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2. Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1888. Receipts. & s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 65 18 7 By Secretary and Collector .. .. 193 2 0 Current income from endowments .. 2,792 5 2 Other office expenses .. .. 41 3 2 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,299 13 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,779 0 6 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 9 7 11 Examinations—Examiners' fees .. 10 0 0 Overdraft at end of year .. .. 21 0 7 „ Other expenses .. 5 5 9 Scholarships .. .. .. 40 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 23 9 3 Printing, school stationery, advertising 87 3 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c.— School .. .. .. .. 67 5 5 Property .. .. .. .. 29 4 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. — School .. .. .. .. 132 2 3 Property .. .. .. .. 76 11 5 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 109 13 1 Interest on current account .. .. 0 2 6 School furniture and requisites .. 62 7 2 Interest on loans .. .. .. 282 13 4 Sports and cricket-ground .. .. 15 0 0 Science school .. .. .. 50 0 0 Law expenses .. .. .. 57 6 0 Travelling expenses .. .. .. 2 0 0 Hire of hall .. .. .. 15 0 Outstanding liabilities, 1887, paid off .. 112 5 3 Petty cash in hand at end of year .. 11 510 £4,188 5 9 £4,188 5 9 G. Maubice O'Eoeke, Chairman. Eobt. Kidd, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General. 3.—Woek op Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys : Highest. —Latin, French, English, mathematics, chemistry, electricity, as for Junior University scholarships. Lowest. —English history: Blackwood's Historical Eeader No. ii. Geography: Blackwood's Geographical Eeader No. ii., Patterson's New Zealand and Australia, Macmillan's Primer of Physical Geography. Grammar : Parsing and very simple analysis ; Davidson and Alcock's Intermediate Grammar, pp. 1-33. Eeading. Eecitation. Object lessons. Composition : Chiefly on subjects of object lessons. Arithmetic :To operations dealing with money, weights, and measures. Giels. —The girls' side has been open for only one term. 4. SCHOLAESHIPS HELD AT THE SCHOOL DUEING LAST QuAETEE. College Scholarships. —Senior foundation (£3O and free education), 1; junior foundation (free education), 7 ; special scholarships (free education), 10 ; under Education Board's certificates of proficiency, 9 ; children of members of staff, 5. The college also gives free education to some holders of Education Board scholarships. Education Board Scholarships.— At £55 10s., 8; at £50 10s., 2; at £45 10s., 3; at £40 10s., 1; at £30 10s., 12; at £30 (with free education), 2. Bawlings Scholarships (school-fees and books), 9. AUCKLAND GIELS' HIGH SCHOOL. Eepoet op the Boaed. Owing to the withdrawal of the Parliamentary grant in lieu of endowment, the Board was obliged to close the school at the 31st August, 1888. The Governors of the Auckland College and Grammar School, at the request of the Board, undertook to provide for the education of girls in that school, and to receive the girls holding district scholarships. A statement of accounts for the year is subjoined. March, 1889. J. H. Upton, Chairman. 2. Statement of Eeceipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1888. Expenditure. £ s. d. Eeceipts. £ s. d. By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 257 6 5 To Grant from vote of the General Assembly 1,000 0 0 Management—Salary .. .. 33 6 8 School fees .. .. . ■ • • 521 17 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 972 0 0 Sale of building .. .. .. 150 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 16 10 Sale of furniture .. .. .. 43 511 Printing .. .. .. .. 13 15 0 Stationery .. .. .. .. 18 14 9 Advertising .. .. .. .. 10 18 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 27 19 2 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 349 7 7 Interest on current account .. .. 419 5 Legal expenses .. .. .. 10 4 6 Balance as per bank certificate .. .. ..385 Less unpresented cheques .. 218 0 0 10 5 £1,715 2 11 £1,715 2 11 J. H. Upton, Chairman. Vincent E. Eice, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found, correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.