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B. REPORT OF THE AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, 1916. Visitor. —The Hon. the Minister of Education. Members of Council. Appointed by His Exoellenoy tho Governor-General in Council—Hon. G. Fowlds; Rev. J. H. Simmonds ; G. L Peacocke, Esq. Aop.nnted by tue Professorial B >atd—Professor H. W. Segar, M A. ; Professor C. W. Egerton, M.A. Elected by members of the Ltgislatura—Hon. J. A. Tole, 8.A., LL.B., K.C. ; J. F. Hosking, Esq.; T. W. Leys, Esq. Elected by graduates—H. D. Bamford, -E«q., 8.A., LL.D.; W. C. W. McDowell, Esq., 8.A., M.D., CM.; T. U. Well-, Esq., M.A.; H. J. D. Mahon, Esq,, B.A. Appointed by the Auckland City Council-J. H. Gunson, Esq., Mayor. Appointed by the Auckland Education Board—G. J. Garland, Esq. Staff, Professors.— Classics—H. S, Dettmann, M.A., B.C.L. English—C. W. Egerton, M.A. Modern LanguagesM. WalKer, M.A., B.Com. Mathematics—H W. Segar, M.A. Chemistry—F. P. Worley, M.A., D.Sc, D.1.C., F.C.S. Physics—G. Owen, M.A., D.Sc. General Biol gy, Botany, and Zoology—J. C. Johnson, M.A., M.So., M.8., B.Ch. Hi.-tory and Economics—J. P. Grossmann, M.A ; Musio-W. E. Thomas, Mus. Doc. Lecturers, nine. Assistant lecturers, four. Demonstrators, two. Assistants, two. Registrar.— Rev. Chas. M. Nelson, M.A. (retiring 28th February, 1917.) REPORT. Tho Chairman of the Board op Governors to the Minister of Education. Sir,— Auckland University College, 20th July, 1917. In pursuance of the provisions of the Auckland University College Act, 1882, the Council has the honour to make the following report for the year 1916 : — 1. Number of Students. —The number of persons who attended lectures in this College in 1916 was 536: Graduates, 10 (males 4, females 6); undergraduates, 322 (males 247, females 85); non-matriculated students, 179 (males 72, females 107). The number of students who were exempted from attendance was 15 (males 14, females I). 2. Council. —The only change in the personnel of the Council was the appointment by the Governor in Council of the Hon. George Fowlds in the place of Sir G. M. O'Rorke, Chairman of the Council, who died, full of years and honours, on the 24th August, 1916. The Council at its regular meeting, held on the 16th October, 1916, elected Mr. T. W. Leys as the new Chairman. 3. Staff. —At the beginning of the year Mr. H. G. Cousins, M.A. (Acting-Principal of the Teachers' Training College) undertook the lectureship in education, vice Mr. H. A. E. Milnes, B.Sc, absent on active service. Mr. J. V. Wilson, M.A., Assistant Lecturer in Classics, left on active service early in the year, his duties being combined with those of the Assistant Lecturer in English. The place of Mr. W. Wilson, 8.E., M.Sc, Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, rendered vacant by his release for munitions work in England, was filled by Messrs. J. A. Smith, A.M.1.E.E., and A. D. Mead, 8.E., working in conjunction, and that of Mr. S. Cory-Wright, B.Sc, A.M.1.C.E., Lecturer in Surveying and Civil Engineering, who enlisted for active service, by Mr. It. H. Macduff, M.E., B.Sc. The Professor of Physics (Professor G. Owen) left at the end of the second term, with the full consent of the Council, in order to go on active service. Arrangements will be made for 1917 by which the subjects of chemistry and physics will be temporarily combined. At the end of the year Mr. B. H. Wyman, LL.M., resigned his position as an Assistant Law Lecturer. The vacancy so made will not be filled. 4. Receipts and Expenditure. —General Account: Receipts, including balance of £9,617 9s. 2d. from 1915, £26,328 16s. 6d.; expenditure, £13,204 17s. Id. j balance, £13,123 19s. sd. Sinclair-Gillies Trust Account: Receipts, including balance of £3,992 14s. 7d. from 1915, £4,188 Bs. 4d.; expenditure, £147 17s. 9d.; balance, £4,040 10s. 7d. Sinclair Bequest: Receipts, including balance of £31 6s. 6d. from 1915, £32 12s. 10d.; expenditure, nil; balance, £32 12s. lOd. Endowments: The income from the endowments was £162 lis. 7d. ; expenditure, £1 Is. 3d.; balance, £1,622 10s. 4d. 5. Degrees and Honours.— At the November examinations of 1916 the following successes were gained by students of this College: Master of Arts, 3; Master of Science, 1; Bachelor of Arts (final section), 6; Bachelor of Arts (first section), 17; Bachelor of Science (final section), 6; Bachelor of Science (first section), 8; Bachelor of Laws (final section), 5; Bachelor of Laws (preliminary section), 15; Bachelor of Commerce (preliminary section), 2; Engineering Entrance Examination, 4. The honours list comprises—First class (geology), 1; first class (chemistry), 1 ; University Senior Scholarships, 5 (botany, pure mathematics, electricity, heat, chemistry). 6. The Schools of Music, Commerce, and Mining Engineering were attended during the year by the following numbers of students: School of Music, 174; School of Commerce, 33; School of Mining Engineering, 33. 7. Workers' Educational Association. —During the year the activities of the Workers' Educational Association in this University district were well maintained. Eleven classes were conducted, ten of them in the city and its environs, and one in Gisborne. Six were studying economics, one industrial history, one industrial law, one chairmanship, one hygiene, and one a debating and literary course. 8. The College work was carried on during the year in the building that so long has served, unworthily and inadequately, the purposes of University education in the most rapidly growing centre of population in New Zealand. Built more than sixty years ago for purposes other than teaching, it has been with difficulty adapted and enlarged in patient endeavour to cope with the pressing demands of higher education. Now at last the building must be vacated ; it has been taken by the City Council under the Public Works Act, and will be shortly destroyed to make