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1. Beport of the Governors. The Board of Governors have to report the continued success of the Wellington College. The boarding accommodation as reported last year is insufficient, but the Board have not been able owing to want of funds to take any steps for increasing such accommodation. At the last University examinations one pupil gained a junior University scholarship; three others passed the Junior University Scholarship Examination with credit, seven qualified for matriculation on the same papers, twelve passed the Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge Examination, and eight the Matriculation Examination. Three passed the Medical Preliminary Examination. One passed the Senior and fifteen the Junior Civil Service Examination, and nine passed the Students' Examination of the Institute of Accountants of New Zealand. The Board has every reason to be satisfied with the progress and work of the Girls' High School. Here again the want of boarding accommodation is much felt, but funds cannot be obtained for building a house for boarders. The attention of the Government is again called to the burden imposed upon the Board by having to pay a very large sum annually in interest on the cost of the Girls' High School buildings. Of the pupils at the Girls' High School two passed the Junior Scholarship Examination with credit, three qualified for matriculation on the junior scholarship papers ; ten passed the Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge Examination, and two the Matriculation Examination. Six passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance in hand and in bank at beginning j Office salary or salaries .. .. .. 200 0 0 of year .. .. .. .. 163 17 6 i Other office expenses • .. .. .. 31 0 0 Grant from vote of the General Assembly Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 4,659 1 8 for technical education .. .. 16 17 0 Examinations— Endowments— Examiners'fees .. .. .. 98 14 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 2,122 9 8 ; Other expenses .. .. .. 48 0 9 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 680 7 2 Prizes .. .. .. .. 61 11 5 Sohool fees .. .. .. .. 4,779 8 7 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 305 10 2 Prizes —Donations .. .. .. 615 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 159 2 4 Discount .. .. .. .. 0 2 3 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Rents from buildings .. .. .. 52 10 0 New works .. .. .. .. 15 9 3 Grounds .. .. .. .. 257 15 4 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 53 19 0 Interest .. .. .. 557 2 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 74 19 6 Furniture and apparatus .. .. 100 3 7 Interest on current account .. .. 0 12 9 Endowments— Interest on cost of reclaimed land .. 104 14 6 Bates .. .. .. .. 1 0 10 Tuition fees refunded or paid over to Technical School .. .. .. .. 45 2 6 Legal expenses .. .. .. .. 500 Grant to games fund .. .. .. 99 18 10 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 943 8 9 £7,822 7 2 £7,822 7 2 A. de B. Brandon, Chairman. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. College. Highest. —Latin — Livy, Book I.; Virgil, iEneid, II.; Horace, Odes, I.; Cicero, Catiline, I.; Bradley's Arnold; Bradley's Aids; Shucksburgh's Eoman History; sight translation ; Allen's Latin Grammar. English—Shakespeare, Tempest; Hales, Longer English Poems ; Skeat's Chaucer, Prologue to Canterbury Tales ; Thackeray, Esmond ; Nesfield, Historical English and Derivation ; Meiklejohn, Art of Writing English. French—Moliere, Le Malade Imaginaire; Selections from Prose Authors; Fasnacht's Third Course; Eve and de Baudiss, Grammar, Part I.; Duhamel, French Composition. Mathematics—Hall and Stevens, Euclid, Books 1.-VI., with riders; Hall and Knight, Elementary Algebra, and Advanced Algebra to combinations; Loney's Plane Trigonometry, Part I. ; arithmetic, general. Science —Jago's Advanced Chemistry ; Wright's Advanced Heat; qualitative analysis. Lowest. —English —Beading, spelling, dictation, &c, Imperial Beader No. 4, Longmans' Beader No. 4; writing; composition ; grammar, parts of speech ; geography, Zealandia, Standard IV. ; history, Southern Cross No. 1. Arithmetic—Southern Cross, Standard IV. Science— Object-lessons. Drawing—Elementary freehand. Music—Elementary tonic sol-fa. Girls' High School. Highest. —English — Chaucer's Prologue; the Warwick Shakespeare, Hamlet; Macaulay's Essay on Milton ; Longmans' Handbook of English Literature, Part V.; Nesfield's Grammar, Past and Present; Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Nichol's English Composition and Exercises. Latin—Tacitus, Germania; Horace, Odes, Book 11. ; Ovid, Tristia, Book I.; Bivington's Latin Unseens; Bryan's Latin Prose Exercises; Bradley's Latin Prose Composition ; Stedman's Latin

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