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Physiology Meachen, Human Physiology. German —Goethe, Faust, Part L ; Lessing, Minna yon Barnhelm ; Sudermann, Fran Sorge: Buchheim, German Prose Composition ; Eve, German Grammar: Second German Exercises. Lowest. —English- Marsh, Literary Reading and Composition ; Jones, First English Course : Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop ; Scott, The Lady of the Lake, Canto I : Goldsmith, The Traveller. Arithmetic—Grenville, A Shilling Arithmetic; Dominion Arithmetic. Geography -Shrimpton, A Junior Geography of New Zealand and Australia ; Meiklejohn, Comparative Geography. Physiology Lyster, First Stage Hygiene. Botany Bailey, Botany for Beginners. History—Tout, A First Book of British History. Home Science—Simmons and Stenhouse, The Science of Common Lite.

RANGIORA HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Messrs. R, Oresswell, M.A. ; S. A. Clark, B.A. : A. K. Rule ; Misses M. ('. Reynolds, M.A. ; Iv A. Viokery, B.A. I. Report of the Board of Governors. It affords me pleasure to have again to submit a very satisfactory report in connection with the past year's work at this High School ; this in spite of the fact that the Principal was absent for. part of the year as Acting Secondary Schools Inspector for the Education Department. The work, however, was admirably carried on by the first assistant master, as Acting-Principal. At the various annual examinations the school worthily upheld its reputation, a high percentage of the pupils having passed, and a number with credit. The gratifying success of Mr. H. L. Richards, M.A., in winning the first Rhodes Scholarship for Canterbury has been an excellent advertisement for this school, at which he was for upwards of five years a scholar. The inspection report on the school was again a good one, the agricultural work being specially commended. The High School Defence Cadets have again won the "Victory" Shield. The school boardinghouse has proved a great boon. No similar establishment could be run at a lower tariff or on more satisfactory lines. Robert Ball, Chairman. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —French—As for Junior University Scholarship and Public Service Senior ; Tame, Voyage aux Pyrenees; Moliere, L'Avare; Corneille, Le Cid; translation into French.; Wellington College Grammar ; Idioms and Phonetics ; French versification and brief survey of French etymology. Latin —As for Junior University Scholarship ; Latin Authors (Tutorial Series) ; Miscellaneous translation : Arnold's Latin Prose Composition ; Kennedy's Latin Grammar. English As for Junior University Scholarship ; Palgrave's Golden Treasury ; Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Julius Ciesar ; Johnson, Lives of the Poets ; miscellaneous essays of Bacon, Lamb, De Quincey, Hazlitt. Mathematics— Arithmetic, advanced ; algebra, Baker and Bourne's, to end of permutations ; trigonometry, Borchardt and Perrott, Hall and Knight : use of plane-table, angle-meter, and practical outdoor problems. Botany As for Junior University Scholarship; laboratory and outdoor practical work; Evans's Advanced Botany. Heat- As for Junior University Scholarship; text-books, Draper, Glazebrook, and Stewart. .'■ Lowest. —English—Literature, Gray's Elegy, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. Cook's Second Voyage, poems selected from Palgrave's Golden Treasury ; Grammar. Nesfield's Outlines, pages 1 120, cursorily treated. French- Siepmann's First Course ; conversation. Arithmetic—Revision from Pendlebury of fractions, decimals, and with special attention to contracted methods, approximations, and averages. Algebra —Baker and Bourne, to end of problems leading to simple equations, and also Chapter XI, on the removal of brackets. Geometry —Baker and Bourne, pp. 1 --80 ; practical work, mensuration, use of angle-meters, &c. Agriculture—Logan, School Gardening; Cavers, Life-histories of Common Plants; the general structure of plants, soils, and fertilizers; pruning, grafting, common insect pests, and fungoid diseases. Latin -Longmans' Latin Course, Part I.

CHRISTCHURCH BOYS AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS. Staff. Boys' School. —Messrs. C. E. Bevan-Brown. M.A. ; YV. Walton, B.A. ; K. M. Laing, M.A.. B.Se. ; A. Mei-ton • T H Jackson, 8.A.; R.J.Thompson, 8.A.; M. C. Gudex, M.A., 8.50.; R. H. Biggar, M.A.; -l. R. Montgomery,' M.A.;' L. G. Whitehead, B.A. ; Meutenanl YV. Hoar; Messrs. L. J. Darwin, M.A. ; D. B. Maoleod, M.A.; Monsieur Malaquin Girls' School. -Misses M. X. Gibson, M.A. ; K. M. Gresson, M.A. ; E. M. Macintosh, M..A. ; V. Sheard, M.A., BSo L. Bing, B.A. ; E. 'J. Crosby. B.A. ; (J. Greenstreet, B.A. ; E. B. Baxter, M.A. ; M. E. Sims, M.A. ; 11. I>. Leversedge M.A.; E. D. Graham, M.A. j A. J. MoKee; Mrs. Longton; Misses Bone j M. B. Hay; F. Webster; Captain f! Farthing j Misses J, L. Black. Mus. Bue. ; E.M.Burns; H. Smith ; J.Webster; Mrs. Mayne ; Mi-. T. S. Tankard. 1. Extract from the Report of the Chairman of the Board of Governors. Boys' School. The roll number of the school has slightly increased, but considering the opportunities for free secondary education now offered, it appears to me that more should be ready to take advantage of them, but too many parents think that a year or possibly two is quite long enough for a boy to stay at a secondary school to get a " finishing oil." When the advantages of a secondary school education are more fully recognized, then this period of school life will be much longer.