WAIRARAPA COLLEGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1943, Page 2

WAIRARAPA COLLEGE

BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEET. PROPOSALS FOR GIRLS' HOSTEL. The last meeting this year of the Wairarapa College Board of Governors was held last night. The chairman, Mr A. Owen Jones, presided, and there were also present: Mrs J. L. Hair and Messrs W. R. Nicol, A. J. Towns, F. C. Daniell, L. T. Daniell, J. G. McFarlane find J. D. O’Connor. An apology for absence was received from Mr W. L. punter. Captain J. H. C.only wrote informing the board that he would resume his teaching duties at the College on February 1, 1944. Messrs Jones, Nicol and F. C. Daniell were appointed a committee to go into the matter of the provision of a girls’ hostel at the College. Mr F. C. Daniell said that with the accrediting ’ system the Wairarapa College would be the one secondary school in the Wairarapa. The Government had already recognised the need of a girls’ hostel and the board had in the past followed it up to the extent of having plans and specifications dis'cussed with Departmental officers, but owing to it being war time the board had dropped the idea. Mr Daniell said \that he had expressed regret at the board’s attitude at that time. Difficulties with regard to boarding accommodation and benzine restrictions did not make the position any easier. Throughout the Wairarapa there was a lack of hostel accommodation at State secondary schools. Appreciative reference was made to the work of Mr Sewart, a member of the temporary staff, who had left the College on account of a teacher returning from service with the forces.