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Girls , College. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Boarding fees .. .. .. .. 1,576 19 4 House expenses .. .. .. 1,222 15 1 Tuition fees . . .. . . .. 1,698 14 0 Tuition expenses .. .. .. 1,324 3 4 Education Department—Grant for cookery Scholarships— classes .. . . 24 15 0 Foundation .. .. .. .. 63 0 0 Endowed .. .. .. .. 26 13 4 Free tuition .. .. .. 91 0 0 Governors' and auditors' fees .. .. 37 6 8 Stationery .. .. .. .. 42 8 5 Prizes . . .. . . .. 13 11 1 Printing and advertising .. .. 43 6 2 Gas .. .. .. .. .. 74 3 8 Rates and taxes .. .. .. 15 0 0 Insurance .. . . .. .. 27 19 6 Repairs .. .. .. .. 41 3 1 Furniture .. .. .. .. 204 15 6 Telephone and letter-box .. .. 6 0 0 Valuation .. .. .. .. 4 7 6 Subscriptions to magazine .. .. 3 3 0 Secretary .. .. .. .. 55 11 4 Sundries .. .. .. .. 17 0 0 Capital Account. Repayments of mortgages .. .. 500 0 0 Enlargements— Repayments on account of mortgages .. 27 14 8 Boys' College .. .. .. 437 0 9 " Nelson College Old Girls' Scholarship," Girls' College . . .. .. 285 0 0 per Miss W. Hunter Brown .. . . 200 0 0 Bank overdraft, Ist January, 1903 . . 1,707 16 8 Bank overdraft, 31st December, 1903 542 1 9 Add unpaid cheques .. .. .. 77 10 9 £11,637 11 10 £11,637 11 10 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 and Ambrose E. Moore, Auditors. 3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys , College : English —Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present; Nichol's English Composition and Exercises ; Lamb's Essays of Elia ; Shakespeare's Henry IV. ; Selections from Wordsworth, Browning. Latin—Bradley's Arnold and Bradley's Aids ; Roby's Latin Grammar ; Ramsay's Antiquities ; Georgics, 11. ; Livy, XXI. and XXII. ; Cicero, De Officiis, 111. French— Wellington College French Grammar ; Duhamel's Advanced French Prose ; Bue's French Idioms ; L'Abbe Daniel; Berthon's Selections from French Prose and Verse. Mathematics—Hall and Stevens's Euclid, I. VI. ; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry; Briggs and Bryan's Middle Algebra. Science— Loney's Statics, Dynamics, and Hydrostatics ; Newth's Inorganic Chemistry ; Thorpe's Practical Chemistry. Girls , College : English —Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer ; Sweet's First Middle English Primer ; Sweet's Second Middle English Primer ; Nesfield's Historical English and Derivation ; Shakespeare's Henry IV., Parts I. and 11. ; Shakespeare's Henry V. ; Lamb's Essays of Elia ; Literature of the Queen Anne Period. French —Eve's Wellington College Grammar ; Bonet's French Idioms ; Le Cid (Corneille) ; Tartuffe (Moliere) ; Discours sur le Style (Buffon); Period of French Literature, 1660-1700 ; Prose and French sentences. Latin—Bradley's Latin Prose Composition ; Cicero, De Officiis 111., and De Amicitia ; Virgil, Georgics 11. ; School History of Rome (Merivale and Puller) ; Wilkins's Primer of Roman Antiquities. German —Meissner's Grammar ; Buchheim's Prose Composition ; Goebel's Herrman der Cherusker ; Schiller's lyrical poems and Wilhelm Tell; Kurz's Die Humanisten. Arithmetic —Pendlebury's Larger Arithmetic, matriculation standard. Euclid —Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Books 1.-VI. Algebra —Todhunter's Larger Algebra, junior scholarship standard. Trigonometry —Lock's Trigonometry to the end of solution of triangles. Botany —Dendy and Lucas's Botany, matriculation standard. Physics —Wright's Heat. Physiology—Murche's Physiology, matriculation standard. Geography —Longmans' Geography, Part 11., matriculation standard. History—Epochs of English History, matriculation period. Lowest. — Boys' College : English —Junior Temple Reader ; Children's Treasury of Song ; Nesfield's Parts of Speech ; Graphic Copybooks 9 and 10 ; spelling and dictation ; composition ; Nelson's Brief History of the British Empire. Arithmetic —Pendlebury's Shilling Arithmetic up to easy fractions. Drawing —Plasticine and easy freehand. Nature-study—Oral lessons. German—Oral lessons, and reading from Grammar without Tears. Girls , College : English —Imperial Reader, Standard IV ; Dictation and Spelling from Reader ; writing, Collins's Copy-books ; composition ; Selections from Tennyson for the Young ; Nesfield's Uses of the Parts of Speech. French —Chardenal's First French Course. German —Elementary Rules ; text-book, Meissner's Grammar. Latin—Bell's Latin Course, Part I. Arithmetic —Standard 11. Work ; text-book, Pendlebury's Shilling Arithmetic. Geometry— Hall and Stevens's Euclid, Book 1., first twenty propositions. Algebra—Hall and Knight's Algebra to