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Girls' College : In the University examinations one girl obtained the first section oi the B.A. degree, another came second on the credit list in the Junior University Scholarship Examination, seven passed the Matriculation, Solicitors' General Knowledge, and Medical Preliminary Examinations, and one matriculated. Three girls obtained full passes in the Senior Civil Service Examination, and one a partial pass. Twenty-one passed the Junior Civil Service Examination, eight with credit. Twentythree gained the Senior Free Place under clause 7 (c), and seven by passing the special examination conducted by the Department. The Junior Free Place was obtained by four girls, and extension by three. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' College. Highest (as for University Entrance Scholarships).—English—Shakespeare's Hamlet ; Milton's Minor Poems ; Palgrave's Golden Treasury ; Selections from Chaucer ; Macaulay's Literary Essays ; English prose (Mandeville to Ruskin) ; Nesfield's Historical Grammar, and Aids to Composition ; Brooke's Literature. Primer. Latin—Cicero, Selection from Letters ; Latin Authors (University Press); Horace, Sitires and Epistles; Bradley's Arnold, and Aids to Latin Prose ; Rivington's Unseens. French—Half-hours; Siepmann's French Course, Part 111 ; miscellaneous selections ; Blouet's French Composition; Wellington College Grammar. Mathematics—■Murray'a Arithmetic; Chrystall's Algebra ; Barnard and Childs' Senior Geometry ; Hocevar's Solid Geometry ; Lachlan and Fletchers Trigonometry; Ward's Exercises. Science—Edser's Heat; Robson's Exercises; Jones and Blomfield's Mechanics. Lowest. —-English—Grammar, Mason's First Not ions ; Nesfield's Junior Course of Composition ; The S oried Past; Westward Ho; spelling, &c. History—Simple studies in English history. Geography —Meiklejohn, Part I. Latin—-Dix's First Lessons. French—Siepmann's Primary Course, Part I. Mathematics—Workman's Arithmetic ; Baker and Bourne's New Geometry ; Barnard and Childs's Algebra, Part I. Science —Hansen's Exercises in Physics; physical measurements. Bookkeeping—Thornton's Exercises. Drawing—Freehand. Girls' College. Highest. —English—Hamlet ; Romeo and Juliet ; L'Allegro ; II Penseroso ; Lycidus ; Macaulay's Essay on Milton ; selected English essays ; Hales's Longer English Poems ; Sweet's A.S. Reader ; Morris's Specimens of Early English ; Morris's Historical Outlines of English Accidence. Latin— Allen's Elementary Latin Grammar ; Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition ; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose ; Stedman's Examination Papers ; Horace, Odes, I and II ; Livy. Book XXIV; Wilkins's Roman Antiquities; Robinson's First Roman History ; Merivale and Fuller's History of Rome. German —Goethe's Egmont; Schiller's Wilhelm Tell; Henie's Harzreise ; Buchheim's German Prose ; Eve's School German Grammar; Eve's S.-cond German Exercises; Franche's History of German Literature. French —De Tocqueville's Ancien Regime ; Voltaire's Zaire ; Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ; Eve's Wellington College French Grammar; Practical French Grammar by Spiers ; First Steps in French Idioms (Bue); Graduated Course in French Prose by Spiers. MathematicsElementary Geometry, Parts I-VII, by Baker and Bourne ; Elementary Algebra, Part 11, by Baker and Bourne ; Todhunter and Loney's Algebra for Beginners ; Pendlebury's Elementary Trigonometry ; Loney's Elements of Statics, Dynamics, and Hydrostatics. Botany —Second Stage Botany, by Lowson. Physiology —-Coleman's Hygienic Physiology, and Meachan's Human Physiology. Lowest. —-English —In the World of Books (Arnold) ; An Edgbaston Book of Poetry (Edith M. Colman) ; Manual of English Grammar and Composition (Nesfield). Mathematics—Tutorial Arithmetic (Workman) ; Elementary Algebra (Hall and Knight) ; Elementary Geometry (Baker and Bourne). Geography—A New Geography, Comparative (Professor Meiklejohn). History—Elementary History of England (Ransome). Latin—First Latin Course (Scott and Jones); Second Latin Course (Scott and Jones) ; First Latin Grammar (Scott and Jones). French —Primary French Course, Part II (Siepmann) ; La Jacquerie (Merimee). Physiology—Elementary Physiology (Furneaux). Botany—Text-book of Elementary Botany (Charlotte L. Laurie).

RANGIORA HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. T. R. Cresswoll, M.A. ; Mr. S. A. Clark, B.A. : Miss D. H. Allan, M.A. : Miss V. Eldor, B.A. ; Mr. G. GibbsJordon ; Miss Pitts : Miss M. D. Digby. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. During the past year this school has enhanced its reputation for successful work —-indeed, it is questionable if any secondary school in the Dominion can show better results, if a calculation is made on an attendance basis. The attendance last year reached 107 —a satisfactory increase. For the Matriculation Examination nine sat and seven passed. For the Junior Civil Service Examination sixteen sat and all passed —eight in the merit list, and one pupil second for the whole Dominion. For the Senior Free Place Examination seventeen pupils were successful. The High School Territorial Cadets have been commended for efficiency, and their marksmanship has been proved by the excellent score made when they won the " Victory " shield for the second time.

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