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WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure of the Waitaki High School Boaed for the Year ending 31st December, 1888. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 46 4 1 By Management— Grant from vote of the General Assembly 250 0 0 Salaries .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Endowments— Other expenses .. .. .. 514 5 Current income from reserves .. 878 19 10 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,256 3 4 Interest .. .. .. .. 49 7 1 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. SO 18 1 Paid by School Commissioners .. 64 14 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 79 9 0 School fees ;. .. .. .. 517 19 8 Book and stationery account and other Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 67 15 1 temporary advances .. .. 75 14 5 Scholarship account .. .. .. 10 10 0 Eents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 16 7 9 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 205 13 2 Interest on current account .. .. 15 12 10 Endowments, sales account—■ Expended on site or buildings .. 133 1 4 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. .. .. .. 71 5 6 Interest on loan on school buildings .. 227 10 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 38 710 Furnishing Girls' High School .. 70 19 1 £2,091 3 7 £2,091 3 7 H. J. Millee, Chairman. Geobge Sumptee, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Woek op Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —Latin : Virgil, iEneid, V., Georgics, IV.; Horace, Odes, Books I. and III.; De Officiis, Book I.; Eutropius (Macmillan's); Livy, Hannibalic War; Bradley's Arnold; Simpson's Caesarian Prose; Public School Latin Primer; 500 lines repetition. Mathematics: Hamblin Smith's Arithmetic; Algebra, H. Smith, and Hall and Knight; Euclid, H. Smith; Trigonometry, Lock and Todhunter. English : Hale's Longer English Poems ; Bain's Higher English Grammar ; Morris's Outlines of English Accidence; repetition; Goldsmith, Traveller and Deserted Village; Horton's History of the Romans ; Clarke's Geography; Gardiner's English History. French: Chardenal's second and third courses; La Fontaine (Macmillan); Macmillan's Second Reader; Corneille's China; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Science : Biology (Nicholson); Physics, Balfour Stewart's Introduction, and lectures; Botany, Hooker, and lectures. Mensuration (Macmillan). • Shorthand : Lectures. Greek : J. B. Mayor's Introduction. Lowest. —Latin : Macmillan's First Course. French : Chardenal's First Course. English: Hall's English Grammar; Nelson's Poetical Primer. Arithmetic: Hamblin Smith's, to Problems. Algebra, H. Smith's, to Factors. Botany: Hooker's Primer, English History (Gardiner). Girls' School. Highest. —English: Mason's Grammar, pp. 1-100; exercises, parsing, and analysis; Shakespeare's Henry V.; composition. History: Morris's England, from William 111. to Victoria. Geography: British Empire. Physiography : Lecture lessons based on Huxley's Physiography. French : Chardenal's First and Second Course; Baume's grammar; translation, exercises, dictation, &c. Latin: Principia, Parts I. and 11., anecdotes, various, vocabulary, &c. Arithmetic: Hamblin Smith, whole subject (highest class); middle class—fractions, decimals, problems, &c. Algebra: Todhunter, L.C.M., G.C.M., factors, simple equations, problems. Euclid: Book 1., Props. 34-48; Book 11., whole; Book 111., Props. 1-16; exercises. Lowest. —English : Blackie's Grammar, pp. 25-80; exercises, composition, Star Readers, V.-VI. (two divisions). History: Gardiner's England—Stuart and Brunswick Periods. Geography: Petrie's, General Europe, Asia, Australasia; oral lessons on general subjects. French: Chardenal's First Course, exercises, dictation ; Baume's grammar. Latin : Principia, Part 1., pp. 1-39; exercises, vocabulary. Arithmetic: Seduction, compound rules, practice, G.C.M., L.C.M. Algebra: Ex. 1.-XIL, up to G.C.M. Euclid : Book I.; definitions, props. 1-26. 3. SCHOLAESHIPS HELD AT THE SCHOOL DURING THE LAST QuABTEB OF THE YEAE. School. —Free education, four. Besidents. —At £10 10s., one. OTAGO BOYS' AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS. 1. Report of the Boaed. Sib,— Dunedin, 6th May, 1889. In accordance with section 8 of "The Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Act, 1877," and in terms of a circular from the Education Department, dated the 6th December, 1888, I have the honour to forward herewith the report of the Board of Governors of the Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools for the year ended the 31st December, 1888,