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2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys , School: English—Shakespeare, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night's Dream ; Milton, Paradise Lost, Books I and II ; Chaucer, Prologue, Golden Treasury ; Lamb, Oxford Plain Texts ; Addison, Coverley Papers ; Mandeville to Euskin (World's Classics). Latin-—Livy, XXI ; Virgil, Aeneid, IX ; Horace, Epodes and Ars Poetica ; Sallust, Catiline ; Cicero, Select Orations and De Amicitia ; Smith's History of Rome ; Bradley's Arnold ; Sargent's Latin Prose. French —Wall's Concise French Grammar ; Victor Hugo, Les Miserables ; Le Cent Meilleurs Poems (Gervan and Gray). Mathematics—Baker and Bourne's Geometry ; Todhunter and Loney's Algebra ; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry; Ward's Trigonometry Exercises. Science —Edser's Heat for Advanced Students; Shenstone's Chemistry. Girls' School: Mathematics—Baker and Bourne's Geometry ; Borchardt's Trigonometry, Parts I and II ; Borchardt's Algebra, Part II ; Todhunter and Loney's Algebra ; Jones and Cheyne's Algebraic Examples ; Ward's Exercises in Trigonometry. Science—Heat, Glazebrook ; mechanics, Jessop, Loney ; botany, Scott's Flowering Plants, Scott's Flowerless Plants. English— The Merchant of Venice ; Chaucer's Prologue and Man of Law's Tale ; Fowler's Selected Essays ; Selections from Tennyson ; Historical Grammar ; Golden Treasury. History—Outlines of European History. Roman History—Wilkins's Roman Antiquities; Shuckburgh's Short Roman History. Geography — Colonies and Colonial Federation (Payne). French—Rey's Composition; Le Pficheui d'lslande ; Le Baron de Fourchevif. Latin—Bradley's Arnold ; Sergeant's Latin Prose Composition ; Livy, XXII ; Horace, Odes, Book I ; Virgil, Aeneid, Book I; Cicero, Select Oration. Lowest. — Boys , School: English —Nesfield's Outlines ; Temple Reader ; Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel; Lamb, The Adventures of Ulysses. Latin—Postgate's Shilling Primer ; Elementa Latina ; Invasion of Britain. French —Bell's French Course, Part I; Janan's French Reading-book. Mathematics —Loney r,nd Greville's Shilling Arithmetic ; Longmans' School Algebra ; Baker and Bourne's Geometry. Geography—Longmans' Geographical Series, The World! Girls , School: Mathematics— Borchardt's Junior Arithmetic ; Borchardt's Junior Algebra ; Baker and Bourne's Geometry. English- —Nesfield's Outlines ; World of Books ; Lay of the Last Minstrel ; Hiawatha. History— Arabella Buckley. French —Contes et Legendes. Latin—Ora Maritima ; Scalae Primae ; Limen ; Caesar, Invasion of Britain. Geography —No text-book ; lessons given from notes. 3. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1910. Receipts. & 8. i. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,732 14 7 Secretary's expenses .. .. 182 0 0 Government capitation for free places .. 8,190 111 ! Commission, &c, tooollector. &c. .. 365 12 5 Current income from reserves .. .. 5,277 2 6 I Other expenses .. .. .. 64 911 Maungaru 192 19 2 Teachers' salariesPaid by School Commissioners .. .. 637 14 0 Masters .. .. .. .. 4,415 8 8 School fees .. .. .. .. 722 15 0 Mistresses .. .. .. .. 2,529 12 0 Other receipts— Election expenses .. .. .. 0 19 6 Sale of old buildings .. .. 54 0 0 School requisites— Pire insurance, Devonport property .. 1,222 0 0 Boys .. .. .. .. (>7 7 5 Interest on Auckl.nd City Council De- Girls .. .. .. .. 132 11 3 bentures .. .. .. .. 199 0 0 : ScholarshipsInterest on deposit in Post-Office Savings- Boys .. .. .. .. 44 13 5 Bank .. .. .. .. 0 4 11 Girls .. .. .. .. 30 12 2 Printing and advertising — Boys .. .. .. .. 28 10 6 Girls .. .. .. .. 41 9 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. — Boys .. .. .. .. 42 0 0 Girls .. .. .. . . 66 18 2 Stationery allowance — Boys ' .. .. .. .. 10 12 0 Girls .. .. .. .. 8 0 0 Insurance — Boys' school .. .. .. 23 7 5 Girls' school .. .. .. 15 5 4 Site, buildings, furniture, &c— From Government grants — Ordinary property .. .. .. .. 66 2 5 Prom current revenue— Boys .. .. .. .. 480 6 0 Girls .. .. .. .. 918 15 10 Property .. .. .. .. 654 18 2 Bates on property .. .. .. 409 18 1 Cleaning, property .. .. .. 18 18 0 Interest on girls' school building .. 102 15 0 Interest on loans to property .. .. 80 0 0 New buildings .. ■ .. .. 1,745 6 8 Members' travelling-expenses .. .. 12 0 0 Wellington conference .. .. 41 2 0 Sports—Boys' school .. .. .. 36 0 0 Girls' sohool .. .. .. 2 0 0 Teacher's passage to London .. .. 40 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 5,550 14 0 £18,2-28 12 1 £18,228 12 1