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2. Geneeal Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1907. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. & s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 85 11 0 Management— Government capitation— Office salary .. .. .. .. 20 0 0 For free places .. .. .. 395 11 8 Other expenses of management .. 6 0 0 Under Manual and Technical Instruction Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 645 19 8 .. .. .. 53 17 2 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 11 16 0 Current income from reeerves .. .. 361 18 7 ■ Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 27 9 4 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 42 12 0 Government grants for site, buildings, furSobool fees .. .. .. .. 101 10 0 niture, &c. .. .. .. .. 3 12 1 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 121 16 9 Purchases and new works .. .. 134 12 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 0 4 0 Fenoing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 72 5 9 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) and insurance .. 8 9 2 Refund capitation technical classes .. 38 16 3 Management of endowments, &c. .. 44 6 10 Other expenditure— School requisites .. .. .. 26 010 Legal expenses .. .. .. 110 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 0 16 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 121 16 3 £1,163 1 2 £1,163 1 2 Aech. Buens, Chairman. Jas. Keenick, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that a Government grant of £750 towards the erection of High School buildings has unlawfully be charged with interest on a loan of £700. — J. K. Waebueton, Controller and Auditor-General.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. E. Pridham, M.A.; Miss C. D. Grant, M.A. ; Miss G. A. Drew, M.A. ; Mr. H. H. Ward ; Mr. E. Jardine. 1. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin —Csesar, Book I (Brown, Victoria College edition), chapters 43-54; Book 11, chapters 1—17: composition, exercises 1-27: Livy, Book VI, chapters 1—12; exercises 1-12 on same: Via Latina, the whole : Continuous Unseen Prose : Latin Unseens : grammar, Irregular Verbs: further unenumerated work after school examination in November. French—Chardenal's Advanced Course, exercises 40-62; rules on same : Unseen Composition : Kastner's Composition, 20-25; Siepman's Senior Course, pages 1-14, 42-57, 77-79, 81, 84, 118-129, 187-189: Pellissier's Unseens: further work after examination as for Latin. English—Mason (except Historical Grammar), analysis, synthesis, correction and improvement of sentences, paraphrasing, essays. Literature —Quentin Durward, pages 1-100; Shakespeare's As you like it. Arithmetic—The subject generally. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to theory of indices. Geometry —Hall and Stevens, Books 1-5; matriculation programme. Science — Botany as prescribed for matriculation (Edmond's Text-book, but most of the work done without reference to any special text-book). Drawing—Geometrical plane and solid (Morris); freehand and model. Woodwork —Regular instruction at Technical School (boys): Cookery—Regular instruction at Technical School (girls). Physical drill. Lowest. —Latin —Scott and Jones, Part I, pages 1-54, and sections Iα to 66a; English into Latin at end. French —Hogben's Naturelle, lessons 1-49; The Stories of Lessons 91, 95, 105-107, 111, 113-115, 117-119, 121, 134, 142, 143, 144, 146, 147. Arithmetic—Stocks, simple and compound interest, present worth, discount, miscellaneous vulgar and decimal fractions, mensuration. Algebra —• Hall and Knight, exercises i-xii (d) and miscellaneous. Geometry— Hall and Stevens, to loci, page 87. History—Stories from English History (Gillies) and part of Studies in English History (Gillies). Geography—Chisholm's Commercial, pages 31-60, 66-78, 209, 223. English—Mason's Outlines, to end of conjunctions; analysis and synthesis, direct and indirect narration, correction of sentences, punctuation, paraphrasing, combination of sentences, use of word or phrase instead-of clause. Literature —The Talisman (abridged, Macmillan), Globe Poetry, Pied Piper, Autumn, Napoleon's Farewell, Destruction of Sennacherib's Army, Mercy, Wise Counsel, The Skylark, Daffodils, song from The Water-babies. Science—Gillies's Studies in Plant-life, pages 1-128. Drawing—Freehand and model. Boys—Woodwork at Technical School. Girls—Sewing. Physical drill.