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Girls' College. To Boarding-fees .. .. .. 1,215 14 4 By Boarding expenses .. .. .. 914 19 9 Tuition-fees .. .. .. 1,462 5 2 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 975 17 5 Scholarships— Foundation .. .. .. 60 4 0 Endowed .. .. .. .. 82 12 0 Free tuition .. .. .. 126 0 0 Governors', Examiners', and Auditors' fees .. .. .. .. 64 15 3 Stationery and prizes .. .. 93 2 4 Printing and advertising .. .. 19 4 1 Gas .. .. .. .. 58 4 8 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 15 0 0 Law costs .. .. .. .. 15 9 Insurance .. .. .. .. 28 3 9 Repairs .. .. .. .. 30 9 1 Furniture .. .. . I .. 61 15 3 Secretary .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 17 15 0 5,822 13 3 Balance .. .. .. 599 8 7 £6,422 1 10 £6,422 1 10 J. Hollo way, Secretary. We certify that we have examined the above accounts, and compared them with the several vouchers relating thereto, and have found them correct. John King, ) . ~, A. A. ScAiFE,| Audltors -

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —Latin—Virgil, iEneid, Book IX. ; Cicero, Pro Milone; sight translation from Horace, Virgil, Cicero, and Livy. Soman History —Horton. Grammar and composition— Miscellaneous. Greek—Plato, Apologia Socratis; Homer, Odyssey, Book IX. Mathematics— Euclid, I. to VI., with deductions, Hall and Stevens ; algebra, to bionomial theorem, Hall and Knight's Higher Algebra; trignometry, Lock; dynamics, Lock; statics, Hamblin Smith; hydrostatics, Hamblin Smith. English —Grammar, Mason (the whole book); composition, Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11. ; Burke, Beflections on the French Bevolution; Chaucer, Clerk's Tale; Stopford. Brooke, Primer of English Literature; Scott and Dalgleish, Higher Grade English. Science—Sound and light; Ganot's Physics; Chemistry, Jago's Advanced. French—De Tocqueville, L'Ancien Begime et la Bevolution ; Dumas, Les Demoiselles de St. Cyr; French literature, Saintsbury; Grammar and Composition, Eve and De Baudiss, Blouet. Lowest. —Grammar—Hall's Primary. History—Gardiner's Outlines. Geography—Longmans' Series 1., British Isles and British possessions. Beading—Longmans' Geographical Beaders. Object-lessons. Latin—Morris, Elementa Latina. French—Chardenal, First French Course, &c, Ex. Ito 90. Arithmetic—As for third and fourth standards. For manual work an instructor has been appointed and a workshop is in contemplation. Girls. Highest. —Mathematics—Todhunter's Larger Algebra to binomial theorem; Lock's Trigonometry ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Books I. to IV. ; Definitions of Books V. and VI. Latin— Grammar, Bradley's Arnold's; Abbott's Latin Prose Composition; Latin Prose at sight and prepared. Translation, Cicero, Pro Milone; Virgil, iEneid, Book IX.; Georgics, 11. French— Grammar: Brachet's Historical Grammar ; Wellington College Grammar ; Bue's Idioms ; Blouet's French Prose. Translation :De Tocqueville's French Bevolution; Scribe's Le Verre d'Eau; Dumas's Les Demoiselles de St. Cyr. Science—Electricity, heat, and sound. English—Morris's Historical Grammar ; Mason's Grammar; Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for the English People; Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Anglo-Saxon Primer; First and Second Middle English Primers ; Lectures on the Literature of Period; Beadings from Authors of the Period ; Shakespeare's Borneo and. Juliet and Hamlet. History—Lectures on Period. Political Economy— Walker and Jevons. Loivest. —Arithmetic, Simple and compound rules. English—Beading ; writing ; spelling ; composition; parts of speech ; easy parsing; Phoebe's Tales from Shakespeare. Geography— The chief divisions of the world (Europe and New Zealand more particularly). Gardiner's History, Part I. Object-lessons and elementary botany. Sewing is taught in the middle and lower school. A cooking class was held during the winter months. Freehand drawing is taught in all the forms. Model drawing is taught in the middle and upper school.

4. Scholarships. Boys' College. Endowed: Tinline, £52 125.; Newcome, £24; Bichmond, £24; Stafford, £20; Fell, £16. College : One at £32 12s. ; one at £16 ; one at £14 ; one at £12 ; one at £6 ; one at £5 ; one at £4; one at £3.