CHRISTCHURCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1505, 30 July 1912, Page 6

CHRISTCHURCH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL.

j REPLY TO CRITICISM. . (By Telcgraph.-Spocial Correspondent.) Christchurch, July 29. At the meeting of the Canterbury CnT le.?e Board of Governors to-day, tin chairman (Mr. J. C. Adams) said tliat ai the sitting of the Education Commission Sir. Pirani had asserted that the Girls High School was financially one of the worst managed secondary institutions ii the Dominion. Mr. Pirani was speaking without the liook, for, when he was con fronted with tin- correct figures, he hai to acknowledge that thins* were not ex aetly as he thought. It was especially ot fho epilation allowance that Mr. Pi'rnn was speaking. and the expenditure of Hn cnpUatiai.. Mr. I'ir.mi virtually ohstrgee the board with rubbing the teachers o their due. The cnpitntioii received las yciir for free places was ,£275+, and, ii addition, (hero wui a,capitation on tin manual ami technical classes of .£92, mak ins a total oF £28M. Out of that, .C2r>l- - spent directly in salaries, so tha there wan only a matter of .£3lO left to. bi expended, and of that scholarships am exhibitions accounted for .£B7, hosMsmb sidy .850, co.it of manual and technics education .CSU, prize money .£2l. expense of management -.£OO, boola ,£SO, lnakin; a tatal of .C2S-10. So Hint practically onl; .£2 was not expended directly for tli' benefit of the children. Ho had beei a?kod by Pirani how the board pjiii oil' the overdraft on the Girls' Hid School account, and he replied that will the fees from paying pupil?, income fron endowments, and strict, economy they hni been able to reduce their liabilities, am they hoped to be able to extinguish th< amount owing.