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REPORTS OF GOVERNING BODIES.

WHANGAREI HTGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. R. Lupton ; Mr. H. E. Q. Smith ; Miss I. T). Bruce ; Miss E. O. B. Lynch : Miss E. Blurahardt; Mr. Layzell • Miss Griffiths. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. I have the honour to report that the Whangarei High School is progressing satisfactorily under the headmaster, Mr. Lupton. During the year Miss Bruce, M.A., was appointed to succeed Miss A. M. L. Woolley, who resigned after many years good work in the school. The Board of Governors, finding that the teaching staff was insufficient to carry on the work of the school efficiently, through increase of number of scholars, have appointed Miss Lynch, M.A., and Mr. W. J. Bishop as assistants to the teaching staff, bringing its number up to six. The number of pupils in attendance at the school is 130. During the year the, residents of the district have assisted the Board in the proposal to raise funds to establish a boardinghouse and teachers' residence, where students from the country districts can be provided with boarding-accommodation under the supervision of the principal and his wife. Upwards of £500 was raised by subscriptions, which carried a Government subsidy of £1 for £1. In addition to this sum of money, your Department provided £1,000 on the public estimates towards such an object. The erection of such a building will be completed during the coming year. The Board has also made arrangements for acquiring additional land on which the boardinghouse and teachers' residence will be erected. To provide room for teaching purposes through the increase of pupils, the Board has provided two additional class-rooms to the present High School building. A local mining syndicate is making; arrangements with the Board for prospecting for coal and oil on the Kioreroa Endowment. If coal or oil is found in payable quantities, this will be the means of providing some further revenue for the Board to enable it to still improve the school, and further extend its sphere of usefulness. J. McKinnon, Secretary. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest (Senior Civil Service Work). —English —Books prescribed ; Nesfield, English Past and Present. French —Books prescribed ; Weekley's French Prose Composition. Mathematics—Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Hall and Stevens's Geometry ; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry; Ward's Exercises in Trigonometry. Mechanics —Bryan and Briggs ; Physiology, Coleman. Geography—Chisholm's Commercial. Latin —Ovid, Metamorphoses (selections) ; Csesar. De Bello Gallico, IV, V ; Cicero, selections ; Bradley's Arnold ; and Bryan's Latin Prose. Lowest. —English —Nesfield's English Grammar and Composition, Parts I and II; dictation and essays; Longfellow's Evangeline; Malory's Knights of the Round Table. History—General introduction ; The Struggle for Freedom. Latin —Shorter Latin Course, Part 1. French—Siepmann's First Year. Arithmetic —General revision. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to simultaneous equations. Geometry —Hall and Stevens, Part I. Book-keeping—Thornton's First Year. Drawing—Freehand, brush, from nature ; plane and solid geometry. Manual—Woodwork for boys; cookery and hygiene for girls.

AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Staff. Boya' School— Mr. J. W. Tibbs, M.A. ; Mr. J. H. Turner, M.A. ; Mr. H. J. D. Mahon, B.A. ; Mr. F. Heaton, M.A., Yl.Se. ; Mr. .). Drummond, M.A. ; Rev. J. K. Davis. M.A. ; Mr. P. A. Docherty ; Mr. P. Drummond, B.A. ; Mr. J. D. Oinneen, B.A. ; Mr. F. W. Gamble, M.A.; Mr. B. A. Watt, 8.A.; Mr. H. W. King ; Dr. G. P. O'Shannassy, Ph.D. . 8.A. ; Mr. A. W. Short, 8.A.; Mr. J. L. I. Newhook; Mr. A. B. Jameson; Mr. K. J. Bellow. Girls' School— Miss B. Butler, B.So. ; Miss E. G. Wallace; Miss A. C. Morrison, M.A. ; Miss W. Pieken, M.A. : Miss F. V. J. Jacobsen, M.A. ; Miss F. E. Macdonald, B.A. ; Miss F. E. A. Grellet; Miss M. A. Dive, B.A. ; Miss D. R. Robertson, M.A. ; Miss E. R. Dickinson, B.A. ; Miss E. M. Johnston, M.A. ; Miss E. M. Pickering, B.A. ; Miss M. McLean, B.A. ; Miss J. Moore, 8.A.. M.Se. : Miss C. L. Beaumont. M.A. : Mrs. S. Heap; Mr. K. Watkins ; Miss K. Oellet; Miss E. Whitelaw. I. Report of the Board of Governors. Auckland Grammar School. Progress of School. —The number on the roll still continues to increase. In the first term of 1910 there were 491 boys, and for the first term of 1911 there were 546, an increase of 55, necessitating the engagement of an extra master, Mr. A. W, Short, B.A. During the second and third terms the numbers were 527 and 506.

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