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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1898. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 487 8 5 By Management— Ground-rents .. .. .. 2,179 13 4 Office salary .. .. .. 100 0 0 Weekly rents .. .. .. 1,432 3 2 Other offioe expenses .. .. 48 11 1 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,918 0 8 Comxnission, &0., to collector .. 223 6 0 Sale of old buildings.. .. .. 31 15 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,948 16 8 School requisites .. .. .. 157 13 10 Election expenses .. .. .. 1 13 4 Legal expenses .. .. .. 2 2 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 23 16 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 61 1 5 Printing and advertising .. .. 138 18 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o.— School .. .. .. .. 16 6 6 Property .. .. .. 30 9 6 Stationery allowance .. ~ 161 18 0 Fencing, repairs, &o.— School .. .. .. .. 416 12 5 Property .. .. .. 455 6 G Insurance and taxes— School .. .. .. .. 79 12 0 Property .. .. .. 240 15 10 Interest on loans .. .. .. 250 0 0 School-lists expenses .. .. 55 10 0 Contribution to athletic sports .. 10 0 0 „ swimming sports .. 5 5 0 „ domain wickets .. 3 0 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 018 7 6 £7,049 0 7 £7,049 0 7 G. Maurice O'Eoeke, Chairman. W. Wallace Kidd, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Waebueton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : Up to standard required for Junior University Scholarships : Latin—Bevised Latin Primer; Steadman's Latin Grammar Papers ; Arnold's Latin Prose Composition; Sargeant's Passages for Latin Translation; Livy, Book IX.; Cicero's Letters (Tyrrell); Sallust, Catiline; Virgil, iEneid VI.; Tod and Longworth's Latin Unseen Translation ; Cruttwell and Banton's Specimens of Latin Literature ; Wilkin's Primer of Boman Antiquities ; Smith's History of Epme. English —Mason's Larger English Grammar ; Nichol's Primer of English Composition, with exercises on the same ; Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons for English People ; Jevons's Primer of Political Economy; Skeat's Primer of English Etymology; selections from Tennyson; Shakespeare, Henry V.; Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale; Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature. French—Wellington College French Grammar; Fasnacht's Synthetic French Grammar; Balzac, Eugenic Grandet; Turrell, Leeons Francaises, Prose et Vers. Mathematics—Arithmetic; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Jones and Cheyne's Algebraical Exercises; Euclid, .Books 1,-VI.; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry, and Ward's Trigonometry Exercises. Science—Silvanus Thompson's Electricity and Magnetism ; Boscoe's Chemistry; Tilden's Practical Chemistry. Carpentry is taught under the direction of Mr. J. G. Trevithick; and German is an optional subject on both sides. Lowest. — Boys : French—Chardenal's First Course. English—Mason's First Notions of Grammar, with easy parsing and analysis; reading and repetition from Longmans' Fifth Eeader, and Tennyson ; Longmans' Historical Eeader. Geography—Longmans' Shilling. English composition. Arithmetic—Longmans' Shilling, as far as vulgar fractions, inclusive. Highest. — Girls : Up to standard required for Junior University Scholarships. In Latin, English, French, and mathematics the work undertaken is the same as on the boys' side. Science —Miss Aitken's Botany ; Lock's Statics and Dynamics ; Sanderson's Hydrostatics. Lowest. — -Girls : Same as boys.

4. SCHOLAESHIFS. The College gave free education to twenty-five foundation scholars, fifteen holders of certificates of proficiency from the Education Board, four children of members of the staff, and two Maori pupils. There were five Eawlings scholars, and eight John Williamson scholars. Seventynine district scholarships awarded by the Auckland Education Board, and one by the Wellington Education Board were held at the College.

AUCKLAND GIELS' HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement ql Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1898. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. J. To Balance .. .. .. .. 4,651 711 By Rates on endowment for year ending Timber sold .. .. .. 1,086 9 3 31st March, 1899.. .. .. 17 9 2 Interest .. .. .. .. 147 10 4 Balance in hand .. .. .. 5,867 18 4 £5,885 7 6 £5,885 7 6 Eichd. Hobbs, Chairman. Vincent E. Eice, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Warbubton, Controller and Auditor-General.