SUCCESSFUL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2681, 29 January 1916, Page 7

SUCCESSFUL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

BANKS'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE.

Tho annual examinations at Banks's College have shown excellent results. Iu the public examinations lield In November and December last the results were as follow: Accountancy aaid 8.C0m., forty-eight presented, thirtyono passed; two completed the B.Com. degree, and eight comploted the professional subjects. Law Professional and LL.B.—Sixty-two presented, thirtyseven passed.-Entrance Public Service— Twenty-seven presented, eighteen. passed. Entrance University—-Forty-six-pre-sented, two passed Medical Preliminary, ten passed Solicitors' General Knowledge and Matriculation, and nineteen passed Matriculation. Day, evening, and correspondence tuition is given in, the ten, departments attached to the college, viz.—Accountancy, law professional, public service, entrance university, practical bookkeeping and commercial knowledge, shorthand and typewriting, military, university, and teachers' certificate, police, and advertising. Tho staff consists of fifteen experienced teachers and lecturers. Four of these were sometime junior and senior scholars of the New Zealand University, and graduated with first-class honours, Each department is in charge of a specialist. The third year of Banlcs's Preparatory and Secondary Day School for Boys conimence6 on Tuesday, February 1. The school, which is conveniently situated where Woodward Street joins Hie Terrace, consists of fifteen well-lighted and ventilated rooms. The staff consists of eight teachers, all of them highly educated and trained; and each of them specially well qualified to deal with his own particular part of tho work. The principals-of the college are Mr. W. T. Foster, M.A. (N.Z.), B.Litt. (Oxon.), sometime Junior and Senior Scholar and First-Class Honoursman of New Zealand' University, and' Mr. H. H. Cornish, M.A., LL.B., sometime Junior and Senior Scholar and Double First-Class Honoursman. At the end of last year there were over sixty boys attending. In tho secondary part of tho school boys are prepared for all tho public examinations, such as Entrance and Senior Public Service, Matriculation, Solicitors' and Barristers' Preliminary, Junior University, and Senior National Scholarship, Osborne, Sandhurst, and Duntroon Entrance. If parents so wish, boys can also obtain a.purely commercial training in arithmetic, business English, commercial geography, shorthand and typewriting, and in book-keeping. In short, boys are prepared in tho secondary department for_ all the professions and public examinations, and for a business or clerical career. Tho primary department is for boys between the ages of seven and twelve or thirteen, and tho preparatory for boys between fivo and seven. The work of these two junior divisions is that of preparation' for tho secondary department. Tho number of students 011 the rolls is over seven hundred. Of these some two hundrd are young women- taking the shorthand, typewriting, and practical book-keeping courses. Positions are found for all those students who can bo recommended.