THE GIRLS’ SCHOOL PETITION.

Evening Star, Issue 3235, 3 July 1873, Page 3

THE GIRLS’ SCHOOL PETITION.

To the Editor. Sib,—l could not help being amused when I read the fallowing, in an article which appeared in yesterday’s Stab : “We cannot but feel gratified that so many who hare been educated there (at the High School for Girls), recognise the benefits of instilling and fostering in their minds a desire to still further cultivate the intellectual powers of which they have become conscious.” I hardly think the above would have been written had the writer been aware of the plan adopted to obtain the signatures of the girls to the petition anent scholarships. Without any communication whatever With the parents of the children, all girls over twelve years of age were asked by their ‘teachers to sign the petition, and, of course, they signed it, my child among the number. She afterwards told me that she had signed what she did not at all understand. I may say I am the parent of one of the children at the High School for girls.—l am, &c., A, B. Dunedin, July 3. P. S.—l do not object to scholarships for girls, but I do most decidedly object to the petition from the girls. It ought to have come from their parents.—A. B,