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3. Work op Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin, French, English, mathematics, natural science (boys—chemistry, electricity, magnetism; girls—chemistry, heat), to standard of Junior University Scholarship Examination. Girls : Drawing also. Lowest. —Boys : Elementa Latina, pp. Ito 53. Chardenal's First French Course, to ex. 92 and grammar ; Brief History of England ; Davidson and Alcock's Intermediate Grammar (except analysis of complete sentences); Patterson's New Zealand Geography; reading and repetition from Macmillan's Fifth Reader, and Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. Arithmetic : Compound rules; weights and measures ; miscellaneous; mental arithmetic. Girls: Brief history (Roman and Stuart Periods); Davidson and Alcock's Intermediate Grammar, parts of speech, parsing, easy analysis; Longmans' Shilling Geography, pp. sto 7,15 to 65; reading and repetition from Longmans' Fourth Reader. Arithmetic, simple and compound rules. i. Scholarships. College Scholarships. —Senior foundation (£2O and free education), one girl; junior foundation (£2 and free education), three girls; (free education), eight boys, one girl; under Education Board's certificates of proficiency (free education), seven boys, five girls; children of members of staff, three boys, five girls. The College also gave free education to some holders of Education Board's scholarships. Education Board Scholarships. —At £40, two boys; at £30, twelve boys, eight girls; at £20 eleven boys, two girls. Bawlings Scholarships (free education and books). —Nine boys.

AUCKLAND GIELS' HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1891. Receipts. £, s. d. i Expenditure. £ s. d. To . Endowments —Paid by School Commis- I By Dr. balance at beginning of year .. 203 710 sioners .. .. .. .. 300 0 0 Interest on overdraft .. .. .. 8 17 2 Other receipts— Rates on endowment for 1890 and 1891 .. 61 4 6 Richard Monk, refund travelling ex- Legal expenses .. .. .. 25 14 8 penses .. .. .. ..660 Balance at end of year .. .. 13 710 David Goldie, refund travelling expenses 6 6 0 £312 12 0 £312 12 0 R. Udy, Chairman. Vincent E. Eice, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General.

WHANGAEEI HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Eepoet op the Board. Sir,— Whangarei, 11th April, 1892. 1 have been requested by the Board of Governors to forward you a short report of work performed on the Kioreroa endowment. The Governors are in receipt of a sum of £200 per annum, grant for maintenance of the wattle plantation; they have also received a special grant of £75 to enable them to fence in the Government orchard, hitherto unfenced. The orchard is now securely fenced with totara posts and seven wires. The Board are now about to plough and work the orchard. Some of the apple trees are beginning to bear good fruit, and will want constant attention. A curator is appointed and lives in the house, at a salary of £6 13s. 4d. per month. He is employed in keeping up the fences and keeping them clear of native growth, also in clearing spaces around the wattle plantations. The growth of the wattles is on the whole not satisfactory, but on the better class of lands they have made good growth. The Governors have advertised the endowment for lease, either as a whole or in sections. They have been partially successful in obtaining offers of small sections for lease of twenty-one years. The Board, in letting the land, are strictly conserving the native growth of timber by special covenants in the lease. The Board hope, owing to the proximity of the endowment to Whangarei, to eventually obtain a revenue from the estate ; but at the present time there does not appear to be much of a prospect in that direction, the general character of the land being very poor. I have, &c, The Secretary for Education, Wellington. C. Herbert Beid, Secretary. 2. General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1891. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year .. .. 23 14 0 To Office expenses .. .. .. 019 6 Rent of 15 acres reserve let .. .. 0 10 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 0 5 0 Dr. balance at end of year .. .. 616 5 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Purchases and new works .. .. 10 1 3 Bents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 0 8 0 Endowments, sales account—Expenses of survey, sales, management, &c. .. 19 6 8 £31 0 5 _ JiT 0 5 J. McKinnon (for Treasurer). Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General,