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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1894. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance at beginning of year 62 16 5 By Management—-Office salary 75 0 0 Bank of New Zealand, fixed deposit from Teachers'salaries and allowances 1,140 0 0 last year 1,355 4 7 Boarding establishment 14 17 6 Bank of New South Wales, fixed deposit Examination expenses 3 0 0 from last year 403 0 0 Prizes (two years) 22 3 10 Capital Account —Price of reserves sold 100 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising 68 11 6 Current income from reserves . 962 19 10 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. . .. 68 7 2 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Fencing, repairs, &c. 30 8 3 paid purchase-money 129 1 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 21 15 0 Paid by School Commissioners 161 17 4 Reserves—Rates, expenses of leasing, &c. 59 2 9 School fees — Chemicals 4 15 3 Boys' school 257 11 6 School fittings 10 0 Gh-ls' school 235 13 8 Playground 62 2 11 Sundry expenses, stamps, telegrams, &c. 8 4 3 Amount in Bank of New Zealand on fixed deposit . 1,355 4 7 Amount in Bank of New South Wales on fixed deposit 403 0 0 Balance at end of year 330 11 4 £3,668 4 4 £3,668 4 4 J Walker Bain, Chairman. Charles Bout, Secretary Examined and found correct. —James Edwaed FitzGerald, Controller and Auditor-General., 3. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1894. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Bank of New Zealand, fixed deposit 1,355 4 7 Tobin Bros., £3; D. L. Matheson and Co., Bank of New South Wales, fixed deposit 403 0 0 13s. Bd., H. and J Peldwiek, 6s. 9d.; Bank of New Zealand, balance current ac- J E. Vernon, £1 17s. 3d.; W Macalister, count 319 5 3 £2 Is. Id. .. 7 18 9 Rent of reserves, due and unpaid 94 11 2 Balance . ~ 2,330 19 2 Interest due on properties sold 24 17 6 School fees, due and unpaid 70 13 4 Furniture of boarding establishment 60 0 0 Freehold property, Sections 26, 27, and 28, Block XIII., Town of Invercargill. Reserves vested in Board by Acts of the General Assembly. Cash in hand 11 6 1 £2,338 17 11 £2,338 17 11 J. Walker Bain, Chairman. Charles Rout, Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—James Edward FitzGeeald, Controller and Auditor-General.

4. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —As for Junior Scholarship Examination. English Henry V ; Knight's Tales (part); Bacon's Essays (Storr's selection), Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature; Longmans' Literature (Part IV), Morris's Elementary Historical Grammar, Mason's Grammar; Composition. Geography Hughes's. Latin Cicero, In Verrem, 1., Horace, selections (Baker); Virgil, iEneid, 11., Bradley's Arnold, prose, translation at sight. French Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Gautier's Scenes of Travel, Blouet's Prose, Brachet's Grammar. Mathematics : Arithmetic, the subject, algebra, to progressions, trigonometry, to solution of triangles; Euclid, Books 1.-IV., VI., and exercises. Science Inorganic chemistry, reactions of the common metals and acids, mechanics. Lowest. —English Lady of the Lake, Cantos 1., 11., Sixth Reader; Mason's Smaller Grammar, Longmans' School Composition, Recitation. Geography. Petrie's. History: 1688-1789. Latin Principia, gradation. French Principia, Macmillan's First Beader. Arithmetic: Compound rules, vulgar and decimal fractions. Science Elementary course in electricity and magnetism. Book-keeping. Drawing Geometrical (boys), freehand from blackboard (girls).

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