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AKAROA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 141 16 11 Expenses of management .. .. 25 13 9 Current income from reserves ■.. .. 138 2 8 Grant to North Canterbury Education Board 100 0 0 Balance at end of year — Current account .. . ■ • ■ 4 5 10 Fixed deposit . . . . .. 150 0 0 £279 19 7 £279 19 7 [H. C. Jacobson, Chairman and Secretary.

ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. S. Tennant, M.A., B.Sc. ; Miss C. E. MacGregor, M.A.; Mr. C. F. Salmond, M.A. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Current income from reserves .. .. 592 19 9 Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 239 18 5 School fees .. .. .. • • 109 4 0 Office salary .. . . .. 26 6 0 From Government — Other office expenses .. .. .. 3 115 Capitation for free places .. .. 140 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 625 0 0 Capitation for woodwork classes .. 16 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 15 0 Overdraft at end of year .. .. 194 17 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising 12 9.11 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 39 13 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 24 16 8 Grounds, &c. .. .. .. 10 2 7 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 510 6 Interest on current account .. 20 11 0 Other expenditure— Woodwork classes .. .. .. 33 8 0 Disinfecting .. .. .. 10 0 School library .. .. .. 3 0 0 Rent of cricket ground . . . . 2 0 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 4 8 3 .£1,053 1 0 £1,053 1 0 W. B. Denshire, Chairman. Charles Braddell, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English —Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition ; Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present; Higher Grade English (Dalgleish) ; English Literature (Stronach) ; Tennyson's Princess, and Shorter Poems; Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Latin —Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition ; Latin Prose from Bryan's Latin Prose Caesar, and miscellaneous; Livy, Book XXII., paragraphs 16-38; Virgil, Book II.; sight translation. French — Hogben's Meth'ode Naturelle revised; Chardenal's Second French Course; Exercises from Chardenal's Advanced French Course ; sight translation from Hachette's Reader ; Prose as for Junior University Scholarship Examination. Mathematics —As for Junior University Scholarship Examination (Brent's Euclid, Hall and Knight's Algebra and Graphic Algebra, Lock's Trigonometry, Pendlebury's Arithmetic). Geography and History—As for matriculation. Drawing —Freehand and Geometrical as for matriculation. Science —Botany as for matriculation. Lowest. —English —Nesfield's Grammar, Parts I. and 11. ; Nature in New Zealand (Drummond) ; As you like it. Latin —Principia Latina, Part 1., to end of irregular verbs. French —Methode Naturelle. Mathematics —Euclid, 1., to 32, and geometrical drawing ; algebra, to simple equations ; arithmetic, advanced Sixth Standard. Geography —Mill's Commercial Geography. History —Green's Historical Reader, Part 11., Roman History (Merivale and Pullen). Science —Botany, elementary ; physiography, advanced Sixth Standard. Book-keeping —Cash-book, day and invoice book and ledger ; commercial letter writing. Shorthand —Pitman's Teacher. Drawing —Freehand, simple studies in flowers and animals ; Geometrical, covering Euclid, I. and 111. Woodwork (Boys)—Sandford's exercises for firstand second-year students. Needlework (Girls) —First- and second-year work in plain sewing and cuttingout. 3. Scholarships. There were four Education Board scholarships held at the school and twelve free places granted by the Governors.