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The provisions of the new Act as to free places and junior departments have been adopted with satisfactory results. The following is a list of the successes of the schools in the December examinations—Boys: Twenty-nine passes—Junior University Scholarship, one passed " with credit"; Medical Preliminary, one; Matriculation, seven, five of them also passing Solicitors' General Knowledge; Junior Civil Service, eleven, all passing "with credit," seven of them being in the first hundred for the colony; Continuation Free Place Examination, ten, four of whom are included in the number passing the Junior Civil Service ; Queen's Scholarship, three passed. Girls: Nineteen passes—Junior University Scholarship, one, second for the colony; Matriculation, six, two of them also passing Solicitors' General Knowledge; Junior Civil Service, seven, six of them " with credit," one first for the colony and three in the first fifty; Continuation Free Place Examination, four; Queen's Scholarship, one passed. In the report on the annual examination of the schools the examiner, Mr. T. W. Rowe, M.A., says, " It is my pleasing duty to report that I have found the work generally, in both schools, to be very good, quite up to the best standard of previous years." 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 4,334 8 11 Government Capitation for free plaoes .. 456 13 4 Income from reserves .. .. .. 298 5 0 „ from property not a reserve .. 881 5 0 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid purchase-money .. .. .. 137 9 2 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 1,889 5 0 School fees .. .. .. 734 2 6 Board and ooach-fare of scholarship ohildren 225 0 4 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 122 8 9 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 3 18 6 £9,082 16 6

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salaries .. .. .. .. 80 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 21 16 7 Legal expenses .. .. .. .. 12 8 4 Teachers'salaries and allowanoes .. 2,255 3 0 Examiners'fees.. .. .. .. 30 0 0 Other expenses of examinations .. .. 4 7 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 225 0 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 22 8 5 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 48 8 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &0... .. .. 147 11 3 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and other temporary advanoes .. .. 92 16 1 Sites and buildings .. .. .. 1,394 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 191 16 4 Miscellaneous (rates, &o) .. .. 105 2 4 Expenditure on endowments .. .. 12 6 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 4,439 12 4 £9,082 16 6

T. C. Moore, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys' School: Mathematics, to Junior University Scholarship standard—Geometry, Hall and Stevens; Algebra, Hall and Knight ; Arithmetic and Trigonometry, Pendlebury; Mechanics, Tutorial Series; Besant's Hydrostatics. French, to Junior Scholarship standard— Le Roi dcs Montagnes; Charles XII.; Le Phedre; Brachet's Grammar; Stedman's Questions. Latin, to Junior Scholarship standard—Scalae Tertiae ; iEneid, 11. ; sight translations from various authors; Bradley's Prose; Millington's Prose; Creighton's Rome; Horton's History of the Romans; Wilkin's Antiquities. English, to Junior Scholarship standard—Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar; Chaucer's Prologue; Nesfield's English Past and Present. History—Ransome (1688-1837). Geography and Physiography —General, Gill, Longman's, Huxley, Thornton, &c. Science —Physics (heat), to Junior Scholarship standard ; Stewart's Advanced Heat. Girls' School: Arithmetic—Whole subject. Algebra—-Hall and Knight's, Junior Scholarship standard. Euclid — Hall and Stevens, Books I. to VI., inclusive. Trigonometry—-Pendlebury, Junior Scholarship standard. English History—First-year college-work. English Grammar—Nesfield's Past and Present, Junior Scholarship work. English Literature—Merchant of Venice, general reading. Latin —Bradley's Arnold's Grammar; Bryan's Latin Prose Composition ; Abbott's Latin Prose; Allen's Latin Grammar; Horace's Epistles, Book I. ; Odes, Books 111. and VI.; Virgil's iEneid, Book IX. ; Caesar's Gallic War, Book VII., chapters 1 to 60; Tacitus's Germania, chapters Ito2o ; Cicero's De Officiis, chapters Ito 6 ; general sight translation. French—Junior Scholarship work ; Wellington College Grammar ; Corneille's Cinna, Horace ; Moliere's Le Misanthrope; Voltaire's Charles Douze. Botany—Junior Scholarship work. Mechanics—Junior Scholarship work; Loney's Statics and Dynamics; Besant's Hydrostatics ; Tutorial Hydrostatics. Lowest. — Boys' School: Standard 11., of the Public School Syllabus, together with Elementary Practical Geometry (Foster and Dobbs), and Elementary Practical Physics (Gregory). Girls' High School: Arithmetic—Pendlebury's Shilling Arithmetic, simple and compound rules, weights and measures. Geometry —Practical. French—Methode Naturelle, first ten lessons. English —Nesfield's Parts of Speech; easy parsing and analysis. Essays on object-lessons, letter-writing, &c. ; Selections from Wood's First Poetry Book, and from the Imperial Reader, Standard IV. Writing —Copybooks and transcription. Object-lessons—Lessons on Natural Science ; Elementary Botany (wheat, flax). Geography—Definitions; New Zealand; Australia; trade-routes; trading centres; countries and capitals of Europe; glaciers, and work of the sea. History—Notes, William I. to Richard 111. Scripture History—Notes, Journeyings of the Children of Israel. Drawing—Freehand, simple brushwork, simple geometrical figures.

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