RA WLINGS SCHOLARSHIPS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9399, 4 January 1894, Page 5

RA WLINGS SCHOLARSHIPS.

Messrs. G. A. Buttle a>i> F. G. Ewikgtow, trustees under the will of the late Mr. H. Rawlings, yesterday received from the Rev. Joseph Bates, examiner for the scholarships, the following report: — January 3, 18*4. • To the Trustees of the Rawlings' Scholarship Fund. Gentlemen, — I have the honour to forward you herewith the marks obtained by the candidates in the Rawlings' Scholarship Examination held on December 22 and 23 of last year. The subjects of examination were reading, English grammar, English history, geography, and arithmetic. It will be observed that of the shirty-eight candidates examined, fourteen failed to gain half of the maximum marks obtainable. The subject in which the least satisfactory work was done was English history. Much of the answering in geography ilso was indifferent. In arithmetic the papers ot several of the candidates were of a high order of excellence.—l am, yours very respectfully, J. Bates, Forty boys entered for the competition. The scholarships are worth £10 a-year each and free tuition at the Grammar School for three years, but if the trustees find that a boy is an apt pupil, likely to make his mark in the world with extra culture, they have power to extend the term and otherwise to foster the lad. William Hay Graham, who has obtained the hienest number of marks, attends the Avondale School, and is the son of Mr. S. Graham, who has been in the South some time. The burden of the boy's education and maintenance has fallen upon the mother, who is a respectable and deserving woman. The second boy on the list was George Bater, a lad somewhat younger than Graham, and a son of Charles Bater, who works for the City Council and has eight children. The boy is a scholar at the Beresford-street Public School.