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A school costing £4,833 17s. Id. was completed during the year, and occupied in April. A schoolhouse and Principal's residence has also been built in brick, to accommodate twenty-five boys. It stands upon its own grounds of three acres in extent, apart from but contiguous to the school. The estimated attendance for the first term in 1911 is 140. The resources of the Board have been strained to the utmost to complete the buildings and to provide equipment and furniture. Grants of £300 in aid of the school buildings, and £200 for the equipment-of the science-room, will just enable the Board to cover its obligations, but will leave no margin for much necessary work which imperatively requires attention. It is difficult to foresee the number of pupils who will present themselves for secondary education in any year. The district is so large and is being so rapidly developed that it is certain that very considerable additional accommodation will be required within the next few years. If such proves to be the case, it will be a matter for serious consideration whether that accommodation should not be provided by the establishment of a separate school for girls. Having this contingency in view, arrangements for a suitable site should be considered. At the public examinations held by the New Zealand University and by the Education Department at the end of the year, four pupils passed Matriculation and allied examinations, and one gained Matriculation on the Junior University Scholarship papers ; four pupils passed the Junior Civil Service Examination, three gained Senior Board Scholarships, one gained a Junior Board Scholarship, sixteen gained Senior Free Places, and two gained Junior Free Places. J. W. Nolan, Chairman. W. Morgan, Secretary. 2. Work ov the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English —Nesfield's English Grammar, Past and Present; Milton, shorter poems ; Lamb, Essays of Elia ; Chaucer, Prologue. Latin —Ovid, Metamorphoses; Horace, Odes, I; Virgil, Aeneid, V ; Caesar, Gallic War, V; Eoman History and Antiquities. French—Macmillan's Second French Course ; Weekly's French Grammar ; Berthou's Selections of French Verse ; Le Tour dv Monde (Jules Verne). Mathematics —Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Hall and Stevens's Geometry ; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry ; Jones and Cheyne's Algebraical Exercises. Mechanics—Loney's Dynamics, Statics, Hydrostatics. Heat —Glazebrook's Heat. History and geography. Lowest.- —General course : English —Nesfield's Manual ; Tennyson, selections ; Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake. Latin —Via Latina. French —Macmillan's First French Course. Arithmetic —Goyen's Arithmetic and Mensuration. Algebra—Hall and Knight's Algebra, to simultaneous equations. Geometry —Hall and Stevens's New School Geometry, Parts I and 11. Geography—Canada, Australia, New Zealand ; and physical geography. Physical Measurements —Mainly Gregory's Exer-cise-book. Physiology —Coleman's and Furneaux's. History and civics—No text-book. Commercial course : English, arithmetic, and physical measurements, as in general course. Book-keeping—■ Thornton's First Lessons. Shorthand —Pitman's Instructor. Commercial geography-—No text-book. Geometrical drawing. History and civics—No text-book. Agricultural course : English, arithmetic, physical measurements, geometrical drawing, book-keeping, as above. Special subjects—-Agriculture and dairy-work. 3. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1910. Receivtf. £ s. d. £ 6. d. Expenditure. £, s. d. Balance at beginning of year 2,163 8 1 Management— Less bank balance for tech- Office salary .. .. .. .. 75 0 0 nical purposes .. .. 68 10 8 Other office expenses .. .. .. 4 6 10 2,094 17 5 Other expenses of management .. 29 9 4 Government grants— Legal expenses .. .. .. 85 19 9 For tites, buildings,furniture, &c. (general Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,280 12 8 purposes) .. .. .. .. 300 0 0 Boarding School Account .. .. 42 8 8 For buildings, furniture, fittings, and Boarding allowances . .. .. 150 0 0 apparatus for recognized school classes Prizes .. .. .. .. 13 6 for manual instruction .. .. 41 0 0 Material for classes other than olasses for Government capitation— manual instruction .. .. .. 112 9 For free places .. .. .. 1,111 12 8 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 41 6 7 For recognized school classes for manual Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. (including careinstruction .. .. .. 84 15 0 taker's salary) .. .. .. 104 2 11 Current income from reserves .. .. 406 0 3 Maintenance of classes for manual instruoInterent on moneys invested and on un- tion .. .. .. .. 94 7 0 paid purohasemoney .. .. .. 67 7 6 Site, buildings, furniture, &c. (Government Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 80 14 9 grant) .. .. .. .. 300 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 216 0 0 Manual instruction (Government grant) .. 30 4 4 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 6 0 6 Purchases and new works .. .. 480 9 1 Loans .. .. .. .. 3,650 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 25 15 4 Hawke's Bay Education Board—Balance Miscellaneous (rates, rent, &c.) .. .. 25 12 6 on account of classes .. .. .. 42 4 8 Interest on current account .. .. 0 10 0 Endowments, Sales AccountSite or buildings .. .. .. 1,450 0 0 Miscellaneous (surveys, &o.) .. .. 4 10 On buildings, out of loans .. .. 3,650 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 12 4 6 Interest .. .. .. .. 136 17 6 Repayment on account of loan .. .. 68 7 6 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 6 10 £8,100 12 9 £8,100 12 !) J. W. Nolan, Chairman. W. Morgan, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—R. J. Colt.ins, Controller and Auditor-General.