Education Acts Compilation.

{It.) The holder of any junior scholarship shall be required to prosecute his studies diligently, to the satisfaction of the Inspector-General of Schools, at a secondary school or its equivalent approved of by the Board and the Minister. 5 (i.) The holder of a junior scholarship shall receive, in addition to the amount of the tuition fees (if any) payable by him at a secondary school or its equivalent, the sum of ten pounds per annum. (j.) The term of each junior scholarship shall be three years, if 10 the holder so long faithfully fulfils the prescribed conditions : Provided that the Board may, with the approval of the Minister, extend any junior scholarship for one year longer. (k.) The junior scholarships shall be payable by quarterly in 15 stalments, and upon satisfactory evidence being in the prescribed manner furnished to the Board that the holder has fulfilled the prescribed conditions up to the date of the instalment. (1.) Any junior scholar shall forfeit, his scholarship if he fails 20 to pass at the end of the second year of his scholarship such examination as may be prescribed, unless he produces proof to the satisfaction of the Board that such failure was occasioned by illness or other sufficient cause. Provided that the total number of junior scholarships under this 25 section shall not exceed thirty-one granted in any one year. 75. With respect to the Senior National Scholarships the following provisions shall apply : — (a.) Four senior scholarships shall be awarded annually in each univeristy district on the result of the Junior Scholarship 30 Examination of the University. (b.) Candidates may be persons of either sex who, being resident in such university district, are under nineteen years of age and have been holders of junior scholarships or of Education Board scholarships. 35 ( 6 -.) No scholarship shall be awarded to a candidate unless he obtains credit at the examination mentioned in paragraph (a) of this section. (d.) The term of a senior scholarship shall be three years, if the holder so long fulfils the prescribed conditions. 40 {c) The holder of a senior scholarship shall receive the sum of twenty pounds per annum, in addition to the amount of the tuition fees (if any) payable by him at the university college to which he belongs. (/.) Candidates for these scholarships must forward their appli--45 cations in the usual manner for the Junior Scholarship Examination of the University, and must at the same time give notice of their intention to compete for the senior scholarships. {g.) No person shall be entitled to hold a scholarship unless 50 within three months after its acquisition he has been matriculated as a member of the University, and has entered his name upon the books of the college of the

Senior National Scholarships. 1903, No. 84, sec. 5

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