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1. Report of the Board of Managers. I have the honour to submit for your information my report on the Hamilton High School for the year ended the 31st December, 1914. The past year in all respects has been a most successful one, the average attendance being about 160. It was found necessary during the year to add to the staff, and Miss T. Tompkins was appointed. The two additional class-rooms mentioned in my last report have now been completed, and will be available for the coming term. These will add greatly to the efficiency of the school, and will be appreciated by both teachers and scholars. The Board has not lost sight of the necessity for providing hostels and playing-fields, but deemed it best to defer consideration of these matters for the present. Financially, the Board has made slight progress, but the constant demand for extra furniture and additions and improvements constitutes a heavy drain on its resources. The Board desires to place on record its high appreciation of the splendid work done during the year- by the teachers and scholars, evidenced by the reports of the Education Department Inspector and by the results attained in the public examinations. In conclusion, the Board wishes to thank the officers of the Department, especially the Inspector General, for the kindly and courteous treatment which it has invariably received from them. Geo. Edgecumbe, Chairman. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin —Latin Prose Composition, North and Hillard ; Bradley's Arnold; Allen's Latin Grammar; Selections from Latin. Authors (Tutorial Press); Elegiac Selections from Ovid ; Tacitus, Agricola and Germania; Virgil, Georgics IV. French —French Prose Composition for Middle Forms, Duhamel; Ninet's French Tales ; Tame, Voyage aux Pyrenees ; Longman's French Grammar, Part II; Corneille, Le Cid ;Le Roi dcs Montagues, About; Moliere, L'Avare ; French Vocabularies for Repetition ; Wellington College French Grammar ; Dictonnaire Franoais. English—Matriculation English Course (Tutorial Press) ; Higher English, Campbell; Composition from English Models, Kenny; Anglo-Saxon Primer, Sweet; Laureata ; Gray, Poems; Henry Esmond, Thackeray; Goldsmith, Poems ; Landor,.Pericles and Aspasia ; Johnson, Life of Swift; Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Macbeth, Julius Caasar, Merchant of Venice. Mathematics- Algebra, Hall and Knight; Trigonometry, Hamblin Smith; Geometry, Hall and Stevens; Arithmetic, Goyen. Science- Donnington's Class-book of Chemistry; Evans, Botany for Beginners; History— Ran some's Brief History of England. Geography—Longmans' Geography of the World, Part 11. Lowest. —Latin—Decursus Primus, Tucker. French—Longmans' French Grammar, Part I ; Siepmann's Primary French Course, Part I. English West's Abridged English Grammar; Arnold's English Composition; Literary Reader and Composition, Marsh ; The Poets' Realm, Browne; Julius Csesar, Shakespeare ; Ivanhoe, Scott; Westward Ho, Kingsley. History- Cambridge Intermediate Historical Reader. Geography- —Cambridge Intermediate Geographical. Reader. Bookkeeping—Thornton's First Lessons; Thornton's Exercise Books, Nos. 1-4. Shorthand—Pitman's Shorthand. Science —Donnington's Class-book of Chemistry ; Exercises in Practical Physics, Gregory and Simmons ; Bailey's Beginners' Botany ; The School Garden, Hennessey ; The Chemistry of the Garden, Cousins. Mathematics —Hall's School Alegbra ; Loney and Grenville's Shilling Arithemetic; Borchardt and Perrott's Geometry for Schools.

THAMES HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Messrs. R. E. Rudman, M.A., B.Se. ; J. Metson, 8.A.; J. A. Hodges; Miss Haselden, M.A. Worn of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Junior University Scholarship and Senior Civil Service Standard : Latin—Bradley's Arnold ; Allen's Grammar ; Virgil, Georgics IV ; Tacitus, Agricola and Germania, Limen. French —Rey's Composition ; Siepmann's Third Course and Grammar ; Selections from French Prose and Verse. English—Nesfield ; Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Merchant of Venice ; Gray, Poems ; Goldsmith, Deserted Village; Johnson, Life of Swift; Landor, Pericles and Aspasia; Literature, Period 1750-1800. Mathematics- Trigonometry, Loney; Algebra, Hall and Knight; Geometry, Hall and Stevens, Books 1-6. Geography —Wallis. Chemistry—Shenstone. Lowest. —Algebra, Baker and Bourne to simultaneous equations. Geometry —Hall and Stevens, Book I. Arithmetic —Workman's Arithmetic. English—Nesfield's Manual; Prisoner of Chillon ; Lee's Selections from. English Literature. French —Siepmann's, Part I. Science —Norris's Mechanics and Physics. Latin—Limen, pp. 1-100. Book-keeping—Thornton's First Lessons. NEW PLYMOUTH BOYS' AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS. Staff. Boys' School— Messrs. W. H. Moyes, M.A., B.Se. ; A. R. Ryder, M.A. ; R. H. Rockel, M.A. ; W. F. Baiham; O. G. Bottrill, M.A. ; A. W. i)iprose;'R. H. Espiner ; T. Buxton. Girls' School. —Misses Grant, M.A. ; Drew, M.A. ; Cross, M.A. ; Livingstone, M.A. ; Mr. D. Hutton. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. During the past year the Boys' School has made great progress in both the upper and lower schools, but, owing to the very unsatisfactory accommodation available, the Girls' School has experienced a slight falling-off. To remedy the want of accommodation at the Boys' School, owing to