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for suggestions and approval. It was agreed to co-opt Dr. Benson to 
help in New Zealand. Copies of the letter and circular as finally approved 
by members of the Committee were then duplicated (Documents A and B 
attached) and distributed as follows :— 
(a) in bulk to Dr. L. J. Burpee for distribution to Canadian universities 
and the collection of replies. 
(6) in bulk to Dr. C. Fenner for Australia. 
(c) in bulk to Prof. J. H. Wellington for South Africa. 
(d) in bulk to Dr. W. N. Benson for New Zealand. 
(e) in bulk to Prof. Griffith Taylor for the collection of comparable 
details of the leading universities of the United States. 
(f) individually by the Secretary to the universities of India, Singapore, 
and Hong Kong. 
(g) individually by the Secretary to the universities and university colleges 
of the British Isles for the collection of comparable details. 
An Interim report was presented in manuscript to the 1932 (York) 
Meeting of the Association and contained details of the replies received 
from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India, and the Far East, with 
replies received from the British Isles and the United States for purposes 
of comparison. The replies from Canada had not, at that time, been 
received; and since the Interim Report certain other replies to the 
questionnaire have been received from other parts of the Empire. 
The sections which follow deal with the major parts of the British Empire 
in turn. 
II. Dominion oF NEW ZEALAND. 
Dr. W. N Benson of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 
who was co-opted a member of the Committee and collected the replies 
to the questionnaire from his colleagues, summarises the position in New 
Zealand as follows: 
‘The four constituent colleges of New Zealand University are all con- 
cerned with the same prescriptions and the differences between the replies 
merely reflect different arrangements for dealing with the subject. The 
prescriptions are contained in the New Zealand University Calendar, 
Briefly Geography figures in the Entrance or Matriculation examination, 
in the Entrance Scholarship examination requiring one or two years further 
high school work. Examination of these prescriptions is conducted by 
University teachers, almost invariably the Professors of Geography in 
association with one or more assistants, usually University or Teachers’ 
Training College lecturers. Economic Geography is also taught by a 
lecturer in the Department of Economics in each college, for the purposes 
of the B.Com. degree only, such requiring only one, or sometimes two, 
hours per week, unaccompanied by any laboratory work. Geolcgy in 
its general aspects as a subject for the B.A. course, first year work only, is 
taught in the Auckland and Wellington Colleges by the Professor of 
Geology, associated with a lecturer from the Teachers’ Training College 
in Auckland and a lecturer from the Economics Department in Wellington. 
There has resulted from this the emphasis on the physical and economic 
side, without (unless it be in Auckland) any special attention to the human 
side. In the hopes of encouraging advanced study in Geography and the 
appointment ofa teacher specialist in the subject, the University has approved 
courses for a second and third year in Geography for the B.A., but as yet 
provision for the teaching of such courses has not been made by any college. 
The several replies summarised are thus :— 
