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3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest (Boys' and Girls' Sides). —English—Nesfield's English Grammar, Past and Present; Nichol, Primer of English Composition, with exercises on same ; Macaulay, Essay on Horace Walpole; Tennyson, selections ; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Chaucer, Prologue and selections from Man of Lawes and Squire's Tales ; Oman, England in Nineteenth Century. Latin—Cicero, Pro Milone ; Horace, Satires and Epistles; Virgil, iEneid, II.; Sallust, Jugurtha; Tod and Longworth's Passages for Latin Unseen Translation ; Crestweli and Banton's Specimens of Latin Literature, Part II.; Bevised Latin Primer; Stedman's Latin Grammar Papers; North and Hillard's Latin Prose Composition; Sargent's Easy Passages for Latin Prose; Smith's Smaller History of Bome. French—Tartarin de Tarascon, Daudet; Modern French Poetry, Berthon ; Wellington College French Grammar, with exercises on same ; Hamonet's Extracts. Mathematics—Todhunter and Loney's Algebra; Hall and Stevens's Euclid ; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry; Ward's Trigonometrical Exercises. Science : Boys—Boscoe and Harden's Chemistry; Larden's Heat : Girls—■ C. M. Jessop, Elements of Applied Mechanics ; Miss Aitken's Botany. Lowest. —Boys—Fourth Imperial Beader ; English Grammar ; easy composition ; Symes's English History ; Southern Cross Geography, IV.; Dent's First French Book. Girls—Fourth Imperial Beader; English Grammar; easy composition; Symes's English History; Southern Cross Geography, IV.; Dent's First French Book; Elementa Latina.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commeecial, 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 from the flat and from model; drawing and shading from the antique. Instruction is given on the boys' side in carpentry, joinery, and turning in the school workshop; one class on the girls' side takes wood-carving. On the boys' side encouragement is given to the study of book-keeping and commercial arithmetic, mensuration, and shorthand ; and a class for shorthand is held on the girls' side. All boys and girls below the Fifth Form are expected to attend the classes in the gymnasium. There is a cadet corps, over sixty strong, under the command of one of the masters. Swimming sports are held on both sides in the first term of the year ; the Board makes a special grant to the prize funds; for the summer term the boys are taken twice a week to the Albert Street Baths.

5. Scholarships. The school gave free education to 21 foundation scholars, 13 holders of certificates from the Education Board, 1 Native scholar, and 4 daughters of members of the staff. Other scholarships held at the school were 7 John Williamson, 6 Bawlings, 12 Auckland Girls' High School, and 70 district (Education Board) scholarships.

AUCKLAND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902.

Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 10,060 1 4 Management—Bank commission .. 010 0 Endowments—Capital Account—Price of Interest paid over to Auckland Grammar timber sold .. .. .. .. 423 6 6 School .. .. .. .. 400 0 0 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 400 0 0 Rates on endowment, Hobson County .. 17 9 2 Balance at end of year— On mortgage .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 In debentures .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 On fixed deposit .. .. .. 300 0 0 On current acoount .'. .; .. 165 8 8 £10,883 7 10 £10,883 7 10 James Muir, Chairman. Vincent E. Bice, Secretary and Treasurer.

Expenditure. £ s. d. Management—Bank commission .. 0 10 0 Interest paid over to Auckland Grammar School .. .. .. .. 400 0 0 Bates on endowment, Hobson County .. 17 9 2 Balance at end of year— On mortgage .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 In debentures .. .. .. 5,000 0 0 On fixed deposit .. .. .. 300 0 0 On current acoount .. .; .. 165 8 8 £10,883 7 10 Jambs Muib, Chairman. Vincent E. Bice, Secretary and Treasurer.

Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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