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4. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —English —Merchant of Venice ; Scott's Heart of Midlothian ; Chaucer's Knight's Tale ; Mason's Grammar ; Great Authors, Third Period ; Brooke's Primer of English Literature ; Peile's Philology. Latin—Horace's Odes, Book I. ; Virgil's ißneid, Books IT. and III.; Cicero's Pro Milone; Bryan's Latin Prose Exercises ; Horton's History of the Eomans; Smith's Smaller Latin Grammar. French—La Fontaine's Select Fables ; Sandeau's Mademoiselle de la Seigliere ; Macmillan's French Composition, Second Course ; Wellington College French Grammar. Mathematics—Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Books I. to VI.; Lock's Elementary Trigonometry, Junior University Scholarship work. Electricity—Silvanus Thompson's Electricity and Magnetism. Botany—Thome and Bennett's Structural and Physiological Botany ; Scott's Structural Botany; Thomson's Introductory Class-book of Botany; Dendy and Lucas's Botany; Aitken's BotaDy. Lowest. —English—Schiller's William Tell (English translation); Longmans' Grammar and Composition. Latin —Macmillan's First Latin Course, to end of third declension. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle, to page 50 ; The Four Seasons, from Eossmann and Schmidt. Arithmetic —Pendlebury's Arithmetic (decimals, profit and loss, percentages). Euclid—Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Book 1., to proposition 16. Algebra—Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra, to simple equations. Geography—Longmans' Geographical Eeader for Standard VI. (Asia, Africa, and America). History—Buckley's History (William 111. to Victoria). Physiology—Furneaux's Physiology, to page 153. Shorthand —Pitman's Instructor, to Contractions. Book-keeping— Thornton's Exercises, to page 100. The above is the work of the lowest division of the school. One boy took lower work than the above in some subjects, but, as the case is exceptional, he is not regarded as a "division." Girls' School. —English —Morris's Historical Grammar; Low's English Language; Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale ; Morris and Skeat's Specimens of Early English ; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature ; Abbott's How to Write Clearly; readings from period 1744 to 1800 ; Thackeray's Esmond ; Shakespeare's Julius Csesar and Merchant of Venice. Latin —Bryan's Latin Prose Exercises; Arnold's Latin Prose Composition; Tacitus, Agricolaand Germania; Ovid, Tristia, Book I.; extracts from Caesar for retranslation ; Horton's History of the Eomans; Wilkins's Primer of Eoman Antiquities. French —Wellington College French Grammar ; French Composition, Part 11. ; Corneille, Cinna and Horace ; Moliere, Le Misanthrope ; Voltaire, Charles XII. Mathematics—Arithmetic (Pendlebury) ; algebra (Hall and Knight), to binomial theorem ; trigonometry (Lock), to solution of triangles; Euclid (Hall and Stevens), Books 111. to VI.; statics and dynamics (Loney); hydrostatics (Besant). Botany—Elementary Text-book of Botany (Aitken) ; Introduction to the Study of Botany (Dendy and Lucas). Lowest. —English—Eeading, Ship Eeader, No. 6 ; Poems for Schoolroom and Scholar ; Grammar in Parallel Grammar Series ; English Examples and Exercises. French—Description of Seasons pictures, as in Eossmann and Schmidt. Arithmetic—Elementary rules. Geography— Longmans' Geographical Eeader. History^ —Gardiner's Outlines. Botany—Youman's First Book of Botany ; description from specimens of commonest garden flowers.

5. Scholarships. Boys' School. —The Board gave free education to eight out of the eleven holders of Education Board scholarships; and twelve holders of High School exhibitions, granted to those not gaining scholarships, though obtaining more than half marks at the scholarship examinations. Girls' School. —The Board gave free education to nine holders of Education Board scholarships, and to twelve other pupils.

WAIMATE HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1899. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balanoe .. .. .. .. 568 6 8 Office salary .. .. .. 12 12 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 183 10 11 Paid South Canterbury Education Board .. 100 0 0 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Examinations (examiners' fees) .. .. 5 5 0 paid purchase-money .. .. .. 45 0 0 Scholarship candidate's expenses.. .. 14 0 Books, &c, sold .. .. .. 0 50 I Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 766 Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 23 19 2 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 914 10 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 0 7 6 Interest .. .. .. .. 0 16 Members' travelling-expenses .. .. 6 6 6 Exhibitioners' fees .. .. .. 70 0 0 Exchange and bank charge .. .. 0 8 6 Balance .. .. .. .. 607 15 5 £821 1 9 £821 1 9 G. Barclay, Chairman. G. H. Graham, Secretary, Examined and found correct. — J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General,