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Comparison between day and evening students naturally yields much the same result as that made with respect to hours in lectures. The arithmetical average for day-students is twenty-one hours per week, and for evening students twelve hours per week. The median, in hours per week, is 25 for daystudents, 13 for evening students. These figures are preferable to the strict arithmetical average, and in any case it must, of course, be recognized that the time devoted to study is incapable of very accurate calculation. In view, however, of the number of individual estimates, and of their close correspondence in a large proportion of cases to the " normal " for the type of student concerned, the figures are not without significance. Broadly, full-time students estimate their study period at less than 5 hours per day, evening students at less than 3 hours per day. If account be taken of the hours in lectures and laboratory, the total daily period becomes approximately 7§ hours in the case of full-time students and 4| hours in the case of evening students. (Reference will be made below to the relative periods in years taken by day-students and evening students respectively in obtaining certain degrees of the University of New Zealand.) The average at Auckland is 20 (day) and 12 (evening) ; at Victoria, 22 and 13 ; at Canterbury, 24 and 14 ; and at Otago, 20 and 12 respectively. 7. Employment—Hours, etc. In view of the large proportion of University students in New Zealand who are engaged in earning their own living it is of interest to note the hours per week given to their employers. The students returns show that of the evening students, — 50 per cent, are employed for twenty-five hours or less per week, those being principally teachers and training-college students ; 8 'per cent, are employed for weekly hours ranging from twenty-six to thirty-seven ; 22 per cent, are employed for thirty-eight hours, which is the normal week for clerical workers ; and 20 per cent, are employed for more than thirty-eight hours per week. Salaries. —The following table classifies the evening students in percentages according to their weekly earnings Weekly Salary. Per Cent. Under £1 10s. . . . . . . . . .. 19 £1 10s. to £1 19s. .. .. .. .. 27 £2 to £2 9s. .. .. .. .. .. .. 16 £2 10s. to £2 19s. .. .. .. .. .. 6 £3 to £3 9s. .. .. .. .. .. 6 £3 10s. to £3 19s. .. .. .. .. ~ 6 £4 and over .. .. .. .. .. 20 100 Excluding training-college students (who receive allowances ranging from £80 to £115 per annum), 44 per cent, of the men and 53 per cent, of the women are in receipt of salaries of less than £2 per week ; 33 per cent, of the men and 31 per cent, of the women receive at least £3 weekly ; and £4 or more per week is received by 22 per cent, of the men and by 12 per cent, of the women. The only significant difference under this heading occurs between those students who are in Government employment and those who are in private employment. This is particularly noticeable in the case of law students, who constitute the largest single group amongst evening students : here there is no appreciable difference between the ages of the public servants and the clerks in legal offices, but the former receive on the average a salary 100 per cent, higher than that of the law clerks. 8. Place of Residence. Information under this heading is of significance in connection with each college rather than with respect to the Dominion as a whole. It may, however, be noted that— Of all students, 50 per cent, live at home ; 16 per cent, in hostels ; 27 per cent, board or "bach." fOf men students, 59 per cent, live at home ; 13 per cent, in hostels ; 31 per cent, board or J " bach." j Of women students, 56 per cent, live at home ; 25 per cent, in hostels ; 16 per cent, board or " bach." fOf day students, 44 per cent, live at home ; 28 per cent, in hostels ; 28 per cent, board or ' " bach." ] Of training-college students, 41 per cent, live at home ; 23 per cent, in hostels ; 36 per cent. [_ board or " bach." Of evening students, 74 per cent, live at home ; 4 per cent, in hostels ; 22 per cent, board or " bach." The cost of board averages £1 9s. per week, and is approximately 2s. 6d. per week dearer in the case of men students than in the case of women students.

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