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WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. The Governors of Wellington College and Girls' High School have the pleasure of reporting that both their institutions have, during the year 1897, been carried on very efficiently : the number of pupils on the rolls for the last term of the year being—at the College, 250, and at the Girls' High School, 124. There are now many schools for girls in the city, which have a considerable effect on the attendance at the Girls' High School; otherwise there is no doubt it would be larger. The result of the University and Civil Service examinations at the end of the year was as follows:— Wellington College. —Sixteen pupils passed the Matriculation Examination ; one the Medical Preliminary; four the Junior Scholarship Examination, three of them " with credit " ; ten passed the Junior Civil Service Examination ; for the Senior there were no candidates. Girls' High School. —Three pupils passed the Junior Scholarship Examination with credit, one matriculated in the Junior Scholarship papers; thirteen passed the Matriculation Examination ; two the Senior Civil Service, one of them " with distinction," gaining the highest marks in the colony; seven passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. It will be necessary almost at once to provide further class-rooms at the College, the number of pupils now attending having increased to 272. This would be a comparatively easy matter were not the Governors (as has been pointed out to the Government year after year) so hampered by the burden of interest on moneys borrowed for erection of buildings: a position in which they would never have been placed had previous Governments done for Wellington as much as they did for other centres. A very handsome and valuable addition has been made during the year to the appliances for the physical training of the boys at the College by the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Bell, who have had made in the College grounds a swimming-bath, 75 ft. long by a width of 33 ft., built in concrete and lined with glazed tiles. This will no doubt be much appreciated by the boys: the value of a knowledge of the art of swimming is unquestionable. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Current income from reserves.. .. 1,942 3 0 By Balance .. .. .. .. 1,615 811 Paid by School Commissioners .. 59 9 0 Office salary .. .. .. 165 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 4,275 17 10 Other office expenses .. .. 31 3 4 Levin Scholarship .. .. .. 20 0 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,400 8 4 Turnbull Scholarship refund .. .. 5 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 93 7 3 Refunds and discounts .. .. 2 110 Scholarships .. .. .. 51 5 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 210 0 Transferred to Scholarship .Account .. 140 6 4 Legal expenses recovered .. .. 6 7 9 Prizes .. .. .. .. 45 16 6 Balance .. .. .. .. 1,813 9 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 382 1 10 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 231 10 1 Painting .. .. .. .. 309 2 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. 153 5 6 Play-grounds .. .. .. 134 10 0 Insurance and taxes .. .. .. 65 1 10 Furniture and apparatus .. .. 106 19 9 Interest on Current Account .. .. 90 5 4 Endowments— Rates .. .. .. .. 76 13 0 Interest on cost of reclaimed land .. 136 2 8 Fencing .. .. .. .. 19 10 0 Expenses of survey .. .. 175 0 0 Tuition-fees refunded or paid over to Technical School .. .. .. 69 14 10 Legal expenses .. .. .. 38 16 9 Interest on cost of buildings .. .. 595 9 5 £8,126 18 11 £8,126 18 11 J. B. Blair, Chairman and Treasurer. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. College. Highest. —Mathematics—Euclid, Books 1.-VI., and riders in all; trigonometry, to solution of equations (Lock's Elementary); algebra, to permutations (Hall and Knight's) ; arithmetic, general. Science —Chemistry, Jago's Advanced Chemistry ; heat, Wright's ; practical chemistry, testing for base and acid in salts. French—Brachet's Elementary School Grammar (all); questions from Vecqueray's Erench Examination-papers; prose to junior scholarship standard; translation, Moliere, Misanthrope; Merimee, Colomba. English—Dalgleish's Higher Grade English ; Morris's Elementary Historical Grammar; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Lamb, Essays of Elia; Chaucer, Knight's Tale ; composition, essays, paraphrasing. Latin—Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom, and exercises; Virgil, selections; Caasar, Book I. ; Cicero, Pro Milone; grammar; antiquities. Lowest.- —Beading, spelling, dictation—several books, Third and Fourth Standard; geography, history —to match above ; arithmetic, Southern Cross books, Standards 11. and 111.

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