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Girls. Highest. —English Chaucer, Prologue (part), Shakespeare, Macbeth, Spenser, Faerie Queene, Canto I. (part), Wordsworth, Excursion, Book 111., selections from prose writers, 1490-1684; Boman history, Late Bepublic, Historical English Grammar, composition, &c. Latin iEneid, Book VI., 11. 620 to end, Book VII. 326 11., Livy, Book XXII., 9 chaps., Horace, selected odes (at sight) , Caesar, Books I. and 111., Chaps. I. to VII. (at sight) , composition, grammar, &c. French Wellington College Beader, Boielle, poetry, grammar, composition, &c. German Homann's Deutsche Maerchen, Macmillan's Second Beading Book. Mathematics Arithmetic, the whole subject , algebra, to permutations and combinations, inclusive, geometry—Euclid, Division A, Books 1., 11., 111., IV , VI., trigonometry, Division A, Lock's Trigonometry Science Botany, the morphology and physiology of the botanical types specified in the Junior Scholarship schedule, chemistry, the metallic elements, revision of the non-metallic elements. The Senior Division have revised the whole of Inorganic Chemistry Lowest, —English Fourth Star Beader, history, Blackwood s Short Stories, geography, Macdonald's Zealandia Geography, Parts I. and 11., physical geography, explanation of geographical terms , grammar, simple analysis and parsing, object lessons, simple lessons on common objects, with a view 7 to subsequent composition on the subject of lesson. French Vocabulary, and easy sentences. Arithmetic Simple and compound rules in money , simple problems, mental arithmetic. Drawing. —Easel Work: Painting in oils —jars, and other objects of still-life, copies of heads , painting in monochrome—casts , chalk-drawing—casts, drapery, geometrical objects, copies of carton heads. Fifth and Sixth Forms : Pencil-drawing —outlines of geometrical figures , shading of solid objects, chalk-drawing from casts and still life. First and Second Forms Outlines, &c, from blackboard outlines and shading of simple cartons. 7 Scholarships. The Gray Bussell Scholarship of £40 per annum, tenable for three years, is attached to the Boys' High School. School fees are not charged to any candidate who obtains 50 per cent, of the attainable marks of the scholarship examinations of the Otago Education Board but does not win a scholarship.

SOUTHLAND HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of the Board. The personnel of the Board continued unchanged during the year, and was composed of Messrs. G Lumsden and H. Carswell, nominees of His Excellency the Governor, Messrs. J W. Bain and B. McNab, who were elected by the Southland Education Board, and his Worship Mr. D. McFarlane, Mayor of Invercargill. Mr Lumsden was elected Chairman. The teaching staff at the beginning of the year comprised Mr A. H. Highton, M.A., headmaster of both boys' and girls' schools, Mr H. L. Fowler, M.A., first assistant in boys' division, and Mr W Macalister, 8.A., second assistant. On the girls' side, Miss Billing was first assistant and Miss Waterhouse second assistant. Miss Waterhouse resigned her position in February, and Miss A. E. Tindel, M.A., was appointed to fill the vacancy thereby caused. In August, Mr Highton resigned the headmastership, and Mr Fowler was temporarily appointed acting headmaster the Bey Mr White, M.A., receiving the temporary appointment of science and mathematical master It was subsequently decided that Mr Fowler be appointed headmaster, and applications were invited for the position of science and mathematical master, with the result that Mr J E. Vernon, M.A., B.Sc. (Edinburgh University), received the appointment. The Collegiate Classes Association continued their classes through the winter season in part of the school-buildings. The boys' boarding establishment has been carried on under the direct supervision of the second assistant master, and so far as the management is concerned the Board have every reason to be satisfied. It would have been more successful, however, had a few more country scholars availed themselves of this provision. The High Schools Board Committee appointed at the end of 1892 sent in their report to the Board in May This report contains valuable information and many practical suggestions, some of which the Board have already acted upon, and others are of such a character that they will take some time to give effect to. Towards the end of the year steps were inaugurated with the view of introducing into the school annually a number of pupils from the primary schools, who passed good examinations at such an age as it was desirable for them to enter the High School. Too frequently pupils present themselves at fourteen and a half to fifteen years of age, with the result that the school life is too short to enable them to secure the objects of secondary education. It was intended about September or October to hold an examination by outside examiners, but the resignation of the headmaster just at the time this would have been carried out and other simultaneous causes prevented the Board from prosecuting their plans in this matter The leases of several of the Board's endowments matured during the year, and the properties have in each case been leased again by the previous lessee at the upset price. J Walker Bain, Chairman.