SCHOOL BOARDERS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 277, 19 August 1919, Page 4

SCHOOL BOARDERS

TRIVEIi DIFFICULTIES DURING * . VACATION.

1 (By Telegraph—Press Association.) 1 Christchurch, August 18. 1 The railway restrictions as they apply' to boarding schools were referred to toni°iit l>y Air. I l '. llilner, rector of the Waitaki Boys' High School. He pointed out that 231) boarders wished to return bomb for tht vacation, but' permits to travel could not bo obtained, notwithstanding that ho had made representations tc tho Kftilway authorities. The boys could not be kept at the school, owing to the terms of contract with the teaching and domestic staffs, which provided that they were to bo released during the vacatiop". Tho difficulty had been got over in. regard to many southern boys by their parents taking them oft" in motor-cars, while ethers had set out for their homes on push-cycles. Thirty Auckland boys had been motored to Dtinedin, and had succeeded in securing berths in the Mokoia, but many W oliington boys who lad gone down on a similar mission lnvl been shut out. In other cases boys had been motored to Christchurch and tad travelled north in the ferry steamers. Mr. Milner said that once tho boys arrived in Canterbury they were much better heated by the Railway officials, and wliero they desired it uero permitted to travel by Tail on payment of full fare. He had communicated this fact to tho Kailwiy authorities in Duiledin, but received the reply limy conditions were not being adopted in Olago, and if he placed any boarder from the school aboard a train a l' rc * stcution would follow. "Wo liavo had a very bad week, indeed," concluded Mr. Milner, 'but a big majority of ilia boarders have gone. Tho next question will lie, how aro we v going to get them back?"