SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATIONS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13810, 22 January 1909, Page 2

SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATIONS.

JUNIOR NATIONAL AND EDUCA- , XION BOARD. The following candidates from South Canterbury have passed the examination for Junior National Scholarships, Junior Education BoaT'd Scholarships, and junior free places:— Marks Dorothy Hardcastle (Timaru Main) 661 J. P. Steven (Pleasant Point) ... 619 M. B. O'Connor (Hazelburn) 603 J. J. Jrerach (Temuka) 598 B. F. Hayrnan (Waimate) 578 Winifred Farnie (Geraldine) 565 C. Howe (Timaru Main) 553 Jessio MeCaskill ("Winchester) ... 543 Nora Angland (Pleasant Point) ... 525 Alma Cook (Temuka) 522 H. \V. Hamilton (Waimate) 504 May Wells (Pleasant Point) 499 Ebbie Jackson (Pleasant Point) ... 495 Grace McNab (Timaru Main)' ... 492 Edith Bennett (Temuka) 482 C. H. Coxhead (Timaru Main) ... 472 G. B. Bradshaw (Waimate) 467 W. Timmins (Waimaitaitai) 464 L. J. Wills (Waimate) 464 W. Jones (Waimate) ..'. 462 C. •). Gaby (Temuka) 460 Georgina Roddy (Pleasant Point) 455 Elizabeth Simmers (Waimaitaitai) 453 Isabel Ferguson (Hannaton) 448 11. \V. Scrimshaw (Temuka) 451 H. E. Bennetts (Timaru Main) ... 445 Win. Hutton (Adair) 445 Doris Rennie (Waimaitaitai) 435 J. R. Ferguson (Waimaitaitai) ... 416 Edna Kimpton (Waituna Creek) 412

Ivy Greenwood (Timaru Main) ... 410

Ivv Langridge (Temuka) ............ 410 H* Fv Pope (Waimaitaitai) ..* 400 Seventeen others failed to get.so per cent, of the total marks (.800), or failed to get 25 per cent, in one subject. The Education Board, at their meeting next Tuesday, will allot the two ■Junior National Scholarships, and the Boards own scholarships., tlie latter as manv as the funds available will .permit." The total amount of the scholarship fund for' the year is about £354, but half of it has to he allocated to carrying on tlie existing -scholarsuips. The first on the list is barred from receiving a National Scholarship, which deprives the Timaru Main School ot some kudos. These two scholarships then will be allotted to the-second and third on the list: One of them must .to to a school having less than 40 in °vera<xe attendance, and Hazelburn happens to be such a school: otherwise the successful second candidate must have'been sought a long way down wie list The National Scholarships are worth £loavear, plus £3o.for lodging monev if the scholar must live away from'home, and they are tenable tor three vears. | The Board's scholarships are £V, plus £2O lodging allowance an the like cases, and they are tenable tor two years. • -