GIRLS’ COLLEGE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10295, 2 June 1919, Page 3

GIRLS’ COLLEGE

NEED FOK IMPS WED ACCOMMODATION. Keporting to the Board of Collcga (governors mat week, the pnncipalof the Girls' College’(Miss McLean). who has just returned from a visit to America, " Tno "chief interest of my travel to me now is the hops'-that I am better abn to help the board to establish a Kiris school of which the city may bo proud. All the other - large cities in New- Zealand are better provided-for- dhe ;present School can-jbe tsmiiaortd as btfcle oetter than a, patchwork or. makeshift, ror instance-. (11 We are housed in three different . buildings, winch involves much loss of, time in exchanging tcachet's, inconvenience in wet weather, and increased work in the administration. (I) The wnlj assembly hall is so small thax three different groupings are necessary to reach all the girls. (3) The Ki-onnds are so nasal! that there is only one tanu.s court arnonK -SW girls. (A) A hostel h*>never been provided by the board for the girls’’school. (S) No school of any standing abroad •is without an adaguete ■ > brary and librarian. Our only library tiaia year is a mere passage way.; the board considers the fact that a libary should 'he 'the pivot »f ’students wark it may realise how rreatiy we arc kaaaparad by present conditions. Only one working in the school can realise tk* srain and dificulty of carrying oa under these Unsatisfactory conditions. We have been aentely abort of room for aaany year*, the atWitien* soon preying inadequate. No cither echool in Krw Zralanh k »s waited ae long for proper building*. Aad under these circumstances I, appeal t« the board to see that this echool gate (lit consideration ;»ow that the-war i» over and money is available. The beard idwy remember that only a addition was made after free place pupils were admitted. Natumlly it soon proved rnadeguate, and pupils were being refused admittance. But only another JUOO has sine* been spent, 'The solution ef ,th* trouble now. is to build a aaodern, commodious building on the best site obtainable. IThe present school could be used ns a branch school. ■-I would welcome the opportunity of discussing onr school requirements with the boerd. . If a meeting could be arranged ■t: tbs college members might understand the position, better. ’>