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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1665, 27 January 1904, Page 50

A proof of the interest taken in pieferential trade by the manufacturers of Great Britain is afforded by the .following trade letter which is being circulated in New Zealand by a. large English firm of boot and shoe manufacturers“ln view of the impetus likely to be given to trade with the Old Country through the patriotic action of New Zealand, we take the opportunity thus offered, to send yon a catalogue of some of our productions of boots and shoes and trust we may be favoured With some of your business.” Official figures placed before the Minister for Education regarding the number of candidates who went up for the . various examinations at each centre in the colony this month shpw that 2JO teachers sat for class D, IoJ | or CO “J r pletlon, 227 for class E,w 128 for completion, 533 for Civil Service junior; 140 for Civil Service senior, winch, with, minor' figures, bring the total to • 1428 candidates, against 1253 last year. ■ Auckland topped the. total with 306 candidates, Wellington coming :.;next with 213, Christchurch 141,. Dunedin 140,. .