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Supplementary Statement, Gisborne Technical School. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ l. d. Government capitation for teohnioal classes 25 8 6 Maintenance of classes for technical inSubsidy on voluntary contributions .. 20 0 0 struction .. .. .. .. 365 15 S Voluntary contributions .. .. 20 0 0 Buildings equipment, Ac, for teohnioal instruction .. .. .. .. 103 18 4 £65 8 6 £469 13 9 Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. Freehold, Te Marnnga (Government valuation) .. .. .. 18,033 0 0 Mortgagee .. .. ■• 8,660 0 0 Italauces — Post-office Savings-Bank 22(1 I I 5 Union Bank of Australia 139 16 I Advanoe to teohnioal olassee 138 16 0 Nil. 199 6 9 Loss unpreeented oheque 7 lo 0 491 16 9 £22,174 Hi 9 C. Db LiAUTOUR, Chairman. W. Morgan, Secretary.

NAPIER HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Il,„,«' School.—Ml. A. S. M. Poison. li.A. ; Mr. E. W. Andrews, HA. ; Mr. W. Km. M.A. : Mi. A. W. Short : Mr. F. L Henley, B.A. ; Mr. -I. 11. McW. Finlayson ; Mr. W. H. Davy. Oirls' School. .Miss A. E. .1. Spenoer, B.A. ; Miss ('. It. Kirk, B.A. ; Miss F. .1. W. Hodges, M.A. ; Miss J. O. Gillies : Miss I). A. Gillam, M.A. ; Miss I. ('. Greig; Miss G. Anderson. 1. Report of the Board op Governors. The Governors of Napier High School have the honour to report that the schools under their charge have had another very successful year. The last public examinations produced the following results : — Hoys' School: Universit v.) amor Scholarship Examination—l Senior National Scholarship, 1 credit pass. 3 matriculation passes. I completed medical preliminary; Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge I passed ; Senior Civil Service -.1 passed in four subjects and 3 in three subjects ; Junior Civil Service 21 passed, (i with credit : Senior Free Place (in addition to foregoing), 12 : Junior Free Place. 8 : Education Board Senior Scholarships —1 scholarship (first place on list) and 1 2 others qualified; Education Board Junior Scholarships—4 scholarships (one first place on list) and 2 others qualified. In addition to these successes one pupil kepi first year's terms at Victoria College, passing in three subjects, and another pupil secured a Marsh Theological Scholarship at St. John's College, Auckland. Girls' School (Junior University Scholarship)— 1 gained Junior Scholarship (ninth on list), 1 passed for matriculation : Matriculation —5 passed, 2 also qualifying for medical preliminary, and 3 for Soli citors' General Knowledge ; Junior Civil Service—lo passed, 2 gaining " credit " ; Senior Free Place— 14 passed ; Junior Free Place -2 passed ; Hawke's Bay Education Board Senior Scholarship—2 gained scholarships and 6 more qualified ; Hawke's Bay Education Board Junior Scholarships—l gained scholarship. In consequence of the continued growth and success maintained, it was found necessary to take Steps to increase the accommodation at the boys' school by the addition of two class-rooms and a new thoroughly equipped laboratory. This work will be completed by the end of the first term of 1909. 2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. -Boys' School: Geometry (Godfrey and Siddons) ; algebra (Hall and Knight) ; trigonometry (Pendlebuiy) ; arithmetic (Pendlebury) ; heat (Stewart's Advanced): mechanics and hydrostatus (University Tutorial Press), all to Junior Scholarship standard. English, Low's English Language; Chaucer's Prologue ; Shakespeare's Macbeth ; Henry IV, Parts I and II ; Matthew Arnold's Poems, selected; general literature, with period 1688-1744 in detail; composition, all to Junior Scholarship standard. Latin Cicero, selections (Bell); Livy; Hannibal's First Campaign (Bell): Virgil, Cooi-idcs 111 and IV: Horace, Odes 111 and IV; miscellaneous unprepared passages and continuous pi,,so; Bradley's Arnold; Horton's History of the Romans; Creighton's Kome; Wilkins's Antiquities, all to Junior Scholarship standard. French Voltaire; Charles XII; Moliere ; L'Avare; Berthou's Modern French Prose and Modern French Verse; miscellaneous unprepared passages and continuous prose; Blouet's Prose Composition ; Bue's Idioms ; Thirion's Irregular Verbs ; Tutorial Grammar and Syntax; Stedman's Grammar Questions; essay-writing, phonetics, and oral work, all to Junior Scholarship standard. Chemistry (Jago); physiology (Furneaux, with practical works in anatomy and microscopy) ; geography (Longmans', Parts II and V); history (Tout and York-Powell), all to matriculation standard. Girls' School: English literature—Lamb's Essays of Elia ; Shakespeare's Henry V ; selections from Chaucer; Shelley's Adonais; Carlyle's Sartor Resa it us, Pari II; History of English Literature from Milton to Swift. English grammar and composition (Junior Scholarship syllabus) Nesfield's English Grammar, Past and Present. French (Junior Scholarship syllabus) -

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