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HOKITIKA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1899. Beceipts. £ s. d. I Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in bank at beginning of year .. 1,195 15 6 Office salary (seoretary) .. .. 5 5 0 Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 34 10 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 0 5 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 200 0 0 I Grant to Wostland Education Board .. 100 0 0 Kent of house and grounds .. > 39 5 0 Repairs to house .. .. .. 12 6 Insuranoe of house .. .. .. 2 12 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 7 6 0 Credit balance at end of year, viz.: — Fixed deposits .. .. .. 1,150 0 0 Current acccunt .. .. ... 203 0 0 £1,469 10 6 £1,469 10 6 John McWhikteh, Chairman. Chas. Kick, Seoretary. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

CHEISTCHUECH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. C. E. Bevan-Brown, M.A.; Mr. B. K. S. Lawrence, 8.A.; Mr. W. Walton, 8.A.; Mr. R. M. Lain™, M.A., 8.50.; Mr. R. Speight, M.A., B.Sc.; Mr. O. T. J. Alpers, M.A. ; Mr. A. Merton ; Mr. T. H. Jackson, 8.A.; Mr. J. H. Smith, M.A.; Mr. T. W. Cane, M.A. ; Mr. P. F. Rowland, 8.A.; Mr. F. B. Sykes, 8.A.; Mr. S. H. Seager ; Major U. V. Richards ; Mr. H. Wells ; Mr. W. Garrard ; Mr. K. C. Kent. 1. Eeport. During the second term of the year the headmaster was absent, owing to illness, and was finally obliged to ask for leave of absence for a year, which was granted from the Ist September, 1899, Mr. B. K. S. Lawrence, 8.A., the senior assistant-master, being appointed acting headmaster during Mr. Bevan-Brown's absence. The honours gained during the year were as follows:— Of four boys who entered, one took a Junior University Scholarship, being fourth on the list; one came third on the list, but being too young is unable to hold the scholarship; one passed with credit, and the other boy matriculated. An old boy was third on the credit list. Of fourteen boys who entered for matriculation, ten passed. Two passed the Medical Preliminary. Th/ee won senior scholarships granted by the Board of Education. A. C. Sandstein, M.8., Edinburgh, won the Murchison Memorial Scholarship, open to graduates of Edinburgh and London. Twelve boys entered for the Junior Civil Service examination, the results of which are not yet known ; four entered and all passed the Senior Civil Service examination.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1899. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balanoe .. .. .. .. 11 11 1 Office salary .. .. .. .. 100 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 3,068 7 4 Teaohera'salaries and allowances .. 3,986 1 1 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,842 15 0 Examinations— Interest .. .. .. .. 3 18 5 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 72 2 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 49 13 3 Other expenses .. .. .. 11 15 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 39 15 4 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 127 14 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 53 8 11 Repairs, renewals, fittings, &c. .. ■.. 87 19 6 Insurance .. .. .. .. 30 11 1 Annual grant to cadet corps .. .. 15 0 0 Grant to Games Fund, including rent of crioket-ground .. .. .. 45 0 0 Chemicals and apparatus .. .. 27 6 5 Inspecting reserves and advertising .. 134 2 3 Interest on Loan Account (£5,000) .. 200 0 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 10 7 5 General expenses .. .. .. 35 1 4 £4,976 5 1 £4,976 5 1 H. R. Webb, Chairman. A. Cracropt Wilson, Eegistrar.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Mathematics —Euclid, Books I. to VI.; trigonometry, to solution of triangles ; Ward's Examination Papers on Trigonometry ; Loney's Trigonometry; algebra, to permutations (Hall and Knight's Algebra); Hall and Knight's Algebraical Exercises; arithmetic, general. Standard, Junior University Scholarship. Latin —Terence, Scenes from Andria; Virgil's iEneid, VI.; Livy, Book V.; History (Horton's History of the Eomans); composition; Bradley's Arnold and Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose; grammar and antiquities. Standard, Junior University Scholarship. English —Macaulay's Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson ; Chaucer's Prologue; Scott's Eob Eoy; Hale's Longer English Poems ; Abbott's How to Write Clearly ; Longmans' Handbook of English Literature ; Morris's Historical English Grammar ; miscellaneous