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3. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, L 907. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,726 18 8 Secretary's expenses .. .. 164 0 0 Government capitation for free places .. 4,025 3 4 Office expenses .. .. .. 62 5 1 Current income from reserves .. .. 4,822 14 0 ■ Commission, &c, to collector .. .. 305 17 7 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 393 6 0 ; Teachers' salaries and allowancesSchool fees .. .. .. .. 859 12 0 Mas ers .. .. .. .. 4,139 9 8 Other receipts—Balance of Auckland Girls' Mistresses .. .. .. .. 1,653 14 3 School taken over from Auckland Edu- j Election expenses .. .. .. 2 2 4 cation Board .. .. .. 10,370 15 2 ! School requisites .. .. .. 90 7 11 Legal expenses .. .. .. 12 5 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 79 9 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 39 7 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. — School .. .. .. .. 51 1 2 Property .. .. .. .. 18 4 6 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and other temporary advances — Boys .. .. .. .. 112 0 0 Girls .. .. .. .. 64 8 0 Insurance— School .. .. .. .. 22 17 8 Property .. .. .. .. 72 13 3 Girl*' school building .. .. .. 4,905 15 6 Girls' school requisites .. .. 88 2 9 Girls' school rents .. .. T. 50 0 0 Gas, cleaning, &o. .. .. .. 21 1 6 Fencing, repairs, &o. — School .. .. .. .. 112 15 2 Property .. .. .. .. 312 15 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.)—property .. 333 12 4 Part payment of loan to Diocesan Pension Board. .. .. .. .. 1,600 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 8 4 9 Interest on loans .. .. .. 76 15 0 Boy and girls' school building photos .. 6 6 0 Swimming sports— Boys .. .. .. .. 3 0 0 Girla ... .. .. .. 2 0 0 Crioket ooaoh.. .. .. .. 20 0 0 Athletic sports — Boyß .. .. .. .. 17 0 0 Girls .. .. .. .. 3 0 0 Invitation sports cards.. .. .. 12 0 Cricket wickets .. .. .. 3 0 0 Passage-money to London .. .. 60 0 0 Amount of liability to the Auckland Education Board extinguished by the operation of "The Auckland Girls' Grammar School Act, 1906".. .. 5,000 0 0 Balance debentures .. £5,000 0 0 Current account .. 370 15 2 5,370 15 2 Less overdraft .. .. 2,686 18 11 Balance at end of year .. 2,683 16 3 £22,198 9 2 £22,198 9 2 W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary.

THAMES HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. N. A. Winter, 8.A.; Mr. K. J. Thompson, B.A, ; Miss M. R. Poy. 1. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English —Shakespeare's Henry V, and Merchant of Venice; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition. French —Le Tour dv Monde; The Hidden Treasure; Le Petit Francais (Whitcombe and Tombs); French Composition and Conversation. Latin—Principia Latina, Part II; Csesar's Gallic War, Book I. Arithmetic —Lock; general. Geometry— Hall and Stevens's Geometry, Parts I-IV. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to page 231. Chemistry —Theoretical and practical, according to matriculation and Junior Civil Service requirements. History —The outlines of English history in a series of weekly lectures; civics at intervals and incidentally. Lowest. —English—Merchant of Venice; Nesfield's Manual of Grammar and Composition. Latin —First Latin Course (Cook), to section 17. French —Dent's First French Book, to lesson 37. Arithmetic—General (Pendlebnry's Arithmetic). Algebra—Baker and Bourne, to simple equations. Geometry—Hall and Stevens, Part 1.