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2. Wobk of Highest and Lowest Classes. Upper Division. —Latin Virgil s iEneid, Book I. Sallust's Catiline War Abbott's Via Latina,, commencing Bradley's Arnold Boman History French Selections from modern authors Macmillan's Second Year's Course. Mathematics Hall and Knight's Algebra, up to but not including quadratic equations , Euclid, Books 1.-IV English subjects and prose authors. Lower Division. —Elementary work in all subjects.

AKAROA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Geneeal Statement of Beceipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1893. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance 122 11 11 By Office expenses 0 15 0 Current income from reserves 152 6 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances 200 0 0 School fees . 127 9 0 Prizes . .. 2 14 6 Interest on current account 212 0 Printing, stationery and advertising .. 610 8 Gleaning, fuel, light, &c. . 12 2 0 Book and stationery account and other temporary advances 3 2 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. . . 2 5 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes 40 11 10 Inspection and reletting reserve 9 9 0 Interest on overdraft 0 10 Exchange 0 4 6 Balances— On fixed deposit . 54 17 0 On current account 72 6 5 £404 18 11 £404 18 11 H. C. Jacobson, Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct .-James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Stopford Brooke's Brimer of English Literature, Byron's Brisoner of Chillon and Mazeppa, Morris's Smaller Historical Grammar, Longmans' School Composition. Latin Via Latina, Livy, Hannibalian War, Virgil, iEneid, Book I. (Macmillan's Elementary Classics) French Macmillan's Second Course and Second Beader. Junior Scholarship work in arithmetic, Euclid, algebra, and trigonometry, also in heat and mechanics. Lowest. —Via Latina, to page 53 Coleridge's Ancient Mariner Longmans' edition Boyal Beader No. V , Gardiner's History, from the reign of William 111. to Victoria, Boyal Geographical Beader No. IV , Longmans' School Grammar and Junior School Composition, arithmetic, Standard V ; Euclid, Props. Ito 23, Book 1., physics, Primer

TIMABU HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Geneeal Statement of Beceipts and Expendituee for the Year ending 31st December, 1893. Receipts. £ s. s. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance 866 8 6 By Office salary 70 0 0 Current income from reserves 1,199 19 8 Other office expenses 30 15 8 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Other expenses of management .. 18 19 9 paid purchase-money . 119 6 2 Teachers' salaries and allowances 1,465 10 10 School fees .. 518 12 8 Prizes . .. .. 20 0 0 Interest on fixed deposit . 6 19 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising 90 18 3 Investment repaid .. 500 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 132 12 10 Workshop fees 17 17 0 Book and stationery account and other Outstanding cheques . 3 19 11 temporary advances 52 10 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. 100 8 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 21 2 7 Endowments, sales account — Proceeds invested 1,000 0 0 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. 24 5 3 Balance . . 205 19 0 £3,233 2 11 £3,233 2 11 Heney W Haepee, Chairman. J H. Bamfield, Secretary The money belonging to Cain's legacy is still invested in the South Canterbury Building Society, without the authority of law, at the personal liability of the members of the Board. The accounts are otherwise correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English Mason's Grammar, Morris's Historical Outlines; Beile's Philology, Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People , Bowen's Studies in English (part) Shakspeare's Richard 11., Wordsworth s Wanderer, Macaulay's Boswell's Life of Johnson,