BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ COLLEGES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 131, 26 February 1921, Page 12

BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ COLLEGES

SUCCESS AT RECENT EXAMINATIONS. A high percentage of successes gained by pupils of the Wellington Boys’ College and the Girls’ College in the recent examinations was shown in reports made to the College Board of Governors yesterday. Aliss M'Lean, principal of the Girls’ College, reported as follows: —“In the university scholarship examination Eileen Paul gained a senior national university scholarship, and four girls— Ellen Newton, Afargorie Carr, Maida Clark, and Netta Fowler—gained places on the credit list. Alelvyn Witeon matriculated on the same papers. In the matriculation examination forty-six passed, thirty securing full passes, eleven partial passes, and five completing the examination. Seventy per cent, of those entering passed the examination. Twenty qualified also for the solicitors’ general and the medical preliminary; one for the solicitors’ general and twenty-five for the matriculation alone. In the Public Service entrance fifty of Inst year’s pupils passed, comprising 62 per cent, of those entering. One pupil, Muy Tnlbot, gained first, place for New Zealand. Five pupils gained senior national scholarships-Flora AVilson Mary Coolev, Alarv Shallcrass. Kathleen Essen, and Agnes Patterson. Four pupils gained junior national scholarships—Dorothy Smith, Alice Richards, Hazel Spiers, and Freda Fogelberg. The report made by Air. 1. R. Cresswell, principal of the Boys’ College,- was equally good. Of twenty-three, senior national scholarships awarded in the Wellington district, fifteen were to college pupils, as follow:—E. H. AL Adams, H. Foley. S. A. M. Haigh, J - W - Easing W. E. Lavelle. C. APlntyre, D. W. M'Kenzie, G. E. Parker A. F. Pet™, C S Plank, G. R. Powles, W. P. Rollings T. M. Smith, D. H. White, and A. C. Zohrab. Eight pupils gained junior national scholarships-K. W. Bauckham. J. S. Ellis, J. C Greig Jackson, A. K M’Learn S. H. Pen-.ri S J Rubenstein, and W. B- Suteh. A junior University scholarship was won hr AL Leadbette’r, and University national scholarships by J’nthnd, L E Perryman, and L. A. Riddell. Fo pupils gained matriculation on examinations. Forty-three passed the matriculation examination, fon . rt J, en nleted and twenty-four gained partial passesj Tn the junior national ship eighteen gained free places. Thirty rir passed the senior free place examination? the following with credit: A. Aimlie B F. Clark, C. B. Afenzies, and R. \V.’ Osliorn. Ten pupils were in the Public Service entrance including IV E Britland. who was sixth for New Zealand and first in Wellington. Tn .addition a large number of senior free pl.aces were granted by recommendation (without examination). The following recommendations to the board as holders of scholarships at Wellington College for 1921 were Afaekay Bursary (J 645 H. Foley; Rhodes (.£10) A. APL. Wilson 1, N. I. D. Bruce 2; Moore (T 10 T. S. Morris 1, J. Shelley 2; Turnbull Alathematics and Science / ei(b A. J. C. Hanan; iurnbull (£5 each),’ IT. I. Bramwell. L. J. Evai J®’ n " d G. C. Blake; Levin Language <A4), A ; K Hamilton; Levin Mathematics and Science N. W. Millner; Richardson History (X 6 H. Bson Book-keeping (416), G. A. Peddie.