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THAMES HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. R. E. Rudman, M.A., B.Sc. ; Mr. C. A. Stewart, M.A. ; Miss M. Foy. 1. Work op the Highest and Lowest Classes. Hv/hest. —Latin—Via Latina (whole book) ; Allen's Latin Grammar ; Caesar, Book VI; Aeneid, IX ; selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses. English —Nesfield's Manual ; Meiklejohn's Art of Writing English; Shakespeare's Hamlet; Scott's Quentin Durward; general reading of the novels of Charles Dickens. French —Macmillan's Second and Third French Course ; Jules Verne, Au Pole en Ballon ; Do Musset's Merle Blanc ; specimens of modern French prose (Berthou). Science —Chemistry, matriculation syllabus, with common salts and qualitative analysis. Mathematics—Geometry, Hall and Stevens, Books I-IV ; algebra, Hall and Knight, to quadratics, with simpler logarithms ; Lock's arithmetic to matriculation standard ; Loney's Trigonometry. Book-keeping —Exercises from Nixon's Book-keeping. Lowest. —Latin —Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, Part I ; Scalae Primae. English —Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar, selected parts ; Tennyson's Mortc d'Arthur, Lady of Shallott ; Washington Irving's Rip van Winkle, &c. French —Dent's First French Book. Science—Physical measurements (based on MoSat's Practical Physics). Geometry —Hall and Stevens, Book I ; algebra —Baker and Bourne, to simultaneous equations ; arithmetic —Loney and Greville, whole book. Geography —Europe and British possessions. History—l6BB-1800. Book-keeping —Thornton's First Lessons. 2. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1910. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 402 10 4 Management— Government capitation— Offioe salary .. .. .. .. 30 0 0 For free places .. .. .. 528 0 2 Other office expenses .. .. .. 6 0 0 For recognized school classes for manual Teachers' salaries and allowances .. 670 16 8 instruction .. .. .. 14 19 8 Material for classes .. .. .. 38 16 5 Rents.. .. .. .. .. 611 5 1 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 3 8 6 Goldfields revenue .. .. .'. 74 15 8 Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 25 1 6 Paid by School Commissioners .. .. 67 6 8 Maintenance of classes for manual inSchool fees .. .. .. .. 99 8 9 struction .. .. .. . . 47 13 0 Interest on current account .. .. 14 13 0 Purchases and new works .. .. 102 12 10 Rent .. .. .. .. .. 919 0 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 12 0 2 Endowments, Sales Account— Legal expenses .. .. .. 20 14 2 Buildings .. .. .. .. 68 17 6 Management, &c. .. .. .. 38 16 0 Other expenditure— Cadet uniforms .. .. .. 4 0 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 4 2 0 Legal expenses .. .. .. 6 18 8 Sohool Library .. .. .. 7 15 0 Capitation, technical classfs .. .. 15 1 6 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 720 4 11 £1,822 18 10 £1,822 18 10 Henky Lowe, Chairman. Jas. Kbbnick, Secretary. Examined and found correct.—R. J. Colt,ins, Controller and Auditor-General. Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1910. £ s. d. Balance credit Bank of New Zealand .. .. .. .. 47 10 10 Bulanoe credit Post Office Savings Bank .. .. .. .. 719 17 1 Jas. Kernick, Secretary. » •

NEW PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. E. Pridham, M.A. ; Miss C. D. Grant, M.A. ; Miss G. A. Drew, M.A. ; Mr. A. R. Ryder, M.A.; Mr. H. H. Ward ; Mr. G. H. Wills ; Mr. Lints. 1. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Arithmetic—General, Junior University Scholarship Standard. Algebra—Hall and Knight's Higher Algebra, to end of permutations and combinations. Geometry—Hall and Stevens, Books I-VI inclusive. Trigonometry —Lock, to chapter 19. Mechanics—Briggs and Bryan, Matriculation Mechanics, the whole ; Briggs and Bryan, Hydrostatics ; Loney's Mechanics. English— Nesfield's Grammar; Tutorial English ; Morris and Skeat's Specimens of Early English ; Henry V ; Samson Agonistes; Miscellaneous Specimens of Literature ; The King's English ; Greenough and