HIGH MARKS

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 48, 25 February 1921, Page 8

HIGH MARKS

RECENT EXAMINATIONS

COLLEGE PUPILS' SUCOESSES.

■ A high percentage of successes gained by pupils of the Wellington Boys' College and the Girls' College in thei recent examinations was shown in reports made to the College Board of Governors today.

Miss M'Lean, principal of the Girls' College, reported as follows:—In the university scholarship examination Eileen Paul gained a senior national university scholarship, and four girls.— Ellen Newton, Margorie Can", Maida Clark, and Netta Fowler—gained places on the credit list. Melvyn Wilson matriculated on the same papers. In the matriculation examination forty-six passed., tihirt|y securing full. ' passes, eleven partial passes, and five completing the examination. Seventy pea" cent, of those entering passed the examination. Twenty qualified aleo for the solicitors' general and the medical preliminary; one for the solicitors' general and twenty-five for the matriculation alone.

In the Public Service entrance fifty of last year's pupils passed, comprising 62 per cant, of those entering. One pupil, May Talbot, gained first place for New Zealand.

.' Five pupils gained senior national scholarships—Flora Wilson, Mary Cooley, Mary Sliallorass, Kathleen Esson, and Agnes Patterson. Four ' pupils gained junior national scholarships— Dorothy Smith, Alice Richards, Hazel Spiers, and Freda Fogelberg. The report made by Sir. T. R. Cresswell, principal of the Wellington (Boys) College, was equally good. Of twentythree senior national scholarships awarded in the Wellington district fifteen were to college pupils, as follow:—E. H. M. Adam* H. Foley, S. A. M. Haigh, J. W. Harding, W. E. Lavelle, C. M'lntyre, D. W. M'Kenzie, G. E. Parker, A. F. Petrie, C. S. Plank, G. R. Powles; W. P. Rollings, T. M. Smith, D. H. White, and A. C. Zohrab. Eight pupils gained junior national . scholarships—X. W. Bauckham, J. S. Ellis, J. C. Greig, J. A. Jackson, A. L. M'Lean, S. H. Perry, S. J. Rubenstein, and W. B. Sutch.. A junior University scholarship was won by M. Leadbetter, and Univei-sity_ national scholarships by J. J. G. Britland, L. E. Perryman, and L. A. Riddell. Four) pupils gained matriculation on these examinations. Forty-three passed the matriculation examination, fourteen completed, and twenty-four gained partial passes. In the junior national scholarship eighteen gained free places.. Thirty-six passed the senior free place examination, the following with credit:—A. Ainslie, B. F. Clark, C. B. Menzies, and R. W. Osborn. Ten pupils were successful in the Public Service entrance, including W. E. Britland, who was sixth for New Zealand and first in Wellington. In addition a large number of senior free places were gi anted by recommendation (without examination). " , SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED. The following recommendations to the board as holders of scholarships at Wellington College for 1921 were adopted :— Mackay Bursary (£45), H. Foley : "Rhodes (£10), A. ML. Wilson 1, N. I.' D. Bruce 2; Mooro (£10), T. S. Morris 1, J. Shelley 2; Turnbull Mathematics and Science (£10), A. J. C. Hanan; Turnbull (£5 each), H. J. Bramwell, L. J. Evans, and G. C. Blake; Levin Language (£4), A. K. Hamilton; Levin" Mathematics and Science (£4), N. W. Millner; Richardson History (£C), H. R. Bannister; Richardson Book-keeping (£6). G..A. Peddie.