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1905. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: THE VICTORIA COLLEGE. ("THE VICTORIA COLLEGE ACT, 1897.") [In continuation of E.-10, 1904.]

Presented in pursuance of the Act.

Visitor. —The Bt. Hon. the Minister of Eduoation. Members of Council. Appointed by His Exoellenoy the Governor in Council—J. Graham, M.H.R.; A. W. Hogg, M.H.R.; Hon. A. Pitt, M.L.C., Attorney-General. Eleoted by members of the Legislature—W. A. Chappie, M.A., M.D. ;C. Wilson ;C. P. Knight, LL.D. Eleoted by members of Eduoation Boards —G. Talbot, R. Lee, R. Maoallum. Eleoted by graduates — His Honour Sir R. Stout, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice; A. R. Meek, M.A., LL.B.; H. P. Richmond, 8.A., LL.B. Eleoted by publio-sohool teaohers -Rev. W. A. Evans; T. R. Fleming, M.A., LL.B.; C. Watson, B.A. Eleoted by the Professorial Board—P. H. D. Bell, B.A. Staff. Professors. —Classios —John Brown, M.A. St. Andrew's and Oxford. English Language and Literature — H. Mackenzie, M.A. St. Andrew's. Modern Languages—G. W. yon Zedlitz, M.A. Oxford. Chemistry and PhysicsT. H. Easterfield, M.A. Cambridge, Ph.D. Wurzburg. Mathematios and Mathematical Physics—R. 0. Maclaurin, M.A., LL.M., New Zealand and Cambridge. Biology—H. B. Kirk, M.A. New Zealand. Lecturers. —Mental Saience, General History, and Political Eoonomy—T. A. Hunter, M.A. New Zealand. Law, Jurisprudence, and Constitutional History—M. W. Richmond, B.So. Registrar. —C. P. Powles.

The Registrar, Victoria College, to the Right Hon. the Minister of Education. Sic, — Victoria College, Registrar's Office, 15th June, 1905. I have the honour, in pursuance of " The Victoria College Act, 1897," to forward the following report from the Council on the work of the Victoria College for the year ended the 31st December, 1904: — Classes were held in the following subjects : English language and literature, Latin, Greek, French, German, mental science, jurisprudence and constitutional history, law, political economy and history, mathematics, mechanics, chemistry, physics, and biology. The number of students attending classes was 195, and there were seventy-six exempted students attached to the College. Of these 107 kept terms. The Junior Queen's Scholarships were this year awarded by the Junior National Scholarship Examination to scholars from the following schools: Te Aro (Wellington), Westport, Petone, Napier Boys', and Newtown (Wellington). Of the present scholarship-holders, nine are attending the Victoria College and twenty-one are at secondary schools. At the last University degree examinations, students of Victoria College passed as follows : M.A. with Honours, 4; M.A., 2; LL.B., 2; First Section 8.A., 26 ; Second Section 8.A., 13 ; Second Section 8.5c,2; First Examination, LL.B., 11; Second Examination, LL.B., 8; one gained a Senior University Scholarship in Greek, and to one has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. I send herewith a copy of the accounts for the year ending the 31st March, 1905. I have, &c, The Right Hon. the Minister of Education, Chas. P. Powles, Wellington. Registrar.