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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1736, 29 April 1913, Page 9

Mention of tho hardship alluded 1.0 l>y the Mount Cook School Committee was also made at the householders' meetings at Clydo Quay and To Aro. Tho -lioiimiholdors at Clyde Quay, on tho motion of tlio lion. .1. K. Jenkinsou, resolved:—' "That this meeting of householders in tho Clydo Quay School district cxprow-es its deep regret that several children who had qualified for free places in (he Wellington Girls' College were refused admission to that college, and that a deputation of committeemen and householders wait on the Minister for i'lducutioii, and point out the grave injuslieo done to tlioso children."

It was also decided that the committee' should ask for the co-operation of the other school committees of tho city.

The To Aro School Committee drew tho attention of householders to the need for -more high school provision in Wellington; either by enlarging the Girls' College or providing nnofher high school. Many householders wen' aware—some of them to their cost—that many children holding prolieioncy certificates were reins',l admission at the Girls' College on the ground of wanting loom. Whilst in other parts of tho Dominion proficiency candidates :eali get >ei:ondary school training it was not. right, argued tlio committee, that, in Wellington these children should ba debarred,