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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1895. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves.. .. 1,728 15 6 By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 2,097 6 3 Paid by School Commissioners .. 67 19 1 Management— School fees .. .. .. .. 3,951 12 9 Office salary .. .. .. 154 3 4 Levin Scholarship money .. .. 20 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. 37 15 3 Moore and Ehodes Scholarship income 51 4 8 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,020 11 4 Turnbull Scholarship income .. .. 38 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 77 10 6 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 1,720 010 Scholarships .. .. 83 6 8 Prizes .. .. .. .. 8 3 10 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 243 16 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 135 17 10 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Labour .. .. .. .. 10 12 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 40 18 9 Insurance and taxes .. .. 311 3 3 Furniture and apparatus .. .. 11l 810 Interest on current account .. .. 150 0 9 Endowments— Bates and survey .. .. .. 95 6 4 Interest on cost of reclaimed land .. 136 2 8 Fencing .. .. .. .. 29 16 3 Tuition-fees refunded or paid over to Technical School .. .. .. 117 18 11 Legal expenses .. .. .. 7 8 0 Interest on cost of buildings .. .. 708 5 4 Total .. .. .. £7,577 12 10 Total .. .. .. £7,577 12 10 J. E. BiiAiK, Chairman. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary. Examined and Jbuni correct. —James Edward FitzGebald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Forms. College. Highest. —Latin : Translation, Livy, Book XXII.; Virgil, iEneid, Book I.; compositionBryan's Caesarian Prose, Bradley's Arnold, Bradley's Arnold's Aids; sight translation. History: Horton's History of the Romans; antiquities; notes; grammar. Mathematics: Euclid, Books L, 11., 111., IV., and VI. ; Algebra, Hall and Knight's, to the end of permutations and combinations; Arithmetic papers ; Trigonometry, Lock's Trigonometry, to page 229. English : Literature—Shakespeare's Tempest, Chaucer's Squire's Tale, general reading; grammar, Nome's Historical Grammar ; composition—Nichol's Exercises, paraphrasing, essays. French : Literature—Zola's L'Attaque dv Moulin, Bue, La Camaraderie, Labiche, Voyage de Mons. Perichon ; grammar —Brachet's Grammar, Bue's First Studies in French Idioms. Science: Chemistry, Jago's Advanced Text-book of Inorganic Chemistry ; physics, Wright's Heat. Lowest. —Latin: Abbott's Via Latina to Ex. XXIV. Mathematics : Arithmetic, simple and compound rules, reduction. English: Parts of speech, essays on subjects read, dictation, and spelling. History : Gardiner, to end of Edward I.'s reign. New Zealand Geographical Header. Nelson's Eoyal Eeader No. 4. Analysis of easy simple sentences. Science : Object-lessons. Girls' High School. Highest. —Mathematics : Euclid, algebra, trigonometry, arithmetic, as for Junior Scholarship. Latin : Translation —Caesar's Gallic War, Book VII.; Virgil, Georgic II.; Horace, Satires, Book L, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10; sight. Grammar and composition : Bradley's Arnold's Latin prose composition ; test and exercises. Horton's Roman History. French : Translation —Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, La Camaraderie, Athalie (part) ; grammar and Havet's French Composition (selection) ; irregular verbs —Brachet's French Grammar, Book III.; syntax—Bue's French Idioms, French-English, pp. 54-91; English-French, pp. 1-38. Heat: As for Junior Scholarship. Botany :As for Junior Scholarship. English: Morris's Elementary Historical Grammar, pp. 1-210; parts of Mason's Grammar, exercises from How to Write Clearly; Shakespeare's Coriolanus; Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I.; Samson Agonistes ; Chaucer's Prologue to Canterbury Tales. Composition based on plays read, and on parts of Carlyle's Heroes and Hero-worship, and Samson Agonistes. Lowest.— Grammar: Easy parsing and analysis of simple and easy compound sentences. Geography: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, from My First Geography; New Zealand Geography from notes. History : Gardiner's History to end of reign of Eichard I. Composition : Some of the first parts of Hiawatha, The Pygmies, and Aladdin. Beading : To page 198 of New Zealand Geographical Eeader. Poetry. Dictation. Spelling. Arithmetic : Weights and measures, four simple and four compound rules; least common multiple and highest common factor. 4. Scholarships. See Board's Eeport.