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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1899. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance .. .. .. .. 339 7 4 Office salary .. .. .. .. 130 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 2,553 6 6 Petty cash, £1 4s. ; stamps, £19 .. 20 4 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 61 6 2 Office rent .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners.. .. 402 5 8 Stationery and printing .. .. 7 3 0 Sohool fees— Teachers' salaries and allowances— Boys' School .. .. .. 1,698 13 6 Boys'Sohool .. .. .. 2,632 10 0 Girls' School .. .. .. 974 5 5 Girls' School .. .. .. 1,662 2 0 Boarding-school fees (girls) .. .. 459 18 10 Boarding-school Acoount— Boys' School .. .. .. 52 .1 6 Girls' Sohool .. .. .. 344 12 4 Sundries and incidentals .. .. 44 17 1 Advertising .. .. .. .. 36 8 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 38 5 8 Printing and stationery (sohools) .. 54 2 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, including wages of two janitors .. .. .. 210 16 6 Laboratory requisites .. .. .. 0 115 Telephone .. .. .. .. 210 0 Furnishing— Boys' .. .. .. .. 83 8 i Girls' .. .. .. .. 5 13 7 Insurance .. .. .. .. 52 19 0 Interest on debentures.. .. .. 153 0 5 Water-rates .. .. .. .. 124 9 0 Auctioneer's commission .. .. 2 3 8 Inspecting and reporting on reserves .. 7 12 2 Transferred to sinking fund .. .. 17 10 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 796 2 6 £6,489 3 5 £6,489 3 5 Wμ. Beown, Chairman. C. Macandeew, Secretary. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Waebubton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Woek op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Beys' School. Highest. —English — Chaucer, Nonne Prestes Tale ; Shakespeare, Julius Caesar; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV.; Prose Selections (Clarendon Press); Historical Grammar (Low); Literature (Stopford Brooke) ; composition, &c. Latin—Cicero, In Catilinam, III.; Livy, last twenty chapters of Book XXII., first six of Book XXIII.; Horace, Epistles, Book I. ; selected odes; Virgil, iEneid, Book IV.; Prose Composition (Bradley-Arnold Text - book); General Grammar (Allen). French—Saintine's Picciola; passages at sight; composition (Chardenal's Advanced Exercises and Continuous Passages); grammar, general (Wellington College Grammar). Mathematics —Arithmetic, whole subject; Euclid (Brent's); algebra (Hall and Knight's); trigonometry (Lock's), University Junior Scholarship work. Science —Botany, Morphology, and Physiology of Botanical Types (Lucas and Dendy). Chemistry—Metallic elements ; revision of Non-metallic Elements (Thorpe). Loivest. —English—Macmillan's New Literary Eeader, No. V 1..; Selections from Tennyson (Ainger); Composition (Goyen); (English Grammar (West); Grammar for Beginners; English History (Gardiner's), Part 1., 1066-1603; geography (Southern Cross, Standard VI.); simple physical and mathematical geography. Latin (beginners)—accidence and easy translation; Welch and Duffield's Accidence; Caesar's Invasion of Britain (Welch and Duffield). French (beginners) —grammar and easy translations (Chardenal). Arithmetic—Vulgar fractions, simple and compound proportion, simple interest, practice, &c. Euclid, Book 1., 1-12. Algebra, simple rules. Book-keeping—Cash-book, day-book, invoice-book, &c. Shorthand—Pitman's Teacher. Drawing—Simple geometrical. Girls' School. Highest. —English—Chaucer's The Knight's Tale; Shakespeare's Eichard III.; Spenser's Fairie Queene, Book 1., Cantos I. to IV.; Milton's Lycidas and Paradise Lost, Book I.; Historical English Grammar; composition, &c, literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Latin—Livy, Book XXL, Chapters2s-42 ; Horace, Book 111., Odes, Book IV., 5 odes; Cicero's In Catilinam, 111., IV., 4 chapters; Middleton's Latin Verses Unseens ; Eoman History. French—Chardenal's Advanced Exercises; Wellington College Eeader; poetry from Boielle; grammar, composition, &c.; Ninet's Beadings for Middle and Upper Forms. German —Macmillan, Part I.; Children's Own Beading-book. Mathematics — Arithmetic, the whole subject; algebra, to permutations and combinations, inclusive; geometry, Euclid, Books 1., 11., 111., IV., VI.; 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 the inorganic chemistry. Lowest. —English — Macmillan's Literary Eeader, No. V.; English History, William I. to Charles II.; geography, New Zealand ; grammar and composition. French—Part of First French Course (Chardenal); vocabulary. Arithmetic—Compound rules in money, tables, and mental arithmetic. Science—Lessons in the elements of botany.