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Agricultural Bursaries. The Education Department, in co-operation with the Department of Agriculture, established, in 1917 a scheme for the granting of agricultural bursaries to qualified candidates in order to enable them to obtain the necessary practical training for positions as teachers or agricultural instructors, as officers of the Department of Agriculture, or as farmers. After completion of their training the bursars are under a legal obligation to serve for a term of three years in one or other of these capacities. The qualification for a bursary is Matriculation or a higher or lower leavingcertificate, and candidates are preferred who have received agricultural instruction during their secondary-school course. In addition, ex-students of teachers' trainingcolleges who desire to specialize in the teaching of agriculture may obtain bursaries to enable them to receive the necessary training in agriculture. Agricultural bursaries are tenable at an experimental farm, an agricultural college, or other approved institution, for two years, with a possible extension to a third year. Bursars receive an allowance of £20 per annum with free tuition, and if obliged to live away from home a lodging-allowance of £30 per annum. Eight bursaries were awarded in 1917, seven of which were held at the Central Development Farm, Weraroa, and the remaining one at Lincoln Agricultural College, Canterbury. Only two bursars completed the two-years course at Weraroa, and as, owing to depletion of staff, the Department of Agriculture will not be able to continue carrying out the course of instruction, bursaries will probably all be held, for the present at least, at Lincoln Agricultural College. Six bursaries were awarded in 1918, and were held at the last-named institution, the progress of the bursars being satisfactorily reported upon at the end of the year. The limited accommodation available made it necessary for a selection to be made from the number of candidates desiring bursaries. The Department's expenditure on account of the. bursaries in 1918 was .£320. War Bursaries. Regulations made in January, 1918, provided for the award of bursaries at secondary schools, technical schools, and University colleges to the dependants of killed or disabled members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. By the provisions of these regulations such a dependant who is qualified to receive a University bursary or an educational bursary as described above may receive in addition an allowance of £10 per annum, together with a boarding-allowance of £30 per annum if obliged Io livefaway from home while attending a University college. No war bursaries tenable at University colleges have as yet been awarded.

No. 2. REPORTS Ol*' THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND AND OF AFFILIAT EI) INSTITUTIONS. A. REPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND, 1918. Visitor. —His Excellency the Governor-General. Chancellor. —His .Honour Sir Robert Stout, K.C.M.G., LL.D., Chief Justice. Vice-Chancellor. —John Macmillan Brown, Esq., M.A., LL.D. The Senate. Appointed )>v His Excellency the Governor-flonoral in Council —W. J. Anderson, Esq., M.A., LL.D.; the Hon. W. E. Collins, M.8., M.R.C.S. Eng., C.M.G.; H. F. yon Haast, Esq., M.A., LL.B.; and the lion. .1. A. Hanan, M.P. Appointed by governing bodies of affiliated institutions —H. L. Ferguson, Esq., M.A., M.D., &c.; Rev. W. Hewitson, 8.A.; R. J. Scott, Esq., M.lnst.C.E., M.lnst.M.E., &c; J. C. Adams, Esq., 8.A.; H. J. .1). Mahon, Esq.. 8.A.; Hon. J. A Tole, 8.A., K.C.; His Honour Sir R. Stout, K.C.M.G., LL.D., Chief Justice; and Rev. W. A. Evans. Appointed by Professorial Boards—W. B. Benham, Esq., D.Sc, E.R.S.; A. Wall, Esq., M.A.; H. W. Segar, Esq., M.A. ; H. B. Kirk, Esq., M.A. Elected by District Courts of Convocation —Rev. A. Cameron, B.A. ; J. M. Brown, Esq., M.A., LL.D. ; J. W. Tibbs, Esq., M.A. ; H. S. Dettman, Esq., M.A., B.C.L. ; H. H. Ostler, Esq., LL.B.; J. Hight, Esq., Litt.D., F.R.E.S. ; 'I. (Jilray, Esq., M.A. ; and T. A. Hunter, Esq., M.A., M.Sc. Registrar. —E. T. Norris, Esq.. M.A. ANNUAL REPORT OP THE SENATE. Tn compliance with the 31st, clause of the University Act, the Senate makes the following report to His Excellency the Governor-General of the proceedings of the University since the dale of the last report : Pursuant to the provisions of the University Act, the Senate met at Christchurch in annual session on the 18th February, 1919, and at that session made certain amendments to the. University statutes. These amendments have been submitted to His Excellency for his approval.