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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 142, 15 May 1930, Page 6

That reorganisation and improvement in the present methods of school inspection and graduation are needed was a point made by Mr P. M. Jackson in his presidential address to the Public Schools Assistant Masters’ Association at Wellington yesterday. The return to New Plymouth of Bert Thomas, who was arrested in Sydney on a charge of having absconded from justice in being a bankrupt, created considerable interest when Thomas appeared in the New Plymouth Court yesterday. An application for a remand to next week was granted. That many candidates were insufficiently prepared for the matriculation examination; that there was much misspelling and use of slang; and that in examinations for some degree subjects many candidates showed inability to write decent English, were some of the criticisms passed by the pro-chancellor, Hon. J. A. Hanan. in liis address at the opening of the University Senate at Wellington yesterday. “The team is not the strongest the British Isles could field,” Mr James Baxter, manager of the visiting British Rugby team, said in the course of an interview' at .Wellington. “Several of the Scottish players who were selected could not make the trip at the last moment. All the same, I think we have a very fine side. We have a good pack of forwards —according to British standards—and our back division is well representative of England, Wales and Ireland.”