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Civil Service Examinations. The Civil Service Examinations were conducted by the Education Department—the Junior Examination in December, 1904, and the Senior Examination simultaneously with the examinations for teachers' certificates, in January, 1905. There were 573 candidates for the Junior Examination, and the names of 241 were published in order of merit in the Gazette of the 26th January, 1905, as having passed the examination, 193 of them with credit. The Junior Examination was also used as the qualifying examination for senior free places in secondary schools, and also by some of the Education Boards as an examination for pupil-teachers. For the Senior Examination there were 145 candidates, and the names of 111 were published in the Gazette of the 2nd February, 1905, 29 as having passed the whole examination, and 82 as having passed in two or more subjects of the examination. Further particulars are given in the Report of the Annual Examinations (E.-1a). Junior National Scholarship Examination. The examination for National Scholarships and for free places in secondary schools was held on the 13th and 14th December, 1904. Of the 729 candidates 354 passed the examination, and their names were published in order of merit in the Gazette of the 26th January, 1905. Several of the Education Boards availed themselves of this examination for the purpose of awarding their Junior Scholarships, as did also Victoria College for awarding Queen's Scholarships University and Colleges The report of the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand is a separate paper (E.-6). The number of graduates admitted or qualified for. admission now amounts to 931 admitted and 119 qualified for admission—l,oso in all. Of the 931 admitted, 391 have the degree of B.A. alone ; 32 B.Sc. alone ; 42 LL.B. alone ; 5 B.Sc. in Engineering alone ; 22 M.B. alone ; 59 M.B. and Ch.B. alone ; 3 Mus. Bac. alone ; 2°74 M.A. alone ; 4 LL.D. alone ; 6 M.D. alone ; and 2 D.Sc. alone. The graduates upon whom degrees in more than one faculty have been conferred are • BA. and B.Sc, 8 ; B.A. and LL.B., 25 ; B.A. and LL.D., 1 ; B.A. and M.8., 1 • 8.A., M.8., and Ch.B., 5 ; 8.A., B.Sc, and M.8., Ch.B., 2 ; B.Sc. and M.8., Ch B 4 • M.A. and B.Sc, 36 ; M.A. and LL.B., 19 ; M.A. and D.Sc, 4 ; M.A. and M.8.,'ch.8., 2 ; M.A., B.Sc. and M.8., Ch.B., 1 ; M.A. and LL.D., 3. The number of degrees authorised to be conferred after the! examinations of 1904 was 119 ; 8.A., 45 ; B.Sc, 13 ; 8.E., 5 ; LL.B., 12 ; M.8., 6 ; M.B. and Ch.B., 6; M.A., 31; D.Sc, 1. ' As appears by the Chancellor's report, the number of candidates who were examined at the usual examinations in November and December, 1904, and in January and April, 1905, in the faculties of arts, science, medicine, law, and music, and for admission to the legal profession, was 1,683. The number of students at affiliated colleges in 1904 was 971, of whom 352 were women. Of these students 769 were matriculated at the University of New Zealand. The numbers in attendance at the several colleges were as follows : University of Otago, 174 men and 83 women matriculated, and 26 men and 4 women not matriculated; at Canterbury College, 144 men and 66 women matriculated, and 20 men and 47 women not matriculated ; at Auckland University College, 79 men and 49 women matriculated, and 32 men and 52 women not matriculated ; and at Victoria College, 130 men and 44 women matriculated, and 14 men and 7 women not matriculated. The reports of these colleges are papers E.-7, E.-8, E.-9, and E.-10 respectively. " The University Endowment Act, 1868." The income accrued under this Act, and applicable to purposes of higher education yet to be determined by Parliament, amounted, on the 31st March, 1904, to £7,811 lis. 3d., as follows : Canterbury reserves, £2,655 3s. lOd. ; Westland, £277 2s.'6d. ; Taranaki, £4,879 4s. lid.

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