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3. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1884. General Account. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Foes due .. .. .. .. 213 7 6 Bank overdrafts.. .. .. .. 593 6 3 Rents due .. .. .. .. 338 15 0 Cheques outstanding .. .. .. 37 6 8 Government grant .. .. .. 150 0 0 Sundry accounts .. .. .. 84 1 3 Interest on loan .. .. .. 183 16 11 702 2 6 ■ 898 11 1 Loan contracted for building purposes .. 5,000 0 0 Interest on ditto .. .. .. 177 0 0 College buildings (cost £12,000) and College reserves, not less than .. .. £5,500 0 0 £5,177 0 0

Turnbull Fund. £ a. d. I Invested in mortgages .. .. .. 1,000 0 0 At Post-Office Savings-Bank .. .. 467 16 8 Nil. £1,467 16 8 Moore Scholarship Fund. £ s. d. Nil. Invested in mortgage .. .. .. 500 0 0 Bhodes Scholarship Fund. £ s. d. Invested in mortgage .. .. .. 200 0 0 Deposited at interest .. .. .. 300 0 0 £500 0 0 Wellington, 17th February, 1885. Examined and passed.—E. Macalistee, Provincial District Auditor.

4. Balance-sheet of Special Funds for the Tear ended 31st December, 1884. Turnbull Fund. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance brought forward .. .. 1,383 4 4 Prizes, 1883 .. .. .. .. 15 0 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 139 12 4 „ 1884 .. .. .. .. 40 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 1,467 16 8 £1,522 10 8 £1,522 16 8 Balance down .. .. .. .. £1,467 16 8 Moore Scholarship Fund. £ s. d. £ s . a. Balance brought forward .. .. 500 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 500 0 0 Balance down (invested in mortgages) .. £500 0 0 Bhodes Scholarship Fund. £ s- <*• £ s. d. Balance brought forward .. .. 500 0 0 Balance .. .. 500 0 0 Balance down (invested in mortgages) .. 200 0 0 Deposited at interest .. .. .. 300 0 0 £500 0 0 Wellington, 17th February, 1885. Examined and passed.—E. Macalistee, Provincial District Auditor.

WELLINGTON GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Bepoet of the Examinees. Gentlemen, — Wellington, 16th December, 1884. We have the honour to submit to you the following report on the examination recently conducted by us of the Girls' High School. Last session, owing to its being the first year of the school's existence, the examination was comparatively lenient. This year, however, we made it as testing as that to which any school should be subjected. The papers in the English subjects, particularly, were of the same difficulty as those set for the corresponding Forms in the College. The examination was almost entirely a written one, and extended over several days. Full details of the results are given elsewhere, so that we shall content ourselves here by merely offering a few words of general comment on the work of the school during the year now drawing to a close. Besides the usual English subjects, Latin, French, and mathematics have been taught throughout the school, and, in some of the higher Forms, elementary physiology and botany. In Latin there are four classes, and in each of them good work has been done. In the lowes