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

Receipts. £ s. d. Balanoe at beginning of year .. .. 213 10 11 Government grants for buildings, &c .. 850 0 0 Government oapitation— For free places .. .. .. 1,168 510 For manual and technical instruction .. 53 7 6 Current income from reserves .. .. 934 12 11 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 197 4 0 School'fees .. .. .. .. 680 17 4 Rents from freeholds .. .. .. 56 7 4 Subsides .. .. .. .. 175 0 0 Gymnasium fees .. .. .. 31 10 0 Sale of buildings, &c. .. .. .. 10 19 0 £4,371 14 10

Expenditure. £ s. d. Office salary .. .. .. .. 83 6 8 Other expenses of management .. .. 35 13 7 Teaohers'salaries and allowances .. 1,761 0 0 Instruction, gymnasium school, salary .. 160 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 38 12 4 1 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 129 3 1 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 152 15 3 Site and buildings .. .. .. 854 10 6 Purchases and new works .. .. 54 13 1 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 136 5 5 Miscellaneous (rates, &o.) .. .. 40 18 6 Interest on current aooount .. .. 4 13 0 Rent .. .. .. .. 23 10 0 Athletios .. .. .. .. 10 6 6 Chemioals and appliances .. .. 30 1 8 Technical classes .. .. .. 90 14 0 Furniture and fittings .. .. .. 53 12 11 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 711 18 4 £4,371 14 10

W. Macalister, Chairman. Charles Rout, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highkst and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : English—Chaucer, Prologue (part) ; Tennyson, selections ; Macaulay, Clive ; Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice ; Historical English Grammar ; composition ; literature. Latin —Livy, selections; Virgil, selections ; Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia ; unseens in prose and verse; grammar; prose composition; history; antiquities. French—Selections in prose and verse; grammar; prose composition. Mathematics—Arithmetic, the whole subject ; mental arithmetic ; Algebra, to binomial theorem ; Geometry, Euclid, Books I to VI; Trigonometry, to solution of triangles. Science—Chemistry, inorganic; metals and non-metals; heat, to Junior Scholarship standard. Girls : English—Shakespeare's Julius Cassar ; Macaulay's Essay on Clive ; Milton's L'Allegro, II Penseroso, and Lycidas ; Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book I, selections ; the literature of the eighteenth century; Nesfield's English Grammar and Composition; parsing, analysis, composition, and letter-writing. Latin—Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition ;De Bello Gallico, V.; Virgil's iEneid, selections ; Ovid, Stories from the Metamorphoses. French—Wellington College Grammar, Eve and Baudiss ; Hachette's Second French Reader ; selected idioms. Mathematics—Arithmetic, the subject; algebra to the end of quadratic equations ; Euclid, Books 1., 11., and III.,; trigonometry to the end of trigonometrical ratios. Science —Botany and physiology as for matriculation. History and Geography as for matriculation ; Ransome's History ; Meiklejohn's Comparative Geography. Mechanics—Loney's Statics and Dynamics, to page 176. First aid and ambulance. Lowest. — Boys ; English — Scott's Lady of the Lake ; Kingsley's Westward Ho ! ; Globe Poetry Reader; grammar, composition, and spelling. Geography—Topographical and commercial, Europe and Britain ; physical, astronomical, mathematical, political. English History— 1485 to 1689. Latin ; Welch and Duffield's Accidence ; Cassar, Invasion of Britain ; composition. French: Hogben's Methode Naturelle; grammar and composition. Non-Latin or Non-French: Book-keeping; and drawing, freehand, scale, and geometrical; commercial routine. Mathematics — Arithmetic (the whole subject) ; mental; algebra (to H.C. factor) ; Geometry, Book I. Science — Murche's Science Reader, Book VI; general elementary science. Girls: English—Kingsley's Hereward the Wake ; Macmillan's Advanced Reader; literature, selected authors: Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition ; parsing and analysis, composition and letterwriting. Latin —Via Latina, to end of passive verbs ; gradatim. French —Hogben's Methode Naturelle, first 100 pages. Arithmetic—Fractions and decimals, reductions, practice, proportion, equations, irregular distribution, time and work problems, mental arithmetic. History—Ransome's Smaller History to reign of George 11. Geography —New Zealand and Australia, Southern Cross Geographies and Notes ; Europe and physical, Miklejohn's Comparative Geography. Botany and Physiology preparatory to matriculation class. First aid and ambulance, needlework, cooking, drawing.