OTAGO GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1090, 18 July 1873, Page 2

OTAGO GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL.

The following is a copy of the petition presented to the Otago Provincial Council, 011 the Ist of July, by the Hon. Major Richardson, signed by eighty-one ladies: That your memorialists desire gratefully to recognise the great advantages which your honourable House has conferred upon us, and upon the province, by the institution of the school in which we are now and have been students. It has been the means of instilling and fostering in us an earnest desire to cultivate, so far as our other duties permitted; those powers of mind which are our common inheritance, and has led in no small degree to the University of Otago, so justly our pride, willingly opening Its halls to the education of women, but also to certificates which are the equivalents of degrees. This deserves, as it has called forth, our warmest gratitude. Eoyal princesses in the old country have not thought it beneath their dignity to afford their support to one of the noblest movements which characterise the present day, and not only so, but have personally interested themselves, and have enlisted the personal and practical sympathy of the professors of one of our most venerable colleges in the great work. "We have yet a favor to ask at the hands of your honorable House. It is the boon which you have given to our brothers, and one which we feel assured you will gladly give us. Wo ask that Scholarships, similar to those which call forth their energies and make them fitter citizens, may be extended to us, so that we may become better fitted to do our duty, and, if need be, to assist in earning our livelihood as teachers, thus transmitting to others the blessing with which your liberality has endowed us.

[Signed by 81 girls.]