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WHANGAEBI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Ebpoet op the Board. The school has continued to be under the charge of Mr. E. Lupton, who has had an assistant during the whole year, and also a temporary junior assistant during the second and third terms of the year. During the last term of the year the average attendance of Dupils was thirty-one, being the highest ever reached. At the public examinations held during the year four pupils matriculated, one passed the Senior Civil Service examination, and five the Junior Civil Service, and one gained a District Senior Scholarship. The Board of Governors grant annually two free tuition scholarships, tenable at the discretion of the Board for three years. The scholars are selected from the primary public schools by competitive examinations. J. McKinnon, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1899. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d Balanoe .. .. .. .. 137 19 6 Office salary .. .. .. 11 19 9 Inoome from reserves .. .. .. 49 7 8 Other office expenses .. .. .. 19 2 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 80 0 0 Teacher's salary and allowances .. .. 280 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 184 2 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 4 18 4 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 010 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 18 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 4 0 0 Purchases and new works .. .. 2 19 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 21 2 9 Bents, insuranoe, and taxes .. .. 7 16 2 Balanoe .. .. .. .. 116 5 9 £451 19 2 £451 19 2 J. M. Killen, Chairman. J. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Warbueton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —To standard required for Senior Civil Service and Matriculation examinations : Latin —Tutorial Latin Grammar ; Allcroft's Latin Composition; ViaLatina; Ceesar; Virgil ; Unseen (Matric). French—Advanced Chardenal; Perini's Exercises; Grammaire dcs Grammaires ; Contanseau's Extracts. English—Mason's Larger Grammar; Nichol's Primer of English Composition, with exercises on the same; Shakespeare's Julius Cassar ; Thackeray's Esmond; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature. History—Lupton's. Mathematics—Arithmetic ; Hall and Knight's Algebra, to permutations ; Euclid, Hall and Stevens's, 1.-IV.; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry. Science—Jago's Chemistry ; Foster and Shore's Physiology. Lowest. —Latin—Principia Latina, 1., to exercise 39. French —Chardenai's First Course, to Verbs (Irreg.); easy translation. English—West's English Grammar ; reading and repetition from Eoyal Eeader VI. ; English History, Brunswick Period (Buckley); geography, Europe ; composition, drawing. Arithmetic —Southern Cross Series, Standard V. Algebra—Elementary rules. Euclid—Book 1., 1-26.

4. Arrangements for Manual, Commeecial, and Technical Insteuction ; Gymnastics, etc. The lower school take freehand drawing. Several pupils work through Thornton's Bookkeeping under supervision of headmaster. Classes for shorthand are formed during the winter months. All the boys swim.

5. Scholarships. The Governors gave free tuition to six scholars. One Auckland Education Board District Scholarship was held at the school.

THAMES BOYS' AND GIELS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. James Adams, B.A. ; Mr. Benjamin H. Low, B.A. ; Miss Mary R. Foy. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1899. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s . d. Balanoe .. .. .. .. 836 6 8 Office salary .. .. .. ~ 30 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 178 18 0 i Other office expenses .. .. .. 613 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 80 0 0 Other expenses of management .. .. 20 19 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 317 2 0 j Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 700 0 0 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 125 17 1 j Examiners' fees .. .. .. 4 4 0 Refund from reserve management .. 27 7 6 Priuting, stationery, and advertising .. 510 0 Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 13 13 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 31 11 2 Purchases and new works .. .. 32 16 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 46 18 9 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 71 12 9 Legal expenses .. .. .. 11 16 0 Bank charge for keeping account .. 0 5 0 School requisites .. .. .. 22 7 2 Balance .. .. .. . .. 594 10 n £1.579 4 3 £1,579 4 3 S. Caetee, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Waeburton, Controller and Auditor-General,