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3.—EEPOETS OF GOVEBNING BODIES, SECONDARY SCHOOLS. WHANGAEBI HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. Roger Lupton, Miss A. L. Gavey, and Miss A. L. M. Woolley. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. r . , ... Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 116 18 4 Office salary .. .. 11 17 9 Endowments— ( Other office expenses .. .. ." 20 10 Current income from reserves .. .. 106 13 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. .. 266 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 50 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertisiiio 47 9 School fees 178 17 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. .. 14 5 0 Government capitation, free-place scholar 2 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 3 6 6 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 5 112 School appliance, furniture, &c. .. .. 2 0 4 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 144 19 6 *ggl_g_. lo £454 8 10 J. M. Killen, Chairman. . J. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Warbueton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classy. Highest.— Latin—De Senectute (extracts) ; Allcroft's Composition ; Tutorial Grammar. English— Nesfield's English Past and Present; Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale ; Faerie Queen ; Samson Agomstes. Geometry—Layng's Edition of Euclid, Books 1.-VI. Algebra—Hall and Knight's Elementary. Arithmetic—Murray's Advanced. Trigonometry—Hall and Knight. French—Contanseau's Extracts, Weekley's Composition, Wellington College Grammar. Mechanics—The Tutorial. HeatStewart's. Lowest.— Latin—Via Latina to verbs; Gradatim. Book-keeping—Thornton's Elementary Irench—Oral lessons based on Hogben's Methode Naturelle. English—Deserted Village, Lays of Ancient Rome, Laing's English Literature, West's English Grammar ; Composition, mainly based on How to write English." History—Norman and Plantagenet periods. Geography—Europe, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, physical geography. Arithmetic—Higher Rules and Contracted Methods. Algebra —Hall and Knight, chapters 1-10. Geometry—Baker and Bourne, Book I. Agriculture—Wright's Elementary. Physiology—Parts I. and 11., Murche. Drawing—Freehand and elementary perspective. 3. Scholarships. The scholarships held at the school were five, granted by the Auckland Education Board. The Governors gave free tuition to six pupils, and Government free places were held by seven.

AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Staff. t i W vr Tib T bS^ M ;r A - ; X t M - A - ; m - J ' H - HoweU ' B - A - RSo - ' J - *• B.A. ; Mr. JG. Trevithiok ; Mr. J. H. Turner, M.A. ; Mr. H. J. D. Mahon, B.A. ; Mr. J. P. Dakin B A • Rev J Kins Davis M A Mr. A MoCudough, MA ; Mr. P. Drummond, B.A. ; Mr. E. Cla'rke, M.A. ; Miss E. G Wallace ; AH Jit Miss A. C. Morrison, M.A. ; Miss B. Blades ; Miss W. Picken, M.A. ; Mr. Kenneth Watkins ; Mr. W. M. Carrollo ' 1. Report op the Governors. The School.— The school opened at the usual time—viz., the Bth February 1903 with 397 pupils being 260 boys and 137 girls, for the first term. The number of pupils was not quite maintained throughout the year, as it closed with 364 pupils, being 239 boys and 125 girls. A sad loss befell the Board in the month of April by the death through accident of its collector of rents and school fees. New Laboratories.—A new wing has been added to the school at a cost of £1 520 and will be completed for the opening of the first term in 1904. It consists of a large science class-room a chemical laboratory, a physical laboratory, and a dark-room, all of which are completely furnished with benches and apparatus. The former science class-room has been converted into a botanical laboratory for the girls side ; and a piece of ground has been enclosed and planted as a botanical garden. Distinctions.— Two pupils of the school won junior University scholarships, and six passed the Scholarship Examination " with credit." Sixteen passed Matriculation, three the Civil Service Senior Examination (one with distinction), and twelve the Junior Civil Service Examination of whom six were appointed to cadetships. The Gillies Scholarship for Physical Science, tenable for three years « the IT f u o ° kla nd. University College, was won by D. E. Hansen. Of former pupils of the school the Rev W. St. Clair Tisdall received the honorary degree of D.D. from the University of Edinburgh W. J. Barclay and L. Kmgsford graduated M.D. at Edinburgh, and H. D. Bamford, LL D at the University of New Zealand.

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