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2. Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1887. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. dTo Balance at beginning of year .. .. 155 18 10 By Management, salary .. .. .. 56 5 0 Grant from vote of the General Assembly 750 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances, inBank of New Zealand, fixed deposit from eluding fees paid to visiting teachers.. 1,349 0 0 last year .. .. .. .. 1,050 0 0 Printing, stationer}', and advertising .. 39 8 3 Reserves sold .. .. .. 297 2 6 Gleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 73 710 Current income from reserves.. .. 579 9 2 Fencing, repairs, &0... .. .. '22 16 8 Interest on money invested and on un- Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 3 15 0 paid purchase-money .. .. 60 10 0 Endowments, sales account— Paid by School Commissioners ~ 118 7 4 Proceeds invested, fixed deposit, Bank School fees, boys'school .. .. 459 18 1 of New Zealand .. .. .. 3,842 4 1 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds, boys' Expenses of survey, sales, managesehool, including fees received for extra ment, &c, .. .. .. 3 16 8 subjects .. .. .. .. 52 12 V I Reserves—Rates, expenses of leasing, &c. 60 8 7 School fees, girls'school .. .. 188 811 j Furniture and fittings .. .. 312 0 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds, girls' Sundries, stamps, telegrams, &c. 5 0 1 school, including fees received for extra Balance at end of year .. .. 273 2 6 subjects .. .. ~ .. 20 9 3 £3,732 16 8 £3,732 16 8 _ ( Geoege Lumsden, Chairman. Chaeles Eout, Secretary and Treasurer. I have compared this abstract with Treasurer's books and vouchers, and I certify it to be correct.—H. Livingston, Auditor.

3. Statement of Assets and Liabilities, 31st December, 1887. Assets. £, s. d. i Liabilities. £ n. <-!. Bank of New Zealand — I Outstanding accounts — Fixed deposit account .. .. 1,842 4 1 i Farnie .. .. .. .. 3IS 0 Balance current account and cash .. 273 2 6 L. Eodgers and Go. .. .. .. 1C 8 9 Bent of reserves due and unpaid .. .. 268 13 7 C. Eout .. .. .. .. 19 9 9 Reserves sold on deferred payment, instal- Pearsey .. .. .. .. 414 6 ments due and unpaid .. .. 103 19 0 Hanan .. .. .. .. 10 0 School fees due and unpaid, including Southland Times .. .. .. 0 9 0 stationery .. .. .. .. 193 15 4 j Southland News .. .. .. 06 0 Freehold property, Sections 27 and 28, Block XIII., Town of Invercargill. Reserves vested in Board by Acts of Greneral Assembly Chaeles Eout, Treasurer. The items cash in bank and hand, instalments of purchase-money, and overdue rents of reserves are correctly stated. The fees in arrear have not been checked, the copy of school-roll being imperfect.—H. Livingston, Auditor.

4. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest, Boys.~~ Latin: Virgil, iEneid, Book I.: Cicero, De Senectute ; Bradley's Arnold, Frost's Materials for Latin Prose, Latin Grammar. French: Selections from French Authors (Macmillan): Brachet's French Grammar, French composition. English: King Lear, Morris's Historical English Grammar, composition and essays. History : Edith Thompson, with Notes from Green. Mathematics: Arithmetic; Euclid, Books I. to IV. ; algebra, to end of quadratic equations. Chemistry: The non-metallic elements (Eoscoe). Highest, Girls.— Latin : Cassar, Book III.; Cicero, De Senectute ; Bradley's Arnold, French : Macmillan's Eeader No. 11., Brachet's French Grammar, French composition. English : King Lear, Morris's Historical English Grammar, composition and essays. History: Collier's. Geography : Mackay's. Mathematics : Arithmetic, Euclid, Books I. to III.; algebra, to end of simple equations. Lowest, Boys and Girls.— English: Eeader No. IV., Morris's English Grammar, Primer, Curnow's Smaller History, Petrie's Geography. Arithmetic : Compound rules. Writing, spelling, and dictation.

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