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HOKITIKA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1896. Receipts. & s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. 992 9 0 By Management .. .. .. 5 5 0 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 37 0 0 Teachers' salaries (grant to Westland Paid by School Commissioners.. .. 60 0 0 Education Board .. .. .. 72 10 0 Rent of dwelling-house and grounds .. 45 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 101 1 6 Deposit on tender .. .. .. 10 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 212 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 0 10 Balance .. .. .. 962 19 0 £1,144 9 0 £1,144 9 0 John McWhietbe, Chairman. Charles Kirk, Secretary. Audited and found correct— J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

CHRIST'S COLLEGE GEAMMAB SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 15th May, 1896. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Endowments — By Balance .. .. .. .. 3,528 7 2 Price of land sold .. .. .. 1,700 0 0 Management—Office salary .. .. 175 0 0 Current income from land .. .. 1,795 14 3 Other office expenses .. .. 16 8 7 Income from Scholarships endowments 874 13 10 Teachers' salaries and allowances (inSehoolfees.. .. .. .. 1,966 1 6 eluding £300 to widow of late teacher) 2,923 010 Insurance on building damaged by fire.. 30 0 0 Examinations — Sundry incidental receipts not classified 15 18 . 8 Examiners' fees for scholarships, &c. 44 2 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 2,009 12 3 Other expenses .. .. .. 1119 1 Scholarships .. .. .. 808 10 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 27 8 11 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 72 12 2 Gleaning, fuel, light, caretaker, &o. .. 212 19 7 Fencing, repairs, &c... .. .. 106 1 2 Insurance .. .. .. .. 29 10 3 Interest on current account .. .. 129 1 0 Endowments Account— Expended on buildings .. .. 120 0 0 Eepairs to building damaged by fire .. 30 0 0 Grant to Boys' Games Fund .. .. 103 14 6 Expenses in connection with land estate, viz., rates, repairs, insurance, and lawcosts .. .. .. .. 53 411 £8,392 0 6 £8,392 0 C C, Chbistchuech, Warden. W. G. Bbittain, Bursar. Accounts (from which the above are extracts) were audited by Mr. A. A. M. McKellar.

2. Work done during the year 1896. Highest. —Latin, French, English, mathematics, and, as alternatives, Greek and science (chemistry and heat) to standard of Junior University Scholarships ; divinity. Lowest (Preparatory Department).—Relfe's Reader, No. 4, to page 212. Repetition. Brief History of England, to page 88. Geography—Zealandia, Part 1, and a considerable portion of Part 2. Grammar —parts of speech and simple parsing; construction of sentences. Composition —Reproduction of descriptive narratives; letter-writing. Arithmetic —addition, substraction, multiplication, division (simple and compound), with easy problems. Drawing is taught as an optional subject, without extra fee and in school hours; carpentry and joinery, wood-turning and forge-work, outside school hours, at a fee of ss. per term. 3. Scholarships and Exhibitions. There are many scholarships, so arranged that, taken in succession, they cover the whole period of school life from an early age until the limit of age for Junior University Scholarships has been reached. The Entrance Scholarships are open to all boys who have not already entered the school; the others both to boys already attending it and to those from other schools. For Somes Scholarships a preference is to be given ceteris paribus to the kin of the foundress, Mrs. Maria Somes, or of her husband, the late Joseph Somes, Esq.; and candidates must be members of the Church of England, or of some church in communion with it. This restriction does not apply to Entrance Scholarships, or to the special grants of free education sometimes made by the governing body to meet special cases. Entrance Scholarships. —Six are to be offered, if funds permit, in each yearly, namely : (a) Two to boys under the age of thirteen years on the first day of December in that year ; (b) two to boys under the age of twelve years on the same day ; and (c) two to the most deserving boys of either age. The subjects of the examination, which is to be held in the month of December, are English (composition, grammar, &c), arithmetic, geography (general), and history. The scholarships are tenable for two years, and cover the ordinary school fees for tuition. Somes Junior Scholarships. —Five are to be offered, if funds permit, in each year, namely : (a) Three to boys under the age of sixteen years on the first day of December in that year ; and (b) two to boys under the age of fourteen years on the same day. Candidates, to be eligible, must pass