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CHRISTCHURCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1886. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance in bank at beginning of year .. 470 6 7 By Contributions towards salaries and exGrant from vote of the General Assembly 200 0 0 penses of Registrar's office .. 70 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 232 0 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,598 2 11 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 357 0 5 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 67 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,675 16 0 Other examination expenses .. .. 619 0 Interest on current account .. .. 64 18 5 Prizes .. .. .. .. 28 13 6 Cheque cancelled .. .. .. 8 6 8 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 54 10 1 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 25 10 6 New works .. .. .. .. 66 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 40 1 2 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 117 18 9 Music and tuning pianos .. .. 11 5 0 Expenses of teaching cooking (exclusive of salary) .. .. .. 39 8 6 Rent of gymnasium .. .. .. 35 0 0 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 3 4 0 Scientific apparatus.. .. .. 11 1 0 Sundries, petty cash .. .. 16 18 1 Balance at end of year .. .. 816 16 1 £3,008 8 7 £3,008 8 7 F. de C. Malet, Chairman. F. G. Stedman, Registrar and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —J. Ollivier, Provincial District Auditor.

2. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest Form. Eitglish. —Literature : Shakespeare's Richard 11. and Julius Cassar, and, as subjects for composition with less attention to the text, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Mill on the Floss; Morell's Sketch of English Literature from Chaucer to Dryden. Composition : Essays, &c, on subjects from books read, correction of sentences, &c. Grammar: Morris's Smaller English Historical Grammar, Smith and Hall's Student's Grammar. Latin. —Translation : Cicero's Pro Milone ; Virgil, Book II.; selections from Horace's Satires and Epistles ; twenty chapters of Livy, Book I. Composition : Latin prose; text-books, Abbott's Prose and Bradley's Arnold. The more important antiquities. Roman History: Smith's Student's History and Merivale's Three Triumvirates. French. —Translation : Selections from Alfred de Musset, Guizot's Guillaume le Conquerant, and Moliere's L'Avare. Grammar : Brachet's Public School French Grammar, French prose and idioms. Mathematics. —Arithmetic, algebra, Euclid, and trigonometry as for junior University scholarship examinations. Science. —Botany and heat as for junior University scholarship examinations. Lowest Form. English. —Grammar: Simple rules without text-book. Composition: On Stone's Reader and on the writing of easy letters; simple readers such as " Poetry for the Young; " simple geographical reader (Phillips's No. 4), with elements of general geography and geography of New Zealand; The Child's History of England (Mrs. Creighton) ; dictation and spelling. French. —The elements as far as the verbs. Arithmetic. —The four simple and compound rules, reduction of money, and weights and measures. Science. —The first principles of physical and natural science, the laws of health. Seioing and Elementary Drawing. The general work of the school is much the same as that of the previous year, 1885, except for the introduction of cooking, which was very successfully taught last year to about twenty of the older girls.

3. Report op the Inspector-General op Schools to the Hon. the Minister of Education. Christchurch Girls' High School (23rd November, 1886). —Here also revision had begun. I saw, however, every reason to maintain my steadfast opinion as to the great excellence of the school.

CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CANTERBURY. 1. Report of the Agent for the Twelve Months, Ist May, 1885, to 30th April, 1886. The income from ordinary sources (General Account) has exceeded my estimate given a year ago by £183, as follows : — Estimate for Twelve Months. Actual Cash Receipts. £ s. d. £ s. d. Rent and interest ... ... 1,800 0 0 ... 1,769 0 8 Tuition fees ... ... ... 3,100 0 0 ... 3,308 7 6 Sundry incidental receipts ... ... ... ... 5166 £4,900 0 0 £5,083 4 2

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