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Capital i Repayment of mortgage .. .. .. 1,000 0 0 Repayments on acoount of mortgages .. 49 2 4 Redemption of property .. .. .. 1,547 6 8 Donation from Old Boys' Association .. 400 0 0 Government subsidy on ditto .. .. 400 0 0 Miss C, A. Barniooat, for annual prize .. 75 0 0 Bank overdraft, 31st December, 1904 .. 432 19 11 Add upaid cheques .. .. .. 3 10 £13,997 5 6

Account. Purchase of property, College Hill .. 950 0 0 Boys' College, Fowlhouse, &o. .. .. 26 6 4 Girls' College, additions .. .. 1,893 4 6 Bank overdraft, lst January, 1904 .. 619 12 6 £13,997 5 6

Jas. Blair, Secretary. We hereby certify that we have examined the foregoing accounts, and compared them with the several vouchers relating thereto, and have found them correct.—John King and Ambrose E. Moore, Auditors. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys' College : English—Chaucer's Prologue and Clerke's Tale, Julius Caesar, Merchant of Venice; selections from Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson; Esmond; Nesfield's Grammar; Skeat's Primers of English Etymology; essays, paraphrase, &c. Latin — Virgil, .Zlilneid xi.; Cicero's Letters (selection); Tacitus, Agricola and Germania; Verse Selections (Carey's); Caesar, De Bello Gallico, vii.; Bradley's Arnold; composition. French—Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Half-hours with Modern Authors; Blouet's Composition; Eve and de Baudiss's Grammar, Mathematics — Arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, geometry ; to Junior University Scholarship standard. Science —Chemistry, mechanics ;to Junior Scholarship standard. Girls' College : Bradley's Arnold ; Virgil, iEneid vi.; Tacitus, Germania and Agricola ; standard of B.A. degree : Merivale and Puller's Roman History ; Wilkin's Antiquities. French—Wellington College Grammar; Bue's French Idioms ; Cinna ; Horace; Le Misanthrope; Charles Douze. Mathematics —Lock's Trigonometry; Todhunter's Algebra; Hall and Stevens's Euclid. English—Nesfield's Historical Grammar; Sweet's Anglo-Saxon and Middle-English Primers; Macmillan Brown's Literature; Seccombe's Age of Johnson ; Esmond; Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar. Physics— Wright's Physics. Botany—Junior University Scholarship syllabus. Lowest. — Boys' College : English—Kingsley's Heroes ; Macaulay's Horatius ; Nature in New Zealand ; composition ; dictation ; spelling ; grammar ; Nesfield's Outlines ; parsing ; easy analysis. History—Ransome's Elementary, to 1688. Geography—The British Empire; Australia and New Zealand in detail; elementary physicial. Latin—Elementa Latina, verbs, with exercises ; Scalse Primae, 1-18. Arithmetic—Weights and measures ; L.C.M.; G.C.M.; fractions. Drawing—Elementary freehand and geometrical. Plasticine, simple forms (first term only). Woodwork, management of tools, manufacture of simple articles. Girls' College : English—Royal Crown Reader, Standard III.; Imperial Reader, Standard IV.; general work as required for these standards. Arithmetic—Southern Cross 111. and IV.; Pendlebury's Examples, to supplement. Drawing—Colonial Drawing-book IV.; blank drawing-book, free and conventional copies. History—History Reader IV. Geography—Longmans' Geography, Book I. Botany—Elementary knowledge of form and structure of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruit; practical work being done at each lesson. German —Elementary object-lessons by Cran, taught entirely orally, fifty pages of book. GREYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance, 31st December, 1903 .. .. 1,269 0 6 Westland Sohool Commissioners.. .. 50 1 6 Rent .. .. .. .. .. 25 10 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 34 11 4 Sale of property, Cobden .. .. 41 18 0 £1,421 1 4

Expenditure. £ s. d. Grants to Grey Education Board .. 100 0 0 Secretary's salary .. .. .. 10 0 0 Bank interest and charges .. .. 610 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 14 0 Balance on 31st Deoember, 1904 — At National Bank .. .. .. 13 7 4 At Post-Offioe Savings-Bank .. .. 300 0 0 Debentures .. .. .. .. 900 0 0 Loan on mortgage .. .. .. 90 0 0 £1,421 1 4

F. W. Riemenschneider, Secretary. Examined and found correct—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. HOKITIKA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,590 15 0 Current inoome from reserves .. .. 57 0 0 Interest on moneys invested, &c. .. .. 56 12 0 Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 50 0 0 £1,754 7 0

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salary .. .. .. .. 18 7 6 Other office expenses .. .. .. 110 6 Teachers' salaries and allowances (grant to Westland Education Board) .. .. 200 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 4 10 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 17 17 4 Grant in aid of Hokitika woodwork class (Technical) .. .. .. .. 5 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 1,507 1 8 £1,754 7 0

H. L. Michel, Chairman. Chas. Kirk, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.