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tion. The Governors have pleasure in reporting that the dormitories and class-rooms have been well designed, and all modern improvements instituted, the new wing adding considerably to the architectural beauty oi the school, [further additions in the shape of a gymnasium and physical and science laboratories have been erected, and are now being equipped. The Board of Governors have to thank the Minister of Education for a grant towards the heavy financial burden undertaken last year. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.—Boys' School: Latin.—Kennedy's Primer; Bradley's Arnold; Cicero, De Officiis, III; Livy, Book XXI ; Bryan's Csesar's Prose; Rivington's Latin Unseens, Book XI. English—Skeat's Chaucer's Prologue; Nesfield's English Grammar; Shakespeare's Julius Caasar, and Merchant of Venice ; Spenser's Eaerie Queene, Book 1 ; Nichol's Primer of Composition ; Thackeray's Esmond, Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. French—Wellington College French Grammar; Duhamel's Advanced French Prose: Weeklev's French Prose Composition; Bcrthou's Modern French Prose; Berthou's Modem French Verse; French Unseens. Mathematics- llaii and Stevens's Geometry, I-VI *, Baker and Bourne's Algebra ; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry. .Science—Heat, Draper's Heat ; Chemistry, Tutorial Chemistry (Stage II). Newh's Inorganic Chemistry. Girls' School: English—Shakespeare, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, and Richard II; Spenser, Faerie Qi eene, canto ii; Lamb, Selected Essays of Elia ; Nesfield's Grammar Past and .Present, Part 111, to page 369 ; composition, &c. French— Chardenal's Advanced Course, to page 114 ; Wellington College French Grammar (Eve and De Baudiss). Part II ; Vecqueray's Examination Papers, to 140 ;*Blouet's French Composition, Part 111 (selected) ; Boielle, French Poetry, to page 122 ; Daudet, Le Petit Chose, to page 98 ; Saint-Germain, Pour Une Epingle, to page 76. Latin Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose composition, page 274 to end ; Bryan's Prose Extracts: Allen's Latin Grammar, to page 104, and from 118 to 122; Cicero, De Senectute and De Amicitia ; Virgil, Kneid, VI ; Horace's Odes, Book 111, a few selected. Roman History— Merivale's and Puller's School History, to page 181. Science—(a) Heat, Glazebrook's Heat (the whole subject as for Junior University Scholarship humiliation) ; (6) botany, Dendy and Lucas (the types as for Junior University Scholarship course), orders (as for Matriculation), nd general morphology. Mathematics (a) Arithmetic, Pendlebury's School Arithmetic and Goyen's Higher Arithmetic (the whole suliject) : [!>) geometry, Hall and Stevens, Part VI ; (c) algebra, Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra, as for Junior University Scholarship Examination ; (tl) trigonometry, Locke's Elementary 22800k, to logarithms. History (Form Vo)—Ransome's Matriculation Period. Geography (Form Vo) Longmans, ill. Zoology (Form Vo) Furneaux. Scripture -The Acts of the Apostles. Lowest. Hags' School: Latin— Elementa Latina ; Haye's Junior Latin Course (Accidenco, and exercises of live declensions only). English—Yoxall's Speller (the whole); Nesfield's Oral Exercises in English Composition ; Nesfield's Junior Course of English Composition; living's Rip Van Winkle ; Dunlop's Grammar; selected English verse. French—Chardenal's First French Course. HistoryMurdoch's Si niggle for Freedom. Geography Longmans' No. V (physical). Mathematics —Baker and Bourne' First Algebra : Hall and Stevens's Lessons in Experimental Geometry; Laing's Arithmetic, Part I. Science—Murche's Physiology ; Roscoe's Primer of Chemistry. Girls' School: English —Bowen's English Literature ; Nesfield's Manual English Grammar, to page 80 ; parsing, analysis, and composition. French—Bell's First French Course, to end of book. Geography—Longmans, Part II ; British Isles and possessions ; France ; United States ; Islands of Pacific. PhysiographyRocks, springs, rivers, geysers, ocean and tides, currents, winds, volcanoes, &c.; rotation, revolution, latitude, longitude, &c. Arithmetic—Pendlebury's School Arithmetic, to page 233. Algebra—Baker and Bourne. Elementary Algebra, to page 44. Geometry—Eggar's Practical Geometry, to page 95.— Botany —Elemental v work on root, stem, leaf, and flower; a few natural orders, as for Junior Civil Set vice Examination (Evans's Elementary Botany). Physiology — Murche's Elementary Botany, to page 86 (to respiration). 3. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1908. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 978 14 8 Management— Government grants for sitts, building, furni- Office salary .. .. .. 142 10 0 ture, &c. (general purposes) .. .. 550 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 50 0 Government capitation for free places .. 832 3 4 Other expenses of management .. .. 39 16 8 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,735 8 2 , Teachers' salaries and allowances .. .. 1,928 9 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 177 7 4 Scholarships .. .. .. ••3 10 0 Sohool fees .. .. .. .. 886 15 0 Prizes .. .. .. •• •• 524 Books, Ac, sold, and other refunds .. 514 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 22 2 3 Interest on fixed deposit (scholarship) .. 70 0 Cleaning, fuel, lighting, &o. .. .. HO 9 8 Voluntary contributions on account of gene- Government grants for site, buildings, furniral purposes of the school .. .. 237 17 10 ture, &o. .. .. .. 550 0 0 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 1,252 3 7 Purohases and new works .. .. 3,675 15 11 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 39 2 8 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c.) .. 49 0 8 Prooeeds from sales invested .. .. 3 15 9 Miscellaneous (surveys, &c.) .. .. 29 1 6 Other expenditure— Refunds .. .. .. •• 25 0 0 Subsidy (magazine) .. .. .. 10 0 0 Valuator's fees .. .. • • 5 5 0 Petty expenses .. .. .. 19 2 6 £6,663 3 11 £6,663 3 11 D. Sutherland, Chairman. • A. A. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that the payment of £11 ss. (members' expenses to Wellington re extensions) is without authority of law.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and AuditorGeneral.