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leave, serving with the Expeditionary Forces. Mr. W. Wilson (Lecturer in Electrical Engineering) was likewise absent, still released for munitions work in England. Mr. W. S. Vernon, B.Sc, was appointed Lecturer in Physics for the year, under the direction of the Professor of Chemistry ; and arrangements already in existence to supply the vacancies created temporarily by war service were. continued. Messrs. R. R. Bell, LL.B., and R. W. MeConnell, LL.B., were appointed Assistant Lecturers in Law for tho year. There were a few minor alterations in the staff. The disastrous epidemic of virulent influenza that visited New Zealand just at the close of the College session claimed among its victims Mr. R. B. Macduff, M.E., B.Sc, locum tenons in the lectureship of Civil Engineering, Mr. R. W. MeConnell, LL.B., Assistant Lecturer in Law, as well as a number of promising students of the College. 4. Receipts and Expenditure. General Account : Receipts, including balance of £13,789 2s. lid. from 1917, and £17,022 awarded by Compensation Court for loss of College temporary site and premises, amounted to £47,913 14s. 2d.; expenditure, including £12,542 4s. towards the cost of he new Science Building and £1,182 towards further provision of temporary accommodation, amounted to £27,940 18s. 2d. : balance, £1.9,972 16s. Sinclair-Gillies Scholarships Trust Account : Receipts, including balance of £3,977 4s. 7d. from 1917, £4,016 14s. 7d. ; expenditure, £93 6s. Bd. : balance, £3,923 7s. lid. Sinclair Bequest: Receipts, including balance of £31 from 1917, £35 95.; expenditure, nil : balance, £35 9s. 5. Degrees and Honours.- -The following University successes were gained by students of the College in connection with the examinations of the year : Master of Arts, 4 ; Bachelor of Arts (final section), 15 ; Bachelor of Arts (first section), 9 ; Bachelor of Science (final section), 3 ; Bachelor of Science, (first section), 3 ; Master of Laws, 1 ; Bachelor of Laws (final section), 2 ; Bachelor of Laws (preliminary section), 16. The Honours list comprises First class in Latin and English, .1 ; first class in Latin and French, 1 : first class in Botany, 1 ; second class in Economies. 1. University Senior Scholarships, 3 (English, botany, and history). 6. The Schools of Music, Commerce, Mining Engineering, and Architecture were attended during the, year by. the following numbers of students : School of Music, 46 ; School of Commerce, 70 ; School of Mining Engineering, 50 ; School of Architecture, 19. 7. Workers' Educational Association. —-The activities of the Workers' Educational Association were well maintained during the year. Nine tutorial classes were conducted for a full session, one completed a brief session as arranged, and an additional one was started in the middle of the year. Of these classes, nine were held in the city and suburbs, one in Hamilton, and one in Whangarei. Seven were, devoted to economics, one to psychology, one to hygiene, one in chairmanship-, and one to a li'crary and debating course. Two classes were in their fourth year, by special arrangement ; three completed the regulation three-years course ; two wee in their second year and four in their first. Nothing but lack of funds can check the progress of this Un'versity extension work in the district. Representations have been made to the Government on this matter. 8. College Site and Accommodation. —During the year the College had to complete its vacation of the buildings that have been its chief though temporary home hitherto. They were not originally intended, for such use, and, however modified and extended, they were wholly unworthy of academic occupation. Taken under the Public Works Act by the City Council in order to facilitate the provision of a needed road, their relinquishment by the College meant the loss of its chief habitation. A Compensation Court award of £17,022 for this loss, together with an accumulation of some £10,000 by the College authorities in anticipation of the requirements of a growing University college, enabled the Council to erect and equip a science building on the small freehold acquired some years before at the corner of Symonds and Alfred Streets, where law and music and engineering had been housed. For the accommodation of classes in arts, law, commerce, music, and architecture purely temporary provision had to be made in an old building no longer needed by the Auckland Grammar School. The latter building could be secured only on an annual tenancy, terminable at six months' notice, and to adapt it somewhat to University purposes involved the expenditure of over £2,000. It sufficed to meet the immediate needs of the general work of the College, but the normal growth of classes, checked temporarily by the war and resumed with the restoration of peace, must speedily render it inadequate. The need for a permanent site and buildings is really as urgent as ever, and can be satisfactorily met only by means pressed persistently upon the attention of the Government. I have, &c. The Hon. the Minister of Education, T. W. Leys, Chairman. School op Mines.—Report of the Dirrotor (S. E. Lamb, B.Sc. Lond., A.R.C.Sc. Lontl, A.M.I.M.E.\ For the first time since the commencement of the great war there has been an increase in the number of students attending the school, the entries having advanced from thirty-nine for the year 1917 to a total of fifty for the session just ended. Twenty-three of these students have either matriculated or passed an equivalent examination, and twenty-one were studying for the Engineering Associateship of the College. The work of the school was still greatly hampered by the fact that as students reached military age they enlisted for active service, and in consequence no student completed his associateship course during the year. However, the session has not been entirely barren of results, as one student passed the whole of the examination held by the British institution of Civil Engineers in February last, and thus becomes a qualified engineer. Two other students sat for the examination of the same body