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Wellington College French Grammar ; Spier's Exercises ; Macmillan's Advanced Prose ; selections from Tame ; Poemes Choisis; French verse ; Siepmann's Short French Grammar and Third Course, with prose exercises; Poemes Choisis ; phonetics ; idioms ; oral translation, Le Eoi dcs Montagnes. Latin—Arnold's Aids to Latin Prose ; Aeneid, VI; Horace, I ; Livy, XXII; Cicero's Pro Lege Manilia ; Smith's Smaller Roman History ; Wilkin's Antiquities ; senior unseens ; North and Hillard's Composition ; Postgate's New Latin Primer ; Caesar's Invasions of Britain ; Stories from Cicero ; unseens. Mathematics—Arithmetic, the whole subject (Workman) ; algebra, as for Junior University Scholarship : Hall and Knight's Algebra to quadratics and graphs ; geometry, Godfrey and Siddon's Geometry Hall and Stevens's Book VI, as for Junior Scholarship. Botany—As for Junior University Scholarship. Heat —Draper's Heat ; Glazebrook's Heat; preparatory, Glazebrook, elementary experimental work. Lowest. —English—-West's Grammar, with analysis, synthesis, &c. ; essays ; Nesfield's Composition ; Poetica ; Stories of King Arthur ; As You Like It ; Evangeline ; Ivanhoe. French— Dent's First French Book ; Scenes from Child Life. Latin—Williams's First Latin Book ; declensions and conjugations ; Beresford's First Latin Reader. Mathematics—Arithmetic, Loney and Grenville : algebra, Hall and Knight, to factors ; geometry, practical geometry, and Hall and Stevens to theorem 14. History—Meiklejohn, Part I, to Richard 11. Non-Latin Class —-Heroes of European Nations ; Legends of Greece and Rome. Civics—Citizen Reader. Geography—The British Empire. Botany — Study of plants, roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds ; pollination and fertilization ; germination ; dispersal of seeds ; experiments and practical studies in germination, &c. Physiology—Skeleton ; composition of blood ; structure of heart, eye, teeth ; circulation ; alimentary canal.

STATEMENTS OF EECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE, AND OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES, OF THE GOVERNING BODIES OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

WHANGAREI HIGH SCHOOL. General Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1912. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance at beginning of year .. .. 1,026 17 1 Management— Government grant lor sites, building, furni- t Office salary .. .. .. 77 7 7 ture, &c. (general purposes) .. .. 1,600 0 0 Other office expenses .. .. .. 9 0 2 Government capitation— Otner expenses of management .. 12 7 6 For free places .. .. .. 1,247 18 4 Teachers'salaries and allowances .. 1,041 5 0 For recognized school classes for manual Prizes.. .. .. .. 6 0 0 instruciion .. .. .. 87 18 6 Material for classes other than classes for Endowments— manual instruction .. .. .. 35 fl 0 Current income from reserves.. .. 137 3 0 Printing, stationery, and advertising .. 17 15 4 Bevenue of secondary education reserves 74 17 'J Cleaning, fuel, light, &c. .. .. 20 0 4 School fees .. .. .. .. 131 1 6 Maintenance of classes for manual instrucOtherreceipfcs, namely— tion .. .. .. .. 87 18 6 Interest on fixed deposit account 11 5• 0 Site, buildings, furniture, &c.— Refund on gas .. .. .. 0 5 0 Ordinary (Government grant) 2,420 14 6 Fencing, repairs, &c. .. .. .. 78 17 9 Miscellaneous (rates, &c.) .. .. 17 9 10 Interest and bank charge on current account 1 10 0 Endowments — Site or buildings .. .. 115 5 0 Balance at end of year .. .. .. 376 9 8 £4,317 6 2 £4,317 6 2 Examined and found correct, except that the payment of £12 7s. 6d., law costs, to Messrs. Killen and Wilson, of which firm Mr. Killen (a member of the Board) is a partner, contravenes the principle of trustee law that persons holding a position of a fiduciary character must not benefit from their relation to their trust. —R. J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General. Statement of Monetary Assets and Liabilities at 31st December, 1912. Assets. £ s. d. Liabilities. £ s. d. Balance in Bank of New Zealand —High Outstanding cheques .. .. .. 012 0 Scibool .. .. .. .. 172 12 2 Due contractor boarding-school .. 245 0 0 BalanceinßankofNewZealand-Boarding- Due archittct commission .. .. 27 6 0 establishment .. .. 196 1 6 Scnool prizes .. .. .. .. 6 18 0 Cash in band .. .. .. .. 8 8 0 cleaning and lighting .. .. .. 0 13 3 Outstanding school fees.. .. .. 33 12 o Due on school-site .. .. .. 1,000 0 0 Outstanding rent .. .. .. 40 10 0 Government capitation, free-place scholars 439 11 8 £890 15 4 £1,280 9 3 J. McKinnon, Secretary.

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