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Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1910. Assets. jg g jj Liabilities. t s d Oredit balanoe at 31st December, 1310 .. 306 4 0 Builder's deposit .. .. .. 30 0 0 Grants from Government— Prizes .. .. .. .. 576 Capitation on free places .. .. 414 11 8 Additions to buildings .. .. .. 1,227 14 10 For additions to building .. .. 500 0 0 Manual and technical classes .. .. 26 5 0 Capitation, manual and technical classes " 50 5 0 Furniture, fittings, and apparatus for new fciencetoom .. .. .. 300 0 0 £1,271 0 8 £1,589 7 4

NELSON COLLEGE. Staff. Boys , College. —Mr. H. L. Fowler, M.A. ; Mr. G. J. Lancaster, M.A. ; Mr. C. H. Broad, B.A. ; Mr. J. G. McKay, B.A. ; Mr. J. C. Pope, M.A. ; Mr. C. H. McKay; Mr. A. E. Broekett; Mr. H. P. Kidson, M.A. ; Mr. H. D. Skinner; Mr. W. S. Hampson ; Mr. F. F. Huddleston. OirW College. —Miss M. Lorimer, M.A. ; Miss F. M. Kirton, M.A. ; Miss M. McEaehen, M.A. ; Miss A. Eastwood, M.A. ; Miss A. O'Callaghan, B.A. ; Miss E. Baxter, M.A. ; Misß B. Nicholson, B.A. ; Miss E. F. Chisholm j Miss B. Greenwood ; Miss M. Igglesden. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. The average number of boys in attendance was 204, being a slight increase ; 148 of the pupils held free places, 90 junior and 58 senior. The boarding department continues to make good progress, the total number of boarders for the year being 103. The average number at the Girls' College was 171 —a record. The Governors desire to thank the donors of a horse roller and mowing-machine, by the use of which the playground at the Boys' College has been brought into a much better condition. They also desire to thank the Old Girls' Association for their donation towards the formation of a reference library. The shooting team, without being able to repeat their success of the previous year, did very well, taking the second place in the New Zealand secondary schools competition, one point behind the winners. In the shooting for the Prince of Wales' Cup, open to all schools of the Empire, they stood sixth, being beaten by only one school in Australasia. The equipment of the Girls' College was improved by the addition of a roomy and airy building, containing suitable accommodation for practical and demonstration lessons in cookery. A camera club was formed at the Girls' College, and a dark room provided. The girls' hockey club was able to enter two teams for the matches, and the junior team was successful in winning the challenge cup. Early in the year Mr. James Blair, who has been Secretary for the past eight years, resigned, and his place was filled by the appointment of Mr. R. Catley. The Staff. —Boys' College : Mr. A. E. Brockett has taken charge of the preparatory department, in succession to Mr. M. Skelton. Mr. J. C. Pope, 8.A., fills the vacancy caused by the departure of Mr. W. Moyes for King's College. Mr. H. P. Kidson, M.A., and Mr. H. Skinner also joined the staff during the year. Girls' College : Miss O'Callaghan, M.A., and Miss Nicholson, 8.A., resigned at the end of the year. Miss Farrow, M.A., of Canterbury College, and Miss Hind, M.A., of Victoria College, were appointed to fill the vacancies. The results of the public examinations were very satisfactory. Boys' College : L. Bell and J. O'Connell gained Senior National Scholarships on entrance to the University. One boy qualified for Matriculation on the scholarship papers, and ten others passed the Matriculation (Solicitors' General Knowledge) Examination, two of them the Medical Preliminary also. Forty-five passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. Nine boys passed the terms examinations of Victoria College, five the first year, three the second, and one the third. Girls' College :A. Fell, S. Derrick, and R. Walker passed first year's terms. Rona Karsten passed the Senior Civil Service Examination, heading the list for the Dominion. Fifteen girls passed Matriculation or Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge, a highly gratifying result. Seventeen girls passed the Junior Civil Service Examination, Edith Woods heading the Nelson list. In addition, twenty gained the Senior Free Place, and eight gained extension under clause 5 (1). 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys , College : As for Junior University Scholarships in English, Latin, French, mathematics, and science (chemistry and mechanics), and for the B.A. degree in English and Latin. English —Macbeth ; Samson Agonistes ; Prometheus Unbound ; Sartor Resartus ; Selected English Essays (Macmillan) ; Golden Treasury; Brooke's Primer of English Literature ; Nesfield's English, Past and Present. Latin—Selections from Ovid ; Dies Romani; Livy, Book XXII; Bradley's Arnold ; Bryan's Latin Prose Exercises ; Bradley's Aids ; Res Romanae ; Horace, Epistles, I; Caesar, 8.G., VII. French —Le Tour dv Monde ; Half-hours ; Blouet's Composition ; Wellington French Grammar ; Dent's Phonetic French Reader. Mathematics —Murray's Higher Arithmetic ; Lachlan and Fletcher's Trigonometry ; Barnard and Child's Senior Geometry; C. Smith's Algebra (Macmillan). Science—