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should be raado for the building of the two colleges, and for fittings and apparatus. Although these sums are not equal to those expended for like purposes in Dunedin and Christchurch, we think they will be found sufficient for present requirements. We recommend that the erection of the college buildings be undertaken by the Government, and that the plans and specifications for each college be submitted for approval to a Board consisting of two members of the University Senate and two members of the Council of the college, of which Council the proposed mode of appointment will be hereafter described. The same Board might also be consulted as to the selection of the site. For the annual maintenance of these two colleges it is suggested that the Government should take such steps as they may deem best for utilizing the reserves set apart for the promotion of higher education in the Provincial Districts of Auckland and Wellington. These reserves, in the Auckland District, amount to 30,354 acres; and, in the Wellington District, to 4,000 acres. At present they yield no revenue, but we are advised that from some of them at least a rental might be immediately obtained (see Evidence, p. 96, question 2,042). The establishment of tho colleges, however, should not be deferred until, or made dependent upon, the letting or sale of these reserves. As the present endowments may be presumed to be inadequate, our recommendation is that the two colleges be respectively endowed with Crown lands sufficient to provide an immediate income to each amounting to £4,000 per annum; and that, if it be not practicable to make reserves bringing in at once such an income, the deficit in each case, until such income sball be realized, be made good by a pecuniary grant, to be appropriated in a new University Act. i In framing this report, we have first dealt with the question of founding these new colleges, in order to distribute the means of obtaining University education as equally as possible throughout the colony; and we propose that our scheme for affording this higher education shall be capable of extension to other portions of the colony by the foundation of other new colleges as the growth of population may require. We recommend that the University of Otago, the Canterbury College, the two new colleges, and any other colleges hereafter founded, be colleges of the New Zealand University, following, in this respect, the precedent of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland established by the late Sir Robert Peel, which are called Colleges of the Queen's University. We are of opinion that the University should be governed by a Senate composed in great part of representatives of the colleges; and that, in the present circumstances of the colony, the University so governed should be the only body having authority to confer degrees. We are convinced that degrees conferred by such a body would be more highly esteemed than any which might be granted by one of the separate colleges; while, at the same time, under the constitution which we propose, each college will have sufficient influence over the examinations to prevent their being of such a kind as to require or foster a rigid uniformity in the course of instruction and study. Our desire is that each college may acquire a marked individuality, such as to demand recognition in the form of the examinations, and to secure for it a special reputation, which may at some future day be the foundation of its success as a separate and independent University. It is proposed that each of the colleges be styled " University College," with the name of the provincial district prefixed in which the college is situated; and, as these colleges may be regarded as component parts of the University, it may be convenient now to describe the constitution of their governing bodies or councils, and to show the mode of connecting the several colleges with the University. Our opinion is that these colleges, whilst being federated for the purpose of forming one University, should preserve an ample independence, and not be unnecessarily subordinated to the University. With this object in view we have agreed to the following resolution :—" That the said colleges shall not in any way " be under the jurisdiction or control of the Senate of the New' Zealand Univer- " sity further than as regards the regulations for qualifications for the several de- " grees or other University distinctions; the said colleges being, in all other

Selection of sites and plans.

Reserves and revenues.

Possible extension of scheme.

Relation of University and colleges.

Colleges to be called " University Colleges."

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