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2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. A. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,348 5 7 Offioe salary or salaries .. .. 60 0 0 Endowments— Other expenses of management .. .. " » Current income from reserves .. .. 720 3 7 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,189 1b i Interest on moneys invested and on un- Instructor gymnasium school—Salary and paid purchase-money .. .. 38 15 0 other expenses .. .. • • 109 3 U Paid by School Commissioners .. 130 610 Examinations— School fees .. .. .. • • 665 0 0 Examiners' fees .. .. • ■ 2 2 u Rents from freeholds .. .. .. 75 6 8 Other expenses .. .. .. b (J u Donations for prizes .. 5 4 0 Prizes .. .. .. •■ 2' 9 u Gymnasium Entertainment Account .. 52 6 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 64 2 J Subsidy on account gymnasium .. .. 83 6 8 Cleaning, fuel, and light, &c. .. .. 109 14 11 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and other temporary advances .. .. 25 19 10 Site and building, from current revenue — Purchases and new works .. .. 795 3 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 60 17 10 Rates, insuranoe, and taxes .. .. 14 18 6 Interest on current account .. .. 4 0 0 Chemicals and appliances .. . • 51 8 11 Furniture and fittings .. .. .. 35 7 6 Technical classes .. .. • • 26 6 0 Balance at end of year .. £474 18 0 Less outstanding oheque 10 10 0 464 8 0 £3,071 10 10 £3,071 10 10 Wm. Macalister, Chairman. Charles Bout, Secretary and Treasurer. Examined and found correct.—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —English, Chaucer, selections; Hales's Longer English Poems; Shakespeare's Hamlet; Bain's Bhetoric and Composition ; English Lessons for English People; essays. LatinCicero, Brackenbury's Selections, Part 11. ; selections from Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius; prose composition ; Arnold's Exercises; unseen passages. French —Macmillan's First Beader, and selected passages ; Brachet's Grammar; Blouet's Composition, Part HI.; Perini's Questions and Answers. Mathematics : Arithmetic—the subject; algebra—to the binomial theorem ; Euclid— Books 1.-VI., with exercises; trigonometry—to solution of triangles. Science —Heat and chemistry, as for junior scholarships. Lowest. —English—Scott's Lady of the Lake; Mason's Grammar; parsing, syntax, analysis; Longmans'Composition. Latin—Via Latina, to the end of verbs ; Gradatim. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle, 100 pages. Mathematics: Arithmetic —to equations; algebra —to factors; Euclid —Book 1., with deductions ; mensuration—elementary. Science —General (Gregory and Simmons). Book-keeping —Easy exercises. Shorthand —Pitman's Teacher. History —To Elizabeth. Geography —Africa and Europe ; physical. Girls' School. Highest. —English—Tennyson's Holy Grail; Shakespeare's Hamlet; Seeley's Expansion of England; composition, analysis; English literature, to 1603. Latin—Via Latina; Caesar, De Bello Gallico, 111. ; Ovid, selections. French —Macmillan's Second Beader and exercises. Mathematics : Arithmetic ; algebra—to quadratic equations; Euclid—Books I. and 11. Science—■ Botany and physiology as for matriculation. Geography —America, West Indies, Pacific Islands, Africa, Bussian Asia. History—William 111. to Victoria. Needlework, dress-cutting, cooking. Lowest. —English —Scott's Lady of the Lake ; Mason's Grammar; parsing, &c.; literature, to 1603; composition. History—Henry VII. to William 111. Geography—New Zealand and Europe. Latin— Via Latina, to end of verbs; Gradatim. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle, seventy lessons. Mathematics : Arithmetic—To compound interest; algebra—to factors; Euclid Book 1., to proposition 29. Science —Botany and physiology, elementary. Drawing—Freehand and model. Needlework, dress-cutting, cooking. 4. Arrangements for Drawing ; Manual, Commercial, and Technical Instruction ; Gymnastics, Drill, Swimming, etc. The following classes were held under the provisions of the Manual and Technical Instruction Act: (1.) Chemistry : Advanced class, meeting four times a week ; (2.) junior class, meeting three times a week. (3*.) Cookery (girls) : General, plain. (4.) Dress-cutting (girls): Drafting and cutting. (5.) Woodwork (boys) :On Saturdays, for half the year. Shorthand, two-lessons a week, to boys and a few girls. Girls received instruction in drawing—designs, and from models and casts. Boys who did not take Latin or French did extra work in mathematics and English. In the last term of the year boys and girls received regular training in drill and gymnastics from a qualified instructor; before that the girls were drilled by their mistresses. The boys are formed into a cadet corps, and receive the usual training and practice. A completely equipped gymnasuim was opened during the last term, and is the property of the High Schools.

5. Scholarships. Sixteen boys and eight girls held district scholarships, and sixteen boys and twelve girls received free tuition at the school.

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