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In upper geography classes each boy has to determine the altitude of the sun, its declination, the latitude and longitude of Timaru, to draw plans of the school-grounds and neighbourhood, and to prove the cause of the seasons and the movements of the earth from his own (rough) observations. The object aimed at is the training of the faculties involved in the co-ordination of hand and eye and brain, and the teaching of the abstract science by means of the concrete.

3. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1898. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 3,735 16 3 By Office salary .. .. .. 91 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 1,409 14 6 Other office expenses .. .. 12 8 8 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Other expenses of management .. 38 3 6 paid purchase-money .. .. 32 10 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,569 3 2 School fees .. .. .. .. 711 6 8 Refund fees .. .. .. 1 13 4 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 816 11 Examinations— Kent of paddock .. .. .. 40 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 31 10 0 Interest from Post-Offico Savings-Bank 35 10 9 Other expenses .. .. .. 11 14 6 Interest from Captain Cain's bequest .. 110 7 Scholarships .. .. .. 28 5 0 Prizes 20 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 115 13 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 99 18 1 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works .. 35 13 10 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. 55 6 7 • Rents, insurance, and taxes .. 52 19 4 Interest .. .. .. .. 0 13 4 Expended on site for buildings—Fire Account .. .. .. .. 2,769 18 6 Balanoe .. .. .. .. 1,025 4 4 £5,959 5 8 £5,959 5 8 Wμ. B. Howell, Chairman. J. H. Bamfield, Secretary. Examined and fouud correct. — J. K. Wabbueton, Controller and Auditor-General.

4. Wobk of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest.— English—Mason's Grammar; Shakespeare's Eichard III.; Scott's Woodstock; Macaulay's Essay on Milton; Milton's Paradise Lost; Great Authors, Part II.; selections from Morris and Skeat's Specimens of Early English; Peile's Philology. Latin —Tacitus, Agricola ; Horace's Odes, III.; unseen translation, various, from Caasar, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Sallust, Livy, &c. ; Smith's Smaller Latin Grammar; Stedman's Latin Grammar Papers; Bryan's Prose; Horton's History of the Romans. French—Moliere's L'Avare; Fontaine's Fables; translation from French and into French, in Macmillan's Composition, I. and II.; unseen, various; Vecqueray's Grammar Papers; oral lessons on pictures, with original composition thereon. Mathematics —Pendlebury's Arithmetic; Hall and Knight's Algebra, to binomial theorem; Euclid, Hall and Stevens, I. to VI.; Lock's Trigonometry, to solution of triangles. Science —Botany and electricity, to University Junior Scholarship standard; Thome and Bennett's Structural and Physiological Botany; Poyser's Elementary Electricity and Magnetism; Sylvanus Thompson's Electricity. Geography —British Empire; astronomical, physical, and commercial geography, construction of maps, and simple projections. History—Gardiner's Student's History, Part 111., with special reference to the history of the Empire. Commercial Class—Thornton's book-keeping; Pitman's shorthand; correspondence. Lowest. —English Parallel Grammar, examples and exercises; Scott's Talisman (Bell) ; St. George Historical Eeader; Longmans' Geographical Eeader, V.; Macaulay's Lays; Goyen's Composition; Physiology Primer; Hogben's Methode Naturelle pour Appendre le Francais; and oral lessons from Holzel's Pictures of the Seasons ; Southern Cross Arithmetics, IV. and V.; drawing, freehand from flat copies and models, geometrical drawing. Girls' School. Highest. —English—Chaucer, The Knight's Tale; Shakespeare, Eichard III.; Scott, Woodstock; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I.; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature; periodl7so--1850 in Great Authors; English Grammar, Mason ; English History, Gardiner; Student's History of England ; Abbott's How to Write Clearly. Latin—Arnold, Latin Prose Composition ; Sargent, Passages for Latin Translation ; Tacitus, Agricola; Cicero, Catilina, Orations ; Virgil; Horace; Bryan's Latin Prose Exercises; Roman History, Horton. Euclid—l. to VI., with exercises, Hall and Stevens. Elementary Algebra—Hall and Knight. Trigonometry—Lock. Arithmetic— Pendlebury. French — Moliere, L'Avare; La Fontaine, Select Fables; Edouard 111. et les Bourgeois de Calais; Wellington College French Grammar; Composition, Macmillan, Part 11. Science —Sylvanus Thompson, Electricity and Magnetism; Aitken, Elementary Text-book of Botany; Dendy and Lucas, Text-book of Botany. Physiology—Furneaux. Lowest. —Longmans' Composition; Poems for Schoolroom and Scholar; Parallel Grammar Series; English Exercises and Examples, Part I.; Scott, Talisman ; Foster, Primer of Physiology ; Youman, Elementary Botany ; St. George Historical Eeader; Southern Cross Arithmetic; objectlessons. French—Description of pictures, and easy exercises. Freehand drawing is taught in all the forms; model drawing in the middle and upper school, also sewing, plain and fancy. Arrangements have been made for classes on cooking.