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Writer (Swarm and Sonnenschein). Mathematics First four rules, (simple and compound), tables, reduction, numeration, notation. English history Brief History of England. Geography Hill's First Lessons in Geography Chemistry Roscoe's Chemistry Primer Modern Shorthand Pitman s Phonographic Teacher and Manual. Physiology, Foster's Primer Manual Training Sloyd.

3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to thirty-five scholars, and a leaving exhibition of £15 a year to one. Eighteen scholarships of the Education Board were held at the school.

CHRISTCHURCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. j Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance 873 12 2J By Management—Office salary 70 0 0 Current income from reserves 429 13 0 : Teachers'salaries and allowances 1,517 5 8 Interest on moneys invested and on Examinations— unpaid purchase-money 306 3 2 Examiners' fees 70 7 0 School fees 1,598 12 6J Other expenses 7 6 0 Interest on current account 55 12 2 j Scholarships 240 0 0 Prizes 26 12 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising (including stamps and telegrams) 89 0 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 31 2 11 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works . 20 7 1 Fencing, repairs, &o. 14 7 9 Rents and insurance 68 16 11 Ingredients, &0., for cooking class 17 2 2 Music (cantata) 2 12 0 Tennis material, &c. 5 19 5 Inspecting reserves 6 0 11 Sundries 4 12 0 Balance 1 072 0 7 £3,263 13 0 £3 263 13 0 H. R. Webb, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Registrar 2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English Mason s Grammar , Morris's Historical English Grammar Sweet's AngloSaxon Primer, Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) Richard 111. (Shakespeare, Clarendon Press) , Goldsmith's Traveller ■ Gray's Elegy Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, composition on books read correction of sentences, selections from poets and prose-writers of nineteenth century Science Botany and heat, as prescribed for Junior University Scholarship Examination. Latin Selections from Horace's Satires and Epistles, Cicero's Second Philippic Livy Book XXI. ■ Virgil, iEneid, Book VI., Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius (selections by Wratislaw and Sutton), Sallust's Catiline War (White's Grammar School Texts), Caesarian Prose by Simpson, Arnold's Latin Prose (edited by Bradley) Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom, at sight, Cicero's De Senectute, De Amicitia, and Terence's Andria. Boman History Horton's History of the Romans. French Wellington Grammar, Syntax Brachet's Grammar and Exercises, Miscellaneous Prose, Bue's Idioms , Translation—Les Femmes Savantes (Moliere) Cinq Mars, Part 11. (Alfred de Vigny), Extraits (Victor Hugo), Phedre (Racine) Mathematics Lock's Trigonometry, to solution of triangles, Hamblin Smith's and Todhunter's Algebra, to permutations and combinations, Hall and Stevens' Euclid, six books. Lowest. —Star Reader, No. VI. Elements of botany taught without text-book. History and geography, taught without text-books. Stronach s Literature, Elizabethan period. Arithmetic Compound rules. French Easy words and sentences, without text-book.

3. Scholaeships. Scholarships of the value of £15 each were given to sixteen pupils. Nine scholarships of the Education Board were held at the school.

GBEYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance on 31st December, 1893 44 0 0 By Secretary's salary 1893-94 10 0 0 Interest on moneys invested 25 4 0 Insurance 1 11 9 Rents 1 10 0 Rates 1 17 6 Sale of property, R. Gregory 16 3 0 Sundries 2 0 0 Loan repaid 200 0 0 Law-costs 7 4 4 Loan, P G. Dorrington 250 0 0 Balance, National Bank, on 31st December, 1894 14 3 5 £286 17 0 £286 17 0 R. Nancaeeow, Chairman. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General. 3—E. 9.