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OTAGO BOYS' AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS. Staff. Boys' School.—Mr. YV. .1. Uorrell, M.A. : Mi. M. Watson, M.A. : Mr. .1. Maophereon, F.E.I.S. ;MrF. H. Campbell, MA. i Mr. 11. A. SioCuUough, M.A. ; Mr. K. .1. Pan, M.A.. H.Sc ; Mr. .1. Reid, B.A. ; Mr. .1. G. KulliH-tiiii. li.A. ; Mr. 11. Chapman, Ii A. : Mr. \V. A. Armour, M.A. : Mr. .1. (I. Paterson, M.A., M.Sc. ; Mr. R, Coghill; Mr. 1). SlienitT ; Mr. .1. H.iiiici. Girls' Bchool.—Wsß M. K. A. Marohant. .v.A. ; Miss F. It Allan, M.A. ; Miss H. Alexander, B.A ; Miss S. ('. ( . M.Knifilit. M.A.. M.Sc; Miss K. K. Little; Miss F. Campbell, M.A. ; Miss l„ A. N. Downee, 8.A.; Miss M. W. Alves: Miss M. MoLeod ; Mr. W. 0. Taylor, P.R.C.O. : Miss .1. ('. Longford; Mr. .1. Hanna. I. Report ok the Board ok Governors. In accordance with section 8 of " The Otago Boys' and (iiris' High Schools Act, 1878," and in obedience to circular from the Education Department dated the sth December last, I have the honour to forward report of the Board of Governors Otago Boys' and (litis' High Schools for year ended 31st December, 1908. The schools were inspected in March and April by the Inspector -General of Schools and Mr. .!. 11. Gill, who expressed satisfaction generally with the efficiency of the staff and the progress of the pupils. In view of the vote from Parliament last session, the Board has taken steps to obtain competitive designs for a new girls' high school from architects throughout the Dominion. The design .selected will lie submitted for your approvaMn due course, and tin- Board hopes to he in a position to invite tenders lor a section of the buildinu at an early date, provided that it can be erected for approximately £9,000. The information asked for in circular before referred to, \\ it h balance-sheet and statement of income and expenditure for year ended 31st December, l.»<>B. duly certificated to by the Controller and AuditorGeneral, was forwarded to your Department on the 30th March last. ■1. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys' School: Fnglish—Shakespeare, hong Lear: Chaucer. Prologue; Spenser. Faerie Queene, Book I : Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Book IV: Peacock, Selected English Essays; Nesfield's Historical English and Senior Composition. Latin Liw. Booh XXIII: Cicero, Actio Prima in Verrem ; Horace. Oiles. Book IV : Virgil, .Lucid. \"III : sight translation, prose composition, and grammar papers; Shin-khurgh, History of Rome; Wilkins. Roman Antiiputies. French —Coppee, Contcs Choisis; Chehier, Select Poems j Mine, de Stack French Revolution ; composition, grammar, phonetics, &c. Mathematics - Arithmetic whole subject; algebra, Baker and Bourne, to permutations: geometry, Baker and Bourne, Books Ito Vl] : trigonometry, Pendlebury. Science Chemistry, the metals, revision of non -metals, elementary qualitative analysis: physics, heat. Girls' School: English Chaucer, The Knighte's Tale and The Prologue; Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard 11. and King Lear : Spenser, Faerie Queens (part) ; Milton's Paradise Lost, Book II (part) : Historical English Grammar : composition, &c. ; literature, general, with readings from modern poels. Latin Livy, Book I, chapters 7 2:5 ; Horace. Odes, Book I, Book 11, 5 odes, 4 epistles ; Middleton's Latin Terse; Man-hunt's Latin Unseens; composition, grammar, £c.; Roman History and Antiquities. Flench Macmillan's Advanced Exercises; Wellington College Reader ; Boielle, poetry; Barlet and Masom. Higher French Reader: grammar, composition, &c : Berthou, Specimens of Modern French Verse ; Labiche, Le Voyage de M. Perrichon. Mathematics —Arithmetic, the whole subject : algebra, to permutations and combinations, inclusive ; geometry, Euclid, Books I, 11, 111, V, VI, VII. Baker and Bourne; trigonometry, Lock's Trigonometry, to solutions of triangles. Science Botany, the morphology and physiology of the botanical types specified in the Junior Scholarship schedule ; physics, as defined i" the Junior Scholarship schedule. Commercial work —Elemental v book-keeping : shorthand and typewriting. Lowest. Boys' School: English Winbolt, English Poetry; Lamb, Adventures of Ulysses ; (IIIh) Prescott, Montezuma : (lib ) < 'ook's Second Voyage ; Nesfield's Outlines of English Grammar. English History Tout. First Book of British History, (lilt!) to 1727, (Ille) to 1642. Geography British Isles. Europe, Asia, Africa (Longmans). Latin—Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course. Part I. (IIIh) the whole, (IIIc) lessons I (it): Bell's Sea la- Primee, (I lin) chapters 151 (select vms). (IIIc) chapters 1 <i. French —Siepmann's Primary French Course Pari I. (IIIh) lessons I 24, ( 111 <) 1 19. .Mathematics Workman's School Arithmetic, (IIIh) to stocks. (11 1« )to compound interest : algebra, Baker and Bourne, to easy problems; geometry, Baker and Bourne, (IIIh) Books I and 11. I 9, (IIIc) Book I. I 2.i (with omissions). Science Elementary Physiology (Mni-che). Girls' School: English Literature, In Golden Realms : reader. Citizen Reader : grammar, Ncslield's Manual ; parsing and analysis ; composition, Nesfield's Oral Exercises. French Siepmann, Part I. Mathematics Arithmetic Irac tions. decimals, proportion, proportionate division, percentage; algebra, Hall and Knight, to simultaneous equations; Euclid, Baker and Bourne, Experimental Work. Book I. Science—Botany. structure of (lowering-plants : Murche's Botany. Cookery- The theory and practice of plain cooking. Commercial Work—Elementary. Needlework —Measurements, drafting of patterns, making of blouse and skirt.