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NAPIER HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Soys' School.-Mr. A. S M. Poison, B.A. ; Mr. E. W. Andrews, B.A. ; Mr. W. Kerr, M.A. ; Mr. A. W. Short; Mr. P. L. Henley, 8.A.; Mr. C. F. Eookel; Mr. W. H. Davy. Girls' School.—Miss A. E. J. Spencer, B.A. ; Miss G. B. Kirk, B.A. ; Miss F. J. W. Hodges, M.A.; Miss J. Gillies; Miss D. A. Gillam, M.A.; Miss J. 0. Greig ; Miss G. Anderson ; Miss F. P. Milliugton. • 1. Report of the Governors. The Governors of Napier High School have the honour to report that the schools under their charge have had a very successful year. The following successes were won at the last examinations: —Boys' school: Junior University Scholarship —2 passed for matriculation; Matriculation—l 3 passed, 12 of these also qualifying for Solicitors' General Knowledge and 6 for Medical Preliminary; Senior Civil Service —The one candidate passed the whole examination (six subjects); Junior Civil Service—2l passed (16 "with credit "); Senior Free Place (in addition to foregoing)—ll passed; Junior Free Place —9 passed; Hawke's Bay Education Board Senior Scholarships—4 secured scholarships, and 12 others qualified; Hawke's Bay Education Board Junior Scholarships—3 secured scholarships, and 6 others qualified; Junior Queen's Scholarship, 1. Girls' school: Junior University Scholarship Examination —1 Senior National Scholarship, 1 credit pass, 2 passes; Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge, 2; Junior Civil Service—ll (6 "with credit," 1 eighth on list); Education Board Senior Scholarship—7 qualified; Senior Free place—ll; Education Board Junior Scholarship—4 qualified, 3 securing scholarships. In addition to the foregoing academic successes, it is pleasing to report that there is a large and growing demand from business houses for pupils of the schools. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest — Boys' School: Mathematics — Geometry (Godfrey and Siddons, &c), to Junior Scholarship standard; algebra (Hall and Knight, &c), to Junior Scholarship standard; trigonometry (Pendlebury), to Junior Scholarship standard ; arithmetic (Pendlebury), to Junior Scholarship standard. Latin-—Cicero, Pro Milone; Horace, Odes, Book III; Bryan's Prose; Bradley's Arnold; Spragge's Elementary Latin Prose; Kennedy's Primer; Sight Translation; Creighton's Home; Wilkins's Antiquities —all to Junior Scholarship Standard. French —Le Joueur (Regnard); Contes Choisis (Coppee); Modern French Verse (Berthou); Modern French Prose (Berthou); Blouet's French Composition; Brachet's Grammar; Thirion's Irregular Verbs; Bue's Idioms: Phonetic Transcript, &c. — all to Junior Scholarship standard. English — Idiom and Construction (Nesfield, Past and Present); Historical Grammar and Derivation (Nesfield, and Low's English Language); History of English Literature (Stopford Brooke, &c); Hamlet (whole); extracts from various classics; essaj'-writing—all to Junior Scholarship standard. Physics (heat) (Tutorial Advanced) to Junior Scholarship standard. Mechanics and hydrostatics (Tutorial) to Junior Scholarship standard. Chemistry —To matriculation standard (approximately). Physiology (Furneaux, and Huxley)—As for Matriculation and Junior Civil Service. History (Ransome, and Green) —Matriculation period. Geography (Longmans, Book 11, Dickies's Physiography) — To Matriculation standard. Girls' School: English literature—Shakespeare's Hamlet; Burkes Reflections on the French Revolution; selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; History of English Literature to Spenser. English grammar and composition—Junior Scholarship syllabus; Nesfield's English Grammar, Past and Present. French —Junior Scholarship syllabus; Regnard's Le Joueur ; Dumas' Monte Cristo; Berthou's Select Specimens of Modern French Poetry, Part I; Wellington College French Grammar (Eve and Bandiss); Weekley's Matriculation Course; Phonetic Script, Idioms, &c. Latin —Junior Scholarship syllabus; Horace's Odes, Book III; Livy, Book I; Ctesar's De Bello Gallico, Book II; Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition; Kennedy's Revised Primer. Mathematics —Junior Scholarship syllabus; arithmetic, Pendlebury; geometry, Godfrey and Siddons's Elementary Geometry; algebra, Advanced Todhunter, and Baker and Bourne's Elementary Algebra, Parts I and II; trigonometry, Borchardt and Perrott's New Trigonometry. Science—Junior Scholarship syllabus; botany, Dendy and Lucas's v ßotany; Lowson's Tutorial Botany, notes; mechanics, Elements of Statics and Elements of Dynamics (Loney), Matriculation Hydrostatics (Briggs and Bryan). Lowest. — Boys' School: Mathematics—Geometry, Godfrey and Siddons, to page 59; algebra, Baker and Bourne, to page 50; arithmetic, Southern Cross, Standard VI. Latin —Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, pages. 1-80. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle, Lecons 1—36. English —Nesfield's Elementary Grammar, Book 111 (parsing and analysis); Nesfield's Oral Exercises in Composition; Merchant of Venice (whole); Treasure Island (whole). History—Struggle for Freedom, pages 1—123. Geography—lmperial Geography, Standards V and VI (Course A); Southern Cross Geography Readers, Standards V and VI (Course B). Chemistry—Furneaux, Elementary Lessons, with Laboratory Demonstrations. Physiology —Murche\ to page 142. Bookkeeping—Pitman's Primer, to page 82. 'Shorthand —Pitman's Teacher, to page 24. Drawing —Freehand and Principles of Perspective. Girls' School: English literature—Dickens's Little Nell; Longfellow's Evangeline; Stronaoh's English Literature, chapters 16-19, inclusive. English grammar—Nesfield's Grammar, Standards V and VT ; easy analysis and parsing; composition, reading, writing, and spelling more advanced than Standard VI. History — Longmans' Historical Series, Book I, to end of Elizabeth. Geography—Southern Cross Reader, Standards V and VI, British Isles and British Possessions; Imperial Geography, Standards V and VI, Course A, omitting pages 80-109. Mathematics—Arithmetic, elementary rules, L.C.M., H.C.F., fractions, decimals, interest, proportion, profit and loss, square root, easy mensuration (Pendlebury); algebra, Baker and Bourne's Elementary Algebra, Part I, to simple equations, inclusive; geometry,