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The Governors have taken steps to thoroughly renovate the interior of the Boys' High School, and to put the bath-room and lavatories in order The grounds surrounding both schools have been carefully attended to, and a large piece adjoining the buildings at the Boys' High School has been levelled and sown down with grass. A further sum of £300 has been paid off' the mortgage. I have, See., Geoege Sumptee, Secretary

2. General Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance 540 510 By Management . 60 0 0 Capital Account—Price of reserves sold 20 0 0 Ranger 10 0 0 Current income from reserves 1,082 7 4 Teachers'salaries and allowances— Interest on moneys invested and on un- Girls 390 0 0 paid purchase-money 33 17 6 Boys 642 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners 56 13 7 Prizes 5 0 0 School fees — Printing, stationery, and advertising 15 8 9 Girls 187 1 4 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. 64 17 0 Boys 218 19 6 Book and stationery account and other Interest on current account 6 0 0 temporary advances 12 8 1 Valuators 26 0 0 Site and buildings—New work 108 15 7 Fencing 12 13 6 Repairs 15 13 3 Interest on current account and on loan 91 19 9 Expenses of survey &c. 3 10 Solicitor's fees 9 4 6 Incidentals 4 4 4 Paid off mortgage . 300 0 0 Balance 425 19 4 £2,171 5 1 £2,171 5 1 3. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1894. Assets. £ b. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Rents uncollected 589 7 2 Loan on buildings 1,100 0 0 Fees uncollected, girls 69 19 8 Scholarship fund 125 0 0 Fees uncollected, boys 159 1 6 Interest on mortgage 37 11 3 Deferred-payment balances .. 568 2 2 Amount due secretary 4 18 Interest on purchase-money .. 69 12 8 Amount outstanding 2 17 0 Cash in hand and in bank 430 1 0 School-buildings. Reserves vested in Board by " The Waitaki High School Act, 1878." £1,886 4 2 £1,269 9 11 Donald Boeeie, Chairman. Geoege Sumptee, Secretary Examined and found correct. —James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

4. Woek of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —As for matriculation drawing (freehand), shorthand, and book-keeping. Lowest. —Abbott's Via Latina Macmillan's First French Course , Contes dcs Fees, 20 pages, Gardiner's History, Chisholm's Geography Mason's Grammar Best's Natural Science. Drawing, shorthand, book-keeping, and drill. Girls. The work done by the highest form in the school, irrespective of the work done by one Junior University Scholarship candidate, was as follows English Literature Bowen, Studies in English, Hereward the Wake, Kingsley, King John, Shakespeare. English Grammar and Composition Lessons and exercises in composition, weekly essay, Smith and Hall's English Grammar , etymology , Morris, Elementary Historical Grammar, 100 pages, suffixes exercises in analysis and parsing. English History The Settlement of the Constitution (Epoch) Geography Chisholm s Geography Europe map-drawing. Latin Principia Latina, Part IV., finished, Caesar's Gallic War Book 1., finished, Caesar's Invasion of Britain (sight translation) Heatley and Kingdon's Excerpta Facilia, finished. French Advanced exercises in Chardenal, Le Roi dcs Montagues. Arithmetic Goyen s Higher Arithmetic, the whole subject. Euclid Books I. and 11. with exercises. Algebra Up to quadratic equations, inclusive. Physiology Murche's Physiology finished. Scripture reading, also Acts of Apostles, chapters i. to vii. The work done by the lowest form is as follows English Literature Chambers's Beader No. IV , Miss Woods' Second Boetry Book, Part I. English Grammar Lessons from the blackboard and composition exercises in analysis and parsing, lessons and exercises in composition. English History Petrie's Geography South America, Africa, Asia, part of New Zealand. French Chardenal s First French Course, up to exercise 115. Arithmetic Compound rules, weights and measures problems, decimals, and fractions. Science Object lessons. Scripture Matthew's Gospel, chapters i. to xi. Drawing Freehand. Drill Exercises with rods and dumbbells. Singing : Exercises in modulation, songs (Tonic Sol Fa system).