ACCOUNTANT STUDENTS TO PASS MATRIC EXAM

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6699, 28 August 1928, Page 7

ACCOUNTANT STUDENTS TO PASS MATRIC EXAM

NEW BULB COMES INTO POECE raoM i93i. -///v Per Press Association, ' AUCKLAND, Last Night The annual' meeting'/ of the . New, ; ' Zealand Society of Accountants was held to-day. /The repbrt stated that, membership. stood at 1820, ■. f ■ A l -: The Society had decided .fo provide for the passing of the matricnlatioi examination .on entrance ; to the So oiety: after 1931. The accountants* preliminary, examination, had nndocbt-, odly served its purpose as ■it had enabled many persons “who by reason of / •war'service and other causes were urn able to take the full matriculation course to sit for the professional course. The necessity for the lesser examination had . now disappeared and-it had become necessary to bring the standard of , examinations to the very/ highest / point. : r 1 - ■ ’ ’’ / The election of council members resulted: Messrs A. M, Seamen (Auckland), W. H. Irvine (Poverty Bay), Hugh Baily (Taranaki), T. Anton •• (Wellington), W. E; Best (Canter-, bury)/arid James Hogg (Otago). VThfc only contested district^was Wellington, from the representation, of , which M; Bowden retired owing to his transfer from Wellington.