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The following is a summary of candidates from the schools who were sent up for the public examination in December and January :—Boys : Matriculation, eight (all passed —one a junior scholarship paper); Solicitors' General'Knowledge, seven (all passed); Medical Preliminary, two (one passed); Junior Civil Service, nine (all passed, seven securing places in the first hundred) ; Senior Civil Service, one (passed whole examination); Junior Scholarship, one (securing first scholarship with a record number of marks. Girls : Matriculation, four (three passed) ; Solicitors' General Knowledge, one (passed); Junior Civil Service, two (passed), one being placed within the first hundred). The schools were examined by Mr. T. W. Bowe, M.A., and passed a satisfactory examination. H. A. Cornford, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 5,060 2 1 ManagementEndowments— Office salary or salaries .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 297 0 6 Other office expenses .. .. .. 9 5 3 From property not a reserve .. .. 818 15 0 Other expenses of management .. 11 13 2 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Legal expenses .. .. .. 5 19 6 paid purchase-money .. .. 130 13 11 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,693 6 8 Paid by Hawke's Bay School Commis- Music fees .. .. .. .. 73 4 6 sioners (Examiners' fees and expenses) 23 2 1 Examinations — Sohool fees .. .. .. .. 1,192 2 6 Examiners'fees .. .. .. 20 0 0 Boarding scholarship children, and coach Other expenses .. .. .. 3 9 1 fares (paid by School Commissioners) .. 355 6 8 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 353 10 0 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 86 2 6 Prizes . .. .. .. • • 14 9 6 Wellington School Commissioners .. 116 10 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 35 18 6 Building-deposit .. .. .. 50 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 118 3 5 Refund on insurance .. .. .. 3 6 8 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and Discount on purchases .. .. .. 0 9 1 other temporary advances .. .. 91 5 6 Site and buildings, from current revenue— Purchases and new works .. .. 136 10 3 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 115 6 6 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 81 12 3 Endowments aocount —Expended on site or buildings .. .. .. .. 1,268 18 9 Exchange of pianos .. .. .. 22 10 0 Balances — Advanced on mortgage .. .. 3,050 0 0 On fixed deposit .. .. .. 457 10 0 In bank (current account) .. .. 351 5 0 17 10 £7,973 17 10 H. A. Cornford, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys. Highest. —Form VI.: Euclid—Books I. to VI., inclusive, Hall and Stevens; algebra—To binomial theorem, Hall and Knight ; arithmetic—General, Longmans' ; trigonometry—To solution of triangles, Pendlebury ; mechanics—Pinkerton. English Language—Hewitt's Manual of our Mother Tongue; Nesfield, English Past and Present. Literature —Shakespeare, Hamlet; Chaucer, Prologue. Latin—Cicero, De Amicitia ; Virgil, iEneid I. ; Bradley, Arnold's Latin Prose Compositions; Millington, Prose Composition; Kennedy, Bevised Latin Primer ; Shuckburgh, Sight Translation ; Horton, History of the Bomans ; Creighton, Borne ; Gow, Companion to the Classics. French—Wellington College French Grammar ; Brachet's French Grammar ; Stedman, Grammatical Questions; translation, Coeurs Busses (de Vogiie) ; prose and sight translation, general. Science—Physics, heat (Deschanel). All the above to junior scholarship standard. History—(British) 1688-1837, Bansome, &c. ; and geography—Gill; Longmans' New Series, No. 3 ; Hudley's Physiography ; Masturk's Physical Geography : to matriculation standard. Lowest.— "Arithmetic—StandardlV. (Southern Cross Series). English Grammar—Standard IV. (Lower Grade English, Nelson). History —1216-1485, Bise of the People (Epochs). Geography —New Zealand and Australia in detail, Europe in outline (Southern Cross Series). Science— Elementary, Hurley's Introductory Primer. Beading, spelling, recitation —From Standard IV. Crown Beader. Writing—Bold Writing Series (Vere Foster). Girls. Highest. —Arithmetic—Whole subject to matriculation standard; no special text-book. Algebra—Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra, to end of chapter 30, theory of indices. Trigonometry—Pendlebury's Elementary Trigonometry, to page 95. Euclid —Books I. to 111. ; riders ; Hall and Knight's Euclid. English Literature—Hamlet; Chaucer's Prologue. English History —Period 1688-1837 ; Gardiner's Students' History. English Grammar—Language and composition ; Outlines of Historical Grammar; text-book, Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present.