A menilKT of a certain Education Committee relates the sad case of a girl who failed to pass the examination winrli would have qualified'her for an appointment as pupil teacher in one of the local schools. The motliT of the disappointed young lady was asked by a friend whether the daughter had succeeded in running the gauntlet of the exam"Xo f " was the reply, in a mournful tone, "Jenny didn't pass at all. .Maybe you won't believe it. sir, but them examiners asked the poor girl about things that happened years and years before she was born."
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2662, 2 June 1908, Page 7
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