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matter ;m(l i informed him of the Board's resolution and its ready acceptance by the parents and boys. In his reply be said, ' I am greatly pleased to learn from your letter thai cadet-training has been mad, universal in v,,ur school. You are teaching the Old Country a much-needed lesson and [can only 1,,,,,,, thai 50,,,,, day our schools may follow your example : but H is uphiU work combating Old World prejudices.' The services of the eighi companies were accepted by the Defence Department, and the corps formed into a battalion will, a preeeni establishment of 110. All the companies have 1,.-.-,, supplied with uniforms Erom the funds of the corps : but the two junior companies will not receive tneir arms till next year. Mistresses. The staff was joined in February, 1909, by Miss Vernon Harcourt M.A., Trinity College, Dublin, who took the Natural Sciences Tripos at Oirton College, Cambridge. In April ,r was joined by Miss D. R. Robertson, M.A.. who took ber degree in 1907 ai the Otago I niversity. Distmctions.-Boys : At the December examination of the University of New Zealand Junior Scholarships were won by A. B. Jameson, C. J. Kosking R. H Melville and Senior National Schokrships by W. M. Jones (under age) and l>. S. Smale. Four boys passed with credit, and t1,,,n-nn, others passed matriculation. In the Civil Service Junior Exammation orty-seven passed,_o whom nineteen obtained credit. Nine gained Senior District Scholarships under the Auckland Education Board. Girls : At the examinations of December, 1909, two girls (T. Tompkins and H Arlington) gained Junior University' Scholarships. H. Adlington was awarded the Sinclair Seholarslup for biology and mathematics. D Burrow. B Battersby, and B. Hames obtained Senior Distrid Scholarship unde the Auckland Education Board. Twenty-five girls passed matriculation. 162 passed Junioi (ml Servke, and 2<> others gained senior free'places. A. Wilson has won the second of two P™B*« in the North Island by the British and Foreign Sailors' Society for an essay on ( aptain ( ook. Several girls won prizes at the oral examination held by the Auckland French Club. Library. One of the boys' class-rooms has been set apart as a school library, arid suitably fitted and furnished by the Board for that purpose. It was opened in June with about 600 volumes. whi< h have been purchased from subscriptions given by old boys of the school. The School.-Dxaing the first term of the year 124 boys and 287 girb. were in the two schools, of whom 388 boys and 260 girls held free places under the regulations, and for whose tuition the Govern; ment paid at the rate of £3 11s. 3d. a term. £16,675 2s. Id. has now been spent upon the new girls school in Howe Street, of which the Government provided £6,000. The usual distribution of prizes took place in the Choral Hall on the 16th December, 1909 : 5.) prizes ~„,. ,„,,, to the boys and 52 to the firls ; their total cosl was £63 13s 9d Two were again given by Mr .I I. Hooton for English essays, and one lor practical chemistry by Mr. P.M.Maokay, J.l . G. Maurice O'Korke, M.A., LL.D., Chairman. 2. Work of the Highest \m> Lowest Classes. Highest-Bogs' School: English-Nesfield, English Paei and Present; Tennyson, Webb andlßoWe Elections ■ Shakesneire llenrv IV, Part I. and Macbeth : Spenser. Faerie Queene, Book 1 ; Chaucer, ( ' Tal" 1 Servant's Easy Phages for Latin ?n,, : Ovid Me, ; ,,no l( phoses Livv. Book V ; Cicero, Letters (Tvrrell); Horace. Odes. Book 11 : Cicero Pro Marcello. French -WaH' Concise French Grammar; Rev's French Composition and Id.oms : I ravaiUeurs de la Mer . Poemes cEs( Arnold) Mathematics - Todhunter and Loney's Algebra ; Baker and Bourne s ( teomel ry ; Hal and Knght's Tngonometrv. Science-Edser's Heat ~, Advanced Students; Shenstone . Chemistry; Tilden's'praccal Chemistry. Girls' School: Mathematics- Baker and^^M'^ZSPasl chardt's Trigonometry, Parts [and II: Tohunter and Loney's Algebra ; Bon ha ,lt s Alue „., I . « I Ward's Exercises in Trigonometry ; Jones and Cheyne's Algebraic Exercises. Science Heat Glaze- ': mechanics. JeJop, Lonev ; botany, Scott's Flowering Plants Scott's Flowertess Plant. English Hamlet; Burked Speeches on American Taxation; Bacon's Essays; Addisons Essays ffidd's Sn); Facie Queene, Spenser, Book I.Canto 5; Golden Treasury; Chaucer's Knight's Me historical grammar, Nesfield, Pasi and Present. History To,, and Powell; CoUmies and Colonid Federation Roman history Wilkins's Roman Antiquities; Shuchburgh's Elementary . Hst vc, xaphy-Longmans, Pan 11. French Maitres Mosaistes; Rey's Composition I;;,;!;; SB SS*. Book HI; Bradley's ; Postgate s Fust Latin Primer ; Horace, Satires and Epistles; Cicero, De Senectute. I -Boys School: English-Nesfield's Outlines of English Grammar; Temple Reader; Scott, v'ol the Last Minstrel r Kingsley, Heroes. Latin Elementa Latina Morris : Invasion o Britain"Postdate's Shilling Primer. French-MacmUlan's Progressive French Course, First Yea, BeirFreu Course Part I. Mathematics Lonev and Greville's Shilling Arithmetic-Longmans Tunio, School SeL ; Baker and Bourne's Geometry. Geography -Longmans'Geograpbioal 8m N, > twScLol: Mathematics-Borchardt's Junior Arithmetic: Borchardt's Junior Algebra; Baker and Bourne's Geometry. English -Nesfield's OutUnes; Temple Reader; Lady of the L^e. litrv Arabella Buckley. French -Macmillan, Part 1 Contes et Legendes, Guerbet LatinJS»fparte l and II: Seal* Primes; Postdate's Firsi Latin Primer. Geography Longmans, Part 11.

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