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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 97, 22 September 1877, Page 2

' The Bispec&r of'Sfchools, for 1 ' this district held *h Examination dn the 13th and 14th/ at the Sbhodt fibuse. There are on the Dooks of the School eighty, nine chiHren', aticf of"thafc number there ' were eighty-seven* present at the ex* animation. , „ In the first standard,' 9 boys and 8 girls parsed 1 second standard, -10* boys and 5 girls ( third standard; 5 boyrand ■2'rirls ; fourth standard/ f'boy pissed. William Gray p«sse& the fourth standard within ten- months of his having passed the third/ Joseph Blower, who is only ten years and sue months old took the highest number of marks, m the third standard, within a yea* from his passing- the second. Too great praise cannot be given to Mr Hutiro^the Schtoolnwfcteiv for the efficient manner m which* he brings • forward 1 the children.Th'e InsiJefctor before feaVing said £hat he had jti ever pa^ed a' school so well up m all' the standards except one, and that was the writing, which would bear a little improvement, but otherwise the schoof was decidedly ahead of any other school m his "district. The Prizr eiven bjr Dr. Eocltstrow for the best scholar was again' taken by William Gray,, who took it last year. It is quite a pleasure to see how glad alf the children seem when Mr Lee arrives, and < with what willingness they come -to take part m the examination, amTto hear how they speak of theInspectbr's kindnesr duriitg the examiuatiOn. '