CORRESPONDENCE.
To tub Editor of the -Evening Mail.' Sib,— lt would be wrong to allow an extraordiuary advertisement that appeared in last uight's Mail headed " Results of Examinations for Provincial Scholarships from 1870, and signed "W. Price," to pass unchallenged! The object of this advertisement is plainly to lead the public to believe that the boys under Mr Price's charge, though they may have failed to win any scholarships, gained more marks than the boys did ia Mr Smith's time. Now, either Mr Price is grossly ignorant of the facts, or he has not arithmetic enough to work out a simple question in ratios. He is actually guilty of the unpardonable foliy of comparing the marks gainedby his boys in 1875, 1876, and 1877, (when a maximum of 600 marks was allowed) with the marks gained by Mr Smith's boys, who were allowed in one year, 1870, a maximum of; 320 marks ! The maximum in 1872 was 354, in 1873, 425, in 1874 450. The figures speak for themselves, and few well taught boys of twelve years old will fail to draw a true conclusion. I am, &c, Arithmeticus.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 176, 23 July 1878, Page 2
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189CORRESPONDENCE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 176, 23 July 1878, Page 2
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