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GBEYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Eeceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1887. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. dTo Reserves sold .. .. .. 750 0 0 By Management, salary.. .. .. 10 10 0 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 1 10 0 paid purchase-money .. .. 65 0 0 Commission on collection of interest .. 2 10 0 Grey Education Board towards support of the Greymouth District High School 30 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 770 10 0 £815 0 0 £815 0 0 Eich. Nancaeeow, Chairman. E. T. Eobinson, Secretary. I hereby certify that I have examined the above statement, and, having compared it with cashbook, vouchers, bank pass-book, and other documents, find the same to be correct.—E. F. Eich, Auditor. 3rd April, 1888.

CHBISTCHUECH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1, Statement of Eeoeipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1887. Receipts. £ s. d. | Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. 2,682 15 1 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 435 18 4 School foes .. .. 766 10 0 Management—Contributions .. .. 80 0 0 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 364 14 2 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,447 410 Examinations — Examiners' fees .. .. .. 48 16 9 Other expenses .. .. .. 511 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 25 14 6 Printing, stationery, advertising, stamps 86 8 10 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 14 8 1 Fencing, repairs, &c... .. .. 10 12 6 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 114 15 10 Interest on current account .. .. 13 16 5 Reserves, inspecting and advertising .. 92 4 0 Interest on loan from New Zealand Trust and Loan Company .. .. 350 0 0 Chemicals and apparatus .. .. 7 12 6 Rent of cricket-ground .. .. 30 0 0 Grant to cadet corps .. .. .. 15 0 0 Cleaning out bath .. .. .. 15 12 0 Sundries, petty cash .. .. .. 20 3 8 £3,813 19 3 £3,813 19 3 E. Beetham, for Chairman. F. G. Stedman, Registrar, Canterbury College.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin: Virgil, ißneid, 1., lines 416 to end; Cicero de Senectute; Horace, Odes II.; Ovid, Fastorum VI. (to end line 460); Latin composition, from Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom, and Abbott's Via Latina ; Latin Primer; Smith's Smaller Eoman History, chap. xvii. to end. English : Scott's Ivanhoo, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Tennyson's Harold, Macaulay's Essays on Olive and Warren Hastings, Morris's Smaller Historical English Grammar, Smith and Hall's English Grammar. Abbott's How to write clearly; composition, paraphrase, analysis; Student's Hume, 1688 to 1837, with notes. French : Macmillan's Course, Parts 11. and III.; Corneille's Le Cid; Lettres sur l'Histoire de France, by Thierry (part). Mathematics: Todhunter's Euclid, Books I. to VI. ; Todhunter's Algebra, Barnard's Smith's Exercises in Arithmetic, Hamblin Smith's Trigonometry. Science : Howard's Practical Chemistry, with laboratory work; Garnett's Elementary Heat, Oliver's Elementary Lessons on Botany (practical work in botanical physiology). Greek: Sidgwick's Euripides, Scenes from the Alcestis; Sidgwick's First Greek Writer. Loivcst. —Latin : Macmillan's Progressive Latin, Course I.; Latin Primer to end of declensions. English: Dictation; Morrison's English Grammar for Junior Classes; Palgrave's Children's Treasury of Songs, Part I.; Gardiner's Outlines of English History, Petrie's First Geography. Arithmetic : Numeration, notation, simple and compound rules, reduction, tables. Drawing : From Colonial Drawing-book. Singing, writing, drill.

3. SCHOLAEHIPS HELD AT THE SCHOOL DURING THE LAST QuAETEE OF THE YEAE. School. —Free education, 12. North Canterbury Education Board.— At £40, 4; at £20, 9; with travelling expenses. Westland Education Board. —At £50, 1. Haiohe's Bay Education Board. —At £20, 1.

4. Beport of the Inspectob-Geneeal of Schools to the Hon. the Ministee of Education. Boys' High School, Ghristchurch, 15th March, 1888. —The school is increasing in numbers, and is in my judgment in a very efficient state.