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Balclutha District High School.

Beport of Inspectors. We have the honour to submit the following report on the higher work of the district high schools for the year 1902. The tabular statements above show the subjects taught, the number of pupils examined, and the amount of work done in each subject.

(Number of scholars on roll: —Passe* 3tam lard VI. : M., 31; F., 23: total, Number of Pupils in Subject taught. Class. Class during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. English ... I. II. French ... I. e II. Latin ... I. II. III. Algebra ... I. II. III. Euclid ... I. 15 J Macaulay's Clive ; The Tempest (Shakespeare) ; grammar and composition generally. 21 Macaulay's Clive ; The Prisoner of Chillon ; Goyen's Composition. 4 Chardenal's Second Course, to exercise 60; extracts from First Course ; and extracts from Second Course, 30 pages. 10 Chardenal's First Course, to exercise 164. 5 ' Via Latina, whole book ; reading—mythology and Roman history, Book I., from Smith's Principia Latina, II. 6 Via Latina, to page 156 ; Principia Latina, Part II., anecdotes and mythology. 10 Via Latina, to page 67. 8 Hamblin Smith, to page 168, end of simultaneous equations. 8 Hamblin Smith, to page 148. 15 To end of simple equations. 8 Books I., II., and twenty-four propositions of Book III. ; deductions on Book I. 9 Books I. and II. ; deductions on Book I. 16 ! Book I., to proposition 26. 5 I Thornton's Book-keeping, 100 pages. 8 \ Thornton's Book-keeping, sixty-two pages. 19 Grieve's Elementary Mechanics, chapters 4 to 13, inclusive. 36 ' Cardboard modelling and perspective. II. III. Book-keeping I. Mechanics ... ! I. Manual work ' I. (Number of sc. TOKOMAIRIBO DlSTEICT HlGH SCHOOL. lolars on roll :— Passed Standard VI. : M., 24 ; ¥., 28: total, 52.) English ... i I. II. Latin ... I. II. III. French ... ! I. US: Euclid ... I. II. III. Algebra . ... I. III! Book-keeping I. Drawing ... Girls' Boys' Science ... I. II. 19 I The Tempest; Macaulay's Warren Hastings; Goyen's Composition. 16 The Tempest; Macaulay's Warren Hastings. 1 Via Latina; Principia, II., mythology; History, Books I. and II. 13 Via Latina, to page 115; fables and anecdotes in Principia, Part II. 10 Via Latina, to page 53. 1 Chardenal's, Part II. 4 Chardenal's, Part I. 7 Chardenal's, Part I., to exercise 136. 2 Books I. and. II., with easy exercises. 16 Book I., with easy exercises. 19 <: Book I., to proposition 26, with easy exercises. 2 Hamlin Smith, to the end of simple equations. 17 To the end of simultaneous equations. 19 To the end of quadratic equations. 32 J Thornton's Primer, to page 50. 18 Shading and painting. 18 Plans and elevations of workshop articles. 16 J Agriculture ; exercises in precipitating and weighing; analysis of Clarendon rock phosphate. 38 Insect pests : Selandria cerasi, the bot-fly, the brown beetle, the crane-fly, the click beetle or wire-worm, millepede or false wire-worm, the common aphis, the woolly aphis, the scale insect, the grain-weevil, the flea.