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2. Work of the Highkst and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : English —Shakespeare's Hamlet; Wordsworth's Poems (selections) ; Tennyson's Poems (selections) ; Chaucer's Prologue ; Spenser's Faerie Queene,Pßook I ; Dickens's Tale of Two Cities; Nesfield's English Past and Present; Milton's Samson Agonistes; Browning's Minor Poems. Latin —Ovid's Metamorphoses (selections) ; Vergil's ;Eneid, VIII; Horace, Odes, III ; Cicero, In Catilinam ; Csesar, Gallic War, VII; Kennedy's Primer ; Bryan's Csesar's Prose; Bradley's Arnold. French —Bue's Idioms ; Wellington College French Grammar ; Berthou's Selections from Fiench Verse ; Berthou's Selections from French Prose ; Victor Hugo's Les Miserables (selections) : Stendhal's Une Kpisode de Guerre ; Weekley's French Prose Composition. Mathematics—Baker and Bourne's Algebra ; Hall and Stevens's Geometry ; Hall and Knight's Elementary Trigonometry. Science — Tutorial Chemistry, Parts I and II ; Draper's Heat. Girls : English—Gwynne's English Literature ; miscellaneous readings from standard works (Chaucer to Carlyle) ; Nesfield's Historical Grammar. Latin—Bradley's Arnold, supplemented by Roby's Grammar; miscellaneous reading from Cicero, Csesar, Vergil, Ovid, Horace, Livy, &c. ; Roman History and Antiquities (Merivale). French —Miscellaneous work for Junior University Scholarship standard. Mathematics —Ditto. Science (heat and botany) —Ditto. Drawing—Model and brushwork. Lowest. — Boys : English—Fenimore Cooper's The Pathfinder ; Kingsley's Water-babies ; Yoxall's Speller ; Burns and Hight's English Exercises for Public Examinations ; Arnold Foster's Citizen Reader ; Mackenzie Wallace's Web of Empire ; Nesfield'sfJunior Course of English Composition. Latin—Morris's Elementa Latina ; Scalse Primse. French —Chardenal's First French Course ; also selected translations from fairy tales. Mathematics—Baker and Bourne's Elementary Algebra, Part I, up to problems on simple equations ; Hall and Stevens's Geometry, Books I and II ; Eggars's Practical Exercises in Geometry. Arithmetic —Pendlebury's New School Arithmetic. Science— Physiology, Murche's Physiology. Girls: English—Logic Robertson's English Prose: Jennings's English Poetry; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar. Fiench—Bell's First French Course and part of Second. Latin —Declensions and conjugations, with general work from blackboard ; jio textbook. Arithmetic—Pendlebury's, up to interest. Algebra—Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, brackets, simple and simultaneous equations. Geometry—Elementary work from blackboard. Botany—Leaves, stems, flowers, fruits, dealt with in an elementary way. Physiology— Murche's whole book. Scripture—The Voyages of St. Paul. Drawing—Model, freehand, brushwork. 3. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1909. Receipts. £ s. d. ' Expenditure. £ s. d. Government grant for sitts, building, furni- Dr. balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,252 3 7 ture, &c. (general purposes) .. .. 2,050 0 0 Management— Government capitation— Office salary .. .. .. .. 179 3 4 For free places .. .. .. 1,405 13 4 Other office expenses—petly cash .. 10 0 0 Under Manual and Technical Instruction Drill Instructor .. .. .. 18 15 0 Regulations .. .. .. 417 6 Ranger .. .. .. .. 15 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 1,528 11 8 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. .. 2,074 18 4 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 107 11 8 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 4 0 0 Sohool fees — , Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 5 5 0 Boys .. .. .. .. .. 825 0 0 Material and grants of olasses other than Girls.. .. .. .. .. 27 10 0 classes for manual instruction .. .. 80 19 1 Interest on Scholarship Account .. .. 6 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 39 11 6 Other receipte— ', Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. .. 113 510 Recovered from insurance companies— Site, buildings, furniture, &c. (Government damage, gas-explosion .. .. 70 0 0 grants) .. .. .. .. 2,050 0 0 Refund from Government Accident In- Purohases and new works .. .. 1,031 0 9 surance .. .. .. .. 012 6 j Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 72 6 0 Dr. balanoe at end of year .. .. 1,077 7 1 Interest on current account .. .. r>o 19 0 Other expenditure— Sohool magazine .. .. .. 59 8 6 Incidentals .. .. .. .. 27 14 1 Law-ooets .. .. .. .. 18 13 9 £7,103 8 9 £7,103 3 9 D. Suthebland, Chairman. A. A. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found oorrect, except that the payments of .£59 Bs. 6, (or School Magazine, and £o -is for expenses members to Wellington re borrowing-powers, are without authority of law, and are therefore disallowed.—Jas. B. Hhywood, Assistant Controller and Auditor.