BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIX, Issue 14611, 19 February 1908, Page 5

BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In your issue of this morning there is a letter from a correspondent, I presume of the sterner sex, who signs himself “ Hodge,” and asks for the number of passes in matriculation and Civil Service by scholars of the Boys’ High School. Happily I am in a position to give fairly exact figures. In 1906 there were nineteen passes in matriculation and thirty in Junior Civil Service, twenty-four of these being with credit. There were also two Senior Civil Service (one with distinction), one Junior University Scholarship, two Senior National Scholarships, one Gammack Scholarship, and one candidate placed on tho credit list. . In 1907 there were nineteen candidates for Matriculation, of whom four-

teen passed. There were forty candl« dates for Junior Civil Service, thirtysix passing, one of whom came third on the list for New Zealand. The University returns for 1907 have, unfortunately, not yet come to hand, but I think that the figures given will show “ Hodge ” that the Boys’ High School is still able to produce boys who can bring honour to the school, not only in tile direction of athletics, but also in the direction of education.—l am, etc., AN ADMIRER OF THE OLD SCHOOL. February IS. 1908.