GIRLS AT SCHOOL
MERRY BEGINS. By Clare Mallory. Geoftrey Cumberlege, for the Oxford University Press. LARE ‘MALLORY was lucky in getting the Oxford University Press to take her book-a boarding-school story set in New Zealand about supposedly New Zealand girls. The school is at Dunedin (where the sun shines more often than not), Auckland and Wellington are mentioned, there is/a visit to a sheep station in Canterbury (sheep aren’t mentioned), and the school year starts in February. But that is about all there is of New Zealand in it. There is the familiar plot of the unpopular pretect Winning Through with the help of the new girl. But there are far too many House points, too much House pride, and House Honour. When perhaps 80 per cent of New Zealand children attend day and mixed high schools, it is unfortunate that overseas readers are receiving such a strange impression of the school life of our girls. Clare Mallory can write, but I would like to see her talents used im a school story that will be about the kind of school you and I went to, and about children like the kids down the street.
D.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 435, 24 October 1947, Page 15
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197GIRLS AT SCHOOL New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 435, 24 October 1947, Page 15
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