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Up till the present the examinations in arts and science have been conducted by examiners appointed in Great Britain. At its last meeting the Senate agreed to conduct these examinations up to pass grade in New Zealand by the appointment of overseas or external examiners in the several subjects, who will control the examinations in co-operation with the teachers in the affiliated colleges, very much in the way in which all examinations are conducted in almost all the Home universities, and in which medical examinations are at present conducted in New Zealand. In the event of its being impossible to secure a competent assessor in any subject or subjects in New Zealand the Senate proposes to conduct the examination in such subject or subjects as at present. The following table shows the principal receipts and payments of the University of New Zealand for the year 1920 : —- I. —General Account. Receipts. £ Payments. Balance, Ist January, 1920 .. .. 5,722 Transfer to Ordinary Scholarship Ac- £ Statutory grant .. .. .. 3,750 count ... .. .. .. 1,500 National endowment .. .. 3,348 National endowment .. .. 3,348 Fees ~. .. .. .. 15,072 Examinations .. .. .. 7,584 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 428 Office salaries and rent .. .. 1,568 Expenses of Senate meetings and elections 676 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 1,634 English agent .. .. .. 3,980 Balance, Ist January, 1921 (including balance in hands of English agent) .. 8,030 £28,320 £28,320 II. —Ohdinary Scholarship Account. Receipts. £ Payments. £ Balance, Ist January, 1920 .. .. 29,354 Scholarships .. .. .. 3,671 Transfer from General Account .. 1,500 Balance, Ist January, 1921 .. .. 28,775 Interest .. .. .. .. 1,592 £32,446 £32,446 In the above statements no account has been taken of special scholarships and prize funds. Affiliated Colleges. (Tables M 1 and M 3.) The number of students in attendance at the four University colleges in 1920 was 3,672 (2,327 men and 1,345 women), compared with 2,961 in the preceding year. The figures again show a large increase, particularly in the number of men students. The rolls for the years 1914, 1918, 1919, and 1920 were as follows :— 1914. 1918. 1919. 1920. Men .. .. .. 1,376 1,122 1,831 2.327 Women .. 758 1,018 1,130 1,345 Totals .. ..2,134 2,140 2,961 3,672 Since 1914 the number of students has increased by 72 per cent., and since 1919 by 24 per cent. The students are classified as follows : Graduates, 147 ; undergraduates, 2,350 ; non-matriculated students, 914. In addition to the matriculated students mentioned above there were 150 students attached to the various. University colleges but exempt from lectures—that is, they were prevented by distance or by the necessity of earning their living from attending lectures at the college, but were allowed to keep terms by passing the annual college examination. Of the 3,672 students attending University colleges, 1,599, or 44 per cent., were receiving free tuition, being the holders of scholarships, bursaries, or trainingcollege studentships. The number is greater by 251 than it was in 1919. In addition to the students attending the four University colleges, fifty-five students, of whom eight were Government-bursary holders and two were holders of Kitchener Scholarships, were taking an agricultural course of university grade at the Lincoln Agricultural College in Canterbury.