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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 at beginning of year .. .. 273 2 6 By Management, salaries, 15 months .. 93 15 0 Bank of New Zealand, fixed deposit from Teachers' salaries and allowances, inlast year .. .. .. .. 1,842 4 1 eluding fees paid to visiting teacher.. 1,215 8 0 Grant from vote of the General Assembly 177 2 9 Prizes .. .. .. .. 11 19 6 Endowments— Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 44 4 3 Capital account—price of reserves sold 200 10 0 Gleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 68 2 7 Current income from reserves .. 721 8 11 Book and stationery account and other Interest on moneys invested and on temporary advances .. .. 21 8 2 unpaid purchase-money .. .. 87 18 10 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 26 6 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. 189 15 9 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 18 15 0 School fees, boys' school .. .. 401 5 2 Reserves—Rates, expenses of leases, &c. 10 3 3 Books, &c, sold and other refunds, boys' Coal-scuttles .. .. .. 14 0 school, including fees received for Chemicals and appliances .. .. 91 11 8 extra subjects .. .. .. 37 17 10 Stamps, telegrams, cheque-book, &c. .. 15 10 7 School fees, girls' school .. .. 151 5 2 . Balance in bank at end of year— Books, &c, sold and other refunds, girls' Current account .. .. .. 322 17 7 school, including fees received for extra Fixed deposit .. .. .. 2,166 011 subjects .. .. .. .. 17 15 6 Eobert Mills, deposit on contract .. 7 0 0 £4,107 6 6 £4,107 6 6 Geo. Lumsden, Chairman. Chables Eout, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Woek op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest (Boys).' —Latin : Cicero, De Senectute and De Omciis, Book II.; Bradley's Arnold; Frost's Materials for Latin Prose ; Latin grammar ; translation of unseen passages of English into Latin, and Latin into English. French: Charles XII., Voltaire; Macmillan's No. 11. Eeader; Brachet's Grammar; French composition. English: Morris's Historical English Grammar; Shakespeare's Hamlet; composition and essay. History: Edith Thompson's, with notes from Green. Mathematics: Arithmetic,'the subject; algebra to end of quadratic equations; Euclid, Books 1., 11., 111., IV., and VI.; trigonometry, Todhunter's Smaller, chapters 1-8. Science: Chemistry of non-metallic elements (Eoscoe); statics; dynamics; hydrostatics (Everett's Physics). Highest (Girls). —Latin: Cicero, De Senectute, and De Officiis, Book II.; Bradley's Arnold; Latin grammar and translation of unseen passages of Latin into English, and English into Latin. French: Macmillan's Eeader No. 11. ; Brachet's Grammar; composition. English: Morris's Historical Grammar; Shakespeare's Hamlet; composition and essays. History : English (Edith Thompson). Geography: Mackay's. Mathematics: Arithmetic, the subject; algebra to simultaneous equations; Euclid, Books I. and 11. Lowest (Boys and Girls).— Principia Latina, Part I. French: Principia, Part I. English: Eeader (Fourth Standard). Grammar: Primer (Morris's). "Writing. Spelling and dictation. History: Curnows's Smaller History of England. Petrie's Geography. Arithmetic: Compound rules, weights and measures. [Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, nil; printing (1,450 copies), £18 7s.]

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