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French Grammar ; French Composition and Idioms, Rey ; French Idioms and Proverbs ; Pecheur d'lslande ; Tame, Voyage aux Pyrenees ; Corneille, Le Cid ; Moliere, PAvare. Mathematics—Workman's Arithmetic ; Baker and Bourne's Algebra, Part II; Jones and Cheyne's Algebraical Exercises ; Briggs and Bryan's Middle Algebra; Baker and Bourne's Geometry; Pendlebury's Trigonometry; Ward's Examination-papers in Trigonometry. Scripture -Book of Acts, Knox. English —Junior University Scholarship Standard ; Short History of English Literature, Baincs ; Chaucer, Prologue ; Shakespeare, Julius Csesar, Much Ado About Nothing ; Browning, Saul, Rabbi Ben Ezra ; O'Grady, Matter, Form, and Style ; Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book I; Great Englishmen of the 16th Century. General reading, Selected English Essays ; World's Classics ; W. Browning's Poetical Works ; Book of Sonnets. Grammar—Nesfield's Aids to the Study of English Composition. Botany —Junior University Scholarship standard ; Lowson's Second-stage Botany ; Groom, Botany ; Dendy and Lucas, Botany. Physics Junior University Scholarship standard ; Draper, Heat. Lowest. —English—First English Course, Jones; Book of Verse for Boys and Girls; Tennyson, Princess ; Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield ; Stevenson, Kidnapped. History—Ransome's First History of England. Geography—The World and its People. Hygiene The Building and Care of the Body, Millard. French—Siepmann, Part I. Latin—-Inglis and Prettyman, First Book in Latin. Physiology —Coleman, Hygiene. Botany—Liversidge, Elementary Botany. Mathematics —Loney and Grenville, Shilling Arithmetic ; Baker and Bourne, Algebra, Part I ; Baker and Bourne, Geometry. Scripture— Acts of the Apostles.

DANNEVIRKE HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. James M. Simmers, M.A. ; Misses E. E. Law, M.A. ; M. J. Macaulay, M.A. ; Mr. G. A. Simmers, M.A. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —English—Nesfield, English Grammar ; Great Authors, First Period ; Palgrave, Golden Treasury ; Chaucer, Prologue ; Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Macbeth ; Prescott, Conquest of Peru ; Scott, Kenilworth. Latin-—Allen's Grammar; Stedman's Examination-papers; Gallic War, V and VII; North and Hillard's Prose ; Bradley's Arnold ; Tutorial Latin Reader ; Virgil, Georgics IV ; Tacitus, Agricola and Germania ; Cicero, Oratio in Catilinem ; Virgil, JEneid VI. French —Wellington College Grammar ; Rey's French Composition ; Moliere, L'Avare ; Tame, Voyage aux Pyrenees ; Specimens of Modern French Verse; Corneille, Le Cid; Siepmann's Third French Course. Mathematics —Hall and Steven's Geometry ; Lock's Trigonometry ; Baker and Bourne's Algebra ; Pendlebury's Arithmetic. Mechanics —Loney's Mechanics and Hydrostatics. Heat—Glazebrook ; Stewart's Second Stage Heat. Lowest. —English Nesfield's Outlines; Great Authors, Third Period; Byron, Childe Harold, II and 111 ; Hight's English Exercises. Geography —Shrimpton's Geography of New Zealand and Australia; Imperial Geography, S. VI. History— Fearenside's History, Part II ; Our Empire Overseas. Arithmetic— Pendlebury's New School Arithmetic. Algebra—Baker and Bourne, Part I. Geometry —Hall and Stevens, Part I, and Practical Introduction. Latin —Scott and Jones, First Course. French —Guerber, Contes et Legendes, Part I; Methode Naturelle, to p. 60. Physiology r and Hygiene— Furneaux, St. John Ambulance. Physical Science—As for Public Service Entrance, Section (a). Book-keeping —Thornton's First Lessons.

NAPIER BOYS' AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS. Staff. Boys' School— Means. K. Heaton, M.A., B.Se. ; E. W. Andrews, B.A. ; W. Kerr, M.A. ; H. H Ward ; J, B. Gibson, M.A. ; S. G. Gascoignc ; A. J. Manson ; 1). L. Smart; J. E. Richardson. Girls School—Misses V. M. Greig, M.A., B.Se. ; C. R. Kirk, B.A. ; J. (). Gillies ; L. A. Suckling, M.A. ; L. A. Hunt, B.A. ; D. A. Evans ; P. Duncan ; M. R. Core-Martin ; I. Sidey. Work of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —Mathematics —Geometry, Godfrey and Siddons ; algebra, Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra ; trigonometry, Pendlebury. Latin —Longmans' Latin Course, Part III; Sallust, Catiline ; Bennett's Selections from Virgil ; Livy, Book XXIV ; Sargent's Latin Prose Selections ; Macmillan's Latin Grammar; Anderson's Latin Unseens. English- Mason's English Grammar (Senior); Composition ; Shakespeare, Henry IV, Parts I and 11. French. —W T eekley's French Course and Public School French Grammar ;Au Pole en Ballon ; French composition. History —Tout and Powell's English History, 1688-1837. Geography- Longman's Geography, Books II and V ; Marshall's Geography of New Zealand. Science —Gregory and Hadlcy, Heat and Light; Draper, Heat; Blomfield and Jones, Mechanics. Lowest. —Mathematics —Geometry, Godfrey and Siddons, Part I, Book I; algebra, Baker and Bourne, pp. 1-120; arithmetic, Pendlebury. Latin— Longmans' Latin Course; Beresford, First Latin Reader. English—Marsh, Preparatory Reading and Composition ; Edgar, Treasury of Verse ; Fitchett, Fights for the Flag ; Mason, Junior English Grammar. History—Longmans' Historical Series, Book 11. Geography—Southern Cross Geographical Readers ; Imperial Geography.