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Temuka District High School.

In addition to the class percentages given above, I add a few notes on the quality of the work. Waimate. English.—Most of the pupils in this class did their written work creditably, and in the oral examination on passages from " Henry V." nearly all answered well. Latin.—The quality of the work in all the classes was remarkably good, the best features being the almost faultless translation of Latin sentences and the careful rendering of English into Latin. Euclid. —In the highest class one paper was excellent and the other fair. In the other classes very good marks were obtained by all the scholars except one. Great credit is due to all for the neatness of the papers. Algebra.—This subject has been very successfully taught. One pupil gained a percentage of 50, but the percentages of the others ranged from 72 to 100, this latter being gained by two pupils, one in the middle and one in the lowest class. Temuka. Latin.—The papers of the only pupil in the highest class possessed very little merit. A large amount of work was professed, but the knowledge of it seemed too superficial to stand the test of this examination. In the other classes two pupils did very well, and two fairly ; but the work of the rest was so unsatisfactory that it will be advisable for them to spend another year at the same course. French. —In this subject one very good paper was done. The girl who took the third course showed considerable facility and commendable accuracy in translating from French into English, but she made some sad blundering in her attempts to render some easy sentences into French. Euclid. —None of the papers in the highest class were even fairly well clone. All the papers of the middle class and two of the lowest were very good. The other papers were fair with one exception. Algebra.—There was one excellent paper in the highest class, and the other was very good. The percentage of marks in the middle class was very low in every case. The lowest class made a good appearance on the whole, their average, however, being spoilt by one boy, whose paper was of no value. I have, &c, Jas. Gibson Gow, M.A. Inspector. The Chairman, South Canterbury Board of Education. OTAGO. Sib — We have the honour to submit our report for the year 1888. During the year all the schools in the Otago District were examined except three. Two of these were found closed on the day fixed for the examination, and the examination of the other was changed from the end to the beginning of the year, at the request of the School Committee. The two former were examined since the year closed and the results have been included among those of the year. All the schools but one were visited for inspection, but two were found closed. The following table shows at one view the chief statistics of examination for the year;—

Subject. Course. Number of Pupils. Average Marks per Cent. Amount of Work done. jatin Third 1 48 Abbott's " Via Latina;" Virgil's "JEneid," Book V.; Caesar's "Invasion of Britain" (Macmillan). Abbott's "Via Latina," pages 1 to 142; with Appendix I., of Irregular Verb. Abbott's " Via Latina," pages 1 to 79. Abbott's "Via Latina," pages 1 to 39. Moliere's '' Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme;" Grammar; easy passages for translation into French. Bue's Second-year French Course. Books III. and IV. Books I and IE, with deductions. Book I., with deductions. Quadratic equations, problems, evolution, and surds. Fractions, and simultaneous equations. Factors, G.C.M., L.C.M., and easy simple equations. // Second 5 43 'rench ... First, Sec. II. Sec. I. Third 2 1 1 (iO 75 50 Ixiclid ... « ... Second Third Second First, Sec. II. Third Second First, Sec. II. 2 3 3 6 2 4 5 57 25 78 56 82 30 53 // • * • Jgebra ... if •' •