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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1901. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ a. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,187 14 9 Office salaries .. .. .. .. 165 0 0 Price of reserves sold .. .. .. 400 0 0 Other office expenses — Current income from reserves .. .. 2,146 8 8 Rent .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Interest .. .. .. .. 39 3 0 Stamps and telegrams .. .. 18 7 6 Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 380 6 1 Printing and stationery .. .. 710 3 School fees— Teachers' salaries and allowances— Boys' school .. .. .. 1,663 16 8 Boys' echool .. .. .. 2,671 710 Girls'school .. .. .. 996 8 6 Girls' school .. .. .. 1,712 10 0 Boarding-school fees (girls' sohool) .. 343 6 8 Boarding-school Account— Donation to prize fund by Otago Institute.. 110 0 Boys'school.. .. .. .. 63 1 2 Girls' school .. .. .. 316 4 4 Legal account .. .. .. 3 13 6 Sundries and incidentals (including £3 6s. Bd. expended under " Local Authorities Indemnity Act, 1901," reception of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York) .. 45 17 10 Prizes .. .. .. .. 48 7 5 Printing and stationery for schools .. 62 8 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, including wages of two janitors (£150) .. .. 230 17 4 Laboratories .. .. .. .. 1 18 11 Telephone .. .. .. .. 2 10 0 Repairs and furnishing .. .. 173 10 3 Insurance .. .. .. .. 55 13 2 Interest on debentures .. .. .. 164 5 0 Advertising .. .. .. .. 50 13 6 Water rates, &o. .. .. .. 99 0 0 Amount transferred to sinking fund .. 17 10 0 Expenses management, &c. leasing, .. 35 8 6 Balance— At bank .. .. .. .. 824 6 7 In hand .. .. .. .. 330 15 5 On fixed deposit .. .. .. 47 17 8 £7,158 14 4 £7,158 14 4 Wμ. Brown, Chairman. C. Macandbew, Secretary. Examined and found correct. — J. K. Waeburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Wobk op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —English — Chaucer, Prologue; Shakespeare, King Lear; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I. ; historical English grammar, composition, &c. Latin—Livy, Book XXII.; Horace, Odes, Book 11. ; Virgil, iEneid, Book VIII.; prose composition ; Roman history. French —Selections from various authors ; 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 nonmetallic elements. Lowest. —English — Macmillan's New Literary Eeader, No. VI.; Tennyson, selections. English history—Up to 1603. Geography —-United Kingdom, Europe, and New Zealand ; 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. Book-keeping —Cash-book, day-book, invoice-book, &c. Drawing—Geometrical. Science —Elementary physics. 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 XXI., chapter 42 to end; Horace, Book 1., Odes, Book 11., 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 Reader; Bo'ielle, poetry ; grammar, composition, &c. ; Berthon, Specimens of Modern French Verse. German (Upper)— Macmillan, Parts I. and 11., Children's Own Reading-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). Loivest. —English—Macmillan's Literary Reader, No. V.; English history, Charles 11. to Victoria ; geography, Europe; grammar and composition. French—Chardenal's 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.