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THAMES BOYS' AND GIELS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff: Mr. James Adams, B.A. ; Mr. Benjamin H. Low, 8.A.; Miss Mary E. Foy. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1900. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s . a. Balance .. .. .. .. 594 10 11 Office salary .. .. .. .. 30 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 336 910 Other office expenses .. .. .. 6 0 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 100 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 700 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 309 8 0 Examiners' fees.. .. .. .. 3 3 0 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 55 7.3 Printing, stationery, and advertising 5 2 0 Bank interest on fixed deposit .. .. 10 19 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &a. .. .. .. 38 3 i Transfer fee .. .. .. .. 110 Purchases and new works .. .. 16 5 0 Gas refund .. .. .. .. 0 5 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 9 12 0 Sale of stove .. .. .. .. 0 7 6 Insurance .. .. .. .. 8 18 1 Bates .. .. .. .. .. 496 Expenses of management, &o. .. .. 5 2 6 Bank charge .. .. .. .. 010 0 School requisites .. .. .. 22 13 4 Legal expenses .. .. .. .. 8 19 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 549 11 6 £1,408 9 3 £1,408 9 3 Frank Teembath, Chairman. Samuel Carteb, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin —Horace, Odes I. and 11. and Ars Poetica ; Livy, Books 1., 11., III.; Bradley's Latin Composition; Stedman's Examination Papers; Wilkin's Antiquities. French— French Literature (Masson); French Spare Moments, Masse; Macmillan's French Course, Part 111. (Fasnacht) ; Stedman's Examination Papers. English—Nesfield's English Grammar; Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice ; Chaucer's Prologue to Canterbury Tales ; Nichol's English Literature. Mathematics —Euclid I. to VI., with riders, Hall and Knight; Algebra to binomial theorem, Hall and Knight; Trigonometry, Lock. Science—Chemistry, Thorpe and Eoscoe; Electricity, Silvanus Thompson. Lowest. —Fifth Eoyal Eeader; Mason's Grammar; Geometry, Book I.; Arithmetic, Lock; Eoyal History of England; Abbott's Via Latina, pages 1-52; French—Macmillan's First French Course ; My First French Book (Marguerite Ninet).

3. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing: Instruction is given two hours per week in freehand, model, and geometrical drawing. Technical: All girls are taught sewing and cutting out. The more advanced boys have two hours per week at practical chemistry.

4. Scholarships. The Governors gave free tuition to one scholar. One scholarship, granted by the Freemason's Lodge Corinthian, and three Education Board scholarships, were held at the school.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff: Mr. Ernest Pridham, M.A., Miss C. D. Grant, M.A., Miss G. Drew, Mr. H. H. Ward. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1900. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance .. .. .. 752 14 4 Office salary .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Income from reserves .. .. .. 594 810 Other office expenses .. .. .. 517 0 Interest .. .. .. ■ ■ 116 8 Other expenses of management .. .. 212 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 326 19 9 Teachers'salaries and allowances.. .. 732 0 0 School fees .. .. .. 380 13 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 18 12 4 Transfer of lease fees .. .. .. 10 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 14 18 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &0... .. .. 55 2 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 015 0 Bates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 32 19 5 Expended on site or buildings .. .. 17 1 2 Expenses of management, &o. .. .. 18 6 0 Soience apparatus .. .. .. 10 15 2 Fire brigade, donation after fire .. .. 2 2 0 Telephone .. .. .. .. 2 15 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 1,103 7 0 _2_7 £2,067 2 7 W. W. MacDiarmid, Chairman. Walter Bewley, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Waeburton, Controller and Auditor-General.