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2. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1890. Receipts. & s. d. Expenditure. & s. d. To Current income from reserves.. ..1,205 65 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 10 19 9 Paid by School Commissioners.. .. 54 16 0 ManagementSchool fees— Office—salary .. .. .. 40 lfa 8 Boys .. .. 320 1 0 Other office expenses .. .. o8 6 Girls .. 241 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances — Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 50 13 8 Boys .. .. .. ..1,010 17 7 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 123 7 0 Girls .. .. .. _ •• 105 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 21 11 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 78 19 7 Book and stationery account and other temporary advances .. .. 60 1 2 Site and buildings— Purchases and new works .. .. 36 0 6 Rents, insurance, and taxes.. ..„ 26 19 2 Interest on current account .. .. 31 1C 0 , Endowments, sales account— Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. 32 0 0 Interest on loan .. .. .. 227 10 0 Legal expenses .. .. . • 9 3 8 £1,995" 4 1 £1,995 4 1 H. J. Millek, Chairman. George Sumptee, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1890. Assets. £ s. d. i Liabilities. £ s. d. Petty cash in hand .. .. .. 4 1 2 • Loan on buildings .. .. ••3'^ " " Rents unoolleoted 397 6 8 ' Scholarships fund .. .. •• » « J Fees unoollected, boys .. .. .. 341 6 0 Salaries accrued and unpaid .. .. 164 18 4 Pees uncollected, girls .. .. .. 161 16 8 Interest on mortgage to 31st December .. 113 15 0 Deferred-payment balances .. .. 666 16 0 Overdraft at Colonial Bank .. .. 127 8 i £1,461 6 &\ -— Reserves vested in Board by " The Waitaki £4,031 1 6 High School Act, 1878." ~ George Sumptee, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

4. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest.— Latin : Caesar, Books I. and II.; Livy, Hannibalian War ; Horace, Odes, Book III.; Smith's Principia, Part II.; Bradley's Arnold, all; Bryan's Latin Prose. Mathematics : Arithmetic, all; algebra, Hamblin Smith's, to quadratic equations; Euclid, Books I. to VI.; trigonometry (Todhunter). English: Morris's Historical Outlines of Grammar; Bain's Higher English Grammar- Macinillan's Sixth Eeader; Hewitt's Manual of our Mother Tongue. Geography: Longman's Australasian Geography. History : Buckley's English History. Science: Hookers Botany Drawing: Ereehand, with perspective and machine (two hours weekly.) French: Moliere s Misanthrope, Les Precieuses Eidicules ; Macmillan's Second Eeader ; Chardenal's Third Course. Lowest,-— -Via Latina, Exercises Ito 30; Public School Latin Primer. Mathematics : Arithmetic to interest; algebra to division. French: Chardenal's First Course. Drawing: Ereehand (one hour daily). Science: Paul Bert's Introduction. English: Mann's English Grammar; Nelson's Poetry Eeader. Geography: Petrie's Geography, with maps. History: Gardiner's English History. Girls. Highest.— English: Mason's Grammar, pages 73, 126, 141, 171 ; parsing and analysis, Julius Csesar Tennyson's Shorter Poems; essays ; paraphrasing; composition notes. Advanced (scholarship) work : Above class-work, and in addition, Morris's Grammar (selections), Brooke's Primer of English Literature, Pope's Essay on Criticism, Bacon's Essays ; Paradise Lost, Book II.; Chaucer's Prologue to Canterbury Tales. Latin: Principia—Part 1., irregular verbs; Part IV., lessons and exercises; Parts I. and IV., Cesar's Invasion of Britain; Nepos—Miltiades, Pausamas, Anstides- (advanced) Principia, Part IV., lessons and exercises, xxxhi. to end; various; Sallust's Bellum Catilinarium, chaps, xxxviii. to end; Livy, Book II.; Virgil's ZBneid, Book I ; Horace, odes Book 111. ; sight translation. Arithmetic: Problems in simple interest, compound interest, present worth and discount,-profit and loss, stocks, mental arithmetic; (advanced) miscellaneous exercises on the whole subject. Algebra: Fractions, simple equations, problems involving simple equations ; (advanced) Todhunter, exercises xxxi. to xli (involution to permutations and combinations) Euclid : Book L, pages 29 to 4~8; Books 11. and HI., deductions; (advanced) Book VI • revise over Books I. and IV.; deductions. Trigonometry: Locks Trigonometry, pao-es 1 to 108; (advanced) trigonometry, pages 117 to 245. Mechanics: Blackie's Elements

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