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Elisor's Road. Association football was played this year by the boys for the first, time, and so heartily was it entered into that our A team were runners-up in the schools' senior competition. In hockey the girls were very successful, the B team carrying off the junior shield in the secondary schools' competition, and the A team being runners-up in their grade. Considerable interest was displayed in swimming, the desire of the pupils being to obtain the certificates for longdistance swimming issued by the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. These certificates were won by thirteen girls for swimming distances between 1,700 and 3,566 yards. Thirty boys covered distances between 1,800 and 6,840 yards, twenty-one distances between 266 anil 1,700 yards, while three boys each covered more than three miles and a half. School Council.— -Our school council has now had a clear full year to prove its worth, and T can unhesitatingly say that it has done so. The fears of the timid that the operations of the council would have an injurious effect, upon the discipline of the school have been entirely dissipated. Of course, our pupils have a preliminary training for the work through the institution of a school parliament, but it is none the less remarkable that pupils should have attained such a, high sense of their duties and responsibilities and should display such aptitude for self-govern-ment. The justice of the punishments meted out to offenders against the council's rules is amply proved by the fact that these punishments are cheerfully carried out, and that throughout the year, of the three hundred cases punished, not one was referred to the appeal court. Moreover, several suggestions for the improvement of the working of the school have emanated .from the executive of the council, and their adoption has proved a success. It might be suppclsed by some that such a system as ours would conduce to overbearing conduct on the part of the officials, but the very reverse has been the case. Undoubtedly the system of self-government has come to stay; it is capable of still greater development, and with a sympathetic guidance it must in the end achieve very great success. School Entertainment. —One of the important functions of the year is the day-school entertainment, which takes place at the close of the winter term, and attracts considerable attention even outside college circles. The girls contributed the first portion of the programme, presenting a scene from " Cranford," the casket scene from "The Merchant of Venice," besides dances and a display of Swedish gymnastics. The second part consisted of four scenes from "Henry IV" presented by the boys. Judging by the attendances on both evenings the entertainment was, if anything, more popular even than the very successful one given last year. Evening School. —The number of students attending the evening classes shows an increase of 232 over that of last year, the figures being 1,295 for 1914, and 1,063 for 1913, the classes responsible for -the increase being those for cabinetmaking, electrical engineering, fitting and turning, plumbing, typography, shorthand and typewriting, sanitary science, dressmaking; while there was lessened interest in carpentry and joinery, signwriting, geography, French, Latin, and pure mathematics. It must, however, be admitted that the signwriting class worked under great inconvenience; at the mid-year it had to vacate a room in the South Belt School lent by the Education Board for the past three years and a half, and to be content with the only available, though quite unsuitable, accommodation in a corner of a room in the Technical College workshop that was used for other purposes. It is therefore no wonder that the attendance fell off in the latter half of the year, and that both instructor and students were quite dissatisfied with the conditions under which they had to work. It is hoped that better arrangements will be made tor this class in the coming year. During the session new (lasses were begun in Swedish gymnastics for ladies, sanitary science, and electrical engineering, ami wen- all well attended. Two classes which were formed last year but were poorly attended —viz., those in veterinary science and elocution —were dropped. Changes in the staff have fortunately not been numerous. Mr. Bauohop, who had charge of the motor-engines class, asked to be relieved of this work, and Mr. F. Clover, an ex-student of Coventry Institute, England, was appointed in his place. However, after a few weeks Mr. Glover joined the Expeditionary Force, and the'class was put in charge of Mr. J, L. Stinson, who holds a first-class engineer's certificate. The only other change was in connection with the trade-drawing classes, which Mr. Blister relinquished to go to the front, and which is now instructed by Mr. It. W. Webster, A.C.I. (London). Mr. O'Donel Davis was appointed to take charge of the new classes in electrical engineering, and as it was found necessary to have extra assistance in the hook-keeping classes the services of Mr. O. Anderson, A.1.A.N.Z., were secured. Mr. J. Petterd, who is foreman at the Sun printing-office, took charge of the typographical class at the beginning of the year, and the class has been so popular that it has had to be divided, having doubled its numbers. Much new equipment was provided during the year, and the booklet of specimen work was larger than over, and received much praise from the local Press. The Lyttelton Times remarked that the booklet " thoroughly justified the existence of classes, and makes a fine testimonial to tire soundness of the instruction given. These classes are not only a, benefit to the young men following the typographical trade, bill are an advantage to the employer', since they increase the efficiency of the craftsman and have an appreciable effect for the better on the product of the printing-house." The Past and Senior Students' .Association has had a very successful year, the chief event being I lie first annual festival of the newly-formed Christchurch Debating Clubs' Competitions' Society, in which (he association secured third place. It was not only the youngest society competing, hut it had only half the entries of St. Paul's, the second team, and about one-third those of the winning team from the V.M.C.A. As it was, the society gained the greatest number of firsts — namely, eight—and the greatest number of places—namely, seventeen. The sports-ground at Ensor's Road were opened in April, and contain three hockey-grounds, a football-ground, and tvo grass tennis-courts. An old boys' cricket club was formed in September, with a promising