EDUCATION OF GIRLS
A MAYOR’S VIEW. AUCKLAND, September 23. “I doubt whether any of the money spent on girls’ education in this country to-day is worth twopence,” commented the Mayor, Dr. H. D. Pinfold, when speaking at the annual convention of the South Auckland area of the W.C.T.U., opened at Hamilton today. DC Pinfold said that the Government was hard up and everybody was hard up, yet about £5,000,000 was spent annually on education. Did they want girls to learn algebra and geometry and fail miserably in the duties and natural functions of housewives and mothers ?
The speaker said that recently a magistrate had stressed the opinion that things would not come right in this country until there was a religious revival. This was from a man of the world with not a tremendous amount of time for religion. “There can be no Christianity in the home while there is bad cooking,” added the Mayor, amidst laughter.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1931, Page 2
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157EDUCATION OF GIRLS Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1931, Page 2
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