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General Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities on the 21st December, 1910. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Wool on hand (teotanical) .. .. .. 10 0 0 Smith, G., extras on schoolhouse .. .. 70 0 0 Graham, architect, commission .. .. 70 1 0 Overdraft, Union Bank of Australia .. 274 0 9 £10 0 0 ! £414 1 9 W. Morgan, Secretary.

NAPIER HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Hoys , School— •Mγ. A. S. M. Poison, B.A. ; Mr. E. W. Andrews, B.A. ; Mr. W. Kerr, B.A. ; Mr. A. W. Short, B.A. ; Mr. W. P. P. Gordon. B.A. ; Mr. H. V. Phillips ; Mr. J. Mcßae; Mr. H. J. Clemancc. Girls' School— Miss V. M. Greig, M.A., B.Sc. ; Miss E. H. Gunn, BA. ; Miss J. 0. Gillies; Miss D. A. Gillam. M.A. ; Miss H. K. Dalrvmple, B.A. ; Miss T. C. Greig ; Miss M. J. Antill; Sergeant-major McNair. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. The Board of Governors have to report that the attendance at the schools has been well sustained, and that satisfactory progress continues to be made. The new laboratories in the boys' school have proved very useful, virtually all the pupils in the upper school doing individual practical work in science. Swimming has received much encouragement. Nearly every boy can swim, and a large proportion have received certificates for distances ranging from 220 yards to one mile. A very successful bazaar was organized in the girls' school to provide a playground-improvement fund. The amount raised, together with the Government subsidy, has enabled the governors to make much better provision for games, two new tennis-courts and a croquet-lawn having been laid down. The junior departments have well justified their existence, the roll number being 46 in the boye' school and 40 in the girls' school. To keep pace with the steady expansion of the junior department two new class-rooms have been erected in connection with the girls' school, an adjacent residence previously acquired having proved inadequate for the purpose. The following examination results were gained during the year : — Boys : University Junior Scholarship Examination—2 qualified for Matriculation and Solicitora' General Knowledge ; Matriculation, Solicitors' General Knowledge, and Medical Preliminary, 2 passed ; Matriculation, 1 passed; Senior Civil Service, 3 passed the whole examination and 1 passed in three subjects ; Junior Civil Sendee, 8 passed, 3 with credit; Education Board Senior Scholarship, 1 secured first place, and 5 others qualified ; Senior Free Place (in addition to foregoing), 15 under Regulation 7 (c), and 3by examination ; Education Board Junior Scholarship, 2 won scholarships; Junior Free Place Examination, 1 passed, and 4 extended under Regulation 5 (1) ; Proficiency Examination, 2 passed. Girls : University Junior Scholarship, 1 passed with credit; Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge, 3 passed ; Junior Civil Service, 4 passed ; Education Board Senior Scholarship, 6 qualified, 1 with credit; Senior Free Place (in addition to foregoing), 10 under Regulation 7 (c) and sby examination ; Education Board Junior Scholarship, 1 qualified ; Junior Free Place and Proficiency, 4 passed. T. C. Moore, Chairman. David Sidey, Secretary. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys' School: English —Shakespeare, Twelfth Night and Macbeth ; Seeley's Expansion of England; Arnold, Prose Books ; Palgrave's Golden Treasury; Wyatt's English Literature; Nichol and McCormick's Exercises in Composition ; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar; Low'e Historical English. Latin —Caesar, 8.G., Book VII; Horace, Epistles, Book I; Longmans', Part III; Bradley's Arnold; Abbott's Latin Prose through English Idiom ; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer ; unseen passages ; Horton's History of the Romans ; Creighton's Rome ; Wilkins's Antiquities. French —Le Petit Chose (Daudet) ; Le Misanthrope (Moliere) ; Irregular French Verbs (Thirion); Bue's Idioms ; Blouet's French Composition ; Tutorial French Grammar (accidents and syntax) ; phonetic transcript; unseen passages. Mathematics—Geometry (Godfrey and Siddons) ; solid geometry (Davison) ; algebra (Hall and Knight's Elementary and Bryan and Briggs' Middle Algebra), trigonometry (Pendlebury). Physics —Glazebrook's Heat. Mechanics and hydrostatics (Tutorial Series)- —All the foregoing to University Junior Scholarship Standard. Chemistry—Jago. Arithmetic —Pendlebury. History —Tout and York, Powell and Andrews' Notes. Geography—Longmans' Series, Books II and V; Meiklejohn's British Colonies and Dependencies. Zoology—Furneaux's Animal Physiology ; Huxley's Elementary Physiology. All to Matriculation standard. Precis-writing (Evan Jacobs) to Senior Civil Service standard. Girls' School: English—Composition, and Nesfield Grammar Past and Present (whole book). English literature—Chaucer, Prologue and Knighte's Tale, Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book I; Milton, Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes ; Shakespeare, Hamlet and The Tempest; Macaulay, Essay on Warren Hastings; Tennyson, the Princess, and selected shorter poems ; Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, to chapter xvii. Tennyson epoch English literature—Browning, Tennyson, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Bronte, Carlyle. French — Weekly, Matriculation French Course, to end; Wellington College French Grammar, to end (Eve and de Baudiss); Victor Hugo's