TEST FOR DEGREE AT SEA

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22250, 15 November 1937, Page 8

TEST FOR DEGREE AT SEA

PERMISSION GRANTED

YOUNG STUDENT

EXAMINATION TO BE HELD

ON AORANGI

(FHESB A.BSOCHTIOS TXLZGBMt.)

AUCKLAND, November 14,

Special permission to sit for a degree examination while a passenger on the Aorangi from Auckland to Sydney on Wednesday has been granted a young Auckland student, Miss Patricia Webb, by the Auckland University College authorities. Miss Webb, who will # leave Auckland by the Aorangi o'n Tuesday en route for Singapore, will sit for the examination in Latin for the Bachelor of Law degree on Wednesday afternoon under the supervision of an officer of the liner or some other approved person. Her examination will coincide with that being held ashore, and at the conclusion her paper will be locked in the ship's safe and then posted to Auckland under seal when the liner reaches Sydney. The chief supervisor at the college, the Rev. A. J. Greenwood, said the circumstances were exceptional, but the university's method was to help students as much as possible commensurate with proper supervision. So long as a responsible person was in charge it was quite safe to ailow the examination in this way. .. Miss Webb is an inexperienced sailor and is therefore combining last-minute study of Latin with the acquisition of knowledge of how to prevent seasickness.

TOTALISATOR FIGURES

NEW ZEALAND CUP * MEETING

LARGEST AMOUNT SINCE 1929

The total amount of £214,015, invested at the New Zealand Cup meeting, is the largest since 1929, when £219,104 was invested. The highest total recorded at a cup meeting was £340,141 in 1920, and this was an increase of £80,162 on the previous year. The following is a list of the figures for the concluding day's racing and the totals for the meeting since 1919: —

Concluding Year. Day. Meeting £ £ 1919 .. 68,561 259,979 1920 .. 96,666 340,141 1921 .. 78,154 271,454 1922 .. 70,855 259,925 1923 .. 68,425 237,802 1924 .. 66.256 237,210 1925 .. 58?m 207,934 1926 55,029 197,305 1927 .. 54,024 204,449 1928 .. 52,293 194,079 1929 .. 64,431 219,104 1930 .. 46,149 161,857 1931 .. 31,125 109,888 1932 .. 25.859 86,587 1933 .. 38,419 110,164 1934 .. 35,774 115,311 1935 .. 48,277 141,195 1936 .. 65,301 183,742 1937 .. 68,128 214,015