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DANNEVIRKE HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. M. Summers, M.A. : Miss D. R. Robertson. M.A. ; Miss 1). Hueston ; Mr. A. J. Papps, B.A. ; Mr. J. Johnson. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. The Governors of the Dannevirke High School have the honour to present their seventh annual report, and they are pleased to state that the school continues to be carried on efficiently. The total number on the roll for the year was 116, being 62 boys and 54 girls, and the average attendance was 94-4, being 50-4 boys and 44 girls. The ordinary secondary school subjects have been taught, and special attention given to science and agriculture. In the public examinations the pupils have again done great credit to the school, one securing a Senior National Scholarship, and another heading the Hawke's Bay Senior Scholarship list. Six pupils passed the Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge Examinations, three of these passing the Medical Preliminary as well ; while one passed Matriculation on scholarship papers. Four pupils gained Senior Education Board Scholarships ; two pupils gained Education Board Junior Scholarships ; eighteen pupils passed Civil Service Junior Examinations, three with credit ; and one the Senior Free Place Examination. The interest in school games has been well maintained. Owing to the increased attendance it has been found necessary to arrange for increasing the staff by an additional male teacher, and also to erect an additional class-room, which will be finished by the time the school is opened next year. A. Grant. Chairman. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Nesfield's Grammar, Past and Present ; Shakespeare. Hamlet, and As you Like It; Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur ; Byron, Prisoner of Chillon ; Macaulay, Kssay on Clive ; Great Authors, Part I. Latin —Bradley's Arnold ; Allen's Latin Grammar : Livy, Book XXIV : Horace. Odes, Books I and II ; North and Hillard, Prose Composition. French —Wellington College Grammar ; Berthon's Specimens of Modern French Verse ; Corneille's Le Cid ; McMillan's Prose Composition ; Victor H-igo's Quatre-vingt-treize ; Voltaire's Zaire. Mathematics—Hall and Stevens's Geometry, Books I-VI ; Baker and Bourne's Algebra ; Lock's Trigonometry ; Pendlebury's Arithmetic. Mechanics—Loney's Mechanics and Hydrostatics. Heat —Glazebrook's Heat ; Stewart's Second Stage Heat. Physiology—Furneaux's Human Physiology ; Hill's Physiology. Lowest. —English—Nesfield's Outlines; Great Authors, Book II; Tennyson's Morte d' Arthur and Lady of Sialott. Geography—Longmans', Book 111 ; America and Asia ; British possessions, ani physical. History—Ransome's History of England. Arithmetic—Pendlebury. Algebra—Baker and Bourne, Part I, to p. 90. Geometry—Hall and Stevens, Parts I and II ; practical introduction. Latin—Scott and Jones's First Course, part of Second Course. French—Chardenal, I; Hogben's Methode Naturelle ; Guerber's Coutes et Lfgendes, Part I. Physiology—Murche. Chemistry—Roscoe and Hunt's Inorganic Chemistry for Beginners. Book-keeping—Thornton's First Lessons. MARLBOBOrOH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. Innoe, M.A.. LL.D. ; Mr. J. H. Oouldinc, B.A. : Mr. L. -I. Wild, B.A. ; Miss E. M. Allen, M.A. ; Miss J. M. Bntlor, M.A. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. I beg to submit the following report on the working of the Marlborough High School for the year 1912 :— The roll number remains fairly constant, the total being 120, of whom sixty-eight were boys. Of forty-nine pupils admitted during the year, thirty-two were boys. On the other hand, a greater number of boys than of girls leave during the year. This is no doubt owing to the great demand for boy labour on the farm and in the office. Early in the year the school suffered a severe loss through the resignation of Miss Ross, M.A., an energetic and capable teacher who had been with us for nine years. After Miss Boss left, Miss J. M. Butler, M.A., wos appointed to the staff. Hyg'ene has been added to the subjects studied by the girls ; and a senior class has been formed in agriculture. The number of pupils taking agriculture, though not large, is satisfactory in proportion to the total roll, and the majority of the students show keen interest in their work. It is one of the functions of an educational institution not merely to supply a demand, but to create a demand wh -re none exists, and there appears little doubt that these classes will increase in popularity. The finances of the Board are still suffering from the strain caused by the expenditure on. necessary additions to the building, and it is able to carry on successfully only by the strictest economy in administration, an economy amounting almost to parsimony. R. McCallum, Chairman. ■

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