E.— L 2

20

College —3 pupils won Junior University Scholarships, 19 passed the Solicitors' General Knowledge and Matriculation Examination, 1 passed the Matriculation Examination, 2 won Senior Education Board Scholarships. The new building on the Wellington College Reserve designed to facilitate the admission of holders of free-place certificates under " The Education Act, 1904," is now nearing completion, and, it is hoped, will be ready for use before the beginning of the ensuing year. 2. Wobk op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys' College: Mathematics (as for Junior University Scholarship) — Hall and Knight's Algebra (Elementary and Higher) ; Loney's Trigonometry; Hall and Stevens's Geometry ; Godfrey and Siddons's Geometry. Latin (as for Junior University Scholarship) —Virgil's iEneid, Book VI; Cicero, Pro Milone (Page), (Pitt Press); Horace's Odes, Book 111 (Page); Bradley's Aids and Bradley's Arnold; Horton's History of the Romans; Stedman's Latin Examinationpapers. Science —Poyser's Advanced Electricity and Magnetism; Shenstone's Chemistry. English—Nesfield's Historical English; Shakespeare's Macbeth; Selections from Spectator (Deighton); Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Book IV; Chaucer's Prologue; essays, &c. French-—Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Le Roi dcs Montagnes; Macmillan's Second Course; Rey's French Composition. German —Wildenbruch, Das Edle Blut; Schiller, Wilhelm Tell; German examina-tion-papers; Macmillan's German Course, Part II; Eve's Second German Exercises. Girls , College: English—Historical English and Derivation (Nesfield); Hamlet (Warwick Shakespeare); Essay on Bacon (Macaulay); Selected Essays (Bacon); Handbook of English Literature, Part 111 (Longmans); Prologue to Canterbury Tales; English Composition Primer (Nicol); Stops (Allardyce). Latin —Ovid's Tristia, Book I; Virgil's Georgics, Book I; Horace's Odes, Book I; the Germania of Tacitus; Cicero's De Senectute; Hints in Latin Prose (Walter); Horton's History of the Romans; Bradley's Latin Prose Composition; Stedman's Latin Examination-papers; Primer of Roman Antiquities (Wilkins); Res Romanse: Rivington's Class-book of Latin Unseens, Book VI; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer. French — Wellington College Grammar and Exercises (Nutt); French Idioms and Proverbs (Payne); Federer's Material for French Translation; L'Aiglon (Rostand); Le Joueur (Regnard); Le Verre d'Eau (Scribe). English History—Gardiner's Students' History. Geography —The World (Longmans). Physiology—Foster and Shaw's Physiology. Physics—Draper's Heat. German —Siepmann's Primer. Mathematics —Jones and Cheyne's Algebraical 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; Pendlebury's Elementary Trigonometry. Botany— Dendy and Lucas's Botany; Aitken's Test-book of Botany; Thomson's New Zealand Botany. Lowest. — Boys , College: English — Parts of speech; much composition and spelling, and punctuation; Imperial Geography, Parts 111 and IV; Southern Cross History. Latin —Via Latina, to exercise 32; Scalse Primse (easy parts). Science—Physiology (Murche). Mathematics —Godfrey and Siddons, to page 34; Hall and Knight's Algebra (i-x); Arithmetic, Southern Cross, Standard V. Girls , College: English—Nesfield's Parts of Speech; In Golden Realms (Arnold's Literary Reading-books); The Chimes and The Christmas Carol (Dickens); Laureata (Arnold). Latin —Bell's Latin Course, Parts I and 11. French —Nursery Rhymes (Hachette and Co.). Arithmetic — Pendlebury's Smaller Arithmetic. Geography — Longmans' First Book of Geography. English History —Macmillan's New History Reader. Botany —Touman's Botany for Beginners. Nature-study—CasselPs Eyes and No Eyes, Books I and 11. Physiology—Coleman's Lessons in Hygienic Physiology. 3. Genbeal Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1907. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 930 9 0 Management— Government grants for sites, building, fur- Office salaries.. .. .. .. 210 0 0 niture, &c. (general purposes) .. .. 1,250 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 33 0 0 Government capitation— Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 5,336 19 1 For free places .. .. .. 578 2 6 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 101 17 0 Under Manual and Teohnical Instruction I Other expenses of examination .. .. 60 10 4 Regulations .. .. .. 29 8 9 Prizes .. .. .. .. 66 8 10 Subsidy on voluntary contributions .. 350 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 316 0 3 Current income from reserves .. .. 2,393 0 5 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 263 6 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 497 15 4 Government grants for site, buildings, furniSchoolfees .. .. .. .. 4,56113 8 ture, &o. .. .. .. .. 1,250 0 0 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 23 14 3 Purchases and new works .. .. 492 3 5 Voluntary contributions on account general Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 251 2 2 purposes of the school' .. .. 350 0 0 Interest .. .. .. 557 2 0 Other receipts— Miscellaneous (rates, &o.) .. .. 59 15 1 Sale of building, Brook Street property.. 6 12 0 Interest on ourrent account, and bank Interest on deposit .. .. .. 31 1 0 charge .. ~ .. .. 3 9 8 Donations for prizes .. .. .. 10 5 6 Interest on cost of reclaimed land .. 104 14 6 Discount .. .. .. .. 0 4 0 Miscellaneous (surveys, &c.) .. .. 5 5 0 Contract deposit .. .. .. 10 0 0 Other expenditure— Fees refunded .. .. .. 7 5 8 Grant to Games Fund .. .. .. 100 0 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 8 18 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 1,794 8 11 £11,022 6 5 £11,022 6 5 A. de B. Beandon, Chairman. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary.