SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2344, 27 June 1868, Page 2

SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS.

TO THE EOITOR OF THE LYTTELTON TIMES. Sir, —The College half-yearly examinations have been over, and the results I hear given out, more than a week ago. Business uufortunately prevents me from attending at the breaking-up days of the College and High School, where there are many youngsters in whose progress I have a personal interest, as an old friend of their parents. Being deeply interested in knowing that education generally is progressing in Canterbury, I naturally look to your columns to keep me informed of the customary half-yearly proceedings. I confess to being greatly disappointed in this respect. I was much pleased to notice your account of S. Luke's School examination, and in the prize list, the names of several boys and girls, children of old colonists well known to me. I hope to see a similar account of all the leading district schools. It is an encouragement to children to work, and to parents to keep up their efforts at educating their children, and a pleasure to their friends and old schoolmates to see published the names of the prize-winners and of those who are honourably mentioned. I trust yet to see a general account in one issue of all the school examinations of the half year. Your obedient servant, PUBLICITY. [We shall always be happy to insert the information required, if the authorities of the schools will take the trouble to supply it.— ED.z.r.]