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Balance Account, 1894. 1894. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1894. £ s. d. Jan. 1. Balances brought down — Jan. 1. Balances brought down—UneomBank .. 3,517 5 5 pleted purchases 2,670 0 4 Equitable Invest- Dec. 31. Ordinary revenue 6,316 3 2 ment Company 509 8 0 Grant from Campbell and Haw4,026 13 5 thorne funds 45 13 9 Dec. 31. Ordinary expenditure 6,955 14 10 Interest due on land-purchases 116 15 0 Rebate, part land-purchase, S. Proceeds of land sale 7 0 0 Bews 75 0 0 Balance carried down, Colonial Advance to Rector for fives court 45 13 9 Bank 4,109 15 6 Balance uncompleted purchases 2,162 5 9 £13,265 7 9 £13,265 7 9 1895. _ 1895. , Jan. 1. Balances brought down — Jan. 1. Balance brought down, Colonial Advance to Rector 45 13 9 Bank ..£4,109 15 6 I Uncompleted purchases 2,162 5 9 Assets and Liabilities on 31st December, 1894. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Rents overdue 530 15 8 Tradesmen's accounts unpaid 39 13 11 School-fees overdue 77 5 0 Bank overdraft. 4,109 15 6 Board fees overdue 57 0 6 Amounts due on mortgage (land instalments, including interest) 2,162 5 9 Gray Russell Scholarship Fund. 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. i 1894. Expenditure. £ s. d. Jan. 1. To Balance brought forward 101 18 4 Dec. 31. By Balance in Colonial Bank of New Jan. 5. Interest from High Schools Board 56 6 0 Zealand 219 0 4 Deo. 29. Interest from High Schools Board 60 16 0 £219 0 4 £219 0 4 Richardson Cadet Coeps Fund. 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. | 1894. Expenditure. £ s. d. Jan. 1. To Balance brought forward 57 16 9 Dec. 7 By Cash, Otago High School Cadet Jan. 5. Interest from Otago High School Corps 7 10 6 Board 15 1 0 Dec. 7 Cash, Normal School Cadet Corps 7 10 6 Dec. 29. Interest from Otago High School Dec. 31. Balances, 31st December, 1894— Board 15 1 0 In Colonial Bank 35 7 9 Due by W Reid, short paid on sale of security . 37 10 0 £87 18 9 £87 18 9 A. R. Fitchett, Chairman. C. Mac Andrew, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —James Edward FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Woek of Highest- and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —All Junior University Scholarship work in Latin, French, English, mathematics, chemistry, mechanics, botany and German. In the languages no set books are used, but a general review and study of the language, literature, and grammar are attempted. Lowest. —A continuation class of the Sixth Standard of the primary schools. In this class the study of Latin, French, and mathematics is commenced, with further development on the lines of the work handled in the Sixth Standard. Girls. Highest. —English Chaucer's Nonne Prestes Tale, Shakespeare's Richard 111. , Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I. Pope's Essay on Man, Ep. I. and II selections from prose writers, 1490---1684 Boman history, to end of Punic Wars, Historical English Grammar, composition, &c. Latin Virgil's ißneid, Book V , 600 11. , Livy, Book XXII., chapters 9-25, Horace, selected odes, at sight Caesar, Gallic War, Book IV , Composition, Grammar, &c. French Wellington College Reader, Boielle, Poetry Grammar, Composition, &c. German Homann's Deutsche Maerchen and Fouque's Undine Macmillan's Second Reading-book. Mathematics Arithmetic, the whole subject, algebra, to permutations and combinations, inclusive, geometry—Euclid, Division A, Books 1., 11., 111., IV., VI. trigonometry Division A, Lock's Trigonometry Science Botany, the morphology and physiology of the botanical types specified in the Junior Scholarship schedule, chemistry, the metallic elements, revision of the non-metallic elements. The senior division have revised the whole of Inorganic Chemistry Lowest. —English Arnold's Fifth Reader, History, Blackwood's Short Stories, Geography, Macdonald's Zealandia Geography, Parts I. and II. ; Physical Geography, explanation of geo-