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CHEISTCHDECH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. C. E. Bevan-Brown, M.A. ; Mr. B. K. S. Lawrence, B.A. ; Mr. W. Walton, B.A. ; Mr. R. M. Laing, M.A., B.Se.; Mr. R. Speight, M.A., B.So. ; Mr. 0. T. J. Alpers, M.A.; Mr. A. Merton; Mr. T. H. Jackson, B.A. ; Mr. J. H. Smith, M.A. ; Mr. T. W. Cane, M.A.; Mr. S. H. Seager, A.R.1.8.A. ; Major V. V. Richards; Mr. R. Kent; Mr. G. French. 1. Bepobt. The headmaster, Mr. C. E. Bevan-Brown, M.A., resumed his place at the school at the commencement of the year, restored in health. He expressed to the Board his satisfaction with the state in which he found the school, and his appreciation of Mr. Lawrence's conduce of affairs in his absence. The school felt great regret at the death of Mr. H. E. Webb, the late Chairman. Masters and senior boys attended the funeral, and the boys collected £7 to erect a flagpole, a matter in which Mr. Webb took much interest. The year 1901, like the year 1900, was marked by public and national events of exciting interest, which were duly taken notice of in the life of the school. On the occasion of the memorable visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York the cadets took part in the review, and also in keeping the streets on the day of arrival. The school itself had erected a special stand near the Worcester Street Bridge, on the line of route, duly decorated with motto and colours. The masters in academicals, and a good muster of the school, with old boys, took their places on this, and gave the Duke and Duchess an enthusiastic reception. In 1901 Mr. M. C. Keane, an old boy, was awarded his M.A., with first-class honours in mathematics, and Mr. S. S. D. Eobertson obtained a senior scholarship for the same subject. Mr. J. S. St. George Cooper obtained the degree of B.Sc. Of present boys, one won a junior scholarship in the December examinations, being second on the list, while seven were placed among those deemed to have passed with credit. Three boys passed the Medical Preliminary, and ten passed Matriculation. Two won senior scholarships given by the Board of Education. The general conduct and tone of the boys has been very satisfactory.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1901. Receipts. £ s. a. Expenditure. £ s. d. Current income from reserves .. .. 3,076 2 6 Balance at beginning of year .. .. 141 12 11 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,733 11 0 Office salaries .. .. .. 100 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 0 4 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,681 17 11 Contribution towards cost of removing tree- Boarding-sohool account .. .. 33 6 8 stumps on section adjoining sohool .. 10 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 28 10 11 Contribution from tenant of Reserve 916b Prizes .. .. .. .. 22 5 9 towards cost of putting reserve in order.. 13 1 0 Printing, stationery, advertising, and books 100 1 1 Fuel and gas .. " .. .. .. 35 19 9 Repairs, renewals, fittings, &o. .. .. 35 9 6 Insuranoe .. .. .. .. 30 4 1 Chemicals and apparatus .. .. 51 9 4 Inspecting reserves and advertising .. 113 1 1 Interest on Loan Account, £5,000 .. 200 0 0 Grant to oadet corps .. .. .. 15 0 0 Grant to sports fund (rent of ground inoluded) .. .. .. .. 35 0 0 Surveying Reserves 1135 and 1187 .. 13 18 0 General expenses .. .. .. 62 3 0 Balanoe at end of year .. .. 123 19 0 £4,823 19 0 £4,823 19 0 Thos. S. Weston, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Eegistrar. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Wabbueton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. WOEK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest. —Mathematics—Euclid, Books I. to VI. ; trigonometry, to solution of triangles, Ward's Examination Papers on Trigonometry, Loney's Trigonometry; algebra, to permutations, Hall and Knight's Algebra, Hall and Knight's Algebraical Exercises ; arithmetic, general, standard of Junior University Scholarship. Latin—To Junior University Scholarship standard; Virgil's iEneid, Book V.; Horace's Odes, Book II,; Livy (extracts), Lee-Warner; history, Smith's History of the Eomans ; Bradley's Arnold, and Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose ; grammar and antiquities, and unseens. English—Milton's Samson Agonistes; George Eliot's Silas Marner ; Chaucer's Prologue; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition; Nesfield's Historical English and Derivation ; Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Stopford Brooke's Literature Primer; miscellaneous work as for Junior University Scholarship. French —Tartarin de Tarascon (Daudet) ;Le Voyage de M. Perrichon; Third French Reader and Writer; Moriarty's French Grammar; grammar, &c, as for Junior University Scholarship. Science —Jago's Inorganic Chemistry, advanced; physics, Wright's Physics, Draper's Heat. Lowes £.—Latin —Shorter Latin Primer ; Abbott's Via Latina, exercises 1-15. English—David Copperfield (abridged) ; selected poems—The Keeping of the Bridge, Sir Patrick Spens, Honour of