SCHOOL BOARDERS AND TRAIN SERVICES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 278, 20 August 1919, Page 8

SCHOOL BOARDERS AND TRAIN SERVICES

GREAT VEXATION IN CANTERBURY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, August 19. Very great vexation is being caused throughout Canterbury ,by the refusal of the Railway Department to carry boy and girl boarders of the big secondary schools who "are about to return to their homes for the vacation. The Department has flatly refused to carry these young passengersj on the ground that their travelling is not essential. Mr. Blanch, headmaster of Christ's College, stated to-day, that he was trying m every way to meet the difficulty by restricting the number of boys travelling by train. To give one example, he had arranged to have motor-cars brought from Hastings oil Thursday to take eighteen Christ's College boys from Wellington to Napier. Other boys had been sent north by tho Mokoia last night, although the term did not, end. until Tuesday. •.

GOVERNMENT LEADERS APPEALED TO. Christchurch, August 19. Tho following letter ■ from Mr, C. E. Bevan-Brown, headmaster of the Boys' High School, has been received by tne Alavor of Christchurch: "The Railway authorities have decided that they will not allow boys or girls to travel home to their parents for tho holidays. The uosition is absurd. Surely it is more important that they should go tha« a commercial traveller or a side of bacon. Wo do not ask for extra carriages, but that these school boarders should bo allowed to trfivel if there is room. In our own particular case we can arrange for motors, except for two going to tho Weal Coast, and there is a doubt, oven if they walked over, if they would be allowed to return by rail. Girls' High School boarders are, I. think, in a worse ease than we are, and Christ's College I know is hard hit, as are all boarding schools in tho Dominion. It is for tho principle of tho thing I wisli you to wire that school children going to their homes and returning are essential travellers." In response to this letter and other representations, the Mayor lias telegraphed to the National Government leaders, as lie considers the matter is ono for Cabinet, nnd not for the Railway Department.

AWKWARD POSITION AT TIMARU. By TelcurapliT-J'ress Association. Timaru, Augiist 1!). The railway policy of not carrying school boarders homo i'or tho vacation is causing a maximum of inconvenience at the Timaru High Schools owing to the announcement of the policy not being made till this morning, practically eight hoursjjeforo tho schools break up. The first notice (through the Press) was that pupils would bo carried on payment of fall faro, and boys from Otago have been carried through Canterbury. The Timaru stationmaster asked Christchurch for instructions in the middlO i of last week, but no answer was received till this morning, wlion he was instructed that scholars wero not to bo allowed to travel. About 140 boarders at the Timaru High Schools are affeoted. They cannot bo kept at tho sohools, as the domestic staffs are entitled to holidays. Tho lateness of the Department's veto makes it specially difficult to make other arrangements.

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