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3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest — Boys' School: Mathematics—Geometry (Godfrey and Siddons), algebra (Hall and Knight), arithmetic (Pendlebury), trigonometry (Pendlebury), all to Junior Scholarship standard. English—Nesfield's Manual and English Past and Present; Shakespeare's King Lear; Carlyle's Sartor Resartus : Junior Scholarship standard. Latin—Livy, Hannibal's First Campaign ; Virgil, iEneid I; Prose Composition and Sight Translation (Millington); Caesarian Prose (Simpson); Bradley's Arnold ; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer; Horton's History of the Romans ; Gow's Companion to the Classics; Creighton's Rome : Junior Scholarship standard. French— Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Moli^re); Charles XII (Voltaire); Voyage de M. Perrichon; Selections from Modern French Verse (Berthon); Blouet's Prose Composition; Brachet's Grammar; Stedman's Grammar Questions ; Idioms, Phonetic Transcript, &c. : Junior Scholarship standard. Science—Mechanics and hydrostatics (Tutorial), to Junior Scholarship standard; heat (Tutorial), to Junior Scholarship standard; chemistry (Jago), to Matriculation standard; physiology (Furneaux), to Matriculation standard. History (Ransome), to Matriculation standard. Geography (Gill, &c), to Matriculation standard. Girls' School: English grammar— Junior Scholarship syllabus; text - book, Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present. English literature—Milton's Samson Agonistes; Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Book I. Latin — Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer; Bradley's Arnold, to exercise 40; Horace's Odes, Book I; Livy, Book I, to chapter 16 ; Csesar, Book 11. French—-General grammar, based on Wellington College French Grammar; Berthon's Specimens of Modern French Verse, Part I; Le Chateau de Bois Dormant (Lectures pour Tous). Mechanics—Statics and Dynamics; Text, Elements of Statics and Dynamics (Loney). Trigonometry—Pendlebury's Elementary Trigonometry, to page 218, omitting inverse rotation. Arithmetic — Whole subject, Junior University Scholarship standard. Algebra—Junior University Scholarship syllabus; Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra. Geometry—Godfrey Siddons, Books Ito IV. Botany —Junior Scholarship syllabus ; Denby and Lucas's Botany ; Notes. Lowest. — Boys' School : Reading, writing, spelling, composition, and recitation, more advanced than for Standard VI; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition; Dickens's Christmas Stories; Tennyson for the Young. Arithmetic—Southern Cross, Standard VI. Drawing—Freehand and geometrical. History—Macmillan's Intermediate Reader. Geography—■ Imperial Geography (S.C. series), Standards V and VI. Science —Elementary Physiology (Murche) and Elementary Chemistry (Jago). Girls' School : English —Grammar —Nesfield's Grammar, Standards IV, V, and VI; easy parsing and analysis ; literature—L'AUegro, II Penseroso; Ivanhoe (Nelson's Supplementary Reader); Stronach's English Literature, chapters 7to 10 inclusive ; history—The Tudor Period; Mrs. Buckley's History ; geography—Southern Cross Geography, Standards IV, V, and VI, British possessions only; physical geography—definitions, agents of change, climate. Mathematics —Arithmetic—L.C.M., H.C.F., decimals, vulgar fractions, area, proportion, simple interest; geometry —Godfrey and Siddon's Elementary Geometry, propositions 1 to 10, and very easy exercises ; practical work to exercise 165 ; algebra—Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra, to page 75. Science—Murche's Animal Physiology, Parts I, 11, and 111. Latin—Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, Part I to end of section 38. French— Hogben's Methode Naturelle, to end lesson 36. Drawing —Model drawing of simple forms ; brushwork —Simple designs from flowers, &c. Sewing —Samplers or simple garment.

GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 2,838 15 6 Office salary .. .. .. .. 25 0 0 Receipts from Government— Other expenses of management .. .. 4 17 9 Government grants for building, furni- Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 3 10 4 ture, &c. .. .. .. .. 119 8 4 Government grants for furniture and fittings 115 0 4 Capitation under Manual and Technical Purchases and new works .. .. 161 9 8 Instruction Regulations .. .. 23 12 3 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 19 15 0 Subsidy on voluntary contributions— Advanced to technical olasses .. .. 62 16 0 manual and technical instruction .. 51 12 0 Technical classes .. .. .. 153 7 3 Current income from reserves .. .. 150 0 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 9 7 1 Interest on moneys invested and on un- Balance Hawke's Bay Education Board .. 275 7 9 paid purchase-money .. .. 135 1 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 3,025 6 11 Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 457 0 6 Interest on current account .. .. 18 0 Voluntary contributions — manual and teohnical instruction .. .. .. 54 2 0 Grant from Hawke's Bay Education Board on account of teachers' olasses and oapitation on same .. .. .. 24 18 6 £3,855 18 1 £3,855 18 1 W. Morgan, Secretary.