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2. General Statement op Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1907. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 2,480 13 6 Management— Plus interest omitted to be shown previous Office salary, Secretary .. .. 20 0 0 year .. .. .. .. .. 418 Other office expenses — Postages, £1 ; Current income from reserves .. .. 391 5 8 minute-book and requisites, £1 13s. 2d. 2 13 2 Interest on moneys iuvested and on unpaid Other expenses of management—Rent of purchase-money .. .. .. 126 15 10 offioe .. .. .. .. 210 0 Interest on current acoount .. .. 3 11 5 Grant towards teaohers'salaries and allowOther receipts— anoes .. .. .. .. 147 10 0 Scholarship payment refund .. .. 15 0 Examiners' fees and candidates' examinaMiscellaneous .. .. .. 2 7 6 tion feea .. .. .. .. 27 6 0 Scholarships .. .. .. 121 5 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 8 4 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &o. .. .. 2 9 5 Books and stationery for sale to pupils, and other temporary advances .. .. 36 4 9 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 30 0 8 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.)— Furniture .. 10 7 1 Interest on current account .. .. 0 8 6 Other expenditure— Legal expenses .. .. .. 14 210 Buggy-hire, carting, £1 17s. ; valuer's fee, £2 .. .. .. .. .. 3 17 0 Bank oharge, 10s. ; and exchange, 3s. 6d. 0 13 6 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 2,582 8 8 £3,010 0 7 £3,010 0 7 Geo. Barclay, Chairman. G. H. Geaham, Secretary. Examined and found correct.— J. K. Warburton, Controller and Auditor-General.

WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School—Mr. F. Milner, M.A. ; Mr. G. H. Uttley, M.A.; Mr. M. K. McCullooh, M.A. ; Mr. D. S. Chisholm, M.A. ; Mr. H. H. Allan, M.A. Girls' School. —Miss C. Ferguson, M.A. ; Miss V. M. Greig, M.A., B.Se. ; Miss A. C. Finlayoon, M.A.; Miss A. Watt, 8.A.; Miss M. G. MoCaw Sergeant-major Kibblewhite. 1. Report of the Board op Governors. The Board of Governors beg to report that the schools have had another very successful and progressive year, pupils from many parts of the Dominion having been in residence during the year. The Board, being brought face to face with the demand for admittance from all over the Dominion, decided to increase the capacity and efficiency of the school, and, with this object in view, have let contracts for additional class-rooms and dormitory accommodation, up-to-date laboratory, and gymnasium, at a cost, approximately, of .£5,000. Notwithstanding the increased accommodation thus provided, all vacancies were filled for 1908 before the close of the year under review. The Board of Governors thank the Minister of Education for a grant of £550 towards the cost of the laboratory and gymnasium, and hope he will make a further grant towards the cost of the new class-rooms, and lighten the heavy burden the Governors, through force of circumstances, were compelled to undertake. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest, — Boys' School: Latin—Kennedy's Primer; Bradley's Arnold; Livy (Hannibalian War); Horace, Odes, Book I: Simpson's Cesarean Prose; Rivington's Latin Unseens (Book XI). English —Skeat's Chaucer's Prologue; Nesfield's English Grammar Past and Present; Gwynn's Masters of English Literature; Shakespeare's Hamlet and Twelfth Night; Spenser's Faerie Queene (selections); Niohol'e Primer of Composition. French —Wellington College French Grammar; Duhamel's Advanced French Prose; L'Abbe Daniel; miscellaneous readings. Mathematics—Hall and Stevens's Geometry, Baker and Bourne's Algebra, Borchardt and Perrott's Trigonometry, Borchardt and Perrott's Arithmetic, as for Junior University Scholarship. Science—Roscoe and Hardens Advanced Chemistry, Newth's Chemistry, Glazebrook's Heat, as for' Junior UniversityScholarship. Girlt' School: English —Morell's English Literature, supplemented by studies from Milton, Pope, Dryden, Gray, Coleridge, Byron, Wordsworth, Scott, Tennyson, and other poets; Sesame and Lilies (Ruskin) ; Chaucer's Prologue, Knight's Tale, &c.; Meiklejohn's Higher-grade English. Latin—-Arnold's Latin Prose; Extracts from Ovid, Virgil, Cicero; miscellaneous sight translation. French—Chardenal's Advanced Course : Wellington College French Grammar ; Vecqueray'e Papers; Half-hours with French Authors; Le Veire d'Eau; Histoire dun Paysan ; Boielle's French Poetry. Science —Heat, as for Junior University Scholarship : botany, as for Junior University Scholarship. Mathematics (as for Junior University Scholarship)—Goyen's Arithmetic; Hall and Knight's Algebra; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry; Baker and Bourne's Geometry.