COLLEGES CROWDED
ACCOMMODATION COMPLETELY TAXED. Some interesting figures as to the numbers of pupils attending the Girls' and Boys' Colleges in Wellington were obtained at a meoting of the Board of Governors of the colleges yesterday. Both institutions wore reported to be crowded, there being only just sufficient accommodation to deal with the enormous number of pupils. Tho Boys' College has 70 paying" pupils and 575 free-place [upils, a total of 645, whereaß the institution was originally intended to accommodate between 500 and 600.
If anything, the jjosition in the case of the Girls' College appears to be worse, the figures being:—Paying pupils 89, freeplace pupils 511, a total of 600. > In this institution the accommodation was originally intended to rater for between 400 and 500 pupils.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 4
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127COLLEGES CROWDED Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 4
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