MASTERTON SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1233, 18 November 1882, Page 2

MASTERTON SCHOOL.

Below m give the offioial return ef tho!' passes in the Masterton Sohool. It will bo observoi that it differs from one or two of the results which we have already publiabod at tho conclusion of the examination. Number in Standards, 307 j number presented, 270; absent through measlos, 27; disqualilied on acoount of irregularity of attendance, 8; already passed in Standard VI. 2. Standards I. 11. 111. IV. V. VI. Presented, 61 81 55 29 30 14 Fassod 61 81 54 21 17 10; Average, 90 per cent, Mr Lee addressed the pupils, and congratulated them on the results, and on the appointments of thuir sohool and efficiency of its staff. He explained that such high pasios in tho upper standards could not be expected as in the lower ones, as the upper standards appealed so much more to the intelligence of the pupils'.''' He' especially commented ujSbn the excellent work of the first three stands, #ich had-never been beaten in'his d'xperiime'e. H(j (jave them wholesome advice with regard' to attention to teachers who evidently were not'content with doing their duties in a merely perfunctory manner. ' He commented on fhe spelling of the upper divisions 'yvhich.be declared. to be weak; especially in the fourth and' fifth standards.'