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apportionment of national-endowment revenue, and £62,437 grants for buildings and equipment. Receipts fromjlocal sources included £25,969 income from reserves and £39,758 fees. The total payments amounted to £194,968, of which the principal items were — salaries, £84,850 ; buildings, £55,532 ; equipment, £10,943 ; administration, £14,863. Free Education at University Colleges. What may be regarded as generous provision is made for free education and for allowances for students the University colleges, 43 per cent., as mentioned above, of the students receiving free tuition. Scholarships. University entrance scholarships are awarded annually on the results of the University Junior Scholarship Examination, and are as follows : 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. The value of a Junior Scholarship or a University National Scholarship is £20 per annum in addition to tuition fees ; and when necessary a boarding-allowance of £30 per annum. Twenty-eight Junior University Scholarships and fifty-two University National Scholarships were held during 1922. The expenditure by the University on scholarships was £3,096, and by the Education Department on University National Scholarships £3,246. In addition to the scholarships, and partly in connection therewith, a scheme of bursaries entitling students to free tuition is also in operation, as set out in detail below. Scholarships awarded during the degree course are : Senior University Scholarships tenable by candidates for Honours, and awarded on the papers set for 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 ; Sir George Grey Scholarships for students of science subjects ; and a number of privately endowed scholarships open to students of the various colleges. Twelve Senior University Scholarships were held during 1922. The chief scholarships awarded at the end of the University course are the Rhodes Scholarship, the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, the Medical Travelling Scholarship, the Engineering Travelling Scholarship, the French Travelling Scholarship, National Research Scholarships (one of which is offered to each University college), and a post-graduate scholarship in arts. All, excepting the National Research Scholarships, are travelling scholarships —that is, they are tenable abroad. The Research Scholarships are each of the value of £100 per annum, with laboratory fees and expenses. The Rhodes Scholar of 1923 is a student of Otago University. The total number of Rhodes Scholarships that have been granted to date is twenty-two, of which six have been gained by students of Auckland University College, six by students of Otago University, six by students of Victoria University College, and four by students of Canterbury College. Up to the present twenty-two National Research Scholarships have been awarded, two being current at present, and the following being the subjects of research : " The nature of unsaturation in unsaturated acids and their derivatives " ; and " The root-nodules of conifers and other New Zealand trees." Kitchener Memorial Scholarship. —A Kitchener Memorial Scholarship endowed by a private gentleman, and contributed to by other persons and by the Government, is awarded annually on the results of the Senior National Scholarship Examination to secondary-school pupils, being intended for boys, the sons of members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who have taken an agricultural course. The scholarship is worth £50 per annum, and is tenable for two years at an agricultural college. One scholarship|was awarded in each of the years 1919, 1920, and 1921, and, the first two having expired, an extension of a third year has been granted in the third case. No award was made in 1922 or 1923.