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3. Aebangembnts foe Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Manual : Drawing—Geometrical, one lesson forty-five minutes per week ; freehand and model, one lesson forty-five minutes per week ; modelling in plasticine, one lesson forty-five minutes per week during last two terms. Commercial : Book-keeping and shorthand, each two lessons thirty minutes per week. Gymnastics, &c. : Physical drill, one lesson thirty minutes per week; military drill, one lesson fifteen minutes per week ; swimming is encouraged by the granting of certificates of proficiency.

4. Scholarships. The Board of Governors gave free tuition to seventeen scholars.

TIMAEU HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School. — Mr. G. A. Simmers, M.A. ; Mr. A. J. Mayne, M.A. ; Mr. R. T. Wood, B.A. ; Sergeant-major T. Jones. Girls' School— Miss B. M. Watt, M.A.; Miss J. Mulholland, M.A. ; Miss C. M. Cruickshank, M.A., B.Sc.; Mr. S. Wolf; Mr. W. Greene; Miss G. M. Bailey; Sergeant-major T. Jones. 1. Report op Goveenors. During the past year both the schools have maintained their progressive standard of excellence, and the attendance has been maintained. The buildings are in good repair. Miss Bailey having resigned the cooking class, Miss O'Brien has been appointed in her place, and an application will be forwarded for her recognition by the Department. The Board at its last meeting passed a resolution expressing their satisfaction at the good shooting made by the cadets, which, under the superintendence of the headmaster and assisted by his staff, obtained excellent results.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1901. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,080 4 3 Salary of Secretary .. .. .. 70 0 0 Grant from vote of the General Assembly 7 18 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 14 11 8 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,378 12 0 Other expenses of management .. .. 101 510 Interest .. .. .. .. 45 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,559 18 4 Sohool fees .. .. .. .. 578 13 4 Examinations — Interest on current account .. .. 18 211 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 26 1 0 Valuation of crops .. .. .. 75 0 0 Other expenses ... .. .. 320 Prizes.. .. .. .. .. 22 13 10 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 67 2 5 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 87 16 2 Technioal apparatus .. .. .. 27 410 Fenoing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 18 6 3 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 35 1 8 Interest on ourrent aooount .. .. 2 810 Endowments Sales Account— Proceeds invested on mortgage .. 1,000 0 0 Expended on protective works.. .. 25 4 0 Valuation .. .. .. .. 75 0 0 Refund of fees .. .. .. .. 8 0 0 Grant sports club £5, tennis £1 55., orohestra £2 10s. .. .. .. 815 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 30 18 8 £3,183 10 6 £3,183 10 6 Wμ. B. Howell, Chairman. J. S. Bamfield, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Warbueton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —English—Shakespeare's Henry IV., Part I.; Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I.; Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale; George Eliot's Silas Marner; Mason's English Grammar; Brooke's Primer of English Literature ; Trench's Study of Words ; Bain's English Composition. French— Moliere's Misanthrope; Le Gendre de M. Poirier; selections from Bo'ielle's French Poetry; Racine's Athalie ; Macmillan's French Composition, 11. Latin—Horace's Odes, Book I.; Virgil's iEneid, Book VI.; Livy, parts of Books I. and XXII.; Bradley's Aids to Latin Composition; selections from Sargeant's Unseen Passages; Smith's Latin Grammar; Horton's History of the Romans. Mathematics—University Junior Scholarship work; text-books, Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra and The Intermediate Tutorial Algebra, Lock's Trigonometry and Loney's Trigonometry. Electricity and Magnetism—University Junior Scholarship work; S. P. Thompson's Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism; and notes. Mechanics—University Junior Scholarship work ; Loney's Mechanics ; Sanderson's Hydrostatics for Beginners ; and notes. History and geography—University Junior Scholarship work,