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TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 10 1 8 By Management— £ s. d. Endowments— Office salaries .. .. .. 69 7 10 Current income from reserves .. 1,549 15 5 Other office expenses .. .. 44 13 0 Irfterest on moneys invested.. .. 157 10 0 Other expenses of management .. 42 16 10 Interest on unpaid purchase-money .. 1 17 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,403 5 9 Boarding-school fees .. ... .. 833 15 2 Examiners'fees .... .. 880 Evening Mail discount .. .. 0 6 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 36 18 6 Error, December, 1885 .. .. 11 19 1 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 82 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 99 14 0 Purchases and new works .. .. 83 16 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 7 4 0 Rents, insuranco, and taxes .. .. 16 2 0 Interest on current account .. .. 5 7 0 Endowments — Proceeds invested .. .. .. 500 0 0 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. .. .. .. 11 19 2 Cheque-book, commission, &c... .. 4 11 6 Balance in bank .. 102 110 Less unpaid cheques 13 0 10 — 89 1 0 Fixed deposit .. .. .. 60 0 0 £2,565 4 10 £2,565 4 lo W. Ziesler, Chairman. J. H. Bamfield, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James EdWard FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English: Bain's Higher English Grammar, Abbott's How to write clearly, Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People (part), Hodgson's Errors in English (part), essays, correction of faulty English, Milton's Comus, Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Bacon's Essays (selected). Latin: Virgil, iEneid, Book III.; Cicero's Letters (Macmillan's Series), in part; Caesar, Book 1., with Simpson's Caesarian Prose for Composition; unseen translation, varied three times a week; grammar. Greek: Initia Grasca; easy translation. French: Voyage autour de ma Chambre, X. de Maistre ; Anecdotes Hist, et Litt., Hachette ; grammar and composition, Macmillan's Course, 11. and 111. Mathematics : Arithmetic, Lock, &c.; geometry, Hamblin Smith, and Cuthbertson's Euclidian Geometry; Hall and Knight's Algebra'; Lock's Trigonometry for Beginners ; Blaikie's Elementary Dynamics. .Science : Practical physics (no text-book), elementary chemistry (boys); elementary natural history, Paul Bert's First Year of Scientific Knowledge (girls). Geography: Longman's for Australasia. History: Buckley's, Green's Short History, Epochs of English History (1688-1820). Commercial Class : Book-keeping by double-entry, correspondence. Lowest. —Longman's New Reader IV., Historical and Geographical Readers, Abbott's Parts of Speech, Park's First English Composition, Star Arithmetics, Goyen's Compound Rules, Bue's Early French Lessons, Southern Cross Copy-books, Colonial Drawing-books, freehand and geometrical drawing. Boys. —Cadet corps and junior drill; gymnastics, seniors and juniors. Girls. —Gymnastics, and drill with Indian clubs; plain and fancy needlework, and knitting.

3. Scholarships. The school gives free education to ten scholars of the South Canterbury Education Board.

WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ a. d. Expenditure. £ s. fl, To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 580 19 4 By Management— Current income from reserves .. .. 162 18 0 Office —Salary .. .. .. 8 6 0 Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 26 10 6 Other office expenses .. .. 10 0 Subsidy to South Canterbury Education Board .. .. .. .. 75 0 0 Examination expenses .. .. .. 12 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 22 10 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 015 5 Interest on current account .. .. 0 16 Plan of Albury sections .. .. 110 Exchange on cheques .. .. .. 0 8 0 Travelling expenses, members of Board .. 4 10 0 Balance in bank on 31st December, 1889— Current account .. .. ~ igo 13 i] On fixed deposits .. .. .. 465 0 0 i m° 710 . -770 710 Samuel W. Goldsmith, Chairman. G. H. Graham, Secretary. 'Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General,