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School—Matriculation, Solicitors' General Knowledge, and Medical Preliminary, four passed ; Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge, three passed ; Civil Service, Junior, eight passed ; Senior Free Place Examination, twenty-eight passed; seventeen qualified under clause 7 (c) of the regulations; Education Board Smior Scholarship Examination, eleven passed, and three obtained scholarships ; Education Board Junior Scholarship Examination, four passed, and four obtained scholarships ; Junior Free Places, three obtained extension under clause 5 (1). Girls' School—University Junior Scholarship, one passed with credit ; Matriculation and General Knowledge, four entered and two passed ; Junior Civil Service, twenty-one entered and twenty passed, nine with credit ; Senior Education Board Scholarships, twelve girls passed and two obtained scholarships ; Senior Free Places, sixteen qualified under clause 7 (c) of the regulations ; Standard Vl—proficiency, two passed ; competency, five passed. The headmaster. Mr. A. S. M. Poison, 8.A., received and accepted an appointment to Ballarat, Victoria. The Governors have appointed Mr. Frank Heaton, AT.A.. B.Sc, headmaster. He has just entered ,m his duties. T. C. Moore, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest.— Latin—Horace, Odes, I ; Livy, XXIV, to chapter 16 ; Longmans' Course, Part 111 ; Discernenda Latina: Macmillan's Grammar; sight translation: Stedman's Examination Papers. French—Moliere, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; de Vogue, Coeurs Russes; Matriculation French Course (Weekley) ; sight translation ; oral work ; phonetic transcript. English —Scott, Waverley ; S lakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ; Palgrave's Golden Treasury ; Mason's Senior English Grammar. Mathematics—Algebra, Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra ; geometry, Godfrey and Siddons' Elementary Geometry; arithmetic, Pendlebury's New School Arithmetic. Chemistry— Jago. Electricity and Magnetism—Stewart and Gee. History—Tout and York-Powell. Geography— Longmans' Series, Books II and V; Meiklejohn's British Colonies and Dependencies; Marshall's <i tography of New Zealand. All to Matriculation standard. Lowest. —Latin—Longmans' Course, Part I (whole book) : Beresford's First Latin Reader, to p. 32. French—Methode Naturelle, to p. 64. English—Mason's New English Grammar (Junior) (whole book) ; Marsh, Preparatory Raiding and Composition (selections) ; A Treasury of Verse, Part 111 (Harrap and Co.) (selections) ; Great Deeds on Land and Sea (Fitchett) (whole book). Mathematics—Geometry, Godfrey and Siddons, to p. 102 ; algebra, Baker and Bourne, to p. 100 ; arithmetic, A New Shilling Arithmetic (Pendlebury and Robinson) (whole book). Elementary Physical Measurements—Half of syllabus as prescribed for Junior Civil Service (work done practically, no text-book). History—Tout, Book 11, to p. 189. Geography—S.C. Geographical Reader, Standards V and VI, to p. 164 ; Imperial Geography, Standards V and VI, to p. 90. Drawing—Freehand, from casts and copies. Book-keeping —Pitman's Primer ; counting-house routine ; commercial copybooks. Shorthand-—Pitman's Phonographic Teacher (whole book). Girls' School. Highest. —-English—Macaulay, Essay on Milton ; Shakespeare, Richard 11, Coriolanus, Macbeth, and Richard III; Milton Epoch English Literature (Stobart); Eliot, Romola ; Carlyle. Sartor Resartus (selected chapters) ; Nesfield, Past and Present (to Junior University Scholarship Standard). English History—Tout, 1689 to present day ; notes from 55 B.C. to 1689. Mathematics—Pendlebury, New School Arithmetic, to p. 413 ; selected parts from Goyen ; graphical work ; algebra, Baker and Bourne, for Junior University Scholarship ; geometry, Godfrey and Siddons ; solid geometry, Hall and Stevens ; trigonometry, Borchardt and Perrott; selected parts from Pendlebury (to Junior University Scholarship standard). Latin—Livy, Book XXIII, to chapter 27 (inclusive) ; Discernenda Latina (Howell) ; Cicero, De ; Horace, Odes Ito XII; Caesar, sight work ; Virgil, Aeneid, Book IV; Roman antiquities, Wilkins's Primer, supplemented by Ramsay ; Roman history, Creighton's Primer, supplemented by Merrivale and Puller ; Bradley and Arnold,_to exercise 65 ; Kennedy's Grammar. French —Wellington ColVge French Grammar ; Picciola, to p. 62 ; Bourgeois Gentilhomme, sight translation ; Croisilles (Alfred de Musset); phonetics. Geography—Gill's Imperial Geography (Matriculation syllabus). Botany—Notes on natural orders f Second Stage Botany (Lowson) to p. 217 ; notes on types ; practical work on types, natural orders, and anatomy, and physiology. Heat—Draper's Heat, pp. 1-188, 203-245 ; Glaz I ook's Heat, p. 209. Lowest. —English—Logic Robertson's English Prose, omitting Landor, John Wilson, Carlyle, Robertson, Helps, and Tyndall; Laureata (Wilson), to p. 184 ;1 Nesfield, Manual English Grammar, to p. 75 ; exercises in composition, parsing, analysis, &c, exercises in English (Book B), (Burns and Hight). English History—Tout, Book 11, pp. 303-410 (end of reign of Victoria). French—Hogben, Methode Naturelle, Part I, to p. 59. Mathematics —Pendlebury, New School Arithmetic, to p. 177 ; Baker and Bourne, Elementary Algebra, to p. 84 ; Godfrey and Siddons, Elementary Geometry, practical work and the first six propositions of Book Ito p. 77. Botany—Study of fruits, flowers, leaves, stems, roots; food of plants ; simple lessons on the growth and nutrition of plants ; examination of one common flower each week ; diagrams ; study of Native plants whenever possible. Physiology and Hygiene—Furneaux Elementary Physiology, to p. 229 ; hygiene notes on air, respiration, ventilation, foods, digestion and disposal of food, diets, examples of foods, cooking, soap. Geography (for one term only)— British possessions in Europe and Asia (Gill's Imperial Geography). Drawing—Freehand from copies and objects, also from casts; brushwork and design. Cookery— As for Technical Act (syllabus set forth by Department—half or first year's work). Needlework— Making of simnle garments by hand and by machine.

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