VICTORIA COLLEGE.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, to-day. Of the 144 candidates for Victoria College scholarships only twenty-six qualified by obtaining half marks in English, arithmetic, and geography, but of the work of these the examiner speaks very highly, and says they all deserved scholarships if the College could have afforded it. The prizes are £20 for the city, and £40 for country pur.ils, and the term five years, and they have to attend lectures at thfl *■ College, but are exempt from fees. The examiner says no one could have perused , the papers without the conviction being forced on him that the primary instruction in the schools of the districts whence the candidates came is thoroughly efficient. Geography was the weakest point, and leads him to think it is a uniform exception to otherwise good teaching. He racom mends the Boards to look into the matter.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8414, 13 January 1899, Page 2
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