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AKAROA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ a. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year ... .. 155 9 7 Office expenses .. .. .. .. 1 12 0 On fixed deposit .. .. .. .. 154 10 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 220 Current income from reserves .. .. 119 9 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 2 9 0 Grant in aid, Akaroa District High School, paid to North Canterbury Board of Education .. .. .. .. .. 175 0 0 Placed in bank on fixed deposit .. .. 75 0 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 173 5 7 £429 8 7 £429 8 7 H. Jacobson, Chairman and Secretary.

ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. W. F. Watters, 8.A.; Mr. C. F. Salmond, M.A.; Miss F. E. Kershaw, M.A. ; Miss M. Stevens, 8.A., B.Sc. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. dBalance at beginning of year .. .. 51 8 2 Office salary .. .. .. .. 26 0 0 Government capitation for free places .. 568 15 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 7 19 6 Government capitation for manual and Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 749 15 0 technical instruction .. .. .. 40 10 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 150 Current income from reserves .. .. 645 2 2 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 37 211 School fees .. .. .. .. 69 6 0 Cleaning, fuel, light .. .. .. 42 3 9 Trees sold .. .. .. .. 0 9 0 New building .. .. .. .. 1,540 0 0 Governmeni grant towards building new Fencing and repairs .. .. .. 30 14 8 High School .. .. .. .. 1,000 0 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 7 11 8 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 217 17 11 Interest on current account .. .. 2 3 6 Sports Association .. .. ..600 Legal costs .. ..' .. .. '... 5 17 3 Furniture and freight .. .. ~.''.. 16 9 0 Technical classes .. .. .. 32 0 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 9 13 0 Cash in hand late Seoretary (now deoeased), written off by resolution of Board, being irrecoverable .. .. .. .. 78 13 0 £2,593 8 3 £2,593 8 3 Geo. B. Inglis, Chairman. John Davison, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except as to the item of £78 135., stated to be written off as irrecoverable, there being no authority of law to write off the amount.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. 2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English.—King Lear; Tennyson's Princess ; Nesfield's Grammar and Composition ; paraphrasing and essay-writing. Latin—Via Latina; First Latin Translation Book (Thomas) ; Shuckburgh's Sight Translation; Bradley Arnold's Prose Composition; Wilson's First Latin Sentences and Prose ; Csesar, Books II and V ; ißneid, Book II; Ovid's Metamorphoses (White's Selections); Livy, Book XXII, chapters 1-10 ; Roman History (Creighton's Primer and Merivale and Puller). French—Chardenal, Book II; Le Cid; and subject generally as for Junior University Scholarship and Matriculation. Arithmetic—The whole subject as for Junior University Scholarship and Matriculation. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to permutations and combinations ; graphs. Geometry—Baker and Bourne, I-VI and II and deductions. Trigonometry—To solution of triangles. Geography —As for Matriculation and Junior Civil Service. Drawing —Freehand, model, and geometrical as for Matriculation and Junior Civil Service. Botany—As for Junior University Scholarship and Matriculation. Electricity—As for Junior University Scholarship and Matriculation. Lowest. —English—Globe Poetry-book; Nature in New Zealand (Drummond); parsing, analysis, essays, paraphrasing. Latin—Bell's Latin Course, Parts I and 11. French—Chardenal, Book I, to exercise 156. Arithmetic—Subject generally as for Junior Civil Service. Algebra— Hall and Knight, to problems in simple equations. Geometry—Baker and Bourne, Books I and II; exercises on Book I. Geography—New Zealand, Australia, Oceania, and physical geography (Imperial Geography, Course Ato p. 74). History—English as a Colonising Nation, to p. 140. Drawing—Freehand and model. Botany—Murche, to p. 130. Book-keeping—Thornton's First Lessons. Woodwork —Department's First-year Exercises. Sewing—Advanced Plain Needlework.