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mathematics, both at Oxford ;E. H. Goodfellow, the Vans Dunlop Scholarship at Edinburgh. From a list published in the School Chronicle it appears that considerably over two hundred old boys are on active service beyond the Dominion. Many of these enlisted in England and Australia : two have given their lives for King and Empire. * * . # * * Prizes. —The prizes, costing £58 14s. 6d., were presented by me in the Town Hall on the evening of Thursday, the 17th December, 1914, when the Hon. J. Allen, M.A., Minister of Education, kindly addressed the audience of over two thousand persons. New School. —Good progress was made at the new school in that the roof framing and sarking (the wood covering of the roof) were completed, and so the building will be finished by the end of 1915. Girls' School. Roll. —The school numbered 477 at the opening of the first term of 1914, and at the end of the year it had decreased 6 per cent. Inspection. —The school was visted by the Department's Inspectors, Messrs. Gill and Cresswell, who reported favourably of their inspection of the 6th to 9th July, 1914. Curriculum. —The curriculum of the school has been similar to that of previous years. There were two modern forms in the 111, two in the IV, and one in the V. Distinctions. —Four girls entered for the Junior University Scholarship Examinations? Two gained Senior National Scholarships (one of whom was first in English on the scholarship list) ;" one passed " with credit," and one gained Matriculation on the scholarship papers. Fifteen girls passed Matriculation, and sixty-three girls received senior free places under clause 7 (c) and twenty-five under clause 7 (b). Eeighteen girls had their junior free places extended under clause 5 (1). Healing. —Slow-combustion heating-stoves were installed in the hall and on the staircase. Prizes. —The prizes, costing £56 17s. Id., were presented by me on the same evening as the boys' in the Town Hall. G. Maurice O'Rorke, M.A., LL.D., Chairman. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —English—The Spenser Epoch (Arnold) ; Peacock's Selected Essays ; Milton, Comus ; Shelley, Adonais; Golden Treasury; Shakespeare, The Tempest; Chaucer, Prologue; Ruskin, Crown of Wild Olive; Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum. Latin—Sargeant's Latin Prose; Bradley's Arnold ; Tutorial History of Rome ; Res Romanse ; Postgate's Now Latin Primer; Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia and De Amicitia ; Virgil, Georgics 111 and IV ; Pliny's Letters ; Horace, Odes II; Livy, Book V. French —Duhamel's Advanced French Composition ; Wellington College French Grammar; M'emoires dun Collegien ; Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris ; Berthon, French Verse Selections ; French Unseens for Upper Forms (Blackie). Mathematics—Baker and Bourne's geometry ; Todhunter and Loney's Algebra ; Hall and Knight's Trigonometry ; Ward's Trigonometry Exercises. Science— Draper's Heat; Ncwth's Chemistry. Lowest. —English—Jones's First English. Course ; Temple Reader ; Longfellow, Evangeline ; Lamb, Adventures of Ulysses ; Junior British History, Giveen and Bewsher; Longmans' Geography, The World. Latin Elementa Latina ; Invasion of Britain ; Postgate's First Latin Primer. French ■* —Macmillan's Progressive French Course, First-year; Siepmann's Primary French Course. Mathematics —Loney and Grenville, Shilling Arithmetic ; Longmans' Junior School Algebra ; Baker and Bourne's Geometry. Science—Gregory and Hadley's Class-book of Physics, Parts I and 11. Girls' School. Highest. —Junior University Scholarship Syllabus : English —King Lear, Shakespeare ; A Book of English Essays, Makower and Blackwell ; The Golden Treasury, Palgrave; Selections from Browning, Fowler ; Paradise Lost, Books I and 11, Sargeant; Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Shirley, Bronte ; Henry Esmond, Thackeray ; Literature Primer, Stopford Brooke ; Shakespeare Primer. French—French Composition and Idioms, Hector Ray; Grammaire Francaise, Renault; Higher French Reader, Wcekley ; L'Abbe Daniell, Theuriet. Latin—Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, Bradley; Select Orations of Cicero, King; Virgil's iEneid, VII, Calvert; Livy, Book XXII, Melhuish ; Horace's Odes, Book I, Page ; Shuckburgh's History of Rome ; Roman Antiquities. Science —Glazebrook's Heat; Flowering Plants, Part I, Scott; Manual of Botany, Vol. 11, Reynolds Green. Mathematics—-Trigonometry, Parts I and 11, Borchardt and Perrott; Algebra, Borchardt; Geometry, Books I to VII, Baker and Bourne ; Arithmetic, Workman. Lowest. —Senior Free Place Syllabus : English—Literary Reader and Composition, Lewis Marsh ; Evangeline, Longfellow ; Jan of the Windmill, Mrs. Ewing ; Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll; Nesfield's Outlines of English Grammar. French —French Course, Part I, Longman; Contes et Legendes, Querbers. History (English) —Elementary History, Ransome. Geography —Tarr and MacMurray's Geography, Part V. Botany-—Elementary Botany, C. Lawrie. Mathematics —Elementary Geometry, Books I-IV, Baker and Bourne ; Algebraic Examples, Part I, Borchardt; Practical Arithmetic for Schools, Borchardt. HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL. Staff .Messrs. Eben Wilson, M.A.; John G. Paterson, M.A., M.Sc.; Norman R. Jacobs n, M.Sc.; Harold V. Ramsay ; Misses Edith Collins, B.A ; R. E. Rowlandson, B.A. ; Teresa Tompkins, M.A. 5—E. 6.