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Somes Senior Scholarships. —Four are to be offered, if funds permit, in each year. The scholarships are tenable for one year, and of the value of £25, with the addition of £20 in the case of boarders in one of the school houses. Somes Scholarships for Music. —Sixteen scholarships covering the school fees for tuition, and eight of half the value are given after examination. The boys elected become members of the Cathedral choir. Tenure depends on the satisfactory performance of duty both in the school and in the choir. The junior and senior scholarships given by the Board of Education are tenable in the school, and may be held together with entrance and Somes scholarships. Butler and Reay Foundation. —Exhibitions are given to the sons of clergy ministering in the Diocese of Christchurch, and to others who may require assistance ; also, six exhibitions of £2 are awarded at the end of each term to members of the chapel choir, and two of £12 a year for two years to specially deserving boys on leaving the Cathedral choir.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 15th May, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Endowments— Balance at beginning of year .. .. 209 5 4 Capital Account —Price of land sold .. 460 0 0 Management expenses .. .. .. 244 11 6 Current income from land .. .. 1,970 12 10 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 3,149 510 Current income from scholarship endow- Examination expenses .. .. .. 60 17 1 ments .. .. .. .. 708 9 9 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 615 17 4 School fees .. .. .. .. 2,861 9 11 Prizes .. .. .. .. 68 9 6 Repayment on account of buildings .. 18 11 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 65 2 6 Sinking fund, transferred from income .. 50 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 263 3 0 Sundries unclassified .. .. .. 7 14 0 Site and buildings, from current revenue— New works .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Fencing,'repairs, &c. .. .. .. 197 10 4 Rates, insurance, and taxes .. .. 64 17 6 Interest on current acoount .. .. 13 2 7 Endowments Sales Account—Expended on purchase of other lands .. .. 53 12 3 Boys'Games Fund .. .. .. 60 18 6 Boys' Cadet Fund .. .. .. 22 6 3 Royal visit expenses .. .. .. 15 8 0 Law costs .. .. .. .. 12 8 6 Sundries unclassified .. ~ .. 15 6 Expenses in connection with land estate .. 58 15 11 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 750 0 4 £6,076 17 9 £6,076 17 9 •■• • C. Christchurch, Warden. W. G. Brittan, Bursar. The above is a summary of accounts, audited by Mr. A. A. M. McKellar.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin, French, English or Greek, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, arithmetic, chemistry, heat, as for Junior University Scholarship Examination. Divinity—Book of Genesis ; St. Matthew i.-xvii.; Outts's Turning-points of Church History, to the time of Becket. Lowest. —History —Bfackwood's Stories (whole); Dates of Sovereigns, William I. to Bichard 111. Geography —Zealandia for Standards 11. and 111. (whole). Grammar and composition— Distinguishing parts of speech ; construction of easy sentences; simple punctuation; short narratives, letters, &c. Arithmetic—Simple rules and compound rules (money only), to long division. Divinity —The principal things recorded in St. Matthew i.-xviii.; catechism (Francis's edition), text to the end of the Desire; meanings of words; small print on the Creed.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing is taught to all boys in the Lower School, and to all who desire it in the Upper School, classes being held both in and outside ordinary school hours without extra fee. In the Lower School the branches taught are freehand, mechanical, and plan drawing, and the use of mechanical instruments and scales, and, for certain boys, geometrical drawing—all, of course, elementary. In the Upper School the subjects are, according to taste and ability, freehand, geometrical, and mechanical drawing (including scales), map-drawing and elementary design, perspective and water-colour work. A few boys who do not learn Latin take book-keeping in school hours. For others there is a class outside these. There is no fee. Carpentry is an optional subject, taken outside school hours at a fee of ss. a term. Forge-work is taken in the same way. As far as possible the carpentry is connected with the work in drawing; there is an elementary class for the boys of the Lower School. There is no boy at present learning shorthand at the school; but when there is a sufficient demand a class is taken by a visiting master, who makes his own arrangements as to fees. There is a flourishing cadet corps, which is inspected by the Commandant of the District; the officers are boys. All boys take drill and gymnastics, unless exempted by the headmaster on special grounds. All boys in the Lower School who are willing to learn swimming are regularly instructed, in school hours, by one of the masters. The boys, especially the boarders, are very eager to use the swimming-bath outside school hours. There is a subscription of 2s. 6d. a term to the uniform fund of the cadet corps; but, except for carpentry and shorthand, there are no extra fees.

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