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EEPOETS OF GOVERNING BODIES, SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

WHANGABEI HIGH SCHOOL.

Staff. Mr. Roger Lupton, Miss A. L. Gavey, and Mr. T. Cameion. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ h. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 135 1 7 Office salary .. .. .. 12 710 Current income from reserves .. .. 38 10 6 Other office expenses .. .. .. 213 7 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 150 0 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. .. 317 18 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 202 13 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 818 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 7 8 3 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. .. 8 10 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 10 4 6 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 11 2 1 Addition to High School .. .. .. 30 4 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 116 18 4 £526 5 1 £526 5 1 J. M. Killen, Chairman. J. McKinnon, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.— Mathematics—Algebra, Hall and Knight (all); Euclid, Books 1.-VI., Layng's; trigonometry, Hall and Knight; arithmetic, general; mechanics, Tutorial Series. Science—Heat, Stewart's. English—Chaucer, The Prologue, The Knightes Tale ; Spenser, Faerie Queen ; Book 1., Seeley's Expansion of England; Shakespeare's Hamlet, Henry V. ; Nesfield's Past and Present. Latin—Virgil, iEneid, Book V.; Caesar, Books 11. and III.; Horace, Epistles (selected); Allcroft's Cupos ; history, and antiquities. French—Chardenal's French Course, Book II.; unseen translation from selected authors. Loioest. —English—West's English Grammar; Laing's English Literature as reading-book; Goldsmith's Deserted Village; History, Saxon and Norman periods ; Geography, the colonies. Mathematics —Euclid, Book 1., 1-15; arithmetic, higher rules. Latin —Principia, Book I. to verbs. French —Chardenal's First Course (part) ; and easy translation. Science —Elementary physiology. Drawing —Freehand, and elementary perspective.

3. Arrangements por Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Two hours a week are devoted to drawing—freehand, geometrical, and elementary perspective : those pupils in the upper classes doing special work are not required to take drawing. A gymnasium building has been erected, but it still remains to be fitted with apparatus. Swimming is indulged in throughout the summer months ; no regular instruction is given ; all boys who have been at the school for a year can swim ; at the present time five boys failed to qualify oyer a 75-yards course : no arrangements have been made to teach the girls swimming. Instruction in drill was given by the headmaster once a week. Advantage has not yet been taken of " The Manual and Technical Instruction Act, 1900."

4. Scholarships. The Governors gave free tuition to three scholars, and one senior and four junior Education Board scholarships were held at the school.

AUCKLAND GBAMMAB SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. W. Tibbs, M.A. ; Mr. W. J. Morrell, M.A. ; Mr. J. H. Howell, 8.A.,8.5c.; Mr. J. F. Sloman, B.A. ; Mr. J. G. Trevithick; Mr. J. H. Turner, M.A. ; Mr. H. J. D. Mahon, B.A. ; Mr. J. P. Dakin, B.A. ; Rev. J. King Davis, M.A. ; Mr. R. A. McCullough, M.A. ; Mr. P. Drummond, B.A. ; Mr. E. Clarke, M.A. ; Miss E. G. Wallace; Miss F. A. Haultain; Miss A. C. Morrison, M.A.; Miss B. Blades; Miss W. Picken, M.A. ; Mr. Kenneth Watkins ; Mr. W. M. Carrollo. 1. Report op the Governors. Experimental Science. —To meet the growing demand for practical work in science, the Board has completely equipped the temporary laboratory with apparatus imported from England, so that the means of teaching chemistry and physics is now reasonably complete. In selecting Mr. E. Clarke as an extra assistant master, his qualifications for teaching botany had considerable weight with the Board. The botanical laboratory on the girls' side has been furnished with models imported from Germany, and with simple apparatus locally made. Distinctions. —Three pupils of the school won junior foundation scholarships, and eight others passed the examination "with credit." Twenty-two passed Matriculation. Two passed the Civil Service Senior Examination, and eighteen the Junior, of whom four obtained cadetships. The Sinclair Scholarship for Biology, tenable at the Auckland University College, was won by a pupil