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University College Councils constituted.

Admission of an ad eundem graduate to membership of a College.

Tenure of office and retirements.

Vacancies.

■Conduct of election, by electoral bodies Colleges.

Otago University Council and Canterbury College Board of Governors to be succeeded by new Councils.

29. There shall be one governing body of each UniversityCollege, to be styled the Council of such University College, and such Council shall consist of twelve members, to be appointed as folloAvs :— Four members to be nominated by the Governor in Council; Four members to be elected by the Professorial Board of each College; and Pour members to be elected by the graduates of the New Zealand University on the books of the College as soon as there are twenty such graduates by examination. But until such number is reached this last-mentioned group of four members shall be nominated by the Governor in Council, and when there are thirty such graduates, then ad eundem graduates on the books of the College shall participate in the election. 30. Any graduate of the University, whether admitted by examination or ad eundem gradum, may, on payment of such reasonable fee or fees as shall be fixed by the Council of the College, put and keep his name on the books of such College, provided that he satisfy the said Council that his place of residence is such as not to render it more fitting that he should put his name on the books of some other College; and provided also that no graduate shall put or keep his name on the books of more than one University College at the same time. 31. The ordinary term of office of members of the College Councils shall be four years, but one of each group of four members shall retire on the thirty-first day of December in each year, beginning with the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and, mutatis mutandis, the order of retirement of members of College Councils shall be determined in the same way as the order of retirement of members of the Senate, and retiring members shall be eligible for reappointment or re-election. 32. All vacancies occurring in the Councils of the University Colleges shall be filled up by appointment of the Governor in Council, or by election by the Professorial Board or graduates, according to the group in which the vacancy has occurred; each new member to hold office for the remainder of the term for which his predecessor was nominated or elected. 33. The Council of each College shall conduct the election of the Fellows whom it shall return to the Senate of the University, and the Chairman of the Council shall, without delay, report every such election to the Governor; and the said Council shall also conduct the election by graduates of persons to be members of the said Council, and shall receive votes "from absent graduates by means of voting papers ; and the Professorial Board of each College shall conduct the elections of the persons whom it shall elect to be members of the College Council. 34. The existing Council of the University of Otago and the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College shall, anything in any law to the contrary notwithstanding, continue to hold office until the respective Councils of the Otago and Canterbury University Colleges proposed to be established under this Act shall respectively hold their first meetings, and then the aforesaid Council of the University of Otago and the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College shall cease to exist. All institutions managed by the said Council of the University of Otago, or by the said Board of Governors of the Canterbury College, shall still be managed by them respectively, and when they shall cease to exist, then by their successors, who shall have power to establish, under regulations of their own, in the case of each such institution, a Board of advice, consisting partly of members of the Council, and partly of other experienced persons to be appointed by the Council.