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Lowest. — Preparatory Class.—Geikie's Third Eeader. Blackie's Grammar, to page 22. Geography—continents and principal seas. History—Little Arthur's, to end of Tudor Period. Notation and numeration, and simple rules. Otago Giels' High School. Highest. — Tacitus, Livy, Virgil, Horace, composition, passages ad aperturam; Chardenal's French Grammar, Picciola, Newspaper Eeader; Otto's German Grammar, Hermann and Dorothea ; Paradise Lost, II Penseroso, Eichard 111., Macbeth, Historical English Grammar, analysis and composition; York and Lancaster Epooh. Euclid, VI.; quadratics; solution of triangles; arithmetic. Eoscoe's Chemistry ; Thome's Botany. Lowest. — Geikie's Fourth Eeader, Hall's Grammar, parsing, composition, and dictation. Little Arthur's History, from Tudor Period. Geography—Europe, North America, England, Scotland, and New Zealand. Object-lessons. Simple and compound rules of arithmetic. Southland Boys' High School. Highest. — Xenophon, Homer, Initia; Cicero, Virgil, Principia; De Fivas's Grammaire dcs Grammaires, Scribe's Bertrand and Eaton, retranslation ; Tempest, Trench's Study of Words, Smith's English Grammar; Eoman History to 89 8.C., English from 1688. Euclid to end of Book XI; Todhunter's Trigonometry ; Newth's Natural Philosophy; binomial theorem; Arithmetic. Geography (general). Lowest. —Principia, I. and 11., Fables and Anecdotes ; Bue's First French Book, a little of De Fivas's Grammar and Hachette's Eeader ; Ivanhoe, Morris's Grammar, parsing, analysis ; Curnow's History Primer. Compound division, practice, L.C.M., G.C.M., fractions, vulgar and decimal. Petrie's First Geography, Southland Gibls' High School. Highest. —Cicero, Virgil, Principia, prose composition; De Fivas's Grammar, Un Philosophe sous les Toits, Picciola; Julius Cassar, Smith's Grammar, parsing, analysis, composition, abstracts; English history as for matriculation. Euclid, I. and II.; problems in simultaneous equations ; arithmetic. Geography (Mackay's and Geikie's Physical Geography). Lowest. —Morris's English Grammar. Bue's First French Course. History—Stuart and Brunswick periods. Arithmetic—compound rules and vulgar fractions. Petrie's First Geography.

AUCKLAND COLLEGE AND GEAMMAE SCHOOL. 1. Boaed's Eepoht. Twelve ordinary and eight special meetings of the Board were held during 1884. The members of the Board at the close of 1884 were as follows : — Elected by the Senate of the University of New Zealand —the Hon. Colonel Haultain, Eev. C. M. Nelson, and the Hon. J. A. Tole; elected by the Education Board —Messrs. J. M. Clark, J. M. Dargaville, and Samuel Luke ; elected by the Members of the General Assembly in the Auckland, Provincial District —Sir G. M. O'Eorke (Chairman), and Messrs. F. D. Fenton and E. A. Mackeehnie. Masters. —To meet the increase in the number of pupils three masters have been added to the staff—namely, in the first term of the year, Mr. J. K. Wright, LL.B., London; and in the third, Messrs. G. F. Cox, M.A., Oxford, and H. T. Carson, of University College, London. Mr. J. F. Sloman, 8.A., Sydney, the valued second master, and Mr. W. H. W. Nicholls, having accepted, the former the headmastorship of the Auckland High School for Girls, and the latter an appointment on the staff of the Sydney Grammar School, sent in their resignations, to take effect at the end of the year. Numbers of Pupils. —-The names on the school-roll numbered, in the first term, 321; in the second, 315; in the third, 331: as compared with 249 in the third term of 1883, and 168 in that of 1882. This continuous increase, though in itself highly satisfactory, has necessarily caused some strain upon the organization of the school, the more so as, until new buildings could be erected, the accommodation was deficient. It has also largely taxed the funds at the disposal of the Board, both in the way of ordinary expenses, since these are not met by the low fees charged, and in that of extraordinary outlay to provide increased accommodation. The numbers given include the boys attending the Ponsonby Branch School, which, however, has not been supported as the Board was led to expect. Buildings, <&c. —ln September new buildings, comprising a spacious luncheon hall, with kitchen and offices, and three excellent class-rooms, were opened for use. To meet the cost of erection and furnishing the Board was compelled to avail itself, to the extent of £2,000, of its borrowing powers. About the same time a workshop, erected at a cost to the Board of £70, and fitted up with benches, lathes, and tools out of funds remaining in possession of the late cadet corps at the time of its voluntary disbandment, was opened. Various minor improvements and considerable additions to the stock of furniture and plant for use in teaching have been made. No books, however, have been added to the school library. Scholarships, & c—An unusually large number of scholars have been elected or received in consequence of a change in the arrangement as to the school year, which now commences in September, bringing, except in the case of the Senior Foundation Scholarships, the elections of two school years within one calendar year. One boy was elected in January to a Senior Foundation Scholarship, value £40 per annum, with exemption from fees for three years ; two in January and two in September to Junior Foundation Scholarships, carrying exemption from fees only. In January eight district scholars and seven holders of certificates of proficiency, and in September eight