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Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities as at 31st December, 1910. AsseU. £ a. d. Liabilities. On mortgage .. .. .. .. 2,800 0 0 In bank .. .. .. .. 164 12 8 Rents .. .. .. .. .. 51 10 10 Interest .. .. .. .. 44 0 0 Nil. Cash in hand .. .. .. .. 018 0 £3,061 1 6 Geo. BoLTON, Secretary. WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' School.—Mr. T. Milmr. M.A. : Mr. <i. H. lltl.-v. M.A.. B.Sc. : Mr. M. K. MoCulloch, M.A. ; Mr. D. 8. Chkholm, M.A. ; Mr. H. H. Allan. M.A. : Mr. R. C. Onglej ; Mr. W. M. Uttley ; Miss M. McCaw : Sergeant-major Kibblewhite. Girls' School- Miss C. Ferguson, .M.A. ; Miss C. 15. Mills. M.A.. B.So. : Miss A. M. Bmlcl. M.A. : Miss M. Reese, B.A. ; Miss M. McCaw ; Sergeant-major Kihblowhite. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. The Board of Governors beg to report a continuance of the success that attends the institutions under their charge. The total enrolment at the boys' school during the year comprised 229 pupils, of whom 159 were boarders. The roll at the girls' school has maintained the average. The results of the various public examinations were again satisfactory. At the boys' school 10 pupils who kept terms in connection with Otago University passed the first sections of the B.A. and L.L.B. degrees. The 3 candidates presented for Senior Civil Service gained full passes ; 45 out of 50 candidates passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. Out of 6 candidates presented for the New Zealand Junior University Scholarship Examination, 2 won Junior University Scholarships, one of whom topped the list for the Dominion, 2 gained Senior National Scholarships, and the other two gained credit passes. Eight boys passed Matriculation, and 5 were allotted Otago Senior Board Scholarships. During the yeai the Board have added considerably to the equipment of the school. Duncan Sutherland, Chairman. 2. Work of thk Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. — Boys : Mathematics —Baker and Bourne's Algebra, 1 and II ; Hall and Stevens's Geometry ; Hall and Knight's Elementary Trigonometry ; Ward's Trigonometry Papers. Latin— Roby's School Latin Grammar; Bradley's Latin Prose Composition ; Horton's History of Rome ; Ramsay's Elementary Roman Antiquities ; Bryan's Caesar's Latin Prose ; Horace, Odes I and II; Caesar's Gallic War, Book VII; Ovid, selections ; Virgil's Aeneid, Books XI and XII. French— Berthou's Selection from Modern French Prose ; Berthou's Selection from Modern French Verse ; Victor Hugo's Waterloo, Les Miserables ; La Fontaine's Fables ; Theopile Gautier's Scenes of Travel; Wellington College French Grammar ; Bue's French Idioms. English—Nesfield's English, Past and Present ; Skeat's Chaucer's Prologue ; Shakespeare's Hamlet ; Browning's Saul and Rabbi Ben Ezra ; selections from Tennyson, Milton, Keats. Shelley, Coleridge; Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter; Tutorial History of English Literature. Science—Tutorial Chemistry (both parts, metals and non-metals), Chapman Jonas's Practical Inorganic Chemistry for Advanced Students ; Draper's Heat for Advanced Students ; Robson's Practical Exercises in Heat. Girls : English—As You Like It ; Richard II ; Morell's English Literature ; Readings from Carlyle ; Chaucer's Prologue and Selected Tales ; mis cellaneous readings from various authors; Nesfield's Grammar, Past and Present, Part III; essays, Latin —Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, to the end; Virgil's Aeneid, Book I; Cicero's In Catilinam ; Livy's History, Book XXII ; Horace , * Odes, Book III; miscellaneous reading from various authors; Roman History (Merivale). French — Boielle's Poetry; Weekly's Prose; Halfhours with the Best French Authors ; La Fontaine's Fables ; Blouet's Extracts ; Chardenal's Idioms : Wellington College Grammar ; miscellaneous prose. Botany—-As for Junior University Scholarship. Heat —Glazebrook and Deschanel, to Junior University Scholarship standard. Mathematics —Arithmetic (the whole subject) ; algebra, Baker and Bourne's ; geometry, Hall and Stevens's ; trigonometry, Lock's. Scripture —Lives of Abraham, Joseph, Moses. Lowest. — Boys : English—Yoxall's Speller ; Nesfield's Outlines of English Grammar ; Nesfield's Oial Composition ; Call of the Home-land ; Readings from Dickens ; Macaulay's Armada, Ivry, and Battle of Naseby ; Irving's Rip Van Winkle, Struggle for Freedom. Latin — Elementa Latina. Mathematics —Baker and Bourne's Algebra ; Hall and Stevens's Geometry, 1 to 4 ; Pendlebury's New School Arithmetic. Science —Murchie's Physiology ; First-stage Physiology ; Furneaux. French — Roseman and Schmidt, Part I; Mademoiselle Papillon ; French without Tears, Part I. Girls : English —Logic Robertson's Prose ; Laureata ; Nesfield's Manual, to page 91 ; essay-writing. Latin — Longmans', Part I, to exercise 70. French —Bell's First French Course, and part of Second Course.