HAWERA MATRICULATION RESULTS.

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 January 1933, Page 6

HAWERA MATRICULATION RESULTS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln answer to “Parent’s” request for last year’s language marks obtained by pupils of the Hawera High School in the University Scholarship Examination, I have the greatest, pleasure in providing him with the required information, incidentally, including the marks gained by pupils of the New Plymouth Girls High School for comparison. The four pupils of the Hawera High School who' took Latin gained respectively 294, 216, 255, 162 marks, with an average of 232.5 marks per pupil. Those Obtained by the five students from the N.P.G.H.S. were as follow: 252, 204, ISO, 180, 162, with an average of 20.1.4 (the possible marks were 600). Although the marks gained by the local students may not seem very high, when one considers that they were higher than those gained by the pupils of the N.P.G.H.S., “one of the most efficient, in the Dominion” to quote “Parent,” such results will undoubtedly prove an “eyeopener” to “Parent” and those ivho may possibly hold similar views. The French marks, also, show a margin m favour of the local school, which in this subject gained an average of 191.6 marks per pupil, whereas N.P.'G.H.S. had an average of IS7 (the possible marks in this case being 400). “Parent,” in his last effusion, points out the fact that the local students were the tail-endcrs in the University Scholarship Examination, but could “Parent” state the number of pupils from the three other schools who sat for the examination and did not even gain Taranaki Scholarships? I may here mention that only three pupils from the Hawera High "School sat and all were successful—surely “something to write home about.”

In conclusion, sir, I wish to say 1 have no interest whatsoever in "the identity of “Parent,” and concede him 'the fact that his child did not fail in the Entrance Examination, which is but a minor issue to the question under discussion. As far as I am concerned the question is now closed and I join with Sullivan in his view that'- ‘ ‘ The culminating pleasure A\ hick we treasure beyond measure Is the satisfying feeling That our duty’s nobly done.” Thanking you for your valuable space.—l am, etc., EX-PUPIL. (To the Editor.) Sir—l have read “Parent’s” letters on this matter with great interest, and I cordially endorse all his remarks, which are well put and very much to the point. I feel sure, that" if all the parents of the pupils at the school wore canvassed, -the consensus of opinion would be in support of “Parent’s” views.—l am. sir, • HAWERA.