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AKAEOA HIGH SCHOOL. Statement of Eeceipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1890. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure £ s. d. To Balance in hand .. .. .. 19 4 0 By Cheque-book .. .. .. .. 0 2 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 215 9 6 Exchange .. .. .. .. 0 6 0 School fees .. .. .. 72 17 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 205 5 2 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 2 5 3 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 5 17 9 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 5 9 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 9 7 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 1 12 0 Eents, insurance, and taxes .. . 40 11 0 Interest on current account .. .. 0 6 2 Endowments—expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. .. .. .. 16 8 Overpaid into bank .. .. .. 011 9 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year 39 1 3 £309 16 3 £309 16 3 (Note. —In the balance-sheet as audited the expenditure is stated to be as follows: Teachers'salaries, £221 18s. 6d.; light, fire, cleaning, £11 lls. Cd.; rent and taxes, £40 lls.; advertising, printing, and stationery, £11 6s. 9d.; interest and bank charges, £1 ss. lid.; legal expenses, £1 Gs. Bd.; balance, £21 15s. lid.; total, £309 16s. 3d.J

TIMAEU HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1890. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 149 1 0 By Office—salary .. .. .. 70 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 648 0 2 Other office expenses .. .. .. 2 6 6 Eents of reserves .. .. .. 1,311 7 2 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,502 1110 Interest on mortgages .. .. 85 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 17 10 0 Other receipts .. .. .. 0 10 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 73 5 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 109 19 9 Book and stationery account and other temporary advances .. .. 19 6 6 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works .. .. 115 311 Fencing, repairs, &a. .. .. 24 11 5 Kents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 16 2 7 Interest on current account .. .. 2 9 0 Expenses of reserves .. .. .. 31 19 1 Travelling expenses of members .. 3 12 6 Balance at end of year .. .. 204 10 9 £2,193 9 4 £2,193 9 4 Heney W. Haepee, Chairman. J. H. Bamfield, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edwakd FitzGebald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English : Mason's Grammar, Abbott's How to write clearly, Hodgson's Errors in English (part), Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People (part), Bowen's Studies in English, Shakespeare's As you like it, Macaulay's Frederick and Chatham, School Tennyson (Part IV.), Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I.) and Early Poems. Latin : Horace, Odes, Book III.; Caesar's Gallic War, Scenes (Colbeck), Cicero's Letters; unseen, Livy, Virgil, &c. ; Abbott's, Via Latina ; Simpson's Caesarian Prose. Greek: Xenophon ; Euripides, Hecuba; Thucydides, Book I.; prose composition, various. French: Macmillan's Course, second and third years; Lazare Hoche (Bonnechose); Anecdotes Historiques et Litteraires (Lastner), On lie saurait penser a tout (Musset). German: Macmillan's Course, first year; Hauff's Stories (Mullins and Storr). Mathematics: Arithmetic, Lock, &o.; geometry, Cuthbertson's Euclidian Geometry; Algebra, Hall and Knight; trigonometry, Lock. Science : Blaikie's Elementary Dynamics; Lock's Statics and Dynamics; Sanderson's Hydrostatics ; Garnett's Heat; Eemsen's Elementary Chemistry; Howard's Practical Chemistry; botany (Paul Bert). Geography : Longman's for Australasia. History: Buckley's, and lectures. Commercial Class: Book-keeping, Irish National Series; shorthand, Pitman; Tot's Correspondence ; indexing. Drawing : Freehand, model, geometrical, mechanical. Lowest. —Gulliver's Travels, Longman's New Eeader (No. 4), Blackwood's Stories from English History, Abbott's How to tell the Parts of Speech, Petrie's First Geography, Star Arithmetics, Bue's Early French Lessons, Paul Bert's First Year of Scientific Knowledge, Southern Cross Copy-books, Colonial Drawing-books (freehand and geometrical). Boys. —Cadet corps and junior drill; gymnastics, seniors and juniors; singing, juniors. Girls. —Gymnastics, and' drill with Indian clubs, French wands, and dumb-bells; plain and fancy needlework, and knitting ; singing. During the year a school library was founded by efforts made within the school itself. It now contains two hundred volumes. A carpenter's shop has also been established in connection with the school. It is intended, by combining carpentry with the work of the classes in practical

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