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TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL. - Staff. Boys' School—Mr. G. A. Simmers, M.A.; Mr. R. H. Rockel, M.A.; Mr. G. T. Palmer, M.A. ; Mr. W. H. N. Amos ; Sargeam-majnr T. Jones ; Mr. F. Cameron. Girls' School.— Miss B. M. Watt, M.A.; Miss J. Mulhollan*, M.A.; Miss C. M. Cruickshank, M.A., B.Sc.; Miss Emilie M. Reid ; Sergeant-major T. Jones ; Mr. F. Cameron ; Miss E. K. O'Brien. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. The personnel of the Board is the same as for the preceding year—viz., Messrs W. B. Howell (Chairman), R. H. Bowie, J. S. Gibson, -Robert Gillingham, B. R. Macdonald, James McCahon, John Talbot, the Rev. George Barclay, Dr. H. C. Barclay, and the Yen. Archdeacon Harper. The Board held six meetings, the average attendance of members being six. During the year the work of both schools has been carried on very satisfactorily, and that notwithstanding the absence of the headmaster during the first and second terms on a trip to the Old Country in search of health. The results of the various public examinations in which pupils took part at the end of the year indicate that the schools are fully maintaining their standard of efficiency. In November Miss C. M. Cruickshank, M.A., B.Sc, resigned her position on the staff of the Girls' School in order to take up the position of Principal of the Invercargill Girls' High School. The Board regrets the loss of a popular and efficient teacher, and congratulates the Southland Board on its choice. The publication of amended regulations for secondary schools opening still wider the doors of these schools to free pupils was received with satisfaction by the Board, and it is hoped that with little further amendment these regulations will enable all deserving pupils from the primary schools to gain free secondary education. The Board again regrets that no provision has been made for the proper and systematic examination of secondary schools by officers of the Department. 2. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 2,308 1 6 Office salary .. .. .. .. 66 14 0 Receipts from Government — Other office expenses .. .. .. 22 10 2 For sites, building, furniture, &o. .. - 44 10 2 Other expenses of management— Capitation for free places .. .. 925 1 8 Endowments .. .. ~ 22 4 2 Capitation under Manual and Technical Members' travelling expenses .. .. 12 11 6 Instruction Regulations .. .. 81 5 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,183 13 2 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,754 14 4 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 4 4 0 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Prizes .. .. .. .. 35 12 0 purchase-money .. .. .. 97 10 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 52 17 11 School fees .. .. .. .. 226 8 0 Cleaning, fuel, and light .. .. 100 16 10 Interest on current account— Purchases and new works .. . . 6 3 3 Kingsbury's loan .. .. .. 10 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 76 811 Post-office .. .. .. .. 593 Miscellaneous .. .. ... .. 22 8 1 Contributions to Uniform Fund .. .. 30 11 0 Refund of fees .. .. .. ... 300 Sale of trees .. .. .. .. 110 0 Sohool Technical Classes— Salaries .. .. .-. r.. 47 10 0 Apparatus .. .. .. • • 414 6 Material .. .. .. .. 16 14 5 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 2,806 18 0 £5,485 0 11 £5,485 (At Wm. B. Howell, Chairman. A. Bell, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that the amount of £144 7s. 3d., to which exception was taken in accounts of the year ended the 31st December, 1904, as spent without authority of law, has not been refunded to the Board Fund.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Nesfield's Historical English ; Nesfield's Manual; Nichol's Questions and Exercises ; Chaucer's Prologue ; Milton's Samson Agonistes ; George Eliot's Silas Marner ; Stopford Brooke's Literature Primer. Latin—Hayes and Watt's Matriculation Selections ; Livy, XXII; Kennedy's Grammar; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose; North and Hillard's Latin Prose; Wilkin's Primer of Antiquities; Horton's Roman Antiquities ; unseens. French—Waterloo ; L'Avare; Half-hours with Modern French Authors ; Tutorial French Composition ; Wellington College Grammar; Selected Proses; unseens. German—Eve's Grammar; Buckheim's Prose Composition; Macmillan's Course, Part II; Selections from Heine; Goethe's Egmont. Mathematics—University Junior Scholarship work; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Steven's Geometry; Pendlebury's Trigonometry ; Pendlebury's Arithmetic. Lowest. —English-—Great Authors, 111, Julius Csesar; Nesfield's Manual of Grammar and Composition, to page 117. Latin—Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, I. French—Chardenal Part I; French without Tears, I and 11. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to simultaneous equations Geometry—Hall and Steven's Geometry, Book I. Arithmetic—Pendlebury. Book-keeping— Thornton's First Lessons in Book-keeping, to page 161. Shorthand—Pitman's Phonographic Teacher, Geography—Longmans' No. 2. Woodwork—First-year work. Drawing—Freehand and model; Advanced Standard work.