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Girls' College. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. rl. Boarding fees .. .. .. 1,214 10 0 House expenses .. .. .. 1,027 11 2 Tuition fees .. .. .. .. 1,399 5 6 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 1,189 18 6 Education Department, grant for cookery Scholarships—Foundation, endowed, free classes .. .. .. .. 11 16 6 tuition .. .. .. .. 220 18 0 Governors'and auditors'fees .. .. 37 6 8 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 2 2 0 Stationery .. .. .. .. 43 16 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. 12 0 2 Printing and advertising .. .. 64 7 6 Gas .. .. .. .. .. 62 6 2 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 15 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 31 9 6 Repairs .. .. .. .. 271 14 9 Furniture .. .. .. .. 112 9 1 Subscription to magazine .. .. 3 3 0 Secretary .. .. .. .. 52 1 9 ' Sundries .. .. .. .. 13 13 6 Capital Account. Repayment on account of mortgages .. 43 13 1 Enlargement of Boys'College .. .. 1,877 11 8 Bank balance from previous year .. 98 7 10 Bank overdraft, 31st December, 1902 .. 1,696 7 0 Unpaid cheques .. .. .. 11 9 8£10,393 7 11 £10,393 7 11 Jas. Blair, Secretary. We hereby certify that we have examined the foregoing accounts and compared them with the several vouchers relating thereto, and have found them correct. —John King, Ambrose E. Moore, Auditors.

3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes, Boys' College. Highest. —English—Burke's Befiections on the French Bevolution ; Macaulay's Essays on Bacon and Walpole ; Hamlet, Borneo and Juliet; Nesfield's English Grammar; Sweet's AngloSaxon Primer; Second Middle English Primer; Nicol's English Composition. Latin—«Boby's School Latin Grammar ; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose ; Bryan's Caesar's Latin Prose ; Bamsay's Antiquities ; Horton's Bome; Horace, Odes, I. and II.; Caesar, VII.; Livy, XXI.; Cicero, 1., Virrem, IV. French—Wellington College French Grammar ; Duhamel's Advanced French Prose Composition ; Bue's French Idioms ; Michand's La Premiere Croisade ; De Bernard's L'Anneau d'Urgent; Berthon's Selections from Modern French Verse. Mathematics—Hall and Stevens's Euclid; Hall and Knight's Higher Algebra, to binomial theorem ; Hall and Knight's Elementary Trigonometry. Science—Newth's Inorganic Chemistry; Tilden's Practical Chemistry ; Loney's Statics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics. Lowest. —English—Nesfield's Uses of the Parts of Speech ; Junior Temple Beader ; Longmans' No. 1 Geography; Longmans' English History Beader, Standard IV.; Graphic Copybooks. Arithmetic—Pendlebury's Shilling Arithmetic, to weights and measures. Oral lessons in German. Object-lessons in nature-study. Physical drill and gymnastics. Girls' College. Highest. —Form VI. —English, Latin, French, and mathematics as for B.A. degree ; heat and light as for junior scholarship. English —Burke on French Bevolution ; Macaulay on Bacon and Walpole ; Hamlet, and Borneo and Juliet ;■ Mason's Grammar ; Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer; Sweet's First and Middle English Primer; Abbott's How to Write Clearly. Latin—Cicero, In Verrem, IV. ; Horace, Odes, I. and 11. ; Arnold's Prose Composition ; Simpson's Cassariani Prose ; Merivale and Puller's History. French—De Tocqueville, L'Ancien Begime ;Le Joueur, and Le Verre d'Eau ; Wellington College Grammar ; Bue's Idioms ; Blouet's Prose. Mathematics—Todhunter's Algebra ; Lock's Trigonometry ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid. Loioest. —Latin —Via Latina. French—Chardenal, I. Mathematics —Pendlebury's Shilling Arithmetic ; Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid. English—Mason's First Notions of English Grammar; Children's Treasury of Lyrical Poetry; Ship Beader, VI.; Bansome's Elementary History; Longmans' Geography, I.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Boys' College. Drawing (three-quarters of an hour per week): Form V., geometry and model as for matriculation; Form IV., scale-drawing and freehand : the forms below these two were taught in four divisions by the form masters —Division A, freehand ; Division B, geometry ; Division C, geometry, freehand ; Division D (an hour and a half a week), freehand. Commercial instruction: One form took book-keeping (Thornton's Brimer), shorthand (Pitman's), and precis instead of Latin. Technical instruction: Forms Lower VI., V., Upper Shell, IV., Lower Shell, three-quarters of an hour a week in the chemical laboratory, principally quantitative work. The same forms three-quarters

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