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p. 44. Geography—Zealandia, Part I. Bepetition—Mullins's Selections. Arithmetic—Upper Division: Simple and compound rules to long division of money. Lower Division: Quite elementary. Drawing is an optional subject, but is taught in school hours and without extra fee. Special attention is given to mechanical and geometrical drawing. Carpentry, turning, and use of a forge are taught outside school hours at a fee of ss. per term. Work is done to scale from drawings made in the drawing school. Useful work about the premises, including the making of a large ornamental window for the boys' reading-room, has been done. There is an elementary class for the youngest boys, in which the work is somewhat in the nature of Sloyd. The following subjects, not strictly technical, are often mentioned in returns of technical work : —Chemistry and heat, taught to all boys in the higher forms; elementary physics, taught as an alternative subject in the lower middle forms ; book-keeping, also as an alternative subject; and elementary mensuration and land-surveying, in which a special class was held during part of the year.

BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL, CHBISTCHUECH. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To current income from reserves.. .. 3,179 11 9 By Balance .. .. .. .. 33 6 6 School fees.. .. .. .. 2,034 7 6 Office salary .. .. .. 90 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 5 18 9 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 4,001 17 6 Sale of parsing notes.. .. .. 3 4 2 Examinations —Examiners'fees .. 77 14 0 Interest on promissory note for rent .. 014 11 Other expenses .. .. .. 11 12 9 Payment for fencing on Reserve 2011 .. 58 0 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 15 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 16 4 10 Prizes .. .. .. .. 37 18 10 Printing, stationery, advertising, books, stamps, and telegrams .. .. 182 17 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 55 7 4 Site and buildings .. .. .. 57 11 2 Fencing, repairs, &c... .. .. 51 17 11 Insurance .. .. .. .. 30 4 9 Road and fencing .. .. .. 101 5 5 Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. .. .. .. .. 19 2 Transfer to Buildings Account .. 31 7 5 Grants to Cricket Club and Cadet Corps 60 0 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 22 211 Grant to School Library .. .. 5 0 0 Chemicals and apparatus .. .. 27 5 9 Inspecting reserves and advertising .. 123 18 3 Interest on Loan Account .. .. 250 0 0 Sundries .. .. 30 4 7 £5,298 1 11 I £5,298 1 11 H. B. Webb, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Begistrar, Canterbury College.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.- —Latin—Page's Horace, Selections from Satires and Epistles; Virgil's .ZEneid IV.; Cicero; Pro Lege Manilia; Smith's Smaller History of Eome; Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose; Kennedy's Eevised Latin Primer. English—Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Longmans' Handbook of English Literature; Chaucer's Man of Lawe's Tale, Pardoner's Tale, &c.; Scott's Old Mortality; Browning's Strafford; Morris's Historical English Grammar. French—L'Avare, Moliere; Dumas' Monte Christo; Third French Beader and Writer ; Moriarty's French Grammar. Mathematics —Ward's Examination Papers on Trigonometry ; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Steven's Euclid, Part 11. (Books 111. to VI.); Loney's Trigonometry ; Hall and Knight's Algebraical Exercises. Geography—Meiklejohn's New Comparative Geography. Science—Chemistry—Jago's Inorganic Chemistry (Longmans' Advanced Series); physics (advanced), Wright's Heat. Lowest. —Latin —Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course (Part I.); Shorter Latin Primer. English —Chambers's Fluent Eeaders (No. 4); Palgrave's Children's Treasury of English Songs (Part I.); Nelson's Brief History ; Longmans' Junior School Grammar. French—First French Beader and Writer. Mathematics—Nelson's Boyal Arithmetic, No. 4b. Geography—Hill's First Lessons in Geography. Science—Chemistry—Boscoe's Chemistry Primer'; elementary science, no text-book used. 3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to thirty-four scholars. Fourteen scholarships of the North Canterbury Education Board and one of the Wanganui Education Board were held at the school, and also one given by the Christchurch Caledonian Society.