JUNIOR FREE PLACES.
EXAMINATIONS ABOLISHED.
Notification was received yesterday by' the Board of Education that it had been decided by the Education Department, subject to the approval of the Governor - in-Gouncil, to abolish the special junior I free place examination. Candidates for 1 free places in high schools who are not I scholarship candidates will in future have to rely on qualifying in the Standard VI. ' examination. Those who will be over 15 ' years of age on December 1 of this year, i and will, therefore, be ineligible for a free ; place on a proficiency certificate, will be' permitted to enter for the junior national i scholarship examination, and those reach- j ing a satisfactory standard in that examination will become eligible for free' places. No other candidate who is not a candidate fur a scholarship will be permitted to sit for the junior national scholarship examination. Approval of the Department's decision was expressed at yesterday's meeting, and the secretary was asked to notify primary schools accordingly.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16589, 12 July 1917, Page 6
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