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WHANGAEEI HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. Boger Lupton, Mr. H. G. Smith, Miss A. M. L. Woolloy, Miss E. Blumhardt, Mr. D. Grant, and Miss Walldey. 1. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English —Nesfield, English, Past and Present; Shakespeare, Henry V; selections from Chaucer and Spenser ; essays. Latin—Allcroft's Latin Prose Composition ; Horace, Odes, I; Cicero, selections; Ovid, Tristia. French—Weekley's Prose Exercises; Tartarin de Tarascon; Monte Cristo. Mathematics —Hall and Stevens's Geometry, as for Junior University Scholarship; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry and Algebra; Mechanics, Bryan and Briggs. Science—Heat, Stewart's; Physiology, Shore and Foster. Geography—Commercial, syllabus for Senior Civil Service. Lowest. —English —Nesfield's English Grammar and Composition, Parts I and 11, Temple Header; Ancient Mariner; Mort d'Arthur; dictation and essays. History—General introduction ; The English as a Colonising Nation. Latin—Ora Maritima. French —Siepmann's First Year. Mathematics —Arithmetic, general revision; algebra, Hall and Knight, to simultaneous equations; geometry, Baker and Bourne, Book I. Physiology —Murche's Elementary. Bookkeeping —Thornton's First Lessons. Drawing —Freehand; brush, from nature; plane and solid geometry. Manual —First year's woodwork; City and Guilds' syllabus (boys); cookery (girls). 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1907. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year ..£217 15 11 Management— Plus amount paid in excess, Office salary .. .. .. 51 12 9 teachers'salaries and allowances 011 8 Other office expenses .. .. .. 2 3 2 218 7 7 Other expenses of management .. .. 0 10 0 Government capitation— : Teachers' salaries and allowances .. .. 520 15 8 For free places.. .. .. .. 581 13 4 i Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 383 For Manual and Technical Instruction Material for classes .. .. .. 0 14 9 Regulations .. .. .. 19 2 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 18 19 10 Subsidy on voluntary contributions .. 56 18 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. .. 14 18 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 70 15 0 Purchases and new works.. .. .. 222 19 1 Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 47 14 0 Fenoing, repairs, &o. . .. 87 10 6 School fees .. .. .. .. 114 2 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. .. 44 10 7 Voluntary contribution for general purposes of Endowments— the school .. .. .. 19 2 0 Site .. .. .. .. 16 0 0 Miscellaneous (surveys, &o.) .. .. 2 5 3 Balance at end of year.. .. .. .. 141 7 1 £1,127 14 11 £1,127 14 11 J. M. Killen, Chairman. J. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

AUCKLAND GRAMMAE SOHOOL. Staff. Boys' School— Mr. J. W. Tibbs, M.A.; Mr. J. H. Turner, M.A.; Mr. H. J. D. Mahon, B.A. ; Mr. F. M. A. Heaton, B.Sc. ; Mr. J. F. Sloman, B.A. ; Mr. J. G. Trevithick, M.A.; Mr. J. Drummond, M.A.; Rev. J. K. Davis, M.A. ; Mr. P. Drummond, 8.A.; Mr. J. D. Dinneen, B.A. ; Mr. F. W. Gamble, M.A. ; Mr. W. J. Martyn, M.A. ; Mr. E. Caradus, B.Sc. ; Mr. F. Potter. Girls' School.— Miss A. W. Whitelaw, M.A. ; Miss E. G. Wallace ; Miss A. C. Morrison, M.A. ; Miss W. Pioken, M.A.; Miss F. E. Macdonald, B.A. ; Miss F. V. J. Jacobsen, M.A. ; Miss E. M. Griffin, M.A. ; Miss B. Blades ; Miss M. A. Dive, B.A. ; Mr. Kenneth Watkins. • 1. Report of the Boaud of Governor*. The School. —At the beginning of the year there were 389 boys and 233 girls in the two schools, o! whom 324 boys and 207 girls-held free places under the regulations, and for whose tuition the Government paid at the rate of £8 10s. capitation for the first and £8 for each of the second and third terms. The Board has been compelled to continue to rent St. Paul's Schoolroom for another year to accommodate about half the girls, and will continue to do so until the completion of the new Girls' Grammar School in Howe Street, on the erection of which there has been spent up to