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2, Contractors' Deposit Account. Deposits recoived .. .. .. £111 10 0 Deposits refunded .. .. .. £111 10 0 3. Sinclair-Gillies Trust Account. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance, Ist January, 1917 .. .. 4,040 10 7 Scholarships .. .. .'. .. 140 0 0 Intorost .. .. .. .. 76 14 0 Balance, 31st December, 1917— Mortgages .. .. £3,450 0 0 Post Office Savings-bank 220 14 1 Auckland Savings-bank 306 10 6 3,977 4 7 £4,117 4 7 £4,117 4 7 4. J. L. Sinclair Bequest Account. £ s. d. £, s. d. Balance, Ist January, 1917 .. .. 32 12 10 Balance, 31st Docember, 1917, in Auckland laterest, Auckland Savings-bank .. 17 2 Savings-bank .. .. .. 31 0 0 £34 0 0 I £34 0 0 111. Reconciliation or Account Balances with Cash, Bank, and Investments. Accounts. £ s. d. General Account .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 13,789 211 Endowment Salos Acoount .. .. .. .. .. .. 10,246 0 0 Sinclair-Gillies Trust Account .. .. .. .. .. 3,977 4 7 J. L. Sinclair Roquest Account . . .. .. .. .. 34 0 0 £28,046 7 6 Cash, Bank, and Investments. £ s. d. £ s. d. Cash in hand.. .. .. .. .. .. 294 1 11 Bank of Now Zealand Current Account .. £7,904 4 8 Less outstanding cheques .. .. 160 12 9 7,743 11 11 Debentures .. .. .. .. . . .. 400 0 0 .. 10,200 0 0 Fixed deposit. . . . .. .. .. .. 46 0 0 Post Office Savings-bank .. .. .. .. 176 9 1 Mortgagos investments .. .. .. .. 5,175 0 0 24,035 2 11 Post Office Savings-bank .. . . 220 14 1 Auckland Savings-bank .. .. . . .. 306 10 6 Mortgage investments .. .. .. .. .. 3,450 0 0 3,977 4 7 Auckland Savings-bank .. .. .. . . .. 34 0 0 £28,046 7 6

C. REPORT OF THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, 1917. (The Viotoria College Aot, 1905.) Visitor. —The Hon. the Minister of Education. Members of Council. Chairman of Council. —C. Watson, Esq., B.A. (N.Z.). Appointed by His Excellency the Governor in Council—The Hon. Sir Robert Stout, K.U.M.G. ; A. R. Atkinson, Esq., B.A. Oxon. Elected by Members of Parliament—C. P. Knight, Esq., LL.D. (N.Z.); W. Ferguson, Esq., B.A. (Trin. Coll., Dublin), M.lnst.C.E. Elected by the Court of Convocation —P. Levi, Esq., M.A.; C. B. Morison, Esq., K.C.; W. H. Morton, Esq., M.lnst.C.E. ; C. Watson, Esq., B.A. (N.Z.). Elected by teachers of primary schools—Rev. W. A. Evans ; F. 11. Bake well, Esq., M.A. Elected by members of Education Boards—F. W. O. Smith, Esq. ;R. McCallum, Esq., M.P. Appointed by Wellington City Council—R. A. Wright, Esq., M.P. Elected by teachers in secondary schools and technical high schools —W. S. La Trobe, Esq., M.A. (N.Z.), and M.A. (Camb.). Elected by governing bodies of secondary schools—Hon. J. G. W. Aitken, M.L.C. Elected by the Professorial Board—Professor J. M. E. Garrow, 8.A., LL.B.; Professor T. A. Hunter, M.A., M.Sc. Staff. Professors. —Classics—J. Rankine Brown, M.A. English—H. Mackenzie, M.A. Modern Languages—(vacant). Chemistry—T. H. Easterfield, M.A., Ph.D. Mathematics—D. M. Y. Sommerville, M.A., D.Se. Biology— H. B. Kirk, M.A. Physics—E. Marsden, D.Se. (on active service). H. Clark, A.M., M.S., Ph.D (acting). Law— J. Adamson, M.A., LL.B. (Dean of the Faculty); J. M. E. Garrow, 8.A., LL.B. (English and New Zealand law). Mental and Moral Philosophy—T. A. Hunter, M.A., M.Sc. Lecturers, eight. Assistants, eight. Registrar. —G. G. S. Robison, Esq., M.A. Librarian, —Rev. B. H. Ward, B.A.

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