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CHRISTCHURCH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1886. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. 2,726 3 5 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 498 311 School fees .. .. .. 861 0 0 Contribution towards expenses of ReDebit balance at end of year.. .. 435 18 4 gistrar's office .. .. .. 80 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,615 7 6 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 38 0 0 Other examination expenses.. .. 5 19 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 24 3 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 76 15 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 35 13 5 Purchases and new works .. .. 24 4 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 26 3 3 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 110 0 10 Interest on current account.. .. 12 1 8 Reserves, inspecting, and advertising .. 62 19 5 Water-race through Reserve 1157 .. 5 0 0 Rent of cricket-ground .. .. 27 10 0 Music .. .. .. .. 10 10 0 Grant to cadet corps .. .. 7 10 0 Sundries, petty cash .. .. 12 19 7 Interest on loan from Trust and Loan Company .. .. .. 350 0 0 £4,023 1 9 £4,023 1 9 F. de C. Malet, Chairman. F. G. Stedman, Registrar and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —J. Ollivier, Provincial District Auditor.

■' 2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest Glasses. Latin V. —Virgil, iEneid, Book V., by Calvert (Macmillan's Elementary Classics); Livy, Book 1., Chaps, i.-xxx. ; Cicero ; Stories from Roman History (Macmillan's Elementary Classics); Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom; Abbott's Via Latina; Smith's Smaller Roman History, Chap. xvii. to end; Public School Latin Primer. English V. —Scott's Waverley, edited by Eve (Storr's English Classics); Shakespeare's Julius Caasar (Eolfe); Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I. (Chambers); Morris's Smaller Historical English Grammar ; Hale's Longer English Poems ; Student's Hume, 1689-1837. Science. — Chemistry (Elementary) : Roscoe's Primer. Physics (Elementary) : Balfour Stewart's Primer ; Garnett's Elementary Mechanics (S.P.C.K.) ; Garnett's Elementary Heat (Deighton and Bell). Physics (Advanced) : Hydrostatics and Pneumatics (London Science Classbooks) ; Mechanics (London Science Class-books). Geology: Geikie's Primer. Greek. —Sidgwick's First Greek Writer; Smith's First Greek Book ; Stories in Attic Greek, by Morice. French 7. —Brachet's Nouvelle Grammaire Fran9aise; Moliere's L'Avare (Hachette); Erck-mann-Chatrian's Le Conscrit; Dussouchet's Exercices Fran9ais sur Brachet (Hachette); French composition. Mathematics Vl. —Todhunter's Euclid, Books 1.-VI.; Todhunter's Algebra for Beginners ; Barnard Smith's Exercises in Arithmetic ; Hamblin Smith's Trigonometry. Drawing (at the School of Art). —Freehand, model, mechanical. Loivest Classes. English I. —Morrison's English Grammar for Junior Classes; Palgrave's Children's Treasury of Songs, Part II.; Gardiner's Outlines of English History; Petrie's First Geography. Mathematics I. —Davis's Arithmetical Examples (without answers), Part I. Upper I. Latin. —Abbott's Via Latina. Lower I. Latin. —Principia Latina, Part I. French I. —Bu6's First French Book. Singing. —Collegiate Singing Manual, Parts 3 and 4; Novello's Glees. Writing. —For junior boys, 3 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. Class : Tuesday, 4 to 5 p.m. Drawing (at the School of Art). —Freehand, model, mechanical.

3. Scholarships held during the Last Quarter of the Year. School. —Free education, 4. North Canterbury Education Board. —At £40, 3; at £20, 3. Haivke's Bay Education Board. —At £20, 2. Caledonian Society. —At £20, 2. Masonic.—At £50, 1.

4. Report of the Inspector-General of Schools to the Hon. the Minister of Education Ghristchurch Boys' High School (22nd November, 1886). —My visit to this school was decidedly too late in the year. The pupils were engaged in revision preparatory to examination.