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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 2,243 9 0 Receipts from Government — For sites, building, furniture, &c. .. 71 2 4 Books, &c, for Maori scholar .. .. 2 17 11 Capitation for free places .. .. 720 1 1 Capitation for Manual and Technioal Instruction .. .. .. .. 47 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,762 17 2 Interest on money invested .. .. 95 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 352 15 4 Interest on current accounts .. .. 4 11 10 £5,305 14 8

Expenditure. £ s. d. Management— Office salary .. .. .. .. 76 19 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 22 1 5 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,008 4 1 Exhibition examination expenses.. .. 8 8 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 38 5 11 Printing, stationery, and advertising for schools .. .. .. .. 74 10 5 Cleaning, fuel, and light.. .. .. 135 8 1 Woodwork shop (Government grant) .. 66 0 0 Board's share of workshop .. .. 83 3 8 Furniture .. .. .. .. 44 9 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 30 16 11 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 33 110 Endowments— Members' travelling-expenses .. .. 25 6 0 Miscellaneous.. .. .. .. 16 3 6 School technical classes— Salaries .. .. .. .. 72 10 0 Apparatus .. .. .. .. 68 10 6 Material .. .. .. .. 12 6 3 School cadet uniforms .. .. .. 144 7 3 Refunds—rent overpaid and fees .. .. 37 0 7 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 2,308 1 6 £5,305 14 8

Wm. B. Howell, Chairman. A. Bell, Secretary and Treasurer. Kxamined and found correct, except that the expenditure of £144 7s. 3d. for school cadet uniforms is without authority of law.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : English—Nesfield's Historical English ; Nesfield's Manual; Abbott's How to Write Clearly ; Chaucer's Prologue; Shakespeare's Julius Csesar, Tempest; Thackeray's Esmond ; Selections from Tennyson. German—Siepmann's School Primer; Macmillan's Course, Part 11. ; Macmillan's First Reader; Buchheim's Modern Reader, Parts 1., II.; selected proses. Latin—Hayes and Watts' Matriculation; selections from authors; Kennedy's Grammar; Walter's Latin Prose ; North and Hillard's Latin Prose ; Wilkin's Primer of Antiquities ; Horton's Roman History; Abbott's Via Latina; Bell's Scalse Media?; Allen's Grammar; Wilkinson's Selections from Livy. French—Half Hours with Modern French Authors ; Wellington College Grammar ; .selected proses; Chardenal, 2; Le Tour dv Monde; Le Voyage de M. Perichon. Mathematics, to Junior University Scholarship standard—Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Stevens' Euclid ; Lock's Trigonometry ; Pendlebury's Arithmetic. Geography—Longmans' No. 3, as for Junior Civil Service Examination. Geometrical drawing, to matriculation standard. Girls: English —Nesfield's Historical English Grammar ; Great Authors, Part II.; Selections from Chaucer; Shakespeare's Julius Caasar; Macaulay's Essay on Bacon; Keats's Hyperion, Book I.; Tennyson's Coming of Arthur and Passing of Arthur; Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I. Latin— Arnold's Latin Prose ; Bryan's Latin Prose ; Cffisar, Book VII.; Selections from Ovid; Sargent's Latin Passages for "Unseen Translation. French —Macmillan's French Composition, 11. ; Wellington College Accidence ; Bue's Idioms ; Half-hours with Modern French Authors (Jules Lazare); Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ; Charles XII. Mathematics —Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Books LVI.; Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra; Lock's Elementary Trigonometry: Pendlebury's Arithmetic ; Pendlebury's Trigonometry. Botany —Aitken's Elementary Text-book of Botany; Introduction to Study of Botany by Dendy and Lucas. Science—Mechanics and Hydrostatics for Beginners, by Loney. History—Creighton's History Primer, Rome; Wilkin's Primer of Roman Antiquities. Lowest.—Boys: Latin—Via Latina and Macmillan's Shorter Course, Part I. French— Chardenal I. and Hogben's Methode Naturelle. English —Nesfield's Manual of Grammar and Composition. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to simultaneous equations and fractions. Geometry and Euclid—Euclid, Books I. and II.; Hall and Stevens's School Geometry, Book I. Arithmetic —Advanced Standard VI. and Junior Civil Service Examination ; Pendlebury. Book-keeping— Thornton's Book-keeping (Primer), to ledger and journal and bills. Shorthand — Pitman's Instructor. Drawing—Model and freehand, as for Junior Civil Service Examination. Woodwork —First-year exercises. History—As for Junior Civil Service Examination. Geography—As for Junior Civil Service Examination; Longmans' World 111. Girls : English—Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition; Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare; Globe Poetry-book. HisBuckley's History ; Henry IV. to Edward VI. Geography—Longmans' Ship Series, Europe. Latin —Via Latina, to page 53. French —Methode Naturelle, to page 40. Arithmetic— Pendlebury. Algebra—Hall and Stevens. Euclid—Theorems, 1-12; Problems, 1-12 ; Hall and Stevens's Geometry. Botany—Youman's Botany for Beginners; nature-study, without any textbook. WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of the Governors. Waimate, 19th June, 1905. With regard to the Waimate High School Board, our annual report for 1904 is very much the same as on previous occasions.