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3. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1906. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 363 311 Management— Government grant for sites, buildings, furni- Office salary .. .. .. .. 30 0 0 ture, fittings, and apparatus .. . 409 0 1 Other office expenses .. .. .. 9 5 0 Government capitation— Other expenses of management, careFor free places .. .. .. 1,304 15 10 taker, &c. .. .. .. .. 11l 4 0 For manual and technical instruction .. 113 11 8 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,742 16 6 Subsidy on voluntary contributions .. 67 16 0 Examiners'fees.. .. .. .. 10 10 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 127 4 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 11 17 7 School fees .. .. .. 234 3 0 Class material .. .. .. .. 67 0 4 Technical school fees .. .. .. 254 17 11 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 78 5 6 Voluntary contributions.. .. .. 74 1 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 27 0 3 Other receipts, namely— Government grants for site, buildings, furniCookery and woodwork olasses—Material 14 19 9 ture, &c. .. .. .. .. 322 3 6 Wanganui Education Board —Proportion Purchases and new works, furniture, apcleaning, fuel, &o. .. .. .. 26 4 4 paratus .. .. .. .. 82 5 2 Sale of hay .. .. .. .. 10 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 54 4 4 Miscellaneous (rates, &o.) .. .. 28 17 1 Rent (sundry) .. .. .. .. 16 1 9 Fitting technical rooms .. .. .. 19 5 7 Miscellaneous (surveys, &c.) .. .. 4 13 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 376 0 2 £2,990 18 0 £2,990 18 0 Walter Eutherpurd, Chairman. William Hunter, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Waeburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. College.—Mi. J. P. Firth, 8.A.; Mr. A. Heine, M.A.; Mr. J. Bee, M.A., B.Sc.; Mr. W. F. Ward, M.A.-; Mr. A. C. Gifiord, M.A. ; Mr. G. G. S. Robison, M.A.; Mr. T. Brodie, 8.A.; Mr. F. M. Renner, M.A. ; Mr. T. Jordan, MA. ; Mr. R. B. Rudman, M.A.; Mr. D. Matheson ; Mr. J. H. Goulding, B.A. ; Mr. G. V. Bogle ; Mr. J. C. Pope. Girls' High School—Miss M. A. McLean, M.A.; Miss M. C. Morrah, M.A.; Miss M. N. Gellatly, M.A. ; Miss I. Ecclesfield, M.A.; Miss W. S. Fraser, M.A.; Miss A. M. Batham, B.A. ; Miss E. A. Newman, M.A.; Miss B. Jack, B.A. ; Miss A. P. Tomlinson, B.A. 1. Eeport of the Governors. The Board of Governors have to report that at both the institutions under their control—the Wellington College and the Wellington Girls' College—the work of tuition is being well carried on. The results of the University and Civil Service Examinations were as follows : Wellington College—2 pupils won Junior University Scholarships, 1 a Senior National Scholarship, 1 passed the Junior University Scholarship Examination with credit, 34 passed the Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge Examination, 20 passed the Junior Civil Service Examination ; Wellington Girls' College—l pupil gained a Senior National Scholarship, 5 pupils matriculated on Junior Scholarship Examination papers, 22 pupils passed the Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge Examination, 20 pupils passed the Junior Civil Service Examination (19 with credit). Senior Education Board Scholarships were gained by 3 pupils. The Board would refer to the negotiations now being conducted with the Government, and hope that proposals now under consideration for erecting another building on the College ground will relieve the pressure in the present College building and enable the free-place scheme to be efficiently worked in Wellington. Annual returns and copy of balance-sheet for the year 1906 are enclosed. 2. WOBK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest. — Boys' College : Mathematics (as for Junior University Scholarship)— Godfrey and Siddons's Geometry ; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Loney's Trigonometry. Latin (as for Junior Scholarship)— Cicero, In Catilinam, Pro Archia ; Virgil, 2Eneid,ll; Horace, Odes, IV. English— Hamlet; Palgrave's Golden Treasury; Lamb's Elia; Chaucer's Prologue. French—La Mare au Diable (Sand); Mile, de la Seigliere (Sandeau) ;Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Moliere) ; grammar and composition, Junior Scholarship standard. German —Wilhelm Tell (Schiller) ; Die Hut dcs Lebens (Rippmann); Zwischen den Schlachten (Elster); Eve's German Grammar. Science— Jago's Inorganic Chemistry; Peyser's Electricity and Magnetism (advanced). Girls' College: English—Nesfield's Historical English and Derivation ; Warwick Shakespeare, Hamlet; Macaulay's Essay on Bacon; Bacon's Selected Essays; Longmans' Handbook of Literature, Part III; Chaucer's Prologue ; Nicol's English Composition Primer; Allardyce's Stops. Latin—Ovid's Tristia, I; Virgil's Georgics, I; Horace's Odes, I; Tacitus, Germania; Cicero's De Senectute ; Hints in Latin Prose (Walters) ; Horton's History of Romans; Bradley's Latin Prose Composition ; Steadman's Latin Papers ; Wilkins's Primer of Roman Antiquities, Res Romanaa; Rivington's Unseens, Book VI; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer. French—Wellington College Grammar and Exercises; French Idioms and Proverbs (Payne); Federer's Material for French Translation ; L'Aigion, Rostand ;' Le Joueur et Le Verre d'Eau. Mathematics—Jones and Cheyne's Algebra, exercises; Ward's Examination-papers in Trigonometry; Briggs and Bryan's Middle Algebra ; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Baker and Bourne's Elementary Geometry; Hall's Introduction to Graphic Algebra; Pendleburv's Elementary Trigonometry. Botany—Dendy and Lucas's Botany; Aitken's Text-book on Botany; Thomson's New Zealand Botany. Physics — Drapier's Heat.