TARANAKI SCHOLARSHIPS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 215, 30 January 1913, Page 6

TARANAKI SCHOLARSHIPS.

KDUCATIOX BOARD AWARDS. To Taranaki Education Board has iiiai! ■ known its awards in connection will tlifi Senior Board and the Junior Xaional and Board Scholarships for P.! 12-13. They will b? made subject to t'i- usual regulations being complied villi, in regard to the Junior National Scholarships it is necessary to explain that if three or more Junior Scholarships are offered annually in an education district, then at least one scholarship shall be awarded to one of the candidates from schools having more than a.5 but no more than 200 in yearly average attendance, if there is a qualified candidate from such schools. This explains why certain competitors with higher marks have been passed over in favor of certain others with a lower pass. With regard to the Board Scholarships, it is provided that at least onehalf of the scholarships given shall lie awarded to competitors who have regularly attended for at least one year preceding December a school with an average attendance not exceeding eighty, | provided that a sufficient number of ! these oondidates is found to be duly {qualified. The travelling and boarding i allowances may increase the value of the I scholarships up to £3O. SKN7OR BOARD SCHOLARSHIPS, , of £5 each. Jovoe H. Wilson (N.P. U.S.) 1323 Leonard Avann (X.P. U.S.) 128S Hector J. Mail (Stratford D.H.S.) 1273 Frances I. McAllister (Stratford D.H.S.) 1247 Charles H. Rogers (Stratf'd D.H.S.) 1132 Xelson V. Hodgson (Stratf'd D.H.S.) 1083 ("ivace B. Monat (X.P.H.S.) 1066 Marv I. Whitaker (X.P. H.S.) .... 092 Leslie T. Day (X.P. H.S.) 041 Francis I. Clemow (Stratf'd D.H.S.) 895 Tn addition the following were granted free places:— Kathleen I. King (X.P. H.S.) 881 F. Harrison (X.P. H.S".) 806

Donald Grant (N.P. H.S.) 743 Trevor J. Hawkes (N.P. H.S.) .... 718 Frank W. Clcmow (N.P. ITS.) .. 067 George H. W Ewing (N.P. U.S.) .. 047 Robert D. Kidd (N.P. H.S.) 027 Leonard D. Brown (Stratf'd D.H.S.) 015 Norah D. Moore (N.P. H.S.) 000 JUNIOR NATIONAL AND BOARD ' > SCHOLARSHIPS. Eleanor A. Pope (N.P. H.S.), Junior National, £lO, 500.

Marjorie B. Wilson (Fitzroy School), Junior National, £lO, 532. The following reecivod Board Scholarships of £5 each, with an extra allowance for travelling or boarding expenses in the eases of children coming from country schools:— Joan E. Cooke (Central) 542 Alex. R. Callander (Central) 538 George E. Arms (Stratford) 525 Eveline L. Coad (West End) 522 Francis C. Kelly (Fitzroy) 521 Henry A. Anderson (Stratford) ... 520 Sydney S. Skelton (Hillsborough) 502 Douglas G. D. Mackic (Kaimata).. 496 Arthur A. Huse (Omata) 494 Alice M. I'ox (Okato) 429 D'Arcy H. Bishop (Hillsborough) .. 418 Marjory Grace Morton (Egniont V.) 416

Free places were awarded as follows: John Charles Hall (Stratford) 518 Thomas Viekers (Stratford) 517 Charles C. Yates (Opunake) 511 Margery Chambers (Opunake) .... 500 Kenneth E. Brokenshire (N.P. H.S.) 495 Charles H.Clemow (Stratford) 484 Denis Winfield (Stratford) 480 Aileen Mary Jenkins (Waitara) .. 477 William J. L. Gardner (Toko) 466 Astrid I. Overhve (Stratford) ..:. 465 Phyllis C. Wilson (N.P. H.S.) .... 463 Gordon F. Harkness (Stratford) .. 460 Albert S. Cammock (West End) .. 456 Campbell McAllister (Stratford) .. 455 Alfred A.Mills (West End) 454 Alice M. George (X.P. H.S.) 451 Margaret A. Thompson (Stratford) 444 Horton E. Menzies (Stratford) 441 Lilian L. Medway (West End) .... 439 Norman K. Mackay (Stratford) .. 434 George J. C. Bain (Toko) 432 Arthur R. Blanchett (West End) .. 430 Dorothy L. P>eira (Stratford) 422 Emily A. Bennett' (West End) .... 420 Elsie M. Bullard (West End) .... 419 Jean Laurenson (Stratford) 418 Robert K. Clemow (Stratford) .... 415 Thomas W. Stoddart (Waitara) .. 414 Charles M. Copostake (Stratford) 411 Ernest A. Way (Central) 410 Roy Lealand (Central) 405 Albert B. Clark (Stratford) ,' 403 The allocation of the Bavlv Memorial scholarshiu to Ernest Roy Coutts, of Stratford, was also approved. The following is the number of candidates who passed in the different schools in the Taranaki district:—

Junior National Scholarships.—Stratfor District High School. 17; West End. J,New Plymouth, 7; High School, New I Plymouth, 4; Central 'School. New PlyI mouth, 4; Fitzroy, New Plvraouth, 2; Hillsborough. 2; Opunake. 2; Toko. 2: Waitara. 2; Egmont Village. 1; Kaimata', 1; Okato, 1; Omata, 1. Senior Board Scholarship Examination. —High School, New Plymouth. 13; District High School. Stratford, G.