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for boarders by the erection of masters' houses on the ground adjoining the College buildings is engaging the attention of the Board, and they hope to proceed with the work so soon as the question of title raised by Mr. Travers has been settled. The Girls' High School has done excellent work during the year. In consequence of the resignation of Miss Hamilton, a principal had to be selected, and the Board were fortunate in obtaining the services of Miss McLean, M.A., lately principal of the Girls' High School, Timaru. At the recent University examinations fourteen pupils passed the Matriculation examination, one appeared in the credit list of the Junior Scholarships examination, one passed the Medical Preliminary, and one passed the Junior Civil Service examination, gaining seventh place. In conjunction with the scheme for providing more boarding accommodation for the College, the Governors propose to erect a boarding establishment on the Girls' High School ground. The want of such an establishment has long been felt, but the Board has not hitherto been in a position to supply it. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for Year ended 31st December, 1900. Receipts. £ s. d. [ Expenditure. £ s. <3. Current income from reserves .. .. 1,849 2 6 Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 758 15 3 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 484 18 0 Office salaries .. .. .. 200 0 0 Sohoolfees .. .. .. .. 4,311 15 1 Other office expenses .. .. .. 3S 0 0 Refunds .. .. .. .. 23 11 2 Teachers'salaries and allowances.. .. 3,993 11 8 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 440 Examinations— Bent of School Hall .. .. .. 15 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 55 13 0 Refund survey fees .. .. .. 56 0 0 Other expenses .. .. .. 3 5 3 Dr. balance .. .. .. 279 510 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 44 12 3 j Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 368 7 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. ... .. 169 2 9 Site and buildings .. .. .. 83 1 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 52 19 1 Playgrounds .. .. .. 292 2 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 74 14 4 Furniture and apparatus .. .. 55 9 8 Interest on current account .. .. 18 12 9 Rates .. .. .. .. .. 6 18 5 Interest on cost of reclaimed land .. 104 14 6 Fees paid to Technical School .. .. 57 3 1 Fees refunded .. .. .. .. 3 9 7 Legal expenses .. .. .. .. 29 7 6 Interest on cost of building .. .. 605 2 0 £7,010 1 7 £7,010 1 7 A. de B. Beandon, Chairman. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Wabbubton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Wokk of the Highest and Lowest Classes. College. Highest. —Mathematics —Euclid, Books I. to VI., with riders (Hall and Stevens); algebra, to permutations (Hall and Knight) ; trigonometry, to solutions of triangles (Lock) ; arithmetic— General (Pendlebury). Latin —Livy, XXII. ; Virgil's ißneid, VII. ; Horace, Odes II.; Ovid, Tristia I.; Bradley's Arnold ; Bryan's Caesarian Prose ; Bradley's Arnold, Aids ; Allen's Latin Grammar; Shochburgh's Borne for Beginners; sight translation. English—Shakespeare's Winter's Tale; Ellis, Chosen English; Chaucer's Prologue; Nesfield's Historical. English Grammar ; Nichol and McCormack's Exercises ; essays and paraphrases. French—Moliere's L'Avare ; Merimee's Colomba; Duhammel's French Composition ; Macmillan's Third Course; Eve and de Baudiss, Part I. Science—Jago's Advanced Chemistry ; Wright's Advanced Heat; practical chemistry. Lowest. —Arithmetic—Southern Cross, Standard IV. English —Beading; spelling; dictation; recitation; Crown Beader, IV. ; Imperial Beader, IV.; writing; composition; grammar. Geography —Zealandia, Standards 111. and IV. Girls' High School. Highest. —English—Chaucer's Prologue ; Shakespeare's Macbeth ; Nesfield's Grammar, Past and Present; Abbott's How to Write Clearly. Latin —Virgil's iEneid, Book VI.; Cicero's Orations against Catiline; Livy, Book XXII.; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose; Horton's Boman History; Primer of Boman Antiquities. French —Bacine's Iphigenie ; Chardenal's Advanced Exercises; Brachet's French Grammar ; La Grammaire. Science—Botany, by Dendy and Lucas. Physics—Wright's Advanced Science Manuals. Mathematics—Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Hall and Steven's Euclid ; Pendlebury's Arithmetic ; Pendlebury's Elementary Trigonometry. Lowest. —Longmans' Junior Grammar ; Ship Beaders, Book IV.; My First Geography ; Part of Chardenal's First French Course; Longmans' Ship Historical Beaders; Southern Cross Arithmetic.