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WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1889. > Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves .. 1,497 19 10 By Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 205 13 2 Paid by School Commissioners .. 53 11 10 Management— School fees— Salary .. .. .. ... 50 0 0 Boys .. .. .. .. 295 17 6 Other expenses of management. .. 5 0 3 Girls .. .. .. .. 225 13 4 Teachers' salaries and allowances — Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 55 8 6 Boys .. .. .. ..1,039 6 3 Interest on rents in arrear .. .. 417 4 Girls .. .. .. .. 333 6 8 Scholarship Account.. .. .. 25 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 12 10 0 Dr. balance.. .. .. .. 10 19 9 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 19 12 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 94 17 0 Book and stationery account, and other temporary advances .. .. 58 18 9 Site and buildings— Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 15 4 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 24 15 3 Interest on current account .. .. 37 7 0 Endowment—Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c.. .. .. 19 6 9 Interest on loan on buildings .. .. 227 10 0 Furnishings (Girls' School) .. .. 16 2 0 School appliances (Girls' School) .. 919 0 £2,169 8 1 £2,169 8 1 H. J. Miller, Chairman. George Sumpter, Secretary and Treasurer. Audited and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1889. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Petty cash in hand .. .. .. 111 9 Loan on buildings .. .. .. 3,500 0 0 Rents uncollected .. .. .. .. 371 6 3 Scholarship Fund .. .. .. 125 0 0 Pees uncollected, boys .. .. .. 334 9 0 Salaries accrued and unpaid .. .. 64 1 8 Fees uncollected, girls .. .. .. 149 13 4 Interest on mortgage to 31st December, 1889 113 15 0 Deferred-payment balances .. .. 556 16 0 Overdraft at Colonial Bank of New Zealand 12 11 6 School buildings. Reserves vested in Board by "The Waitaki High School Act, 1878," GeOrge Sumptbr, Secretary.

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys'. Highest. —Mathematics : Hamblin Smith's Euclid, Books I. to XL ; mechanics; algebra to theory of indices; arithmetic, all; H. Smith's Trigonometry to solution of triangles. Latin: Bradley's Arnold, to page 300; Bryan's Latin Prose; Livy, Hannibalian War; Horace, Odes; Virgil, -Eneid Book IV., Georgics Book IV.; Caesar, Book II.; Eutropius (Macmillan); Principia, Book 11., twenty pages. French : Chardenal, Courses 11. and III.; La Fontaine's Fables (Moriarty); Les Femmes Savantes (Macmillan's Reader, Part II.). English : Hale's Longer English Poems ; repetition, Traveller, Deserted Village, Lycidas ; Higher English Grammar ; paraphrases. Chaucer, Man of Lawe's Tale; Morris's Historical English Grammar; Burton's History of the Romans. Geography. Science: Physiology (Vincent Murche). Shorthand: Pitman's system. Book-keeping: Chambers's. Lowest. — Mathematics: Algebra, H. Smith's to simple equations ;■ arithmetic to end of decimal fractions. French : Chardenal's First Course, to exercise 120. Latin : Cook's Latin Course, to exercise 120; Abbott's Via Latina, exercises Ito 30. English : Royal Poetical Reader, Hale's English Grammar. Gardiner's English History. Petrie's Geography. Girls. Highest. —English : Mason's Grammar, pages 100 to 180 ; parsing, analysis ; Ancient Mariner, L'Allegro, II Penseroso, Deserted Village ; dictation, essays, composition and punctuation exercises. History: Morris's Class-book, England (Norman to Tudor period). Geography: Chisholm's, Europe (exclusive of British Isles), Australasia. French: Baume's Grammar (whole book) ; Chardenal's Course 11. and advanced exercises; translation, dictation, vocabularies. Latin : Principia, Part IV., pages 1 to 64, exercise 82 ; Caesar, Gallic War, selections from Books IV. and V.; Sallust's Bellum Catilinarium, chaps, i. to xxii. Mathematics : Arithmetic—Complex problems, square root, simple interest (including problems), mental arithmetic; algebra, Todhunter's for Beginners, exercises xxv. to problems leading to simultaneous quadratic equations; Euclid, Book 111., Prop. 16, to end of Book IV., exercises; Todhunter's Elementary Trigonometry, pages Ito 118. Chemistry : Mille_s Inorganic Chemistry, pages 1t097 ; problems. Lowest.- —English : Royal Star Reader VI. to page 103 ; composition and dictation; Blackie's Grammar to page 130; analysis and parsing.* History: Gardiner's England, William 111. to Victoria. Geography : Petrie's Europe (continental), Asia, Africa, North America; general definitions ; maps, Mathematics ; Arithmetic—Fractions, to division of money, weights, &c.;