17

8.—9

AKAKOA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. ... 117 12 11 By Office expenses .. .. .. 070 Current income from reserves .. .. 155 4 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 200 0 0 School fees .. .. .. 108 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 2 12 0 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 418 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 418 6 Interest .. .. .. .. 2 5 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 8 12 0 Book and stationery account, and other temporary advances .. .. 4 0 7 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 40 15 5 Legal expenses .. .. .. 4 2 0 Interest on overdraft .. .. .. 0 10 Balance .. .. .. .. 122 11 11 £388 0 5 £388 0 5 H. C. Jacobson, Chairman. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Matriculation work. English—Henry V.; Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted Village; Longmans' School Composition; Mason's Grammar; Abbott's How to Parse. Latin: Livy, Hannibalian War; Virgil, iEneid, Book I.; Via Latina. Euclid, Books 1., 11., 111. Algebra : Quadratic equations. French : Le Conscrit; Macmillan's Second Course. Lowest. —Arithmetic as far as Vulgar' Fractions. English: Longmans' Geographical Beader, No. VI. ; Longmans' School Grammar and Junior Composition. Latin : Via Latina, page 39. 3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to three pupils.

TIMABU HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. Last year the school was examined by outside examiners of considerable experience, and the reports were in all respects satisfactory not only in the highest classes, where the work was stated to reach the standard of other good secondary schools, but also as to the soundness of the teaching in the middle and lower parts of the school. Two pupils obtained Junior University Scholarships at the examination held in December, 1892; and five others passed matriculation. Four pupils, formerly junior Board scholars, obtained senior Board of Education scholarships. Gas is now laid to the school laboratory, and the practical work in physics and chemistry is much benefited thereby. The hand-and-eye training has been reduced more to a system : all juniors do Sloyd cardboard models (chiefly of geometrical forms) and geometrical drawing. Twenty-nine boys take the carpentry lessons, which are arranged to form a course occupying between two and three years. The seniors have to set off the work in the workshop from their own drawings. It is to be regretted that the number of girls in the girls' school is so small. The number in both schools would probably be much larger if they were taught in separate buildings. Both schools also suffer from the want of school-boardinghouses. The population of Timaru forms only a small part of the population of South Canterbury, and yet comparatively few of the pupils attending the school come from the country districts. The buildings are in a fairly good condition. J. H. Bampield, Secretary. 2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1892. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 310 0 8 By Management— Endowments — Office salary .. .. .. 70 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 1,272 10 10 Other office expenses .. .. 9 16 8 Interest on moneys invested.. .. 115 0 0 Other expenses .. .. .. 22 5 1 School fees .. .. .. .. 558 7 2 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 1,446 7 8 Interest on fixed deposit .. .. 315 0 Examiners' foes .. .. .. 38 0 0 Investment repaid .. .. .. 500 2 0 Cricket club .. .. .. .. 3 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 19 1 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 40 15 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 127 14 1 Book and stationery account and other temporary advances .. .. 32 8 5 Site and buildings, new works .. .. 35 0 2 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 12 16 6 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 32 8 6 Interest on current account .. .. 0 6 0 Endowments .. .. .. .. 3 7 6 Balance .. .. .. .. 866 8 6 £2,759 15 8 £2,759 15 8 Henry W. Harper, Chairman. J. 11. Bamfield, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General. 3—E. 9.