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three pupils of the school gained scholarships, of whom Miss I. Eobertson was first in the list; six passed with credit, and two were allowed matriculation. Seventeen boys and thirteen girls passed the ordinary Matriculation Examination. Four pupils passed the Senior Civil Service Examination, and twenty the Junior, Miss I. Eobertson being placed first on both lists. G. Maurice O'Eoeke, M.A., LL.D., Chairman.

2. Genbbal Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1901. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 542 18 4 Management— Ground-rente .. .. .. .. 2,523 12 0 Salary of Secretary .. .. .. 120 0 0 Weekly rents .. .. .. .. 1,68118 4| Other office expenses .. .. 45 17 9 School fees .. .. .. .. 3,310 8 4 Commission, &c, to collector .. .. 251 12 7 Prom Education Board under section 23, Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 4,111 110 " Auckland Grammar School Act, 1899 " 198 10 0 I School requisites .. .. .. 139 17 6 Prom School Commissioners .. .. 100 0 0 ; Election expenses .. .. .. 112 4 Loan from Auckland Diocesan Pension i Legal expenses.. .. 40 13 2 Board .. .. .. .. 3,000 00 ! Scholarship expenses '.'. '.'. '.'. 22 0 0 Refunds .. .. .. .. 0 6 6 Prizes.. .. .. 72 17 8 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 320 5 8 Printing and advertising .. .. 133 18 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 62 8 4 Stationery allowance .. .. .. 127 17 4 Fencing, repairs, &O.— Grammar School .. .. .. 164 1 4 Other property .. .. .. 1,428 3 8 Insurance and taxes— Grammar School .. .. .. 59 14 3 Other property .. 398 11 6 Interest on current account .. .. 12 9 Interest on loans .. .. .. 225 0 0 Repayment of loan to Auckland Diocesan Pension Board .. .. .. 1,000 0 0 i Athletic sports.. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Swimming sports .. .. .. 5 0 0 Domain wickets .. .. .. 3 0 0 New buildings .. .. .. .. 3,147 15 6 Obtaining services of new master .. 105 13 5 £11,677 19 2 £11,677 19 2 W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary. Examined and found correct — J. K. Warrukton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. WoiiK of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest (Boys' and Girls' sides). —Virgil, iEneid, VI.; Livy, Book IX.; Sallust, Catiline; Ciceio, Pro Eoscio Amerino; Sargoant's Latin Prose ; Stedman's Latin Grammar Papers ; Tod and Longworth's Latin Unseens ; Smith's Smaller History of Some. Wellington College French Grammar ; Chardeual's Advanced Exercises; Hamonet's Select Passages from Standard French Authors; Coppce, Contes Choisis; Berthon, Specimens of Modern French Verse. Nesfield's English Grammar, Past and Present; Lamb's Essays (Upcote); Wordsworth's Shorter Poems; Shakespeare, King Lear ; Chaucer, Prologue and Knightes Tale ; Nichol's English Composition, Primer, and Exercises. Hall and Stevens's Euclid; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry; Todhuuter's and Loney's Algebra; Barnard Smith and Hudson's Arithmetic; Ward's Trigonometry Exercises. Science: Boys' side—Chemistry, Eoscoe and Harden ; Tilden's Practical Chemistry ; L. Cumming, Electricity Treated Experimentally. Girls' side—Miss Aitken's Botany ; C. M. Jessop, Elements of Applied Mechanics. Lowest. —Graphic Eeader, V. ; Mason's First Notions of Grammar. English history—Boys, Symes; girls, Brief History. Geography —Boys, Southern Cross; girls, Longmans' The World. Arithmetic — Longmans' Shilling Arithmetic. Freuch—Chardenal, I.; Longmans' Illustrated First French Eeader. Latin—Morris, Elementa Latina.

4. Arrangements fob Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing.—Boys' side : The upper forms take plane and solid geometry, followed by workingdrawings from actual machinery. The lower forms are taught model and freehand drawing, brushwork, drawing from memory, and the conventional treatment of subjects with a view to originality of design. Girls' side : Outline from the flat and from model; shading ditto ; drawing and shading from the antique ; and (to advanced pupils) still life in oil and water colour. Manual, commercial, and technical instruction : Instruction is given in the workshop in carpentry, joinery, and turning. The classes meet in the luncheon-hour and after afternoon school. The only charge is the actual cost of the timber used. Book-keeping and shorthand are among the optional subjects of the course. The study of science, theoretical and practical, is begun as early as possible. The lowest forms take elementary mensuration and the properties of matter, force, &c.; the upper forms, mechanics and chemistry. In the Sixth Form, chemistry and heat are the subjects. The work is so arranged that all forms may have practical work in the laboratory. The girls study mechanics and botany : on this side of the school science is begun at the Special Form. Gymnastics, drill, and swimming: Gymnastics and drill are taught on both sides; and the cadet corps, which is under the Defence Department, numbers sixty-five. Swimming sports are held in connection with both sides of the school during the first term of the year. The Board of Governors subsidise the prize fund for the sports.