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n. STATISTICAL APPENDIX. This appendix summarizes information collected from the following sources:— (1.) A questionnaire submitted to all students to secure full information as to their occupations, courses, hours available for lectures, and study, &c. (see Appendix III); their replies in one respect — regarding their non-academic activities at college — were to some extent checked by independent returns of the membership of student clubs. (2.) Returns by professors showing the enrolment and " mortality " in their classes for 1924, and distinguishing between day and evening students, freshmen and non-freshmen, &c. (3.) An examination of the records of the students who graduated in 1925 to ascertain the length of their University course. 1. Number op Students, etc. The total number of students attending lectures at the four University colleges is 3,850, of whom 71 per cent, are men. Only 32 per cent, are full-time students (29 per cent, of the men aud 37 per cent, of the women); while 14 per cent, of the whole are training-college students, and 54 per cent, are engaged in various occupations. Of the students who devote only part time to their university studies, 22 per cent, are training-college students; 23 per cent, are teachers; 15 per cent, are public servants (clerks, &c.) —i.e., 60 per cent, of the part-time students, or 41 per cent, of the total number of students, are State employees; at Victoria College 59 per cent, of the students come within this category. The occupations of the students of each college are summarized as under. Auckland (1,012 students): Full time, 17 per cent.; Training College, 13 per cent.; other employment, 70 per cent. Victoria (804 students) : Full time, 17 per cent. ; Training College, 21 per cent.; other employment, 62 per cent. Canterbury (938 students): Full time, 32 per cent.; Training College, 11 per cent. ; other employment, 57 per cent. Otago (1,096 students): Full time, 56 per cent.; Training College, 14 per cent.; other employment, 30 per cent. The percentages of men and women respectively who devote full time to their university studies are,— Men. Women. Per Cent. Per Cent. Auckland .. ' .. .. .. .. 14 26 Victoria .. .. .. .. 11 32 Canterbury .. .. .. .. 33 28 Otago .. .. .. .. .. 53 58 All colleges .. .. .. 29 37 The actual numbers of full-time students are : Auckland, 171 ; Victoria, 136 ; Canterbury, 295 ; Otago, 611. The Otago University thus has more than one-half of the full-time students in New Zealand. This is, of course, in a large measure due to the fact that her Special Schools (Medical, Dental, Home Science, and Mines) require the full-time attendance of students; these account for 382 of the fulltime students, and the number in other Faculties is 229. In the Arts Faculty the percentage of full-time students is : Auckland, 21 per cent. ; Victoria, 18 per cent. ; Canterbury, 33 per cent. ; Otago, 28 per cent. : all colleges, 24 per cent. It is of some significance to note that of the 1925 freshmen the percentage of full-time students is: Auckland, 27 per cent.; Victoria, 25 per cent.; Canterbury, 30 per cent.; Otago, 44 per cent.: all colleges, 32 per cent. It will be seen that, although in the total the percentage of full-time students among freshmen (32 per cent.) agrees with the percentage of such students among non-freshmen, yet in the separate colleges a considerable disparity occurs. Thus of the freshmen at Auckland 27 per cent, give full time to study (compared with 17 per cent, of whole student body); Victoria has 25 per cent, fulltime freshmen (compared with 17 per cent.); Canterbury has 30 per cent, (compared with 32 per cent.) ; and Otago has 44 per cent, (compared with 56 per cent.). With respect to the two North Island colleges the explanation would appear to be twofold : First, a number of students devote their whole time to study for a year or two, taking up some additional employment before the completion of their course ; secondly, the day-student completes his course in a shorter period than does the evening student. The second factor is of some importance in explaining in part the preponderance of evening students at these colleges ; clearly if only one-half of the entrants were evening students the prolongation of their course would mean that at any given time the evening students would constitute more than half of the college population. If, for example, the average evening student took twice as long as the average day-student to complete his course, then, although half of the students entering the college were day-students, the evening students would outnumber them to the extent of 2 : 1. The converse to this holds at Otago, and to a lesser extent at Canterbury. The day-student's course at the Special Schools is normally longer than the course taken by an evening student, and the longer course produces a somewhat inflated proportion of day-students. The percentage of daystudents among freshmen gives a better index to the extent to which students devote their full-time to study than is given by the percentage of full-time students in the whole college population.

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