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AUCKLAND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Geneeal Statement of Beceipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1893. Reccipits. & s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance 32 15 7 By Rates on endowment for 1893 . 45 18 5 Paid by School Commissioners 50 0 0 Legal expenses 35 17 6 Balanco .. 0 19 8 £82 15 7 £82 15 7 B. Udy, Chairman. Vincent E. Bice, Secretary and Treasurer Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

WHANGABEI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Bepoet of the Boaed. The Board has succeeded in leasing a considerable portion (about 2,800 acres) of the Kioreroa Beserve, but on account of the poverty of the soil some of the tenants find it difficult to earn their rents, and have expressed a desire to be allowed to surrender their leases. About 1,000 acres are still unlet. The Government plantation and the orchard have received attention. Neither of them, however, is likely for many years to afford the Board much revenue. The school has been in regular operation during the year It continues to be under the sole charge of Mr B. D. Duxfield, M.A. The want of a suitable schoolroom is felt to be a hindrance to the prosperity of the school. This want the Governors are anxious as soon as possible to supply, and they hope ere long to be able either to erect or otherwise secure suitable buildings on a convenient site. There is a night-school conducted by Mr. Duxfield in connection with the school. It is attended chiefly by candidates for the Teachers', Civil Service, and other examinations. There were during the year three pupils presented by the district primary schools as candidates for the Junior Board Scholarships, being stimulated thereto by the existence of the High School. The Mason-Carruth Scholarship, open to the pupils attending the public primary schools throughout the county, has been attached to the school. It is equal in value to the school fees for one year Four candidates, who came from different schools in the county, competed for it, and it was won by a pupil of the Whangarei District School. The Inspector-General visited the school in October last, and expressed himself satisfied with the work. Whangarei, 16th March, 1894. J M. Killen, Chairman.

2. Genebal Statement of Beceipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1893. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. & s. d. To Balance . 53 311 By Office salary 9 4 0 Current income from reserves 66 19 6 Other office expenses 1 11 6 Paid by School Commissioners 150 0 0 Teacher's salary 195 6 8 School fees 97 13 0 Printing and advertising 18 16 9 Interest on current account 10 0 Cleaning school, &c. 7 9 5 Sale of wire 0 2 0 School appliances and furniture 32 5 6 Rent 10 8 0 Interest on current account 0 2 0 Paid on account of building-site at Newtown extension, Whangarei 50 0 0 Paid interest on mortgage on above property . 5 13 9 Balance . 38 0 10 £308 18_5 £368 18 5 J M. Killen, Chairman. J McKinnon, Secretary Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Lowest. —Arithmetic Chiefly fractions and practice, Barnard Smith and Colenso. Algebra : Simple rules and brackets, Hall and Knight. Geography (general) Longmans' Geography (New Zealand) Patterson, with map-drawing. History Brief. English Grammar Trotter English Composition Longmans' French Chardenal's First Course. Latin Elementa Latina. Drawing Freehand. Spelling, with meanings Carpenter Beading Globe 11. Beader

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