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it deserves to be, the boardinghouse is doing good service. Six pupils have resided there during the year, and the fact that four of these were prize-winners this year may be regarded as satisfactory evidence of the benefit afforded by a boardinghouse where the supervision of the pupils during preparation hours is made a special care, and where outside attractions do not prevent regular attendance at school. In the December University examinations one pupil won a junior scholarship, taking third place on the list. Four were placed among those in the credit list, one being awarded aGaminack scholarship on the results. Nine pupils also passed the Matriculation Examination, and three won senior Board of Education scholarships. The extensive programme of set books prescribed as compulsory under the new regulations for the Senior Civil Service Examinations make it very difficult to prepare candidates for this examination in the regular school classes, and consequently no pupils were entered this year for the senior grade. In the Junior Civil Service Examinations, one took the first place on the list for all New Zealand, and one fifteenth ; two others also passed. Noteworthy success of past pupils during the year are one gaining the degree of M.A., with second-class honours in natural science; one the degree of M.A., with second-class honours in English and French; one the degree of M.A., with third-class honours in Latin and English ; one the degree of M.B. and Ch.B., Edinburgh ; and one that of M.B. and Ch.B., New Zealand. This year thirty-seven pupils in all have held scholarships, exhibitions, or free places at the school. Of these, nineteen received scholarships from the North Canterbury Board of Education, and eighteen held scholarships, free places, or exhibitions from the Board of Governors.

2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. • Expenditure. £ a. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 82 0 2 Office salary or salaries .. .. .. 60 0 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 288 7 2 Teachers'salaries .. .. .. 1,513 17 1 Interest on moneys invested .. .. 245 5 4 Grant in aid to boardinghouse .. .. 50 0 0 School fees .. .. .. .. 1,662 18 6 Examinations— Prooeeds from cooking classes .. .. 13 17 4 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 28 13 0 Government subsidy for technical classes.. 17 8 4 Other expenses .. .. .. 8 6 0 Scholarships and exhibitions .. .. 240 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 21 1 0 Printing, stationery, advertising, and books 54 0 7 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 14 19 3 Repairs, fittings, &c, including flagpole .. 27 8 6 Insurance .. .. .. .. 10 12 6 Inspecting reserves .. .. .. 7 17 Expenses of cooking class .. .. 13 8 9 Emily Foster memorial ptize .. .. 2 0 6 Sundry expenses .. .. .. 22 16 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 235 12 1 £2,309 16 10 £2,309 16 10 Arthur E. G. Bhodes, Chairman. A. Cracroft Wilson, Begistrar. Examined and found correct. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —All work to junior University scholarship standard. Text-books: Mathematics— Loney's Trigonometry; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Stevens's Euclid: English— Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition ; Longmans' Handbook of English Literature, Part 111. ; Chaucer, Selections by Bilderdeck; Shakespeare, Borneo and Juliet; Tennyson's Holy Grail; Bertha Skeat's Specimens of English Prose : Latin—Bradley's Latin Prose Composition ; Kennedy's Latin Primer ; Bryan's Caesarian Prose ; Stedman's Latin Examination Papers ; Cicero, Select Speeches (Bell) ; Virgil, iEneid, Book XL ; Ovid, Tristia, Book I. ; Tacitus, Agricola; Horace, Odes, Book II.; Horton's Boman History ; Wilkins's Roman Antiquities : French —Chardenal's Advanced Course; iibout, La Fille du Chanoine ; Sand, La Mare du Diable; Moliere, Le Misanthrope ; Miscellaneous Proses : Natural Science—Botany, Dendy and Lucas : Physical Science —Heat, Wright's Heat and Glazebrook's Heat. Lowest. —Arithmetic—Simple and compound rules, practice, bills of parcels, and easy problems. English—Nesfield's Uses of Parts of Speech ; Stronach's English Literature ; Set Books Victoria the Great (Nelson), David Copperfield's Boyhood (Nelson), Laureate Poetry-book No. VI., Mrs. Overtheway's Bemembrances (Gatty). Geography—Longmans' Geography, Book I. English History—Bansome's Elementary History. French —Dent's First French Book (Alge and Bippmann). Science—Botany, elementary, without text-book. Writing—Southern Cross Copybook No. 10.

4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. Drawing is taught throughout the school, except in Form VI. There is a specially appointed Art Mistress, holding both the South Kensington and the Wellington Technical School Artteachers' Certificate, and she is assisted by one of the regular assistant mistresses who holds

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