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CHBISTCHURCH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1890. Receipts. H a. '&■ \ Expenditure. B s. d. To Current income from reserves.. .. 3,163 11 7By Overdraft at beginning of year .. 18J 1J o School fees .. .. .. .. 981 5 0 Office—salary .. ■■ ■■ _80 0 U Interest on current account .. .. 21 I 9 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,bJb 1* I Examinations — Examiners' fees Other expenses .. •. • • 8 2 9 Prizes 10 3 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 100 18 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 35 2 i Site and buildings— Purchases, new works, and fittings .. 60 16 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 19 10 G Kents, insurance, and taxes .. 95 7 6 Interest on loans .. .. • • 312 10 0 Inspecting and advertising reserves .. 123 7 7 Protective works on endowments Purchase of land adjoining Reserve 1328 19 8 6 Drainage on Reserve 1183 .. • ■ 16 13 4 Grants to cricket club and cadet corps 45 0 0 Annual expense of workshop .. .. 25 0 0 Legal expenses .. • ■ • ■ 30 15 2 Sundries .. .. ■ ■ • • 12 7 5 Balance in hand and in bank at end of year .. .. .. • • wi ls 1 U, 116 V i St™- i- 4 F. de C. Malet, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Registrar. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest —Latin : Ovid, selections ; Virgil, iEneid VI. ; Livy, The Macedonian War ; First and Second Orations of Cicero against Catiline ; Smith's Smaller History of Borne ; Bradley s Arnold- Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose (Upper V.); Latin Prose, Part I. (Cffisarean Prose); Kevised Latin Primer; "Latin grammar and junior scholarship papers; Primer of Roman Antiquities. English: Shakespeare, King Lear; Chaucer, Prologue; Milton's Paradise Lost, Booksil. and 11 ; George Eliot's Silas Marner ; Mason's English Grammar; Literature Primer ; Abbott s How to write clearly French: Theeophile Gautier, Scenes of Travel; Corneille, Le Cid; Macmillan s Progressive French Course, Part II.; Macrnillan's Course of French Composition, First Course; Fasnacht. Mathematics: Algebra, to permutations and combinations; Euclid, Books 1. to VI.; Barnard Smith's Exercises in Arithmetic ; Lock's Trigonometry for Beginners, to solution of plane triangles Science : Fisher's Elementary Chemistry ; Jago's Inorganic Chemistry ; Garnett s Heat. Book-keeping: The Irish Educational Series. Greek: Mayor's Greek for Beginners; Greek Grammar Primer, Abbott and Mansfield ; Xenophon, Oyropfcdia, selections ; Ihucydides, Book IV., chapters i. to xxx. History : Longman's Epochs, Settlement of Constitution, Modern England; Student's Hume, Part 111., 1688 to 1878; Acland and Eansome's Skeleton Outline of English History for Beginners. Drawing : Freehand and model, geometrical, Longman's Drawing Books. Lowest— Latin (Upper I.): Abbott's Via Latina, The Shorter Latin Primer (Lower L): Ine Shorter Latin Primer. English : Abbott's How to tell the Parts of Speech ; Longman s Reader, Standard IV.; Nelson's Brief History. French: Macmillan's French Course, Part I. Mathematics: Nelson's Arithmetic (No. IV.), simple and compound rules. Geography: Hills iirst Lessons in Geography. Singing: Curwen's Pupil's Manual of Tome Sol-fa; Collegiate Singing Manual Writing: Jackson's Vertical Writing Copybooks, Nos. 1, 2, i, 6, 8 ; extra writing class, Saturday, 12.30 to 1.15. Drawing : Freehand. Swimming : From 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. m the summer months. ' Drill: Tuesday and Thursday, 12.30 to 1 p.m.

3. Scholarships held during Last Quarter of Yeak. The school gave free education to twenty-six scholars. Nineteen scholarships of the North Canterbury Education Board were held at the school.

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