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somewhat lower scale. The headmaster of the Auckland Girls' High School has a salaiy of £500 and a house with accommodation for seventeen boarders. The lady-principal of the Christchurch Girls' High School has a salary of £400, a capitation allowance of 55., and an allowance of £50 for rent; and the ladyprincipal of the Dunedin Girls' High School has a salary of £275, a capitation allowance of £1, and a house with accommodation for thirty boarders. The members of the regular staffs of the schools receive in the great majority of cases fixed salaries, which range in the boys' schools from £525 to £150, and in the girls' schools from about £400 to £50. In a few instances, however, where undermasters have the charge of boarding-houses, their whole emoluments may be greater than the highest sum above specified. r We have not included the Parnell Grammar School in our discussion of the financial position and organization of the secondary schools, because, although, as an institution affiliated to the University, it falls within the scope of our Commission, it has never received either endowment or subsidy from the public estate. It is under the management of the Board of Governors of St. John's College, which consists of the Bishop of Auckland and five representatives of the other dioceses in New Zealand, the bishop of each diocese nominating one representative. The school consists of three classes, with two divisions in each class both for classics and mathematics; and there are three masters, besides visiting masters for botany and for drawing. The average attendance for 1878 was seventy-three. The governing body commits the entire administration of the school to the headmaster, who engages and pays the subordinate masters. The remaining schools which can come under the designation of secondary schools are either small or have been very recently opened, and consequently require only a brief notice. The endowment of the Napier Trust School consists of two sections of land in the centre of Napier, originally purchased for a public '' school with money raised by public subscription at the time of the formation of the town. The late Provincial Government afterwards conveyed to the trustees at a nominal price a piece of land on which school buildings were erected out of the accumulated rents of the estate. The staff for the boys' school consists of two teachers and a visiting drawing-master. The average attendance for 1879 was forty-three. There are four forms, some of which are subdivided, and the coarse of study embraces the subjects of an ordinary English education, M rith the elements of classics and mathematics. The headmaster accommodates nine boarders in his house, and the charge for board is £30 per annum. The headmaster's salary is £60 per annum, with a share of the school fees, this share amounting in 1878 to about £260. The girls' school under this trust has been discontinued. The Wanganui Industrial School, which under the terms of the grant is open 1- to both races, is governed by trustees acting under the authority of the General "' Synod of the Church of England/ There are two masters, and the course of study comprises the ordinary branches of English instruction as well as classics and mathematics. The average attendance for the first half of 1879 was thirty. The Southland High School was constituted under an Act of the General Assembly in 1877. Its governing body consists of five persons, two of whom are •' nominated by the Governor, and two appointed by the Southland Board of Education, the fifth being the Mayor of Invercargill. The school (for girls only at present) was opened on 10th February, 1879, with fifty-seven pupils. There are three teachers. The Timaru High School was constituted under an Act of the General Assembly in 1878. Its governing body consists of seven persons, one of whom is the Mayor of Timaru, one is nominated by the County Council of Geraldine, one by the County Council of Waimate, two by the Governor, and two by the Board of Education for South Canterbury. The boys' and the girls' departments are for the present to be taught by the same staff, under the control of the rector. The staff consists of rector, second master, and lady-superintendent. The school has been open only a few weeks.

Pameii Grammar School. int Rep.—Mm. Appx.'p- 35.'

Napier Trust School. pD<iB. ep' PPX>

Wauganui industrial School p?6B. 'P'' PPX

Southland High School. Int. Sep., Appx. p. 56.

Timaru High Schooi.