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The following are the results of the annual examinations 

 for 1897, so far as at present known (we have not yet received 

 the returns of all those examinations conducted by the 

 department) : — 



Not under the superintendence of the department. 



Book-keeping: — Honours: J. Rankine, A. Leckie, A. 

 Devine ; 1st Grade, E. Stone. 



Writing and Correspondence : — 2nd Grade, J. Young, 

 R. Joyce. 



Shorthand :— Advanced — Honours : F. C. Kettle, H. 

 E. McKim, R. L. Jackson ; 1st Grade, A. J. Leckie. 



Elementary: — Honours: W. Prior, J. F. Trewartha ; 

 1st Grade, W. A. Claringbold, E. A. Rawson ; 2nd Grade, 

 W. E. Dutton. 



Under Government supervision. 



Art. O.L. 1, Grade 1 ; Pass : C. D. Hancock, C. E. Wynn. 



L.N. 1, Grade 1 ; Pass : I. P. Champion, C. D. Hancock? 

 C. E. Wynn, V. Wiggs. 



O.L. 2, Pass : C. D. Hancock, W. Thorburn, 



C. E. Wynn. 



Wood-carving, Grade 1 ; Excellent: H. Speed, Dorothy 

 L. E. Smythe, A. C. Bartlett. Pass : H. B. 

 Strange, Grace Bedford, Lily Berthon. 



Engineering Drawing: — Machines, Grade 1 ; Pass: V. H.Sayers, 

 A. B. Morrison, C. H. Ballans, J. C. Anderson, 

 A. R. Sayers. 



Carpentry: — Grade 1 ; Pass: H. A. Tingate. 



Arithmetic : — Honours : Blanche Kendall, J. J. Young. 



As pointed out above these results are not complete. 



By the retirement of Mr. A. Purnell, late Secretary, the 

 college has sustained a loss which it is hard to estimate. 

 He had held the position since the inception of the college 

 in 1885, two years before the present building was put up, 

 and any success the college has ever met from that day to 

 this has been due more to his exertions, than to any other 

 factor, we were going to say than to all other factors put 

 together. His never-tiring energy was known to us all, as 

 was also the way in which he sacrificed all his time, his 

 private time, to the interests of the institution, as well in 

 recess (when he was supposed to be enjoying a well-earned 

 holiday) as at other times. When evil days first overtook 

 the college we all remember how he voluntarily gave up half 

 his salary to help to meet the loss of income. 



