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additional saláry.

7 Lecturers. (one in Architecture in substitution for a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering).

Teaching in the University would be better if it could afford five further lectureships but on its foreseeable resources these appointments are impossible.

3 Junior Lecturers

10 Demonstrators & Tutors.

To deal with the anticipated

increase in the total number of students.

Recurring charges arising from provision for a

wider range of studies, or more senior and post-graduate teaching as well as for an increased number of students, might call for at least an additional £10,000 a year. The University will have, therefore, to find:

For additional salaries (and

Provident Fund contribution)........£21,802

For additional maintenance charges.

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.£10,000

£31,802

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or $509,000 which is close to the prospective increase of income ($340,000 from His Majesty's Government's grant and $160,000 from increased fee income).

The nature of the developed, or new studies that the University desires to offer, is in part to stimulate natural growth, in part consequent on the new Colonial policy of recruitment. If senior services, administrative and professional, are to be filled by local recruitment it is essential that the University should train men approximately to the standard reached in the United Kingdom. There will still be occasion for the sending of men to the United Kingdom for advanced training but to make studies overseas a necessary condition for appointment to the senior grades of Government services would involve the Colony in inordinately high expenditure. Provision is therefore proposed for courses of honours standard in a range of subjects in the Faculties of Arts and Science. More adequate provision is to be made for the teaching of geography and history, especially the history of Colonial and Pacific areas. Trai ning in the Social Sciences is called for at a time when social reorganisation is a preoccupation of Government and of responsible people. In medicine, experience in 1940-41 showed an active demand for post-graduate training in a number of special branches. Both in Government service and in private practice there is need of men for special functions. More teachers are to be trained and some are to be trained who in time may replace men now recruited overseas. And, a contribution to a major industry of the Colony, the University must do its part in Fisheries Research. The extent of. rebuilding still to be done in the Colony is a justification of the training of architects, and civil engineers. Degrees