JUNIOR NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 60, 5 December 1918, Page 5

JUNIOR NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS

EXAMINATION TO BE HELD IN ' FEBRUARY. When postponing the Junior National Scholarship examination from November .20 to December 17 and 18, the Education Department "considered that the 'selection of the latter date was reasonably safe, the Chief Health Officer having stated in answer to inquiries that there was a fair prospect of carrying out the examination on that date. Subsequent developments, however, have made it necessary for the Department of Public Health to forbid any examinations of thi3 kind being held before Christmas. Aβ it would be unfair to candidates to. hold the examination for Junior National Scholarships in January owing to the long period for which schools would then have been closed, it has been decided to hold the examination on February 20 and 21, 191!). Nearly all candidates will, in any case, be eligible fur junior free places, and may commence their secondary course at the opening of high schools, technical schools, or district high, echools. Any candidates who cannot proceed to secondary education without a scholarship will require either to wait until the results of the scholarship examination are known about the end of March, or to make the best arrangements possible for attending school during February and March. Arrangements will be made with the secondary school authorities to provide adequately for any scholarship candidates who may not enter upon secondary work until after the scholarship examination, i