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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. [ Expenditure. £ a. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 123 19 0 ' Offioe salaries .. .. .. 100 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 3,203 15 1 Teachers'salaries .. .. .. 3,837 110 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,779 6 6 Boarding-sohool account (grant in aid of Interest on current account .. .. 217 9 boardinghouse) .. .. .. 50 0 0 Government subsidy for technical classes 6 15 0 Examinations — Sale of timber to workshop pupils .. 013 1 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 44 18 0 Surplus handed over from Workshop Ao- Other expenses .. .. .. 8 6 0 count .. .. .. .. 26 0 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 25 19 6 Sale of parsing notes .. .. .. 313 9 Printing, stationery, advertising, and books 153 16 11 Black, J.—Balance of payment towards Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 52 2 8 cost of putting Reserve 916b in order .. 8 0 0; Repairs, &c. .. .. .. .. 52 710 Insurance .. .. .. .. 30 19 1 Fittings, cupboards, pictures, &c. .. 11 0 4 Endowments—Fenoing, clearing, protective works, &o. .. .. .. .. 140 8 8 Chemicals and apparatus .. .. 5 6 10 Inspecting and advertising reserves .. 142 5 10 Interest on Loan Account, £5,000 at 4 per cent. .. .. .. .. 200 0 0 Annual grants to Sports Fund and cadet corps .. .. .. .. 70 0 0 Legal expenses.. .. .. .. 5 14 2 Workshop tools, timber, models, &c. .. 15 18 6 Typewriter .. .. .. .. 20 0 0 Rent of playground (Hereford Street) five months .. .. .. .. 41 13 4 Clearing seotion (Hereford Street) for playground .. .. .. .. 10 10 0 Sundry expenses .. .. .. 35 1 9 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 101 9 3 £5,155 0 6 £5,155 0 6 Arthur E. G. Bhodes, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Registrar. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin—Livy, Book VI., with retranslations; Virgil, Georgics, II.; Tacitus Agricola; Selections from Satires and Epistles of Horace; Smith's Smaller History of Bome ; Hints and Helps in Continuous Latin Prose; Kennedy's Be vised Latin Brimer; Gepp and Haigh's Latin Dictionary. English —Hamlet; Esmond; Tennyson, Part III.; Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Book IV.; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition ; Nesfield's Historical English • and Derivation; Abbott's How to Write Clearly; Stopford Brooke's Literature Primer (Period, reign of Queen Anne); essays and composition. History—Lodge's Modern Europe (pp. 216-66, reign of Louis XIV.); Bansome's Short History (reigns of William 111. and Queen Anne) ; Smith's Smaller History of Bome (chapter 16 to end); Creighton's Boman History Primer (chapter 9to end, Augustus to end of Eastern Empire). French—Le Boi des Montagnes ; Les Boulenards (Vol. X., Theatre Francais) ; Specimens of Modern French Verse; Materials for French Translations ; Wellington College French Grammar ; Eve and Mathew's Exercises on Wellington College Grammar; oral French. Mathematics—Ward's Examination Papers on Trigonometry ; Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Books 111.-VI.; Loney's Trigonometry, Part I.; Hall and Knight's Algebraical Exercises ; Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Loney's Mechanics. Science—Draper's Heat; chemistry, ■ Jago's Inorganic Chemistry. Work done as for junior University scholarship. Lowest (Form II.). —English—Lyra Heroica (The Bevenge, &c.) ; Westward Ho ! (abridged edition); English grammar, Hall; parsing notes ; dictation, composition, reading, simple analysis, parts of speech, spelling; reproduction of stories from Westward Ho 1; writing twice a week. History —Warner's Brief Survey of British History (pages 93-177, from Henry VII. to 1.745) ; special period, The Beformation and Elizabeth. Geography —Zealandia Geography, Standard V. ; general geography of the World; geography of New Zealand and Australia, and of West Indies. French —First French Beader and Writer, Sonneuschein; Wellington College French Grammar, accidence; oral French, with Mons. Malaquin. Mathematics: Lower Division—Simple and compound rules; easy examples in simple practice : Upper Division—As for Lower Division; also weights and measures, practice, factors, G.C.M., L.C.M., addition of fractions. Science—Naturestudy, Object-lessons from Nature, Vol. i., by L. C. Maill.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing: The art-work has been put on a new basis this year; more time has been given to it, more classes formed, and it has been well graduated throughout. Each class below the Sixth receives instruction at least two periods a week in art, one of them for freehand and model drawing or modelling, and the other for geometrical drawing ; the latter work is taken by Mr. S. H. Seager, the former by Mr. E. Thompson, both instructors at the School of Art. In the lowest form the boys have elementary design and plasticine modelling. Geometry is commenced in a concrete way in the Lower Third by cutting out plane forms, and then truths are demonstrated by folding; drawings are then made of the folded shapes. In the Lower Fourth solid geometrical forms are dealt with in the same practical manner ; cardboard models are made,