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Finance 1 In the year 1909 the net income of the University of New Zealand was about £10,000, and inclusive of grants from the Government for buildings, &c, the total net income of the four University colleges was about £68,000. Not including the building grants, the total was £61,000 The total net income of the University and University colleges may therefore be considered to have been £78,000 or £71,000, according as the grants for buildings are or are not included — that is, 18d. (or 17d.) per head of the population; not, I think, 14d., as stated in the petition. The income of the University and of the University colleges is shown on pages 3 and 8 of the attached paper on higher education (E.-7, 1910). 2 Comparative Statement of University Expenditure in North and South Islands of New Zealand (1909).— The following is a summary of the expenditure of the four University Colleges, compiled from the tables in E.-7, 1910, just referred to:

The number of students at the four colleges is shown in Table M, on page 5 of E.-7, 1910. From this it appears that the total number of all students attending lectures at the two colleges in the North Island was 870, and the total number attending lectures at the two colleges in the South Island was 821 Libraries. There is no information in the Department with regard to the state of the libraries at the four University Colleges. As allusion is made in the petition to the University of Toronto, I may state that the University library there in 1907-8 contained upwards of 87,000 volumes, together with upwards of 22,000 "unbound pamphlets, and had, besides other rooms, a reading-room capable of seating upwards of two hundred readers. As is well known, the libraries of the older British universities are very large. 4th November, 1910. G Hogben Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given ; printing (1,400 copies), JS3 17s. Oil.

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j General. General. Buildings. Buildings. Total. i Total. I _j Auckland Victoria 7,890 10,264 £ I' £ 854 8,744 6,484 16,748 (a) 18,154 7,338 25,492 Canterbury Dtago . j 17,465 15,360 10,923 28,388 2,563 17,923* . .— .—, — (b) 32,825 32,825 13,486 46,311 13,486 46,311 Total (a) and (6) 50,979 50,979 20,824 71,803 20,824 71,803 * Including an expenditure of £325 on Museum. "