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THAMES HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. James Ada-ms, 8.A.; Mr. R. J. Thompson, B.A. ; Miss Mary R. Poy. 1. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Sites, building, furniture, &c. .. .. 275 0 0 Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 10 7 Government capitation for free places .. 214 0 0 Office salary .. .. .. .. 20 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 341 211 Other office expenses .. .. .. 6 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 42 16 10 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 700 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 70 10 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 2 2 0 Interest on Post - Office Savings-Bank Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 6 14 0 account .. .. .. .... 2 2 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 25 16 4 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 74 16 9 Government grants .. .. .. ' 537 4 6 Special loan under section 12 of " The High Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 11 16 4 School Reserves Act, 1880 .. .. 700 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 0 2 6 Contractor's deposit .. .. .. 20 0 0 Management, &c, of endowments .. 31 19 11 School requisites .. .. .. 17 2 9 Contractor's deposit refunded .. .. 20 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 360 10 1 £1,740 9 0 £1,740 9 0 Arch. Burns, Chairman. Jas. Kerniok, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that the Board is not authorised by law to overdraw its ccount (General Account). —J. W. Poynton, Deputy Controller and Auditor. 2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Precis (Cosmo Monkhouse); English Grammar Past and Present (Nesfield); English Composition (Nichol) ; English Questions and Exercises (Nichol) ; Marmion (Scott) ; Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare) ; How to Write Clearly (Abbot) ; The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare). Latin—First Steps to Latin Prose (Walters) ; Questions and Exercises (Stedman); Latin Unseens (Senior); Csesar, Books II and III; Ovid's Selections. French—Macmillan's French Course, Third Year (Fasnacht) ; Questions and Exercises (Stedman); La Mere au Diable ; French Unseens for Upper Forms (Pallisier); Macmillan's French Reader, Second Year (Fasnacht). Arithmetic —General Arithmetic (Lock). Mathematics —Elementary Algebra (Hall and Knight) ; Geometry, I-VI (Hall and Stevens) ; Trigonometry (Lock). Science—Chemistry (Roscoe) ; Practical Chemistry (Tilden); Inorganic Chemistry (Roscoe and Harden). Mechanics— Pinkerton's Theoretical Mechanics. Lowest. —English—Outlines of English Grammar (Mason); Exercises on Morris's English Grammar (Wetherell); English Grammar Exercises (Bowen and Morris); How to Write Clearly (Abbot); the Temple Reader; correction of faulty sentences; essays on easy subjects. Latin— Via Latina (Abbott), exercises 1-32; grammar as far as and including the four regular conjugations ; First Latin Reader (Beresford), Parts I and 11. French—Macmillan's First French Book (Fasnacht) ; grammar bearing on exercises, and the four regular conjugations; My First French Book (M. Ninet). Arithmetic—General Arithmetic (Lock). Mathematics—Algebra (Hall and Knight), up to simultaneous equations; geometry (Hall and Stevens), Book I. History—Period from 1603-1660 ; The Royal History of England. Geography—Longmans' Geography, Book 11. Chemistry—Roscoe's Chemistry Primer.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. Ernest Pridham, M.A.; Miss C. D. Grant, M.A. ; Miss S. A. Drew, M.A.; Mr. H. H. Ward ; Mr. T. Blair. 1. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts, £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 212 11 3 Office salary .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Capitation— Other office expenses .. .. .. 8 6 4 For free places .. .. .. 459 6 8 Other expenses of management .. .. 3 0 6 Under Manual and Technical Instruction Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,015 5 7 Regulations .. .. .. 17 3 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 21 2 6 Current income from reserves .. .. 918 11 8 Class material .. ... .. 27 3 9 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 35 12 2 purchase-money .. .. .. 9 5 0 Gleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 66 711 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 100 0 0 Prom Government grants .. .. 18 0 Transfer fees .. .. .. .. 10 0 Purchases and new works .. .. 38 17 0 Boarding school fees .. .. .. 124 9 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. ... .. .37 911 Hire, cricket-matting .'. .. .. 15 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 14 12 6 Refund from tenants of cost of leases .. 30 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 619 3 .Interest on current account .. .. 2 4 9 Miscellaneous (surveys, &c.) .. .. 104 6 0 Law .. .. .. .. .. 330 Refund of rates to lessees .. .. 18 5 4 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 419 7 11 £1,873 12 5 £1,873 12 5 .W. K. MacDiarmid, Chairman. Walter Bewley, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Wakburton, Controller and Auditor-General.