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3. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —All work to the standard of the Junior University Scholarship Examination. Mathematics—Hall and Knight's Algebra; Loney's Trigonometry ; Hall and Steven's Geometry, Parts I to VI; Hall and Knight's Graphical Algebra. English—Chaucer's Prologue; Shakespeare's King Lear; Lobban's English Essays; Nesfield's Past and Present; L'Allegro, II Penseroso; Lycidas, Arcades and Sonnets; Longmans' Handbook, Part 11. French— Les Precieuses Ridicules, Hachette; Picciola, Saintine; Le Violin de Faience, Rivington's Advanced Texts; Spiers's Graduated Course of Translation into French Prose ; Spiers's Practical French Grammar; Spiers's Rapid French Exercises. Latin—Horace's Odes, Book IV; Virgil's iEneid, Books II and IV ; Cicero's Epistolse Selectae ; Tacitus's Agricola ; Stedman's Examination Series ; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer; Walter's Hints and Helps in Continuous Latin Prose ; Bradley's Latin Prose Composition ; Roman History. Science—Draper's Heat; Evans's Botany. German (alternative to Science.) Lowest. —All work above Standard V and all but arithmetic above Standard VI. Mathematics—Arithmetic without text-book. English—Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; Wordsworth's Selections from Shorter Poems; Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare; Nesfield's Outline of English Grammar; Stronach's Handbook of English Literature. French and Latin (not compulsory). Natural Science—Plant-life, and trees and shrubs. Book-keeping and Shorthand (alternatives to Latin). Geography —Southern Cross Geography, Nos. IV and VI. History—Mrs. Ransome's First History of England. Writing—Southern Cross Copybooks, Nos. 9 and 10, Public Service Copybook, No. 9. Sewing, singing, drill, cooking, or dressmaking.

CHRIST'S COLLEGE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Staff. Rev. C. H. Moreland, M.A.; Rev. F. A. Hare, M.A.; Mr. E. G. Hogg, M.A.; Mr. A. E. Flower, M.A., B.Sc; Mr. J. N. Collins, 8.A.; Mr. E. Jenkins, M.A.; Mr. J. Monteath, 8.A.; Mr. A. P. Cox, M.A. ; Mr. J. E. 8. Dudding, M.A.; Mr. A. L. Nairn, M.A. ; Mr. G. H. Merton, 8.A.; Mr. 0. L. Wiggins; Mr. A. J. Merton; Mr. S. Smith ; Sergeant-major Farthing. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 15th May, 1905. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Price of land sold (Capital Account) .. 1,427 10 0 Overdraft at beginning of year .. .. 1,671 1 9 Mortgage repaid (Capital Account) .. 1,100 0 0 Cost of management .. .. .. 267 15 9 Current income from land .. .. 1,980 14 8 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. .. 3,557 12 0 Current income from scholarships endow- Examiners' fees and other expenses .. 63 13 0 ments .. .. .. 774 11 5 Scholarships .. .. .. 696 15 3 School fees .. .. .. .. 3,234 15 6 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 49 0 9 Repayment on account building .. .. 18 11 8 Class material .. .. .. .. 6 16 Sundries unclassified .. .. .. 23 9 3 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 93 811 Overdraft at end of year .. .. .. 110 1 2 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 246 11 1 Buildings, &c. — Purchases and new works .. .. 74 5 0 Fenoing, repairs, &o. .. .. .. 247 7 0 Miscellaneous (rates, insurance, &c.) .. 69 16 0 Interest on ourrent account .. .. 58 14 10 Proceeds from sales invested .. .. 1,100 0 0 Expenses in connection with land estate .. 115 18 8 Law costs .. .. .. .. 10 10 0 School chapel .. .. .. .. 40 15 0 Boys' Games Fund .. .. .. 273 18 0 Boys' Cadet Fund .. .. .. 26 8 9 £8,669 13 3 £8,669 13 3 C. Christchurch, Warden. W. Guise Brittan, Bursar. Audited and found correct.—A. A. M. McKellar, Auditor. 2. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Work as for Junior Scholarships at the University of New Zealand. Lowest--Reading and Spelling—lmperial Reader No. 3; Longmans' New Zealand Reader No. 3, to page 101. Repetition —Loss of the Royal George, Lord Ullin's Daughter, Casabianca, Mariners of England, Alexander Selkirk. Geography —Standard 111, Southern Cross Series. Divinity—Ainslie's Lessons on the Gospels; catechism, the text of the Church Catechism up to the end of the " Desire," and explanations. History—Meiklejohn's Stories from English History, to page 123. Writing—Whitcombe's Public Service Copybooks, Nos. 3, 4, and 5. Arithmetic— Southern Cross Arithmetic No. 2 ; Easy addition and subtraction of money.