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MARLBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. John Innes, M.A., LL.D. ; Mr. R. V. White, 8.A.; Miss M. 0. Ross, M.A.; Miss J. B. Reid, B.A. ; Miss G. Huddlestone; Mr. G. R. Barnett. 1. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts, £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 602 19 9 Office salary .. .. .. .. 36 5 0 Government capitation for free places .. 669 3 4 Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 857 10 0 Statutory grant .. .. .. 400 0 0 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 47 11 1 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 50 0 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 13 3 6 School fees .. .. .. - .. 234 3 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 30 19 8 Refunds .. .. .. .. 0 2 9 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 46 19 2 Rent of paddock .. .. .. 13 0 0 Furniture .. .. .. .. 19 11 6 Science fittings and apparatus .. .. 51 15 9 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 25 1 0 Insurance .. .. .. .. 5 4 0 Plans, supervision, &c. .. .. .. 9 19 6 Books for teachers, &c. .. .. .. 5 10 4 Miscellaneous expenditure x.. .. 11 6 6 Balance at end of year .. .. 808 11 10 £1,969 8 10 £1,969 8 10 John Duncan, Chairman. John Smith, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—J. W. Poynton, Deputy Controller and Auditor. 2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Divisions. Highest. —English—Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present; Nesfield's Manual of Grammar and Composition; History of Literature; Milton's Lycidas and Samson Agonistes; Chaucer's Prologue ; Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; composition. Latin—Translation ; Csesar, Gallic War, Book VII; Virgil, iEneid, Book I; Horace, Epistles, Book I; sight work; grammar and prose composition; Roman History and Antiquities. French—Translation; Picciola; Athalie; sight work; grammar and prose composition. Pure mathematics, physics (heat), and botany —As for University Junior Scholarship. Lowest. —English—Nesfield's Outline ; parsing and analysis; spelling ; Scott's Ivanhoe (abridged) ; Lyra Heroica; composition. Arithmetic—Pendlebury's New Arithmetic, to square root. Algebra—Hall and Knight, to square root; graphs. Geometry—Hall and Steven's Geometry for Schools, theorems 1-22, and problems 1-10 with exercises. Latin—Scott and Jones's First Latin Course; the declensions of nouns and adjectives, and conjugations of regular verbs. French—Dent's New First Book; easy rules of syntax; oral conversation. History—• Ransome's Short History, James II to George 111. Geography—General geography of Europe; general geography of British Isles ; England and Wales in detail. Elementary botany—Plant-life in Australasia. Physics —Lengths, areas, volumes; Archimedes' law; density of liquid by s. g. bottle, by Archimides' law, hydrometer, balancing columns ; density of solids by s. g. bottle, by Archimedes' law, hydrometer ; law of flotation ; capillary attraction ; air-pump ; water-pump ; levers ; latent heat; specific heat; barometer ; thermometer ; boiling-point of liquids.

NELSON COLLEGE. Staff. Boys' College.—Mr. H. L. Fowler, M.A. ; Mr. F. Milner, M.A. ; Mr. G. J. Lancaster, M.A.; Mr. C. H. Broad, B.A. ; Mr. M. K. McCullooh, M.A. ; Mr. E. H. Severne, B.A. ; Mr. O. W. Williams, B.A. ; Mr. M. N. Skelton ; Mr. W. S. Hampson; Mr. F. F. C. Huddlestone. Girls' College.— -Miss A. C. Tendall, M.A.; Miss E. Gribben, 8.A.; Miss M. Pickmere, M.A.; Miss F. M. Kirton, M.A. ; Miss H. Jenkins, 8.A.; Miss N. I. McLean, M.A. ; Miss M. MoEachen, M.A.; Miss E. T. Chisbolm Mr. F. F. C. Huddlestone. 1. Report of the Governors. The foundation-stone of the new Boys' College was laid by His Excellency Lord Plunket, Governor of the Colony, on the 21st October (the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar), a date which will remain for ever memorable in the history of Nelson College. After much careful consideration, the Governors intrusted the preparation of the plans of the new building to Messrs Thomas Turnbull and Son, F.R.1.8.A., of Wellington. These, after very careful consideration and revision, were finally approved of, and tenders for the erection of the new building were invited. That of Messrs. Robertson Bros. (Limited), of Nelson, being the lowest, was accepted. The new

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