has been raised in the district towards the cost of the erection of a manualtraining school, without which the carrying-on of a rural course would be impracticable. The manual-training school is now in course of erection, but the Board's efforts to obtain an assistant qualified to teach most of the subjects of the rural course have so far been unsuccessful. It is evident that the salary that can be offered to such a teacher is quite'insufficient to attract a capable person. Extract from the Report of the Inspector of Schools. The four district high schools, at Westport, Reefton, Takaka, and Motueka, continue in operation. The average attendance in the secondary department of each for the year was —Westport, G5 ; Reefton, 24; Motueka, 24; and Takaka, 19. The courses of instruction are, as usual, mainly based on the requirements for the Public Service Entrance Examination, while in some the Matriculation standard is attained. Commercial subjects and subjects of manual training are taught, but: only one class takes a full commercial course, and only two are fully equipped for manual training. Instruction has been well imparted, and the work has been taken up by the pupils with considerable zeal. CANTERBURY. Extract from the Reports of the Chief Instructor and Assistant Instructor in Agriculture. In addition to the district high schools previously taking the rural course, Akaroa District High School claimed a portion of our time. In the southern portion of the district the school staff has taken almost the whole of the classes, but it has always been necessary for the instructors to take these classes in the northern district, and this has absorbed 50 per cent, of our time, an altogether too large proportion. Science laboratories have been erected at Kaiapoi and Oxford; experimental plots have been procured at Kaiapoi and Akaroa ; a cookery-room was also erected at Oxford, and the experimental plots at Oxford, Lincoln, ami Darlield have been remodelled on more up-to-date lines. Several very instructive field-days were conducted, those on (he farms of Messrs. Parlane and Knight in connection with the breeding of live-stock and the shearing and classing of wool, &c, being worthy of special mention. The number of district high schools in Canterbury taking agriculture and related subjects was 10, the number of pupils receiving instruction being 256. Work in agriculture at the four district high schools in South Canterbury has been carried on regularly, Geraldine taking the full rural course for the first time. Owing to the demand for youths' labour the attendance has gone down considerably during the year, at Waiuiate and Pleasant Point in particular. At the latter school the area, under cultivation had lo be reduced by fully half. Successful lucerne plots are now' established at three district high schools, the seed beingsown in rows. At Pleasant Point, in addition, however, Ave have sown down half an acre broadcast. The ground was clean, well cultivated, in part limed and inocluated, and from present appearances v ill be a success. OTA.GO. Extract from the Report of the Education Board. The average attendances in the secondary departments of the district high schools were: Balclulha, (i I ; Normal, 53; Lawrence, 40; Mosgiel, 40; Port Chalmers, 25; Palmerston, 231; Alexandra, 22 ; Tapanui, 21 ; Tokomairiro, 8 : total, 293, or four less than for the previous year. The following shows the successes of these pupils at the various examinations held in 1917 : — Number of Number Candidates. Successful. Matriculation Examination ... ... ... ... 43 3 I Public Service Examination ... ... ... ... 72 55 Senior Scholarships Examination ... ... ... ... 20 13

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It will be seen that 72 per cent, of the candidates were successful in gaining complete or partial passes in Matriculation, only 28 per cent, failing, as against over 5(1 per cent, of failures throughout the Dominion. In the Public Service Examination 76 per cent, were successful. At (he Senior Scholarship Examination 65 per cent, gained scholarships. Few of the candidates for Matricula lion had been in the secondary departments more than three years, having thus accomplished Hie four-years course in that time. One of the Public Service candidates was second for the Dominion, and live gained places within the first thirty, while one candidate was placed twentieth in the credit list, of (he Junior University Scholarship Examination. The Board is satisfied that a high standard of secondary work is being maintained at these schools. Extract from the Report ok the Inspectors of Schools. That Hie adoption of the agricultural course does not militate against successes at Hie public examinations is shown by Hie success of the candidates from the district high schools at the 1917 examinations. The work doue in all the secondary departments varies from satisfactory to verygood, as the reports on Hie various subjects which have been forwarded to the Department and the Board show. In some cases Hie schemes were rather comprehensive, and too many subjects were taught ; bill as changes had lo be made to meet the new regulations regarding history and civics, agriculture', and home science, we have made some recommendations which we hope will enable the headmasters to amend (heir programmes without in any way interfering with the good work already done.

1. DETAILED TABLES, ETC. [Norn Reports of High .School Boards not printed for 1917.] PERSONNEL OE STAFFS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS AS AT 31st DECEMBER, 1917. (Teachers absent with the Expeditionary Fences are not, included ) Whangarei High School. —Messrs. Roger Lupton ; 11. E. G. Smith ; Henry Quinn, M.A.: Misses E. Campbell, M.A. ; \V. S. Eraser, 8.A.; E. Aslin : Mrs. K. Hulloway, B.A. Part-time—Messrs. F. G. Layzell; E. Hiriton: Miss .!. Rudall : Mrs. M. B. Thompson. Auckland Boys' Grammar School Messrs. J. W. Tibbs, M.A. ;J. Drummond, M..A. ; 11. ,1. D. Mahon, B.A. : Rev. J. Kin"'Davis, M.A. : Messrs. E. Caradus, B.Se.; P. A. Dohertv, A.N.Z.I.A. ;P. Drummond, B.A. ; E. W. Gamble. M.A. ; D. A. Watt, B.A. ; J. L. I. Newhook ; H. E. Brock, M.A. ; A. R. Gatland, B.A. j E. A. Watkin, 8.A.; G. S. Coldham, M.A. ;L. Matheson, M.A. ; L. J. O'C'onnell, B.A. ; VV. ,1. Bishop, M.A. ;B. Brennand ; ('. R. Jones; J. A. Asher, B.A. ; E. E. Cotton: Rev. H. ('. Bourne. M.A. : Messrs. A. Jarman, A.R..S.M. ; R. T. Goulding; F. E. E. Thornton ; E. J. Russell. M.A. ; J. H. Harvey; A. C. Roberts; E. E. Bilkey. Auckland Girls' Grammar School —Misses B. Butler, B.Se. ; W. Pieken, M.A. : M. A. Dives B.A. ; E. E. Maodonald, 8.A.; J. Moore, 8.A., M.Se. ; C. L. .Beaumont. M.A. ;J. Uhlmann ; N. I. Maclean, M.A.; K. V. Edgorley, M.A. ; P. 1. Patterson, M.A.: (!. I''. Hull. M.A. ; ('. Gray, B.A. ;A. Haslett, B.A. ; I). Hueston, B.A. ;B. Bell. M.A. ;A. ('. Tizarel, M.A. ;V. L. Nutsfordj C. Walker: Mrs. S. Heap. Part-time! —Maelame A. Chambers: Misses V. Jacobsen; L. Bruce; D. Butler: Mrs. Carling, L.R.A.M. Epsom Girli' Grammar School. —Missels A. ('. Morrison. M.A.; 11. Kirk-bride, M.A. ;M. McLean. B.A. ;L. Suckling, M.A. ;L. Matches; E. M. Harris. 8.A.; M. E. Sandilands; M. Barnett, B.A. Part-time—Misses G. Hutton ; L, Bruce; E. M. Baker: Mrs. M. M. Boult. Hamilton, High School-— Messrs. E. Wilson, M.A. ; VV. Fraser, M.A. ; R. 11. Inelcr; R, B. Macgregor; VV. R. McGregor: Misses C. G. Harrison, B.A. ;R. E. Rowlandson, B.A. ; P. A. Harringtem, M.A.; I). I. Garrard. Thames High School.— Messrs. R. E. Rudman, M.A., B.Se. ; W. H. Hoult, M.A. ; J. D. Daw. M.A. : Misses E. Haselelen, M.A. ; E. Wilcox ; I). Horton, M.A.; E. M. B. Lynch, M.A. New Plymouth Boy«' High School —Messrs. W. H. Moyes. M.A., B.Se. ; R. H. Rocked, M.A. ; A. R. Ryder, M.A. ; C. A. Bottrill, M.A. ; C. 11. Wynyard ; R. D. Kidel: Misses J. MeLcod. M.A.; E. Billens, B.A. Lower Department —Mr. C. A. McKimiey : Miss J. BanwoU, New Plymouth Girls' High J. R. I'arr. M.A. :G. A. Drew, M.A.; P. M. Clark, M.A. ;D. V. Burrow, B.Se-.; J. Smith. B.A. Lower Department Mise F. Eairbrother. Part-time—Messrs. A. M. Bradbury; \V. M. Falconer, E.I.A. Wanganui Girls' College. — Misses C. M. Cruiokshank, M.A. ;S. E. Gilford, M.A., M.So. ; J. R. Currie, M.A. ;A. Blennerhassett, B.A. ; E. Law. M.A. ; L. Beekingsale, B.A. ; ('.(.'. Rocked, M.A. ; 0. J. Gruar, B.A. ; E.J. Cornish, B.Se.; R. Rosevear; K. G. Dobbie : Mrs. >S. A. ('. Redwood: Misses ,J. Cberrett; E. Baton: Mrs. M. Grant. Lower Department—Miss P. Carrey, Part-time—Mr. I). Seaward: Miss M. L. Browne: Madame E. Briggs : Misses V. B. Price; E. Dunn, M.8.; E. J. Inkster : Mesdames M. S. Watkin ;E. Seaward. Wanganui Collegiate School Messrs. P. Marshall. M.A., D.Se., F.G.S. ;J. E. Bannister, M.A, : Rev. ('. Price. M.A. : Messrs. J. Allen, B.A. ;J. A. Lcame, 8.A.; H. E. Sturge, M.A. ; E. L. Peek ; G. F. MeGrath, M.A. :A. H. R. Amess, M.A.; C. H. Campbell, R.D.S. : .1. E. S. Dudding, M.A. ;D. E. Thornton; R, A. W. Sutherland, M.Se.; C. P. Worley. Part-time —Mrs. J. Ramsay : Miss V. Price. Wellington College.— Messrs. J. P. Firth, B.A. ; A. Heine, B.A. ; A. C. Gilford, M.A. ;E. M. Renne.r, M.A. ; H. B. Tomlinson, M.A. ; J. S. Lomas, B.A. ; W. Alexander. M.A., LL. B. ; J. Hall, 8.A., B.Se. ; il. A. Smithson, M.A. ;W.F. C. Balham ;J. N. Millard, 8.A.; R, X. Biggar, M.A. ;W. V. Jones ;0. W. Thorp; E. J. D. Hereus, M.A., B.Se. ; VV. 11. Stevens; R. G. A. Sawell, 8.A.; C. Taylor, 8.A.; E. Joplin, B.A.

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Wellington Girls' College. —Misses M. J. McLean, M.A. ; A. M. Batham, B.A. ; E. A. Newman, M.A. ; G. C. M. Cameron, M.Se. ; R. M. Collins, B.A. ;E. M. Rainforth, M.A. ;E. M. Hind, M.A. ; (1. F. Gibson, M.A. ; I). N. Allan, M.A. ; B. Muller, M.A. ; B. S. McDiarmid; H. R. Ward; .1. M. Robertson; E. <!. B. Lynch, M.A. ; E. M. Duff, M.A. ; 11. J. Aldington, M.A. :F. E. Kershaw, M.A.; N. Coad, M.A.; V. L. Ross. .VI.A.; M. Kennedy, M.A. : Mrs. A. H. Chrisp, M.A. Lower Department—Misses E. Howes; E. McDiarmid. Part-time Misse R. Smith; J. Mackenzie : Madame Bondall: Mr. L. F. Watkin. Pahlierston North High School. —Messrs. J. E. Vernon, M.A., B.Se. ; J. A. Ce>l<|iilioun, M.Se. : W. P. Anderson, M.A. ; .1. Hodges ; 11. i\ Isaac : Misses A. E. Ironside. M.A. ; P. 11. Park, B.A. ; M. .1. Maeaidev, M.A. ; I). C. Hunt, B.A. : C. M. Heine, B.A. ;A. M. Griflen, 8.A.; M. W. Burden, Part-time Messrs. 11. M. Elliott: S. Strickott I Mrs. VVoolf : Miss Henry. Dannevirke High School. —Messrs. .1. M. Simmers, M.A. ;E. Heaton, M.A., B.Se. : Misses V. L. Smith, 8.A.; E. M. Bollinger, M.A. ; E. 0. McCulloch, M.A.; N. K. Chapman, Part-time—Miss B. Crowe. Napier Boys' High School. —Messrs. W. A. Armour, M.A., M.Se.; N, R. Jaoobsen, M.Se.; W.Kerr, B.A. ; H. 11. Ward, B.A. ;C. S. Marshall, M.A. ;A. .1. Gillmaii. Lower Department—Mr. F. G. Barnby. Part-time Messrs. D. L. Smart; J. E. Richardson ; V. Scheming. ' Napier Girl*' Nigh School—Misses V. M. Greig, M.A., B.Se. ;C. R. Kirk, B.A. ; I). E. Timewoll, B.Se. ; ,1. 0. Gillies ; G. Dunoan. Lower Department—Messrs. .!. .1. Smith, M.A.; P. Duncan, Part-time—Miss B. Earl: Mrs. P. Hawkins. Gisbome High School. —Messrs. E. Foote, 8.A., B.So. ; E. J. Wilkes, M.A. ; I'. C. Edmonson, B.A. ; (i. T. Maunder, M.Se. ;' VV. G. Harwood : Misses J. Knapp, B.A. ;A. M. Candy, M.A. ; J. Sandall. Lower Department—Misses A. M. Ingram; N. M. Angland. Part-time —Miss Thompson : Mr. Wainwright. Marlborough High School— Mossrs. J. Innes, M.A., LL.D. ; H. Robson, M.A. : Misses E. M. Allen, M.A. ; E. A. Harvey, B.A. ; M. A. Pigott. B.So. Nelson Boys' College. —Mossrs. H. L. Fowler, M.A. ; G. J. Lancaster, M.A. ; C. 11. Broad, B.A. ; J. G. McKay, B.A. ; H. P. Kielson, M.A. ;J. W. Bird, M.A. ; A. E. Brookett, M.A. ; J. Dash. Lower Department-Mr. A. G. Thompson. Part-time —Messrs. W. S. Hampsein; A. (i. Thompson. Nelson, Girls' College. -Misses M. Lorimer, M.A. ; M. MoEaohen, M.A. ; A. Eastwood, M.A. ; N. (i. Isaac, M.A. ; M. Garland, M.A. ;G. Saxon, M.A. ; R. Ray, M.A.; A. Merton, M.A. Lower Department—Miss P. Thompson. Part-time —Miss C. Blenkhorn. Christchurch Boy*' High School Messrs. C. E. Bevan Brown, M.A. ; VV. Walton, B.A. ;B. M. Laing, M.A.. B.Se. ;A. Merton; R. J. Thompson, B.A. ; ,1. R, Montgomery, M.A. ; VV. M. Stewart, M.A. : Rev. L. (J, Whitehead, M.A. : Mrs. M. Rhodes, M.A.: Messrs. M. C. Gudex, M.A., 8.50.; S. P. MoCallum, B.A. Part-time—Monsieur Malaquin : Messrs. T. W. Cane, M.A.; T. S. Tankard. Christchurch GirW High School— Misses M. V. Gibson, M.A. ; K. Gresson, M.A. ; E. M. Mcintosh, M.A. ; V. Sheard, M.A,, 8.50.; L.Bing, B.A. ; G. Greenstroet, B.A. ; E. B. Baxter, M.A. ; M. E. Sims, M.A. : H. Leverseelgc, M.A. ; K. I). Graham, M.A. ;A. J. McKec ; I). Bom-; E. R. Edwards, B.A. ;A. I. Wilson, M.A.. Lower Department—Miss F. Webster. Part-time—Misses J. Black, M.8.; E. Warring, M.A. ; C. >S. White; 10. Burns; 11. Smith; —McNie: Captain I' 1 . Farthing: Mrs. B. Bambery. Christ's College Grammar School.— Messrs. G. E. Blanch, M.A.. B.Se. ;A. E. Flower, M.A., ; E. G. Hogg, M.A., ER.S.A. : Rev. A. C. T. Purchas: Alessrs. .). Monteath, B.A. ; E.Jenkins, M.A. ;P. M. Balnea, B.A. ;H. Hudson, B.A. : Rev. F. G. Brittain, M.A.: Messrs. A. L. Rowo ; J. F. I). White, 8.A.; R. 11. O'Donnol Davis; S. S. H. Bethel; C. 11. Greville-Smith. Lowor Department—Mr. G. 11. Merton, B.A. ; Misses M, Musgrayo; — Merton. Part-time—Captain Farthing: Messrs. A. J. Merton; J. M. Madden. Rangiora High School. —Messrs. .1. E. Straohan, M.A. ; E. R. Callaghan, M.A. : Misse-s E. E. Viokery, B.A. ; L. Fi Stewart, B.A. Part-time—Mr. G. G. Jordan. Ashburton High School —Messrs. W. F. Waiters, 8.A.; H. H. Allan, M.A. ; J. Stewart, M.A. ;G. Jobberns : Misses M. E. Arnott, B.A. ; C. Stevenson, B.A. ; 11. Watters, M.A. Lower Department—Miss L. A. Humphreys, Timuru, Boys' High School Messrs. W. Thomas, M.A. ;G. A. Tait, B.A. :C. Malthus, M.A.; C. S. Slooombe; D. Kornshed; 0. Gillies: Miss M. 0. Duthio, B.A. Lower Department—Miss A. Aimers. Part-time—Messrs. W. Greene; 11. Mayo; —Harte. Tinmru Girls' High School Misses B. M. Watt, M.A. ; E. A. King, M.A. ;A. M. Aitken, B.Se. ;M. S. Watt, B.A. ; M. W. Watson, B.A. ;D. C. Hardcastle, M.A. Part-time!—Misses M. Stewart,; —Cooper: Mr. VV. Greene. Wailaki Boys' High School Messrs. F. Milner, M.A. ;M. K. McCulloch, M.A. ;W.O. R. (Idling, M.A., B.Se.: VV. M. Uttley, M.A. ; 11. D. Tait, B.A. ;C. May; P. W. Hargreaves: Misses H. Woodhouse, M.A.; G. McMillan, M.A. ; C. Copland, B.A. Lower Department—Miss G. de Lambert. Part-time —Miss M. McCaw : Messrs. .laekson ; J. McGregor. Waitaki Girls' High School Misses C. Ferguson, M.A. ;A. M. Budd, M.A. ;D. M. Stewart, B.A. ; G. M. D. Turner, 8.A.; L. A. Richardson. Part-time Miss M. MoCaw. Otago Bous' High School Messrs. W. J. Morrell, M.A. ;M. Watson. M.A. ;E. H. Campbell, M.A. ; 13. J. Parr, M.A., B.Se. ;W. J. Martyn, M.A. ;J. Reed, B.A. ; A. Watt, M.A. ;E. P. Neale, M.A.; A. K. Anderson, M.A.. F.R.H.S. ; G. S. Thomson; H. Drees; D. C. Anderson ;W. E. Holmes: Mrs. 0. X. Longton, M.A.: Miss E. M. M, Whitehead, M.A. Part-time—Messrs. D. Sherriff ; W. L. Phillips. Otago Girls' High School— Misses E. M. Allan, M.A. ; F. Campbell, M.A. ; M. N. Gellatly, M.A. : Mrs. B. Kerr, M.A. : ' Misses L. A. N. Downes, B.A. ;N. Wagstafi, M.A.: H. K. Dalrymple, B.A. ; D. S. Morton, B.A. ;J. B. Real, B.A. ; C. Hogg, M.A.; S. M. R. Burt, M.A. ; E. M. Bruce, B.A. ' Part-time—Misses E. M. Blaokie ; M. MoLeod : Messrs. W. L. Phillips; S. Wolf. Gore High School Messrs. J. Hunter, M.A. ;J, 11. Murdoch, M.A. :W. L. Walton, B.A. : Misses H. I'. Kerse, M.A. ; M. J. Kennedy; R, H. J. Douglas; L. Smith, M.A. Southland Boys' High School Messrs. T. D. Pearoe, M.A. ;J. P. Dakin, B.A. ; J. S. McGrath, B.A. ;M. Alexander, M.Se.; J. G. Anderson, M.Se.; J. Stobo, M.A. ;J. Flannery. Part-time—Messrs. J. Page; J. W. Dickson. Southland Girls' High School. —Misses N. Jobson, M.A.; H. M. King, M.A. ; M. Samuel, M.A. ; A. Watt, M.A. ;A. L. Louden, M.A. ; L. H. Fyfo, M.A. ;A. G. Walker, M.A.; R. Nayleir, B.A. ; H. J. Flott, M.A.: Mrs. W. Robinson, M.A. Part-time—Messrs. J. Page ;J. W. Dieksem ; C.Gray: Mrs. T. Hodgson.

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TABLE K1.—Roll (classified according to Ages), Average Attendance, and Fees of Secondary Schools, exclusive of Lower Department, as in December, 1917.

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Boarders Annual Hales of Tees. 12ye d (S. 12±o15 ' 15t " 18 ' 0ver18 ' Totals all Ages, j gj in0 j£ df,a Schools. ; S| Total Boll. _ „ , g g ,,, For Board, —i — "*! * Tuition exclusive of B. G. II. G. B. I G, B. I G. B. G. Totals "* B. G. Tuition. -tiil Boai inch ii Total B. A. Endowed Schools included in the. Ninth Schedule to the Education Act, 1914. T91t £ s. tl. £ s. d. Whangarei High School 28 15 55 6.81 .. 1 83 84 107 163 9 .. 8 8 0 40 0 0 Auckland Boys'Grammar School 395 ..I 333 .'. 14 ■ .. 742 .. 742; 738 .. .. 1010 0 Auokland Girls'Grammar School 101 .. 309 .. 24 .. j 434 434 423 .. .. 10 10 0 Auokland (Epsom) Girls' Grammar 123 .. 44 167 107 162 .. .. 10 10 0 Sc! mil Thames High School .. 17 12 04 43 .. .. 81 55 130 130 .. .. 9 0 0 New Plymouth Boys'High Sohool .. .. 104 .. 49 .. 12 .. 105 .. 165 j 162 83 .. 7 10 0 (gg JJ [J New Plymouth'Girls'High Sohool ,.| .. .. 31 .. 08! .. 3 .. 102 102 : 102 .. 30 6 6 0 39 0 0 Wanganui Girls' College.. .. ..j 1 .. 61 .. 139 .. 15 .. j 216 216! 204 .. 91 j j'J 'JJ JJ 1 40 0 0 Gisborne High School .. .. .... 23 28 53 TO: 1 1 771 79 156 165 15 14 9 0 0 42 0 0 Napior Boys'High School .. .. .. ' 38 .. | 93 .. 10 .. 141 .. j 141! 141 36 .. 9 9 0 45 0 0 Napier Girls'High Sohool 22 .. 59 ..' 4 .. 85 85 83 .. 21 9 9 0 45 0 0 Wellington Boys'College 183 .. 259 .. 10 .. 452 .. 452 '410 00 .. II 17 9 40 10 0 Wellington Girls'College .. .. 6 .. 205 .. 230 .. 12 .. 453 453 441 .. 23 j J] jj ] 48 10 0 Marlborough High Scl I 19 20 32 28 1 5 ."2 53 105 106 .. .. 11 8 0 Nelson Boys'College .. 07 .. Ill .. 10 .. 183 .. 188 196 81 .. 12 0 0 46 10 0 Nelson Girls'College .. .. .... .. 65 ... 94 .. 9 .. 163 168 164 .. 50 12 0 0 40 10 0 Christohuroh Boys'High Sohool .. 1 .. 128 .. 117 .. 8 .. 254 .. 254 245 23 .. J 1 " JJJ JJ 1 45 0 0 Christohuroh Girls'High Sohool 105 .. 207 .. 19 .. 331 331 320 .. .. 12 12 0 ' Rangiora High School .. 19 10 12 34 2 .. 33! 50 33 85 9 7 9 9 0 29 5 0 Ashburton High School.. 27 15 45 27 2 5 74 1 47 121 121 16 10 9 9 0 j JJ J] Timaru Boys'High School 51 .. 89 .. 12 .. 152 .. 152 150 00 .. 9 0 0 40 0 0 Timaru Girls* High Sohool 34 .. 72 .. 7 . . 113 113 111 .. 21 9 O (I 45 0 0 Waitaki Boys'High School 59 .. 142 .. 23 .. 224 .. 224| 2371 1.54 .. 9 0 0 54 0 0 Waitaki Girls'High Sohool .'. 24 .. 70 .. 2 ..102 102! 97 .. .. 9 0 0 Otago Boys' High School Ill .. 204 .. 26 .. 401 .. 401 415 39 .. 10 0 0 43 10 0 Otago (Jirls' High School 108 .. 181 .. 11 .. 300 300 295 '.. .. 10 0 0 Southland Boys'High School 69 .. 99 .. 6 .. 174 .. 174 187 .. .. 13 0 0 Southland Girls'High Sohool 09 .. 157 .. 0 .. j 232 232 221 .. .. 13 O 0 Totals .. .. I 71,3381,0541,817 1,886 137 1243,293 3,071 6,364 Jo,274 585 267 12 1 10 10 1 10 1 24 9 8 2 2 12 23 ii*'. 6 R. Secondary School* established in the, manner provided by Section 88 of the Education Act, Hamilton High School . r »0 37 79 541 5 1 .134 92, 226 223 ..;.. 10 0 0 Palmorston North High Sohool 08 55 92 54 1 0 2 166 111! 277: 268 35.. 10 0 0 44 2 0 Dannevirke High Sohool 2-1 15 21 23 4 .. 49 38; 87 ,88 .. j .. 10 0 0 Gore High Sohool .. 21 22 54 49 2 ; 4 77 75; 152 150 .. .. 10 0 0 Totals .. 163 129 246 180 17 7 426 316: 742 729 35 .. C. Endowed, Secondary Schools within the meaning of the Act. but not included above. Wanganui Collegiate Sohool .. j .. . .1 38 .. L47| .. 24 .. 209 .. 209 206 164j .. ! 14 0 0 07 O 0 Christ's College Grammar Sohool .. 2 .. 101 .. 109 .. . 3, .. 275 .. 275 255 122 .. j 21 10 0 55 0 0 Totals .. .. I 2 .. 199 .. 250 .. ; 27 .. 4.84 .. 484 461 286 .. Grand totals for 1917 I 3 -?'1,700 U83 : 2,3192,060 181 1314,203 3,387 7,590 7,464 906 267 !___ |_ I ' i J _ _ ! 267

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TABLE K2.— Pupils on the Roll of Secondary Schools, exclusive of Pupils in Lower Departments.

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Number Number of «r„_.v Number of w „,k„,. „,i,„ ivr„ m K„- Increase or on Roll at 1916 Pupils on Now Entrants ,?■* * b ?. r Increase 1917 Schools. End Roll at 'ttol wholefl ta 'theoo darj oiiBoll ovel . 1910 . of beginning of d , ,l " n S Primary Sohools St :n0 °' du B ,xt ISi (Decreases 1910. .1917. lal7 ' during 1916. ""'• 1JX '' marked-.) A. Endowed, Schools included in the. Ninth Schedule to the Education Act, 1914. j Boys. Girls. Boys. I Girls. Bovs. Girls. [ Hoys. Girls. Boys. Girls. Boys. I Girls. Boys. I GirlsWhangarei High School.. .. j 70 84 57! 60 41 34 39 32 15 10 83 84 1.3 Auckland Boys' Grammar Sohool ' 701 . . 495 .. 305 .. 281 .. 58 .. 742 .. 41 Auckland Girls'Grammar School.. .. 509 .. 281 .. 190 .. 170 .. 37 .. ' 434 .. -75 Auckland (Epsom) Girls' Grammar 180 .. 104 .. 13 .. 107 .. 10' School l Thames High School .. .. 88 57 53 37 32 24 32 23 4 0 1 81 55 - 7 ! - 2 New Plymouth Boys' High School 154 .. 107 .. 77 .. 73 .. 11 .. 185 11 .. New Plymouth Girls' High School .. 74 .. 58 .. 52 j .. 41 .. 8 .. 102 .. 28 Wanganui Girls'College.. .. .. 195 .. 135 .. 97 I .. 47 .. 10 ..216 .. 21 Gisborne High School .. .. 90 I 73 59 47 39 50 34 42- 21 18, 77 79 -13 j 0 Napier Boys'High School .. 123 .. 93 .. 64 .. 45 .. 16 .. 141 .. 18 j .. Napier Girls'High School .. .-. 79 .. 55 .. 40 .. 29 .. 10 .. 85 .. 0 Wellington Boys'College .. 419 .. 310, .. 201 .. 192 .. 59 I .. 452 .. 33 .. Wellington Girls' College .. .. 393 .. 207 .. 298 .. 190 . . 52 .. 453 .. 60 Marlborough High School .. 48 60 33 37 28 26 28 25 9 1 10 -52 53 4-7 Nelson Boys'College .. .. 193 .. 136 .. 88 .. 76 .. 30 I .. 188 .. -5 Nelson Girls'College .. .. .. 158 .. 1.07 .. 82 .. 00 .. 21 .. 168 .. 10 Christchurch Boys' High School .. 235 .. 173 96 .. 85 j .. 15 ! .. 254 .. 19 .. Christchurch Girls'High School .. .. 301 ,.213 .. 150 .. 122 -.. 38 .. 331 .. 30 Rangiora High School .. .. 27 48 .18 35 25 23 23 22 10 8 33 CO 6 2 Ashburton High School .. 02 45 51 35 37 15 34 14 14 3 74 47 12 2 Timaru Boys'High Sohool .. 147 .. 91 .. 72 .. 68 .. II .. 152 .. 5 Timaru Girls' High School .. .. 108 .. 82 .. 40 .. 40 .. 15 .. 113 .. 5 Waitaki Boys' High School .. 239 .. 107 .. 87 .. 51 .. 30 224 I -15 Waitaki Girls' High School .. .. 101 .. 67 48 44 13 .. 102 1 Otago Boys'High School .. 409 .. 299 .. 151 .. 141 .. 49 ... 401 • .. -8 .. Otago Girls' High School .. .. 229 .. 164 .. 157 .. 148 .. 21 . ; 300 .. 71 Southland Bovs' High School .. 158 .. 117 I .. 85 .. 81 .. 28 .. 174 16 .. Southland Girls'High School .. .. 210 .. 168 .. 82 .. 78 .. 18 .. 232 .. 10 Totals .. .. 3,163 2,730 2,259 1,788 1,428 1,600 1,283 1,232 394 j 317 3,293 3,071 130 j 341 B. Secondary Schools established in the manner provided by Section 88 of the Education Act, 1914. Hamilton High Sohool .. .. 114 I 92 114 92 I 74 56 65 34! 54 1 56 134 92 20 Palmerston North High School .. 1.53 j 85 109 60 76 08 70 02' 19 17 106 111 13 20 Dannevirke High School . . 57 I 46 36 i 30 29 10 27 13 16 8 49 38 - 8 - 8 dore High School . . .. 71 | 74 50 j 51 40 30 39 25 13 6 77 75 6 I Totals .. .. 395 ] 297 309 233 219 170 201 134 i 102 87 420 310 , 31 19 C. Endowed, Secondary Schools within the meaning of the Act, but not included above. Wanganui Collegiate School . . 215 I .', I 170 .. ! 66 .. I 21 .. 27 , .. '■ 209 .. ! -- 6 [ Christ's College Grammar School.. 252 .. 230 .. 01 .. .. - .. 16 .. 275 .. 23 .. . Totals ..' .. 407 j .. 400 .. 127 .. 21 .. 43 ! . . ' 484 .. 17 .. Grand totals .. .. 4,025 '3,027 2,908 2,021 1,774 1,770 il,505 1,366 539 404:4,203 3,387 178 300 I 1 __ _J I __J I __

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Table K3.—Classification of Pupils in Secondary Schools in 1917, according to Years of Attendance

From those figures the following results relating to the number of years pupils remain at the secondary schools are obtained : — Boys. Girls. Percentage leaving at end of Ist year or during 2nd year ... 2.1-8 20-1. 2nd „ 3rd ' „ ... 28-2 34-9 3rd „ 4th „ ... 23-6 17-2 4th „ sth „ ... 14-8 18-5 sth „ 6th „ ... 8-7 5-7 Percentage remaining at end of 6th year ... .. ... 2-9 3-6 1000 1000 The average length of stay of the boys is 2-72 years or 2 years 9 months, and of the girls is 2-69 years or 2 years 8 months.

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(exclusive of Lowei iOWEE lEPAKTMENTS). First Year. Schools. Hoys. Girls 3oys. Girls. Hoys. '. (Second Year.. Third Yoar. Girls. Boys. Girls. Fourth Yoar. Boys. Girls. Boys. Girls. Fifth Year. Sixth year. Boys. Girls. Total. "3-4 B o OH Girls. Boys. A. Endowed Schoo iwed Schools inclui ded in the Ninth S the Ninth Sc ;heduh e to thi e Edua •Mion . ct, li >i4. 83 84 742 .. Whangarei High School.. 34 2 Auckland Boys' Grammar 281 School Auckland Girls' Grammar .. 17 School Auckland (Epsom) Girls' .. 9 Grammar School Thames High School .. 27 I New Plymouth Boys' High 70 School Now Plymouth Girls' High .. 4 Sohool Wanganui Girls'College.. .. 4 Gisborne High School .. 29 3. Napier Boys' High School 54 Napier Girls' High Sohool .. 3 Wellington Boys' College 186 Wellington Girls' College .. 20 Marlborough High School 27 2 Nelson Boys' College .. 62 Nelson Girls' College .. .. 7' Christohuroh Boys' High 85 Sohool Christohuroh Girls' High ; .. 12 School Rangiora High School .. 19 1 Ashburton High School .. 35 1; Timaru Boys' High School . 68 Timaru Girls' High School .. 3: Waitaki Boys'High Sohool 82 .. Waitaki Girls' High School .. 4: Otago Boys'High School 131 .. Otago Girls'High School .. 1.4 Southland Boys' High 70 School Southland Girls' High .. 7 Sohool 34 28 28 281 .. 229 35 17 15 185 .. 17 15 0 "l\ 167 742 185 .. 40 .. 170 .. 131 .. 77 77 41 41 13 2 434 434 99 60 .. 8 8 107 167 27 I8 28 70 .. 43 28 43 24 16 10 28 16 10 9 3 14 .. 3 1 7 3 81 55 165 .. 1.36 165 28 .. 47 24 .. 17 17 9 9 5 1.02 102 47 .. 29 35 28 54 .. 46 32 .. 186 .. 154 207 27 24 15 62 .. 02 70 . . 85 .. 78 28 46 154 89 .. 34 32 11 9 24 . . 26 .. 17 62 123 .. 63 17 6 4 36 49 .. 31 48 .. 34 11 9 24 .. 17 an 62 .. ■ 63 6 4 32 9 3 12 .. 7 37 .. 32 3 7 25 4 5 11 0 .. 2 .'.' 2 17 .. 3 .. "2 8 1 18 1 210 77 79 141 .. 85 452 .. 453 52 53 188 .. 168 254 .. 21.6 156 141 85 452 453 105 188 168 254 is 02 25 3 4 10 .. 1 11 1 36 .. 31 8 1 8 .. "2 78 48 .. 8 32 .. io i .. 1 1 127 .. 84 .. 57 57 48 48 13 .. 2 331 331 19 19 7 35 13 16 68 .. 38 38 82 .. 62 43 19 35 68 82 7 16 38 62 1.6 4 11 15 10 13 23 33 .. 20 36 36 .. 17 72 79 .. 40 4 11 10 13 23 .. 26 36 .. 17 2 3 0 5 12 .. 13 .30 .. 3 5 13 6 1 7 9 ii 1 .. 1 .. * .. 2 3 .. 3 33 50 74 47 152 .. 113 224 .. 102 401 .. 300 174 .. 83 121 152 113 224 102 401 300 174 it 131 139 6 40 .. i9 131 .. 139 143 .. 70 57 72 .. 40 29 .. 29 10 .. 29 . . 8 .. 1 70 .. 57 29 .. 4 : .. , 4 77 84 .. 41 41 1.8 1.8 9 .. 3 .. . 232 232 Totals .. .. 1,2601,23 1,260 ,260 1,2371,030 1,030 957 607 490 607 490 276 260 260 104 89 16 38 3,293 3,071 6,364 B. Secondary Schools establisj Hamilton High School . . 571 4 Palmerston North High 69 6 School Dannevirke High Sohool 24 1. Core High Sohool .. 34 2 mh esh 57 i 69 >h established in 1 571 44 49 09 1 60 62 3d in t 49 62 the manner provid 26 171 10 33 16 1 15 inner providt 17| 10 16 1 15 ed by Section 8 5 . ■ 13 - 3 Sectioi : 5 ' 3 n, 88 0 3 5 if the Educai ! 1 .. ■ .. 1 lion Acl, 1914. 134 92 166 111 226 277 24 34 24 14 17 34 28 1.8 17 1.8 14 3, 4 30 24 1.0 3 4 24; 1.0 3 6 1 5 1 .. 1 2 .. 1 49 38 77 75 87 152 Totals' .. .. 184 14 184 184 146 146 146 103 60| 45 60J 45 25 19 9 i 3 2 2 426 316 742 C. Endowed Secondary i! Secon Secondary School School ,s within the mean in the meani ing of the At 37 .. 48 .. ct, but t not include d abov >e. :dude,t Wanganui Collegiate School 59 Christ's College Grammar 67 School 59 67 59 .. 50 50 59 47 . . 47 .. 55 .. 13 27 1 .. 3 3 19 209 .. 275 .. 209 275 67 .. 59 1 .. 55 .. r .. 19 . . Totals .. .. 126 .. 126 109 102 .. 85 .. 40 484 .. 126 .. 109 ) .. 22 484 Grand totals for 1917 1,5701,38 Grand totals for 1916 1,647 1,32 1,570 1,647 1,5701,383 1,285 1,647 1,3241,156 1,285 1,156 1,000 869 I 769 535 I 647 472 i 386 279 ! 389 249 1 153 1 143 1 ' 92 40 1 86 43 40 43 38 27 4,203 3,387 4,025 3,027 3,387 3,027 360 7,590 7,052 Difference .. - 77 5 -77 -77 59 129 1 129 191 122 63 1-3 30 1 10 ) 6 -3 11 178 360 538 -3

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TABLE K4. —Staffs of Secondary Schools as in December, 1917 (excluding Lower Departments).

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Schools. cS 5 I «1 Stalls. Regular. Part-time. a a 33 hu i I i. I a £ a & O 64 as ■sa lH4 O I n.a • i fl r4 2 Sa _!. y, Salaries at Ra of \ Regular Staff. .to paid at End i 7 ear. Part-time Teachers. Totals. t3 £ r. Q ill* O fe X fl 3rfs.a£ 3"g|al o x a a; w H s a pigi gwgS -t-t d t* ■ _, o S<j g •9 ffiS " fl '3»a SE MS xt%-<\ bllr i» rt a s i I a S rt A. Endowed Scl chools inclu ;ded i in th e Ninth , Scliedu ide to the Educ £ £ 990 800 .*8,450 .. . . *4,208 ; .. *l,66i '.ation Act, 191: £ £ 55 !, £ 1,845 8,450 4,587 I ,938 £ £ 11-32 11-45 10-84 11 -90 Whangarei High School .. 103 Auckland Boys' Grammar School 738 Auckland Girls' Grammar School 423 Auckland (Epsom) Girls' Gram- 1 102 mar School Thames High School .. .'. ] 30 New Plymouth Boys' High School I 162 New Plymouth Girls' High School j 102 Wanganui Girls' College . . 204 Gisborne High Sohool .. I 165 Napier Boys' High School . . I 141 Napier Girls' High School . . 83 Wellington Boys' College .. 410 Wellington Girls' College .. 441 Marlborough High School . . 106 Nelson Boys' College .. .. j 196 Nelson Girls' College .. .. I 164 Christchurch Boys' High School . 245 Christohuroh Girls' High School 320 Rangiora High Sohool .. 85 Ashburton High School .. 121 Timaru Boys' High School .. 150 Timaru Girls'High School .. Ill Waitaki Boys' High Sohool . . I 237 Waitaki Girls' High School . . I 97 Otago Boys' High School . . ! 415 Otago Girls' High Sohool . . 295 Southland Boys' High School . . 187 Southland Girls' High School . . 221 3 3 8 29 4 19 8 2 1 23 25 22 20 27 20 23 23 379 *277 3 .. 4 4 2 .. 0 3 2 6 2 .. 4 .. 5 5 1 7 S .. 3 19 2 8 io 4 2 5 tl5 3 5 21 3 8 1 1.4 2 3 I 0 3 5 2 12 2 1. 1 3 1 2 3 1 1 7 2 3 1 1.9 20 20 14 21 20 17 22 21 21 24 20 22 23 21 17 21 18 24 19 28 25 29 22 22 23! 25 : 15 24 23 21 23 22 26 28 23! 24 25 28 20 25 22 26 24 30 27 31 25 ! 1,050 776 I .1 ,800 390 i .. 1,045 i . . fi , 300 ■ 1,721 600 .1 ,970 .. I ,070 5,801 .. : .. 4,555 750 555 . 2,020 . . ■ i . . I ,550 . 3,280 225 3,240 695 330 1,285 525 1,812 195 1,235 2,075! 000 .. 1,000. 4,115 450: .. I 2,585 2,235 .. .. ! 2,1861 185 .. 130 208 30 40 200 .. 95 225 170 .. 80 355 . . 96 585 15; .. 1,820 2,435 1,045 3.758 2,397 2,1.70 1 ,105 5,801 4,780 1,305 2,790 1,630 3,800 3,921 1,040 1,810 2,082 1,3281 2,711 1,075 4,740 2,890 2,300 2,410 80 80 30 120 80 , , 220 1 300 14-05 15-52 11-03 18-57 15-25 15-90 14-04 1430 10-84 12-31 15-36 1P80 15'70 12-25 11-06 14-96 13-88 11-96 1144 11-08 11-42 9-80 12-02 10-91 2 4 6 7 i 3 1 2 2 1 1 75! .. 68 25 30 75 175 . . 135 170 125 .. 175 .50 1 . . U 7 3 " 5 13 2 2 2 2 3 2 . 12 7 .. t ' 1.0 1 10 Totals .. ..6,274 131 156 156 . 32 38 40,709 33,146 i 33,140 .1,934 1,934) 2,360 78,209 916 i i ! B. Secondary Schools Hamilton High School .. 1 223 Palmerston North High School | 268 Dannevirke High School .. 88 Gore High School .. ... 150 established 5 4 5 7 2 4i 3 4 I in i 1 - * _ 2 the m I .. j 2 1 tanner •} 25 22 15 21 provided 281 24| 18 25'. I by Section 88 1,760 750 1,675 1,220 735 700 ■ 1,174 790, 5,344 3,520; of the 107 107 Educat 47 15 lion Act. 2,510 3,049 1,510 I ,964 1 11 -20 11-38 17-16 13'09 i • • Totals .. .. 729 16 19 2 31 9,033 02 C. Endowed Seconda try Schools 5 wilt hin tl ling of 16 20 the Act, but not inclu, deil in ibove. he mean Wanganui Collegiate Sohool .. 206 Christ's College Grammar School 255 .14 .. ■ 14 .. 3 :J2 15 18 *4,951 .. , .. 5,420 .. 310 1.0,371 .. - 310 56,48436,666 2,351 4,951 5,730 520 100 21'70 22-80 Totals .. .. 461 28 .. 3 2 10,681 620 97,923 1,536 Grand totals .. 7,464 i 174 175, ,,,; jr, 43 21 24 2,422 13-3 * including war bonus. t Four f received from pupils. full-time tt eache ime tt >rs of music, included in regular staff. } Part-tii ne teachers paid by fees Note.—j Allowance. 1 ranee: d to teachers on active service not included. ■ail

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TABLE K5.—Number of Pupils holding Scholarships and Free Places in Secondary Schools during the Last Term, 1917.

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a '£ Schola .2 a hold dumber of Holders of Free Places. Is z, 'S in S= o 'at- aei School. « § £-= Junior. Senior. Totals. <o,o a c -i § 31 If Boys, j Girls. ! Total. Boys, j Girls. Total. Boys. ; Girls. Total. % § gH OO. (2.) I (8.) I (4.) (5.) ' (8.) (7.) (8.) _(».) (10.) (11.) (12.) (18.) irship- -g o j iere. HjS 0 J3 o « S» 58* -°js g-ga * e -S di £ a > - soo rl !|1h 1(14.) (15.) A. Endowed School's included in the Ninth Schedule to the Education Act, 1914. £ £ Whangarei High Sohool 58 55 113 1.0 17 33 74 72 146 13-5 2,170-000 12 Auokland Grammar I 468 431 899 208 122 330 670 553 1,229 13-5 1,7404-799 109 Schools Thames High Sohool .. 46 37 83 26 12 38 72 49 121. 12-341 1,615-966 9 New Plymouth High j 78 03 141 43 25 | 68 121 88 209 9-429 2,049-270 14 Schools Napier High Sohools .. 80 58 144 35 I 16 I 51 121 74 195 10-112 2,104-636 22 Gisborne High School.. , 51. 54 105 16 I 11 j 27 j 67 65 132 7-808 1,223-099 10 Wanganui Girls' College .. 103 103 .. I 46 I 46 .. 149 149 11*129 1,763-811 18 Wellington Colleges .. 311 294 605 88 ' 81. 169 399 375 774 10-795 8,704-283 63 Marlborough High 40 38 78 9 9 18 49 47 96 11-508 1,204-257 2 Sohool Nelson Colleges .. HI 98 209 45 39 84 156 137 293 12-529 3,971-511 35 Rangiora High School 26 39 65 3 7 10 29 40 75 13-5 1,229-500 9 Christohuroh Boys' 158 .. 158 02 .. 62 220 .. 220 7-391 1,727-395 32 High Sohool Christohuroh Girls' .. 213 213 .. 99 99 j .. 312 312 13-5 4,384-000 42 High Sohool Ashburton High Sohool 40 29 09 19 12 31! 59 41 100 13-5 1,517-500 8 Timaru High Sohools .. 94 65 159 42 35 77 130 100 230 10-433 2,590-084 30 Waitaki High Schools.. 96 72 168 04 23 87 100 95 255 10-975 2,892-727 22 Otago High Schools .. 258 220 478 116 72 188 374 292 666 11-770 8,253-209 59 Southland High Sohools j 120 158 284 j 28 55 83: 154 213 367 10-3 4,000-027 35 12 169 2 "l 9 14 22 10 18 63 2 1 1 35 9 32 42 8 30 22 59 35 13 O , . i.i 30 . . 22 .. 59 1 1 35 .. B. Secondary Schools established in the manner provided by Section 88 of Hie Education Act. Hamilton High Sohool 87 64 151, 28 19 47 j 115 83 198 13-5 2,937-250 21 Palmoi'ston North High 106 89 195 32 16 48 138. 105 243 13-162 3,393-861. 22 Sohool Dannevirke High School 38 ' 25 63 9 8 17 I 47 33 80 13-5 1,247-999 5 Gore High School .. 49 52 101 21 13 34 I 70 05 135 13-5 l,9!)5-250l 7 !. 21 .. 22 .. 5 7 .. C. Endowed Schools within the meaning of the Act, but not included above. I. 10 Wanganui Collegiate .. .. .. .. .... Sohool Christ's College Gram- .. .. .. .. ..,..,.. mar Sohool Totals .. 2,327 2,257 i 4,584 910 737 1,647 3,237 2,994 6,231 *12-147 78,567-094 646 .. 24 j 37 2,994 0,231 ♦12-147 78,567-094 046 36 cs * Obtained by dividing total capitation paid by the average number of free pupils in 1917— i.e., 6,468. lividing total capi lils in 1917— i.e., 6,468.

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TABLE K6.—Net Income from Endowments and Capitation, and Expenditure on Salaries and Incidental Expenses (exclusive of Lower Departments) 1917.

Secondary School. (1.) 'la" 0° (2-) 03 SO ©■♦-» ■0-8-5 " |£ixei (3.) 1 it* Is r5 (4.) ft" 3 4 _ -4 35 ft Sh (5.) (6.) es (7.) ft 3 (8.) fl » 9 (9-) ill (10.) oo"3 III (11.) (12.) (13.) fl _-.&■: 3 O <nffl B«oo (14.) "5 fl EH (15.) si t* rH (16.) A. Endowed Schm its included 1 ■n the Ninth Schedule to the Education Act, 1914. Whangarei High School Auckland Grammar Schools Thames High Sohool New Plymouth High Schools Napier High Schools Gisborne High Sohool Wanganui Girls' CoUege Wellington Colleges Marlborough High School Nelson Colleges Rangiora High School Christchurch Boys' High School .. Christchurch Girls' High School .. Ashburton High School Timaru High Schools Waitaki High Schools Otago High Schools .. Southland High Schools 185 1,399 142 281 246 187 224 956 121 398 95 262 349 137 275 391 755 442 185 1,399 142 281 246 187 224 956 121 398 95 262 349 137 275 391 755 442 NU Nil 183 1,271 926 1,232 589 2,873 268 429 Nil 1,872 Nil Nil 934 1,089 1,451 1,571 £ NU Nil 183 1,271 926 1,232 589 2,873 268 429 Nil 1,872 Nil Nil 934 1,089 1,451 1,571 £ £ Nil 13-500 NU 13-500 1-291 12-341 4-525 9-429 3-766 10-112 6-587 7-808 2-633 11-129 3-004 10-795 2-212 11-508 1-053 12-529 Nil 13-500 7-145 7-391 Nil 13-500 Nil 13-500 3-408 10-433 2-804 10-975 1-925 11-770 3-554 10-300 £ 13-500 ! 13-500 13-632 13-954 13-878 14-395 13-762 13-799 13-720 13-582 13-500 14-536 13-500 13-500 13-841 13-779 13-695 13-854 £ 2,094 15,424 1,663 3,381 3,240 2,340 3,589 12,413 1,395 5,034 1,017 4,088 3,993 1,756 3,227 4,015 7,871 4,734 j £ £ £ £ 11-32 321 ; 1-74 2,415 11-03 2,493 i 1-78 17,917 11-71 356 : 2-51 2,019 12-03 705 i 2-51 4,086 13-17 384 1-56 3,624 | 12-51 349 1-87 2,689 j 16-02 919 4-10 . 4,508 12-98 1,795 1-88 14,208 11-53 235 1-94 I 1.630 12-65 1,051 2-64 . 6,085 i 10-71 168 1-78 1.185 15-60 751 2-87 4,839 ; 11-44 504 144 4,497 | 12-82 267 1-95 2.023 I 11-73 524 1-91 3,751 I 10-27 . 650 1-66 4,665 ; 1043 1,211 1-60 9,082 i 10-71 615 1-39 5.349 I £ i 13-06 12-81 14-22 14-54 14-73 14-38 20-12 14-86 13-47 15-30 12-49 18-47 12-88 14-77 13-64 11-93 12-03 1210 147 2,065-5 812 17,307-0 138 1,660-5 400 2,929-5 286 2,754-0 273 1,9440 1,997 i 2,025-0 1,514 10,759-5 113 ! 1,363-5 941 : 4,171-5 67 1,134-0 353 2,970-0 211 ! 4,293-0 69 : 1,417-5 278 3,226-5 1,011 3,483-0 359 9,355-5 294 5.197-5 2,212-5 18,1190 1,798-5 3,329-5 3,0400 2,217-0 4,022-0 12,273-5 1,476-5 5,112-5 : 1,201-0 3,323-0 4,504-0 1,486-5 3,504-5 4,494-0 9,714-5 5,491-5 153 1,282 123 217 204 144 150 797 101 309 84 220 318 105 239 258 693 385 Totals 6,845 6,845 14,688 14,688 81,274 j 13,298 94,572 9,263 78,057-0 87,320-0 5,782 Hamilton High School Palmerston North High School .. Dannevirke High School Gore High School 252 300 105 164 B. Nil 111 NU Nil B. Secondary Schools esh Nil Nil 13-500 111 0-370 13-162 Nil Nil 13-500 Nil Nil 13-500 ■blished in 13-500 13-532 13-500 13-500 le Manner provided 2,579 10-23 3,277 10-92 1,440 , 13-71 1,966 [ 11-99 6«/ Section 88 of the Education Act. 386 1-53 2,965 I 11-76 549 1-83 3,826 j 12-75 146 1-39 1,586 15-10 428 2-61 . 2,394 14-60 273 I 373 j 97 167 2,835-0 3,375-0 1,161-0 1,890-0 3,108-0 3,748-0 1,258-0 2,057-0 210 250 86 140 Totals 821 821 111 in ! 9,262 ! 1,509 10,171-0 10,771 j 910 9,261-0 686 Grand totals 7,666 14,799 1-930 *12-147 1T4-077 90,536 11-81 j 1 14,807 1-93 105,343 I 13-74 10,173 87,318-0 97,491-0 6,468 Total capitation paid in 1917 divided by average number of free pupils for 1917, f Sum oi columns (4) and (5).

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TABLE K7.—Income of Secondary Schools for the Year 1917.

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Secondary-school Boards. From Endowments. Fr Sales and ! T Curre . nt Income from In terest on : Grants for ] Imome from Seeondarv Moneys Buildings, : Ee f r J eS eduTS /erived Sites, Rent, renaid vested in Reserves from En " Apparatus, repaia. ) BoardSi Reserves. aowments. I &c. From Endowments. Front Government. roni Governmt Capitation on Free Places and Subsidies. ient - r Yoluntarv Transfers Contributi6ns, Lower Boarding- f r nm Technical- Income from Capitation School Fees. Departments house raiiitai classes Property not for Account. Account. . „„*:,,„; Account. Reserves. Manual fmerest' RefuDds ancl Instruction. Intel est. Sundries. Totals. A. Ei 'ndowed Schools included in the Ninth Schedule to the Education Act, 1914. ndowed Sci £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.i Whangarei High School .. .. .. 295 6 5 132 6 2 Auckland Grammar Sohools .. .. 6,734 12 2 1,086 3 2 Thames High School .. .. 7 0 3 990 17 4 126 19 10 \ew Plymouth High Schools .. .. 930 15 3 955 6 111 Wanganui Girls' CoUege .. .. .. 1,125 18 6 312 6 10 Napier High Schools .. .. .. 498 2 6 705 1 6 ; ] Gisborne High School .. .. .. 4,219 11 2 592 10 0 Wellington Colleges .. .. .. 7,820 19 2 1,347 16 6 Marlborough High School.. .. .. 400 0 0 50 16 6 Xelson CoUeges .. .. .. 50 0 0 731 3 4 373 1 1 ] Greymouth High School* .. .. .. 48 10 8 Hokitika High School* .. .. .. 42 10 6 57 12 5 Rangiora High School .. .. .. 189 6 4 Christchurch Boys' High School .. .. j 5,381 1 6, Christchurch Gills' High School .. 48 5 0 527 11 2 .. ] Akaroa High School* .. .. .. 283 13 4 Ashburton High School .. .. 333 0 0 1,125 1 8 Timaru High Schools .. .. 494 19 0 2,725 14 0 Waimate High School* .. .. .. 354 4 0 .. 1 Waitaki High Schools .. .. .. 1,539 10 6 250 17 5 Otago High Schools .. .. .. i 2,930 7 10 464 12 7 Southland High Schools .. .. .. I 2,054 0 2 277 15 6 £ s. d., £ s. d. £ s. d., £ s. d., £ s. d. £ s. d. 145 0 0 2,331 10 0 91 2 10 147 0 0 14,795 19 9i .. 811 13 0 500 0 0 1,318 6 0; 65 5 0 138 0 0 3,370 8 5 71 6 3 399 15 0 580 10 6 22 14 7 1,934 6 7 110 0 0 1,997 0 3 315 9 10 158 15 0 .. 2,933 18 8 131 7 6 286 3 2 832 9 10 1,692 15 4 93 2 6 273 0 0 651 10 0 8,624 17 9 419 16 3 1,513 11 3 1 348 0 0 1,226 17 10 32 17 6 113 3 6 177 5 0 .. 4,289 5 1 199 12 6 941 0 0 436 10 0 63 2 0 58 0 0 1,387 10 5 17 14 2 67 4 0 11 11 6 1,799 7 <£■ 70 16 8 353 5 0 111 9 5 20 17 7 3,867 4 \'\ 149 11 6 211 1 0 213 3 0 42 12 0 1,619 3 9\ 21 15 0 69 6 0 148 1 0 2 16 .. 2,962 15 11 134 10 278 8 4 t 154 17 0 3,120 18 4l 124 2 6 1,011 0 0 228 0 0 35 6 7 8,072 7 5J 123 15 0 359 5 10 3,672 6 7 43 12 1 294 0 0 £ s. d.j 158 15 0 177 5 0 63 2 0 58 0 0 111 9 5 42 12 0 2 1 6 154 17 0 i 1 I 1 1 I 1 I £ s. d.; £ s. d., 341 0 0 89 14 0 5,107 9 6 96 18 7 4,587 0 7 3,313 9 2 46 8 10 3,347 16 6 0 11 0 7,266 3 11 520 14 0 900 17 6 J. 14 14 1 72 0 0 199 3 10 j 160 2 4 £ s. d. 279 11 1 £ s. d.l £ s. d. 61 5 6 3,544 10 11 23,428 8 1 68 16 8 3,304 19 1 1,792 1 9 13,304 12 2 1,952 6 6 12,357 3 8 2,202 10 10 11,108 7 0 38 8 8 10,908 14 2 79 4 4 20,154 5 3 51 15 3 1,876 1 7 11 13 4 14,476 6 3 0 15 0 112 7 8 158 2 11 55 8 6 2,517 8 6 8,516 19 6 78 7 11 5,227 10 8 326 5 4 208 4 5 3,524 11 10 35 0 0 6,633 0 3 523 15 7 394 15 10 6,669 4 7 277 3 2 12,534 2 3 109 9 10 6,611 6 6 ; _ Totals .. .. .. 933 4 3 40,948 18 6j 6,733 6 5 , 40,948 18 6 6,733 6 5 768 1 11 735 10 3 768 1 11 69,019 19 3 1,899 18 3 9,264 2 4 3,754 0 2 25,456 11 2j 607 12 8 279 11 1 7.417 7 6 167,818 3 9 B. Secondary Si Hamilton High School .. .. .. 50 5 6 232 4 3 Palmerston North High School .. .. .. 409 12 7 Hannevirke High School .. .. .. .. 382 10 7 Gore High School .. .. .. .. 109 3 9 Totals .. .. .. .. 50 «5 6 1,133 11 2 i. Secondary Schools established in tl 232 4 3 .. 31 0 0 409 12 7 382 10 7 109 3 9 .. 187 9 5 ichools esta e Manner provided by Section 88 of the Education Act, 3,349 5 0 136 5 0 273 6 8 3,754 2 11 .. 373 0 6 1.396 11 8 39 6 3 97 8 4 1,985 10 0 74 11 10: 167 6 8 '914. 1,419 2 0 2,353 14 10 146 19 10 15 8 2 4,087 14 7 16 5 0 8,325 17 10 8 13 6i 1,924 10 4 81 7 1 2,752 8 7 511 :, 1; 1,133 11 2 218 9 5 10,485 9 7 250 3 1 911 2 2; 1,419 2 0 2,500 14 8 121 13 9 17,090 11 4 Totals, A and B .. .. 933 4 3 40,999 4 0 7,866 17 7 . 933 4 3 40,999 4 0 7,866 17 7] 768 1 11 953 19 768 1 11 s 79,505 8 10; 2,150 1 4; 10,175 4 6! 3,754 0 226,875 13 2 607 12 8 2,780 5 9 7,539 1 3184,908 15 1 1 1 1 C. Wanganui Collegiate School ... .. 3,303 19 6 Christ's College Grammar School .. .. ', 2,202 3 5 Totals .. .. .. .. ; 5,506 2 11 i Grand totals, A, B, and C. 933 4 3 46,505 6 11 7,866 17 7 C. Endowed Endowed ■ 768 1 11 fchools within the Meaning of the Act, but not included above. 2,825 0 0 .. 11,572 7 1 j 5,604 0 6 705 18 6 5,815 14 8 4.775 15 11 22,477 2 6 890 9 9 15,218 6 10 5,506 2 11 8,429 0 6 705 18 617,38S 1 9 5,666 5 8 37,695 9 4 953 19 8 79,505 8 10 2,150 1 4 18,604 5 0 4,459 18 844,263 14 11 607 12 8 2,780 5 9 13,205 6 11222,604 4 5 * These schools are non-operative. t Separate account kept for lower department.

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TABLE K8.—Expenditure of Secondary Schools for the Year 1917.

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Secondary Schools. Endowments Teachers' (including Salaries Proportion and of Allowances, Office Secondary Expenses). Departments. Incidental Expenses of Secondary Departments. ,-,. - Manual Office Heatinlf" Material. Instruction Expenses Printing, d >" Examinations, (excluding and Salaries Stationery, Lighting, „ Prlzes ' , Buildings. (excluding and and Games, and &c). Advertising. Care School- *£*, grounds. incidentals. Incidenta.1 Expenses of Secondary Departments. Sites, Buildings, Furniture, Apparatus, Taxes, &c. Lower Departments Account. Boardinghouses Account. Loans repaid, and Interest. Scholarships. Technical- Advances classes t, -, Account. Pupils. Miscellaneous. Totals. A. Endowed Schools included in the Ninth Schedule to the Education Act, 1914. £ s. d. £ s. d. Whangarei High School .. I 99 10 3 2.093 15 0 Auckland Grammar Schools .. 1,922 18 10 15,423 16 9 Thames High School .. .. 61 16 2 1,663 8 3 New Plymouth High Schools .. .. 3,380 14 1 Wanganui Girls' College .. 3 3 0 3,588 16 10 Napier High Schools .. .. 12 10 0 3,240 7 1(1 Gisborne High School .. 65 16 3 2,339 11 0 Wellington Colleges .. .. 1,926 2 2 12,412 11 3 Marlborough High School .. .. 1,394 12 6 Nelson Colleges .. .. 120 16 2 5,034 3 0 Grevmouth High School* Hokitika High School* .. 19 1 10 Rangiora High School .. 16 13 3 1,016 13 4 Christchurch Boys" High School 321 1 2 4,088 1 2 Christ church Girls' High School ! 74 5 1 3,992 17 10 Akaroa High School* .. | 130 17 6 Ashburton High School .. 333 0 0 1,755 18 8 Timaru High Schools.. .. 652 0 10 3,227 1 6 Waimate High School* .. 39 18 4 Waitaki High Schools .. 102 1 9 4,015 8 2 Otago High Schools .. .. 172 8 2 7,870 13 3 Southland High Schools .. 157 1 8 4,733 19 5 Totals .. .. 6,231 2 5 81,272 9 10 ! £ s. d. 2.093 15 0 15,423 16 9 1,663 8 3 3,380 14 1 3,588 16 10 3,240 7 10 2,339 11 0 12.412 11 3 1,394 12 6 5,034 3 0 £ s. d 1,62 6 1( 229 9 ; 74 0 ( 128 3 ; 176 12 ! 114 15 ' 127 19 ( 202 19 ( 89 7 : . 343 18 C 20 16 i 121 3 11 71 13 2 67 4 11 76 17 E 170 13 3 262 17 7 41 16 8 2,482 14 9 £ s. d. £ s. ,d. I £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 6 10 72 18 8 68 9 4 17 11 1 92 14 11 I 513 8 9 229 9 5 359 16 0 1,159 7 3 744 4 0 .. 5,681 8 10 74 0 0 16 9 9 204 12 8 60 16 11 j 13 12 7 454 11 5 128 3 3 112 14 5 306 15 3 157 10 5 ' 39 18 1 3,244 17 2 176 12 8 44 13 10 376 19 4 320 4 6 81 5 10 881 10 9 114 15 3 87 9 0 158 5 11 23 16 1 227 13 1 1,330 16 6 127 19 0 61 7 3 121 12 7 38 9 2 2 11 6 3,819 5 9 202 19 0 290 19 0 945 19 4 355 7 6 54 18 11 853 3 6 89 7 5 18 4 0 111 10 10 16 1 3 31 12 5 170 1 10 . 343 18 0 211 0 6 320 6 0 175 9 5 59 IS 8 563 4 5 £ s. d. £ s. d. i £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 366 0 6 .. .. 87 5 0 583 13 0 .. 14 15 4 667 8 10 .. 13 14 0 663 9 3 5,537 10 8 742 10 0 .. 1,833 0 4 258 4 3 3,497 14 5 .. .. 1,972 11 9 617 9 1 3,452 8 11 . .. .. 972 0 8 459 17 5 3,740 5 3 839 2 0 .. 70 0 0 457 18 0 130 13 9 I 234 2 0 .. 15 0 0 0 8 3 .. 25 10 0 438 18 9 6,091 3 4 ' 2,284 2 3 .. 150 0 0 126 13 4 565 9 0 95 0 0 252 7 11 2 2 0 1.589 3 2 765 14 0 .. 44 5 4 217 15 7 85 0 0 14 13 7 .. 136 14 0 1 18 0 169 9 11 322 8 5 324 1 0 .. 41 15 0 22 12 9t 119 0 0 562 12 2 .. 112 16 9 331 8 0 331 5 2 .. .. .. 24 8 0 102 16 0 3,377 15 0 .. 1 13 10 117 14 9 £ s. d. 3,574 0 4 26,119 9 5 3,230 10 7 16,147 2 11 11,201 17 2 10,237 12 4 11,685 17 2 17,879 14 5 1,857 8 6 15,793 0 6 . 1,016 13 4 4,088 1 2 3,992 17 10 1,755 18 8 3,227 1 6 39 16 6 20 16 8 59 5 9 44 0 1 45 4 11 .. 236 1 3 121 3 11 165 18 9 309 9 11 154 5 0 23 2 4 4,494 14 1 71 13 2 80 10 3 216 3 7 135 7 2 65 17 5 1,153 5 8 186 8 6 67 4 11 62 1 8 123 19 10 13 13 7 .. 338 1 10 76 17 9 87 10 9 : 287 8 8 72 4 0 128 10 :S 334 2 6 1 13 9 170 13 3 48 3 0 421 13 6 i 9 13 3 267 12 5 1.761 15 6 262 17 7 248 19 4 ! 622 19 2 76 6 4 183 13 6 787 9 8 41 16 8 84 3 4 j 329 8 3 159 8 3 .. 2.134 11 2 185 11 8 2,353 14 2 12,076 18 10 6,244 3 4 319 4 0 3,551 14 10 5,682 17 11 373 0 1 7,152 14 0 13,707 11 10 7,758 3 6 4,015 8 2 7,870 13 3 4,733 19 5 81,272 9 10 2,482 14 9 2,112 5 3 6,129 1 6 2.575 12 10 I .273 1 11 28,980 9 4 3,637 0 2 25,599 13 5 10,493 0 1 252 7 11 6,093 8 1 177,132 7 6 B. Seco B. Seam •dary Schools established in tin- Manner provided by Section 88 of the. E .54 13 3 : 168 16 2 61 14 8 245 6 7 41 7 5 68 18 8 ■ 260 16 3 144 11 7 106 18 11 603 8 10 45 17 5 68 14 1 j 16 5 9 .. 448 14 10 45 12 2 | 200 18 10 86 4 3 95 17 5 134 10 10 I 'duration Act, 1914. Hamilton High School .. .. 2,578 10 7 Pahuerston North High School .. 3,277 8 9 Dannevirke High School .. .. 1,440 5 6 Gore High School .. .. .. 1,965 10 0 100 18 11 74 6 2 14 16 7 94 17 2 100 18 11 I 74 6 2 ! 14 16 7 94 17 2 1,419 2 0 9 6 9 0 2 6 ;2,120 14 10 1 19 9 3,253 7 4 8,085 12 9 2,034 16 8 2,775 17 11 152 7 3 Totals .. .. .. 9,261 14 10 9,261 14 10 ' 284 IS 10 284 18 10 215 1 6 699 5 4 308 16 3 448 2 11 1,228 1 11 j 1,419 2 0 j 9 9 3 2,273 2 1 1 19 9 16,149 14 8 ' Totals A and B .. 6,231 2 5 90,534 4 8 '2 |6,231 2 5 90,534 4 8 '2,767 13 7 2,767 13 7 2,327 6 9 6,828 6 10 2,884 91 1,721 4 10 30,208 II 3 |3,637 0 2 '27,018 15 5 jl0,502 9 4 12,525 10 0 6,095 7 10 193,282 2 2 Wanganui Collegiate School .. 1,051 14 1 i 5,199 2 4 Christ's College Grammar School .. j 5,908 13 7 j 384 7 0 94 12 6 C. Endowed Scliools within the Meaning of the Act, but not included above. 436 3 4 527 3 10 644 4 8 .. 1,232 0 10 146 2 6 371 2 6 386 2 6 .. 803 10 6 773 19 1 7,338 11 i 2,807 4 11 3,615 16 2 151 6 6 4,349 8 2 23,970 0 6 955 8 3 13,206 14 1 Totals .. .. 1,05114 1 11,107 15 11 1,051 14 1 11,107 15 11 478 19 6 478 19 6 582 5 10 898 6 4 1,030 7 2 ' 2,035 11 4 773 19 1 '10,954 7 6 2,958 11 5 5,304 16 5 37,176 14 7 Totals A, B, and C .. 7,282 16 6 101,642 0 7 3 7,282 16 6 101.642 0 7 '3,246 1.3 3,246 13 1 1 ;2,909 12 7 7,726 13 2 3,914 16 3 1,721 4 10 32,244 2 7 4,410 19 3 37,973 2 11 13,461 0 9 2,525 10 0 11,400 4 3 230,458 16 9 * These schools are nou-operative. t Separate account kept for lower de] partmenl.

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TABLE K9.—Balances and other Monetary Assets and Liabilities of Secondary Schools as at 31st December, 1917.

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1 Secondary Schools. Monetary Assets. Liabilities. Balance, 31st December, 1917. Balance, 1st .Tanuar 1 1917. tr Bank Balances and Investments. Other Assets. Overdrafts and Loans. Other Liabilities. Total. Total. A. Endowed Schools included in the Ninth Schedule to the Education Act, 1914. Whangarei High School Auckland Grammar Schools .. Thames High School.. New Plymouth High Schools .. Wanganui Girls' College Napier High Schools.. Gisborne High School Wellington Colleges Marlborough High School Nelson Colleges Greymouth High School* Hokitika High School* Rangiora High School Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Girls' High School Akaroa High.School* Ashburton High School Timaru High Schools Waimate High School* Waitaki High Schools Otago High Schools .. Southland High Schools £ s. d. £ s. tl. £ s. tl. £ s. tl. I £ s. d. Or. 76 5 0 492 12 9 122 11 4 615 4 1 Cr. 434 3 7 5,015 5 0 2,710 18 2 7,726 3 2 12,751 6 9 Dr. 4,230 8 9 1,680 10 11 729 16 2 2,410 7 1 6,423 1 4 Dr. 6,724 8 9 1,982 6 0 1,125 19 1 3,108 5 1 12,220 0 0 Cr. 1,445 6 9 1,260 2 11 1,333 7 7 2,593 10 6 Cr. 4,892 1 11 5,600 0 10 403 13 0 6,003 13 10 .. j Dr. 4,876 16 8 .. 1,353 1 9 I 1,353 1 9 7,385 6 6 .. | Dr. 1,231 5 1 5,747 18 10 1,071 1 2 6.819 0 0 4,094 7 6 Dr. 271 15 7 220 17 7 139 7 1 360 4 8 Cr. 368 5 4 3,950 0 0 1.193 3 0 5,143 3 0 4,017 4 11 Or. ' 1,025 10 6 1,136 8 2 .. 1,136 8 2 Or. 1,415 15 2 1.400 0 0 20 18 4 1,420 18 4 33 8 7 Dr. 374 17 7 339 8 6 320 18 2 660 6 8 900 0 0 Dr. 12,805 13 5 .. 113 18 9 113 18 9 13,658 19 1 Cr. 1,491 18 6 1.962 14 10 218 5 4 2,181 0 2 Cr. 683 17 2 776 14 6 .. 776 14 6 Dr. 5,748 19 8 .. 110 13 8 110 13 8 5,805 9 4 Dr. 4,650 4 10 1,059 1 9 439 7 4 1.498 9 1 4,781 0 0 Cr. 2,958 0 1 3,116 10 7 .. 3,116 10 7 Cr. 2,035 2 10 994 14 6 043 18 6 1,638 13 0 Cr. 727 11 5 2,561 18 1 112 13 8 2,674 11 9 Cr. 6,114 4 0 4,309 3 7 1.040 1 10 5.355 5 5 £ s. d. 502 0 4 195 18 10 2,033 6 5 30 1 3 1,051 6 8 23 0 0 277 18 3 519 7 7 100 0 0 46 13 9 169 17 9 100 0 0 80 0 0 104 9 5 1.108 16 0 1.893 18 1 405 12 9 £ s. d. £ s. d. 502 0 4 Or. 113 3 9 12,947 5 7 Dr. 5,221 2 5 6,423 1 4 Dr. 4,012 14 3 14,253 6 5 Dr. 11,145 1 4 30 1 3 Or. 2,563 9 3 1,051 6 8 Cr. 4,952 7 2 7,408 6 6 Dr. 6,055 4 9 4,372 5 9 Cr. 2,446 14 3 519 7 7 Dr. 159 2 11 4,117 4 11 Or. 1.025 18 1 Cr. 1,136 8 2 33 8 7 Cr. 1,387 9 9 900 0 0 Dr. 239 13 4 13.705 12 10 Dr. 13,591 14 1 169 17 9 Cr. 2,011 2 5 100 0 0 Cr. 676 14 6 5,885. 9 4 Dr. 5,774 15 8 4,885 9 5 Dr 3,387 0 4 Cr. 3,116 10 7 1.108 16 0 Or. 529 17 0 1,893 18 1 Cr. 780 13 8 405 12 9 Cr. 4,949 12 8 Totals - .. j Dr. 17,246 8 1 , 43,606 9 4 13,209 13 11 56,816 3 3 72,070 4 0 13,209 13 11 56,816 3 3 72,070 4 0 8,642 7 1 8,642 7 1 80,712 11 1 Dr. 23,896 7 10 80,712 11 I Dr. 23,896 7 10 ., 1 1 j— Hamilton High School Palmerston North High School Dannevirke High School Gore High School B. Secondary Schools established in the Manner provided by Section 88 of the Education Act. j Cr. 708 5 11 1,044 8 8 182 15 0 1.227 3 8 Or. 426 4 10 .. 375 11 5 375 11 5 133 4 5 Cr. 362 18 8 7 10 2 45 0 0 52 10 2 Cr. 285 10 4 146 17 2 47 15 0 194 12 2 the Education Acl 133 4 5 I, 1914. 154 0 6 2,674 9 10 600 (I 0 5 0 0 1914. 154 0 6 2,674 9 10 600 0 0 5 0 0 1,54 0 6 Or. 1.073 3 2 2,807 14 3 Dr. 2.432 2 10 600 0 0 Dr. 547 9 10 5 0 0 Cr. 189 12 2 1,54 0 6 Or. 2,807 14 3 Dr. 600 0 0 Dr. 5 0 0 Cr. 1,073 3 2 2.432 2 10 547 9 10 189 12 2 Totals Cr. 1,782 19 9 1,198 16 0 651. 1 5 1,849 17 5 133 4 5 1,198 16 0 Ii5l 1 5 1,849 17 5 133 4 5 3,433 10 4 3,433 10 4 3,566 14 9 Dr. 1,71(1 17 4 3,566 14 9 Dr. 1.71H 17 4 ,i ; 1 : —- — —— Totals. A and B Dr. 15,463 8 4 44,805 5 4 13,860 15 4 58,666 0 8 ' 72,203 .8 5 Dr. 15,463 8 4 44,805 5 4 13,860 15 4 58,666 0 8 72,203 .8 5 12,075 17 5 12,075 17 5 84,279 5 10 | Dr. 25,613 5 2 84.279 5 10 Dr. 25,613 5 2 C. Endowed Schools within the Meaning of the Act, but not included above. Endowed Schools within the Meaning of the Act, but not included above. Wanganui Collegiate School .. ( liiist's College Grammar School Dr. 54,689 18 4 .. 3,494 19 10 | 3,494 19 10 I 57,780 2 10 .. i Cr. 6,132 13 10 11,525 15 7 .. 11,525 15 7 11,525 15 7 3,494 19 10 | 3,494 19 10 I 57,780 2 10 11,525 15 7 1.157 4 6 4,287 11 10 1.157 4 6 4,287 11 10 58.937 7 4 4,287 11 10 58.937 7 4: Dr. 55,442 7 6 4,287 11 10 I Cr. 7,238 3 9 Dr. 55,442 7 6 Cr. 7,238 3 9 Totals Dr. 48,557 4 6 11,525 15 7 3,494 19 10 15,020 15 5 57,780 2 10 3.4114 19 10 15,020 15 5 57,780 2 10 ■■ 5,444 16 4 63,224 19 2 Dr. 48,204 3 9 Dr. 48,557 4 6 11,525 15 7 5,444 16 4 63.224 19 2 Dr. 48,204 3 9 Grand totals, A, B, ami C Dr. 64,020 12 10 j 56,331 0 11 17,355 15 2 73.686 16 1 129,983 11 3 I 56,331 0 11 17,355 15 2 73,686 16 1 129,983 11 3 J 17.520 13 9 17.520 13 9 147.504 5 0 Dr. 73,817 8 11 147.504 5 0 '. Dr. 73,817 8 11 * These schools are non-operative.

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TABLE K10.—Showing Distribution of Reserves Revenue to Secondary Schools for the Year 1917.

TABLE K11. —Lower Departments of Secondary Schools, 1917. —Average Attendance, Roll Number, Classification according to Age.

TABLE K12.—List of Secondary Schools incorporated or endowed.

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Provincial District. Distribution of Revenue. Bevenue received. Secondary Schools receiving Payments, Distribution of Revenue. Amount paid to each Sohool Auckland Taranaki Wellington Hawke's Bay.. Marlborough Nelson Westland Otago £ s. d. 1,534 18 4 Whangarei High School Auokland Boys' and Girls' Grammar Sohools .. Thames High School Hamilton High Sohool 1,012 10 10 New Plymouth High Schools 2,737 7 3 Wellington Boys'College .. Wellington Girls' College Wanganui Girls' College Palmerston North High School 1,751 4 9 Gisborne High School Napier High Schools Dannevirke High School 50 16 6 Marlborough High School 362 9 5 Nelson Colleges 97 2 9 Greymouth High Sohool Hokitika High School 1,014 0 5 Otago Boys'and Girls'High Schools Waitaki High Sohools Southland Boys' and Girls' High Schools Gore High School £ b. d. 138 2 11 1,085 4 0 124 6 4 187 5 1 1,012 10 10 914 5 9 867 14 11 413 6 8 541 19 11 616 8 7 733 15 4 401 0 10 50 16 6 362 9 5 44 19 7 52 3 2 428 18 6 229 3 7 256 10 10 99 7 6 Total 8,560 10 S Total 8,560 10 3

Mg ■ oj eg tSchool. fe'gg p; oh -4 0-7 Classifli 3d accc ii'ding ti ,o Age. 7-8 8-0 9-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15 years and over. 12 o s New Plymouth Boys' High School I 59 Now Plymouth Girls' High School I 16 Wanganui Girls' College .. I 26 Gisbornc High School . . ' .. 68 Napier Boys' High School .. 37 Napier Girls' High School .. 66 Wellington Girls' College .. 27 Nelson Boys' College .. .. 27 Nelson Girls' College .. .. 24 Christchurch Girls' High School .. 22 Ashburton High School.. .. 17 Timaru Boys' High School .. 34 Waitaki Boys' High School .. 60 Christ's College Grammar School.. 47 Totals .. ..530 Boys. 69 >ys. Girls 19 .. Girls. Is. i 2 I. 1 1 1 8 2 2 2 3 3 6 1 3 10 s 1. 13 3 5 1 6 5 1 8 5 2 14 9 7 10 4 6 1 3 5 5 17 11 10 3 5 6 7 1.4 1.4 2 9 13 6 1.5 6 1 6 8 3 17 69 18 29 73 39 69 30 27 25 25 19 41 62 54 54 39 . 18 . 29 18 29 19 ) 3 16 6 8 5 6 3 2 3 8 5 11 54 19 ) i 19 .. 69 30 3 2 3 27 19 41 62 54 25 25 1 2 2 2 3 2 .3 4 2 ! 6 4 3 10 3 6 11 7 4 2 5 2 5 22 1 2 1 4 1 ■ 3 17 2 4 3 'o 365 215 6 6 45 1 61 I 1 96 87 1 100 580 21 89 69

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 Sohool •Auckland Girls' Grammar School ♦Hamilton High Sohool ♦Thames High Sohool .. •Now Plymouth High School •Wanganui Girls' Collego Wanganui Collegiate School 1899, No. 11, Local. 1906, No. 18, Local. 1908, No. 52, section 94. 1878, No. 54, Local. 1889, No. 2, Local. 1878, No. 42, Local. [Nil] Endowment, Reg. I, fol. 52. See also D.-10, 1866, p. 9. •Palmerston North High School Wellington College and Girls' High School •Dannevirko High School •Napier High Schools .. •Gisborne High School •Marlborough High School •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, Looal. 1858, No. 38, and 1882, No. 15, Local. 1883, No. 21, Local .. 1883, No. 7, Local .. 1881, No. 15, Local. 1878, No. 30, Local .. [Nil] Not in operation. Not in operation. Greymouth High School Hokitika High School ♦Rangiora High School fChristchurch Boys' High School ■j Christchurch Girls' High School 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 Schools.. •Otago Boys' and Girjs' High Sohools •Gore High School •Southland Boys' and Girls' High Sohools Canterbury Ordinance, 1855 1881, No. 16, Local'.. 1878, No. 49, Local. 1878, No. 26, Looal. 1883, No. 19, Local .. 1878, No. 18, Local. 1877, No. 52, Local. 1904, No. 20, section 88. 1877, No. 82, Looal. Not in operation. Not in operation. inn of lontrol see Qa,zette No. 88,1915. t For scheme of control soo (iazette No. 01. 1916.

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TABLE K13—Number and Percentage of Pupils taking the various Subjects of Instruction in Secondary Schools.

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Si -sj s 1 School. si J * -4 S<1 g la 6 JE"3 ! ' s a CD M 5; .3 '5 .3 s 33' i. of ; a ° o x o o M -J = -3 £ X 5 i P ti) M 3 .3 -3 o > 3 B. : G. B. G. B. ' G. ! B. G. I 3 3 B. G. B. G. B. G. B. j G. B. < G. J B. G. B. G. B. G. j'B. ; G. B. G. B. I G. B. G. B. : G. B. ; G. I B. G. B. G. B. G. [ I B. G. B. G. B. G. Whangarei High School .. ! 84J 33 2o' 57 77 84| Auckland Boys' Grammar School 742: .. j 641 .. 742 .. 742 .. | Auckland Girls' Grammar School ' .. 434- .. 298 .. 433 .. i 434 Epsom Girls' Grammar School .... 167| .. 112 .. 167 .. 167 Thames High School .. .. 81 55, 31 13 81 55 81] 55 Hamilton High School.. .. 134 92 32 41 111 92 134 92 New Plymouth Bovs' High School 177 .. 76 .. 97 .. 175; .. New Plymouth Girls' High School .. 102 .. 47 .. 102 .. 102 Wanganui Girls' College .. .. 215 .. 64. .. 194 .. 82 Palmerston North High School .. 166 111 55 39| 82 74 166 111 Gisborne High School .. .. 77i 79 37 23J 55 60 77 79 Napier Boys' High School .. 142l .. 56 .. 103 .. 122: .. Napier Girls' High School .. j .. . 88 .. 31 .. 85 .. 42 Dannevirke High School .. | 49! 38 19 19 41 22 49 38 Wellington Boys' College .. ! 453 1 .. 312 .. 413 .. 453 1 .. Wellington Girls' College .. .. 453 .. 219 .. 420 .. 211 Marlborough High School .. ' 6ll 62 20 18 20 47 61 62 Nelson Boys' College .. .. 224 .. 115 .. 184 .. 224 .. Nelson Girls' College .. .. -. 169 .. 24 .. 114 .. 89 Rangiora High School .. 33 50 3 2 33 50 33 50 Christchurch Bovs' High School .. 254 .. 167 .. 1 240 .. 254 .. Christchurch Girls' High School.. .. ! 331 .. 174 .. 324 .. 286 Ashburton High School .. . 881 50 39 42 45 26 88 50 Timaru Boys' High School .. : 1.52! .. 63 .. 131 .. 152 .. Timaru Girls' High School .. .. 125 .. 26 .. 126 .. 95 Waitaki Boys' High School .. 286! .. 89 .. 135 .. 168 . . Waitaki Girls' High School .. . - 112 .. 3 .. 105 .. ! 83 Otago Bovs' High School .. 450 .. 268 .. 440 .. 450 .. Otago Girls' High School .. -. 321 .. 196 .. 3181 .. ; 321 Gore High School .. .. 88 81 34 36 48 42 88] 81 Southland Bovs' High Sohool .. 174 .. 80 .. 172 .. 174 .. Southland Girls' High School .. ., 232 .. 60 .. 232 ... I 185 Totals .. .. 39143451217015073230316537742799| Percentages .. .. | 1001 100 55 44 83 92 96 81 20: 57 .. 742 298 .. 112 .. 13 81 41 111 97 47 .. 64 .. 39! 82 23| 55 .. 103 31 .. 19 41 .. 413 219 .. 18 20 .. 184 24 .. 2 33 .. 1 240 174 .. 42 45 .. 131 26 .. .. 135 3 .. : .. 440 196 .. 36 48 .. 172 60 .. 1507 3230: 77 83; 84: .. | .. .. 742! . . 742: 433 .. i 434 ...... 17 132 .. 167 ..: 167 ...... 102 129 .. 55 81] 55 81' 55 92 134; 92 .. j .. 134 28 134 23 23 .. | .. .. 175: .. 175 .... ! 102 .. ! 102 87 .. 194 .. i 82 { j .. 74 166 111 166111 .. i ! .. 60 77i 79 77 79 .. ! .. .. 122: 131 .. 99 .. 85 .. ; 42 2 22 49 38 .. .. 49 38 .. 453 1 .. 452 420 .. 211 297 .. 47 61 62 .. .. 48 61 62 .. .. 224 .. 224 j .. 114 .. 89 60| .. 50 33 50 .. .. 19 18 27 .. .. 254 .. 254 j .. 324 .. 286 117 103 .. 26 88 50 .. .. 6 .. 59i 30 .. 18 .. .. 152 152 I .. 126 .. 95 2 .. .. 168 226 .. 226 j .. 105 .. ! 83 112 .. .. 450 450 .. 450 I .. 3181 .. ' 321 10 287 .. 42 88, 81 54 51 .. 174 .. 174 232 .. : 1851 7 3165 37742799 2399 2961063 3371120 55 841316 .. 92 96 81 61 9 27 10 29 2] 2 38 .. I 742 1 81 175 J I 1661 ) 77 > 452 I .. 224 254 I 54 : 174 12399 2 :j 61 .... 17 132 .. . .. ..102 129 .. 4 55 .. . .. 134 28 134 23 23 .... . ui :: I:: :: :: :: ::!:: : .. 131 .. 99 •- • .. 49 38 .. 48 61 62 .. . .. 19 18 27 .. . .. .. Ill .. .. .. 103 .. . 6 .. 59i 30 .. 18 ! .. . 152 f .. . 2 1 .. . .. 226 .. 226 i .. . - 112 -• ■'■ .. 450 .. 450 j .. .. .. .. 10 287 .. .. 51 .. .. 7 2961063 3371120 55 841316 .. 44 9 27 10 29 2 2 38 .. 1 ...... 83 ..! .. 414 .. 44! .. 89 .. . . . . 55 .. ... .. .. .. ..' .. .. I .. 19 .... 51 .. 40 40 .. .. 107 .. 36 .. .. 166 .. .... 27 53 150 53 .... 88 .. 84 ' ! • ■■ 32 ' I I ' I 50j 64! 63 50 42 80 49 60 .. '.'. 60 90 78 38 45 21 .. 28: 16 126 .. .. 100 29 28 69 .. 57 49 ..! 36 37 67 10! 47 J. 79 80 ■• 89 " -• 31 61 » 1 I i "I ■I .. I ■• i " 1 .. I .. "' I "' " " -• •• . -- "" I I 1 I 1 I 1 . .. S3 84 76 .. 742 .. 653 .. .. 414 . . .... 167 .. .. ...... I 41 134 92 .. . . 163 .. 146 .... 101 .. .. .. ! 190 .. .. 155 109 56 31 74 78 31 ' .. 122 .. 91 .. .. 86 .. .. 49: 38 30 .. 453i .. .. 66 .. 428 .. 19 61 62 .. 96 .. 164 .. 17 14 31 6 ..210 .. 138 81! .. 331 .. 30! 34 22 .. .. 152! .. .. 42 .. I 125| - - .. 274! .. i .. .. .. 112i .. .. 401 : ..I 61 .... 311 .. .. 88: 81 .. .. 165 .. 165 .... 232 .. 423 3374 32581453 12 86 94 37 ' » 72 .-. 84 i .. ..: 315 ..I 434 .. 4141 .. 165 .. I 65 .. 163 .. I . . . .! . . .. .. 102 .... ... 117 .. 201 .. 179; .. I 23 ..! I .. 20 ..: '.'. '.A 87 '.'. .'. J. 1 16 .. 30 .. . . 50 7 ..! .. 4 20 : .. . .. ..! .. 23 .. .. 156 .. 68 .. 212 .. . . ! 55i 113J ..121 .. .. .. 311! ..! .. .. 314 .. • •• .1 i .. 1768 55T347 271635; .. 24 125 67 99 13 11: :..!.. 6 " ;.. H •• •• ■• • - - i .. 68 '.'. '-!••!•• 1 I 10| .. "j ■• -I , 22 3: 5 38! .. .. i 79 12 42 ,1 •• -• I -- 150 25 -. .. .. • •! •• •■ i " " 58 47 • i •• ..68 6; .. 2 0-2 15 .. ! .. i .. .'. 20 77 .. 172 .. .. 89 34 30 46 .. 1074 705 27! 20 ! I .. j •■- 29 ..! i -- " ' ..I .. 29 .. .. 89 ! .. ! I I -I lai I •- "I v. j. "\ : .i .. '• " 48 1191 .. •■i • 44! .. 1051 529 I 1 .. 30 14 1 106 32 133 367! 420 1 •• 893 224 •• 44 83 3| — I 1 — 11 52 1 39 1 47 .. -4 26 92 2 ■• 11 i ..I 371 0I J II I II II II

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TABLE K14.—Classes approved under Regulations for Manual Instruction for Year ending 31st December, 1917.

TABLE L1.—District High Schools: Number, Attendance, Staffs, Salaries in Secondary Departments, 1917.

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Subjects of Instruction, and in each Subje ■i a ■= •I -1 ° - (2 | * °8 Secondary School. - -S n „£ a * ai s K M .3 3 §2 a -g ltd .18 2-9 1 J* S^ ft P is H Subj lects oi Instrui in I ■a 3 ■a II id Numl bjeot. . Numbei itict. & I 3 i 1 • u .9 oi J a 3 > is i CO r ier of Cl irof C ■3-7 •S'S an « |1 §£7. sag <U 43 fi H isses Receipts. Expei iditure. Secondary School. P. 1 | CD I y 9 a o Q i 3 1 ■3-7 •8-a an « fl §£•2 HU 43 (S Hi a X dip -4<rj MS44 I - ■ S ■ M 3 1-SjrfS s l Ph tl 9.43 g JS 33 o 9 « 3 44 O J ail lis W §15 111 CD a ISP 2.9 i a BO is m jj o H I l : JB £ 72 150 57 78 81 23 139 : 153 95 102 74 28 83 45 117 88 161 21 82 1 12 50 I 132 ; 61 114 21 92 8 ; 112 35 48 72 53 Whangarei High School . . .. .. 1j 5 3 Hamilton High Sohool . . . . ' . . 3 4 II Thames High Sohool .. . . ,. 2 1 5 New Plymouth High Sohool .. .. 2 . . , 14 Wanganui Girls' College . . .. .. 12 . . 9 Palmerston North High Sohool . . 4 6 2 12 Wellington Boys' College .. I .. .... 33 Wollington Girls' Colloge.. .. 9 5 .. 30 Napi'er Boys' High Sohool .. 4 . . 3 10 Napier Girls' High Sohool .. .. 7 .. 8 Dannevirke High School.. . . 2 .. . . 7 Gisborne High School .. . . . . 4 2 9 Marlborough High Sohool .. .. 1 '.. 9 Nelson Girls' College .. .. 3 9 .. 9 Nelson Boys' College .. .. 5 .. 3 5 Christohuroh Girls' High Sohool .. I 7 18 .. 23 Christohuroh Boys'High Sohool .. .. .. 2 15 Rangiora High Sohool .. .... 2 1 5 Ashburton High Sohool .. ..... 4 2 8 Timaru Girls' High Sohool .... 3 i .. 7 Timaru Boys' High Sohool . . 3 .. 2 3 Waitaki Girls' High Sohool 9 Waitaki Boys' High Sohool • • , • • • • 3 6 Otago Girls' High Sohool .. I Otago Boys' High Sohool .. 14 Southland Girls'High Sohool .. 7 1..;.. 14 Gore High School .. .. I .. 2 2 8 Totals, 1917 .. ..44 81 ' 32 284 Totals, 1916 .. .. ! 39 75 31 274 I* I 9 i 3 4 5 2 1 1 26 21 2 2 2 2 4 2 I I 1 "3 2 4 5 2 29 28 9 20 8 18 30 28 33 44 19 15 10 16 11 21 16 49 17 10 21 10 17 9 II 5 16 22 II £ 93 245 14 40 81 107 £ 4 2 I 1 } 55 - 228 35 247 I I 1 3 32 398 "3 10 66 23 27 23 69 18 52 116 2 4 5 2 I I I 1 129 . 268 184 96 2 26 29 496 2,315 144 1,674 987 468 2,164 1,600 1,272 1,829

Nui Education Board. B - Sei r--4 < | mber of Secondary Departments grouped N' according to Average Attendance. Average Assist] — ; — . ; Attend- «□ an - otin tu)2 w>S oco ance, g° |? £S g? F 2S V* Total . 3917.* M . N |s Sri ss gs fi gg imber of Average bnt Teachers. Number of Pupils per F. Total. Assistant Teacher. Statutory Annual Rate of Salary as in December, 1917.t "i I Auckland .. .. 3 Taranaki .. .. 2 Wanganui.. .. 4 Hawke's Bay Wellington .. 3 Nelson .. . . 1 Canterbury .. 6 Otago .. .. 2 3 i 1 1 2 3 3 4 i 4 1 5 3 .. .. I .. 2 '.. .'. .. 1 .. i io 3 6 3 9 4 16 9 334 176 147 142 345 132 680 293 5 I 2 2 4 10 6 6 4 11 5 21 11 15 7 8 6 15 5 27 14 22 25 18 24 23 26 25 21 £ s. d. 3,577 0 0 1,416 0 0 1,730 0 0 1,375 0 0 3,730 0 0 1,197 0 0 6,479 0 0 3,471 0 0 14 i .'.'!. .. l : .. .. ; 4 1 j 1 .. 4 .. 1 .. 6 3 Totals, 1917 .. 21 18 1 ; 60 2,249 23 71 97 23 22,975 0 0 Totals, 1916 .. 14 23 17 1 J I 60 2,201 28 os 90 23 22,956 10 0 * This column differs fri the totals of attendance for th the gross quarterly totals of al t Includes additional sals 5m the colu e mean of tl 11 secondary i.ry of £30 pt nun of average atteni he four quarters of e y- departments taken ; annum paid to hea dance in Tab! iach secondar together, .dmasters of I le L2 for y depart the rei .PI'' M i t ason th laken si latthe eparati numbers in this table are :ely, and not the mean of >istrlct I High St chools.

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TABLE L2.—School Attendance at Secondary Departments of District High Schools for 1917.

TABLE L3.—Number of Pupils in Secondary Departments of District High Schools taking various Subjects, 1917.

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Boll Nl imbers. Mean of. ofFoi iverage Weekly Boll lr Quarters, 1017. Average Whole Average A i te Attendance for e Year (Mean of attendance of Four Quarters). Average Attendance asPercentago of the Mean of Average Weekly Roll of Tour Quarters. Education Districts. Pupils at 31st Dec, 1916. Pupils at 31st Dec, 1917. Boys. Girls. Total. 212 367 '105 ! 195 98 163 81 153 186 365 84 145 338 713 170 304 Boys. 141 81 58 67 168 54 347 123 Girls. Total. 191 332 95 176 87 145 75 142 176 344 76 130 306 653 156 279 Auckland.. Taranaki Wanganui Hawke's Bay Wellington Nelson Canterbury Otago ' 1917. 283 180 130 103 277 134 657 291 316 203 139 128 321 131 655 287 155 90 65 72 179 61 375 134 90-2 90-3 90-0 92'8 94-2 89'7 9 DO 91'5 Totals for 1917 2,180 1,131 1,274 2,405 1,274 2,405 1,039 1,039 1,162 2,201 91-5 Totals for 1916 2,115 1,166 1,220 2,386 1,073 1,103 2,176 91-2 Difference .. 65 -35 54 19 -34 59 25 0-3 _l

Subjects. Auckland. Tara B. G. B. .naki. Want jauiii. Hawke's Wei Bay. to B. G. B. llingin. Nelson. Gam bui ■I'.VOta i go. Tot; ills. IV cent fcage. G. B. G. 0. B. G. B. G. B. G. B. G. B. G. English and Arithmetic .. History and Geography .. Latin .. Kronch Mathematics Survoying and Mensuration Chemistry and Physics Botany.. Agricultural Science Dairy-work Physiology and Zoology .. Hygiene Domestic Scionco Needlework and Cookory .. Woodwork and Metalwork Laundry-work Book-keeping and Commercial Work Shorthand and Typewriting Drawing 140 124 14 74 138 96 102 124 123 21 9 140 195 96 124 175 87 14 10 45 74 104 70 138 186 96 22 96 125; 57 102 1321 63 124 167 66 123 168 22 21 35 .. 9 14 .. 109 100 45 80 109 80 80 51 36 4 40 61 4 56 47 13 1 52 49: 18 35; 9 95 79 15 7 78 61 15 13 57 56 37 10 56 55 57 72 163 56 68 147, 37 41 92 10 13 24 56 70 149 55 72 152 1 59 55 70 88 55 70 4 168 1.48 75 , 53 133 99 45 11 7 56 81 46 81 14 24 18 31 39 58 40 50 16 16 352 335 181 52 283 62 258 91 120 67 16 53 325 275 147 63 227 18 1.28 1 53 I 16 69 17 93 51. 143 134 123 62 35 112 48 87 120 87 1S3 160 102 53 1.39 5 93 134 101 1,054 965 458 284 925 132 794 469 575 290 137 165 1,228 1,086: 459 404 1,000 23 708 ii76 529 364 170 1 430 153; 665 100 92 43 27 88 13 75 44 55 28 13 16 100 88 37 33 81 2 58 47 43 30 14 35 12 54 55 55 10 14 10 14 30 51 69 9 80 .. .. 60 12 .. 60 .. 45 .. 129 128 '90 13 100 35 20 07 90 'J. 139 .'.' 90 .. 22 51 45 i:*.9 33 22 .. 122 65 546 67 67 79 1 36 2 19 64 32 12 12 26 35 65 53 30 35 105 18 108 35 24 304 J83 : 359 29 15 29 . 2 44 2 9 .. 44 72 1 86 13 2 13 12 15 2 .. 41 34 16 15 14 50 29 70 12 16 8 9 15 III 157 148 205 11 15 12 17 1 4 32 Total MUM her of pupils 140 140 195 96 96 109 56 57 57 72 163 168 56 81 352 325 134 183 1,045 1,228 100 100 95

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TABLE L4. —Staffs and Average Attendance of Secondary Departments of District High Schools, 1917

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Notk. —In the column Secondary Department. Each of the four normi with the regulations for trai for "Position on Staff," (5), "H" mean ins Head of a School, and " D" i as Head of t it Assistant in the al schools, although not a district high scl: ining colleges. SO" _... . Sjfi g Name of Teacher. jhool, has a secondary departmeni hool, has a s laff, Classification or Degree. . in accordance ta.fr. Statutory Annual Bates of Salary at End of Year. School. Classification Position Grading, or Degree. on Staff. 1917. (i) (5) I (6) _(U (2) __ . (3) W m_ Auckland — Aratapu 36 Crabbo, Norman J. Gavey, Annie L. .. Ross, Nellie 21 Campbell, Robert. Meredith, Charles 21 Elliot, James .. ; Hurdsfield, Edgar C. 21 Murdoch, Albert Shrewsbury, Elsie .. 20 Hamilton, J. B C B.A., B C C C C M.A., A B.A., B.Sc, A H. D. D. H. D. H. D. H. 1). H. 52 51 76 28 55 47 £ s. d. 30 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 30 0 0 240 0 0 3(1 0 0 207 0 0 30 0 0 340 0 0 30 0 0 Cambridge .. Coromandel Normal l'aeroa 29 22 22 Pukekolie . . .. Rotorua Tauranga Tregenna, Dorothy E. 02 Flavell, .Dennis Rupert Freeman, Mabel E. Howard, Gladys H. 19 Tanner, Thomas B. Worker, Rupert V. D. 38 Law, Norman H. S. Taylor, Fanny J. . . Connell, John W. 34 Power, Edward A. Wilton, Elizabeth I. Hamos, Clarice E. 62 Wilson, Charlos (ii) 'Ellicott, Kenneth W. 15. .. Holmdcn, Dorothy I) M.A., A M.A., I! I) C B.A., B 0 I) B.A., B c' M.A.', A D. H. D. D. H. D. II. D. I). II. D. D. H. D. D. 55 03 29 12 53 75 37 J 71 0 0 30 0 0 240 0 0 190 0 0 30 0 0 17.1 0 0 30 0 0 250 0 0 190 0 0 30 0 0 240 0 0 171 0 0 30 0 0 . 207 0 0 210 0 0 Te Kuiti Waihi 16 Taranaki— Eltham 69 H awora Stratford 8 Thomas, Taliesiu Wilson, Margaret K. 30 Strack, Conrad A. . . ' Hosking, Jane (Mrs.) 138 Tyrcr, Florence A. R. Bowler, Frederick Sage, Constance M. Colquhoun, Mary H. Lovell-Smith, Constance I. . . Terry, Mary C. C Lie. D C I) B.A., Lie M.A., A B B.A., B H. D. H. D. H. D. D. D. D. D. 30 26 9L 12 30 0 0 J 90 0 0 30 0 0 210 0 0 30 0 0 252 0 0 190 0 0 190 0 0 150 (I 0 144 0 0 Wanganui— Bull's '78 75 Feilding ilunterville .. 15 Gray, Joseph H. Jamieson, Catherine (i) 62 Richardson, Henrv H. Wyatt, Gladys M. .. Dons, Emilie H. .. Hampton, Lilly W. 12 Ironmonger, Fjdwin L. Clayton, Ruth L. (I. 25 Ryder, Robert B.'-.. Thomas, William W. 12 Hird, William E. . . ! Lehndorf, Chloe R. 21 Thurston, James F. Hall, Percy H. .. 15 62 12 D B.A., B B.A., B C C 1) I) B.A.; B B.A., B B.A., I! M.A., li B.A., B C D H. D. H. D. 1). 1). 11. I). H. D. H. D. H. D. 35 68 12 59 98 97 26 30 0 0 200 0 0 30 0 0 210 0 0 120 0 0 120 0 0 30 0 0 190 0 0 30 0 0 270 0 0 30 0 0 190 0 0 30 0 0 '250 0 0 Marton 25 11 66 28 91 1.9 l'atea 12 Taihape 21 Hawke's Bay— Hastings 65 Pegler, Leonard F. Hodgson, Ruth J. .. Smith, William H. (ii) Anderson, Nollie W. 53 Smith, William (iii) Koane, Jeremiah Livingstone, Fanny R. 24 Stevenson, Andrew Tooman, Elizabeth 65 B.A., B B C C B.A., B C M.A., B C B.A.. B H. D. D. D. II. D. D. II, D. 13 47 80 73 23 54 72 9 02 30 0 0 230 0 0 190 0 0 165 0 0 30 0 0 270 0 0 190 0 0 30 0 0 240 0 0 Waipawa Woodvillo Wellington—Carterton 43 Cowles, Jabez A. .. Wilson, Marion K. Haddroll, Olive V. 24 ! Dempsey, Walter N. Lazarus, Frances 12 Davies, William C. Junker, Fritzena E. I). 27 Burns, Andrew N... Myors, Phcebe 43 Mclntyre, James Roeke'l, Cecil F. .. Cathie, Winifred A. 85 Jackson, William H. Bee, John G. Brown, Alexandra M. McKenzie, Mary B. 20 Webb, James C. .. Sinclair, Mary A 36 Chatwin, George W. Reese, Marion (ii) . . .. i McHardie, Winifred E. .. \ B.A., B M.A., A M.A., B D C 1) B M.A., A B.A., B D B M.A., A D M.A., A B.A., D M.A., A B.A., B B.A., B C B.A., B B.A., B H. D. D. H. D. II. D. H. D. II. D. D. H. I). D. D. H. D. II. D. I). 20 45 64 40 57 22 30 0 0 250 0 0 210 0 0 30 0 0 250 0 0 30 0 0 190 0 0 30 0 0 220 0 0 30 0 0 270 0 0 200 0 0 30 0 0 250 0 0 210 0 0 160 0 0 30 0 0 340 0 0 30 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 Kkctahuua Greytown Hutt 4 47 28 66 68 11 48 66 81 7 33 18 57 65 Levin Masterton Normal Pahiatua

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TABLE L4.—Further Details relating to Secondary Departments of District High Schools— continued.

School 0) Sf§s 33 2 « (2) Name of Teacher. Itaff. Classification Position or Degree. on Staff. (4) (5)_ . . Statutory j Annual Ea'tee «*'• |atEn§of7ear. (6) J (7) I (B) Wellington —continued. Petone iSii Haslam, Charles N. Lynskoy, James H. Braddock, Catherine C. B.A., B II. B.A., B D. M.A., A D. £ s. d. 18 30 0 0 II 270 0 0 88 190 0 0 Nelson— Motueka 24 Griffin, Thomas J. Aitkeu, Janet W. . . Hum bold, William A ll.opkirk, Susan M. Boyes, William H. Ainsworth, Emma F. Harkness, James H. Dale, Margaret J. ., Hurley, Elizabeth (Mrs.) Reei'ton Takaka (Lower) 24 19 B.A., B 11. M.A. D. C H. B.A., I! D. D II. B.A., B I). B.A., B 11. M.A., B D. D D. 9 30 0 0 207 0 0 15 30 0 0 79 240 0 0 34 30 0 0 64 210 0 0 5 ' 30 0 0 68 ; 230 0 0 190 0 0 Westport 65 Canterbury—■ Akaroa J 9 Hall, Charles Garton, Wilfred W. Waller, Francis D. Clark, Sidney A. .. Mayno, Arthur J. . . Finlayson, Annie C. Kompthorno, Gladys E. Marriott, Gladys E. Mayne, Helga M. . . .. Vallanoe, Nellie M. Ellis, Leonard R. Me I Iwraith, Helen E. M. . . Bain, Andrew Parnie, Dorothy C. Adams, Allan A. . . Wliitmoro, Elizabeth P. (Mrs.) Struthors. Susan B. de Berry, Leonard l'\ Williams, Henry Casey, Ellen C. Donds, Thomas Grace, Eleanor A. .. Wilson, Henry L. . . Reynolds, Mary C. Cookson, Arthur . . ... Osborn, Mabel E. . . Just, Emilie U. Blain, Thomas Aschman, Christopher T. Irwin, James Williams, Florence W. A. .. Watson, Lancelot ... Best, Isabel W. . . Clarke. Robert B. .. Anderson, Grace, M, Walker, Joseph W. A. Wills, Kathleen P. Methven, James Ferguson, Albert J. Mills, Mary M. Laing, Thomas M. M. Olliver, Margaret E. L. C H. M.A., A I). B.A., B II. B.A., B D. M.A., B I). M.A., A I). C D. B.A., B D. C I). C D. E II. C ! I). B.A., B II. M.A., B D. I) H. B.A., B I). B I). M.A., B H. C D. B I I). I! H. C D. B H. M.A., B D. D II. B.A., B I). D 11. B.A., B I). C II. B.A., B I). B.A., B D, C II. B I). B II. M.A., A 1). C u. B.A., B D. B.A., B It. M.A., B D. D. B.A., 1! II. M.A., M.Sc, 1). A B.A., B ]>. I H7 30 0 0 43 ; 270 0 0 8 I 30 0 0 38 ' 300 0 0 54 220 0 0 54 210 0 0 91 180 0 0 71 180 0 0 66 180 0 0 75 150' 0 0 59 30 0 0 . 130 0 0 9 30 0 0 59 240 0 0 26 I 30 0 0 lil 260 0 0 86 190 0 0 13 30 0 0 43 270 0 0 80 190 0 0 12 30 0 0 68 240 0 0 39 30 0 0 77 i 200 0 0 42 30 0 0 59 220 0 0 12 30 0 0 53 ! 250, 0 0 7 ! 30 0 (I 30 300 0 0 60 ! 250 0 0 41. 30 0 0 66 190 0 0 19 M0 0 0 69 240 0 0 30 30 0 0 63 i 230 0 0 12 30 0 0 48 270 0 0 .189 0 0 52 I 30 o 0 60 I 210 0 0 07 180 0 0 Christchurch West 252 Darfleld 10 Geraldino 25 Groymoufli .. 58 Uokitika 55 Kaiapoi 17 Kaikoura Town 13 Lincoln 13 Lyttelton 21 Normal 42 Oxford East . . 13 Pleasant Point 17 Southbridgo . . 24 Temuka 31 Waimate 53 Otago— Alexandra 22 Dyer, Henrietta E. Balclutha 1 >awronco iMosgiel Normal 22 61 40 40 53 61 40 40 53 McLean, Alexander (i) McCorkindale, Elizabeth L.. . Nicolson, John McN. Patcrson, Janet Elder, Violet Dunn, Annie Jones, Herbert 0. .. Botting, Robert W. S. Jennings, Miargaret A, Graham, George P. Bressey, Florence F. Milno, Hilda H. (Mrs.) McElrea, William Stewart, Charles A. Konyon, Helen McG. Rutherford, John R. Hale, Lily G. Booth, George F. .. Sinclair, Agnes Mackie, William W. Learmouth, Ivy A. Graham, Walter B. Johnson, Alfred G. 0 H. B D. C II. M.A, B I). B.A., B D. B.A., B I). B H. C .1). B.A., B I). B.A., B II. M.A., A I). B.A., B D. B.E., 1! II. M.A., A D. B.A., B D. M.A., A H. B.A., B D. B.A., B H. C D. C H. D. 0 H. D. 34 30 0 0 57 240 0 0 7 30 0 0 47 230 0 0 74 190 0 0 8!) 150 0 0 2! 30 0 0 64 250 0 0 60 ' 210 0 0 12 ' 30 0 0 45 250 0 0 60 220 0 0 6 30 0 0 46 • 360 0 0 63 250 0 0 12 30 0 0 78 190 0 0 20 30 0 0 69 240 0 0 27 30 0 0 230 0 0 7 30 0 0 191 0 0 Palmorston .. 23 23 Port Chalmers 25 25 Tapanui 21 21 Tokomairiro .. 8 8 Totals, .1917 2,249 2,249 22,975 0 0 22,975 0 0

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TABLE L5.—Number and Value of National Scholarships.

5. statements of receipts and expenditure, and of assets and liabilities, of governing bodies of seoondary schools. WHANGAREI HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement ov Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, .1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Endowments— of year .. .. .. .. 522 2 2 Proportion of office salaries .. .. 12 17 9 Endowments — Proportion of office expenses .. .. 5 0 0 Current income from reserves vested in Proportion of travelling-expenses of Board . . .. .. .. _257 13 0 Board members .. .. .. 2 0 0 Revenue from secondary - education re- Repairs to buildings and insurances .. 79 12 6 resorves (administered by Land Boards) 132 6 2 Secondary Department— Kent from Public Trustee from Auek- Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,093 15 0 laud Supremo Court site .. .. 37 13 5 incidental expenses .. .. .. 321 511 Secondary Department— Maintenance (including material) of From Government — classes for manual instruction .. 92 14 11 Eor sites, buildings, furniture, &o. Scholarships .. .. .. 22 0 0 (general purposes) . . .. 145 0 0 Buildings, &c. — Capitation for free places (including New buildings, additions, or ' other annual grant, £100) .. .. 2,331 10 0 • new works .. .. .. ,301 12 6 Capitation for classes for manual in- Maintenance and repairs to buildings 68 14 4 struction .. .. .. 91 2 10 Furniture and apparatus (excluding School fees.. .. .. .. 147 0 0 boardinghouses) .. .. 73 12 10 Voluntary contributions for general pur- , Miscellaneous (rent, school-grounds, poses .. .. .. .. 20 4 0 rates, insurance, &c.) .. .. 42 14 4 Interest on £500 for Kerr's Scholarship .. 32 16 - 5 Boardinghouses— Boardinghouses—Boarding fees .. 341 0 0 General maintenance .. .. 354 0 0 General — Proportion of office salaries and expenses 12 0 6 Contractor's deposit on building contract 5 0 0 General — Refunds .. .. .. .. 3 5 1 Repairs to school-fences, draining and tarring school-grounds .. .. 20 14 9 Contractor's deposit on building contract 5 0 0 Contribution to War Fund .. .. 60 5 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 492 12 9 £4,066 13 1 £1,000 13 1 Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Balance, Bank of New Zealand .. . . 492 12 9 I Balance on school-site .. .. .. 500 0 0 Balance, capitation, free-place pupils, third ! Borough water rates .. .. . . 15 4 term, 1917 .. .. .. 19 5 0 Printing and advertising .. .. 015 0 Government grant, section 100, Education Act, 1914 .. .. .. .. 313 0 8 Outstanding school fees .. .. .. 28 0 0 Outstanding boarding fees .. .. 13 0 0 Outstanding rents .. .. .. 28 19 S £615 4 1 £502 0 4 W. A. (.'arruth, Chairman J. McKinnon, Secretary.

Education District. Total Number December, 1 Boys. Girls. J ■icld in (17. Total. Receiving Boarding- Receiving Tra' allowance (included in allowance (ineli Total Number). Total Numl Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. railing- 2~b SIS'ft 1 Total. jp«aa2(Kj,~rtP3aioD J 111 ■a ills Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Hawke's Bay Wellington Nelson Canterbury Otago Southland 123 59 21 4 23 25 21 18 40 29 11 15 78 ! 46 66 22 20 17 182 25 48 39 69 26 124 88 37 30 21 51 It 8 II .. II 8 13 21 4 6 10 I I 13 6 19 2 7 9 16 25 1.6 41 4 2 .1.6 9 25 9 8 1.7 11 I 2 8 1 1.9 173 6 13 ..39 4 2 31 2 55 5 20 6 98 1 70 3 37 19 2 2 3 12 5 8 9 £ 3,005 495 1,050 585 1,170 755 2,287 1,490 840 4 2 6 25 15 j j , __ 123 88 211 18 U 18 Totals, 1917 403 235 638 II 29 542 19 77 1.1,677

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AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOLS BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Kndowments — Overdraft or Dr. balance at beginning of Current income from reserves vested in year .. .. ~ . . 3,545 0 5 Board — j Endowments — Auckland .. .. .. 5,929 15 10 Proportion of office salaries .. .. 497 16 .'! Maungaru .. .. .. 279 13 10 Proportion of office expenses .. .. 43 0 0 Revenue from secondary - education Proportion of travelling-expenses of reserves— Board members . . . . .. 1 15 6 Administered by Laud Boards .. 1,080 3! 2 Repairs .. .. .. .. 513 410 Administered by Public Trustee .. 316 13 0 Insurances.. .. .. ~ 110 3 2 City Council debenture interest .. 199 o 0 Rates .. .. .. .. 730 18 7 Sale of stone from Mount Eden .. 9 9 0 Secondary Department— Secondary Department— Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 15,423 16 9 Prom Government —Capitation for free Incidental expenses .. .. 2,492 10 8 places (including annual grant, £100) 14,795 19 9 Buildings, &0. — School foes .. .. .. 811 13 0 New buildings, additions, or other Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 6,236 I 9 ' new works .. .. .. 5,121 14 7 Maintenance and repairs to buildings 325 1 8 Furniture and apparatus (excluding boardinghouses) .. .. 138 4 5 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &o.) .. 96 8 2 Interest on loan .. .. .. 75 0 0 General— Interest on overdraft .. .. 508 13 0 Renovation of old Grammar School buildingsg • • ■ • ■ • 20 0 6 Library books .. .. ~ 14 15 1 £29,064 9 10 £29,664 9 10 Examined and found correct. —R. J, Collins, Controller and Auditor-General. Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. , Liabilities. £ s. d. ('ash in hand .. .. .. 15 5 0 Bank, overdraft and unpresented cheques 11,201. 6 9 Auckland City Council debentures .. 5,000 0 0 Loan from Diocesan Pension Board .. 1,000 0 0 School fees outstanding .. .. 132 19 0 ! Private loan .. .. .. .. 500 0 0 Government capitation (school fees) .. 1,636 5 0 Contractor's deposit .. .. .. 50 0 0 Rents outstanding .. .. ~ 941 14 2 Prizes .. .. .. .. 110 18 10 Fitting up library .. .. .. 15 0 0 Property repairs .. .. .. 40 0 0 Ball courts, Girls' School, Epsom .. 30 0 0 £7,726 3 2 £12,947 5 7 A. P. W. Thomas, Chairman. W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary, HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Sta'tement of Accounts for the Year ended .31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Secondary Department— of year .. .. .. .. 210 1 5 Toachers' salaries and allowances .. 2,578 10 7 Endowments— Incidental expenses . . .. .. 386 3 0 Current income from reserves vested in Maintenance (including material) of Board .. .. .. .. 50 5 0 classes for manual instruction .. 245 6 7 Revenue from secondary-oducation re- New buildings, additions, or other new serves (administered, by Land Boards) 232 4 3! works ..' .. .. .. 41 7 5 Secondary Department— Library .. .. .. .. 1 19 9 h'rom Government— Balance at end of year .. .. 1,044 8 8 For sites, buildings, furniture, &c. (general purposes) .. .. 31 0 0 Capitation for free places (including annual grant, £100) .. .. 3,349 5 0 Capitation for classes for manual instruction .. .. .. 136 5 0 School fees.. .. .. .. 273 6 8 Refunds from pupils for books, &c. .. 10 0 0' Voluntary contributions for general purposes .. ' .. . . .. 5 8 2 £4,297 16 0 £4,297 16 0 Examined and found correct.—R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General

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Statement of Monetary Assets and Inabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d Cash in bank.. .. .. .. 1,317 15 II Unpresented cheques .. .. .. 291 13 11 Cash in hand. . .. .. .. 118 0 8 Teaching staff .. .. .. 154 0 0 Capitation due .. .. .. 176 1 8 Fees due .. .. .. .. 613 4 £1,518 17 7 £445 14 5 Geo. Edgeoumbe, Chairman. R. English, Secretary. THAMES HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement ©p Accounts foe the Year ended 31st December, 191.7. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. •£ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Endowments —Proportion of office salaries of year .. .. . . .. 106 2 5 | and expenses .. .. . . 01 10 2 Endowments — Secondary Department— Royalty on metal .. .. .. 7 0 3 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 1,663 8 3 Current income from reserves vested in Incidental expenses .. .. .. 355 19 4 Board . . .. .. .. 928 ,'! 0 Maintenance (including material) of Revenue from secondary-education re- classes for manual instruction . . 13 12 7 serves (administered by Land Boards) 126 19 10 Scholarships .. .. .. 13 14 0 Goldfields revenue .. . . .. 25 0 0 Buildings, &c. — Secondary .Department— !\ow buildings, additions, or other new From Government— works .. . . . . .. 409 1 7 For sites, buildings, furniture, &c. Maintenance and repairs to buildings.. 32 10 2 (general purposes) .. .. 500 0 0 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c).. 12 19 8 Capitation for free places .. .. 1,318 0 0 . Loans — Capitation for classes for manual in- j Principal repaid .. .. .. 321 19 3 struction .. .. .. 65 5 0 j Interest .. .. .. .. 345 9 7 School fees.. .. .. .. 138 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 180 10 11 Rent .. .. .. .. 28 16 8 Interest on mortgage investment .. 89 14 0 Contractor's deposit . . .. 40 0 0 Auckland Education Endowment .. 37 14 4 £3,411 I 6 £3,411 1 6 Statement of Monetary Assets and LiabiMties on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. i Liabilities. £ s. d. Balance, Bank of New Zealand.. .. 180 10 11 Loan, balance duo, Government Insurance Mortgage investment .. .. .. 1,500 0 0 Department .. .. .. 6,423 1 4 Unpaid school fees .. .. .. 23 12 0 Unpaid rents .. .. .. 700 4 2 j £2,410 7 I | £6,423 1 4 Henry Lowe, Chairman. Jas. Kernick, Secretary. NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Secondary Department— of year, Ist January, 1917 .. .. 4,824 1.6 9 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 3,380 14 1 Endowments — Incidental expenses .. .. .. 705 3 4 Current income- from reserves vested in Maintenance (including material) of Board .. .. .. .. 930 15 3 classes for manual instruction .. 39 18 1 Revenue from secondary-education re- Library .. . . .. .. 40 3 3 serves (administered by Land Boards) 955 6 I I Books, &c, for sale to pupils, and other Secondary Department— temporary advances .. .. 1,786 17 1 From Government — Buildings, &c. — Capitation for free places (including Rent; of sites .. . . . . 00 0 0 annual grant, £100) .. .. 3,370 8 5 New buildings, additions, or other new Capitation for classes for manual in- works .. .. .. .. 2,.304 6 4 struction .. .. .. 71 6 3 j Maintenance and repairs to buildings 249 3 II School fees.. .. .. .. 399 15 0 ! Eurniture and apparatus (excluding Refunds from pupils for advances .. 1,553 10 10 boardinghouses).. .. .. 503 10 11 Grazing school-grounds .. .. 4 17 0 .Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, <fcc.).. 07 16 0 Bequests and voluntary contributions Lower Department— for prizes . . .. .. 78 3! 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 463 2 6 Refunds .. .. .. .. 5 It) 5 Incidental expenses .. .. ... 200 (i 9 Lower Department —School fees .. 580 10 6 Boardinghouses— Boardinghouses — General maintenance .. .. 4,491 13 7 . Boarding fees .. .. .. 5,092 9 0 Furniture, &e. .. ..• .. 945 17 1 Sales and refunds .. .. .. 15 0 (i Proportion'of office salaries and expenses 100 0 0 General— Interest on loans .. .. .. 742 10 0 Interest on current account .. .. 90 18 7 Balance at end of year .. .. 1,982 0 0 Deposits on contracts .. .. 150 0 0 1318,129 8 II £18,129 8 II Examined and found, correct, except that there is no authority of law for the Board's deposit of £1,000 with the the Mortgage, Loan, and Agency Company (Limited) of New Plymouth.—R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General.

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Statement of Monetary Assets and Inabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. , Liabilities. £ s. d Balances— i Unpresented cheques . . .. .. 37 13 4 Bank of New Zealand .. .. 184 26 j Deposits on contracts .. .. .. 158 2 0 Post Office Savings-bank .. . . 657 3 6 Sundry creditors — New Plymouth Savings-bank.. .. 103 13 4 Boy's .. .. .. .. 227 3 2 Mortgage, Loan, and Agency Company. . 1.000 0 0 i Girls .. .. .. .. 48 1 3 New Plymouth Savings-bank (Trust, ; Accrued interest on loan .. .. 220 0 0 Account) .. .. .. 75 0 0 ; Capitation overpaid .. .. .. 1,580 2 10 Rent outstanding .. .. .. 58 1 9 Loan, Public Trustee .. .. .. 12,000 tl 0 Advances to pupils— Boys .. .. .. .. 540 14 8 Girls .. .. .. .. 133 18 0 Boarding fees— Boys .. .. .. .. 84 13 8 Girls .. .. .. .. loioo School fees — Boys .. .. .. .. 7126 Girls .. .. .. .. 20 12 6 Secondary-education reserves. December quarter .. .. .. .. 200 0 0 £3,145 18 5 £14,277 2 7 David Hutoiien, Chairman. B, Lash, Secretary.

WANGANUI GIRLS' COLLEGE BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1017. Receipts. £ s. d. ' Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Endowments—Legal expenses .. 3 3 0 of year ..-■ .. .. .. 104 10 5 Secondary Department— Endowments — Toachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,588 10 10 Current income from reserves vested in I ncidental expenses .. .. .. 918 10 4 Board .. .. .. .. 1,125 18 0 Maintenance (including material) of Revenue from secondary-education re- classes for manual instruction .. 81 510 serves (administered by Land Boards) 312 6 10 Books, &e., for sale to pupils, and other Secondary Department— temporary advances .. 1,750 911 From Government— Buildings, kc. — For buildings, furniture, fittings, &c, Purchase of sites .. .. .. 541 7 1 for classes for manual instruction .. 22 14 7 Maintenance and repairs to buildings .. 284 16 0 Capitation for free places (including Furniture and apparatus (excluding annual grant, £1.00) .. .. 1,934 0 7 boardinghouses) .. .. .. 4 5 2 Capitation for classes for manual in- Miscellaneous (rates, rent, &c.) .. 51 2 0 struction .. .. .. 110 0 0 Lower Department— School fees .. .. .. 1,997 0 3 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 136 13 4 Refunds from pupils for books, &,c. .. 1,639 15 9 ■ Incidental expenses .. .. .. 121 10 II Lower Department—School fees .. 315 910 Boardinghouses — Boardinghouses—Boarding fees .. .. 4,587 0 7 ; General maintenance .. .. 3,077 1.1 4 General— Furniture, &c. .. .. .. 287 3 I Refunds .. .. .. .. 26 1.3 1 Proportion of office salaries and expenses 133 0 0 Breakages .. .. .. .. 4 13 II General — Use of baths .. .. .. 51 10 0 Fire insurance .. .. .. 48 18 2 Use of pianos .. .. .. 117 16 2 Accident .. .. .. .. 13 16 7 Church sittings .. .. .. 59 18 0 Refunds .. .. .. .. 25 11 4 Sale of music, &o. .. .. .. 16 2 7 Church sittings .. .. .. 59 0 0 Rent of hall .. .. .. 0 10 0 Music .. .. .. .. 73 0 9 Stationery charge .. .. .. 35 7 0 Bank charge .. .. .. 010 0 Unclassified .. .. .. 0 19 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 1,260 211 £12,462 0 1 £12,402 0 I Examined and found correct. —R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General. Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Balance at bank .. .. .. 1,453 12 5 ; Unpresented cheques .. .. .. 193 8 3 Manual and technical capitation .. 73 17 9 Rent of office.. .. .. .. 15 0 0 Free-place capitation .. .. .. 88 8 I Sundry accounts .. .. .. 15 13 Advances to pupils .. .. .. 831 10 5 Outstanding fees .. ~ .. 339 11. 4 £2,787 0 0 | £223 9 6 j David McEari.ane, Chairman. W. .1. Carson, Secretary.

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WANGANUI COLLEGIATE SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for thiii Year ended «31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure,. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Overdraft or Dr. balanco at boginning of of year .. .. .. .. 48 3 2 year .. .. .. .. 027 5 6 Current income from reserves vested in Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 5,199 2 4 Board .. .. .. .. 3,303 19 0 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 1,9911810 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,825 0 0 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 314 2 2 Boarding-school foes .. .. .. 11,572 7 1 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and Books, ifee., sold and other refunds .. 3,646 10 4 other temporary advances .. .. 3,733 19 3 Income from prize funds .. .. 11 11 10 Boarding-school account .. .. 7,338 II 4 Music fees .. .. .. .. 526 1 0 Salary of medical officer .. .. 129 10 0 Sundry school fees (games fund, &o.) .. 546 7 6 Buildings, &o. — Sundry school funds (in trust) .. .. 45 5 3 New buildings or additions .. .. 5.30 14 4 Overdraft or Dr. balance at end of year .. 2,072 0 4 Maintenance and repairs to buildings and grounds .. .. .. .. 277 0 5 Furniture and apparatus .. .. 116 12 0 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, ifcc.) .. 307 13! 7 Endowments- — Proportion of office salaries .. . . 200 0 0 Proportion of office expenses .. .. 47 18 6 Travelling-expenses of board .. .. 3 0 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 33 3 6 Rates, surveys, insurances, &o. .. 248 13 7 Interest on overdraft .. .. .. 157 4 11 Interest on loans .. .. .. 2,650 0 0 Roading estate .. .. .. 518 18 6 Sundry refunds .. .. .. 57 10 5 Extraordinary school expenses .. .. 114 6 4 £24,597 6 0 £24,597 6 0 I hereby certify to the correctness of the above return. —Fred. Bourne, F.I.A.N.Z. Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Rents outstanding .. .. .. 572 2 9 Accrued interest .. .. .. 708 2 6 Boys' accounts outstanding .. .. 1,8111411 House accounts .. .. .. 336 2 0 Boys' extras paid but not charged ~ 995 6 0 Sundry creditors .. .. .. 141 5 0 Sundry debtors .. .. .. 115 16 2 Sundry school funds .. .. .. 679 17 6 Loan from A.M.P. Society .. ..55,000 0 0 Bank .. ..' .. .. 2,072 0 4 £3,494 19 10 £58,937 7 4 A. G, Bignell, Chairman. J. P. Williamson, Secretary.

PALMERSTON NORTH HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d Endowments —Revenue from secondary- Overdraft or Dr. balance at beginning of education reserves (administered by Land year .. .. .. .. 419 4 0 Boards) .. . . .. . . 409 12 7 Secondary Department— Secondary Department— Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,277 8 9 From (government— Jneidental expenses .. .. .. 548 12 8 Capitation for free places (including iMaintenance (including material) of annual grant, £100) an! for classes classes for manual instruction .. 106 18 11 for manual instruction .. .. 3,747 0 11 ' Buildings, &c. — Subsidies on voluntary contributions 7 2 0 Purchase of sites, College House .. 300 0 0 School fees.. .. .. .. 373 0 6 j New buildings, additions, or other new Voluntary contributions for general pur- 10 5 0 works .. .. . . .. 165 8 6 poses .. .. .. .. Maintenance and repairs to buildings 125 7 6 Boardinghouses—Boarding fees .. 1,419 2 0 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c.).. 12 12 10 Technical instruction—Total income .. 2,315.3 .14 10 Boardinghouses—General maintenance .. 1,419 2 0 Interest (Manson Fund) .. .. 6 0 0 , Technical instruction —Total expenditure.. 2,120 14 10 Overdraft or Dr. balance at end of yoar .. 178 18 11 Interest on overdraft .. .. .. 9 6 9 £8,504 16 9 £8,504 16 9

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Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Seoondaby-school Account. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Balance, annual grant, 1917 (£100) .. 33 0 8 Union Bank .. .. .. ' ~ 133 4 5 Balance, capitation, 1917 .. .. 62 2 3 Sundry accounts .. .. ~ 194 910 Capitation, manual classes, 1917 .. .. 138 12 6 \ Unpaid purchase-money, College House .. 2,480 0 0 Reserves revenue, December quarter .. 141 10 0 £375 11 5 J £2,807 14 3 Tkohnicai, Account. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Capitation, balance on account, 1917 . . 60 0 0 Union Bank .. .. .. .. 45 14 6 Grant due, material, 1917 .. .. 41 14 0 Sundry accounts .. .. .. 116 7 2 Grant due, equipment, 1917 .. .. 44 0 0 Subsidy, voluntary contributions . . 170 0 0 £315 14 0 £162 1 8 T. R. Hodder, Chairman. William Hunter, Secretary. GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. Genioral Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Endowments — of year .. .. .. .. 43 13 2 Proportion of office salaries .. .. 50 0 0 Endowments — Proportion of office expenses .. .. 15 16 3 Current income from reservos vested in Secondary Department-— Board .. .. .. .. 4,219 11 2 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,3319 11 0 Revenue from secondary-education re- Incidental exponses .. .. . . 349 8 0 serves (administered by Land Boards) 592 10 0 Maintenance (including material) of Secondary Department — classes for manual instruction .. 2 11 6 From Government— Scholarships . . . . .. 70 0 0 Capitation for free places .. .. 1,692 15 4 Buildings, &c— Capitation for classes for manual in- New buildings, additions, or other struction .. .. .. 93 2 6 new works . . . . 2,744 iO 2 School fees .. .. .. -73 0 0 Maintenance and repairs to buildings .346 19 2 Refunds from pupils for books, &c. .. 7 0 0 Furniture and apparatus (excluding Voluntary contributions for general pur- boardinghouses) .. .. 217 1 0 posos .. .. .. • • 2 2 0 Grounds for classes recognized under Lower Department—School fees .. 651 10 0 manual regulations .. .. 397 13 0 Boardinghouses—Boarding fees .. 3,3147 16 6 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &e.).. 113 2 5 Outstanding cheques .. .. .. 29 6 8 Lower DepartmentOverdraft or Dr. balance at end of year .. 733 910 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 315 0 0 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 144 17 5 Boardinghousos— General maintenance .. .. 3,117 1 3 Furniture, &e. .. .. .. 592 7 4 Proportion of office salaries and expenses 30 16 8 Loans— Principal repaid (first loan, £190 12s. 6d.; second loan, £238 10s.) .. .. 429 2 6 Interest .. .. .. .. 402 17 6 Interest on overdraft .. .. .. 7 2 0 £11,685 17 2 £11,685 17 2 Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Overdue fees MortgagesSchool . . .. .. ■ • 16 0 0 Government Life Insurance DepartReetory .. .. • • • ■ 159 5 0 ment— Hostel' .. .. .. •• 68 12 6 First loan, balance .. .. 1,775 10 0 Overdue rents .. .. •• 1,109 4 3 Second loan, balance .. .. 2,647 0 0 Private loan .. .. .. .. 2,200 0 0 A. 31'. Webb, balance contract .. .. 10 0 0 Foes (school) overpaid ■ .. .. 13 0 0 Overdraft, bank .. .. .. 733 910 Cheques outstanding .. .. .. 29 6 8 £1,353 1 9 £7,408 6 6 E. H. Mann, Chairman. J. H. Bull, Secretary and Treasurer.

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NAPIER HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Endowments — of year (secondary department, £1,617 Proportion of office salaries .. .. 10 0 0 Os. Bd. ; lower department, £307 ss. 6d.) 1,92-1 6 2 Proportion of office expenses .. ... 210 0 Endowments— Secondary Department— Current income from reserves vested in Teachers'salarios and allowances .. 3{'3240 7 10 Board .. .. .. .. 498 2 0 Incidental expenses .. .. .. " 384 0 3 Revenue from secondary-education re- Maintenance (including .material) of serves (administered by Land Boards) 705 1 (i classes for manual instruction .. 227 .1.3 I. Interest on moneys derived from endow Sundries .. .. .. .. 54 4 4 ments and on unpaid purchase-money Buildings, &o. — for land sold .. .. .. 158 15 0 New buildings, additions, or other new Secondary Department— works .. .. .. 501 5 8 From Government— Maintenance ami repairs to buildings 386 6 7 Capitation for free places (including Buildings, furniture, <&6., for classes annual grant, £100) .. .. 2,933 18 8 recognized under manual, regulations 246 16 11 Capitation for classes for manual in- Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c.).. 196 7 4 struction .. .. ... 131 7 6 Lower Department — School foes .. .. .. 280 3 2 Teachers' salaries and. allowances .. 440 15 0 Refunds .. .. .. .. 41 17 4 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 176 14 1 Technical fees .. .. .. 40 15 2 Boardinghouses— Stationery, games, &c. .. .. 1,016 18 4 General maintenance (secondary, £2,075 Income from property not reserves .. 1,103 0 0 os. Bd. ; lower, £927 Js.-Id.) .. 3,002 2 0 Interest —Post Office Savings-bank .. 46 8 10' Eurniture, &c. (secondary, £201 16s. (id. ; Lower Department— lower, £100 Is.) . . .. .. 367 17 (i School fees .. . . .. 823! 5 10 Proportion of office salaries find expenses Technical fees .. .. .. 9 4 0 (secondary, £57 4s. 4d.; lower, £25 Boardinghouses — ss. Id.) .. .. .. .. 82 9 5 Boarding fees (secondary, £2,288 1.45. od.; Stationery, games, music, <fcc. .. .. 917 16 4 lower, £1,010 315.) .. ' .. .. 3,298 17 6 Balance at end of year .. ... 2,795 010 Receipts from other sources .....' 14 11 8 g £13,032 13 2 £13,032 13 2 Examined and found correct. —R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General. Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31sl December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. I Liabilities. £ s. d. Balances, 31st December, 1917— j Improvements and additions — Bank of Now Zealand .. . . I , 3105 18 2 Boys' School .. .. .. 207 10 0 Post Office Savings-bank .. .. 1,495 5 8 •! Girls' School .. .. .. 505 0 0 in hand .. .. .. .. 212 0 improvements Account .. .. 108 17 6 Credit balances of Stationery and Games 2,803 15 10 Accounts .. .. .. .. 174 19 2 Loss unpresented cheque .. .. 315 0 Sundry accounts~unpaid .. . . 50 0 0 Contractors' Deposit Account .. .. 5 0 0 2,800 0 10 Due by Government — Free-place capitation .. .. 120 I 0 Manual capitation . . .. , m . 184 0 0 Grant, equipment of laboratory .. fc 97 0 0 Money invested on mortgage .. 2,800 0 0 Rents outstanding .. .. .. 2 12 0 . .» £6,003 13 10 £1,051 (i 8 W. Dinwiddle, Chairman. G. Crawshaw, Secretary. DANNEVIRKE HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Secondary Department— of year .. .. .. .. 117 16 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,440 5 0 Endowments — Revenue from secondary- Incidental oxpenses .. .. .. 145 13 10 education reserves (administered by Buildings, &c.— Land Boards) . . .. .. 382 10 7 Purchase of sites .. .. .. 341 6 5 Secondary Department— New buildings, additions, or other new From Government — works .. ... .. 41 4 2 Capitation for free places (including Maintenance and. repairs to buildings 316 5 I annual grant, £133 6s. Bd.) .. 1,396 11 8 Furniture and apparatus (excluding Capitation for classes for manual in- boardinghouses) . . . . 17 0 9 struction .. .. .. 39 6 3 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &0.).. 12 18 5 School fees .. .. .. 97 8 4 1 Interest on overdraft . . .. .. 0 2 6 Voluntary contributions for general pur- Balance at end of year.. .. .. 7 10 2 poses .. .. .. .. 110 0 From Education Board for cleaning, &0... 7 3 6 £2,042 6 10 ; £2,042 6 10 Examined and found correct. —R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General.

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Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31sl December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash in Bank of New Zealand .. .. 14 3 2 Balance due on Lots 3 and 4of Section 74.. 600 0 0 Cash in Post Office Savings-bank .. .. 15 12 10 Unpresented cheques .. .. .. 22 510 Income duo from secondary-education reserves (say) .. . . .. 45 0 0 Technical School fees outstanding .. 9 8 0 1384 4 6 622 5 10 Thomas Bain, Chairman. T. Macallan, Secretary. WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. I Expenditure. •£ s. d. Balance in" hand "and in bank at beginning I Endowments of year .. .. .. .. 3,474 80 I Proportion of office salaries .. .. 150 0 0 Endowments— Proportion of office expenses .. .. J59 7 10 Current income from reserves vested in Repairs, insurance, legal expenses, valuaBoard .. .. .. 7,818 10 2 tion fees, &c. .. .. .. 1,714 5 4 Revenue from secondary-oducation re- i Secondary Department serves (administered by Land Boards) 1,347 10 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 11,666 131 Ii Secondary Department— Incidental expenses .. .. 1,789 211 From Government— Maintenance (including material) of ' Capitation for free places (including classes for manual instruction .. 54 18} 'I I annual grant, £1.00) .. .. 8,620 2 3 Scholarships .. .. ~ 15 0 0 Capitation for classes for manual in- War bonus to teachers .. . . 745 17 9 struction ... .. .. 419 16 3 Buildings, &c.— Subsidies on voluntary contributions 4 .15 6 Maintenance and repairs to furniture Sohool fees.. .. .. .. 1,513 II 3 and apparatus .. .. .. 35 9"J 7 Refunds from pupils for books, &o. .. 74 8 10 Maintenance and repairs to buildings 250 13j£0 Library donations .. . . .. 4 15 6 Furniture and apparatus (excluding Lowor Department—School fees .. 348 0 0 boardinghouses) .. .. 292 Bg[9 Buildings, furniture, &c, for classes recognized under manual regulations 34 18 10 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c).. 239 15 10 Lower Department— Teachers' salaries and allowances ~ 345 12 8 Incidental expenses . . .. .. 63 1 5 Expenditure on buildings (including maintenance, rates, rent, &c.) .. 55 510 Boardinghouses -General maintenance . . 130 13 9 Interest on loans .. .. .. 234 2 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 5,7481810 £23,626 4 3 1323,020 I 3 Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. . £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash in bank, current account .. .. 2,709 13 8 Unpresented cheques .. .. .. 50 2 4 Eixed deposit .. .. .. 3,094 7 0 Loan for Girls' College building.. ~ 2,000 0 0 Fees — Mortgage on reclaimed-land section .. 2,094 7 6 Wellington College , . ~ .. 06 8 2 Sundry creditors— Girls'College .'. ... .. 97 II 11 Rents paid in a3van.ee .. .. 123 5 4 Rents .. .. .. .. 484 15 11 Foes paid in advance— Free-place capitation .. .. .. 422 5 2 Wellington College .. .. 1 15 0 Girls' College .. .. .. 010 0 On open account— Wellington College .. .. .. 118 10 10 Girls' College .. .. .. 38 17 I £6,875 2 4 £4,428 8 1 W. F. Ward, Chairman. G. F. Judd, pro. Secretary.

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MARLBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and at bank at beginning Seoondary Department— of year .. .. .. .. 402 4 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,394 12 6 Endowments Revenue from secondary- Incidental expenses .. .. .. 235 31 6 education reserves (administered by Land Maintenance (including material) of Boards) .. .. ~ .. 50 Ui 0 classes for manual instruction .. 31 12 5 Secondary Department— Buildings, &o. — From Government — New buildings, additions, or other new Statutory grant, 1917-18 .. .. 400 0 0 works .. .. .. .. 49 12 6 Capitation for free places (including Maintenance and repairs to buildings .. 101 16 8 annual grant, £100) .. .. 1,226 17 10 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c.) .. 18 12 8 Capitation for classes for manual in- General— struction ... .. .. 32 17 6 Interest on overdraft .. .. 083 School fees .. .. .. 113 3 6 Interest on Nosworthy Bequest .. 22 10 0 Refunds from pupils for books, &c. .. 3 0 0 Contractor's deposit.. .. .. 3 0 0 Voluntary contributions for general pur- Balance at end of year .. .. 420 17 7 poses .. .. .. .. 610 0 Payment for lighting (gas) at teachers' classes .. .. .. .. 10 6 Sale of potatoes grown to cultivate grounds .. .. .. .. 36 17 3 General — Interest on current account .. .. 0 11 0 Interest on Young Bequest .. .. 4 7 6 . § £2,278 6 I £2,278 6 1 Statement, of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. | Liabilities. £ s. d. Cr. balance, 31st December, 1917 .. 220 17 7 j Nosworthy Bequest for Wrigley Scholarship 500 0 0 Young Bequest invested in war bonds .. 200 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 819 9 Capitation on free places . . .. 87 7 I Manual and technical instruction .. 7 0 0 Capitation on manual and technical classes 45 10 0 Fuel, lighting, and cleaning .. .. 3 710 Subsidy on voluntary contributions .. 610 0 £560 4 # 8 £519 7 7 E. H. Penny, Chairman. J. 0. Logan, Secretary and Treasurer NELSON COLLEGE BOARD. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year hndh:d 31st December, 19T7. Endowment Account. Receipt;: £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. cl. Rents .. .. .. ■• 731 3 4 Kates and taxes .. .. .. 16 13 9 Interest .. .. .. ■• 177 5 0 Insurances .. .. .. .. 4182 Government —Revenue endowments .. 373 1 I Printing and advertising .. .. 10 9 2 Stationery .. .. . . .. 0 6 4 Governors' and auditor's fees . . .. 15 13 4 Secretary .. .. .. .. 38 3 8 Office rent .. .. . . .. 9 7 6 Office-cleaning and gas . . . . 9 6 7 Telephone . . . . .. . . 5 0 0 Law-costs .. . . . . .. 17 8 Bank charges. . ~ . . .. 0 10 0 Petty cash, postage, and potties .. 9 0 0 £1,281 9 5 j £120 16 2 j —_—. Boys' College. £ s. d. £ s. d. Boarding foes .. .. .. 4,722 5 5 House expenses ~ .. .. 4,058 14 3 Tuition fees .. .. .. ■• 760 2 0 Tuition expenses • .. .. . . 3,279 3 0 Government capitation— Stationery .. ' .. . . . . 62 4 I Free pupils.. .. .. .. 2,312 15 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 25 18 9 Muniial instruction .. .. .. 84 5 0 Printing and advertising .. .. 68 6 7 Government grant—Repairs .. .. 66 13 3 Gas.. .. .. .. .. 07 17 3 Hawke's Bay Old Boys'prize .. ... 10 0 0 Rates and taxes .. m•• ' ■■ 89 I 5 Refund, scholarship .. .. .. 113 4 Repairs . . . . .. ~ 187 7 9 Secretary .. .. .. .. 173 2 8 Governors' and auditor's fees . . .. 53 3 4 Scholarships Endowed .. .. .. .. 80 0 0 Foundation . . .. .. 3 0 0 Andrew Memorial prize . . .. 5 0 0 Simmons prize .. .. .. 5 0 0 Hawke's Bay Old Boys' prize .. .. 10 0 0 Law-costs .. . . ~ ~ 2 14 4 Insurances .. .. .. .. 49 11 6 Grounds .. .. ~ .. 34 10 6 Interest on mortgage .. .. .. 284 2 3 Telephone .. .. .. .. 6 0 0 Sports .. .. .. .. 20 0 0 Office rent and cleaning .. .. 8 3 9 Petty cash, postages, &c. .. .. 15 0 0 Woodwork class .. .. .. 9 7 3 Agricultural class .. .. .. 10 9 Scientific and chemical apparatus and chemicals .. .. .. .. 22J16 5 £7,957 14 6 £8,621 5 10

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Nelson College Board. —-Statement of Receipts and Expenditure— continued. Girls' College. Receipts. £ s. cl. Expenditure. £ a. cl. Boarding fees .. . . 2,543 18 6 House expenses . . .. 2,239 7 8 Tuition fees .. .. .. .. 618 0 0 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 2,045 0 0 Government capitation— Stationery .. .. ... .. 17 14 6 Free places .. .. .. 1,870 9 7 ; Prizes .. .. .. .. 21 0 0 Manual instruction .. .. .. I 15 7 0 Barnicoat prize .. .. ..■ 3 0 0 Government grant —Repairs .. .. .331 Ii 9 Printing and advertising .. .. 92 13 11 Gas .. .. .. .. .. 88 7 6 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 17 2 Repairs .. .. .. .. 78 1.8 5 Secretary .. .. .. .. 173 2 8 Governors' and auditor's fees .. .. 53 3 4 Scholarships— Endowed .. .. .. .. 40 0 0 Foundation .. .. .. 4 0 0 Law-costs .. .. .. .. 17 2 Insurances .. .. .. .. 33 7 8 Telephone .. .. .. .. 5 0 0 Office rent and cleaning .. .. 8 3 9 Bathing-sheds .. .. .. 76 2 6 Sewing-machine .. .. .. 7 0 0 Scientific and chemical apparatus and chemicals .. .. .. .. 19 14 3 Petty cash, postage, &c. .. .. 18 0 0 £5,187 2 4 £5,003 10 6 i '■ ~— I -i ii —— Capital Account. £ s. d. j £ s. il. Land sold (deposit) .. .. .. 50 0 0 Furniture, Girls' College . s .. 47 8 0 Balance in bank, 31st December, 191.0 .. 2,299 9 4 j Mortgage repayment .. .. .. 2,000 0 0 Cash on deposit, Post Office Savings-bank, : War loan .. . . .. .. 1,000 0 0 31st December, 1916 .. .. 1,000 0 0 Cash at Post Office Savings-bank, 31st DeBank overdraft, 31st December, 1917, cember, 1917 .. .. .. 1,000 0 0 £5 7s. 7d.; add unpaid cheques, £11 17s. 4d. 17 4 11 3,366 14 3 4,047 8 0 £17,793 0 6 £17,793 0 6 Statement of Loans on Mortgage Account at 31st, December, 1917. A. Mortgages owing to Nelson College. £ s. d. £ s. d. Balance outstanding on 31st December, 1916 1,950 0 0 Balance outstanding on 31st December, 1917 1,950 0 0 £1,950 0 0 £1,950 0 0 B. Mortgages owing by Nelson College. £ s. d. | £ s. d. Balance outstanding on 31st December, 1916 6,000 0 0 Repayment on account of mortgage .. 2,000 0 0 Balance outstanding on 31st December, 1917 4,000 0 0 £6,000 0 0 £6,000 0 0 Statement of Monetary Assets and, Liabilities at 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. ' Liabilities. £ s. d. Mortgage securities .. .. .. 1,950 0 0 Mortgage on college .. .. .. 4,000 0 0 Rents due .. .. .. .. 373 0 0 Governors' fees .. .. .. 100 0 0 Fees due .. .. .. .. 536 12 4 - Unpresented cheques .. .. .. 11 17 4 Capitation, free pupils, Boys' College .. 27 17 2 Bank overdraft .. .. .. 5 7 7 Advances to boarders .. . . .. 21.4 I 9 Advances to boarders (arrears) . . .. 41 11 9 j Cash in Post Office Savings-bank .. 1,000 0 0 War loan .. .. .. .. 1,000 0 0 £5,143 3 0 £4,117 * 11 R. Oatley, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that there is no authority of law for the grant of £30 to the College Magazine.—R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General.

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GREYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL BOARD General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. ■ Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Fee paid for keeping accounts .. .. 0 15 0 of year .. .. .. .. 1,025 10 6 Balance at end of year .. .. 1,136 8 2 Revenue from secondary-education reserves (administered by Land Boards) .. 48 10 8 1 Interest on moneys derived from endowments .. .. ~ .. 63 2 0 £1,137 3 2 £1,137 3 2 j __ _ _—_ Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on, 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. Seven debentures in Greymouth Borough 700 0 0 (lash in bank .. .. .. 138 14 10 Cash in savings-bank .. .. .. 297 13 4 Nil. £1,136 8 2 W. R. Kettle, Hon. Secretary. HOKITIKA HIGH: SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Overdraft or Dr. balance at beginning of of year .. .. .. .. 1,500 0 0 year .. .. .. .. 97 19 10 Endowments — Endowments— Current income from reserves vested in Office salaries .. .. .. 10 5 0 Board .. .. .. .. 42 10 6 Office expenses .. .. .. 216 10 Revenuo from secondary-education re- Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 100 0 0 serves (administered by Land Boards) 57 12 5 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 26 13 4 Interest on moneys derived from endow- j Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, fee) .. 39 16 (i ments .. .. .. 58 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 1,400 0 0 Overdraft or Dr. balance at end of year .. 25 8 7 £1,683 II 6 £1,683 1.1 6 Statement, of Monetary Assets and, Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. j Liabilities. £ s. d. Fixed deposits (Bank of New Zealand) .. 1,200 00 | Overdraft (Bank of New Zealand) .. 33 8 7 Kixecl deposit (Hokitika Savings-bank) . . 200 0 0 Hokitika Savings-bank .. .. 8 0 0 Rent due .. .. .. .. 12 18 4 £1,420 18 4 £33 8 7 H. L. Michel, Chairman. Daphne Lloyd, Secretary. « RANGIORA HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Endowments—Agricultural plot, £11 lis. of year .. .. .. .. 175 14 2 3d.; sundries, £5 2s. .. .. 16 13 31 Endowments —Current income from re- Secondary Department— serves vested in Board .. .. 18!) 0 4 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 1,016 131 4 Secondary Department— Incidental expenses .. .. .. 168 (i 5 From Government — Donation to Show .. .. .. 3 3 0 Capitation for free places (including Buildings, fee. — annual grant, £100) .. .. 1,358 19 8 Maintenance and repairs to buildings 157 17 8 Capitation for classes for manual in- Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, .fee).. 17 6 10 struction .. .. .. 17 14 2 Boardinghouses— Subsidies on voluntary contributions 28 10 9 General maintenance .. .. 558 3 6 School fees.. .. .. .. 07 4 0 Furniture, fee. .. . . ~ 7 5 6 Voluntary contributions for general pur- • Loans— poses .. .. .. .. 35 9 0 Principal repaid .. . . .. 50 0 0 Refunds .. .. .. .3 19 19 (i Interest .. .. .. .. 45 0 0 Boardinghouses —Boarding fees . . 520 14 0 Technical instruction—Total expenditure 252 711 Technical instruction —Total jincome .. 279 11 .1 Work on agricultural plots .. .. 51 14 3 Rent of plots.. .. ... ~ 926 Balance at end of year .. .. 339 8 6 £2,693 2 8 £2,693 2 8 Examined and found correct. It. ,1. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General.

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Statement, of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities £ s. d. In Post Office Savings-bank .. .. 300 0 0 i Unpresented cheques .. .. .. 14 17 4 In bank .. . . .. . . 40 8 3 Unpaid purchase-money, Girls' Hostel .. 900 0 0 On hand .. .. .. . . 7 17 7 Capitation due—Free-place pupils . . 112 1 8 Manual and technical capitation . . 106 0 0 j Due from Education Board .. . . 49 17 6 Subsidy on voluntary contributions .. 52 19 0 £675 4 0 £914 17 4 Robert Ball, Chairman. E. R. Good, Secretary. CHRISTCHURCH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL (CANTERBURY COLLEGE BOARD). General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Endowments — of year .. .. .. .. 2,901 0 3 Proportion of office salaries .. .. 100 0 0 Endowments —Current income from re- Proportion of office expenses (auditing) I 310 serves vested in Board .. .. 5,381 I 6 Proportion of travelling - expenses of Secondary Department— Board members . . . . . . 5 10 4 From Government — Miscellaneous— For buildings, furniture, fittings, fee, Legal expenses .. .. .. 20 710 for classes for manual instruction .. 11 11 6 Commission and advertising (sale of Capitation for free places (including leases), sale of plans, fee. .. 34 12 6 annual grant, £100) .. .. 1,799 7 4 Share Inspectors'salary and travellingCapitation for classes for manual in- expenses .. .. .. 159 6 8 struction . . .. . . 70 10 8 Secondary 'Department— School fees .. .. .. .. 353 5 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 4,088 I 2 Boardinghouses —Boarding fees.. .. 900 17 6 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 750 17 7 Overdraft or Dr. balance at end of year., 658 19 1 Maintenance (including material) of classes for manual instruction . . 23 2 4 Scholarships (bursaries) .. . . 22 10 0 Buildings, &c.— New buildings, additions, or other new works .. .. .. .. 4,204 18 11 Maintenance and repairs to buildings 113 9 0 Furniture and apparatus (excluding boardinghouses) .. .. 40 17 6 Buildings, furniture, &c, for classes recognized under manual regulations 17 13 5 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, fee.). . 37 15 3 Boardinghouses— General maintenance .. .. 1,373 0 7 Furniture, fee. .. .. .. 216 2 7 Interest on loans .. .. .. 749 12 11 General — Interest on overdraft .. .. 16 1 1 Books for school library .. . . 20 5 4 Rent of playground .. .. 80 0 0 Monitors' badges .. .. .. 110 0 £12,076 18 10 £12,070 18 1.0 Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st, December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities £ s. d. Rents outstanding .. .. •'.. 10 4 0 Loan .. .. .. .. 13,000 0 0 Fees outstanding .. .. .. 13 0 0- Balance .. .. .. .. 058 19 1 Capitation for manual instruction .. 81 18 0 ; Capitation for free places (amount overpaid) 40 13 0 Government grant for apparatus .. 810 i) £113 18 9 j £13,705 12 10 J. C. Adams, Chairman. Geo. H. Mason, Registrar.

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OfIRISTCHURCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL (CANTERBURY COLLEGE BOARD). General Statrmrnt of Accounts for thk Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. j Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning I Endowments--of year .. .. .. .. 2,979 7 6 j Proportion of office salaries and exEndowments — penses .. .. .. .. 00 0 0 Current income from reserves vested in Proportion of travelling - expenses of Board . . .. .. . . 527 1 I 2 Board members .. .. . . 4 2 9 Interest on moneys derived from endow- Share of Inspectors' salary and travelling - monts and on unpaid purchase-money expenses.. .. .. .. 10 2 4 for land sold .. .. .. II I 9 5 Secondary Department— Secondary Department— Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,992 17 10 From Government— Incidental expenses .. .. .. 503 14 2 For buildings, furniture, fittings, &c, Maintenance (including material) of for classes for manual instruction . . 20 17 7 1 classes for manual instruction .. 65 17 5 Capitation for free places (including Scholarships and exhibitions (including annual grant, £100) .. .. 31,807 4 I boarding-allowance) .. .. 120 0 0 Capitation for classes for manual Buildings, fee.— instruction .. .. .. 149 11 6 i Purchase of site (for playground) .. 907 19 7 School fees .. .. .. 211 1 0 Maintenance and repairs to buildings 41 15 10 Proceeds from sale of cottage for removal 48 5 0 I Furniture and apparatus (excluding Proceeds from cooking class .. .. 7118 boardinghouses) .. .. 3)8 4 3 Lower Department—School fees .. 213 3 0 ! Buildings, furniture, fee, for classes Refund of stamp duty (tenancy agreement) 7 6 3 recognized under manual regulations .. .. .. . . 09 9 1 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, fee.).. 3(5 16 11 Lower Department — Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 183 31 0 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 314 12 7 Boardinghouses — General maintenance (grant towards rent, £60 ; telephone, £5) .. .. 65 0 0 Eurniture, &c. (fire-escape) . . .. 20 0 0 General — Interest on overdraft .. .. 14 13 7 Books for school library . . . . 16 14 0 Balance attend of year J .. .. 1,9621410 £8,206 18 2 £8,200 18 2 Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December. 1917. Assets. £ s. d. i Liabilities. £ s. d. Balance .. .. .. .. 1,962 14 10 : Trust Account (E. S. Foster Memorial) .. 09 17 7 Capitation for free places (balance 1917) . . 130 II 8 Trust Account (11. M. Brown Memorial) .. 100 0 2 Government grant for furniture, apparatus, fee. .. .. .. .. 34 14 6 Capitation for manual instruction, third term .. .. .. .. 52 19 2 . ! £2,1.81 0 2 j £169 17 9 J. C. Adams, Chairman. Geo. H. Mason, Registrar. CHRIST'S COLLEGE GRAMMAR SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement ok Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Endowments —Interest on moneys derived Secondary Department— from endowments and on unpaid pur- Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 5,908 1.3 7 chase-money for land sold .. .. 2,202 3 5 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 998 o 0 Secondary Department— Maintenance (including material) of School fees .. .. .. 5,604 0 0 classes for manual instruction .. 847 0 9 Scholarships .. .. 715 3 1. Buildings, fee.— Cathedral contribution .. .. 175 (i 8 Maintenance and repairs to buildings 417 2 5 Lower Department—School fees .. 705 18 6 Furniture and apparatus (excluding Boardinghouses —Boarding fees ~ .. 5,815 14 8 boardinghouses) .. .. 92.17 3 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, fee).. 118 10 10 Lower Department— Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 590 0 0 Incidental expenses .. .. .. J 8,3 19 1 Boardinghouses— General maintenance .. .. 3,410 16 0 Furniture, etc. .. .. .. 99 12 0 Proportion of office salaries and expenses 105 7 8 General— Interest on overdraft .. . . 151 6 6 Grant to cadets .. . . .. 108 7 (i Plans for buildings .. .. . . 175 0 0 Furniture written off .. .. 471 10 0 Building account .. .. .. 1,540 2 9 £15,218 0 10 £15,218 6JIO

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Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on olsl December, 1917. Awls. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s d. Cash balances— Buildings Fund .. .. .. ;j,o:s7 II 10 General estate capital .. .. 4312 2 I Buildings Fund .. J ,'250 () 0 Depreciation Fund .. .. ~ 556 2 6 Porter's lodge .. ~ .. I!) 14 2 Pension Fund reserve ~ .. 8 14 I) Electric Organ Fund . . . . 24 13 1 Cash lent on mortgage — General estate .. .. .. 7,441 0 0 Depreciation Fund .. .. .. 2,927 9 9 Porter's lodge .. .. .. 116 0 0 £11,525 15 7 £4,287 11 lo E B. Webb, Bursar. AKAROA HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. Gfnioral Statrmrnt of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. j Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Endowments— of year-— Proportion of office salaries . . .. 7 7 0 Fixed deposit .. .. .. 710 0 0 Proportion of office expenses .. .. 5 5 0 Current account .. .. .. 59 13 2 Miscellaneous — Endowments -Current income from re- Audit fee, 6s. Bd. ; postage-stamps, serves vested in Board .. .. 283 13 4 J Bs. 4d. .. .. .. .. 015 0 Interest on fixed deposit .. .. 42 12 0 Bank charges and exchange .. .. 0 15 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 3! 3 0 Fuel and cleaning .. .. .. 10 0 0 Prize, dux medal . . .. .. 3 12 0 Paid to Education Board .. .. 100 0 0 New buildings, additions, or other new works .. . . . . . . 186 8 0 Interest on overdraft .. , . .. 1 18 0 Balance at end of year ~ .. 776 14 6 £1 ,095 18 6 £1 ,095 18 6 Examined and found correct, except that the overdraft at the bank is without statutory authority. R, .1. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General. Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. <l. Liabilities. £ s. cl. Fixed deposit .. .. .. 810 0 0 Bank overdraft .. .. .. 4,33 5 6 War bond .. .. .. .. 400 0 0 Payable to Education Board .. .. 100 0 0 £1,210 0 0 £533 5 0 Etienne X. Lelievke, Chairman. G. W. Thomas, Secretary and Treasurer.

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1 ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Endowments—Current income from re- Overdraft or Dr. balance at beginning of serves vested in Board .. .. 1,125 1 8 year .. .. .. .. 5,778 6 4 Secondary Department— Secondary Department— From Government— Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 1,755 18 8 Capitationforfreeplac.es .. .. 1,619 3 9 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 267 0 0 Capitation for classes for manual in- Buildings, &c. — struction .. .. .. 21 15 0 Maintenance and repairs to buildings 137 7 5 Sohool fees.. .. .. .. 89 6 0 Furniture and apparatus (excluding Voluntary contributions for general pur- boardinghouses) .. . . 15 0 poses (laboratory) . . .. .. 202 19 I Buildings, furniture, &c, for manual Lower Department—-School fees .. 148 1 0 classes.. .. .. .. Ll6 6. 2 General — Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c).. 38 7 11 Refund discount . . . . . . 0 3 4 Rent of hostel . . . . . . 44 15 4 Contributions, prize fund . . . . 3 0 0 Lower Department— Refund valuation foe .. .. 2 2 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances . . 132 0 0 Improvements on lease 92!) .. .. 333 0 0 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 37 9 11 Overdraft or Dr. balance at end of year . . 5,805 9 4 Boardinghouses— General maintenance . . . . 35 15 1.1 Furniture, &c, rectory and hostel . . 280 12 6 General — Interest on overdraft .. . . 324 I 0 Amounts paid Technical School . . 41 15 0 Improvements on Reserve 929 . . 35313 0 0 £9,330 I 2 £9,33(0 1 2 Examined and found correct. —R, J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General. Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Capitation due from Education Depart- Dr. balance due bank, plus outstanding ment .. .. .. .. 83 6 8 cheques .. .. .. .. 5,805 9 4 Outstanding school fees . . .. 27 7 0 Outstanding accounts . . . . . . 80 0 0 £110 13 8 I £5,885 9 4 Joshua Tucker, Chairman. H. L. Seldon, Secretary. TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statrmrnt of Accounts for the Year ended 81st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Endowments — of year .. .. .. .. .108 19 5 Proportion of office salaries .. .. 50 0 0 Endowments— Proportion of office expenses .. .. 29 17 9 Current income from reserves vested in Proportion of travelling-expenses of Board .. .. .. .. 2,725 14 6 Board members .. .. .. 10 18 9 Interest on moneys derived from on- Miscellaneous (steward, £50; sundries, dowments .. .. .. 2 16 £15 14s. 4d.) .. .. .. 05 14 4 Secondary Department — Secondary Department— From Government — Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,227 I 6 Capitation for free places (including Incidental expenses .. .. .. 546 13 II annual grant, £100) .. .. 2,920 10 8 Maintenance (including material) of Capitation for classes for manual in- classes for manual instruction .. 128 10 3 struction .. .. . . 134 1 0 Scholarships . . .. .. 95 0 0 Subsidies on voluntary contributions 42 5 3 Buildings, &c. — School fees .. .. .. 278 8 4 Maintenance and repairs to buildings 118 18 6 Voluntary contributions for general pur- Furniture (excluding boardinghouses) 36 12 0 poses .. .. .. .. 35 0 0 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c.) 153 18 9 General—lmprovements Account .. 494 19 0 Loans — Principal repaid . . .. .. 326 1 8 Interest .. .. .. . . 234 15 0 General — Interest on overdraft . . . . 1 1.5 6 Improvements Account .. . . 495 10 0 Telephones . . . . ~ 15 0 9 Cartage, &c. .. .. .. 216 0 Rent of boardinghousc .. .. 1.19 0 0 Lawn-mower and horse-feed .. . . 24 13 3 Balance at end of year .. .. 1,059 1 9 £6,741 19 8 £6,741 19 8 Examined and found correct. —R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General.

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Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. i Liabilities. £ a, cl. Outstanding rents .. .. .. 219 15 2 Government Life. Insurance Department— Due from Government, being balance of Balance loan .. .. .. 1,781 0 0 capitation, third term .. .. 54 12 2 Sundry accounts .. .. .. 104 9 5 Technical capitation .. .. .. 120 0 0 Balance purchase-money of sections sold . . 27 0 0 School fees . . . . . . . . 18 0 0 Balance at bank .. . . . . I ,059 1 9 £1,198 tl I 131,885 9 5 TIMARU HIGH. SCHOOL BOARD.—PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. Statement of Accounts for the Yeak ended 3Jst December, 1!)17. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure,. £ s. cl. Tuition fees . Salary .. .. .. .. 113 0 II Second and third terms .. .. 220 0 0 Cheque-book, £1 : bank charge, ss. .. 15 0 First term (paid into this account in Blocks, plasticine, &c. .. .. 12 3 error) .. .. .. .. 3! (i S* Balance in bank .. .. .. 77 18 6 £223! 0 8 - £223 6 8 Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. ' Liabilities. £ s. d. School fees .. .. .. .. 26 13 4 Account for desks .. .. .. 20 0 0 Balance at bank . . . . .. 77 18 6 Fees paid into this account in error .. .'! 6 8 £104 11 10 j £23 0 8 John Bitchener, Chairman. A. C. Martin, Secretary. WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning of Endowments— year .. .. .. .. 2,905 15 1 Proportion of office salaries .. .. 20 0 0 Endowments — Proportion of office expenses (rent, Current income from reserves vested in £16 ss. ; petty cash, £3; audit, 13s. Board .. .. .. .. 354 46 j 4d.) .". .. .. .. I!) 18 4 Interest on moneys derived from endow- ! General — incuts .. .. .. .. 154 17 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1.34 4 6 General- , Scholarships .. .. .. 115 0 0 Kent, freehold land . . . . . . 10 0 0 Books, &c., for sale to pupils, and other Interest, Savings-bank .. .. 4 14 1 temporary advances .. .. 5 10 3 Furniture and apparatus .. .. I 13 9 Inspection of land .. . . . . 3 0 0 Bank charges .. .. .. 0 10 6 Rates and insurance . . . . . . 7 2 2 Gas .. . . . . 0 10 0 Printing and advertising .. .. 13! 17 6 Prizes .. .. -. . .. 33 31 1 Technical grant . . .. . . 10 0 0 Wool-classing fees . . . . . . 8 10 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 3,1.10 10 7 133,489 10 8 .133!, 489 10 8 Examined and found correct. —R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General. Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. Balances Union Bank .. . . .. 10 10 7 Mortgages .. .. .. .. 2,500 0 0 War bonds .. . . .. .. 500 0 0 Savings-bank . . . . . . 100 0 0 Nil. £3,116 10 7 R. Inkster, Chairman. W. H. Beckett, Secretary.

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WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOLS BOARD. General Statrmrnt of Accounts for thr Yrar ended 31st December, l!)17. Receipts. £ s. cl. | Expenditure. £ s d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning ' Endowments— of year .. .. .. .. 1,478 :i II Proportion of office salaries .. .. 75 0 0 Endowments— Proportion of office expenses . . . . 9 9 3 Current income from reserves vested in Ranger .. .. ~ .. 15 0 0 Board .. .. .. .. 1,539 10 Ii Legal expenses .. .. .. 2 12 (i Revenue from secondary-education re- Secondary Department— serves (administered by Land Boards) 250 17 5 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 4,015 8 2 Secondary Department— Incidental expenses .. .. .. 050 .'! 0 From Government— Maintenance (including material) of Capitation for free places (including classes for manual instruction .. 267 12 5 annual grant, £100) .. .. 3,12018 4 Scholarships .. .. .. 18 8 0 Capitation for classes for manual in- Buildings, &c— struction .. .. .. .124 2 6 i New .buildings, additions, or other School foes.. .. .. .. 1,011 0 0 new works .. ~ .. 1,574 16 8 Lower Department—School fees .. 228 (I 0 Maintenance and.repairs to buildings 125 7 6 General— Eurniture and apparatus (excluding Interest on scholarships .. ~ 18 8 0 boardinghouses) .. .. 20 3 8 Refunds .. ~ .. ~ 309 10 4 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c). . 35 7 8 Sale of produce .. .. .. 6 17 6 Lower Department— Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 166 13 4 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 104 II 10 [ General—Refund fees overpaid . . . . 6 0 0 Balance at end of year .. . . 994 14 6 £8,147 8 6 £8,147 8 6 Examined and found correct.—R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General. Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Cash at bank.. .. .. .. 994 14 6 Otago Education Board .. . . 50 0 0 Rents uncollected .. .. .. 5310 II 0 Contracts .. .. .. .. 768 16 0 Capitation due .. .. .. 1.13 7 6 Sundry accounts .. .. .. 90' 0 0 Indent, science apparatus . . .. 200 0 0 £1,038 13 0 £1,108 16 0 J. M. Brown, Acting-Chairman. A. McKinnon, Secretary. OTAGO HIGH SCHOOLS BOARD. General Statrmrnt of Accounts for thr Year ended-31st December; i!H7. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Endowments—^jj of year .. .. .. .. 3,735 7 8 Proportion oi a office*salaries .. .. 112 (I 0 Endowments — Proportionjof office expenses .. .. 27 31 4 Current income from reserves vested in Law-costs, inspection, and auctioneering 33 4 10 Board .. .. ... .. 2,9.30 710 ! Secondary Department—Revenue from secondary-education re- Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 7,870 13 .3 serves (administered by Land Boards) 404 12 7 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 1,211 2 5 Secondary Department— Maintenance (including material) of From Government — classes for manual instruction .. 183! 13 0 For buildings, furniture, fittings, &c, Books, &c, for sale to pupils, and other for classes for manual instruction.. 35 0 7 temporary advances .. .. 1 13 10 Capitation for free places (including Buildings, &c. annual grant, £100) ... .. 8,072 7 5 ' Maintenance and repairs to buildings 534 15 2 Capitation for classes for manual in- Furniture and apparatus (excluding struction .. .. ... 1.23 15 0 boardinghouses) .. .. 182 8 9 School fees .. .. .. 359 5 10 Miscellaneous (rates, Insurance, &c).. 70 5 9 Typewriting, singing, stationery, &c, Boardinghouses — charges .. .. .. .. 250 310 Repairs .. .. .. .. .30 10 0 George H. Stewart Prize Fund . . 4 0 0 Rent .. .. . . .. 72 0 0 Dalrymple Prize Fund .. . . 4 0 0 Loans— Cost of leases .. .. .. 10 7 0 Principal repaid .. .. .. 3,3300 0 0 Refund of travelling-expenses, Rector.. 812 4 Interest .. .. ~ .. 74 5 0 Boardinghouses—Ground-rent . . .. 72 0 0 Legal and other expenses .. . . 0 7 6 Loans —Accrued sinking fund .. .. 179 3 1.0 General —Interest on overdraft .. 3 2 6 General —Interest on fixed deposit .. 20 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 2,561 18 1 £16,269 9 11 £16,269 9 11 Examined and fonnd correct. —R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General.

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Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31 si December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. : Liabilities. £ s. d. Rents overdue .. .. .. 48 11 4 Contract for buildings, &c. ..- . . 1 ,071 4 0 Government capitation on free pupils over- ! Architect's commission .. .. 53 11 2 due .. .. .. .. 64 2 4 Tradesmen's accounts unpaid .. .. 140 12 9 Or. balance 31st December, 1917 .. 2,506 I 5 Free-place capitation overpaid .. .. 028 10 2 Unpresented cheque . . . . . . 4 3 4 £2,078 15 1 £1,898 1 5 T. K. Sidey, Chairman. I'. J. Ness, Secretary. CORE HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. cl. Expenditure. £ s. -d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Secondary Department— of year .. .. .. ■ .. 170 (i 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,965 lo 0 Endowments — Revenue from secondary- Incidental expenses .. .. .. 427 12 5 eduoation reserves (administered by Land Maintenance (including material) of Boards) .. .. .. Kl!) 3 9 classes for manual instruction .. 95 17 5 Secondary Department— Buildings, &c— Prom Government — Maintenance and repairs to buildings 10 0 4 For sites, buildings, furniture, &o. Furniture and apparatus (excluding (general purposes) .. .. 134 8 6 boardinghouses) .. .. 110 17 3 For buildings, furniture, fittings, etc.. Buildings, furniture, &c, for manual for classes for manual instruction .. 53 (111 i classes.. .. .. .. 1 131 3 Capitation for free places (including j Technical instruction—Total expenditure 152 7 .'! annual grant) .. .. .. 1,985 10 (I i Balance at end of year .. .. 146 17 2 Capitation for classes for manual instruction . . . . .. 74 11 10 School fees .. . . .. 107 0 8 Refunds from pupils for books, etc. .. 80 6 1 Voluntary contributions for general purposes .. .. .. .. 110 Technical instruction—Total income .. 146 19 10 £2,922 15 1 £2,922 15 1 Exfimined and found correct. —R, 1. Collin's, Controller and Auditor-General. Statement, of Monetary Assets and liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. cl. Liabilities. £ s. d. Balance in Bank of New Zealand .. 146 17 2 Sundry accounts (estimated) ,', .. 5 o 0 Balance due, capitation, third term .. 12 0 0 Capitation due, swimming classes .. 5 2 0 Capitation clue, physical and science classes 22 12 6 Capitation, evening technical classes .. 53 4 8 One paying-pupil, two terms .. .. 8 0 0 £247 10 10 £5 0 0 John MacGibron, Chairman. Andrew Martin, Treasurer,

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SOUTHLAND HIGH SCHOOLS BOARD. General Statement of Accounts for the Vrar ended 31st December, 1917. Receipts. £ s. cl. lixpendihire. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning Endowments - of year .. .. .. .. 5,456 0 7 ■ Proportion of office salaries .. .. 50 0 0 Endowments — Proportion of office expenses . . .. 33 13 4 Current income from reserves vested in Legal and inspection fees re endowments 73! 8 4 Board .. .. .. .. 2,054 0 2 Seoondary Department— Revenue from secondary-education re- Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 4,733 19 5 serves (administered by Land Boards) 277 15 6 Incidental expenses .. .. .. 614 16 6 Secondary Department— Buildings, &c. — From Government— New buildings, additions, or other Capitation for free places (including new works .. .. .. 1,612 5 0 annual grant, £100) .. .. 3,672 6 7 Maintenance and repairs to buildings- 417 3 0 Capitation for classes for manual in- Furniture and apparatus (excluding struction .. .. .. 43 12 1 boardinghouses) .. .. 44 6 0 , School fees .. .. .. 294 0 0 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c).. 60 17 2 General — General — interest on fixed deposit .. .. 160 2 4 Petty cash .. .. .. 10 0 0 Refunds— Library .. .. .. .. 10 14 9 Technical High School— Donation, museum .. .. .. 15 0 0 Physical instructor's salary .. 75 0 0 Technical College physical instructor . . 75 0 0 Gangway .. .. .. 10 0 Contractor's deposit.. .. .. 7 0 0 Costs, endowments .. ~ 2 4 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 4,.309 3 7 Petty cash . . . . . . 10 0 0 Insurance . . .. .. 0 510 R,ents, Corporation leases . . .. 13 0 0 Sale of tank .. . . . . 10 0 Contractor's deposit.. .. .. 7 0 0 £12,067 7 1 £12,007 7 1 Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1917. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s d. Outstanding fees .. .. .. 24 13 4 Capitation overpaid in December, 1917 .. 337 0 9 Outstanding rents .. .. .. 957 19 0 Sundry creditors .. .. .. 68 3 0 School colours account . . . . 40 19 0 Interest on fixed deposit .. .. 22 10 0 Bank, on fixed deposit .. .. 3,904 0 0 Bank, on current account . . . . 345 .'! 7 £5,355 5 5 £405 12 9 R. A. Anderson, Chairman. F. G. Stevenson, Secretary and Treasurer.

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