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2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—English Grammar Past and Present (Nesfield) ; English Composition (Nichol); English Questions and Exercises (Nichol); Marmion (Scott) ; The Knight's Tale (Chaucer) ; How to Write Clearly (Abbot). French—Macmillan's French Course, Third Year (Fasnacht) ; Questions and Exercises (Stedman) ; Colomba (Merimee) ; French Unseens for Higher Forms (Pallisier) ; Macmillan's French Reader (Fasnacht). Latin —First Steps to Latin Prose (Walters) ; Questions and Exercises (Stedman) ; Latin Unseens, Senior; De Bello Gallico, Book vi. (Caesar) ; Metamorphosis (Ovid). Mathematics —Arithmetic (Lock) ; Elementary Algebra (Hall and Knight) ; Geometry (Hall and Stevens) ; Trigonometry (Lock). Science— Electricity (Thompson); Elementary Chemistry (Roscoe) ; Advanced Chemistry (Roscoe and Harden); Practical Chemistry (Tilden). Lowest. —English—Outlines of English Grammar (Mason) ; Exercises on Morris's English Grammar (Wetherell) ; English Grammar Exercises (Morris and Bowen) ; English Composition ; How to Write Clearly (Abbot) ; Essays on Easy Subjects; English History, Reign of Queen Elizabeth (Gardner). Latin—Via Latina (Abbott), Exercises to No. 32 ; Grammar to the end of the four regular conjugations; First Latin Reader (Beresford) Parts I and 11. French—First Year (Fasnacht); Grammar bearing on exercises and translations and including four regular conjugations; French Dictation, reading and composition; My First French Book (Ninet). Arithmetic—General (Lock). Algebra —Up to and including simultaneous equations. Geometry—Hall and Stevens, Book I. NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. Ernest Pridham, M.A. ; Miss C. D. Grant, M.A. ; Miss G. A. Drew, M.A. ; Mr. H. H. Ward. 1. General Statement of the Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 744 3 0 Capitation— For free places .. .. .. 338 6 6 Under Manual and Technical Instruction Act .. .. .. .. 16 4 10 Current income from reserves .. .. 692 12 2 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 188 5 8 School fees .. .. .. .. 250 19 0 Interest on deposits .. .. .. 12 9 3 Government grant—Assistance to Board re pa}ment to Messrs. Hughes and Newing for improvements under clause 18 of " The Reserves and other Lands, &c, Act, 1901 " 1,500 0 0 £3,743 0 5

Expenditure. £ s. d Office salary .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Expenses .. .. .. .. 20 18 4 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 947 16 8 Piizes .. .. .. .. 24 7 8 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 29 811 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 6 8 5 Purchases and new books .. • .. 467 4 0 Furniture aud apparatus .. .. 24 15 5 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 57 4 9 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 25 0 0 Interest on ourrent account .. .. 2 6 0 Waimale leases— Compensation to tenants .. .. 1,579 1 6 Legal expenses .. .. .. 243 2 6 Valuations .. .. .. .. 34 18 0 Travelling-expenses .. .. .. 17 17 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 212 11 3 £3,743 0 5

W. K. MacDiarmid, Chairman. E. Griffiths, Secretary ana Treasurer. Examined aud found correct, except that the expenditure, "Travelling-expenses, £17 175.," is without authority of law.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Arithmetic—Hamblin Smith, the whole. Algebra—Hall and Knight, Exercises Ito 31. Euclid —Subject-matter of Euclid, Books 1., 11., 111., and Deductions on Books 1., 11., and 111. of Hall and Stevens's New Geometry. Latin—Abbott's Via Latina; Caesar, Book I. ; Via Nova to No. 15 of Part III.; Accidence. French —Graminaire dcs Grammaires ; Chardenal's Advanced Course, with exercises Ito 71; Pellissier's Unseens, 1 to 50, and Miscellaneous. Geography —Chisholm's Geography ; Lawson's Physiography. English—Mason's English Grammar; Prologue to Canterbury Tales; Goyen's Composition ; Abbott's Composition; Samson Agonistes. Science —Murche's Physiology ; Macahster's Vertebrata. Drawing—Model, Sepia and Charcoal. Lowest. —Latin —Abbott's Via Latina, Examples Ito 11. Arithmetic—Southern Cross, Fifth Standard. Algebra —Hall and Knight, Examples Ito Bb. History—Primary History, 1485-1689, and Victoria. Geography—Southern Cross, Fifth Standard. English—Mason's First Notions of Grammar; Composition ; Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth. Science —Murche's Physiology, to page 54.—Drawing—Model and free-arm. WANGANUI GIRLS' COLLEGE. Staff. Miss M. I. Fraser, M.A.; Miss S. E. Gifiord, M.A. ; Miss M. Rawson, M.A.; Miss J. Knapp, B.A. ; Miss J. R. Currie, M.A.; Miss A. Blennerhaasett, B.A. ; Miss E. M. Mcintosh, M.A.; Miss M. B. Richmond, 8.A.; Miss H. Fraser ; Miss I. S. Baker ; Miss L. Reichert; Mr. D. E. Hutton, A.M. ; Miss M. L. Browne; Madame Venosta; Miss F. Marsden ; Mr. C. W. Naylor.