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Carlyle's Heroes (part) Latin Livy Virgil, iEneid Smith s Smaller Latin Grammar , Horton's History of the Bomans , Latin prose, to Junior Scholarship standard , sight translation from Virgil, Cicero, Sallust, and Horace. French La Fontaine's Fables Anecdotes Historiques et Litteraires, sight translation from French Echoes, &c., Granunaire Brachet-Dussouchet, Cours Superieur , Vecqueray's French Examination Papers prose, oral and written (various) Mathematics Pendlebury's Arithmetic , Hall and Knight's Algebra , Hall and Stevens's Euclid , Lock's Trigonometry to Junior Scholarship standard. Science Heat, chemistry, electricity and magnetism, botany, to Junior Scholarship standard, mechanics, to Matriculation standard. Geography Longmans' Australasian. History Buckley's English, and Lectures on the Constitution. Commercial Class Book-keeping Pitman's shorthand, tots, correspondence indexing letters. Drawing Freehand, model, geometrical, and mechanical. Lowest. —Longmans' Historical Beader , Grimms' German Tales (Bell), Dickens's Little Nell, Geographical Beader, Nos. 5 and 6 , Abbott's How to tell the Parts of Speech English composition , Gardiner's First History , Southern Cross Arithmetics , Southern Cross Copy-books ; Colonial Drawing-books freehand (IV.-VI.) and geometrical, natural history (Paul Bert), botany, Youman's First Book. Physical education Boys—Cadet corps; and juniors, drill, gymnastics, seniors and juniors singing, juniors. Girls —Gymnastics, and drill with clubs, dumb-bells, and wands , plain and fancy needlework, knitting, cutting-out, and singing. 3. Scholarships. The school gives free education to sixteen holders of Education Board scholarships and to three exhibitioners. 4. Other Particulars. Seven pupils passed the Matriculation Examination of the University An attempt is being made to base the teaching in all subjects more directly on observation—in other words, to bring it into closer relation with the concrete than has hitherto been generally the practice in secondary schools. In the teaching of French, for example, what is known as the National system is adopted —not that of Gouin, but one more nearly approaching the methods of Professors Bossman and Schmidt oral lessons on pictures and common objects form the starting-point, and aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing precede grammatical translation. Similar methods are used, in a less complete degree, in the lower Latin classes. In all the science classes the work is practical, experiments and measurements being made by the pupils themselves. Simple surveying, and drawing to scale, are made the foundation of mapdrawing , pupils are taught to take the altitude of the sun at different seasons and the latitude (roughly), and models and pictures are largely used in teaching other parts of geography The Sloyd. and carpentry work serve not only their special purposes, but are connected with the lessons on geometry and drawing. Again, in one of the book-keeping classes the boys are divided into firms, trading with one another, and write all the necessary forms and keep accounts of all transactions. It is found not only that the treatment of each subject is more natural, and the interest more easily sustained, but also that it is easier to make a real co-ordination between the several subjects of the school curriculum.

WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. Geneeal Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1893. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance . 1,102 611 By Office salary 12 12 0 Rents . 246 4 6 Other office expenses 10 0 Compensation . 99 19 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances 75 0 0 Interest on fixed deposit 51 8 0 Examiners' foes 3 3 0 Scholarships 18 15 0 Prizes .. 3 3 6 Printing, stationery and advertising 22 10 9 Solicitor 13 18 8 Travelling-expenses . 5 5 6 High School fees 28 0 0 Surveyor 9 16 6 Sundries 0 9 0 Exchanges 0 5 0 Balance— On current account . . 6 7 6 On fixed deposit . 1,294 12 0. £1,499 18 5 £1,499 18 5 H. C. Barclay, Chairman. G. H. Graham, Secretary Examined and found correct—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

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