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There is a well-fitted carpenter's shop, with six benches, that accommodate four boys each. The building is thoroughly lighted from both sides, and supplied with a number of gas-jets. Lessons are given twice a week by Mr. W. H. Barrett, an instructor of the Technical School, for one hour on Mondays and for two hours on Fridays. The boys all work to scale, making their own drawings of the work before it is undertaken. Some of them are taking up wood-carving with success. Girls' School. Highest. —Latin, mathematics, French, heat, and botany, as for junior scholarship examination. Lowest. —Grammar, parsing, analysis of simple sentences, Longmans' Grammar, to page 60; geography, Europe; history, Gardiner's Outlines (part); composition; dictation and spelling; reading and poetry; arithmetic, four simple and four compound rules. 4. Scholarships. College. College scholarships : Free education, five. Nine scholarships arising from funds given by private benefactors, and ten Education Board scholarships, were held at the College. Girls' School. College scholarships: Free education, eight. Izard scholarship, £25, one. Nine Education Board scholarships were held at the Girls' School.

NAPIEB HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. The schools were examined by Mr. T. W. Bowe, M.A., who sums up his detailed report as follows : "It will be seen that the examination has been on the whole most satisfactory, and it has confirmed me in the good opinion of the work done at the schools which my examination last year led me to form." Twelve pupils from the schools passed the Matriculation and Civil Service Examinations. H. A. Cornford, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. [ Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 188 18 0j By Office salary .. .. .. 60 0 0 Mortgages repaid .. .. .. 2,100 0 0; Other office expenses.. .. .. 12 12 2 Current income from reserves.. .. 346 15 6 Other expenses of management .. 7 18 0 From property not a reserve .. .. 683 15 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,608 1 4 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Boarding-school account .. .. 131 14 0 paid purchase-money .. .. 155 2 6 Examinations—Examiners'fees .. 20 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners— „ Other expenses .. 2 13 4 Examiner's fee .. .. .. 18 15 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 267 1 9 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,213 5 4 1 Prizes .. .. .. .. 5 4 6 Board of scholarship children, rail and Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 26 6 4 coach fares .. .. .. 265 16 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 105 12 3 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 81 13 9 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, Refund cadet corps .. .. .. 10 0 0 and other temporary advances .. 79 14 2 „ gas, gymnasium .. .. 010 0 Site and buildings—Purchases and new Excess of school fee paid .. .. 110 works .. .. .. .. 70 19 2 Excess of cheque .. .. .. 0 10 Ditto —Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 128 17 9 Amount lent on mortgage, as shown in „ Rents, insurance, and taxes .. 82 12 1 previous year's expenditure.. .. 900 0 0 Returned fee .. .. .. 110 Mortgages .. .. .. .. 1,350 0 0 Deposit .. .. .. .. 1,500 0 0 Cash in bank .. .. .. 505 5 3 £5,965 13 1 ; £5,965 13~1 H. A. Cornford, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest —Mathematics—Geometry, Euclid, Books I. to VI., with exercises ; algebra, to permutations and combinations ; trigonometry, to solution of triangles; arithmetic, general. English —Shakespeare's Hamlet; Macaulay's Essays on Walpole and Warren Hastings; grammar and history of language and composition. Latin—Livy, Hannibalian War; Virgil, iEneid V. ; grammar and composition. Greek —Smith's Initia (Part I.). French—La Verre d'Eau, Scribe; grammar and continuous prose. Science—Elementary physiology and botany. Loivest. —The syllabus of Standard 111., Elementary Code. Latin—To the regular verbs. Science—Elementary chemistry.