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In consequence of the increased attendance it has been found absolutely necessary to appoint seven additional teachers, and it is proposed to strengthen the teaching of modern languages in the boys' school by the appointment of a qualified master to teach according to modern methods French and German. The staff of the girls' school already possesses such a teacher of French. The Board desires to take this opportunity of again calling attention to the unsuitable condition of the building occupied by the Girls' High School and boarding establishment. The main portion of this building was erected over forty years ago for a boys' high school and Rector's residence ; and the internal arrangements of class-rooms and boardinghouse alike are incapable of being adapted to the altered requirements. The Board feels it therefore to be its duty to request the Minister to make provision for erecting new school buildings. Although the Board's income is sufficient to cover its working-expenses, it has no money available for building purposes. The Hon/the Minister of Justice recently went over the building and knows its condition.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d Balance at beginning of year . . .. 1,330 16 4 Office salaries .. .. .. 165 0 0 Price of reserves sold .. .. .. 44 13 0 Office rent .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 2,127 5 7 Printing and stationery .. .. 16 3 9 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Teachers' salaries and alowances — purchase-money 27 311 Boys .. .. .. .. 2,703 9 8 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 323 11 4 Girls .. .. .. .. 1,558 110 School fees (including £625 4s. sd. paid by Boarding-school account — Government for free pupils)— Boys .. .. .. .. 43 7 6 Boys .. .. .. ■■ 1,789 18 1 Girls .. .. .. .. 328 2 8 Girls .. .. • ■ ■ • 1,026 18 7 Stamps, telegrams, and telephone . . 24 17 6 Boarding-school fees (girls) . . .. 364 1 2 Sundries and incidentals .. .. 55 10 4 Interest on fixed deposit (Prize Fund) .. 113 6 Prizes ' .. .. . . . . 318 4 Grant from Treasury for technical classes .. 11 16 10 Printing, stationery, and advertising schools 156 14 2 Sale proceeds, cooking classes .. .. 517 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, including wages of two janitors (£233 14s. Bd.) .. 333 12 1 Expenditure on laboratories .. .. 57 11 1 Water rates .. .. .. 83 10 0 Repairs .. .. . . .. 268 13 9 Insurance .. .. . . .. 52 19 5 Interest on debentures .. . . 150 15 0 Furnishing .. .. .. .. 198 19 4 Expended on cookery classes . . .. 58 5 6 Travelling-expenses .. ■ . . .. 23 7 9 Expenses of sales, management, &c. .. 31 6 8 Amount transferred to Sinking Fund .. 17 10 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 684 9 0 £7,053 15 4 £7,053 15 4 J. R. Sinclair, Chairman. C. Macandrew, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct, except that the payment of £16 7s. lid. for expenses of a visit to Wellington of a member and the secretary is without the authority of law, and is therefore disallowed.— J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : English —Chaucer, Prologue ; Tennyson, Selections ; Lamb, select essay ; Shakespeare, Macbeth ; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11. ; Historical English Grammar, Composition, &c. Latin —Livy, Book XXI. ; Horace, Satires ; Virgil, iEneid, Book VI. ; Sight translation from various authors ; Prose composition ; Roman history. French—Selections from various authors ; composition, grammar, &c. Mathematics —Arithmetic (whole subject) ; Euclid, six books ; algebra, trigonometry. Science —Botany, the morphology and physiology of botanical types ; chemistry, the metallic elements, revision of non-metallic elements. Girls : English —Chaucer, The Nonne Preestes Tale ; Shakespeare, As you like it; Spenser, Faerie Queen (part) ; Milton's L'Allegro and other Poems ; Historical English Grammar ; Composition, &c. ; Literature of the Victorian Period. Latin — Livy, Book XXII., 23 chapters ; Horace, Odes, Book 11. ; Book 111., 12 odes ; Middleton's Latin Verse ; Composition, grammar, &c. ; Roman History. French —Chardenal's Advanced Exercises ; Wellington College Reader ; Boiielle, Poetry ; Barlet and Mason, Higher French Reader ; Grammar, composition, &c. ; Berthon, Specimens of Modern French Verse. German —Otto's German Grammar ; Macmillan, Part 11. ; Schiller, Wilhelm Tell; Buchheim, Composition. Mathematics —Arithmetic, The whole subject. Algebra —To permutations and combinations, inclusive. Geometry—Euclid, Books 1., 11., 111., IV., VI. Trigonometry —Lock's Trigonometry, to solution of triangles. Lowest. — Boys : English —Ship Literary Reader, No, 6 ; grammar and composition. English History —1714-1820. Geography —Asia and New Zealand. Latin —Welch and Duffield's Accidence. French —Chardenal's First French Course ; Grammar and composition, to page 25. Mathematics— Arithmetic (whole subject) ; Algebra, to division; Geometry —Book I. to proposition 10, Baker and Bourne. Science —Elementary heat and sound, elementary chemistry. Book-keeping —Thornton's Easy Exercises. Girls : English —Reader, Longmans' New Zealand, No. 6 ; Grammar and Composition, Meiklejohn's to page 56 ; Geography, New Zealand ; History. French —Chardenal, Part 1., to exercise 50. Mathematics. —Arithmetic, Reduction, practice, fractions, decimals. Science—Elementary lessons in science.