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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1899. Receipts. £ s. <3. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance .. .. .. .. 228 19 7 Office salary .. .. .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 288 7 2 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,515 4 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 131 19 7 Examinations— School fees .. .. .. .. 1,458 19 6 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 53 9 0 Proceeds from cooking-class .. .. 23 2 7 Other expenses .. .. .. 11 8 6 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 240 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 24 19 H Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 55 0 3 Gleaaing and fuel .. .. .. 20 7 0 Repairs .. .. .. .. 914 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 10 7 6 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 715 4 Expenses of cooking-class .. .. 21 19 5 New ventilators .. .. .. 11 1 0 Microsoope .. .. .. .. 5 10 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 212 4 Sundries .. .. .. .. 26 2 7 ' Balance in hand and in bank at end of i year .. .. .. .. 55 17 7 £2,131 8 5 £2,131 8 5 H. R. Webb, Chairman. A. Craceoft Wilson, Eegistrar.

3. WOEK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest. —All work up to the standard required for Junior University Scholarship candidates. English—Mason's Grammar ; Morris's Historical English Grammar (elementary) ; Longmans' Literature, Part V.; Chosen English (Ellis) ; Shakespeare's Hamlet and Julius Caesar. Mathematics —Arithmetic, without text-book; Hall and Knight's Algebraj Loney's Trigonometry, Part I.; Hall and Stevens's Euclid. Latin—Bradley's Arnold's Prose Composition ; Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom; Stedman's Examination Papers in Miscellaneous Grammar and Idioms ; Simpson's Ceesarian Prose ; Horace, Odes, Book IV., and Carmen Sseculare ; Cicero, De Lege Manilia; Livy, Hannibalian War; Virgil, Books 111. and IX. ; Caesar, Book I. Science — Wright's Heat; Dendy and Lucas's Botany ; Furneaux's Physiology. French—Chardenal's Third Course; miscellaneous prose translation ; Pour la Couronne (Francois Coppee); L'homme al'oreille cassee (Edmond About); L'Avare (Moliere). Lowest. —English—Longmans' Grammar; Blackie's Animal and Plant Life, Part 11. ; Classbook of English Poetry ; Stronach's Literature; Stories for the Schoolroom, Part I. (Blackie). Mathematics —Arithmetic, without text-book; simple and compound rules. French —Chardenal's First Course. -. History —Eansome's Elementary History. Geography—Longmans' Geography, Book I. Science —Elementary botany, without text-book.

4. Arrangements for teaching Drawing, Manual, and Technical Education, Gymnastics and Drill, and Swimming. Drawing is taught in the school by a specially appointed certificated visiting teacher, assisted by one of the teachers on the ordinary staff. All pupils desirous of attending the classes can do so, and during the last quarter 103 out of a roll of 124 learnt drawing. Instruction is given in freehand, model-drawing, original design, elementary light and shade in sepia, drawing from casts and natural objects, and elementary brush-work. Each class has at least one hour and twenty minutes instruction per week, and the work is examined annually by a duly appointed art master, who reports to the Board of Governors. Sewing is taught on two afternoons a week by mistresses on the regular staff. All pupils not specially exempted take this subject. Dress-cutting classes are held on Saturday morning by a specially appointed teacher. Theoretical dress-cutting by means of charts is taugbt, and practical making up of the garments. The numbers of pupils attending these classes are small. Cooking is taught by a specially appointed certificated teacher. A class-room, with two gas-stoves and a properly equipped scullery, is provided. Two-thirds of the lessons given are practical, the cooking being actually done by the pupils; one-third are demonstration lessons by the teacher. An examination, partly by means of written answers, partly practical, is held annually. Drill is taught by a specially appointed visiting drill instructor. All pupils not specially exempted attend these classes. Instruction is given to each class for two periods of half an hour each per week. Callisthenic exercises with poles are given, but no other form of gymnastics. Pupils desirous of learning swimming receive two lessons of half an hour per week during the summer months from a specially appointed instructor. The lessons are given at the bath at the Boys' High School.

5. Scholarships. Altogether thirty-five pupils received free education for the year at the school: seventeen holding scholarships or exhibitions from the Board of Governors, sixteen holding scholarships from the North Canterbury Board of Education, and one scholarship from the Christchurch Caledonian Society.