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Girls' School.—M\ss M. B. A. Marchant, M.A. ; Miss F. M. Allan, M.A. ; Miss H. Alexander, B.A. ; Miss S. C. C. McKnight, M.A. ; Miss B. B. Little; Miss P. Campbell, M.A.; Miss L. A. N. Downes, 8.A.; Miss M. W. Alves; Mies M. Salmond; Miss M. McLeod ; Mr. J. Hanna; Mr. W. E. Taylor, P.R.0.0. ; Miss J. 0. Longford; Miss S. E. Albert. 1. Report op the Board of Governors. In compliance with section 8 of " The Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Act, 1877," and in conformity with circular from your Department dated the 14th December, 1906, I have the honour to forward report from the Board of Governors of the Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools for the year ending the 31st December, 1906. I am glad to state that the attendance in both schools has been highly satisfactory, the enrolment at the Boys' School being the highest in the history of the school. The free-education scheme of the Government is largely taken advantage of by all sections of the community, and has proved a pronounced success. The work of the schools has progressed satisfactorily during the year, and the high standard reached in the various competitive examinations in the past has been fully maintained. Towards the end of the year the Boys' and Girls' Schools were inspected by the Assistant Inspector-General of Schools, who expressed satisfaction generally with the efficiency and organization of both schools. At the end of the year Mr. A. Wilson, M.A,, Eector of the Boys' School, who had been in the service of the Board for upwards of thirty years, severed his connection with the school, and in accepting his resignation with regret the Governors expressed their appreciation of his long and valuable services. Mr. W. J. Morrell, M.A., formerly scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and recently chief master of classics and English master of the Auckland Grammar School, has been appointed Eector, and in view of his high scholarship and attainments the Governors are confident that the welfare and high standard of the school will be preserved under Mr. Morrell's rectorship. Appended hereto are reports from the Eector of the Boys' High School, and the Lady Principal of the Girls' High School. The statement of receipts and expenditure and balance-sheet for year ending 31st December, 1906, duly audited, was forwarded to your Department on the 2nd instant. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys' School: English—Chaucer, Prologue; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Spenser, Faerie Queene ; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II; Sonnets of the Century; Historical English Grammar, composition, &c. Latin —Livy, part of Book XXI; Horace, Odes, III; Virgil, ißneid, Book II; sight translation from various authors; prose composition; Soman History and Antiquities. French —Selections from various authors; composition, grammar, &c. German—As in French. Mathematics —Arithmetic (whole subject) ; geometry, Baker and Bourne, Books I-VII; algebra, Hall and Knight, to permutations and combinations, interest and annuities ; trigonometry, to solution of triangles (Pendlebury). Science —Chemistry, the metallic elements, revision of nonmetallic elements, elementary qualitative analysis ; physics, heat. Girls' School: English— Chaucer, The Knightes Tale ; Shakespeare, Eichard 111 and King Lear; Spenser, Faerie Queene (part); Milton's Paradise Lost, Book II; Addison's Spectator; Historical English Grammar; composition, &c.; literature, general, with readings from modern poets. Latin — Cicero, De Senectute ; Horace, Odes, Book II; Book 111, 9 odes, 3 satires ; Middleton's Latin Verse ; Eeid's Translation at Sight; composition, grammar, &c. ; Eoman History and Antiquities. French— Macmillan's Advanced Exercises; Wellington College Eeader; Boielle, poetry ; Barlet and Masom, Higher French Eeader; grammar, composition, &c. ; Berthon, Specimens of Modern French Verse ; Labdiche, Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon. German —Otto's German Grammar ; Second German Eeading-book; Schiller, selections ; Buchheim, composition. Mathematics— Arithmetic, the whole subject; algebra, to permutations and combinations, inclusive; geometry, Euclid, Books I, 11, 111, V, VI, VII, Baker and Bourne; trigonometry, Lock's Trigonometry, to solutions of triangles. Science—Botany, the morphology and physiology of the botanical types specified in the Junior Scholarship Schedule; physics, as defined in the Junior Scholarship Schedule. Lowest. — Boys' School: Third Form (A): English—Longmans' Advanced Literary Eeader; Hartley's Poetry Eeader ; grammar and composition. English history—l76o-1901. Geography— British Isles and Europe. Latin—Csesar, Invasion of Britain ; composition and grammar. French —Chardenal's First French Course ; composition and grammar. Mathematics—Arithmetic (whole subject) ; algebra, to equations; geometry, Book I, Baker and Bourne. Science—Elementary physiology. Book-keeping— Thornton's Easy Exercises. Third Form (B) : English—Hartley's Poetry Eeader; grammar and composition. English history—l6B9-1727. Geography—-Asia. Latin —Welch and Duffield's Accidence. French—Pronunciation, and first lessons in colloquial French. Mathematics — Arithmetic; algebra, to division; geometry, Book I, to proposition 7, Baker and Bourne. Science —Elementary physiology. Book-keeping—Thornton's Easy Exercises. Girls' School: English—Literature, Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette, Coming of Arthur, &c.; Longfellow, Miles Standish; history, William Ito George II; grammar, Nesfield's, to page 86, parsing, analysis, composition, &c.; geography, physical, Scotland, Ireland, France (in detail), three months' work; reader, Passages from Modern Authors. French—Conversational and oral work, Siepmann, Part I. Mathematics—Arithmetic, Pendlebury, fractions, decimals, simple and compound proportion, simple interest, percentages, profit and loss, areas; algebra, Hall and Knight, to equations ; Euclid, Baker and Bourne, experimental work, definitions, axioms, postulates, and seven propositions. Science—Botany, structure and flowering-plants..