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The N.Z. Journal of Science and Technology. 
[Dec. 
UNIVERSITY AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
University of New Zealand. 
The full report of the committee of the Senate on the financial needs of the 
University and colleges was presented and adopted at the May meeting 
of the Senate, and is printed in the Minutes of Proceedings of the Forty-eighth 
Annual Session , pp. 124-29. 
The report is on the same general lines as the interim report presented 
in January,* but goes farther in stating the necessity for considerably 
increased grants of money to the University colleges for additions to 
buildings, staffs, libraries, laboratory equipment, &c. The establishment • 
of a Chair of Agriculture at Auckland University College is recommended 
in addition to provision for agricultural education suggested in the interim 
report. 
Extracts from the report are given below under the various heads. 
Sites, Buildings, and Equipment. 
The reports of the governing bodies of the colleges show that there is great need 
of further provision of buildings and equipment, and in the case of Auckland of a site 
for University buildings. 
The committee therefore recommends that the Government should sympathetically 
consider the following requests of the College Councils :—- 
(1.) Auckland — 
(a.) Site (metropolitan site suggested) and £100,000 for buildings. 
( b .) Equipment for architecture, £1,000. 
(c.) Equipment for agriculture. 
(2.) Victoria —- 
(a.) Three wings for library, economics, science, and students, £40,000. 
( b .) Equipment of science laboratory, £5,000. 
(3.) Canterbury — 
(a.) Extension of College buildings and equipment, £20,000. 
(6.) Extension of buildings of Engineering School, £21,650. 
(4.) Otago — 
(a.) Buildings for science and medicine, £60,000. 
( b .) Apparatus and equipment, £2,550. 
Increase in Staffs. 
The committee recommends that the increase in staffs asked for by the Councils 
should receive the favourable consideration of the Government. 
(1.) Auckland —■ 
(a.) Professor of History and Geography ) At present, together with econo- 
( b .) Professor of Philosophy j mics, taught by one man. 
(c.) Provision for teaching law (honours). 
(d.) Demonstrator in Physics. 
(e.) Lecturer in Home Science. 
(/.) Professor of Agriculture and Professor of Forestry. 
(g.) Lecturer in Architecture (£500). 
(2.) Victoria — 
(a.) Eleven full-time assistants (additional expense £3,000 per annum), 
which would enable the College to begin day lectures and to co¬ 
operate with the Agricultural Department in teaching agriculture. 
(3.) Canterbury— 
(a.) Chair in History (at present taken with economics). 
(6.) Engineering staff (add £3,600 per annum, as asked for in Director’s 
report). 
* This Journal, May, 1919, pp. 220-21. 
