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THAMES BOYS' .WD GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 41 14 8 By Management— £ s. d. Endowments —Current income from re- Salary .. .. .. .. 30 0 0 serves .. .. .. .. 178 11 10 Other office expenses .. .. 18 2 6 School fees .. .. .. .. 275 18 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 712 10 0 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 444 17 9 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 3 2 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 31 2 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 34 5 8 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 31 17 6 Endowments—Expenses of management 5 0 0 School requisites .. .. .. 22 011 Balance at end of year .. .. 53 0 5 £941 2 3 £941 2 3 James McAndrew, Chairman. Richard A. Heald, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Subjects for University Junior Scholarships : Latin, French, English, mathematics, chemistry, electricity, and magnetism. Lowest. —English Grammar : Morris's Primer. Easy essays. English history : Stuart period. Geography: Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Latin: Principia, Book I. (Smith), exercises 1 to 40. French : Chardenal, 1., exercises 1 to 60. Arithmetic : Compound rules and vulgar fractions. Geometry : Euclid, Book 1., Props. Ito 20.

3. SCHOLAESHIPS. Two scholarships of the Auckland Education Board were held at the school.

WHANGAREI HIGH SCHOOL. 1, Report of the Boaed. Sib,— Woodhill, Whangarei, 10th May, 1890. Beferring to telegram received a few days since, asking for return of accounts of the Whangarei High School during the year, I regret to state that there has been nothing done, though the Board had several meetings and an effort was made to re-establish the school. The Governors have the matter still under consideration, and if we can obtain sufficient funds from the Auckland Commissioners to supplement the fees we will likely start the school again. There is a small balance to the credit of the Board at the Bank of New Zealand, Whangarei, for the last three years, of £25 os. Id. This I beg to enclose you a certificate for from the bank. We have also a few class-books and maps, a cupboard, and a box. That is all the property we have, excepting our interest in endowment reserve. I have, &c, J. lewin Wilson, The Secretary, Education Department, Wellington. Chairman and Secretary.

(Enclosure.) Whangarei, 9th May, 1890. It is hereby certified that, at the close of the business on the 31st day of March, 1890, the balance standing to the credit of the Whangarei High School Account with the Bank of New Zealand, Whangarei, amounted to £25 os. Id. For the Bank of New Zealand, B. C. M. Haeinoton, pro Agent.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Report op the Goveenoes. The management of this school was transferred on the' 23rd October, 1889, from the Taranaki Education Board to the present Board of Governors, appointed under " The New Plymouth High School Act Amendment Act, 1889." The number of scholars in .attendance for the last term of 1889 was 51 —viz., 23 boys and 28 girls—and the average attendance for the same term was —Boys, 86-7 per cent.; girls, 88 per-cent. Enclosed are the accounts for the year ended 1889, certified to by the Audit Department. The programme of the work of the school has already iJeen forwarded by the Secretary. New Plymouth, 2nd April, 1890. A; Follett Halcombe, Chairman.