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GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL, CHEISTCHUECH. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1897. m - Receipts.. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 1,154 15 7By Office salary .. .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves.. .. 313 13 10 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,497 17 0 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Examinations—Examiners' fees .. 55 7 0 paid purchase-money .. 224 4 1 „ Other expenses .. 11 8 0 School fees.. .. .. .. 1,517 15 6 Scholarships .. .. .. 240 0 0 Interest on current account .. .. 35 14 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 31 17 3 Proceeds from cooking class .. .. 24 12 8 Printing, stationery, advertising, stamps, and telegrams .. .. .. 63 1 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 17 14 11 Site and buildings .. .. .. 19 18 6 Fencing, repairs, &c.. .. .. 14 10 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 919 3 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 5 0 0 Expenses of cooking class .. .. 43 13 4 Transfer to Investment Account .. 900 0 0 Music .. .. .. .. 2 2 6 Sundries .. .. .. .. 15 2 7 Balance .. .. .. .. 283 4 7 £3,270 16 2 £3,270 16 2 H. B. Webb, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Eegistrar, Canterbury College.

2. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Mathematics—Algebra, Euclid, trigonometry, as for Junior University Scholarship. Text Books—Algebra, Hamblin Smith, Hall and Knight; Euclid, Hall and Stevens; trigonometry, Loney, Part I. Latin, translation—Horace, Odes, Book IV. ; Virgil, iEneid, Books I. and VI. ; Cicero, Catiline Orations; Tacitus, Agricola. History, prose, &c.—Horton's Soman History; Bradley's Arnold; Simpson's Caesarian Prose; Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom. English — Shakespeare, Tempest; Chaucer, Knyghte's Tale; Tennyson, Selections; Mason's Grammar; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature. French—Chardenal's Advanced Erench Course. Translation, Pour une Epingle; Le Gendre de M. Poirier; L'Abbe Constantin. Science — Heat, as required for Junior University Scholarship; textbook, Glazebrook's Heat. Botany, as above; textbook, Dendy and Lucas. Lowest. —English—Beading, Southern Cross Eeader, No. 4; grammar, Longmans' School Grammar; history of literature, Stronach's English Literature; composition, on subjects from reading-books. French—Exercises from Chardenal's First French Course. Arithmetic—Elementary rules, without textbook. Geography—Knowledge of principal features of continents, and of the more important towns; textbook, Petrie's Geography for Schools of N.Z. History—Period from 1066 to 1485; textbook, Bansome's Elementary History. Botany—Elementary work, without textbook. 3. Scholarships. The school gave free education to nineteen pupils. Eleven scholarships of the Education Board were held at the school.

BANGIOEA HIGH SCHOOL. 1. Beport of the Board. The year opened and closed with nineteen pupils on the roll. Three received free education, being admitted as scholarship pupils from the Bangiora and Saltwater Creek State schools. Steady work was done during the year, and in December Mr. F. Wake, 8.A., conducted an examination. In his report he stated that, on the whole, the results were satisfactory. C. I. Jennings, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for ihe Year ending 31st December, 1897. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 142 2 3 By Office expenses .. .. .. 10 9 Current income from reserves .. 93 6 6 Teacher's salary .. .. .. 222 2 0 School fees .. .. .. ~ 141 ■( 4 6 Examiner's fee .. .. .. 9 2 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 15 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 5 19 1 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 13 13 9 Fencing, repairs, &c... .. .. 26 1 0 Rents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 3 18 9 Expenses of surveys, sales, management, &o. .. .. .. .. 2 10 0 Rail fares for scholars .. .. 4 10 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 86 10 11 £376 13 3 £376 13 3 E. E. Good, Chairman. C. I. Jennings, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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