EDUCATION FOR GIRLS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1931, 13 December 1913, Page 11

EDUCATION FOR GIRLS.

COLLEGE TQO SMALL. ADDITIONS SUGGESTED. . Insufficient accommodation has been '.for some time past the cause of certain frcc-placc pupils being unable to gain admission to some of tho high schools. The subject was under dismission at Thursday's meeting of the Wellington Education Board, when Air. A. W. Hogg moved: —''That the necessary steps be taken to provide additional accommodation at tho Girls 8 College, and that the attention of the Minister of Education and of tho Board of Governors be drawn to the need for such accommodation." In speaking to the motion, Mr. Hogg pointed out that many girls, who wero entitled to free places, had been unable to gain admission to the College. There appeared to bo ample accommodation for tho boys, and, in his opinion, they should provide more nt the Girls' Collego so that when a girl gained a proficiency certificate, she should have.an opportunity of rcceivins the education it entitled her to. He thought that if. the- attention of tho Minister of Education was called to the urgency of tho matter something would be done. Perhaps all tho required money could not he found at once, but,, the sooner the demand for it was made known, the better it would bo for the City. Tn the matter of education, girls should receive equal attention with boys.. Mr. B. Freeman seconded the motion, and expressed himself in agreement. with the sentiments of Mr. Hosgr. Tho chairman (Mr. R. Lee) mentioned that, quite recently a good deal of money had been spent oil tho College. He hoped Mr. Hogg would withdraw the motion, because he did not think it could do .any good. _ There was plenty hisher accommodation for rtirls, and numerous vacancies at the Training College and the Technical School. The trouble was that all the girls wanted to go to the Girls' College. It was a question whether tha hoard should encourage that. Sir Walter Buchanan considered that, with the finances of tho country not. in quite as food a condition as they all would like Thorn to be, the matter mMit well be hold over until they were acquainted with the exact position nf affairs in regard to accommodation. Ho was not deprecating one word of what had been said by Mr Hogg, and he did not want, te exhibit the least bit of hostility tp tho motion. He would, however, move as an amendment that tho question he held over, pending a report from th* inspectors to be presented nt the February meeting. Mr.- T. Moss seconded the amendment, Jmt declared that he was in svmmtlhv with what had been said by Mr. TTnair. He stressed the value of education to glrli. -Mr. Hogg honed that if the amendment was carried their- would he no unnecessary delay in dealing with tho question. There was a time, lie said, when it was Ihonrrht thai girls could do with an education inferior to that, provided for bovs.. but that- time was past. The amendment, on being put to tho meeting, was carried on tho voices, and the matter will be reported on by tho inspectors. '