---"Lecture Fees—The Board will observe that in the University at Melbourne the Professors are paid by salary only, and receive art allowance of £100 per annum in cases in which tbe University does not provide a residence, The> do not receive any proportion of the fee*. The same rule as regards fees applies to the lecturers in tnat University. In

JM*S»«MaMtMSSM.S*»»f-«-««-«^ Sydney, In addition to their salary the Professors now receive halt the lecture . fees, but in the appointments about to be made to the four Professorships meu i tloned above the Professors will not be , entitled to any proportion of the fees. I have already stated folly the practice in i matter of fees in the case ot lecturers In i the University of Sydney. In the Canter bury College the Professors and lecturers are paid partly by salary and partly by : fees. The whole of the lecture fees are re ceived by them. Many reasons, I think, may be urged against this system of pay ment in part by handing over the fees, or i any proportion of them, to the Professor . or lecturer. I have drawn attention.to I the practice that obtains In Melbourne, i and to the change which is now being made in Sydney in respect of the lecture fees, so that in the event ot any fresh ap pointments the Board may have thesuhject i before them. I hope the Board will not ; think I have occupied too much of its time with my remarks on this subject. It is one, as some members of the College are aware, in which I have taken a deeo interest from the first. " F. »k C. Maias. ! "Christehurch, October 28th, 1889.-

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