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Appendix.

Fowler's Selected Essays. Mathematics —Algebra —Briggs and Bryan, Middle Algebra ; geometry, Hall and Stevens, Parts I-VI; trigonometry, Borchardt and Perrott; mechanics, Loneys' Mechanics and Hydrostatics. Electricity—Advanced, Poyser, Stewart; Chemistry—Tutorial Chemistry, Parts I and 11. Lowest. —Latin —Longmans', Book I; First Steps in Csesar. English—Jones's First English Course; Dickens, Christmas Carol; John Gilpin ; twelve of Blackie's editions of poets. French — Siepmann's Primary French Course, Part I. Mathematics —Algebra, Baker and Bourne, Part I; geometry, Hall and Stevens, Parts I and II; arithmetic, Zealandia. Agriculture—Green's Rural Science. Book-keeping — Jackson's Junior Book-keeping. History — Townsend's Brief Survey. Drawing —Civil Service syllabus. Girls' School. Highest. —English—Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition; Anthology of English Verse; Burke, Arnold's Prose Books; Shakespeare, As You Like It; A. W. Williams's Grammar and Composition ; Lamb, Essays of Elia. French —Tutorial French Grammar ; Bue's Idioms ; Advanced French Reader; Le Comte Kostia; French Vocabularies for Repetition. Latin —Bryan's Latin Prose ; Discernenda Latina; Allen's Elementary Latin Grammar ; Matriculation Selections from Latin Authors; Longmans' Latin Course III; Creighton's History Primer (Rome) ; Wilkins's Primer of Roman Antiquities. Mathematics —Goyen's New Arithmetic; Baker and Bourne's Elementary Algebra ; Hall and Stevens's School Geometry ; Borchardt and Perrott's Trigonometry ; Hall and Knight's Algebra. Botany —Dendy and Lucas ; Lowson's Second Course. Mechanics — Loney's Mechanics and Hydrostatics for Beginners. Lowest. —English —R. S. Wood's Word-builder and Speller, VI; Golden Numbers; Tellers of Tales ; Kingsley's Heroes; Nesfield's Oral Exercises in English Composition; Nesfield's Outlines of English Grammar; Longmans' Geography, Book II; Townsend Warner's A Brief Survey of British History. French —Siepmann's Primary French Course, Part I. Latin —Longmans' Latin Course, I. Mathematics —New Southern Cross, Standard VI; Blackie's Elementary Modern Algebra; Hall and Stevens's School Geometry, I and 11, with introductory course. Botany—First Book of Botany. Dressmaking —Cutting-out by the Short system. WAITAKI BOYS' AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS. Staff. Boys , School.—Mr. F. Milnor, M.A. ; Mr. G. H. Uttley, M.A., M.So. ; Mr. M. K. McCulloch, M.A.; Mr. D. S. Chisholm, M.A.; Mr. H. H. Allan, M.A. ; Mr. W. M. Uttloy, 8.A.; Mr. C. M. Littlejohn, M.A.; Mr. A. K. Anderson; Miss M. MoCaw; Mr. F. C. Burry. Girls' School. —Miss C. Ferguson, M.A. ; Miss A. M. Budd, M.A. ; Miss M. Ronaldson, 8.A., B.So. ; Miss H. P. Leversedge, M.A.; Miss M. G. MoCaw. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. I beg to report that the attendance at both schools has been fully maintained. At the Boys' School the average number of boarders in residence was 165. At the end of the year Mr. L. S. Jennings, M.Sc, science master at Wanganui College, was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the departure of Mr. G. H. Uttley. Several accessions have been made to the staff, and this year has seen the completion of the science equipment of both schools. At the Boys' School C. A. King won a Junior University Scholarship, and L. M. Inglis a Senior National Scholarship. Four boys gained credit passes. In Matriculation fifteen out of twenty candidates passed. In the Continuation Examination forty-seven out of forty-eight passed. C. A. King gained the Lord Meath Empire Day Challenge Cup by competitive essay. The examination results at the Girls' School were equally satisfactory. Duncan Sutherland, Chairman. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Forms. Boy's School. Highest. — English — Gray, Elegy and Bard; Burns, Poems; Hampshire's Ruskin; Shakespeare, Henry VIII, and Hamlet; Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present; Chaucer, Prologue ; Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book I; Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter; Thackeray, Henry Esmond ; Macaulay, Third Chapter; Skeats's Primer of Etymology ; Tutorial History of English Literature ; Brooke's English Literature Primer; Chaucer, Squire's Tale. Latin- -Kennedy's Latin Primer; Bradley's Arnold ; Bryan's Caesar's Latin Prose ; Caesar, Book VII; Liddell's Stories from Cicero ; Blackie's Latin Unseens (Senior); Vergil's iEneid, IX-XII; Roby's School Latin Grammar; Horton's Roman History ; Ramsay's Elementary Roman Antiquities ; Res Romance ; Cicero's Select Letters. French —Wellington College French Grammar; French Genders at a Glance ; Weekley's French Prose Composition ; Spiers's Vocabularies ; Berthon's Selections from French Prose and Verse ; Bue's French Idioms ; Lazare's Half-hours with Modern French Authors ; Kealey's French Phrases ; Pellissier's French Unseens for Upper Forms; Heath's French Unseens; Theuriet's L'Abbe Daniel; Weekley's French Subjunctive ; Primer of French Philology; DuhamePs Advanced French Prose ; Baron's Exercises in Free Composition; Vecqueray's French Papers. Mathematics—Baker and Bourne's Algebra, Parts I and II: Barnard and Child's New School Algebra, Part I; Hall and Stevens's Geometry, I-VI; Hall and Knight's Elementary Trigonometry; Ward's Papers in Trigonometry. Science —Tutorial Chemistry, non-metals and metals ; Chapman and Jones's Practical Inorganic Chemistry ; Draper's Heat; Robson's Practical Exercises in Heat.

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