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National Scholarships. 1903, No. 84, sec. 3 Junior National Scholarships. Ibid, sec. 4

" University district" means a district as defined by the Schedule to " The New Zealand University Act Amendment Act, 1902 " 73. For the purpose of bringing higher education within the reach of deserving scholars there are hereby established junior and 5 senior scholarships to be called " National Scholarships." 74. With respect to the Junior National Scholarships the following provisions shall apply : — (a.) In each education district there shall be offered annually a junior scholarship for each live thousand or part of five 10 thousand children in average yearly attendance. (b.) The junior scholarships shall be awarded on the results of an examination in the subjects prescribed for the Fifth Standard of the public-school syllabus. The examination in each education district shall be open to all persons 15 of either sex who, being not over fourteen years of age, have been under regular instruction at a public school or schools in New Zealand for three years immediately preceding, and under regular instruction in the subjects of the Fifth Standard or a higher standard at a public 20 school in the said education district for the six months immediately preceding, the date of the examination. (c.) Every candidate for such examination shall forward with his application a certificate from a teacher of the school he has attended for the six months immediately preced- 25 ing, in the form prescribed, that he is eligible for and has a reasonable chance of obtaining a scholarship. (d.) The examination shall be conducted in such manner as may be arranged between the Minister and the Board. (c.) In each education district, if two or more scholarships are 30 offered annually, at least one scholarship shall be awarded to one of the candidates from the schools having not more than forty children in yearly average attendance, if there be a qualified candidate from such schools; and if three or more junior scholarships are offered 35 annually in an education district, then at. least one scholarship shall be awarded to one of the candidates from schools having more than forty but not more than two hundred in yearly average attendance, if there be a qualified candidate from such schools. 40 (/.) In no case shall more than one scholarship be awarded in any year to the candidates from any one school. (g.) A scholarship shall not be awarded to or be held by any person if the total net profits, income, and emoluments of his parents are equivalent, for any year during the 45 currency of the scholarship, to an annual income of over two hundred and fifty pounds per annum; and the Board or the Minister may require the parent of any candidate or scholar to send a confidential statement, on a form provided, of his total net profits, income, and 50 emoluments to the Chairman of the Board, and the Board shall decide whether such candidate or scholar is eligible to hold or to continue to hold a scholarship, and the decision of the Board shall be final,

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