BAYLY MEMORIAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 12 April 1910, Page 8

BAYLY MEMORIAL

THE PROPOSED SCHOLARSHIP. The Taranaki Rugby Union have collected over £100 as a Bayly^memorial. It is proposed to award annually a Bayly scholarship, a/nd the following are the suggested conditions: — "Extent of • Competition. — AH boys resident in the Taranaki Provincial district under the age of fifteen years on the Ist December in the year «n which the examination is held. The candidate must have spent the whole of the year in which . he competes in the Taranaki province, and must have attended some public or private school therein. "Scholarship. — The examination shall be that set out for the junior national scholarship. For this examination various centres are fixed, and the whole is controlled by the Education Department, Wellington. The subjects are as follows: — English 300, arithmetic 200, geography 100, drawing 100, general knowledge 100; total 800. "Character. — Good temper, behaviour, language, popularity, personal character, etc., 200. These to be awarded by headmaster of the school and inspector in conjunction. "Athletics. — A competition consisting of the following events, open to all boys who have been nominated for the Bayly scholarship, will be held at a place and time appointed by the Taranaki Rugby Union, and governed by officials appointed by them: — Event Standard Marks- Ist 2nd 3rd 100 yds 12 2-ss. 75 16 6 2 440 yds -665. 75 Yh 6 2 High jump 4ft. 50 14 4 1, Long jump 12ft. 50 14 4 1 Drop kick 45yds. 75 20 8 2 Punt 40yds. 50 15 6 2 360 95 35 10 "Total marks, 500. "The candidate securing the highest aggregate number of marks shall be chosen as the Bayly . scholar. This scholarship shall be tenable for two years at any High School or District High School in the Taranaki province.