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(1.) An essential qualification to be demanded of candidates for professorships should be acquaintance with methods of research, and evidence of some approved work therein. (2.) Workers in institutions engaged in research —e.g., the Cawthron Institute, the Department of Agriculture, the Dominion Laboratory —should be invited periodically to lecture to University students. (3.) A University Press should be established in order to facilitate the publication of original work done within the University. (4.) In order to provide greater facilities for historical research, important State papers not available at present for students, and in danger of loss under present conditions of housing, should be placed in suitable State archives and made accessible for study. XIY. The Students in their Relations, to the Colleges. (1.) A Students' Representative Council should be formed under the authority of the statutes of the University. Its duties should be, — (a.) To represent the students in matters affecting their interests : (b.) To promote the social life of the students : (c.) To promote intercourse between the various schools and colleges of the University : (d.) To organize all gatherings of students at college functions, and to take such steps as may be necessary to secure good order and seemly behaviour. (2.) The Students' Representative Council should elect a representative to the College Council. (3.) The Students' Representative Council should have the right to petition the Professorial Board of the college upon any matter affecting discipline or teaching in the college, and the right to petition the College Council on any matter affecting their position as students of the college. (4.) University college hostels should be provided for men and for women students so as to give opportunity for the development of a wider and fuller university life. Each hostel should be under the supervision of a Warden, who should be a man or women of university training. (5.) A Students' Loan Fund should be established, to be administered by the Councils of the constituent colleges, for the benefit of full-time students whose circumstances and university records justify such assistance. XV. Extra-mural Work of the University. (J.) Extra-mural work should be definitely accepted as an essential part of the normal work of the University. (2.) A special staff should be appointed to conduct such extension work as that for the Workers' Educational Association. The qualifications required should be those prescribed for other University teaching appointments. (3.) The system of appointing a staff to work half time in the University college and half time in extra-mural classes should be tried. (4.) " Tutorial classes " under the W.E.A. scheme should not be established unless there is a guarantee that the classes can be worked on tutorial lines, essays being regularly written by each member, and members guaranteeing to attend for a continuous course of sufficient duration to enable work of University standard to be accomplished. XVI. Degrees in Divinity. The University should be empowered to grant degrees in Divinity, provided that the University colleges should not undertake the teaching of the theological subjects included in the degree. CONCLUSION. Before closing, we desire to' express our appreciation of the kindness and courtesy extended to us in each of the University centres. The Registrar of the University, Mr. E. T. Norris, M.A., deserves our thanks for his prompt and willing response to our requests for information relative to the inquiry.