WELLINGTON COLLEGE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10525, 28 February 1920, Page 4

WELLINGTON COLLEGE

BOARD OF GOVERNORS SPLENDID RESULTS IN OUTSIDE EXAMINATIONS. A meeting of the IVcllington College Bonrd of Governors was held yesterday morning, Mr IV. F. Vi arc! (chairman) presiding. The oilier members present -.vere :—Sir Edward Gibbs and Messrs IV. H. Field, M.P., 1. Forsyth, and IV. Allen. The chairman stated that £9OO hiu! boon received on account of free place capitation, and that £3OO had been paid on account of alterations to the college gymnasium. The iinancieat statement showed a total credit balance of £2449 12s; while tho payments required totalled £25G7 IGs lld ■ —Wellington College, £IOBB 2s lid; Gills’ College, £IT79 11s; leaving a detbit balance of £4lB 4s ltd. Rut, as against this, there arc £2092 8s -Id of first term fees outstanding for Wellington College, and £59 Is 8d of arrears (total £2721 10s); also £2094 Us 2d first term fees outstanding for tho Girls’ College, with £93 10s 3d arrears (total £2189 Is sd); and £O7 Bs 3d of rents outstanding; making a grand total of £4559 T4s ,od. The amount on fixed deposit is £sooo. RUTHERFORD MEMORIAL PRIZE. Mr J. P. Firth (headmaster of Wellington College) reported that the Wyville Rutherford Memorial Prize for 1919 was won by Re E, Tolluirsl. Lincoln College, who was head prefect a! Wellington College last year. ■ OUTSIDE EXAMINATION RESULTS. The outside- examination results for 1919 were reported by Air Fdnh a-i under:—Junior University Scholarships, first and four, 3; University Senior National Scholarships, 3; passed for University- Scholarship Examination with credit, 3; passed Matriculation in above, 1; Duntroon Entrance Examination (first and second in New Zealand), 3; completed Matriculation, 8; passed Matriculation and Solicitors' General Knowledge and Medical Preliminary Examination. 44; partial pass in above, 21; Public Service Entrance Examination passed with credit (7th and 13th in New- Zealand), 3; passed Public Service Entrance Examination, 4; Senior National Scholarship (Ist in New Zealand), 11; Senior Free Place with credit in Public Service Entrance Examination, 4; Junior National Scholarship (Ist in New Zealand) 7; Senior Free Place (by examination,?, 35; Senior Free Place (by recommendation), 107. Summarising the results, he stated that Wellington College gained first place in Now Zealand in the Junior University Scholarship Examination; first place in Net,Zealand in the Duntroon Examination; first place in Now Zealand in the Senior National Scholarship Examination: first place in New Zealand in tho Junior National Scholarship Examination; and the seventh and thirteenth places in the Public Service Entrance Examinations. ’

Mr Firth added that the number on the roll at the college is now 678; but, that with the new- rooms in order, they were still very-, full, though better off than last year, except that they had no additional laboratory accommodation. Ho reported that the five new rooms are quite satisfactory, and that the other alterations for tho gymnasium and for the armoury are well under way. GIRLS' COLLEGE-OUTSIDE EXAMINATIONS. Miss McLean (headmistress of the Girls’ College) summarised as follows tho fine record of tho pupils in the outside examinations at the end of last year:— < _ Two pupils gained University Scholarships, while three gained credit and two matriculated on tho scholarship papers. In the Matriculation Examination 40 passed (including partial passes), that is 80 per cent, of those entering Three pupils gained Senior Nation ■ al Scholarships, and five gained Junior National Scholarships.

“The result of the Senior National Scholarship Examination for the North Island,” added Miss McLean (tho South Island returns being not then available), “show conclusively what was anticipated when home science was made a compulsory siibjcct for gills—that, if at this stage, time was taken up with subjects of no value as examination subjects, an undue" advantage would ho given to hoys competing in the same examination,”