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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1899. Receipts. £ s. d. i Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance .. .. .. 75 4 11 Expenses of management .. .. 15 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 119 010 Teacher's salary and allowances .. .. 200 0 0 School fees .. .. .. 85 1 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 1 10 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 2 0 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 3 16 Cleaning, fuel, light, &0... .. .. 7 15 0 Bents, insurances, and taxes .. .. 35 13 4 Interest .. .. .. .. 12 6 Balance on fixed deposit.. .. .. 30 19 8 £281 7 0 j £281 7 0 H. C. Jacobson, Chairman and Secretary. Examined and found correct. — -J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Arrangements for Manual and Technical Instruction, etc. Drawing taught twice a week in the whole school. Commercial instruction (book-keeping) to two elder boys.

4. Scholarship. The school gave free education to one pupil.

ASHBUBTON HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. S. Tennant, M.A., B.Sc. ; Miss J. Mulholland, M.A.; Mr. C. P. Salmond, M.A. 1. Eeport for Year 1899. During the year Mr. G. A. Summers, M.A., headmaster, was promoted to the headmastership of the Timaru Boys' High School, and Mr. J. S. Tennant, M.A., B.Sc, was appointed in his stead. Three of last year's pupils passed the Matriculation and the Junior Civil Service, and one obtained a North Canterbury Board Scholarship, being at the head of the list.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended -31st December, 1899. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Current income from reserves .. .. 615 12 3 Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 154 17 9 School fees .. .. .. .. 162 13 0 Offioe salary .. .. .. .. 26 6 0 Balanoe .. ' .. .. .. 83 19 11 Other expenses, postages, &c. .. .. 3 2 4 Teachers' salaries .. .. .. 570 0 0 House-allowance to late headmaster .. 16 13 i Prizes .. .. .. .. 916 7 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 15 9 9 Cleaning and fuel .. .. .. 30 4 6 Repairs .. .. .. .. 8 8 10 Insurance .. .. .. .. 3 5 0 Interest on current account .. .. 11 9 6 Scienoe apparatus .. .. .. 5 13 0 Breaking-up expenses .. .. .. 1 15 9 Cab-hire .. .. .. .. 116 0 Box for books, &c. .. .. .. 0 18 6 Tuning piano .. .. .. .. 0 10 6 Exchange on cheques .. .. .. 0 7 0 Requisites .. .. .. .. 110 10 £862 5 2 £862 5 2 Andrew Orr, Chairman. Charles Braddell, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English —Mason's English Grammar ; Higher Grade English ; English Literature Primer (Stopford Brooke) ; Selections from Chaucer (Sweet); Merchant of Venice and Samson Agonistes. Latin—Via Latina (Abbott); Arnold's Prose (Bradley); Gallic War, Books 4-6; iEneid, Book I. French—Chardenal's Advanced Exercises, to exercise 75 ; Brachet's .French Grammar ; Macmillan's Second French Eeader ; La Guerre (Erckmann-Chatrian); L'Avare (Moliere). Euclid —Books 111.-VI. (Halland Stevens). Algebra—Hall and Knight, to Chapter 41. Trigonometry Lock's Trigonometry. Arithmetic—Goyen's Higher Arithmetic. Geography—Europe, Asia, and Africa (Longmans). History—Creighton's Roman History Primer; Dr. Smith's Smaller Soman History, to Chapter X. Science—Loney's Mechanics, to page 181; Scott's Structural Botany, Part 11. Loivest. —English —Mason's Grammar; Treasure Island (Stevenson); L'Allegro and II Penseroso. Latin—Smith's Principia, to page 77. French—Chardenal, Book 1., to exercise 190. Euclid —Book 1., to prop. 32 (Hall and Stevens). Algebra—Harnblin Smith's Algebra, to page 148. Arithmetic—Standard VI. syllabus. Geography—America, Africa, and Mill's Commercial Geography. History —1485 to 1714 (Ransoine). Science—Chemistry (Jago), to page 216. Botany—Morphology of flowering plants. Book-keeping (Jackson). Writing, drawing, and sewing (girls).