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ground is very limited in area. The Board is endeavouring to purchase an adjoining piece of land for the girls, and hopes to succeed. The erection of a gymnasium is also in contemplation, but want of funds prevents the carrying-out of any plan in this direction at present. Teaching the girls swimming is also contemplated. H. Stockeb, Chairman. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December, 1898. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. To Balance .. .. .. .. 2,808 6 6 By Office salary .. .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves .. 696 18 4 Other office expenses .. .. 3 5 8 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,165 10 0 paid pnrchase-money .. .. 97 2 5 Boarding-school Account .. .. 31 510 Paid by School Commissioners .. 157 7 5 Examinations—Examiners' fees .. 111 3 School fees.. .. .. .. 423 13 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 16 8 6 Boardinghouse rent .. .. .. 40 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 29 19 1 Chemicals—refund .. .. .. 10 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 76 17 5 Prizes- -donation .. .. .. 2 0 0 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and other temporary advances .. 5 0 0 Purchases and new works .. .. 388 15 9 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. 27 2 9 Bents, insurance, and taxes .. .. 37 3 6 Interest .. .. .. .. 0 8 6 Chemicals—appliances .. .. 8 0 2 Balanoe .. .. .. .. 2,374 19 7 £4,226 8 0 £4,226 8 0 H. Stockeb, Chairman. Chaeles Bout, Secretary. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Waebueton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. WOEK OF THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST CLASSES. Highest. —English—Shakespeare, Macbeth ; Chaucer, Prologue; Tennyson, selections ; S. Brooke's Primer of Literature; Bain's Ehetoric and Composition ; Trench's English Past and Present; essays. Latin—Cicero, Philippic ii.; Horace, selections from Satires and Epistles; Tacitus, Agricola; Boman history and antiquities; translations at sight; prose. French— Smith's Modern Trench Beadings; Perini's Questions and Exercises; Brachet's Grammar; Blouet's Composition. Mathematics-—Arithmetic; algebra, to binomial theorem; Euclid, Books I. to VI., with exercises; trigonometry, to solution of triangles; applied mathematics, dynamics. Science—Electricity and magnetism. Lowest. — English—Scott's Marmion; Mason's Grammar; Longmans' Composition; geography; history. Latin —Principia; Gradatim. French—Principia ; Macmillan's First Beader. Mathematics—Arithmetic; algebra, to simple equations; Euclid, Book 1., to proposition 34, with exercises. Science—Elements of chemistry and physics (boys); botany (girls). Shorthand and book-keeping (boys). Drawing—Freehand and model (girls).

4. SOHOLAESHIPS. Twenty pupils held Education Board scholarships, and twenty-seven received free education at the High School. Approximate Cost of Paper.— preparation, not given ; printing (1,525 copies), £17 Is.

By Authority: John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB99. Price 9d.]