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40 full-time and 4 part-time professors. In addition large staffs of lecturers, assistants, and demonstrators were employed. The total annual rates of salaries of the teaching staff paid in connection with the various colleges were : Auckland, 141,432; Victoria, £9,820; Canterbury, £10,925; Otago, £22,756. The average rate of salary of full-time professors was £763 as compared with £708 in the previous year. Finances of the Affiliated Colleges in 1919. Table M 4 gives a summary of the receipts and payments of the University colleges, excluding special trust accounts and the accounts of non-university institutions under the control of a College Council, such as, for instance, the museum, public library, or school of art connected with Canterbury College, or the museum controlled by the Otago University. The total receipts were £180,567, and the total payments £127,545, as compared with £104,082 in 1918. The payments on account of administration amounted to 19,332, on salaries 1:63,426, and on new buildings, sites, and equipment, £35,703. The principal amounts included in the last-named item were on account of the new science building in connection with Auckland University College, purchase of sites at Canterbury College, and the School of Home Science at Otago University. Scholarships, Bursaries, etc., tenable at University Colleges. (Table M 3.) Scholarships. University scholarships may be divided into three broad classes: (1) Entrance scholarships, (2) scholarships awarded during the degree course, (3) post graduate scholarships. (1.) University entrance scholarships are awarded annually on the results of the University Junior Scholarship Examination, and are .as follow : University Junior, University National, and Taranaki Scholarships (open only to candidates resident in Taranaki), in addition to some thirty or forty local and privately endowed scholarships awarded on the results of the same examination. Of the candidates for the Entrance Scholarship Examination in 1919, fourteen gained Junior Scholarships, twenty-three gained National Scholarships four gained Taranaki Scholarships, sixty-eight passed " with credit," and thirtytwo qualified for Matriculation. The value of a Junior Scholarship or a University National Scholarship is £20 per annum in addition to tuition fees, students obliged to live away from home receive also a boarding-allowance of £30 per annum. Thirty-five Junior University Scholarships and fifty-eight University National Scholarships were held during 1919. The expenditure by the University on scholarships was £3,063, and by the Education Department on University National Scholarships £3,686. In addition to the scholarships, and partly in collection therewith, a scheme of bursaries entitling students to free tuition is also in operation, as set out in detail below. (2.) Scholarships awarded during the degree course are : Senior University Scholarships tenable by candidates for Honours, and awarded on the papers set for repeated subjects in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science Examinations; John Tinline Scholarship, awarded on the papers in English of the Senior Scholarship Examination; a number of privately endowed scholarships open to students of the various colleges. Nineteen senior' University scholarships were held during 1919. (3.) The chief scholarships awarded at the end of the University course are the Rhodes Scholarship, the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, the Medical Travelling Scholarship, National Research Scholarships (one of which is offered to each University college), and a post-graduate scholarship in arts instituted in 1918. All, excepting the National Research Scholarships, are travelling scholarships thai is, they arc tenable abroad. The Research Scholarshi)>s are each of the value of £100 per annum, with laboratory fees and expenses. A Erench travelling scholarship has recently been instituted, to be held by a graduate who proposes to become a modern-language teacher. The first award was made in 1920. So far nineteen Rhodes Scholarships have been granted, of which five have been gained by students of Auckland University College, four by students of