OUTSTANDING WORK

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 40, 15 January 1944, Page 4

OUTSTANDING WORK

OF SOLDIER STUDENTS. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 14

Outstanding work done by New Zealand students under difficujt conditions as prisoners of war and in the front line of war was mentioned by the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, Hon. J. A. Hanan, today. "During the year 10 scripts have been received from New Zealanders in prison camps in Germany," he said. "The examiners, under instruction to mark to normal standards, have without question awarded full passes to nine of those scripts. In the tenth case the examiner reported that as the theoretical work done clearly showed the student's knowledge of his subject, and as a slight shortage of marks could quickly be made up had the student been able to perform certain practical exercises usually undertaken in his subject, a war concession, pass should definitely be granted by the war concessions committee of th« university.

' "Another notable instance of study under difficult conditions appeared when among numerous scripts retivncd from Pacific bases there were two of which the supervisor reported that the candidate had. written them in a foxhole on an island in the advanced area. The examination papers had reached the supervisor unaccompanied by the usual supply of writing paper -aiid the work was done on leaves taken from, the notebook of a nearby officer. Despite the obviously difficult of examination this candidate passed in. two subject*, each one showing a comfortable margin of marks."