NGARUA SCHOOL PUPILS

Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1788, 3 December 1936, Page 2

NGARUA SCHOOL PUPILS

WIN TWO SCHOLARSHIPS

Ngarua school had the distinction of supplying the winners of two scholarships, one for boys and one for girls, competed for by children of primary schools throughout the King Country and Waikato. These scholarships are of £57 a year, and entitle the winners to three years’ boarding at the New Plymouth Boys’ High School and the New Plymouth Girls’ High School. An examination was held on November 3 and 4, the standard required being a little harder than that for proficiency.

The successful Ngarua pupils were Robert James Scott, son of Mr. and." Mrs. W. Scott, who Stained 536 jnarks; or 12 more than the next boy,, and Megan Hayward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Hayward, who

gained 509 marks, or 52 more than the neit girl; > . •>. • Both of the scholarship winners had intended continuing their education next year in any case, and it is stated that as a result of their success. the Matamata High School and an Auckland secondary school will each lose a prospective pupil. Their loss will be. New Plymouth’s gain. In conversation with a representative of this paper, Mr. S. 'C. Carter, headmaster of the Ngarua school, said this was the first time that Ngarua pupils had competed for these scholarships, so that the school’s success in “ winning the double ” was all the more noteworthy. ■ v ’ v ,* r < ‘ .