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be enabled to continue its career of usefulness, and achieve still greater success. As showing the public appreciation of the school it may be pointed out that for the year ending 31st December, 1890, the attendance was fifty-one, in 1891 it was fifty-six, and in 1892 fifty-eight. H. J. Greenslade, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. a. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 29 8 0 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 173 2 2 Current income from reserves .. .. 155 16 9 Office— Paia by School Commissioners .. .. 250 0 0 Salary .. .. .. .. 30 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 168 17 0 Other office expenses .. .. 210 0 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 122 1 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 725 0 0 Fees, fines, &c. .. .. .. 16 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 315 0 Sale of houses on reserve .. .. 21 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 32 16 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 11 12 9 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 17 13 0 Dr. Balance at end of year £318 711 Interest on current account .. .. 14 11 0 Less cash in hand .. 22 0 0 Endowment .. .. .. .. 8 2 6 296 7 11 School requisites .. .. .. 25 14 0 £1,044 16 8 £1,044 16 8 James McGowan, Chairman. Bichard A. Heald, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct, subject to the alteration initialled.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

. . . 3. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin, French, English, mathematics, and science (chemistry and electricity) for Junior University Scholarship examination. Lowest. —Nearly all the pupils admitted to the school have passed the Sixth Standard in the primary schools; they are therefore able to commence Norris's Primer of English Grammar and Abbott's English Composition; they also begin to learn Latin. French, geometry, and algebra.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Beceipts. £ s. d. - Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 62 9 5 By Management— Current income from reserves .. .. 436 1 6 Office salary .. .. .. 25 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 230 4 6 Other expenses .. .. .. 0 6 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 291 18 0 " Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 710 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 26 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 19 7 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 47 0 1 Book and stationery account and other temporary advances .. .. 6 10 6 _~..- Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 48 14 0 Rents, insurance, arid taxes .. .. 20 18 10 Expenses of leasing new endowments .. 27 10 9 Balance .. .. .. 89 5 8 ' £1,020 13 5 £1,020 13 5 E. Veale, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. - . Highest. —Latin : Principia Latina and Arnold's Latin Prose, Latin fables and stories. French : De Fiva's Grammaire dcs Grammaires, grammar and exercises, English translation into French prose, Soulier's Valeric. Arithmetic: The whole. Algebra: To quadratics, inclusive, Euclid : Books 1., IL, and part of 111., with deductions. History : Conquest to present period generally; and special periods for matriculation and Civil Service. Geography: Chisholm's Colonial. English: Smith and Hall's Grammar, analysis, parsing, and correction of sentences; Shakspeare's Borneo and Juliet and Coriolanus. Science: Sound, light, and heat. ' Drawing :' Boys, geometrical; girls, freehand and model. Lowest. —Latin : Principia, 1., exs. 1 to 13. French: De Jardin, exs. 1 to 64, avoir, etre, dormer. Arithmetic: Compound rules. Algebra: To division (easy examples of formula). History: Nelson's Primary History, Conquest, to James I. Geography: Petrie's, to page 64. Grammar : Morrison's, to page 48. Science : .Harrison's Mechanics, pp. 1 to 53. Beading: Boyal Beaders, IV. and V. Drawing : Boys, geometrical; girls, freehand. Mental arithmetic, map drawing, and drill throughout the school; dictation and writing in the lower forms; sewing for the girls.