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2. Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1886. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Price of reserves sold .. .. 3,851 4 9 By Balance at beginning of year .. 2,833 7 0 Current income from reserves .. 2,761 4 7 Office salary or salaries ' .. .. 170 0 0 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Legal expenses .. .. .. 10 2 0 paid purchase-money .. .. 732 12 4 Incidentals .. .. .. 56 1 3 School fees .. .. .. 2,612 14 0 Report on reserves .. .. .. 15 10 6 Boarding-school fees .. .. 1,77110 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 6,833 14 8 Overdraft or debit balance at end of year 3,594 8 E Boarding-school Account— Disbursements .. .. .. 1,717 7 8 Furnishing, &e. .. .. .. 125 1 1 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 91 S 0 Appointment of Rector .. .. 423 0 8 Prizes .. .. .. .. 58 8 4 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 105 16 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. (including wages of two janitors) .. .. 205 11 10 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 164 17 0 Interest on current account .. .. 417' 8 3 Expended on site or buildings .. 623 4 8 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. .. .. .. 12 2 3 Destroying rabbits .. .. .. 16 0 0 Discount on promissory notes .. 701 10 5 Road-making .. .. .. 683 6 8 £15,323 13 11 £15,323 13 11 D. M. Stuart, D.D., Chairman. C. Macandrew, Secretary and Treasurer. I certify this statement to be correct by the Treasurer's books and vouchers.—H. Livingston, Auditor.

3. Gray Russell Scholarship Fund. £ s. d. £ s. d. To Amount invested on mortgage .. 750 0 0 By Capital .. .. .. .. 1,000 0 0 Balance in bank .. .. .. 333 17 6 Balance of receipts, uninvested .. 83 17 6 £1,083 17 6 £1,033 17 6 D. M. Stuart, Chairman. Correct.—H. Livingston, Auditor. C. Macandrew, Treasurer.

4. Richardson Cadet Corps Fund. £ s. d. £ s. d. To Bank of New Zealand shares .. 150 0 0 By Capital .. .. .. .. 150 0 0 Amount advanced on mortgage .. 50 0 0 Eeceipts (interest uninvested) .. 183 4 3 Balance in bank .. .. .. 133 4 3 £333 4 3 £333 4 3 D. M. Stuart, Chairman. Correct,—H. Livingston, Auditor. C. Macandrew, Treasurer.

5. Work op Highest and Lowest Forms, Boys' School. Form VI. —Latin : Composition and translation (unseen), Latin grammar, Livy, versions done in school once a week, versions done at home twice a week ; text-books —Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, Millington's Latin Prose Composition and translation, Allen's Latin Grammar; Belcher's Livy, Book II.; various unseen examination-papers, &c. English: English philology, home exercises in philology, Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, weekly essays and exercises, English literature ; text-books —Morris's Elementary Lessons in Historical English Grammar, Clarendon Press edition of Chaucer, Chambers's English Literature ; Earle, Skeat, Wedgwood, Marsh, Abbott for reference. Gorman : Accidence (no text-book used) ; German author, Goethe's Gotz von Berlichingen. French : Translation and accidence, French versions done at home, French version done in school once a week ; text-books—Newspaper Beading-book (Jeffcott and Tossell), Blouet's French Composition, Manuel des Examinations (Belcher and Dupuis). Botany : From written notes. Science : Inorganic chemistry, practical chemistry, testing for acids and bases ; text-books—Eoscoe's Elementary Chemistry, Jones's Junior Course of Practical Chemistry, Boscoe and Schorleimer for reference, Thorpe, and various other collections of papers. Mathematics: Algebra to quadratics ; trigonometry to solution of triangles; geometry, Book VI., with riders ; mechanics (statics, hydrostatics, kinematics); weekly problem papers in algebra, arithmetic, trigonometry, Euclid, and mechanics ; arithmetic (all). Second Form (Lowest in School). —Latin : Latin grammar, with exercises to end of four conjugations. French : French grammar, with exercises to end of avoir and Ure. English : History, outlines 1066-1485. Geography : New Zealand, Great Britain and her colonies. Grammar : Elementary. Beading, writing, spelling, and dictation. Arithmetic :To end of vulgar fractions (simple treatment). Books: Macmillan's First Latin Grammar, Bust's Latin Composition. First French Course (Fasnacht). Historical outlines on a card, and Jardine's History of England. Geography: Chiefly from maps; Petrie's. Grammar: Morris. Reader: Standardly. (Nelson). Arithmetic : Book used in State schools for Standard V. Class-drawing and Gymnastics—part of school-time course.