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In many cases work done at the last matriculation examination of the New Zealand University was taken into account as if it had been done at the teachers' examination to which this report relates. With this I send the list of passes and of cases of partial success at the teachers' examination, and a set of the examination papers. The following extracts from examiners' reports will probably prove of interest and use to candidates at future examinations :— " The freehand papers are more satisfactory than is usually the case, and I am glad to report this improvement. The model papers are much as usual, showing for the most part an absolute want of knowledge of even the simplest elementary principles. The geometrical papers are also weak, even the working of the scale problem showed lamentable ignorance upon the part of the candidates generally. Very few perspective papers were attempted." [Examiner in Drawing.] " Speaking generally, the style of the papers and the methods of working adopted seem to me to have improved, but a number of the candidates still appear to work their sums out first on a separate sheet, and then copy them out to send up, leaving out very often important steps in the process, not infrequently miscopying the figures, besides wasting a great deal of time." [Examiner in Arithmetic, Senior Civil Service and Class D.j " The tests imposed were of a very simple and straightforward character, and were, in fact, about equal to the standard of a second year pupil-teacher examination in England—certainly not higher. In marking the paper work I made every possible allowance, but the result, on the whole, is very lamentable, and shows how little knowledge many of the candidates have of the right methods of work in this subject, which—even if regarded only from the hygienic standpoint—■ is of so great value to children. To say, as is sometimes said, that many of the candidates have not the natural qualifications required for teaching school-singing properly is simply begging the question. My own long experience has convinced me that such cases are very rare, and that 90 per cent, of our young teachers might qualify for such an examination with very little trouble, very little loss of time, and with great benefit to themselves and to those whom they are destined to teach." [Examiner in Music] I have, &c, Geobge Hogben.

EXAMINATION LISTS.

1.-PASsab for Class D. Wanganui- Marlborough- _ Bates, Frederic Arthur Crouoher, Minnie Jane Auckland— Gibbs, George Walter Stratford, Herbert Addison Birss, William Lyon, William Alexander Nelson — Blakey, Prank Ernest Marshall, George Henry Baigent, Gertrude Nicol Boswell, James Matheson. Peter Boyce, Charles George Morton Carnachan, Robert Raikes, Francis Campbell Ellis, Harold Lewis Corbett, Robert John Slipper, Thomas Benjamin Riley, Ella Dessiou Crawford, Maud Marion Stansell, William Frederick Stephen, Mary Winifred Cumming, Annie Sophia Whalley, George Ethelbert White, Alfred Thomas Downard, Henry John Finch Wellington— Grey— Fraser, Anne Beatrice Bird, Charles Harrison, Henry Gillibrand, Emma Dallaston, Charles William Skoglund, Wilhelmina Charlotta Hill, John Hugh Howden, Jessie Edith North Canterbury— Roller, Frederick Robert Johnston, Margaret Eleanor Blain, Thomas Potter, Ethel May Kean, Balfour Campbell, John Robinson, Joshua Edwin Philip, Adeline Elsie Charles, Robert Shroff, Maud Ada Price, Herbert Edward Denham, Henry George Skelton, Marcus Noble : Hawke's Bay— Hight, Maude Louisa Vellenoweth, Jessie Grant, Milton Reid Hodgson, Ruth Jane Taranaki— McCarthy, Ellen Kiver, Kate Violet Moore William Roland Morgan, Louisa Macintosh, Janet Morton Smith' Fanny Louisa Nioholls, Caroline May Maginness, George Taylor Maud Ruby Parkinson, Minnie Margaret Martin, Mary Jane

D Passes. E Passes, E Passes. Pass for D. Partial Partial Pass for D. Pass for B (d.) Candidates that have retired from the service— continued. North Canterbury .. .. .. .. 1 South Canterbury .. .. .. .. 6 Otago .. .. .. .. 18 Southland .. .. .. .. 1 (e.) Candidates that have not been in the service, 52, — 52 Auokland .. .. .. 19 Taranaki .. .. .. .. .. 2 Wellington .. .. .. .. 5 Marlborough .. .. .. .. 1 Nelson .. .. .. .. .. 4 Grey .. .. .. .. .. 1 North Canterbury .. .. .. 5 South Canterbury .. .. .. 1 Otago .. .. .. .. .. 7 Southland .. .. .. .. 7 2 11 1 8 1 i'pj] 2 1 1 '2 5 i i 2* 2 i i 3 i * Including one who gains also partial pass for Class E.