The Chief Guide and Beach Attire

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 95, 16 January 1935, Page 11

The Chief Guide and Beach Attire

Sir, —A correspondent has the temerity to introduce the name of Lady BadenPowell into the discussion in your columns on beach attire. Readers* who are acquainted with the Chief Guide and her work will doubt the accuracy of Mr. Rudd’s statement ' that Lady BadenPowell is shocked at the backless costumes, but it may mislead those who arc less well informed;—l am. etc., MARJORIE M TWEED, Provincial Commissioner. Heretaunga, January 11. Accountancy Examinations Sir, —The suggestion made by “Live and Let Live” about the final examination for professional accountancy is an excellent one. At the same time, it is one which is unlikely to stand any chance of adoption by the society on account of its very practicability. If the New Zealand Society of Accountants has any intention at all of'taking notice of The wave, of extreme dissatisfaction with its examinations which is fast spreading throughout the country, it may not be above taking notice of the various sug-, gestions made by your correspondents—to which suggestions may I be permitted to add the following?— 1. Hold the examinations twice a year and hold them in the evenings, instead of the daytime, so that the average office worker can sit down quietly and peacefully in the examination room, calm in the knowledge that his office work is not being neglected in the meantime. Cut entitle theory of “if examinations interfere with your business, give up your business.” 2. Extend the time for completing examination papers to three and a half or four hours, ns necessary. The majority of students find three hours not enough to do anything like justice to themselves and their tutors. The consensus of opinion is against three hours, and the minority should never be allowed to rule the majority. 3. English, good handwriting, good figuring, and general neatness should be taken into account when giving marks. This will eliminate “scribble” and carelessness —which would never.be tolerated m the average office-as they are in the examination room to-day. 4. Let the examiners take more time in marking papers: the suspicion is presently being created that, with the number of papers there is to mark, it is wellnigh impossible to have them, all properly read over and the results published in such a short time as is the case at present. 5. Make it possible for students who have failed to obtain their marked papers, on payment of a fee, after the results of the examinations have been published. Even a condemned man is made aware of the evidence against him. In conclusion, it may be too much to ask that examination fees be reduced : it costs a student £7/7/- to go through the professional accountancy examinations alone, without one failure. Add to this the fees for the preliminary examinations, the tuition fees, and entrance fee to the society, and the thing becomes almost prohibitive for many who would otherwise give the matter their serious consideration. —I am, etc., COMMON SENSE. Wanganui. January 14.