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Li. REPORTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND AND OF AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS. x. REPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND, 1926. Visitor.—His Excellency the Governor-General. Chancellor.—John Macmillan Brown, Esq., M.A., LL.D. Vice-Chancellor.—John Rankine Brown, Esq., M.A. The Senate. Appointed by His Excellency the Governor-General in Council —W. J. Anderson, Esq., M.A., LL.D. ; John Caughley, Esq., M.A. ; the Hon. W. E. Collins, C.M.G., M.8., M.R.C.B. (Eng.); the Hon. J. A. Hanan, M.L.C. Appointed by governing bodies of affiliated institutions —H. D. Acland, Esq.. B.A. : F. H. Bakewell, Esq.. M.A.; Sir Henry L. Ferguson, C.M.G.. Kt., M.A., M.D., &c. ; A. E. Flower, Esq, M.A., M.Sc. ; the Hon. G. Fowlds, C.B.E. : W. J. Morrell, Esq., M.A. ; the Right Hon. Sir R. Stout. P.C., K.C.M.G., LL.D., M.L.C. ; A. P. W. Thomas, Esq., M.A F.R.S. Appointed by Professorial Boards—J. R. Brown, Esq., M.A. ; J. K. H. Inglis, Esq.,M.A„ B.Sc. (N.Z.), D.Sc. (Edin.), F. 1.0.; H. W. Segar, Esq., M.A. ; A. Wall, Esq., M.A. Elected by District Courts of Convocation—R. M. Algie. Esq., LL.M.; J. M. Brown, Esq., M.A., LL.D. ; F. A. de la Mare, Esq., 8.A., LL.B.; J. Hight, Esq., Litt.D., F.R.E.S.; T. A. Hunter, Esq., M.A., M.Sc. : T. K. Sidey, 8.A.. LL.B., M.P. ; J. C. Sperrin-Johnson, Esq., M.A., M.Sc., B.Ch., Litt.D. ; G. E. Thompson, Esq., Litt.D. (N.Z.). Registrar—E. T. Noiris, Esq., M.A.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SENATE. In compliance with section 22 of the New Zealand University Amendment Act, 1926, the Council makes the following report to the Minister of Education of the proceedings of the University since the date of the last report. The Council, whose members were appointed or elected pursuant to the provisions of the above Act, met in Auckland on the 16th February, 1927. At that meeting Professor J. Macmillan Brown was elected Chancellor, and the Hon. W. E. Collins was co-opted as a member of the Council, but the appointment of Vice-Chancellor and Principal was not made, legal advice being received that the Council could not pay a salary to one of its own members. The vacancy caused by the election of a member of the Council as Chancellor has since been filled. At this meeting also statutes were amended or enacted in accordance with the recommendations of the Board of Studies, providing, amongst other things, for a Bachelor of Science degree analogous to the nine-unit degree in Arts ; a new degree—viz., Master of Agricultural Science ; and a course for a diploma in Fine Arts. The statutes will be shortly submitted to the Governor-General in Council for approval. The Council is considerably hindered in its operations this year through the non-appointment of a Principal and of its Vice-Chancellor, who is in terms of the Act to be chairman of the University Entrance Board, and has already requested that legislation be promoted as early as possible in the session of 1927, so as to remove any disabilities in the way of conveying recommendations of the Royal Commission on University Education.