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GIRLS' COLLEGE QUESTION

* Soiife; tuiid ago the alleged '.ctlowdills *; »Ut 6! free place pupils at the Girls' Qol- ': le|6. cinic titi for discussion atboili Meetings of the' Education Board, aiid tho College /Board of: Governors',at the.last . meeting of the Education Board, ttfe committee''was, authorised to; go into the matter 1 aiitl; .i-etidrt' to the boatd. . •.At ydstiifclay's niceting of . the Educa- . -[loft Board the. ooirimittee's ■ report, which Is as fdll6;Vs, : was) adopted:—"ln referjticd' to thft admission to frep places of those' applicants who have ; merely ,'the . 'proficiency niialific'ation, - the committee recommends, that iiri crises where the riiim- . "ber'of free\ places, is less than, the number of applibdiits, priority of opportunity .. of'admission be not by. date of appHcdtion, but l>y tile results of tho inspector's, esairiiiwttion : for tho profici- . eucy certificate, i and that the InspectorGeneral be tecdftimerided to dmendfrsie • plftde regulation 18 accordingly." ' The cnfiirtltan (Mr. B. Lee) said that ih •.reference to the eommittes's'recommendS- • tion, it was :d-SSirSW6 that the Department, should' have .the present regula- . tioii governing ithsfree place systeni • amended in the suggested form. ' The headmistress of "the Girls', High School, . had ..taken ,in firstly Scholarship holders, and afterwards tho free place holders,- in order :of. applic&tidii.. That was the gist . of . the present/regulation, -and he considered ithst. it wiis necessary to effect'a -sli.sht.amendment.. The committee's sbft- ; ' gestiotl tfas that after scholarship holders ■ had .beefi admitted,' first choice of' admittance' should be given to .those who : 'held-tm highest nlace on: the free place ' ,'Hst,■•-. ; : The, BoaM' adopted the . oonimitte^'s' recommendation. V . J. ..J ,