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Cliristchurch the information is not available in a similar form, but the fact that forty-one of the sixty-eight students in attendance at the close of the year had then kept first-, second-, or third-yea) , terms sufficiently indicates the extent of the University connection. In Auckland apparently more difficulty is found in taking advantage of the opportunities given, only four women and six men being recommended by the Principal to try the dual work required. All but two of these succeeded in keeping terms (three subjects).

TABLE B.—Number of Students attending University Classes in the Chief Subjects, as returned in April, 1907.

In the concluding table (Table C) is given a comparative statement of the expenditure in connection with the training colleges during 1907.

TABLE C. —Expenditure during 1907 on Training Colleges.—Staffs and Allowances to Students.

G. HoGBEN, Inspector-General of Schools.

No. 3. REPORTS ON TRAINING COLLEGES IN OPERATION. IIEI'ORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OP THE TRAINING COLLEGE, AUCKLAND (Mr. H. A. MILNES, B.Sc.). Work for the year 1907 began on the 4th March, and ended on the 2nd December. The new College is in process of being built, so that the two rooms used last year have been again utilised as a habitat. As the accommodation is strictly limited, it was possible to admit only eight first-year students; so that the numbers were twenty-eight second-year students and eight first-year students, the latter being all men. When the new College is built the numbers should easily increase to the regulation number of eighty. As last year showed the wisdom of curtailing University degree work for all but the wellprepared, only four women and six men were recommended to try the dual work required, and all but two succeeded in keeping terms (in three subjects, as against two required at some of the other colleges). The bulk of the students devoted their attention to the requirements of the C certificate. The subjects included in the College curriculum were as follows:— Compulsory Subjects, Group 1. 1. Reading, taken by the Principal. —Of the thirty-six students, only one ha.d any idea of good reading, so this subject was made compulsory, though nearly all the students had already satisfied the Department's requirements for the D certificate. Not only was the enunciation and articulation bad, but the understanding of ordinary pieces of prose was deficient. The use of the dictionary, encyclopaedias, or such books as Whitaker's Almanac or Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable " for purposes of reference was unknown, while the knowledge of English literature was little short of lamentable. Only one student had read "The Cloister and the Hearth," and the greal majority had not even heard the name. The course of literature taken hi the University is confined to the study of two or three set books, so that the hour devoted to reading was utilised for dipping into English classics. To supplement this a voluntary reading circle was held every alternate Saturday night, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the College, when a selected pro-

I Educa- T „*.„ Mathetion. Latin - mattes. aSfmce. Botan y- Music - French. Biology. Training College. English. lUckland Wellington Ihristchuroh .. )unedin 31 56 50 38 18 47 52 4'2 7 83 40 31 4 21 '2H 8 2 11 7 37 28 25 7 29 1 3 13 9 6 16 Totals for 1907 175 154 111 61 57 55 29 26 22 Totals for 1906 147 107 71 74 39 32 25' 62

Salaries of Staffs (including Normal and Model Schools). Ordinary. Allowance! Lodging. Allowances to Students. ss to Students. University Fees Total. Total. luokland Vellington Jhristchuroh )unediu £ 3,105 3,181 3,032 3,096 £ 880 1,744 1,772 1,878 £ 600 1,533 1,275 1,276 £ 208 476 921 585 £ 1,688 3,753 3,968 3,739 £ 4,793 6,934 7,000 6,835 Totals 12,414 6,274 4,684 2,]90 13,148 25,562