JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 65, 10 December 1907, Page 6

JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATIONS.

ihe annual examinations for Junior ■National, Junior 'Queen's,. and Education Board Scholarships commence at 10 30 this morning. Candidates will be examined in .various rooms in the Education Board and Technical School Buildings. There aro in all, 142 candidates for tho various scholarships, and thirty-one for iree places. .■■■•'■'.■ i- ■■ ' ' The time-table for'the examinations is as follows: — First day, Tuesday,' December 10.—10 30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.; arithmetic; 2 p.m.'to 3.30 p.m., geograph.r:; ( 3.4o p.m. to 5 p.m., freehand drawing with , pencil or brush (including elementary" 'd&ign without instruments). •■■', ■' "■•■•■■ -Second'day, Wednesday, December il— iV& t0 *°i° s P elli "g; 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., English'; 2 p.m. t0.3.30 p.m. general--paper; 3.45 p.m. to 4.45 p.m./draw-lng.-wtn instruments (including- elementarv design with instruments). Tho chief supervisor for the scholarship examinations is Mr., if. H. Bakewol! Jα assistantrinspector under tho Wellington Education lioard. For the other Homo Centres-Mr. A.-G.; Melville will bo chief supervisor at Levin, tho Rev. A. M. Johnson at Masterton, tho Rev. W. Wollas at Palnatua: -•■■■ •; ■>•■" The Junior Civil Service examinations, for which thero are 189. will commenoo on-i.'rklay, Becembor 13, and extend uutL l featnrday, December 21. ■ Tho : following explanatory notes ro junior scholarships are given for general information :— '."."' "' ! " I . 'Junior-National scholarships- (tenable for three years) open to all children under tne age of thirteen on December 1, who have been liuattendance;at.a primary school in Aew Zealand for, three years immediately preceding the examination, and who havb been..undar. , regular'iristriiotiori in the sfibjects of So , of ,a" higher standard for sixmonths. Iho subjects are those prescribed for So. ■ " I Junior Board Scholarships (tenable for two years) open'to all .children under'the ago of fourteen on December 1. Tho.papers aro tl>o same as for the /Junior National- scliolnrsirs'■ Junior Queen's scholarships (tenable for .three years) open to all children resident in the. Wellington, Nelson, Westlanil, "marl-' borough, Hawke's Bay, and. Tarana.ki Provincial Districts who are under the age of fourteen on December 1. Tluvpapers are the same as for the Junior' National Scholarships. (Ihe contorence of inspectors recommended tiiat the. ago limit for Junior-National scholarships' should" be raised to fourteen the-subjects to "bo , 'those"for S6 instead of bo, but this recommendation -has not yet been given effect to). . • Junior free place examination on the suojects of S6, held , at the same' time as the scholarship' examination, passing in whic' qualifies a c.indidato'to a froo place in a secondary; technical , ," or district- high school Tip to the ago of seventeen. Thero is no limit of age for the candidates • for this oxamination: ■ ' ■ .. _ The subjects of the aboye examinations aro Lnglisli, l 300 marks; arithmetic, 200; geography, 100 ; general knowledge paper, 10(j: drawing, 100....T0ta15-800; •'