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For the whole Dominion, if there are taken into account only the secondary schools that admit free pupils under the Act, we find from Table X 6 in E.-6 the following position as at the Ist March, 1914:— 1912. 1913. 1914. Total number of pupils, excluding lower departments (roll number beginning of first term, 1914) ... ... ... ... ... 5,515 5,693 6,009 Total net income from endowments (average of three years ended 31st December, 1914) ... £12,373 £11,533 £9,781 Net income from endowments per head ... £224 £2-02 £T63 Approximate annual rate of capitation ... £1077 £10-79 £10-60 Total available net income per free pupil for salaries and management ... ... £13-01 £12-82 £12-23 Total expenditure on salaries of staff ... ... £56,682 £60,297 £62,805 working-expenses .. ... £3,152- £9,909 £9,804 „ staff salaries, and workingexpenses ... ... £59,834 £70,206 £72,609 Expenditure per head on staff salaries ... ... £1028 £10-59 £10-45 „ per head on working-expenses ... £0-57* £1-74 £1-63" Total expenditure per head on stall salaries, and working-expenses ... ... ... £10-84 £12-33 £12-08 * Management oxponses only. The last figure given shows as nearly as may be the actual cost per annum for each pupil, exclusive of those in the lower departments. Further details of the income and expenditure of the secondary schools will be found in Tables K7 and X 8 of E.-6. Lower Departments. —The Education Act provides that pupils who have not obtained a certificate of competency in the subjects of Standard V or a higher standard of the public-school syllabus may be admitted to a lower department of a secondary school if they are taught in a separate building or class-room, and if no part of the actual cost of their instruction is met out of the endowments of the secondary school. There were lower departments in thirteen secondary schools during 1914 ; the total number of pupils in those departments was 362 ; the total expenditure on salaries of teachers was £2,400; the total amount of fees received on their account was £3,152. (See Table KlO of E.-6.) HIGHER EDUCATION. New Zealand University and Affiliated Colleges. (See also E.-7, Higher Education Report.) The New Zealand University, the body which has general control of higher education in New Zealand, was founded by the New Zealand University Acts of 1870, 1874, and 1875. In 1876 the University was recognized by Royal charter as entitled to grant the degrees of Bachelor and Master in Arts, and Bachelor and Doctor in Law, Medicine, and Music. The Amendment Act of 1883, and the supplementary charter issued in December of the same year, added the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Science. Moreover, in 1904 the University Degrees Act gave the University authority to confer degrees of Doctor of Literature, Master of Laws, Surgery, and Science, and Bachelor, Master, and Doctor of Veterinary Science, Dental Surgery, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Mining, and Metallurgical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Agriculture, Public Health, and Commerce. For these latter no further charter has been given, so that nominally they must be considered as having currency only in New Zealand. The affairs of the University of New Zealand are controlled by a Senate, which, under the New Zealand University Amendment Act, 1902, consists of twenty-four members or Fellows—four elected by the Governor in Council ; eight by the governing bodies of the four affiliated institutions, two by each ; four, one each, by the Professorial Boards ; and eight, two each, by the four District Courts of Convocation, consisting of the graduates belonging to the several University districts. The