NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1904, Page 2

NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

! RESULTS OF THE FIRST EXAMINATIONS. The following ropoit has been r-sceivecl by tho Minister for Education ficin the Secretary to iho Department upon thu examinations held throughout tho colony early in tho month lor the National Scholarships created by tho Act of last session : — The fhst examination for Junior National Schohiitihips wus hold by arrangement with tho Boards of Education on the sth and 6th of January, 1904. Candidates for freu places iv secondary schools under clause 6 (6B) of tho regulations under Iho Secondary Schools Act, 1903, wore examined on the same paper. The number of candidates for Junior National Scholarships and free places was 435, and thero were also 126 candidates for free places only. Tho total number of candidates who qualified is 276. The maximum aggregate of murks obtainable was 850. Candidates obtaining not less than 40 per cent, of .tho maximum aggregate, and not less than 25 per cent, of Uie possible marks in English nnd arithmetic are considered us qualified by examination for national scholarships and free plncos. Below aro lists of those no quulined iv tho several education districts, the names in each list being ai ranged in order of merit. It will be for each Board of Education, after making due enquiries into tho other qualifications of candidates, to award the scholarships to tho highest qualified candidutes in accordance with tho Act. Tho highest marks actually obtainod in the several papers are. us follows: — English 85 pur cent., arithmetic 91 per cent., geography 80 per cent., drawing 98 per cent., general paper 86 per cent., and tho highest aggregate of marks obtained by any ono candidate is 699, obtained by Helen Inglis P. Whyte, of Huvelock North School, Hawko.s Bay district. Follorang is a list of qualified candidates in order of merit. Candidates for free places only are marked with an asterisk. WELLINGTON EDUCATION DISTRICT. Mtuks. Percy Burbidge, Mt. Cook Boys' ... 693 Arnold Parkinson, Terrace ... 644 Winifred Pluyer, Clyde-quay ... 633 Otto Bnumgait, Mt. Cook Boys' ... 607 Edwin Greatbach, Potono 603 Francis West, Terrace 584 Horace Brookor, Nowtown 574 Donald Johnston, Petone 570 Spencer Mason, Terrace 561) Margaret Gray, Mt. Cook Girls ... 505 •Reginald Bell, South Wellington ... 547 Frank Pengelly, Leviu 515 Henry Barnard, South Wellington... 512 •Lurline Armstrong, Greytown ... 509 Annie Tail, Mt Cook Uirls' 505 Herbert Cross, Nowtown 504 Cedric Fordham, Clyde-quay ... 498 Hilda Harding, Newtown 495 ♦Arthur Smith, South Wellington ... 493 Alfred Robinson, To Aro 491 William Carlile, Roseneath 474 Arthur Morrison, Pahintua 469 Frank do Lisle, Musterlon 459 Thomas Rutherford, Wuirere ... 451 Albert Perry, Newtown ... ... 450 Jarl Sylvester, Masterton 450 David Ilutton, Johnsonville 428 Marian Lee, Martinborough 428 Miriam Spiro, Orcytown 411 Gcorgo M'Farlano, Petone ... ... 389 Mary Power, Dreyer'* Rock 377 Jane Cassic, Shannon 355 Orlando Dryden, Knrori 355 Elizabeth Wright, South Wellington 355 HAWKES BAY. Helen Inglis P. Whytc, Havclock North 699 Florence Vivian Rich, Havclock North 540 Onslow G. Thornton, Clive 637 Arthur F. Culhfoid, Napier Training ... ... ... ... 532 Margarot £. Thomson, Hastings' ... 620 lima F. A. TttdwCSttpie* ".I. .... 498 J. A. Marshall, Mtttuvhero 479 George Maiiter*, Hastings 477 Sydney A. Wilton, Mimgateietere... 4fi6 Harry L. KxpH, Wuimu 442 Alico Martin, Wainui 402 Nellio Arnott, PeUno 394 Elsio G. M'Kay, Onga Onga 389 Wilhelmina Mitchell, Poit Ahuriri 387 Lewis 11. Eriis, Norsowood ... 381 Norah Tuohy, Takapnu ... ... 378 t Charles Spillcr, Port Ahuriri ... 375 Adolph B. Sander 360 |- TARANAKI. | Francis W. H. Pridoau, Midhirst... 488 j Alice Winifred Bollinger, Omata ... 461 William R. P. Palmer, Stratford ... 431 Linda Olive Thompson, Stratford ... 379 WANGANUI. nenry G. Brodio, Wanganui ... 618 Percy A. Spurdle*, Wanganui ... 586 VDouglaa A. Taylor, Wavorley ... 481 TRoy G. Millon, Ashhurst 463 Ramcmd A. Lawry, Terrace End ... 440 Annie M. Anthony, Whakamara ... 420 Hilda M. Piorcy, Ashhurst 407 Frank M'Comisky, Patea, 394 Lionel Belt, Ohakuno 382 Lawrence F. Snrton, Wanganui ... 369 'MARLBOROUGH. Knthleon Hilliurd 511 ! Amy Sarah Payne ... 453 Daisy Florence Mabel Braddock ... 410 Robert Laehlan Muealiator 388 Frances Campbell ... .^. ••• 371 Evelyn E. Duggan !.. ... ... 345 NKLSON. Geoffrey J. King. Reefton 539 Hilda E. A. Small, Toi Toi Volley... 443 Ralph P. Worley, Hoys' Central ... 421 Noel W. Jennings, Motueka- ... 39-1 Herbert K. Johnston, Aniseed Valley 365