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9. Finances. —The income received during the year 1887 exceeded the expenditure by £176 3s. 10. Beturns, etc. —The prescribed answers to inquiries, the headmaster's report, and the audited statement of accounts have been forwarded. 13th March, 1888. Eobert Kidd, Secretary.

2. Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1887. Receipts. & s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Eents .. .. .. ... 2,907 2 6 By Balance at beginning of year .. 132 14 0 School fees.. .. .. .. 1,343 10 0 Secretary's salary and commission to Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 35 7 6 j collector.. .. ~ .. 225 6 4 Insurance of house destroyed by fire .. 146 10 0 Other office expenses .. .. 08 14 5 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,805 10 10 Examination expenses .. .. 412 6 Scholarships .. .. .. 60 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 18 18 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising (£56 17s. 4d. for school) .. .. 134 7 5 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c— School .. .. .. .. 63 4 1 Property.. .. .. .. 29 18 5 Fencing, repairs, &c.— School .. .. .. .. 56 14 0 Property .. .. .. 229 19 1 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 119 0 6 Interest on current account .. .. 3 6 8 School furniture .. .. .. 48 17 8 Interest on loans .. .. .. 310 0 0 Sports and cricket-ground .. .. 17 10 0 Science school .. .. .. 20 16 8 Law expenses .. .. .. 11 10 10 Travelling expenses .. .. .. 5 10 0 Balance at end of year .. .. Co 18 7 £4,432 10 0 £4,432 10 0 G. Maurice O'Eorke, Chairman. Eobt. Kidd, Secretary. Examined and found to be correct.—L. A. Durbieu, Auditor. 16th January, 1888.

3. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest (Upper Fifth). —English : Shakespeare's Twelfth Night; Spenser's Faerie Queen, Book 1., Cantos 1, 2, and 3; Chaucer's Cierke's Tale; Milton's L'Allegro and II Penseroso; Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes; Abbott's How to Write Clearly, pages 1-61; Morris's Elementary Lessons in Historical English Grammar; grammar papers, essays; Smith's Smaller History of Eome. Latin: Virgil, Mn. iv., and Eclogues i., iv., v., vi., ix., x. ; Cicero, Do Amicitia and In Catilinam, i., ii., iii. ; "Unseens," weekly; Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose, Exercises 39 to end; Frost's Materials, Exercises i.-xxxv. (one boy to Exercise xcv.); more advanced parts of Public School Primer; grammar papers weekly. French: Lascaris; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ; Turrell's Lecons en Prose et Vers, about 60 pages ; Blouet's Composition, Parts i., ii., and iii. ; Chardenal's Advanced Book, Exercises i.-lx., with the grammar (syntax). Natural Science : Chemistry, .heat, and electricity, to junior University scholarship standard. Mathematics (Class D): Geometry, trigonometry, algebra, arithmetic, to junior University scholarship standard; elementary mechanics. Lowest. —Blackwood's Historical Eeaders, Nos. i. and ii.; Blackwood's Geography Primer and Eeader, No. ii.; Geography of New Zealand and Australia (Patterson); Davidson and Alcock's Intermediate English Grammar, pages 1-61, &c. ; Eepetition and Beading from the Ancient Mariner, Lord of the Isles, John Gilpin, &c.; Spelling: Object-lessons, with composition thereon. Arithmetic (Class D): Simple and compound rules, reduction, G.C.M., and L.C.M.

4. Scholarships held at the School dubino Last Quarter op Year. College Scholarships. —Senior foundation (£4O and £20, and free education), 2; junior foundation (free education), 5; under Education Board's certificates of proficiency, 4; sons of members of staff (free education), 2. The college also gives free education to holders of Education Board scholarships. Education Board Scholarships.—Kb £45, 3; at £40, 2; at £30, 8; at £20, 3. llawlings Scholarships (school-fees and books,), 9.

4. Beport of the Inspectob-General op Schools to the Hon. the Minister op Education. Auckland College and Grammar School, sth August, 1887. —The quality of the work done in this school is steadily improving. Especially in Latin the progress made during the last three or four years is very decided. The science classes might, I think, ha made more interesting and profitable than they are. Several changes have taken place in the staff since the date of my last visit. I have before said that the school runs the risk of losing some very good masters by being obliged to pay rather low salaries.