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 the erection of a large modern building), the Grammar Schools for boys and girls, and a number of private secondary schools, the Seddon Memorial Technical School, and the State primary schools. Of the latter there are eighteen within the City boundaries alone. There is also a School of Art, and, attached to the University, a school of music. The Auckland Museum is another educative institution, notable especially on account of its Maori collection, which is reputed to be the largest and best in existence.

The business activity of the City is exemplified in the large banking concerns carried on in it, which now number six different companies, including the progressive, locally promoted Bank of New Zealand. This bank has now branches throughout New Zealand, the Commonwealth of Australia, Fiji and Samoa. There are also a number of insurance companies, including two large companies of native origin, viz., the New Zealand Coy. and the South British Coy. Both have made good their positions among similar concerns throughout the world.

The amusements which the City affords are limited naturally by the numbers of the population. A city of Auckland's size cannot expect to be catered for to the same extent as London. Yet, despite this limitation, the City has been fortunate in receiving visits from