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3. Woek op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —Up to standard required for Junior University Scholarships : Latin—Eevised Latin Primer ; Steadman's Latin Grammar Papers ; Arnold's Latin Prose Composition ; Sargeant's Passages for Latin Translation ; Virgil's iEneid, II.; Tacitus, Agricola ; Sallust, Jugurtha ; Horace, Select Epistles and Satires; Tod and Longworth's Latin Unseen Translation; Cruttwell and Banton's Specimens of Latin Literature ; Wilkin's Primer of Soman Antiquities; Smith's Smaller History of Rome. English—Nesfield, English Grammar, Past and Present; Nichol's Primer of English Composition, with .exercises ; Shakespeare, Julius Caesar; Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale; Esmond. French —Wellington College French Grammar; Turrell, Lecons Francaises, Prose et Vers; Souvestre, Un Philosophe Sous les Toits ; George Sand, La Mare au Diable. Mathematics—Arithmetic ; Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Jones and Cheyne's Algebraical Exercises ; Euclid, Books 1.-VI. ; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry; Ward's Trigonometrical Exercises. Science —Silvanus Thompson's Electricity and Magnetism ; Eoscoe's Chemistry ; Tilden's Practical Chemistry. Loivest. —English—Mason's First Notions ; Chambers's Fluent Eeaders ; Blackwood's Geographical Eeaders; Blackwood's Historical Eeaders. Chardenal's First French Course. Longmans' Shilling Arithmetic, as far as vulgar fractions. Girls. Highest. —ln Latin, English, French, and mathematics the work undertaken is the same as on the boys' side. Science —Miss Aitken's Botany ; Jessop's Applied Mathematics. Lowest. —The work is the same as that of the boys.

4. Arrangements foe Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instbuction ; Gymnastics, etc. Modem Side. —Book-keeping and commercial arithmetic, mensuration, and shorthand are among the optional subjects for boys, and special attention is given to mechanical drawing. Science. —The school offers special advantages for the study of natural and technical science. The upper forms have the use of a well-furnished chemical laboratory. Science teaching is begun as early as possible; the subjects for the lowest forms are elementary chemistry and physics. In the highest forms on the boys' side the subjects taken are chemistry (including qualitative analysis), and electricity and magnetism; in the highest form on the girls' side botany and mechanics. Mechanical Drawing. —The course in this subject includes plane and solid geometry, followed by working drawings from actual machinery. Freehand Drawing includes outline from the flat and from model; shading ditto ; drawing and shading from the antique, and (to advanced pupils) still life in oil and water colour. Workshop. —lnstruction and practice are given in carpentry, joinery, and turning, in the school workshop. The classes meet in the luncheon hour and after afternoon school. The only charge is the actual value of timber used. Drill and Gymnastics. —The gymnasium is complete with all the latest improvements. On the girls' side drill is held during school hours, and is compulsory, except in the case of those specially exempted ; gymnastic exercises are taught out of school hours, and are optional. Cadet Corps. —There is a cadet corps, under the Defence Department, composed of boys attending the school. The corps musters forty-eight strong. Art Needlework. —A class is held in the girls' side for one hour each week. Swimming. —The Board of Governors grant the sum of £5 annually, which is divided between the swimming sports funds on each side of the school. Evening Classes. —Evening classes, open to the public, are held at the school, Symonds Street, on the evening of all week-days in term, except Saturdays, provided that not less than eight names are entered for each class. The fees, which must be paid before a name is entered, are—For one subject, 15s. ; for a second subject, 7s. 6d. a term.

5. Scholarships. The College gave free education to eighteen foundation scholars, twelve holders of certificates of proficiency from the Education Board, eight children of members of the staff, and one Maori pupil. There were three College scholars, four Eawlings scholars, and nine John Williamson scholars. Seventy-seven district scholarships awarded by the Auckland Education Board were held at the College.

AUCKLAND GIELS' HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1899. Receipts. £ s. d. | Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance .. .. .. .. 5,867 18 4 Loan to Grammar Sohool .. .. 5,000 0 0 Timber sold .. .. .. • • 1,198 10 7 Paid Auokland Grammar Sohool, interest Interest .. .. .. .. 274 0 0 on loan .. .. .. .. 274 0 0 ! Bates on endowment for year ending 31st Maroh, 1900.. .. .. .. 17 9 2 , Bank oharges, &o. .. .. .. 0 7 6 i Balance .. .. .. .. 2,048 12 3 i £7,340 8 11 J £7,340 8 11 Eichd. Hobbs, Chairman. Vincent E. Rice, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Waebueton, Controller and Auditor-General.