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ALLEGED INCORRECT MARKING BOARD PROTESTING TO MINISTER (PEBSS ' AfiSOCIiTIOII TBLEGBAM.) INVERCARGILL, April 23. “This is a serious state of affairs,” declared a member of the Southland High Schools Board at a meeting today when complaints about incorrect marking of university entrance examination papers made by the rector of the Southland Boys’ High School (Dr. G. H. Uttley) and the principal of the'. Southland Girls’ High School (Miss A. Eastwood) were read. Instances were given in the reports of pupils having been marked “failed” and later having been advised that they had passed, the examination. Four boys and four girls were affected by the alteration in marks, and three boys and one girl were granted passes. One boy had his arithmetic marks raised from none to; 45. . ' The board decided to protest to the Minister for Education (the Hon. P. Fraser) and the Director of Education (Dr.;C. E. Beeby).
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23003, 24 April 1940, Page 10
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