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Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities at Hist December, 1910. Assets. £ 8. d. Liabilities. Fixed deposits .. .. .. .. 454 0 6 Current account .. .. .. 21 1 2 Nil. £475 1 8 G. W. Thomas, Secretary ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. W. F. Wallers. lI.A. : Mr. E. 'I. N'uiris. M.A. ; Mr. \. 1!. It. Amese, M.A. : Miss .!•'. E. Kewhaw, M.A. : Miss M. M. Steven, 8.A., B.So. 1. Report ok the Board of Governors. The personnel of the Board is as follows : Mr. Joshua Tucker (Chairman), His Worship the Mayor (Henry Davis, Esq.). and Messrs. C. Reid, S. S. Chapman, J. C. N. Grigg, W, B. Denshire, and W. H. Collins. The Board held twelve meetings, the average attendance being five. The total enrolment of new pupils during the year was L3O (67 boys and 63 girls), the number of new pupils entering being 55 (30 boys and 25 girls). The number of fee-paying pupils was 8. There were i:i attendance 3 scholarship-holders (1 Education Board. 2 Junior National). Tin , average attendance for the year was 112. Owing to the increased attendance, the staff was strengthened by the appointment of Mr. A. H. R. Amess, M.A., as second assistant master. Instruction in typewriting was provided for pupils taking commercial subjects, and the classes in woodwork, dressmaking, and cookery were maintained as formerly. Of 6 candidates presented from the school for the Cookery Examination of the City and Guilds of London Institute, 5 obtained first-cTass passes and 1 a second-class pass. In order to provide practical experimental work in agriculture, the Board has had a portion of the gully in the school-grounds filled up, thus giving a section of close on a quarter of an acre, which it is hoped in the future will be further enlarged. The removal of trees, levelling, and fencing undertaken last year were this year completed, and the grounds are now in perfect order. Mr. T. H. Gill, Inspector of Secondary Schools, visited the school in June. The following are the examination results : 1 Junior Free Place extended for a third year ; Senior Free Places, 7 ; Junior Civil Service (with credit) 3 ; Junior Civil Service, 8 ; Matriculation, 7 ; Matriculation on Junior University Scholarship papers, 1 ; passed Junior University Scholarship with credit, 1. Joshua Tucker, Chairman. 2. Work ok the Highest and Lowest Classes. Hiyhesl. —English —Samson Agonistes ; Faerie Queene, Cantos I and II; Macaulay's Chatham : Chaucer's Prologue and portion of Man of Lawe's Tale; selections from Piers Plowman; English literature lives and works of prominent authors from 449 to 1850, with extracts from works : Nesfields Aids to English Grammar and Composition ; Williams's Composition ; Historical English Grammar. Latin — Caesar de Bello Gallico, Book VII, and extracts from De Bello Civili ; Horace's Epistles. Book I ; Matriculation selections from Latin authors (Cicero, Virgil, and Livy) ; Longmans , Latin Prose ; Spragge's Latin Prose ; Roman History, and Antiquities. French —Weekly's Matriculation French Course, and Weekly's Tutorial French Composit inn ; Perret's French Reader : unseens ; phonetics. Heat — Glazebrook, Chapters i-xii, excluding xi. Botany —As for Junior University Scholarship ; Dendy and Lucas's Botany. Mathematics —Arithmetic, whole of Goyen's Higher Arithmetic ; algebra. Hall and Knight, pages 160-328, permutations and combinations ; geometry, Baker and Bourne, to end of Book VII ; trigonometry, Bridgett and Hyslop, to page 217, end of solution of triangles. Lowest. —English —Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome ; selections from Longfellow ; Mrs. (Tatty's Parables from Nature ; Nesfield's Aids to English Composition, pages 1-110 ; punctuation, analysis, parsing, paraphrasing, prosody, figures of speech. Latin-—Longmans' Latin Course, pages 1-87 ; Ora Maritime. French —Siepmann's French Course, Part I, whole book. Arithmetic—Goyen's Higher Arithmetic, pages 1-121 and 306-355. Algebra —Baker and Bourne, pages 1-114. Geometry -Baker and Bourne, Book Ito proposition 13, with easy exercises ; Practical Geometry. Agriculture —Kirk's Elementary Agriculture (subject treated as for Junior Civil Service). Botany—Evans's Botany, pages 1—122 and 160-184. Book-keeping—Grierson's Book-keeping. Shorthand—Gregg's Handbook. Typewriting. Woodwork, cooking, dressmaking, according to Department's syllabus.

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