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John Williamson Scholarship Tmst Account. Capital Account. £ s. d. £ s. a. Balance .. .. .. .. 1,300 0 0 Public buildings debentures .. .. 400 0 0 Auckland Gas Company shares .. .. 200 0 0 Property, Symonds Street .. .. 700 0 0 £1,300 0 0 £1,300 0 0 Income. " £ a. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance Ist January, 1900 .. .. .. 27 17 2 Tuition of three senior and five junior scholars 23 9 0 Bent .. .. .. .. 57 0 0 Tuition of five senior and three junior scholars 48 6 0 Interest on debentures (Public Trustee) .. 28 0 0 City rates.. .. .. .. 511 8 Dividend, Auckland Gas Company .. .. 15 0 0 Balance, 31st December, 1900 .. .. 50 10 6 £127 17 2 £127 17 2

Girls' High School Scholarship Trust Account. Income. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance, Ist January, 1900.. .. .. 76 15 0 Eight scholarships at £20 a year .. .. 160 0 0 Grant from Auckland Education Board .. 130 0 0 Commission to Bank of New Zealand .. 010 0 Balance, 31st Deoember, 1900 .. .. 46 5 0 £206 15 0 £206 15 0

3. WoBK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Boys' School. Highest. —Latin—Revised Latin Primer; Stedman's Latin Grammar Papers ; North and Hillard's Latin Prose; Sargeant's Passages for Latin Prose; Tod and Longworth's Latin Unseens ; Cicero, In Verrem 1., Pro Archia, Pro Lege Manilia ; Horace, Odes, I.; Virgil. Georgies, 111. and IV.; Tacitus, Germania; Smith's Smaller History of Eome. English—Nesfield's English Grammar, Past and Present; Nichol's Primer of Composition, with Exercises; Milton, Samson Agonistes; Dβ Quincey, Confessions, &c.; Chaucer, Prologue, Squieres Tale, Man of Lawes Tale. French—Wellington College French Grammar ; Chardenal's Advanced Exercises ; Loti, Pecheur dTslande ; Hamonet's Selections. Mathematics —Arithmetic ; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Jones and Cheyne's Algebraical Exercises ; Euclid, Books I. to VI.; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry; Ward's Trigonometrical Exercises. Science—Silvanus Thompson's Electricity and Magnetism ; Boscoe's Chemistry ; Tilden's Practical Chemistry. Lowest. —English—Mason's First Notions of English Grammar; Longmans' Eeaders; Southern Cross Geography, IV.; Blackwood's Historical Eeaders; Chardenal's First French Course ; Longmans' Shilling Arithmetic ; Elementary Geometrical Drawing. Girls' School. Highest. —ln Latin, French, English, and mathematics the same work is undertaken as on the boys' side. Science : Botany—Miss Aitken's. Mechanics—Jessop's Applied Mathematics. Lowest. —The work is the same as on the boys' side, except that freehand is substituted for geometrical drawing.

4. Abeangements foe Deawing ; Manual, Commebcial, and Technical Instbuction ; Gymnastics, Dbill, Swimming, etc. Book-keeping and Shorthand are taken by many of the boys, in some forms instead of, in others in addition to Latin. There is a class for shorthand on the girls' side. Mechanical drawing : The course in this subject includes plane and solid geometry, followed by working-drawings from actual machinery. Freehand drawing includes outline from the flat and from model; shading, ditto ; drawing and shading from the antique; and, to advanced pupils, still-life in oil and watercolour. Workshop : Instruction and practice are given in carpentry, joinery, and turning, by Mr. Trevithick, in the school workshop. The classes meet in the luncheon-hour and after afternoon school. The only charge is the actual value of timber used. There is a class in wood-carving on the girls' side. Drill and gymnastics : The gymnasium is complete with all the latest improvements, and is under the direction of Mr. Carrollo. On the girls' side, drill is held during schoolhours, and is compulsory except in the case of those specially exempted; gymnastic exercises are taught out of school-hours, and are optional. Swimming sports are held on both the boys' and girls' sides in the first term of the year, the fund for prizes being subsidised by the Board of Governors,