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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904

Receipts. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 174 10 2 Government Capitation for free places .. 1,131 11 1 Ground-rents.. .. .. .. 2,762 0 7 Weekly rents .. .. .. .. 1,687 9 4 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 424 15 4 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,478 0 0 Eric Hooton prize .. .. .. 2 2 0 Sale of old buildings .. .. .. 20 0 0 M' rtgage-money repaid .. .. 500 0 0 Sale of school lists .. .. .. 0 2 6 Grant from Auckland Education Board under sec ion 23 of " The Auckland Grammar School Act, 1899 ".. .. 206 0 0 £9,386 11 0

Expenditure. £ s. d. Salary of Secretary .. .. .. 120 0 0 Office expenses .. .. .. 55 2 5 Commission, &c, to Collector .. .. 264 14 3 Teachers'salaries .. .. .. 4,367 1 0 Boarding-school account .. .. 115 0 0 School requisites .. .. .. 144 7 8 Election expenses .. .. .. 3 13 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 2 2 0 Prizes, 1903 and 1904 .. .. .. 11l 13 11 Printing and advertising .. .. 97 4 10 Chaning, fuel, light, &c.— School 21 6 9 Property .. .. .. .. 32 10 2 Stationery allowance .. .. .. 162 15 4 Fencing, repairs, &o.— School .. .. .. . ■ 318 11 2 Property .. .. .. .. 793 11 5 Miscellaneous rates, &o. — School .. .. .. .. 60 19 9 Property .. .. .. .. 430 17 6 Interest on current account .. .. 0 2 6 Interest on loans .. .. .. 383 12 11 Comp nsations .. .. .. 38 3 0 New Buildings .. .. .. 602 19 3 Refund for surrendered lease .. .. 141 0 0 Eric Hooton prize .. .. .. 2 2 0 Sports 38 0 0 Cab hire, Mr. Corrollo's funeral .. 10 0 Balance at end of year .. .. 1,078 0 2 £9,386 11 0

G. Maurice O'Rorke, Chairman. W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary. Examined and found correct, J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Divisions. Highest. —English —Nesfield, English Grammar Past and Present; Nichol, Primer of English Composition ; From Blake to Arnold ; Addison, Sir Roger de Coverley ; Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice ; Chaucer, Corson's Selections. Latin —Tod and Longworth, Passages for Latin Unseens ; North and Hillard, Latin Prose Composition; Revised Latin Primer; Stedman, Latin Grammar Papers ; Virgil, Georgics, I. ; Livy, Book IX.; Cicero, Pro Roscio Amerino ; Horace, Epodes and Ars Poetica ; Smith, Smaller History of Rome. French— Sandeau, Sacs et Parchemins; Berthon, Selection of French Verse; Hamone't, Passages from French Authors ; Wellington College French Grammar; Eve and Matthews' Exercises. Euclid —Hall and Stevens. Algebra—Todhunter and Loney ; Jones and Cheyne, Algebraical Exercises. Trigonometry —Hall and Knight; Ward, Trigonometrical Exercises. Science : Boys' Side—Roscoe and Hardens Inorganic Chemistry; Tilden's Practical Chemistry; R. W. Stewart, Advanced Heat. Girls' Side—Miss Aitken, Botany ; Jessop, Elements of Applied Mathematics. Lowest.— English—Nesfield, Outlines of English Grammar ; Temple Reader ; Symes, English History; Macmillan's Short Geography of the World. Latin—Elementa Latina; Scalae Primse. French—Macmillan's French Course,"First-year ; Dent's First French Book. Mathematics — Baker and Bourne's Geometry; Longmans' Shilling Arithmetic; Rivington's Algebra, Part I. Science —Elementary Physics, Theoretical and Practical. Geometrical Drawing. THAMES HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. James Adams, 8.A.; Mr. R. J. Thompson, B.A. ; Miss Mary R. Foy. 1. General Statement of the Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1904.

Receipts. £ s. d. Government capitation for free places .. 274 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 492 8 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 75 8 10 School fees .. .. •• •• 135 14 0 Goldfields revenue .. .. • • 51 19 9 Refunds (endowment) .. .. .. 2 3 6 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 10 7 £1,032 15 2

Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 144 6 11 Office salary .. .. .. .. 20 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 6 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 700 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 2 2 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 615 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 26 13 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 5 18 2 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 31 10 6 Interest on ourrent account .. .. 4 12 0 Endowments — Management .. .. .. 35 5 0 Law costs .. .. .. .. 35 14 4 Bank fee .. .. .. .. 0 10 0 School requisites .. .. .. 13 7 3 £1,032 15 2

Frank Trembath, Chairman. Jas. Kernick, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.