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3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys' School: Latin—Arnold ; Kennedy, Revised Primer; Virgil, Georgics IV, iEneid V ; Csesar, Gallic War, VII; Horace, Epistles, I. French—Chardenal, Advanced Course; Siepmann, I; Wellington College Grammar ; Racine, Phedre ; Moliere, Le Bourgeois Gentiihomme, Le Mesanthrope, L'Avare; Tame, Voyage aux Pyrenees. Mathematics —Algebra, Hall and Knight; Geometry, Hall and Steven, I-VI ; Arithmetic, Goyen ; Trigonometry, Lock. English— Shakespeare's King Lear ; Chaucer's Prologue ; Carlyle's Sartor Resartus ; Holmes's Professor at the Breakfast-table; Milton's Samson Agonistes; Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present; Nesfield's Composition. Science — Physics (Heat), Glazebrook's and Deschanel's; Chemistry, Jago's Inorganic Chemistry, Newth's Inorganic Chemistry. Geology—Watts's Geology. Girls' School: English—Seeley's Colonial Expansion-; Tennyson's Princess and Maud; Shakespeare's Julius Csesar; Carlyle's Sartor Resartus; Holmes's Professor at the Breakfast-table; Nesfield's Past and Present. Latin-—Bradley's Arnold, 40 exercises ; Selections from Ovid, De Amicitia. French—Advanced Chardenal; Wellington College Grammar; Bue's Idioms; Le Bourgeois Gentiihomme; Vecqueray's Examination-papers; Half-hours with Modern Authors. History—Ransome's, Matriculation period. Geography—Longmans' 111. Zoology—Furneaux. Scripture—Old Testament Characters. Arithmetic-—Pendlebury ; Goyen, whole subject. Algebra —Hall and Knight's, up to binomial theorem. Euclid—As for Matriculation. Lowest. — -Boys : Latin—Morris's Elementa Latina. Commercial Work—Thornton's Primer and Manual of Book-keeping; Chisholm's Commercial Geography ; Commercial Correspondence. English—Yoxall's Word Builder and Speller; Dunlop's English Grammar; Kingsley's Heroes; Robertson's Prose, Part I; Jennings's Poems, Part 11. French—Chardenal, Part I ; Siepmann's, Part I. Arithmetic —Layng's Arithmetic, Part I. Geometry —Hall and Steven's New Geometry Book, I. Drawing—Freehand, model, and geometrical (no text-book used). Girls : English— Bowen's Selections ; Nesfield's Manual. Latin—Natural Method. French—Chardenal, Part I, to exercise 174. History—Miss Buckley's, pages 1-93, end of Henry VIII. Geography— Longmans' II; Mac Donald's New Zealand Geography. Physiography—Earthquakes, volcanoes, icebergs, denudation, glaciers, springs, rivers, &c. Science—Botany (practical) ; Physiology, Murche. Scripture—Lessons from Genesis and Exodus. Arithmetic —Goyen's Higher Arithmetic, up to percentages. Algebra—Hall and Knight, up to simple equations. Geometry—Practical work, and propositions 15, 13, 4, and 1.

OTAGO BOYS' AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS. Staff. Boys' School— Mr. A. Wilson, M.A.; Mr. M. Watson, M.A.; Mr. J. Macpherson, F.E.T.S. ; Mr. F.H.Campbell, M.A.; Mr. It. A. McGullouah, M.A.; Mr. E. J. Parr, M.A., B.Sc; Mr. John Reid, 8.A.; Mr. J. G. Fullarton, B.A. ; Mr. H. Cnapman ; Mr. J. Hanna; Mr. J. F. Scott ; Mr. D. Sherr ff; Mr. T. D. Adams. Girls' School— Miss M. E. A. Marchant, M.A. ; Miss F. M. Allan, M.A. ; Miss H. Alexander, 8.4. ; Miss S. C. C. McKmght, M.A. ; Miss E. E. Little; Miss F. Campbell, M.A. ; Miss L. A. N. Dowms, 8.A.; Miss F. M. Wimpens ; Miss M. W. Alves ; Miss M. Salmond ; Miss S. E. Albert; Mr. John Hanna ; Mr. W. E. Taylor, F.R.C.0.; MioS J. C. Longford. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 531 12 1 Office salaries .. .. .. .. 225 0 0 Government capitation for free places .. 2,897 6 8 Other office expenses .. .. .. 11 7 6 Current income from reserves .. .. 2,041 11 10 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 4,771 13 2 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Boarding pchool account .. .. 128 13 5 purchase money .. .. .. 26 18 2 Stamps, telegrams, telephone .. .. 26 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 391 5 10 Sundries and incidentals .. .. 43 1 5 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,063 18 4 Water-rates .. .. .. .. 82 0 0 Donation from Otago High Schools War Prizes .. .. .. .. 35 11 10 Memorial Committee for uniforms .. 59 11 10 Insurance .. .. .. .. 43 1 6 Proceeds sale from cookery classes .. 515 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 104 3 7 Interest on Prize Fund, on fixed deposit .. 1 18 5 Light and wages of two janitors .. .. 333 12 2 Valuation for improvements from inooming Laboratories .. .. .. .. 12 9 4 tenants .. .. .. .. 178 11 0 Site, buildings, furniture, &o. .. .. 591 13 4 Cooking classes .. .. .. 13 0 4 Debentures interest .. .. .. 162 0 0 Expenditure on endowments (including travelling-expenses) .. .. .. 34 11 1 Sinking Fund .. .. .. ~ 17 10 0 Uniform for Cadet corps .. .. 59 11 10 Refund capitation, Waitaki High School Board .. .. .. .. 16 8 Refund school fee, A. Wilkinson .. 3 6 8 Valuation for improvements to outgoing tenants .. .. .. .. 178 11 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 320 4 4 £7,198 9 2 £7,198 9 2 J. R. Sinclair, Chairman. C. Macandrew, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that the amount has not been repaid, to which exception was taken in the accounts for 1903, of £16 7s. lid. paid for the expenses of a visit to Wellington of a member and the secretary of the Board.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.