UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1931, Page 8

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l would like to direct your attention to a matter of extreme importance to the university students in this city who will at the end of the month be sitting for their university examinations, and to invite the co-operation of your paper to prevent what would seem to create an injustice to those students.

It is proposed to hold the examinations in the Winter Show building. Part of that building is let, or will be let at the time the examinations are taking place, as a roller skating rink, and the unfortunate students who will have to sit for their examinations there, and who are entitled to peace and quietness, will have to carry out their examination work subject to the noise of roller skates running on wooden boards, accompanied with all the noise and blare, musical and otherwise, which seems to be the presentday accompaniment of roller skating. This seems to be unfair, and eepecially as the Wellington students will be competing for scholarships with students sitting at other centres throughout the Dominion where they will be under no such disability and handicap, as it is assumed that at other centres wiser administration and arrangements will be carried out for the conduct of the examinations and the comfort of the students.

You will remember also, Sir, that a year or two back you took up the cause iv your paper, of the want of proper arrangements in carrying out the examinations in the then Winter Show building, where the students had to sit with the rain dripping down on to them from the roof and being obliged to sit in cold and draughty rooms. In the circumstances it is manifestly impossible for the students to do justice to their tasks. One would have thought, that, the uproar that was raised previously "out of the use of the Show building by the university authorities would have prevented a recurrence of conditions so unsuitable for the conduct of the examinations. I feel, Sir, that the publicity of your valuable paper, which is always extended to a right cause, will prevent the perpetration of an injustice to tho "Wellington students. —I am, etc., OSSIAN.