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THAMES BOYS' AND GIBLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. James Adams, B.A. ; Miss Mary R. Foy. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s . d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 479 16 5 Office salary .. .. .. .. 20 0 0 Government grant-in-aid .. .. 1,000 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 6 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 464 19 2 Teachers' salaries and allowances.. .. 600 0 0 Goldfields revenue .. .. .. 51 0 5 Examiners' fees.. .. .. .. 2 2 0 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 150 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 10 19 6 School fees .. .. .. 214 9 0 I Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. .. 34 10 9 Interest on fixed deposits .. .. 4 010 I Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 18 2 3 Refunds rates, insurance, &c, on Endow- Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 32 11 8 ment Account .. .. .. 41 9 7 Endowments—Expe nses of management, &c. 7 7 6 School requisites .. .. .. 21 5 3 Legal expenses .. .. .. .. 14 16 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 2 18 6 Expenses incurred by maturity of endowment leases, and reletting same .. 983 7 9 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 661 14 3 £2,405 15 5 £2,405 15 5 Frank Trembath, Chairman. Jas Kernick, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.— Mathematics—Euclid (Hall and Stevens), Books 1.-VI. and riders; trigonometry (Lock's Elementary) to solution of plane triangles ; algebra to permutations (Hall and Knight) ; arithmetic, general. Science—Chemistry (Boscoe and Harden) ; electricity (Sylvanus Thompson); practical chemistry (Tilden). French—Fasnacht, Part 111. ; translations at sight. English— Nesfield's English Grammar; Nichol's English Composition ; Shakespeare's Henry V. ; Chaucer's Knight's Tale. Latin—First Steps in Latin Prose (Walters) ; Latin at Sight; Caesar, Book II.; Virgil, Book 11. ; Boman History and Antiquities. Lowes*.—-Arithmetic—Compound rules, weights and measures, fractions. History—l6o3-1714, Epochs of History (Mrs. Gardiner). Geography—Australia, New Zealand, England. English grammar—Parts of speech, easy parsing, and analysis. Drawing and needlework.

3. Scholarships. The Governors gave free tuition to nine scholars, and two senior and four junior district scholarships were also held at the school.

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr Ernest Pridham, M.A. ; Miss C. D. Grant, M.A. ; Mr. H. H. Ward; Miss G. Drew, 8.A.; Mrs. Hooker; Miss Smith. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ B. d. j Expenditure. £ p. d. Balance at beginning of year .. ..1,024 10 2 I ManagementEndowments— Office salaries.. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 538 10 4 i Other office expenses .. .. .. 315 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 201 19 8 Other expenses of management.. .. 912 10 School fees .. .. .. .. 318 4 0 Teachers'salaries and allowances.. .. 873 10 0 Transfer fees '.'. .. .. .. 10 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 23 311 Interest on deposits .. .. .. 46 7 8 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 16 12 8 Sale of stove .. .. .. .. 217 6 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c.. .. .. 55 7 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 39 2 5 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 24 TO 0 Interest on current account .. .. 0 5 6 Furniture and appliances .. .. 17 1 6 Valuation and law expenses .. .. 13 13 10 Balances — On deposit, Bank of New Zealand .. .. .. 200 0 0 At Post-Office Savings-Bank 716 19 9 At New Plymouth Savingsbank .. .. .. 108 0 0 1,024 19 9 Overdraft ourrent account .. 18 5 10 — 1,006 13 11 £2,133 9 4 £2,133 9 4 N. K. MacDiarmid, Chairman. Walter Bewtley, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct. —-J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

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