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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended the 31st December, 1900. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Fees .. .. .. .. .. 1,656 6 6 Balanoe .. .. .. .. 49 13 3 Rent of reserves' — Expenses of Registrar's office .. .. 100 0 0 Outstanding from 1899 .. .. 244 1 4 Salaries .. .. .. .. 3,820 0 8 Due in 1900.. .. .. .. 2,833 2 6 Contribution to Sohool of Art for instmcInterest .. .. .. .. 111 7 tion in drawing .. .. .. 50 0 0 Balanoe .. .. .. .. 141 12 11 Insurance .. .. .. .. 30 4 1 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 27 11 10 Chemicals and apparatus .. .. 27 15 & Inspecting reserves and advertising .. 129 1 5 Interest on £5,000 at 4 per cent. (Loan Account) .. .. .. .. 200 0 0 Gas .. .. .. .. .. 20 19 10 Fuel .. .. .. .. .. 17 8 9 Printing, stationery, books, &o. .. .. 70 19 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 29 12 2 Advertising .. .. .. .. 26 18 3 Repairs, renewals, fittings, &c. .. .. 110 11 5 Grant to oadet oorps .. .. .. 15 0 0 , Grant to sports fund .. .. .. 45 0 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 18 17 4 General expenses .. .. .. 60 14 6 Levelling playground, supplying chippings, &o. .. .. .. .. 25 7 0 £4,875 14 10 ' £4,875 14 10 H. E. Webb, Chairman. Correct.—Geo. H. Mason, Accountant. A. Ckacboft Wilson, Eegistrar.

3. WOEK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest. —Latin—Virgil, Georgics, Book IV; Horace, Odes, IV., Carmen Sasculare; Cicero> Catiline's Orations, first three; Bradley's Arnold, exercises 33 to the end; Revised Latin Primer, the whole, with appendices ; Latin prose from Bradley's " Aids " to Junior Scholarship standard; Boman History, End of First Punic War to murder of Caesar (Smith's Smaller History). Mathematics —Arithmetic, algebra, Euclid, and trigonometry, as for the Junior Scholarship examination ; Hall and Stevens' Euclid; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Knight's Algebraical Exercises; Loney's Trigonometry; Ward's Papers on Trigonometry. English —For Junior Scholarship : Nesfield's Historical Grammar ; Nesfield's Manual of Composition ; Abbott's How to Write; Macbeth; Essays of Elia ; Hypatia; Hale's Longer English Poems ; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature. French—Macmillan's Third Header and Writer, exercise 25 to end; also easy miscellaneous pieces ; Moriarty's Grammar (the whole) ; Le Gendre de M. Poirier ; L'Avare ; 'Eugenic Grandes. Chemistry—As for Junior Scholarship ; Jago's Inorganic Chemistry; practical work in the qualitative analysis of the commoner simple salts. Physics—As for Junior Scholarship ; Draper's Heat, chapters 1-10, 12, 14, 17-20, with arithmetical problems. Lowest. —Latin—Via Latina, exercises 1-20 ; declension of nouns, adjectives, and comparison of adjectives. Arithmetic—Four rules (simple and compound), including all weights and measures. English—Hall's Grammar; Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare; Lyra Heroica. History, Gardiner's Outlines, from Edward 111. to Henry VIII. Geography, Zealandia Geography, Standard V. (the whole).

4. Aeeangements foe Deawing ; Manual, Commeecial, and Technical Insteuction ; Gymnastics, Deill, Swimming, etc. Instruction is given in freehand, model and geometrical drawing, and in sloyd. Instruction is given in chemistry, and there are two laboratories in the school, in which practical work is done by the senior pupils. A workshop is under charge of an expert. Instruction in the use of tools and carpentry is given to pupils who join the classes, each pupil having two hours' instruction per week. Bookkeeping and commercial correspondence is taught twice a week, and there is also a class for shorthand. There is a cadet corps, which drills twice a week; and all other boys, except those specially exempted by the wish of their parents, also drill twice a week. There is a swimming bath attached to the school, which is open to all boys every day during the summer. Gymastics and club drill are taught twice a week by two of the masters. Cricket-grounds and football-grounds are available.

5. SCHOLAESHIPS. Ten scholarships granted by the Education Board of North Canterbury, one by that of South Canterbury, and twenty-four by the Board of Governors, were held at the school.

CHRISTCHUBCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Miss M. V. Gibson, M.A. ; Miss C. K. Hendereon, 8.A.; Miss E. Stevenson, M.A. ; Miss H. Davy, B.A. ; Miss F. Sheard, M.A. ; Miss K. M. Gresson, M.A. ; Miss E. Low, M.A. ; Mrs. Lane; Major U. V. Richards; Miss N. Gardner; Mrs. R. D. Harman; Miss E. Easterbrook; Miss H. Gibson, Mr. W. Garrard ; Miss M. M. Cook.