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The staff. Bays' College. Mr. •'. II. 1 Wills left during the year, having received an appointment on the staff of the New Plymouth HighJ School. Mr. A. Sandel. a former pupil of the College, with a brilliant record, was appointed to lill the vacancy. Girls' t'ollege. —Miss I. Robertson, ML A., and Miss N. I. Maclean, M.A.. left at the end of the year. the former to engage in mission-work in New Guinea, and the latter to join the stall of the Napier (iirls' High, School. The vacancies were tilled by the appoint ments of Miss Ada (("Cailaghan. M.A.. and Miss Beatrix Nicholson, H.A. Boys' ' 'ollege. F. Brook and P. Jory gained scholarships in the University Junior Scholarship Examination, and 2 other hoys gained credit. K. Worlej was awarded a scholarship at St. John's College, Auckland, on his work for the same examination. A. J. Papps, who passed the first section of the B.A. Examination, and H. (). Jordan, have been granted scholarships at the Wellington Training College. Thirteen boys passed the matriculation and allied examinations, vis.: The Medical Preliminary, the Engineering Preliminary, and the Solicitors' General Knowledge Examination. Thirty-eight boys passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. Girls' ('ollege. Myrtle Garland, Eileen Adams, Connie Baftlett, Gladys Jordan, and Kathleen Haldane passed first year's terms at Victoria College. M. Cooke passed Senior Civil Service in four subjects. Ten girls passed matriculation, and.L'o girls passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. Twelve girls obtained senior free places under clause 7 (c) of the regulations, and 5 others l>v examination. The Preparatory Department, examined by one of the Education Hoard Inspectors, obtained a good report, 8 pupils receiving certificates of proficiency. . Iverage*Attendance. Hoys' College. IXI Minis' College, 117. 2. Work OF THE HIGHEBT AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest. -Bays College: As for Junior University Scholarships and First Section, B.A. degree examination: English Selections from Wordsworth, Tennyson, Gray, Chaucer, Lamb's Essays and Letters: Shakespeare's Henry V: Brooks' Primer of English Literature; Skeat's Primer of Etymology; Nesfield's English Hast and Present ; for terms only Henry IV. Morris and Skeat's specimens. Latin —Virgil, Georgics, 111 and IV : Ovid. Tristia I: prose selections; Bradley's Arnold. and Aids to Latin Prose; Bryan's Latin Prose (Csntsar) : Res Romanes; Hot-ton's History of Rome : for terms only —Tacitus, Annals 1. French -Tartarin de Tarascon; Half-hours (Hachette); Eve and De Baudiss's Grammar; Primer of Philology (Hell) ; Blouet'a Composition. German Whitney's Reader; Authors of the Day. Hart 1 (Hachette); Macmillan's Composition; Eve's Grammar and Exercises, Part 11. Mathematics—Text-hooks: ('. Smith's Treatise mi Algebra; Baker and Bourne's algebra, Part II: Lachlan and Fletcher's Trigonometry; Barnard and Child's Geometry (Senior). Science—Shenstone's Chemistry; Loney's Statics and Dynamics; Loney's Hydrostatics: Draper's Heat. Girls' College: Second year's terms at Victoria College. First Fear Junior University Scholarship work. English —Nesfield's Historical English and Derivation : Shakespeare's Henry l\'. and Henry V; Lamb's Essays of Elia ; Hales's Longer English Poems; Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer; Morris's Specimens of Early English. French —Le Cid ; L'Avare ; Voyage aux Pyrenees ; Wellington College French Grammar; Rapid French Exercises (Spiers) : Siepmann's First Term : Hue's French Idioms. Latin —Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition; Allen's Latin Grammar; Ramsay's Latin Prose, Part II ; Georgics, Book IV; Annals of Tacitus. Hook 111. Lowest. — Boys' College : Class II does-thc work of the Sixth Standard, as defined in the regulations. Gitis' <'alle<ic : Nesfield's Manual ; The Lady oi the Lake ; The Talisman ; Siepmann's Primary French Course, Part I; Furneaux's Physiology. Longmans' Geography, Book III: Pendleburys .Arithmetic; Ransome's Elementary History. First year of Civil Service programme. 3. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1908. Endowment Account. Receipts. fc s. d. I Expenditure. £ a. d. Rents .. •.. .. .. .. 949 6 0 | Rates and taxes .. .. .. 14 7 2 Interest .. .. .. .. .. 180 15 '2 Insurances .. .. .. .. 616 2 Sohool Commissioners .. .. .. 290 0 0 Printing and advertising .. .. 914 8 Materials sold .. .. .. .. 3 0 0 Stationery .. .. .. .. ;l 16 0 Refunds.. .. .. .. .. 0 15 2 Repairs .. .. .. .. 19 4 vernors'and auditors'fees .. .. 86 16 8 Office-rent .. .. .. .. 35 0 0 Office-cleaning and gas .. .. 11 14 11 Interest on bank overdraft .. .. 227 11 3 Telephone and letter box .. .. 6 0 0 Inspection of properties .. .. 8 16 Clearing properties .. .. 4 12 0 Seoretary .. .. .. .. s:j 6 0 Petty cash, postages, and sundries .. ±1 16 0 Carried forward .. .. £1,423 16 I " Carried forward .. .. £461 1 8