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CHEISTCHURCH GIELS1 HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Beceipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1890. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 738 15 11 By Office—salary .. .. .. 70 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 371 9 4 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,605 0 2 ' Interest on moneys invested .. .. 200 17 0 Examinations — School fees .. .. .. .. 1,713 12 0 Examiners'feea .. .. .. 57 15 0 Interest on current account .. .. 57 111 Other expenses .. .. .. 8 411 Cheque cancelled .. .. .. 6 5 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 264 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 2 4 0 Printing, stationery, stamps, and advertising .. .. .. .. 66 2 11 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 19 2 9 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works and fittings 65 18 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 20 7 8 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 51 18 2 Expenses of teaching cooking .. .. 9 11 i Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 413 8 Music and tuning pianos .. .. 713 0 Pumping waste water from ram .. 4 18 10 Sundries .. .. .. .. 1 7 10 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year .. .. .. 829 2 11 £3,088 1 2 £3,088 1 2 F. de C. Malet, Chairman. A. Cbaceoft Wilson, Eegistrar. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Woek op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — English: Grammar — Mason's English Grammar; Morris's Smaller Historical English Grammar. Composition—Essays on subjects from books read; correction of sentences, &c. Literature —Shakespeare's Tempest and Lear ; Spenser's Fairie Queene, first half of Book I.; Morell's English Literature from Chaucer to Goldsmith. Latin: Grammar —Bradley's Arnold; Abbott's Idioms (Latin prose composition at sight and prepared). Translation —Virgil, iEneid, Book VI.; Cicero's De Senectute; selections from Horace's Satires and Epistles (Macmillan's Series) ; selections from Cicero's Letters (Macmillan's Series); Scenes from Terence's Andria (Macmillan's Series); translation at sight. French: Grammar—Brachet's Public School French Grammar; Bue's Idioms; French prose composition ; French conversation ; translation—Capi et sa Troupe (H. Malot); La Mare dv diable (George Sand); Tartuffe (Moliere); Jeanne d'Arc (Lamartine); Au coin dv feu (Souvestre); L'Avare (Moliere). Mathematics: Arithmetic, algebra, Euclid, and trigonometry, as for the Junior University Scholarship Examination. Science : Botany and heat, as for the Junior University Scholarship Examination. Optional subjects : Cooking, dress-cutting, swimming. Lowest. —English: Beading (Eoyal Eeader No. V.), spelling, writing; composition on stories read; letters. Grammar —Definitions of parts of speech; easy parsing. History: Gardiner's History, Part 1., from the invasion of Britain to the end of the reign of Edward 11. Geography: The chief divisions of the world, the general geography of New Zealand. Science: Elementary botany and physiology. Drawing: Elementary freehand. Sewing. Class singing. Swimming. Drill. 3. SCHOLAESHIPS HELD DUEING LAST QuAETEB OF YEAE. The school gave sixteen scholarships at £15. Nine scholarships of the North Canterbury Education Board were held at the school.

CHEIST'S COLLEGE GEAMMAE SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Eeceipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 15th May, 1890. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Endowments— By Liabilities (being Dr. balance, 15th May, Sales .. .. .. 400 0 0 1889) .. .. .. .. 7,993 16 7 Kent .. .. .. 1,937 8 2 Expenses of management .. .. 228 14 0 Scholarships'endowments .. .. 940 15 5 School salaries .. .. .. 3,449 2 6 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,678 3 0 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 61 11 3 Stationery and books sold and refunds .. 248 6 7 Scholarships, exhibitions, and prizes .. 920 910 Sundries unclassified .. .. .. 10 2 8 Printing, stationery, advertising, &c. .. 139 11 11 Dr. balance .. .. .. .. 7,591 3 1 Land, buildings, furniture, insurance, rent, and rates .. .. .. 337 15 9 Cleaning, fuel, lights, &c. .. .. 167 10 5 Interest .. .. .. 313 4 4 Sundries unclassified .. .. .. 194 2 4 i £13,805 18 11 £13,805 18 11 Christ's College, 4th March, 1891. W. G. Beittan, Accountant.

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