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3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys' College : To the standard of the University Junior Scholarship Examination ; by a portion of the class, the work required in English, Latin, French, mathematics, jurisprudence, and constitutional history for the first part of the B.A. and LL.B. examinations. English— Selections from Chaucer, Tennyson, Wordsworth; King Lear, Tempest, Romola; Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present, Skeat's Primer of Etymology; Hales' Longer English Poems ; essays, paraphrasing. Latin—Horace, Selections from Satires and Epistles ; Cicero, In Verrem I, Pro Lege Manilia; Ovid, Tristia I; Bradley's Arnold; prose and unseens; Roman History (Horton) and Antiquities. French—Half-hours with Modern Authors, Le Barbier de S6ville; Blouet's Composition; Eve and de-Baudiss's Grammar; Clapim's Primer of French Philology. German—Whitney's German Reader ; Macmillan's Composition ; Eve's Grammar. Mathematics —Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, to Junior Scholarship standard. Science—Heat, chemistry, mechanics, to Junior Scholarship standard. Girls' College : Form VI, B.A. degree standard of work. Books the same as are set by University Senate for B.A. degree in English, Latin, mathematics, and French. Lowest. — Boys' College : English—The Talisman; Crown Reader, Standard VI; Nesfield's Outlines of English Grammar, and Junior Course of English Composition; Ransome's Shorter History, Stuart period; geography, Southern Cross Geography, Standard VI. Mathematics — Arithmetic; algebra, to simple equations; geometry, Eggar's practical exercises. Science — Geology, elementary. Latin—Elementa Latina, Scalse Primse. French—Hogben's Methode Naturelle. Drawing—Freehand, copybooks. Commercial —Book-keeping, commercial correspondence. Girls' College : Arithmetic—Southern Cross Series, Standard 111 and Standard IV, also Pendlebury. English—Southern Cross Grammar, Standard IV ; Royal Crown, IV, History —Blackie's No. IV (William 111 to Edward VII). Geography —Zealandia, Standard IV ; physical (Gill), elementary. Botany—Murehe's Primer; general work on root, stein, leaves, flower, fruit, made as simple as possible, with practical examination of plants. Drawing—Freehand. Writing —Collins's No. 8. Needlework—Child's pinafore.

GREYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,303 7 4 Grant to Grey Education Board .. 75 0 0 Westland School Commissioners.. .. 75 0 0 Secretary's salary .. .. .. 10 0 0 Interest - .. .. .. .. 57 14 4 Interest on Grey Borough debentures purchased .. .. .. .. 6 8 2 Bank charges .. .. .. .. 0 12 0 Balance at end of year— At National Bank .. .. .. 30 0 4 At Post-Office Savings-Bank .. .. 34 1 2 Debentures, Grey Borough .. .. 1,190 0 0 Loan on mortgage .. .. .. 90 0 0 £1,436 1 8 £1,436 1 8 F. W. Riemenschneider, Secretary. W. R. Kettle, Chairman. Examined and found correct—J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General. HOKITIKA HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,507 1 8 Office salary .. .. .. .. 15 15 0 Current income from reserves .. .. 26 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 011 6 Interest on moneys invested, &c. .. .. 61 10 0 Teachers' salaries and allowances (grant to Paid by Sohool Commissioners .. .. 75 0 0 Westland Education Board) .. .. 200 0 0 Fencing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 317 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 17 711 Grant in aid of Hokitika woodwork class (Technical) .. .. .. .. 500 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 1,427 0 3 £1,669 11 8 £1,669 11 8 H. L. Michel, Chairman. Chas. Kirk, Secretary. Examined and found correct, subject to the remark that the Hokitika Borough debentures and the Kumara Borough debentures, in which school funds not set apart as a reserve fund are invested, are not securities in which the Governors are authorised by law to invest such school funds. —J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.