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Godfrey and Siddons's Practical Exercises, to page 34; design, drawing to scale. Latin —Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, Part I, to section 46; four regular active conjugations. French —Hogben's Methode N.iturelle, 28 lessons. Physiology—Murche's Animal Physiology, to page 86. Drawing—Model-drawing of simple forms; simple brushwork designs from flowers, &c. Sewing —Simple garment. 3. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1907. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ &. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 4,104 3 3 Management— Government capitation— Office salaries .. .. .. 110 0 0 For free places .. .. .. 881 11 8 Other office expenses .. .. .. 18 12 0 Under Manual and Technical Instruction Other expenses of management—Legal .. 16 0 Regulations .. .. .. 14 12 6 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 2,391 14 4 Current income from reserves .. .. 369 0 0 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 66 13 4 Prom property not a reserve .. .. 881 5 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. .. 25 4 6 Interest on moneys invested and on unpaid Class material .. .. .. .. 117 10 0 purchase-money .. .. .. 155 0 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 18 16 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 698 0 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c, including janitor's Sohool fees .. .. .. 530 19 6 salary .. .. .. .. 155 2 6 Books, &j., sold and other refunds .. 125 7 0 Maintenance of classes for manual instruction 22 8 8 Otlier receipts— Purchases and new works .. .. 268 15 11 Refund, gas, Scinde Football Club .. 0 10 0 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 61 13 8 Cooked food sold .. .. .. 4 11 9 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 80 17 1 Refund of Cadet loan .. .. .. 10 0 0 Buildings, equipments, &c., for manual inInsurance .. .. .. .. 12 0 0 struction .. .. .. .. 38 13 10 Travelling-expenses of members of Board .. 7 14 8 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 4,401 17 8 £7,787 0 8 £7,787 0 8 T. C. Mooee, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary. Examined and found correct, except that a loan to a cadet corps which was pointed out in the exception on last year's balance-sheet was without authority of law and has not been repaid to the High School Board.— J. K. Wabbuhton, Controller and Auditor-General.

DANNEVIKKB HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. M. Simmers, M.A. ; Miss J. It. Barr, M.A. 1. Report op the Governors. The year's work has been very satisfactory, considering the somewhat inconvenient nature of the temporary school buildings. Eleven pupils passed the Matriculation Examination, and 13 passed the Junior Civil Service. Two Junior and three Senior Education Board's Scholarships were gained. Pupils from the school were placed second, fourth, seventh, and eighth in the Senior Scholarship list. Two pupils have kept first year's terms, for Victoria College. The average attendance has been 58. The number on the roll, 36 boys and 24 girls—6o. In May last a commencement was made with the new high-school buildings, and these are now nearing completion. They will afford ample accommodation and be very convenient both for highschool and technical purposes, being of brick, and commodious, well lighted and ventilated; and we trust they will be ready for occupation at the reopening of the school. In addition to the ordinary high-school subjects, classes have been held in woodwork, plumbing, dressmaking, cookery, drawing, and painting. Seven pupils passed the City and Guilds of London Institute Examinations in plumbing, one with honours. The appended schedule of textbooks will show the course of study taken in the school, and the general statement of accounts, also appended, gives the state of the finances for the year. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English —Nesfield's Grammar, Past and Present; Historical Grammar; Macaulay's Essays on Bacon and Walpole; Burkes Reflections on the French Revolution; Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet; literature, 1625-88, Anglo-Saxon and early English. French —Ancien Regime; Le Verre d'Eau; Le Joueur; French Grammar; literature of early part of seventeenth century. Latin — Pro Milone; Horace's Odes, Books 111 and IV; Ramsay's Latin Prose Composition; Allen's Latin Grammar. Algebra—Hall and Knight's Algebra. Geometry —Hall and Stevens's Geometry, Parts Ito VI. Trigonometry —Lock's Trigonometry, to solution of triangles. Arithmetic—Pendlebury's Arithmetic. Physiology—Furneaux's Human Physiology. Mechanics —Loney's Mechanics and Hydrostatics. Lowest.— English—Nesfield's Grammar, Past and Present; Shakespeare's As you like it; Scott's Ivanhoe; Selections from Tennyson. Latin —Via Latina, to page 100. French—Chardenal's First Course; Hogben's Methode Naturelle. History—Ransome, 1688-1837. Geography —Longmans' No. 3, Physical and Political. Arithmetic—Pendlebury, as for Junior Civil Service. Algebra —Hall and Knight's, to factors. Geometry —Hall and Stevens, Parts I and 11. Physiology—Furneaux.