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Arnold's Latin Prose Composition ; Liddell's Grammar Papers ; Res Romanac. Science —Electricity, Poyser ; Heat, Wright; Hygiene, Foster and Shore, Lister, Cartwrigh.t. French —Siepmann's Course, Part III; Siepmann's Grammar ; Weekley, French Composition ; Wellington College French Grammar ; Au Pole en Ballon (V. Patrice) ; Moliere, Les Femmes Savantes ; Journal dcs Debats ; Unseens. Lowest.- -English Nesfield's Outline of English Grammar; Nesfield's Junior Course of English Composition; Great Authors, Second Period ; Meiklejohn's Spelling-book; Kingsley, Westward Ho ! ; Dickens, Tale of Two Cities. Geography —Longman, Part II ; Shrimpton's Geography of New Zealand. History—Warner's Brief Survey of British History. Arithmetic- Zealandia, Standard VI. Algebra — Baker and Bourne, Part I. Geometry—Baker and Bourne, Parts I and 11. French —Siepmann's Primary Course, Part I. Latin —Longmans, Part T; Scahw Primse. Science — (a) Physical measurements ; (b) Agriculture, Evan's Botany, Practical Agriculture ; (c) Dairying as for Junior Public Service syllabus ; {d) Chemistry as for Junior Public Service syllabus ; (c) Hygiene —Lister's Hygiene, Practical Home Science. Shorthand— Pitman's Teacher. Book-keeping- Thornton's First Lessons in Bookkeeping.

WELLINGTON COLLEGE AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Boys' College.— Messrs. J. P. Firth, 8.A.; A. Heine, 8.A.; A. C. Gifford, M.A.; G. G. S. Robinson," M- A - ; T. Brodie, 8.A.; E. M. Rentier, M.A.; H. B. Tomlinson, M.A.; 0. Williams, M.A..; J. S. Lomas, 8.A.; W. Alexander, M.A.; M. H. Dixon, A.C.P.; H. A. Smithson, M.A.; J. B. Mawson. M.A.; J. N. Millard, 8.A.; G. W. Morice, M.A.; A. E. Caddick, M.A.; H. T. M. Fathers ; J. Hall, 8.A.; E. G. Jones, B.A. Girls' College.— Misses M. J. McLean, M.A. ; A. M. Bathan, B.A. ; E. A. Newman, M.A. ; G. C. M. Cameron, M.Sc. ; E. R. Ward, M.A. ; IL M. Collins, B.A. ; E. M. Johnston, M.A. ; M. Salmond, B.A. ; E. M. Rainforth, M.A.; E. M. .Hind, M.A. ; E. Cooke, M.A. ;B. Mailer, M.A. ; K. M. Hcwetson, M.A. ; W. A. Cathie, M.A. ; McDiarmid, M.A. ; Gibson, M.A. ; Allan. M.A. ; Hamorton ; Mr. J. W. M. Harrison ; Miss Suche ; Miss Edmondson ; Mr. L. F. Watkins ; Miss Medley. 1. Report of the Board of Governors. The number of pupils attending in 1914 was —Wellington College, 461, of whom. 397 held free places ; Girls' College, 397, of whom 297 held free places ; and 31 were in the preparatory department. This year there are at— -Wellington College, 441 pupils, including 378 free-place holders ; Girls' College, 396 pupils, including 327 free-place holders and 30 in the preparatory department. The accommodation at the Girls' College is strained to the utmost, more class-rooms being urgently required. Good work has been done at both the Colleges, as is shown by the following results of the University and other outside examinations —Wellington College—Junior University Scholarship, I ; Senior National Scholarship, 2 ; credit pass on Junior Scholarship, 3 ; passed Matriculation on Scholarship Examination, 3 ; passed Matriculation Examination, 29; Senior Education Board Scholarship, 5; Junior Education Board and National Scholarship, 3 ; credit pass, 3 ; Public Service Senior full pass, 6 ; Public Service Senior partial pass, 4; senior free places, 61; Public Service Entrance, 49; junior free place, 17. Wellington Girls' College— Senior National Scholarship, 1 ; credit on Junior Scholarship papers, 1 ; Matriculation on Scholarship Examination, 5 ; passed Matriculation Examination, 24 ; Public Service Senior Examination, 5 ; Senior Education Board Scholarship, 5 ; Junior Education Board Scholarship, 2 ; senior free places, 75 ; junior free places, 11 ; free places extended, 14. Chas. T. Powles, Secretary. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' College. Highest. —English—Macbeth, Epochs of Chaucer, Spenser, Wordsworth, Tennyson ; Nesfield's Historical English Grammar, parts as for Junior University Scholarship Examination ; Greenough and Kittredge, Words and their Ways ; Nesfield's Manual; Composition as for Junior University Scholarship Examination ; Questions of English Grammar and Composition, Nicholl and McCormick. Latin Horace, Odes IV ; Virgil, Georgics II; Cicero, Pro Lege M'anilia ; Bradley's Aids ; Bradley's Arnold; Horton's Roman History; Gow's Companion to School Classics; Wilkins's Primer of Roman Antiquities; Bennett's Unseen. French —L'Avare ; Selections from Roman History; Longmans' Advanced Unseens ; Wellington College Grammar (Syntax) ; Exercises on Wellington College Grammar ; Idioms, &c. Science—Poyser's Advanced Electricity and Magnetism ; Draper's Heat; Junior University Scholarship Examination course. Mathematics—Arithmetic, revision by weekly papers ; algebra, Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra and Hall and Knight's Higher Algebra ; geometry, Barnard and Child, and Hall and Stevens, Part VI; trigonometry, Loney, Part I, whole book. Lowest. —English —Armada ; Ivry ; Horatius (Blackie) ; Treasure Island ; letter-writing ; essays ; elementary parsing ; analysis ; punctuation ; synthesis ; spelling. History—Arnold's Shilling. Geography —Philipp's Outlines. Mathematics- Arithmetic, Laying, Chapters 1-33, 42-43, and easy parts of 51-55 ; algebra, Baker and Bourne, 1-9 selection ; geometry, Godfrey and Siddons, to page 97. Science—Gregory and Hadley's Physics, selections suitable for Public Service Entrance Examination. French —Siepmann, Part I. Latin—lnglis and Prettyman, tojpage 1.17. Girls' College. Highest. —Latin —Bradley, Arnold; Res Romana;; Roman Antiquities, Wilkins ; First Roman History, Robinson ; Prose Composition, Potts; Rivington's Unseens, XI and XII; Virgil, Georgics IV ; Cicero, Letters ; Tacitus, Agricola ; Horace, Satires and Epistles. French —Wellington College