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1. Eepoet of the Boaed. In accordance with section 8 of " The Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Act, 1877," and in compliance with circular from the Education Department dated 14th December last, I have the honour to report that during the year ended 31st December, 1900, the work of the schools has been carried on in a satisfactory manner, and the attendance has been maintained. As was the case during the previous year, a number of boys left the school at the end of the year for various mercantile and Civil Service employments. The various competitive examinations in both schools show good results. During the year twenty-three boys and eighteen girls received free education owing to their having obtained 50 per cent, of the obtainable marks in the Otago Education Board's Senior and Junior Scholarship examinations. Wμ. Bbown, Chairman.

2. Genebal Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1900. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. dl Balanoe .. .. .. .. 796 2 6 Offioe salaries .. .. .. .. 165 0 0 Price of part of school-site taken by Tram Rent .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Company .. .. .. .. 350 0 0 Stamps and telegrams .. .. .. 18 10 0 Current inoome from reserves .. .. 2,334 15 11 Printing and stationery .. .. 816 6 Interest on moneys invested, &c. .. 28 0 4 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 4,357 9 5 Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 361 210 Boarding-school Account .. .. 401 11 7 Price of timber sold .. .. .. 14 0 0 Legal Account .. .. .. 16 2 0 Sohool fees .. .. .. .. 2,687 6 1 Sundries and incidentals .. .. 38 111 Boarding-sohool fees (Girls' Sohool) .. 460 8 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 33 13 10 Donation for prizes .. .. .. 8 8 0 Printing and stationery for schools .. 51 6 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, including wages of two janitors (£150) .. .. 231 10 0 Laboratories .. .. .. .. 17 3 7 Telephone .. .. .. .. 2 10 0 Repairs and furnishing .. .. 124 16 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 52 19 5 Interest on debentures .. .. .. 155 5 0 Advertising .. .. .. .. 33 13 0 Water rates .. .. .. .. 116 10 0 Amount transferred to sinking fund .. '17 10 0 Balance .. .. .. .. 1,187 14 9 £7,040 3 8 £7,040 3 8 Wμ. Beown, Chairman. C. Macandeew, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Waebubton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Woek op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —English—Chaucer, Prologue; Shakespeare, As You Like It; Milton, Samson Agonistes; Carlyle, Sartor Eesartus ; Historical English Grammar, composition, &c. Latin— Livy, Book XXI. ; Horace, Odes, Book IV.; Virgil, iEneid, Book VI.; prose composition; Eoman history. French—Saintine's Picciola ; composition, grammar, &c. Mathematics—Arithmetic (whole subject); Euclid, six books; algebra; trigonometry. Science—Botany : The morphology and physiology of botanical types. Chemistry—The metallic elements, revision of nonmetallie elements. Lowest. —English — Macmillan's New Literary Beader, No. VI.; Tennyson, selections. English History, up to 1603. Geography —United Kingdom and Europe; simple physical and mathematical geography. Latin—Grammar and easy translation. French —Grammar and easy translation. Mathematics — Arithmetic: Vulgar fractions, simple and compound proportion, simple interest, practice, &c. Euclid—Book 1., 1-12, with exercises. Algebra—Simple rules. Bookkeeping —Cash-book, day-book, invoice-book, &c. Drawing —Geometrical. Girls' School. Highest. —English—Chaucer, The Knightes Tale ; Shakespeare, The Tempest; Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book 1., Canto IV.; Milton, Samson Agonistes; Historical English Grammar; Composition, &c, Literature of the Elizabethan Period. Latin—Livy, Book XXL, Chapter XLII. to end ; Horace, Book I. : Odes, Book II.: Selected satires and epistles; Cicero, De Senectute, Chapter X. to end ; Middleton's Latin Verse, Unseens ; Composition, Grammar, &c.; Eoman History. French—Chardenal's Advanced Exercises; Wellington College Eeader; Boielle, Poetry ; Grammar, Composition, &c.; Berthon, Specimens of modern French verse. German—Macmillan, Parts Land 11., Children's Own Eeading-book. Mathematics—Arithmetic (the whole subject); Algebra, to permutations and combinations, inclusive; Geometry, Euclid, Books 1., 11., 111., IV., VI.; Trigonometry, Lock's Trigonometry. Science —Botany: The morphology and physiology of the botanical types specified in the Junior Scholarship schedule ; Chemistry : The metallic elements, revision of the non-metallic elements. The senior division have revised the whole of Inorganic Chemistry. Lowest. —English —Macmillan's Literary Eeader, No. V.; English History, Charles 11. to Victoria; Geography, Europe; Grammar and Composition. French — Chardenal, Part of First French Course; Vocabulary. Arithmetic —Compound rules in money, weights and measures, practice, and mental arithmetic. Science—Lessons in the elements of botany.