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WHANGAEEI HIGH SCHOOL. Statement of Eeoeipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1888. Receipts. £ s. ft. Expenditure. & s. d. To balance £25 0 1 By balaijce £25 0 1 £25 0 1 £25 0 1 W. Bedlington, Chairman and Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General. THAMES BOYS' AND GIELS , HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Eecbipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1888. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. • ■ • • 31 6 3 By Management (16 months) .. .. 40 0 0 Grant from vote of the General Assembly 300 0 0 Other expenses of management .. 813 2 Current income from reserves .. .. 268 310 Teachers' salaries and allowances (13 School fees .. .. • ■ .. 129 17 0 months) .. .. .. .. 903 8 4 Goldfields revenue .. .. • • 432 17 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 316 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 37 8 0 Site and buildings—Purchases and new works .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Bents, insurance, taxes, and legal expenses .. .. .. .. 36 8 9 Interest on current account .. .. 010 2 Endowments—Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. .. .. 25 15 2 School requisites .. .. .. 14 9 1 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year .. .. .. .. 41 14 8 £1,162 4 1 . £1,162 4 1 Wμ. Carpenter, Chairman. E. A. Heald, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—Jambs Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —University junior scholarships examination.—Subjects : Latin, French, mathematics, English, chemistry and electricity. Lowest. —Fourth Standard (district school) with French and Latin. 3. Scholarships held at the School during Last Quarter of the Year. Free education was granted by the school to five holders of Education Board's certificates of proficiency, twenty-three Sixth Standard pupils from primary schools, and three children of members of the staff. NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1888. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Grant from vote of the General Assembly 100 0 0 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 24 14 4 Current income from reserves .. 338 4 1 Management .. .. .. 17 1 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. 103 4 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 572 3 4 School fees .. .. . • • • 197 2 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 4 8 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 41 9 8 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. 15 13 0 llents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 21 7 6 Interest on current account .. .. 10 1 Law charges .. .. .. 10 7 1 Balance .. .. .. .. 30 611 £738 11 1 £738 11 1 Thomas Kelly, Chairman. E. Veale, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General. • • 2. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —-Latin : Principia; and Caesar, Bell. Gall. One pupil did higher work in translation and composition. French: De Fivas' Grammaire dcs Grammaires, and Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ; Dictation. Mathematics : Algebra, to end of quadratics, involving one unknown; Euclid, Books I. and 11. Arithmetic: The subject generally. English: Smith and Hall's Grammar; Parsing and analysis; Tennyson's Princess. Geography: General, and Mackay's Physiography. History : Collier, with notes from other sources. Loivest. —Latin : Principia, Part 1., exercises Ito 20. French: Ahn's First Course, exercises 1 to 90. Mathematics: Arithmetic to fractions; Algebra, the first elements. English: Eoyal Eeader, Book VI.; Dictation; Morrison's Grammar. Mapping. Geography: Cornwel'l's. History : Collier's; Stuart period and part of Brunswick period.