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analysis (four forme of predicate aad easy subordinate clauses) ; also one of the sixpenny editions in Lower IV list to be read at borne per term. History—First Book of British History (Tout) ; Longmans' Historic.!l Series foi Schools, Book I. Geography— Southern ('ross Series, Geography, Standard VI. French —Kirkninn, Premiere Annee de Francais (A. and C. Black). Mathematics —Pendlebury's New School Arithmetic (Bell and Sons), without answers ; Hall and Stevens's School Geometry, Parts I and 11. with Lessons in Experimental and Practical Geometry. Nature-study—lnsect Life in Australasia (Whitcombe and Tombs). Art—Same as Lower 111, but more advanced, and with addition of elementary model-drawing. Writing —Twice a week. Gymnasium—Two lessons a week. Singing — Novello's School Songs, Book 109 ; Nine Classical Songs ; staff notation. 3. Gbnebal Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1901). Receipts. & s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 150 4 2 Management— Government capitation— Office salaries .. .. .. 200 0 0 For free places .. .. .. 619 0 0 Other expenses of management .. 18 3 2 Under Manual and Technical Instruction Teachers' salaries— Regulations .. .. .. 54 16 8 ] Main school.. .. .. .. 3,746 18 10 Current income from roEervos .. .. 3,827 18 3 Preparatory department .. .. 169 5 0 School fees— ! Examinations— Main school .. .. .. .. 874 11 6 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 42 12 6 Preparatory department .. .. 169 5 0 j Other expenses .. .. .. 19 18 0 Interest on current account .. .. 214 3 Scholarships (bursaries) .. .. 33 6 8 Other receipts—Sale of firewood.. .. 15 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 33 9 3 Printing, stationery, books, and advertising 111 18 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 50 13 0 Maintenance of classes for manual instruction .. .. .. .. .. 38 1 8 Site, buildings, furniture, &c, manual instruction (Government grants) .. 17 U 0 Repairs, &c. .. .. .. .. 89 14 9 Miscellaneous (insurance) .. .. 24 8 7 Buildings, equipment, &c, for manual instruction .. .. .. .. 38 15 8 Interest on Buildings Loan Account .. 200 0 0 Other expenditure— Expenses connected with endowments .. 172 4 5 Grants to Sports Fund and cadet corps.. 85 0 0 Rent of playground .. .. .. 63 11 2 Grant to school library .. .. 41 11 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 34 12 2 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 468 1 4 J&jfMrUJO £5,699 14 10 G. VV. Bussell, Chairman. Geo. H. Mason, Registrar. fidt Canterbury College Accounts: " Ihe Audit Office having examined the balance sheet and the accompanying accounts, hereby certifies the same to be correct. —Jas. B. Heywood, Assistant Controller and Auditor." CHRLSTCHURCH GIRLS' HTGH*SCHOOL. Staff. M. V. Gibson, M.A. ; .Miss 0. K. Henderson, 1!..\. ; .Miss M. Bell-Hay ; Mise J' , . Shoard, M.A., B.So. ; Miss XQreeeon, M.A. ; .Mrs. Longton, M.A. ; Miss E. T. Crosby, B.A. ; Miss G. Greens!reel. I!.A. ; .Miss M. Barker, M.A. ; .Miss ,M. Wills: .Miss L Bing, 8.A.; Captain Farthing; Miss N. Gard'nor; Miss A. Rennie; .Mis> 11. Smith : Miss Easterbrook ; .Miss M. Wauchop. 1. Reporim)f the Lady Principal. The school reopened with a higher roll-number than had previously beer attained, and the roll for the three terms of the year was —First term, 235, an increase of 33 on the roll of the third term of 1908; second term, 231 ; third term, 22fi pupils. Of these, 67 held Senior Free Places, 140 Junior Free Places, 3 School Free Places, 11 paid fees, and 5 were in the Preparatory Class, which also pays fees. The general health during the year was excellent, and the attendance good, the average attendance for the third term, which is always a somewhat broken one, being 209. As one of the rooms in the main building is doing temporary service as a cloak-room, and another room was badly needed, the Board of Governors decided to purchase an adjacent quarter-acre section to extend the playgwund, and to utilize part of the dwellinghouse upon it for teaching purposes. This has provided an additional class-room, and a room for holding the dressmaking and singing classes in. It is hoped that the debt of £1,500 incurred by this purchase will be wiped out by annual payments out of the general revenue, extending over the next four or five years. A much-appreciated work of the year has been the fitting-up of a practical-science room for general use. It is a well-lit room of 28 ft. by 24 ft. on the upper floor of the new wing, and is now provided with sinks and microscope benches for a class of twelve, a physical-science bench also for a class of twelve, and a demonstrator's table and sitting-accommodation for twenty-four pupils. A sum of £10 was expended on additional physical-science apparatus and a few botanical models ; but the school is still only poorly supplied with such aids to teaching. A new piano for the singing classes has relieved a very long-standing need.