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1. Report of the Boaed op Governoes. The School. —There were 364 boys and 230 girls in the school at the beginning of the year, of whom 281 boys and 192 girls held free places under the regulations, the capitation being £8 10s. The Board was compelled to continue to rent St. Paul's Schoolroom for another year to accommodate about half of the girls, and will continue to do so until the erection of the new Girls' Grammar School at Howe Street. "The Auckland Girls' Grammar School Act, 1906," vests this site, containing 3 acres, in this Board, as well as all the endowments and moneys held by the Board of Education for the Girls' High School. The new Girls' Grammar School, which was originally estimated at £5,000, will cost some £16,000, and will be ready for the first term of 1908. The site affords a very fine view of the Waitemata Harbour, but through the great fall in the ground the Board will have to spend some £2,000 to £3,000 in the basement of the buildiug. The Board has secured as headmistress of the Girls' Grammar School Miss A. W. Whitelaw, M.A., who, being originally an Auckland Grammar School girl, received her university education at Girton College of Cambridge University, and her M.A. degree at the Dublin University. Miss Whitelaw was engaged by the Board last June, and is expected to arrive in Auckland in January, 1907. Distinctions. —Five pupils of the school (four boys and one girl) gained University Junior Scholarships :of these, A. G. Marshall was first on the list. Eleven others passed the examination " with credit." Twenty-six passed the Matriculation and two the Medical Preliminary Examination. Twenty-seven passed the Civil Service Junior Examination. The usual distribution of prizes was made in the Choral Hall on the 20th December, 1906, by the Chairman. Ninety-two prizes were given, among which were two for English essays given by Mr. J. P. Hooton in memory of his son, a former pupil of the school, and two by Mr. P. J. P., a former member of the Board, for note-books on the practical work done in the laboratories on both sides of the school. G. Maueice O'Rokkb, M.A., LL.D., Chairman. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Nesfield, English Past and Present; Nichol's Primer of English Composition ; Palgrave's Golden Treasury ; Bacon's Essays; Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream; Selections from Chaucer. Latin —-North andHillard's Latin Prose Composition ; Smith's Smaller History of Borne ; Livy, V; Virgil, Georgics, I and II; Horace, Odes, III; Cicero, Pro Mareello. French—Wellington College French Grammar; Chardenal, Exercises for Advanced Students ;Lβ Eoi dcs Montagues; Les Maitres Mosaistes ; Select Poems of Chenier. Mathematics—Todhunter and Loney's Algebra; Baker and Bourne's Geometry; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry. Science—Boys'side —Boscoe and Harden, Inorganic Chemistry; E. W. Stewart, Advanced Heat: girls' side —Structural Botany, Parts I and 11, D. H. Scott ; Jessop's Mechanics. Lowest. —Nesfield's Outlines of English Grammar ; Temple Eeader. Latin—Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, Part I; Scalae Primse ; Postgate's Shilling Latin Primer. French— Macmillan's Progressive French Course, First Year; Janau, Elementary French Eeading-book. Mathematics —School Arithmetic, Clive and Co. ; Longmans' Junior School Algebra; Baker and Bourne's Geometry. Science—Boys—Elementary Physical Measurements; girls —Elementary Botany. 3. Geneeal Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1906. Receipts. £ s. d. . Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 2,565 0 4 Secretary's salary .. .. .. 158 3 4 Government capitation for free places .. 2,644 18 4 Office expenses ~ .. .. 68 6 8 Current income from reserves .. .. 4,851 2 8 Commission, &c, to collector .. .. 306 17 3 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 413 10 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 5,003 15 2 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,104 8 6 Election expenses .. .. .. 2 2 4 Interest on fixed depo-it, Bank of New School requisites .. .. .. 102 14 11 Zealand .. .. .. .. 46 4 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 28 5 0 Other receipts— School library .. .. ~ 19 0 Grant from Auckland Education Bjard Prizes .. .. .. .. 33 12 6 under seotion 23 of "The Auckland Girls' School rent .. .. .. 50 0 0 Grammar School Act, 1899 " .. 200 0 0 Cleaning, gas, &c. .. .. .. 31 1 6 Sale of old buildings.. .. .. 63 G 0 Requisites .. .. ~ ... 58 17 9 Refund of advance to Girls' High School Printing and advertising .. .. 15 0 10 Account .. .. .. .. 3 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 83 7 9 Stationery allowance .. .. ~ 170 fi 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 99 4 4 Compensation for old buildings .. 55 0 0 New buildings .. .. .. 629 5 8 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 884 16 1 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 401 5 4 Interest on current account .. .. 0 2 9 Interest on loans .. .. .. 412 17 6 Part payment of loan to Diocesan Pension Board and City Council .. .. 1,400 0 0 Crioket wickets .. .. .. 6 0 0 Crioket coach .. .. .. 30 0 0 Swimming sports .. .. .. 5 0 0 Girls' playground .. .. .. 4 12 0 Athletic sports .. .. .. 21 1 5 Appointment of teachers, London .. 103 6 1 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 1,726 18 8 £11,893 9 10 £11,893 9 10 W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. AVahburton, Controller and Auditor-General.