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3. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1909. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ b. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 914 10 1 Management— Government grants for sites, building, fur- Office salaries.. .. .. .. 230 0 0 niture, &c. .. .. .. .. 729 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 32 5 9 Government capitation,— Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 6,589 10 9 For free places .. .. .. 2.701 17 4 Prizes .. .. .. .. 88 19 6 Under Manual and Technical Instruction Material for classes other than classes for Regulations .. .. .. 32 6 8 manual instruction .. .. .. 0 16 11 Current income from reserves .. .. 3,236 9 5 j Printing, stationery, and advertiting .. 875 G 1 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 481 1(1 0 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 254 5 10 School fees .. .. .. .. 3, •24'.) 17 5 Books .. .. .. .. .. 5 18 0 Books, &c, sold, and other refunds .. 2 0 0, Maintenance of classes for manual instruc Other receipts tion .. .. .. .. .. 32 6 3 Donations for prizes .. .. .. 9 9 0 Sites, buildings, furniture, &c. (Government Discount .. .. .. .. I) I 10 grant) .. .. .. 729 0 0 Purchases arid new works .. .. 40 4 3 Repayment of loan on building .. .. 585 (i 10 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 1.018 2 9 Interest .. .. .. .. 537 11 10 j Interest on ourrent account and bank charge 0 110 Interest on cost of reclaimed land .. 104 14 6 Rates .. .. .. .. .. 54 4 1 Miscellaneous (surveys, &c.) .. .. 20 10 5 Other expenditure— Grant to Games Fund .. .. .. 100 0 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 16 0 6 Balance at end of > ear .. .. .. 596 1'2 2 £11,357 7 4 £11,357 7 4 A. db B. Brandon, Chairman. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary. Examined and found correct, ezoepi that moneys amounting to £11 17s. Id. of the Turnbull, May liiverton, Cocks, and Mary [zard Trusts have been used for the purpose of the Moore, Rhodes, and Levin Trusts, and that such moneys should not be shown as assets of the last-named trusts.— R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General.

(MSBOKNE HIGH SCHOOL. ataff. Mr. A. R. Gatland, B.A. : Mr. P. .1. Wilkcs. M.A. : Miss 1,. VVileox ; Mr. W. A. G. Penlington : Mr. .1. W. Levey ; Miss M. Higg 1. Report of the Board of Governors. The year completes the first year of the High School as an endowed secondary school. A regular siafi of three male, teachers and one female has been engaged during the year. The school roll closed with an attendance of eighty-eighi boys and uirls With a very cordial co-operation of the School Commissioners of Auckland, and the aid of the Government, a suitable site for a High School building has been acquired. A school to accommodate 250 pupils is being built, and should be ready lor occupation in April, 1910. Three acres near the school Lave been purchased as a site for schoolhouses. A schoolhouse for boys is being built, and should be available for boarders in June. 1910. The estimated attendance for 1910 is 130. During tin , year the school was inspected by .Mr. a. Hogben, M.A.. Inspector-General of Schools. Distinctions. At the New Zealand University Examinations of December, 1909, one pupil gained a. Senior National Scholarship, and one passed the Junior Scholarship Examination with credit, and three passed Matriculation. At the Education Department's Examinations, two gained Senior Board Scholarships, nine gained Senior Free Places, one gained a Junior Board Scholarship, three qualified for Junior National Scholarships, and one gained a Junior Free Place. Technical. Education. —The Education Board of llawke's Bay has decided to take over the control of the school classes, and has appointed an Instructor in Agriculture. Technical education in the northern portion of the Hawke's Bay Education District would perhaps be better administered by a Board including representatives of the Education Board, the Governors, local governing bodies, associat ions, and industries. The interest of the district has to lie aroused, and the financial support of technical instruction to be better assured. C. A. de Lautour, Chairman. \V. Morgan, Secretary. i>. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.- English —Nesfield, English Past and Present: Shakespeare. Julius Csesar; Scott, Tlw Talisman : Chaucer, Prologue ; Morris and Skeat, Specimens of Early English. Latin Horace. Odes I. 11. 111. Satires; Livy, VIII ; Arnold's Prose Composition (Bradley). Mathematics —Hall and Knight's Algebra ; Baker and Bourne's Geometry ; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry. Mechanics -Loney's Statics and Dynamics; Loney's Hydrostatics. Heat — Glazebrook's Heat; Lardner's Heat,

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