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won exhibitions at, Canterbury College for mathematics and chemistry respectively ; Mr. R. W. McCullough won the Sir George Grey Scholarship at Ota.go University ; Mr. A. B. Webster obtained his M.A. at Edinburgh with first-class honours, and was appointed Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University. Of present pupils, D. B. MacLeod won a Junior University Scholarship ; D. L. Sinclair, C. M. Bevan-Brown, and A. H. Amess were placed on the credit list; eight boys passed Matriculation or Medical Preliminary ; four passed the Junior Civil Service Examination with credit; and, out of the nine Senior Scholarships given by the Board of Education, six were won by pupils of the school. It is right to mention, among the distinctions of the year, that the school won the President's Cup at football, and the Secondary Schools Cup at the amateur athletic meeting. It is also a pleasure to record the fact that three of the New Zealand football team who have recently been visiting England were old pupils of the school—viz., Mr. R. G. Deans, Mr. E. Harper, and Mr. H. G. Thompson. The school-roll at the end of the year was 190, of whom thirteen were in the Preparatory Class. This class is doing excellent work under Mr. Sidney Clark. Mr. A. G. Johnson, who was appointed temporarily, left at the end of the year, and it was decided that the vacancy should not be filled up for the present. The Board asked the Inspector-General to conduct an examination of the school at the end of 1905 ; at the last moment he sent word that he would be unable to do so, and the school was examined by the staff. The three upper forms, most of whose members were in for the University Examinations, were judged by the examinations of the first and second terms and the class marks of the second and third terms, but were not examined at the end of the third term in order to avoid the strain of a school examination coming immediately before the Matriculation and Junior Scholarship Examinations. The bulk of the school, however, were examined in the third term, and had their work assessed by combining the results of the examinations and class marks of the second and third terms. Special examinations were held by Professor Wall for the Miller Prize in English Literature, by Professor Blunt for oral French, and by Mr. C. F. Bourne (who spoke favourably of the work done), for the Newspaper Prize. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s d Balance at beginning of year .. .. 291 010 Office salaries .. .. .. .. 100 0 0 Capitation under Manual and Technical Teachers' salaries— Instruction Rgulations .. .. 32 16 10 Main School .. .. .. 3,827 10 2 Current income from reserves .. .. 3,531 17 10 Preparatory School .. .. .. 110 10 0 School fees— Examiners'fees .. .. .. 4 4 0 Main School.. .. .. .. 1,363 14 9 Other examination expenses .. .. 11 16 0 Preparatory School .. .. .. 110 10 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 27 0 1 Interest on current account .. .. 10 0 2 Class material .. .. .. .. 69 11 10 Printing, stationery, advertising, and boobs .. .. .. .. 85 7 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 57 14 9 Buildings, &c.— Purchases and new works .. .. 165 18 8 Renewals, fittings, &c. .. .. 43 10 11 Miscellaneous (insurance, &c).. .. 27 15 1 Inspecting and advertising reserves .. 127 16 8 Interest on Loan Account, £5,000 .. 200 0 0 Grants to sports fund, cadet corps, and library .. .. .. .. 77 10 0 Rent of section for playground .. .. 103 11 2 Expenses connected with endowments .. 63 4 8 Sundry expenses .. .. .. 32 18 1 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 204 1 0 £5,340 0 5 £5,340 0 5 A. Cracroft Wilson, Registrar. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin—Livy, Book XXII; Cicero, Stories from Roman History; Horace, Odes, Book III; selections from Ovid in elegiac verse ; Hints and Helps in Continuous Latin Prose (Walters); Bradley's Arnold; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer; Gepp and Haigh's Latin Dictionary; Robinson's First History of the Romans ; Rivingtons' Class-book of Latin Unseen, Book V. English —Lamb's Essays of Elia; Tempest (Warwick, Shakespeare); Palgrave's Golden Treasury; Chaucer's Prologue; Macaulay's Boswell's Life of Johnson; Storr (Longmans) ; Nesfield's Manual; Nesfield's Historical English; Abbott's How to Write clearly; Stopford Brooke's Literature Primer. French—Advanced French Composition ; Duhamel, Ma Tante ; Greville ; Vol. VI; Picciola, Saintine ; L'Abbe Daniel; Parallel French Grammar. Mathematics— Ward's Examination Papers on Trigonometry ; Hall and Steven's Euclid, Books I-IV; Loney's Trigonometry, Part I; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Elements of Applied Mathematics; Short Introduction' to Graphical Algebra; Hall and Steven's School Geometry, Parts V and VI. Science —Chemical Theory ; Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (Theoretical). Gymnastics, Scripture, Greek. -;--■ 4—E. 12.