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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1903. Receipts. £ s. d. i Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 3,858 15 0 I ManagementCurrent income from reserves .. .. 298 1 6 Office salary .. .. .. 60 0 0 From property not a reserve ... .. 1,037 10 0 Other office expenses .. .. 18 13 6 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Legal expenses .. .. .. 12 3 6 purchase-money .. .. .. 150 19 3 j Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 1,811 110 Paid by School Commissioners (Examiner's Boarding-school Account .. .. 101 8 0 fee and expenses) .. .. .. 23 9 1 Examinations — School fees .. .. .. .. 1,409 15 0 Examiners' fees . . . . .. 30 0 0 Board and coach-fares of scholarship children 390 16 0 Other expenses .. .. .. 318 8 Books, &c, sold and other refunds .. 119 6 3 Scholarships .. .. .. 390 15 3 School Commissioners, Wellington, 18s. fid. ; j Prizes . . .. .. .. 13 19 4 Refund of Gas Account, 15s. .. .. 1 13 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 51 15 i Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 119 19 3 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and other temporary advances .. . . 92 9 6 I Site and buildings, from current revenuePurchases and new works .. .. 97 17 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 72 4 5 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 79 10 2 Balance at end of year— Advanced on mortgage .. .. 3,050 0 0 Fixed deposit .. .. .. 457 10 0 Cash in bank .. .. .. 826 18 11 £7,290 5 7 £7,290 5 7 T. C. Mookb, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Waebubton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : Mathematics —Geometry (Hall and Stevens) to Senior Civil Service standard ; Algebra, Hall and Knight; | Trigonometry, Pendlebury ; Arithmetic, Pendlebury. French —Bue, Book 11. ; La Premiere Croisade ; prose (based on Andersen's Fairy Tales) ; Wellington College French Grammar and Stedman's Questions. Latin—Cicero, Selections (Charles) ; Virgil iEneid, 11. ; grammar (Kennedy's Primer), and prose to matriculation standard ; sight translation, Shuckburgh's selections ; Creighton's Rome and Wilkins's Antiquities. English —Shakespeare, Henry IV. Part 1., and Henry V. ; Tennyson, Idylls of the King ; Chaucer, Prologue ; Lamb, Essays of Elia ; grammar, Nesfield's Manual; essay-writing and paraphrasing ; precis-writing, abstracting, &c. History—Ransome, A.D. 1688-1837. Geography —Gill, Longmans' (New No. 3) to matriculation or Civil Service standard. Physiography — Macturk, Huxley, &c. Science—Physiology, Furneaux ; physics (electricity and magnetism), Wright to Civil Service standard. Girls : English Grammar —Nesfield's Past and Present; junior scholarship syllabus. English Literature —Idylls of the King (Tennyson) ; Henry IV. Part I. (Shakespeare) ; Essays of Elia (Lamb). English History —Junior scholarship syllabus ; Gardiner and Ransome. Geography —The World, Gill's Geography. Latin —Junior scholarship syllabus ; Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose ; Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom ; Via Latina (Abbott) ; Cicero, Tacitus, &c. French —Junior scholarship syllabus ; Brachet's Elementary Grammar ; Wellington College Grammar; Tartufie (Moliere) ; Un Philosophe sous les Toits (Souvestre), &c. Arithmetic —Pendlebury's. Algebra —Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra. Euclid —Hall and Stevens's, Books I. to VI. Trigonometry —To Solution of Triangles (Pendlebury). Mechanics —Junior scholarship syllabus; Loney's Statics and Dynamics ; Besant's Hydrostatics. Science—Botany, junior scholarship syllabus ; Lowson's Text-book of Botany ; Oliver's Botany. Lowest. — Boys : Work equivalent generally to Standard 111. ; arithmetic, Standard 11. Girls : Arithmetic —Simple and compound rules ; Mental arithmetic. English —Nesfield's Parts of Speech ; composition ; Mrs. Wood's First Poetry-book ; Longmans' Historical Reader, Book I. Geography — New Zealand ; physical geography. Science —Object-lessons. French —Bue, Book I. Modelling in plasticine ; Easy freehand and model drawing ; Plain sewing.

: GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report of the Governors. Secondary education has been satisfactorily carried on at Gisborne in the District High Schoo during the past year. The Governors defray the cost of this education under special Act, but the School Committee under the Education Board of Hawke's Bay control the school. A technical school and equipment, to cost about £2,000, is now under construction. By leave of the Education Board, the building is being placed in the District High School grounds. The Governors are providing the cost, aided by Government grant of £1 for £1. The Governors hope that this school will enable the education given in the secondary classes at Gisborne to be adapted to the actual requirements of children who for the most part look forward to careers of practical usefulness as artisans or settlers developing the products of a singularly fertile district.